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| I am currently in a pecarious position at Tulsa International Airport... My car and I are separated. I am trying to return a loaner and then get to my car which is parked too far away... And it is COLD!!! And I do not know what I am doing. I have found my car... I am going to try and find it again and transfer my things from the rental to my car, turn in my rental car and try to get back to my car... Wish me luck and pray for me... I am in a pickle... |
| Dear God, please help Ruwth get out of her pickle so she can drive her car home in Jesus' name, amen. |
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| My daughter just read a book to me: There's A Monster In Your Book by Tom Fletcher. I suggested she could possibly make YouTube videos reading kids' books but then worried about copyright violations. She believes she would be okay reading the books as long as she credits the author. Does anyone know? |
| In Australia, not unless you have written permission from the author AND publisher. Considering our copyright law tends to follow the US, I would suggest it is the same there. How do I know? I was going to start a YT channel where I read my own stories... but I need written permission from the publishers! My OWN stories! So, yeah. Be careful. |
| My mother died 10 years ago on New Year's Eve. I have not celebrated it since... I chose to move in to this dilapidated house on New Year's Eve 2018 to take my mind off the anniversary of my mom's death. I put a futon together that day. It was suppose to take 90 minutes. It took me 12 hours... At 8 p.m. on 12/31/18, I collapsed on the futon, gave up my plans for the night and went to sleep. I woke up ten minutes before midnight and brought the New Year in with WdC. This year, I did not have to take my mind off things—my hospital stay and my heating problems did that for me. This 10-year anniversary of Mommy's death still brought a few tears. It does feel different this year. I guess in a way, I have gotten use to missing her... "~ ♥ Mommy, I love you! ~"  |
| I took apart the heater that I put the new wick in (ya know, the one I worked on for 8 HOURS!) I did NOT take the actual wick assembly out but all the other pieces I took out and put back in. I moved the wires to the ignition switch and then buttoned everything back up again. I lit it and the flame is nice and even. I have heat for the moment. I am so mixed up, I do not remember what kerosene is in it but at least I should get a few hours of heat to see me through the night... Thank you for all your prayers... |
| Things are not going well in my kerosene heater saga. I got a new heater yesterday and put it together without much difficulty. For those who don't know, the wick comes pre-installed so I did not have to deal with the whole wick thing. After giving the wick time to absorb the kerosene, I successfully lit the heater. I don't usually go to sleep with the heater burning but I chose to relish in my success. I turned the flame down and fell asleep, toasty and content. Until about an hour ago when I woke up to the heater sputtering. At first I thought I had run it dry. No such luck. It was still half full. I tried to drop the wick to completely extinguish the flame and it would not drop. The brand new wick in the brand new heater has swelled and won't raise or lower. There is water in the replacement batch of kerosene they brought me.  I now have over 15 gallons of bad kerosene, my original heater with the wick jammed, my first new heater with the wick not seating correctly after I replaced the one ruined by water in the old fuel and now my second new heater with a water-logged wick from the new batch of fuel. As Jay O'Toole said, I am at my wick's end.  This is my first year of having running water in this house and now I don't have heat. I had such plans when I started this renovation project 6 years ago today and all those plans have come to naught... I had already given up. This was to be my last winter in this house. I was supposed to be warm and toasty here one last winter. My daughter helped me pretty up my room and I love it and now this... And there's a polar vortex headed this way...  |
| Silly prayer request. I have been without heat for a while now. A big company bought out the place where I have bought dyed kerosene. I was able to get five gallons from the old company then I had to drive a goodly distance to get some from the big company. The big company had never sold dyed kerosene before. When kerosene is used for certain purposes (like heating) it is not taxed. Red dye is put in it to differentiate from the clear taxed version (which costs twice as much due to the taxes). Anyways, my old company had pumps: Deisel, Clear Kerosene, and Dyed Kerosene. They referred to the dyed kerosene as "farm kerosene". They pumped it straight into my 5 gallon kerosene "can" --like a gas "can" but blue. New company mixes it one batch at a time and puts it in a bucket. They sold me two five gallon buckets. All of a sudden my wick would not go up and down. 😳 I thought my release thingy on the heater was broken and bought a new heater ( which, apart from the wick assembly, I had to assemble). I am NOT a good assembler. I tried to get LOWES to do it for me but they said they are not allowed to assemble that product. It took me hours to get it together. It lit and then went out and never would stay lit again. Turns out my old heater was fine. The wick stopped going up and down because there was WATER in the kerosene that caused the wick to swell and jam up the mechanism. That did not happen with the new heater. It simply would not stay lit. I realized what the problem was when my kerosene lamps started sputtering and burning up their wicks. Anyways, the big company replaced the kerosene at no charge but before I can use it (and have heat again) I need to replace the wick. Guess what I have been working on since 8 a.m.??? I got everything taken apart and I am ready to put the new wick in and put everything back together... BUT I can't get the stupid wick in place. I have been stalled at this point for over an hour... Maybe it is not the wick that is stupid...  Please pray... |
| My goodness! Sounds like you've been "at your wick's end." Sorry. Bad pun, but hopefully Proverbs 17:22. |
| Well, I did get it back together but it isn't lined up right. The igniter would not light it and when I lit it with a match the flames shot up in all kind of crazy directions.. 😳 My son has a new one still in the box. A friend said she would drive me to get it tomorrow. I will plan on putting his new heater together--then I can at least be warm when I try to do something about these wicks. I did lose a screwdriver... Did it somehow get left inside??? Trust GOD at all times--even when things don't work out like you hope |
ruwth  - Our Creator knows our needs before we even know them outselves. Have faith. He's got this one. Our difficulty at present is no transportation, else we'd offer to run by and try to help you. |
| My youngest son and his dad are to get together for coffee this morning. Please pray with me for God to bring healing to their relationship and open lines of communication between these two men. Please pray with me for God to soften my ex-husband's heart and open his ears so that he and our son can truly connect and that years of hurt might be healed...  I am also praying for God to be with my son in the midst of his pain and keep his feet on solid ground.  Thank you... |
| I am hoping 2025 will be better than 2024. I am in the hospital tonight. Diagnosis? Pain in the arse. Severe pain in the... Ending the year with rectal surgery!  |
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| Yes, I did participate this year. I wasn't going to, as I have issues with the organisation, some of their decisions, and their attitude towards me in personal emails. But I have a friend who is a cancer survivor, in her 70s, and one of her bucket list things was to write a novel, and NaNoWriMo gave her the impetus to do it. I did it officially to support her. We both achieved the goal on the official site. So I did it to support someone else, and make them feel they were not doing this alone. |
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