Town Meeting…

November 19th, 2009

I went to the town meeting tonight; left early as I still don’t well enough to sit in a hard chair or stand around for a long time. Anyway, why is it that everything that goes on has to be political? I am in a small rural town; the water board and the sewer board are not combined. They are trying to combine them and change it to an “improvement” district. The purpose is our town doesn’t have enough money to support the water and sewer, and if we did so we would qualify for grants and stimulus money.

Major questions? Will ACORN be involved? Can you promise we don’t take stimulus money? BLA BLA BLA

WTF? Trust me I am all for the value of your convictions, but at the expense of a whole town?

If it doesn’t happen? The sewer system that we cannot afford to fix will most likely not work, then if that happens we have to turn the water off too. Oh, and as it sits the state could sue the town because it doesn’t meet code… Up until a couple of months ago our fire hydrants didn’t even work… /Rant

Come Play a Game with Me

October 5th, 2009

If you like to play games come on over to Evony (has to be this link to be on the same server as me), and join my alliance AFTER (alliance for the evony resistance)… I  need officers and stuff too…

Build Cities, attack other cities, and so on… Lots of fun, and easy to get in to. Because of the growth time it is a great game for people with lots of time, and those with not very much time… FREE of course, I don’t like to pay to play. :)

:) Fun Fun Fun

What I do before I go to bed…

September 23rd, 2009

Just got out of classes (yes it is 10:00 PM), and I was doing my nightly stuff. I haven’t mentioned it on here yet, but I quit smoking again… I am now doing my nightly stuff. So here is what I do before I go to bed.

I go to MyPyramid and log what I ate today (menu planner). It lets me know what I need to eat more of and less of. Now, let me tell you I have been doing doing really good and loosing weight (more than with any diet that I have done), until this quit smoking thing. Guess I need to buy carrots or something.  The good part? Dust quit too! He has gained ten pounds! (He is underweight to that is GOOD.)

Then I run over and make sure that Nina has been doing her spelling games. (Last year with everything we tried she still didn’t do well. Using these games she has been getting at least a 80%) WEIRD

Then I go to Heaven’s schooland log her hours and make sure that there isn’t anything I need to print for “tomorrow” as well as to check my kmail to be sure that none of the teachers need anything from me.

Then I go to my school and check my email, and depending on how tired I am, I check what is going on in my classes. (More often I do it in the morning.) Then I check my NORMAL email. (I reply sometimes, and sometimes I don’t… Depends on how tired I am

Depending on if anyone had anything to do with a doctor, dentist or whatever I then go enter that information in my family’s health manager. I then decide if I am gonna go play my silly games or not.

Last I decide what I am gonna read before I go to sleep. (Tonight? Forensics Under Fire by Fisher.)

What did I do today? Laundry, dishes, bathed all 6 dogs, bathed both cats (they made friends with a skunk the other night), watched my lectures, read some of my work for classes, helped Katrina with her math homework, ran to town, and on on on…

Good Night :)

bill o, you sick?

September 21st, 2009

WealthCare

September 14th, 2009

Just Me… Stuff

September 13th, 2009

If you are reading on facebook, I am doing a cut after I start this as I am gonna get nasty personal. (Not in a sexual way for any nasty people out there, in a medical womanly way. You know it will be like walking down the tampon isle…) So here is your warning, unless you want details quit reading now. (Yes, some of my friends want details!)

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Off Topic – Respect – President Speech Health Care

September 10th, 2009

Of course I watched the entire speech that the president made yesterday. As for the speech, it was very moving, to the point and in my opinion awesome. It told both sides to “grow up” and called out both sides to be reasonable. I still hate some aspects (like everyone having no choice but to be covered, like with car insurance); although I have to admit the defenses our president made to the plan made sense.

However, I want to put the speech aside and talk about respect for a moment. Way back when, I was reading a specific conservative (whom I respect even if I don’t always agree), and for the life of me I can’t remember the web address. However, he said some things that made me have more respect for him, talking about the lack of treating the president with respect. I don’t remember the exact context, but it was something along the lines of not calling him the president. (Mr. Obama instead.) Speaking that even if we don’t agree, or don’t like him, it is our duty as Americans to respect the person we elected to hold this office.

In this speech, I saw a lot of disrespect. People holding up signs, people yelling, and generally acting like idiots. Don’t get me wrong there is a time and a place for that stuff; however, as a member of congress in a joint member speech isn’t the place. Such a lack of respect is in my mind worthy of notice. I don’t agree with _insert religion_ but if I go to a religious ceremony, I shut my mouth, and respectfully bow my head. I don’t agree with a lot of things, but in certain situations it is my duty as a human to keep my mouth shut and to listen to what is being said, or at the very least shut my mouth.

I am shocked, and amazed that such behavior was not only there, but that we elected people that would display such behavior. There is a time and a place for pretty much everything. This type of behavior should be condemned by all. It is possible that it isn’t unprecedented, after all my time paying attention to politics hasn’t been long (a little over a year), but if it isn’t then I condemn the previous people that have been this way as well.

Shame on us for allowing such behavior, and shame on anyone that doesn’t know or understand why we should be ashamed…

Teen Drama….

September 7th, 2009

I just gotta see if I am completely wrong in this, or if I am just slightly wrong. I am sick of teen drama, and it has only been going on for a day. A while back Heaven got into an argument with one of her “friends” a little background is needed here I think.

This friend has been on the “you can’t have anything to do with” list several times. #1 time, the friend and Heaven were sharing passwords (yes a mistake), and the friend emailed nasty things to a different friend. I know this as I had a keylogger program (as well as logged everything else), and it wasn’t sent from our computer. The second friend in question is never allowed to talk to Heaven again. I don’t blame the parents, but Heaven didn’t do it. This was a few years ago, so we are talking sending nasty stuff to a 13 or 14 year old boy.

#2 Ever seen mean girls? This “friend” made a call to a girls house and left a message that the girl was pregnant. Even though with caller ID, they knew who had made the call, this friend said Heaven did it.

#3 We picked Heaven up from the movies one time and this “friend” was there, and was on drugs. The kind where you chew on your own face, some sort of speed.

Now this newest drama. The “friend” got mad at Heaven because she was jealous of a different friend Heaven had. They both acted immature about it (my daughter as well). The “friend” was saying things like “you are so poor your clothes never fit” (I laughed after all my mom just spent $500 on Heaven’s cloths), “at least my parents are together” and anything else mean she could think to say. This was all on text message, and yes I read the text message. My daughter did something silly, because she was mad. She broke a DVD that she had borrowed from this “friend.”

Now I have stayed out of it, after all other than to tell Heaven this “friend” isn’t a friend, and she needs to stay away from all contact with her, I figure it is up to Heaven to do whatever needs to be done. So I am on myspace today, I know shocker, Heaven’s grandfather messaged me, so I was responding, and guess who contacts me? (I am generally friends with Heaven’s friends, as I monitor them to a degree so I know what is going on.) Anyway, she pretends to be her mother, and tells me I need to punish Heaven as well as pay for the movie.

Convo: her – hi, my mom would like to have a little talk with you. hi this is (insert name), I would really appreciate if you would disaplin your daughter for trashing the movie (insert name) bought. She let Heaven borrow it the day she bought it. So if you would please drop twenty dollars off in the mail box or a new one. Thanks (Discipline was spelled that way.)

Me: You have to take that up with Heaven. I am not involved, and I am not getting involved. Nor am I going to pay any money for her actions, you will have to get Heaven to pay for her own actions.

Her: she is your daughter

Me: She is close enough to being an adult, that unless it is very important it is up to her to take care of her own problems.

Her: i payed thirty dollars for (name here) to have that movie.

Me: Listen if you want to talk to me about it give me a call; (my phone number). I am not going to have this conversation on myspace.

So I thought about it, and thought about it. I called the mom. Did I mention I don’t like her even a little bit? No, well I don’t. So I called, talked to her and asked her if everything was taken care of with the movie. Now it is from the phone so I am giving generals not exact words as I can’t remember the exact words. She basically tells me, no but she isn’t going to push it. Tells me basically what a pain in the rear my daughter is, and that it was a movie the entire family would enjoy and the money came out of her pocket for the money… So I just say ok, ok, ok… After all I am not calling to get into a fight with this woman, I have done that before.

(The “friend” was calling every fifteen minutes because Heaven and her were in a fight, it was on the caller ID, Dustin had to work. It was a couple of years ago. So I called back to ask the “friend” to quit calling, as it was interrupting the sleep of the family. The mother answered the phone. I asked to talk to the “friend” to which the mother said, “do you know what time it is?” To which I said yes, but that the daughter was calling over and over and I was calling to ask her to stop, as Heaven had asked her to stop without success. She tells me her daughter is asleep and there is NO way she is making the calls. To which I tell her I have caller ID and the last call was a couple of minutes ago. She tells me “fine, I will take care of my daughter, you take care of yours.” end of convo) So nope I don’t like this woman.

To end: I have no intention of paying for the movie, making Heaven pay for the movie, or for Heaven to be in trouble for the movie. She knows she acted immaturely, which is all being in trouble would be for. However, since she knows and is appologetic I am not doing it. I realize that in a small way it is wrong of me, as I feel the way I do because of my own immature behavior, after all I don’t like these people.

Any words of wisdom out there? Am I so wrong, I should do some other course of action, or am I just wrong but you don’t blame me? Oh, one other thing the reason for the fight in which she kept calling that night? She told Heaven I was a slut, and I slept with everyone in town. I didn’t really care, as I know that isn’t true, so I actually kind of thought it was funny. However, Heaven was pissed and told her to never talk to her again.

OH, and Heaven has to block her from her cell, block her from her email, myspace and so forth. I am sick of this girl. She is a druggy (I know for sure, as she asked my daughter via text messages I have read several times), she is a bad person (not only the above, but she is willing to lie to someone older than her about her age so they will date her, last one was 24, also read the text messages), and so on… I am sick of the girl, and hope that Heaven has finally had enough too.

Government Conspiracies

September 5th, 2009

There are so many reasons that people don’t trust the government, both sides of the political spectrum have their own “favorite” conspiracies. For me, most of these conspiracies are just so out there I don’t put any stock in them. However, I to have an distrust of the government. Since only things that are shocking, entertaining and so on are news worthy anymore; we hear only the bad stuff. Current Example: A town hall with no outrageous protests, isn’t going to make the news.

However, I don’t trust corporationseither. Once again we hear all the bad stuff, but we don’t hear about the good ethical people in this either. However, there does appear to be more corporate corruption than government corruption. How can it not, when the basic principles of economics in our country is greed. (Sorry but that is what capitalism tries to exploit our individual greed.) In general with the right safeguards, I like capitalism anyway. However, the need for some regulation is needed.

So when I first started this debate (with myself), I was looking into economics. I found that many of the arguments that claimed to be for small businesses, would actually  hurt them. They would rather help companies like Walmart. Now don’t get me wrong I like Walmart, but it isn’t a secrete that companies like Walmart essentially kill of smaller companies.

Knowing this wouldn’t make the majority of us quit shopping at Walmart, as we are trying to save money. Now if at all possible (if I can afford it), I prefer to shop at home (we don’t have a Walmart here so small businesses are all over), but lately I haven’t been able to afford to do so. So I am contributing to the death of my own community. How sad is that?

Where am I going with all of this? Back to health care of course. The debate is almost over, and my disappointment might grow a whole bunch this next Wednesday. So I am appealing to everyone; republican, democrat, conservative and liberal. I am going to give a few thoughts; you take this information and you write to your congress (SENATE – the HOUSE is fine) and tell them what you think after you hear me out.

We all agree that pre-existing conditions isn’t a reason to deny someone coverage, we all think that an insurance company shouldn’t be able to put caps on the amount you can spend, we all agree that you shouldn’t be kicked off after years of coverage because you got sick, and we agree that everyone should be covered.

Now look at the insurance companies, they are there to make a profit. WHAT is going to happen without a public option, if these are passed but the public option isn’t? Prices have to skyrocket. After all, now in addition to whatever they are paying for now, they will be paying for all those other people too. They aren’t going to sacrifice profits… It isn’t going to happen…

No public option = higher premiums for us all… I know for me I am starting at $4500 a month for just me… Add my family and I am not sure, but I know it would be more…

So think hard before you are thinking that backing the corporations is the better option here… Think REALLY hard… (PS/ I know over 70% of you – after being explained what the public option is are with me already, but we aren’t making a big enough of a stink yet… We only have days left to get where we need to be.)

OH… I forgot for those that can’t afford the new “mandatory insurance”  (if they pass that part) without a government option, what is going to happen? We gonna put people in jail for being the working poor?

My Learning Curve…

September 4th, 2009

I watched my senator (Barrasso) today on a little “town hall” type thing, and the other guy that does this “against the public option” thing today. They were doing this thing with doctors, and essentially the doctors were complaining about the reduced amount of money they get from medicare. (BTW, can’t remember the guy that does this stuff with my senator, but he made a lot of valid points even though he is against what I want. Barrasso didn’t have anything to say that I thought was good.) However, because of the other guys inability to understand life, I still don’t like him.

So it makes me wonder, what is that cost (reimbursement)? I did a tiny research to find something, and plan on doing more later. I was not able to find the answers yet. However, it just so happens that I got an “explanation of benefits” for Katrina’s kidcare today. I am thinking the difference is most likely there, but perhaps medicare is a bit more? *Unsure… So you tell me what do you think?

Katrina had a mole removed from her head. The doctor did a good job. It took about 20 minutes to talk to us, remove it, and send us out the door. They gave her a bit of whatever they use so that you don’t feel it, and used this little thing with a hole cut in it, and it looked like they “razor” cut it off. In addition they sent it in to be sure it wasn’t cancerous. (It wasn’t.)

Here is the cost:

Office Lab - Charges, 195.00; Discount, 4.00; Blue Cross Blue Shield 191.00
Office Visit – Charges, 73.00; Discount, 17.00; /BCBS 51.00
Office Medical Care – Charges, 209.00; Discount, 35.00; BCBS 174.00

TOTAL – Charges, 477.00; Discount, 56.00; BCBS, 416.00; Copay, 5.00

I have to say if that is even close to what medicare pays for services (although, many of the copays are higher) the doctors aren’t being reasonable, in my opinion. Of course I don’t know what they pay, as I can’t seem to find that information…

One of the things that I will give credit for from the dude that does the little talk show with Barrasso: The standard of care for some things are to high (example used: bump on the head almost always equals an MRI, when it isn’t really something that should always be done). He really does make some excellent points. However, I would use the same points FOR the public option rather than against them…

Anyway, I can’t wait for whatever is going to happen to finally happen. The soaps that call themselves politics are hurting my head. I have taken several classes, and read so many books about politics (and interest groups) that I am starting to fall into the idea that we need major reform in these areas. People and VOTES are what our system is supposed to be about, not CORPORATIONS and MONEY… I hope I live to see the day when that reform is made. No I don’t want mob rule, but I certainly want our politicians doing that which they are elected to do, or at least put every effort into it… :)

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