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Days of My Life

A daily blog/journal of feelings, experiences, and journeys.

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Well, here I am. Today I start my blog. I've been thinking about it for a long time but I thought that since it was the first day of a month, I'd start something new. I almost put it off, but then I had an experience that made me want to get some feelings out so I decided to go ahead and start. Maybe it's a good thing that I write about it. Maybe it's not. One way or the other, though, I will get some feelings out and maybe I will feel better.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

1,061 Days 2 Hours ago, in response to "Thoughts of Mumbai"

Just an Ordinary Jyo

said:

I thank you for stopping your rushing world a little to worry about people on the other side. This senseless tragedy scarred the Mumbaikar permanently. The warm camaraderie and gregariousness that was a aprt of this bustling city is no more. No more too the faceless disregard of its teeming crowds - we are suspicious and touchy now.

Personally, its bleeding tentacles touched all three of us in our family. I had three of the victims come to our hospital for treatment. Two were walking wounded, but the third was a brave man who lost his life in the course of duty. My daughter worked for one of the hotel chains affected, those who perished were known to her, one was even a young boy who had trained with her. My son had a good friend whose father was staying in that hotel, after three days of agony they knew that he was one of those dead.

Life does go on though, even the survivors have perforce to try and put that behind them, but community or country specific distrust and suspicion cannot be erased. We end up, each isolated, in our paranoid cocoons.

1,061 Days 3 Hours ago, in response to "Robots and Humans... a Relationship Made in Science Fiction?"

Just an Ordinary Jyo

said:

I agree with you whole-heatedly - I mean whole-heartedly! However I have found one breed of beings that is more irritating than robots or machines. I am talking of the automated parrots that they use at call centers now, that spout phrases like "May I put you on hold" - that one is good for 25 minutes of your call spent listening to a reedy snatch of music played over and over and over. Or "sorry for the inconvenience" - you so are not sorry at all, you ... dummy parrot, you. If you were, you would try to find a solution beyond the system being conveniently 'down'. How is it 'down' anytime I call? I told one of them that I wondered why they felt it necessary to have humans spout the same mechanical excuses - would not a voice recording do? Punch 1 for regrets, 2 for excuses, and 3 to be put on interminable hold!

1,169 Days 12 Hours ago, in response to "Thoughts of Mumbai"

AliceNgoreland

said:

Hello,

I am in the 31 Day Challenge too and I thought I would stop by and give your blog a read.

I love the way you closed this entry, "We are more than the sum of our parts; we are the sum of our hearts." Very nice!

Read later...

ALice

1,169 Days 14 Hours ago, in response to "Thoughts of Mumbai"

Smiling Sonali WDC Power #1!

said:

Thank you, Deb.
Thanks for your email, too ...
- Sonali

1,170 Days 16 Hours ago, in response to "The Accident or the Intersection"

Voxxylady

said:

Oh, Deborah! What a thing to go through! An accident is bad enough, but at the same intersection ... I'm so sorry. I've been reading through your blog backwards and see you're still struggling with recovery.

My prayers are with you and your daughter. Poor baby. Does she drive still?

1,170 Days 16 Hours ago, in response to "Rental Cars..."

Voxxylady

said:

Ah, I had that problem with a rental that clearly had a sticker on the windshield saying NO SMOKING. People do it anyway, and not everyone notices. Only we allergic notice. Really, they have a right to smoke but only if it doesn't interfere with our rights not to smoke or smell it.

1,170 Days 16 Hours ago, in response to "I don't know how I did it but..."

Voxxylady

said:

CONGRATS!

Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving!

1,224 Days 7 Hours ago, in response to "The Fallon Has Landed"

Rainbowapple

said:

Glad she landed okay. Hope things go well from here on in. To hear tell, flying within the U.S. can more often than not, turn into a nightmare very quickly. Connections are terribly mis-managed-even international ones.

1,224 Days 7 Hours ago, in response to "Rental Cars..."

Rainbowapple

said:

This is a mystery to me, as well. That really would have irked me, as a non-smoker, and a public health researcher into the bargain. In New Zealand, they have designated rentals that are non-smoking, and you have to pay a bond-refunded if the vehicle is returned 'smokefree' because of the huge cleaning cost involved in eliminating the tobacco smell from the air-conditioning system.

My other question is, was the same woman smoker responsible for the smoky vehicles, or was that just a co-incidence. If so, she's doing her clients no favors...

1,230 Days 12 Hours ago, in response to "Bail ME out!"

chicochica

said:

I'll take $200k. I could get a house with that kinda cash.

And I dunno. I mean, on the one hand, I don't want to be like "sorry, you didn't read the fine print/didn't know what you were getting into/didn't do your research, go live out on the streets now" but...these people made bad decisions too. People want stuff all the time that they can't afford, but want doesn't equal need. This is as much a cultural problem as it is anything else. The sense of entitlement needs to go.

Victims? Without knowing each individual story, I have a hard time considering them victims. While we all make poor financial decisions at some point in our lives, buying a house shouldn't be an endeavor you take on lightly and/or without some measure of research. I think everyone is at fault here. I mean, just because some dude came to our apartment door one day and said "I can get you a house" doesn't mean we jumped on the idea (and that did happen).

The information is there if you look. The banks and lenders assumed no one knew what they were doing, but we can't point fingers at them entirely. We need to know what we're doing, too. It took me a day to do some research on predatory lending not too long ago when I was preparing to write an article. It's at http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/973446/10_signs_of_a_predatory_lender.h...

But yeah, I'll take $200,000. That would definitely put my confidence back into things, and you do make sense.

#102. Update...
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#101. Observations
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#100. Good News in a Bad Economy
---->> ID #644022 entered on 04-06-09 @ 7:59 am EDT

#99. I'm back!
---->> ID #637752 entered on 02-26-09 @ 8:56 am EST

#98. Age: mind over matter
---->> ID #623111 entered on 12-08-08 @ 8:56 am EST

#97. "Man's mind, once stretched...
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#96. Practice Makes Perfect... or does it?
---->> ID #623100 entered on 12-08-08 @ 7:40 am EST

#95. Robots and Humans... a Relationship Made in Science Fiction?
---->> ID #622309 entered on 12-05-08 @ 8:33 am EST

#94. Pride and Joy
---->> ID #622119 entered on 12-04-08 @ 7:41 am EST

#93. Common Courtesy? Not So Common Anymore
---->> ID #621742 entered on 12-02-08 @ 3:02 pm EST

#92. Thoughts of Mumbai
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#91. I don't know how I did it but...
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#90. Life Has Conspired Against Me
---->> ID #619902 entered on 11-22-08 @ 9:38 am EST

#89. NaNoWriMo
---->> ID #619318 entered on 11-18-08 @ 6:54 pm EST

#88. Heartbreaking...
---->> ID #619315 entered on 11-18-08 @ 6:45 pm EST

#87. It's A Nightmare...
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#86. 5327 words
---->> ID #616732 entered on 11-04-08 @ 10:34 pm EST

#85. Another Busy Day
---->> ID #613261 entered on 10-16-08 @ 11:23 pm EDT

#84. Lots of Great Poetry Today
---->> ID #612987 entered on 10-15-08 @ 10:00 am EDT

#83. Writing, Writing, and Writing
---->> ID #612871 entered on 10-14-08 @ 7:07 pm EDT

#82. Today's Physical Therapy
---->> ID #612684 entered on 10-13-08 @ 5:53 pm EDT

#81. It's Been a Busy Weekend
---->> ID #612555 entered on 10-12-08 @ 11:18 pm EDT

#80. The Saturn Returns
---->> ID #612202 entered on 10-10-08 @ 3:54 pm EDT

#79. The Fallon Has Landed Again
---->> ID #611929 entered on 10-09-08 @ 7:50 am EDT

#78. The Fallon Has Landed
---->> ID #611839 entered on 10-08-08 @ 5:37 pm EDT

#77. Flap, Fallon, Flap
---->> ID #611837 entered on 10-09-08 @ 7:22 am EDT

#76. Busy Week
---->> ID #611708 entered on 10-08-08 @ 8:46 am EDT

#75. My New Rising Star
---->> ID #611499 entered on 10-07-08 @ 7:17 am EDT

#74. Rental Cars...
---->> ID #611405 entered on 10-07-08 @ 7:43 am EDT

#73. Multiple Topics
---->> ID #611103 entered on 10-05-08 @ 12:05 pm EDT

#72. The Latest Installment
---->> ID #610941 entered on 10-04-08 @ 12:12 pm EDT

#71. So Busy...
---->> ID #610842 entered on 10-03-08 @ 6:01 pm EDT

#70. Bail ME out!
---->> ID #610620 entered on 10-02-08 @ 1:10 pm EDT

#69. Still Sore...
---->> ID #610566 entered on 10-02-08 @ 7:10 am EDT

#68. The Accident or the Intersection
---->> ID #610132 entered on 09-30-08 @ 9:26 am EDT

#67. A Journaling Merit Badge
---->> ID #610119 entered on 09-30-08 @ 7:32 am EDT

#66. Disappointed...
---->> ID #609788 entered on 09-28-08 @ 9:55 am EDT

#65. Now Open: The Weight Loss Forum
---->> ID #609569 entered on 09-27-08 @ 11:32 am EDT

#64. Stepping Out of My Own Little World
---->> ID #609448 entered on 09-26-08 @ 1:59 pm EDT

#63. This Space Intentionally Left Blank
---->> ID #609305 entered on 09-25-08 @ 7:00 pm EDT

#62. 80/20-- Today I Strive For the Elusive 80%
---->> ID #609028 entered on 09-24-08 @ 11:53 am EDT

#61. Wasted Moments; Stolen Joy
---->> ID #608823 entered on 09-23-08 @ 7:59 am EDT

#60. Black Case Celebration Week
---->> ID #608752 entered on 09-22-08 @ 7:40 pm EDT

#59. May I Help?
---->> ID #608641 entered on 09-22-08 @ 10:26 pm EDT

#58. Never Good Enough
---->> ID #608584 entered on 09-22-08 @ 9:38 am EDT

#57. It Was Time
---->> ID #608427 entered on 09-22-08 @ 9:38 am EDT

#56. Scary...
---->> ID #607953 entered on 09-19-08 @ 6:15 pm EDT

#55. Something Else That Frustrates Me
---->> ID #607721 entered on 09-18-08 @ 10:30 am EDT

#54. Things That Frustrate Me...
---->> ID #607486 entered on 09-16-08 @ 8:45 pm EDT

#53. A First Attempt
---->> ID #607225 entered on 09-15-08 @ 12:36 pm EDT

#52. Remnants of IKE!
---->> ID #607166 entered on 09-14-08 @ 10:49 pm EDT

#51. A New Badge
---->> ID #607026 entered on 09-13-08 @ 11:02 pm EDT

#50. Lots to say...
---->> ID #606489 entered on 09-10-08 @ 10:05 pm EDT

#49. September Eleventh Is Coming Up Again
---->> ID #606246 entered on 09-09-08 @ 3:35 pm EDT

#48. Editing and Planning
---->> ID #606193 entered on 09-09-08 @ 8:20 am EDT

#47. Three MUST-READS...
---->> ID #606090 entered on 09-09-08 @ 8:13 am EDT

#46. New Contest Idea
---->> ID #605629 entered on 09-05-08 @ 10:54 pm EDT

#45. A Few Reviews
---->> ID #605626 entered on 09-05-08 @ 10:34 pm EDT

#44. Get to Know Me Through My Writing
---->> ID #605369 entered on 09-04-08 @ 7:47 am EDT

#43. IT'S HERE! IT'S FINALLY HERE!!
---->> ID #605194 entered on 09-03-08 @ 4:39 pm EDT

#42. Truly Touched
---->> ID #605193 entered on 09-04-08 @ 7:55 am EDT

#41. Why Do I Reveiw?
---->> ID #605165 entered on 09-03-08 @ 12:51 pm EDT

#40. Praying for Judy
---->> ID #604987 entered on 09-02-08 @ 10:38 am EDT

#39. Just a note...
---->> ID #604943 entered on 09-02-08 @ 12:24 am EDT

#38. WHEW!!
---->> ID #604421 entered on 08-29-08 @ 6:31 pm EDT

#37. How Awesome is This?
---->> ID #604340 entered on 08-29-08 @ 9:35 am EDT

#36. Judging, Contests, and More...
---->> ID #604339 entered on 08-29-08 @ 9:29 am EDT

#35. Recently Read...
---->> ID #604140 entered on 08-28-08 @ 6:35 am EDT

#34. Now We're Cruisin'...
---->> ID #604134 entered on 08-27-08 @ 10:31 pm EDT

#33. On With the List...
---->> ID #603982 entered on 08-27-08 @ 8:36 am EDT

#32. One Down....
---->> ID #603887 entered on 08-27-08 @ 8:23 am EDT

#31. Things I Have Let Go for Too Long...
---->> ID #603813 entered on 08-26-08 @ 9:38 am EDT

#30. All Better Now
---->> ID #603809 entered on 08-26-08 @ 8:59 am EDT

#29. Have You Ever...
---->> ID #603776 entered on 08-25-08 @ 11:40 pm EDT

#28. Little Things
---->> ID #603678 entered on 08-25-08 @ 1:24 pm EDT

#27. SO EXCITED!!
---->> ID #603537 entered on 08-24-08 @ 6:11 pm EDT

#26. On Turning 40...
---->> ID #603498 entered on 08-24-08 @ 12:09 pm EDT

#25. Be Sure to Stop Here...
---->> ID #603413 entered on 08-23-08 @ 6:13 pm EDT

#24. What An Honor!
---->> ID #603253 entered on 08-22-08 @ 6:57 pm EDT

#23. Today I Got A Merit Badge!
---->> ID #603112 entered on 08-21-08 @ 6:28 pm EDT

#22. YIKES!!
---->> ID #603101 entered on 08-21-08 @ 5:02 pm EDT

#21. A MUST READ
---->> ID #602813 entered on 08-19-08 @ 6:22 pm EDT

#20. A Day in the Life...
---->> ID #602801 entered on 08-19-08 @ 5:29 pm EDT

#19. Two Sad but Beautiful Poems
---->> ID #602800 entered on 08-19-08 @ 5:27 pm EDT

#18. Today I Read...
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#17. A Rant, Of Sorts
---->> ID #602308 entered on 08-16-08 @ 8:47 pm EDT

#16. An Organized Folder
---->> ID #602144 entered on 08-16-08 @ 3:36 am EDT

#15. Free Butterfly Sigs to Support Judy!
---->> ID #602030 entered on 09-02-08 @ 10:29 am EDT

#14. A Few Reviews
---->> ID #601946 entered on 08-14-08 @ 5:50 pm EDT

#13. A Request
---->> ID #601911 entered on 08-14-08 @ 12:58 pm EDT

#12. Just a Little Hint For Bloggers...
---->> ID #601888 entered on 08-14-08 @ 10:34 am EDT

#11. Still Scratchin'
---->> ID #601824 entered on 08-13-08 @ 9:14 pm EDT

#10. Today I Read and Reviewed...
---->> ID #601652 entered on 08-13-08 @ 2:31 am EDT

#9. The Poison Ivy Update
---->> ID #601338 entered on 08-11-08 @ 10:32 am EDT

#8. Yuck!
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#7. Poison Something
---->> ID #600840 entered on 08-08-08 @ 5:28 pm EDT

#6. OK, It's a Little Late
---->> ID #600664 entered on 08-07-08 @ 4:33 am EDT

#5. Something I Read Yesterday
---->> ID #600549 entered on 08-06-08 @ 12:09 pm EDT

#4. Looking Back, I Did More Than I Thought
---->> ID #600228 entered on 08-04-08 @ 2:37 pm EDT

#3. More Thoughts On A Hot Saturday
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