The crazy lady strikes again

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Monday, December 11, 2006

I'm BAAACK!

All right - so that's a very corny old movie line (I believe from the Poltergeist sequel). But it happens to be the truth. I have been busy with a very personal writing project - one I'm working on free of charge. This particular writing project details some of the problems I've been experiencing (including some problems I haven't gone into here), and I hope to email the finished documents to someone I respect. I haven't decided just who will be the fortunate (or unfortunate) recipient of these... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

I'm doing much better today, thanks

One comment on my last entry inspired me to write, though. It's true that I cannot anticipate just when I might get sick. However, it's not true that I can't plan for the financial consequences of getting sick. You see, I've known I have kidney disease since I was 17 - and that was over thirty years ago. That's a long time to know that potential problems arise. It's easy to tell people like me that there are assistance programs available to help with the financial problems inherent in illness.... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, December 5, 2006

Today is not one of my better days

I think I'm about ready to make some changes for the better. Lately, I've been talking about how far behind on our rent we are. I investigated one agency offering rental assistance, and one of the conditions they set for assistance is that you have to prove both the causes for your being behind on the rent and that those causes are beyond your control. Frankly, our circumstances are at least somewhat within our control, in the sense that I feel we could have planned financially for all the... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, December 4, 2006

More time to bake the donuts

How many people remember that Dunkin' Donuts ad, back in the days when that's what people actually went there for? I thought I'd better post something in here just to keep the blog active. Over the past few days, it has become increasingly difficult for me to write about the more generic topics I tend to put in here. Part of the problem is that I came down with a nasty cold last month, and I'm still feeling the aftereffects of that cold. When I get sick, it's hard for me to find the motivation... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, December 1, 2006

Good morning - finally!

This is one of those entries I had to force myself to write. I've had a mild case of the stomach flu all morning, in addition to weather-related stress. We have gotten socked with nasty weather here in the Chicago area - several inches of the heavy, wet white stuff (what news people call "heart attack" snow, with good reason, because the number of visits to ERs with heart-related problems goes up in direct proportion to the number of idiots out there overexerting themselves shoveling). I hate... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Why are we wasting our time on this nonsense?

In my last entry, I implied strongly (even if I didn't state it outright) that I felt somewhat "lost" at not having anything to be angry about. Well, in my comments section, AllyK made a perfectly valid point. Her point, whether she realizes it or not, is very similar to one I made, almost as a throwaway comment, in From Death Into Life. We spend inordinate amounts of time on seemingly irrelevant things - that kerfuffle over New Line Cinema's sponsorship of Chicago's Christkindlmarkt, for... Sign in to see full entry.

Talk about feeling strange!

It feels strange not having to be angry at something. Since just before Thanksgiving, I've had the smoke-alarm problems on my mind, and now that it seems as if these problems have been fixed (at least temporarily), I have nothing to be angry at. Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

You're not going to *believe* this!

I just got done talking to someone with some knowledge of recent events surrounding the smoke alarm. He claimed that the handymen had been over promptly after my original conversation with building management, and that I wasn't home. Someone's lying - I was home that day, and nobody knocked (or at least they didn't knock loudly enough to get my attention). I hate the "customer service" I'm getting from these people. I wish I could ignore the past-due rent in favor of getting better service. But... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

I hope I finally have it fixed!

Someone finally came over to fix the smoke alarm - after I contacted the fire department (who, in turn, contacted the building inspector). I felt rather embarrassed about this whole kerfuffel, but I hope I've finally gotten the **** thing fixed. (Fill in your favorite expletive where the asterisks are.) In turn, I'm half expecting that whatever goes around, comes around. There is the serious matter of my past-due rent to consider. I'm considering taking my sweet time asking various agencies for... Sign in to see full entry.

This might sound strange, but....

If there's one thing that worries me about my husband's new job right now, it's the idea that I'm the one that might get pressured to do something contrary to my beliefs. Believe it or not, that's happened before. That isn't even the true problem, in my opinion. I think the true problem is that my opinions are just getting dismissed out of hand, without anyone thinking that perhaps there is at least a kernel of truth in them. I don't know what I'm doing wrong - if anything - to warrant this. If... Sign in to see full entry.

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