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shadowkat[New icon is made by me! In short, to the extent one can own these things, I own it. Found it doing one of those interest meme pic thingy's. See they are good for something besides annoying people on your flist with dial-up.]
Quickly, because I have to make dinner and it's already 7. I finally gave in and bought an semi-expensive air purifier via Target today. Waking up twice in the night, coughing, and feeling like I couldn't breath, convinced me that $136 was a small price to pay for clean air.
And it is working, my eyes aren't itching anymore and I don't feel like like I have a perpetual cough. It's a Hepa True Air, with a permanent filter that just needs to be cleaned with a vacume cleaner twice a year and fairly quiet, not to mention energy sufficient. Works like a dream. If you are an allergy sufferer, like me, I highly recommend.
Then I watched the news. Is anyone else following what has been going on in Zimbabwe? It made me cry tonight, even though I've been reading about the escalating violence daily in the Metro and AM newspapers I get on the way to work each morning. These poor people are being forced to vote for a man they despise. If they don't, they are either killed or beaten. And Zimbabwe is a beautiful country, with beautiful people - I've seen the pictures, it's near one of the best wildlife perserves in the world. It's so sad. Why do people feel the need to control other people's lives?
Which brings me to a beautiful message I got from one of the leaders of one of the many social networking groups I belong to. I belong to about twenty, not that you can tell, since I rarely go to any of the events. I have a tendency to join things, but not participate. When I got into discussion boards - I was on about twenty at one time, I think I only really posted to four maybe five, and amongst those? only three that often. At one point, I got really lazy and only posted to the ATPO discussion board, because I liked the intellectual discussions about everything from Jungian and Freudian psychology to 18th Century Literature to the historical reprecussions of what happened in St. Petersburg. There's nothing cooler than posting a Buffy essay, and find people using it as a jumping off point to discuss gender roles in 19th century literature or the historical background of the Wiccan religion.
Anyhow...here's that message, edited to protect the writer:
I want you guys to pass this on..
Because it's so EASILY forgotten by so many of us.
Especially.. when we find ourselves so disconnected among our fellow PEOPLE, FRIENDS and FAMILY in the NYC area.
It's SO easy to feel.. that we're in cliques and that other people don't matter.. that we lose sight of how IMPORTANT other people and connections are in our lives.
I ask you.. to think about this..
A few hours ago, this afternoon.. My Mother called me.
I hadn't spoken to my parents in at least 2 or 3 weeks, but the last time I did, it was all casual, comfortable, and.. hey.. just the same old checking up to see how we were doing. Noting special.. right?
Today.. yesterday by the time you read this.. she told me, that my Dad had passed away, very sudden, and very unexpectantly.
He was working hard to help restore his Parents home.. after my Grandmother; his last surviving parent; had passed last August.
My Dad.. like his Dad before him.. had Literally worked himself to death, for his family!
He put his family and their needs before him, and right now, I Truly Hope, that I am a FRACTION of the MAN that He and my Grandfather were!
They didn't look at people as different. They taught me to accept people as equals, and try to be a Good Man, and to look at others as Eqauals. Put aside our differences and learn to accept what was the SAME about us, before we ever look at what was differenet.
My father and my grandfather.. though they had their stubborn ways.. did not pass judgment upon anyone. I will never stop to look up to them, and I will Never stop trying to be the Quality of Man that they were.
I belive in doing my Best to Respect people. To Accept our Differences, and to see that we have something to Learn from each other. And if we cannot learn from each other, then let us be Mature enoug to Accept that we are Different People, and we don't see eye to eye. And we need to Accept those differencces an Move On.
Let us All try to be Mature Adults, and treat each other like we'd like to be treated in life.
Please.. if you're parents are still alive.. Call them.. Right Now. You don't need any reason, except that they're your Parents.
Let them know how much you love them. Put aside ANY difference that you have. And let them know.. that They.. Made A Difference in Your Life!
Things that made me happy today:
1. A guy at work offered to insert the memory chips I bought into my laptop for free. So I don't have to worry about screwing up the thing myself or lugging it to some store in Manhattan. (I just have to lug it to work, which isn't that big a deal, since I have to go there anyhow.)
2. The message above
3. My air-purifier
4. My new icons courtesy of emberslog.
5. It's Friday
6. I don't have to get up early tomorrow morning (I was thinking of going white water rafting in upstake new york with a meetup group, but it was cancelled. YAY!)
7. Persepolis finally arrived via netflix!!
[Sigh, momster just called to inform me that my cousin is marrying some guy she met on the internet. My uncle, widowed now, is also dating some woman he meet on the internet. I've been on the internet longer than these people have and haven't met anyone. Momster's response: well, maybe you've just been frequenting the wrong sites? (Yeah, maybe lj and atpo and buffy cross and stake, aren't the best for dating. Probably should do more on MySpace and Facebook, which is where my cousin frolicked. I did date a few guys I met via the net but nothing ever came of it. One was an interesting doctor from Shang-hai, who I got along with better via email than in person - this always happens to me, it's annoying.)]
Quickly, because I have to make dinner and it's already 7. I finally gave in and bought an semi-expensive air purifier via Target today. Waking up twice in the night, coughing, and feeling like I couldn't breath, convinced me that $136 was a small price to pay for clean air.
And it is working, my eyes aren't itching anymore and I don't feel like like I have a perpetual cough. It's a Hepa True Air, with a permanent filter that just needs to be cleaned with a vacume cleaner twice a year and fairly quiet, not to mention energy sufficient. Works like a dream. If you are an allergy sufferer, like me, I highly recommend.
Then I watched the news. Is anyone else following what has been going on in Zimbabwe? It made me cry tonight, even though I've been reading about the escalating violence daily in the Metro and AM newspapers I get on the way to work each morning. These poor people are being forced to vote for a man they despise. If they don't, they are either killed or beaten. And Zimbabwe is a beautiful country, with beautiful people - I've seen the pictures, it's near one of the best wildlife perserves in the world. It's so sad. Why do people feel the need to control other people's lives?
Which brings me to a beautiful message I got from one of the leaders of one of the many social networking groups I belong to. I belong to about twenty, not that you can tell, since I rarely go to any of the events. I have a tendency to join things, but not participate. When I got into discussion boards - I was on about twenty at one time, I think I only really posted to four maybe five, and amongst those? only three that often. At one point, I got really lazy and only posted to the ATPO discussion board, because I liked the intellectual discussions about everything from Jungian and Freudian psychology to 18th Century Literature to the historical reprecussions of what happened in St. Petersburg. There's nothing cooler than posting a Buffy essay, and find people using it as a jumping off point to discuss gender roles in 19th century literature or the historical background of the Wiccan religion.
Anyhow...here's that message, edited to protect the writer:
I want you guys to pass this on..
Because it's so EASILY forgotten by so many of us.
Especially.. when we find ourselves so disconnected among our fellow PEOPLE, FRIENDS and FAMILY in the NYC area.
It's SO easy to feel.. that we're in cliques and that other people don't matter.. that we lose sight of how IMPORTANT other people and connections are in our lives.
I ask you.. to think about this..
A few hours ago, this afternoon.. My Mother called me.
I hadn't spoken to my parents in at least 2 or 3 weeks, but the last time I did, it was all casual, comfortable, and.. hey.. just the same old checking up to see how we were doing. Noting special.. right?
Today.. yesterday by the time you read this.. she told me, that my Dad had passed away, very sudden, and very unexpectantly.
He was working hard to help restore his Parents home.. after my Grandmother; his last surviving parent; had passed last August.
My Dad.. like his Dad before him.. had Literally worked himself to death, for his family!
He put his family and their needs before him, and right now, I Truly Hope, that I am a FRACTION of the MAN that He and my Grandfather were!
They didn't look at people as different. They taught me to accept people as equals, and try to be a Good Man, and to look at others as Eqauals. Put aside our differences and learn to accept what was the SAME about us, before we ever look at what was differenet.
My father and my grandfather.. though they had their stubborn ways.. did not pass judgment upon anyone. I will never stop to look up to them, and I will Never stop trying to be the Quality of Man that they were.
I belive in doing my Best to Respect people. To Accept our Differences, and to see that we have something to Learn from each other. And if we cannot learn from each other, then let us be Mature enoug to Accept that we are Different People, and we don't see eye to eye. And we need to Accept those differencces an Move On.
Let us All try to be Mature Adults, and treat each other like we'd like to be treated in life.
Please.. if you're parents are still alive.. Call them.. Right Now. You don't need any reason, except that they're your Parents.
Let them know how much you love them. Put aside ANY difference that you have. And let them know.. that They.. Made A Difference in Your Life!
Things that made me happy today:
1. A guy at work offered to insert the memory chips I bought into my laptop for free. So I don't have to worry about screwing up the thing myself or lugging it to some store in Manhattan. (I just have to lug it to work, which isn't that big a deal, since I have to go there anyhow.)
2. The message above
3. My air-purifier
4. My new icons courtesy of emberslog.
5. It's Friday
6. I don't have to get up early tomorrow morning (I was thinking of going white water rafting in upstake new york with a meetup group, but it was cancelled. YAY!)
7. Persepolis finally arrived via netflix!!
[Sigh, momster just called to inform me that my cousin is marrying some guy she met on the internet. My uncle, widowed now, is also dating some woman he meet on the internet. I've been on the internet longer than these people have and haven't met anyone. Momster's response: well, maybe you've just been frequenting the wrong sites? (Yeah, maybe lj and atpo and buffy cross and stake, aren't the best for dating. Probably should do more on MySpace and Facebook, which is where my cousin frolicked. I did date a few guys I met via the net but nothing ever came of it. One was an interesting doctor from Shang-hai, who I got along with better via email than in person - this always happens to me, it's annoying.)]
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Date: 2008-06-28 12:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-28 01:38 am (UTC)Me? Not so much. Granted I didn't try that hard. Only dated five guys as opposed to...and that was before they started charging money for the service. (I used it back in 1999-2002.)