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Sort of Like Pumpkin Seeds

I was trying to think of what these reminded me of. Pumpkin seeds. They are like roasted crispy pumpkin seeds. Now that you know this in advance you can try them. Just to say that you did. :-) http://bit.ly/4iZrP9

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Hi Anxiety

A few mantras I try to remind myself of during rough times. I have a bunch, probably one for every occasion, but these are just a few highlights to help out.

I have so many bills and No way to pay them or I am falling behind. There will always be bills. The more money you have the larger the bills will be. Breathe.  My kids do not listen to me.I did not always seem to listen to my parents but now I know what it means, Maybe my kids hear me. I will just keep talking to them. Breathe. I am worried I cannot provide for my family. There are always family and friends to call for help. So the worry is for having to ask? And society changes things will change. Breathe.

I was watching TV, something most of us do to distract from the daily issues we face. And there was this snippet of dialog that really was very good, “Life is 24 hours of pain. Interrupted by brief moments of basic cable.” I thought that just about summed it up.

Sometimes I find myself lying awake at night plagued by the physical internal vibration, shaking, uncontrollably. I start to worry about what needs to be done, what I cannot do. I feel powerless and as scared as a small child in a dark room alone during a thunderstorm.

Will my boss fire me for that little mistake? Will my spouse leave me because I don’t keep the house clean enough or I can’t cook a decent meal? Will my kids grow up to be serial killers?

Well, sometimes the thoughts are not really anything but that, just imagination and worry running rampant. But sometimes you really are unemployed and can’t pay the bills. Sometimes the house may be in jeopardy of being taken always and you face homelessness. Sometimes the diagnosis is Cancer.

What do I do? Where do I go?

I see a sad trend. I think it is a response to apathy. I see people on TV and in my community that are suffering from illnesses such as hoarding or addictions (shopaholic, alcoholic, drug addiction, etc.). All these are ways to self-medicate. But you only need medication to fix something that is broken in the body. If it is an issue of the mind, medication alone will not fix anything. Can you think your way out of a paper bag? Sometimes I forget that I can.

I hope that my true friends know that they can call me when they have problems, no matter the time of night, even when they don’t want me to do anything but listen. Because in their calling me they make me feel useful and that is enough to get me through a tough time or two. We all need to be needed.

If people become apathetic and think that showing care or concern is being nosey. Or people withdrawal from society because of fears or apprehensions, then where does that leave us. It leaves us to cower in the corner alone with a sense of being lost, with no direction. Like 2 year old children lost in a big city without an understanding of who they are or where they come from.

We want our parents to hold us while we cry and tell us that everything will be ok. At the same time we are the parents of children that we must hold.

I like to remind myself when I get into this state that I am now 40 (well 39, but who will split hairs) and I know people in their 70s+ so that means that I have all this time to do again. Every minute I have already lived I can live doing something else in the future.

So WOW! This or that problem is just a moment that will pass and I am making myself a nervous wreck about it.

I could be starving to death, really. Or I could have no clothes but rags. There are so many things that could be more painful than any of my worries, and people live through these things. Not only do they live, but a few of them emerge having gone through the worst of the worst.

So I am out of work. So I can’t afford that 52nd pair of shoes that are in style. So I may not be able to get the latest video games for my kids. Sometimes love has to be enough because it is all there is. And sometimes it is the only thing we can give to ourselves.

Billions of people have done all this living before me. At the end we die. There is no alternative. So in the middle – just live. And do no harm.

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Republicans Ask for Credit Check in Their Bill

Okay. I digress. The Republicans submitted an amendment to HR3200 that would have taken care of the illegal alien question on their end. I would not be opposed to that. No one in this country legally would.



here is the link to the Republican amendment that was not added http://blog.heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/heller-6.pdf



Oh. So sorry. I read the 2 page amendment. I just wanted to see how unfairly the Republicans were being treated.



I should have trusted that there was a darn good reason why it was not approved for addition.



IT REQUIRES EVERYONE TO PASS A CREDIT CHECK TO BE ELLIGIBLE TO USE THE REFORMED HEALTHCARE SYSTEM!!!!!!!!!!



Are you kidding me ?!



Really what is in it for these evil people to NOT pass reform...? I want to know what you would sell your soul for?



This is sickening.



REFORM NOW !!
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Some Schools Excusing Kids From Obama's Back-To-School Speech

We should not only expose them to things that are different but encourage them to disagree with us if they so choose.

How sad that people have raised kids that will hear one speech and become terrosists like the Taliban. :-(

It seems to me that these parents are afraid that their kids will make up their own minds and become Democrats. How sad. What a tradgedy.



If you are afraid to let your kids hear the President talk about education it must be because you don't want them learning anything other than the right wing cattle feed that you are forcing down their throats.



I remember having to write a letter to 'Dear Mr. President' when I was in grade school. If there is something wrong with that (and he took this out of the lesson plan, so point mute)? then I guess I am living in a country with communists, but they are not those who are liberal or Democrat they are the people trying to censor and block what I can and can't hear from the leader of the nation that I live in.

Sad that there are kids being raiseded in ignorance. Maybe we should have TV like in N. Korea where things are weeded out.



And unless you are blind race IS an issue. Obama is our FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT. Duh. How could it not be. Are you trying to pretend he is not black?
About Barack Obama
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Irish Egg Rolls

makes servings for 4 of about 6 rolls each

3 potatoes

1 med onion

5 cups cabbage

6 baby carrots

1/3 pound corned beef

24-30 egg roll wraps

 

 

 

1. Cut potatoes into small cubes 1/4
2. cabbage should be shredded super fine ( I buy the angel hair cole slaw mix)
3. slice onion into slivers
4. grate carrots
5. steam cook for 20 min or boil then drain mixture (steaming will retain the flavor better)
6. mix into bowl and let cool (you will have to be able to touch the mixture to fill the wraps)
7. put 2 tablespoons of filling into each egg roll wrap

 

deep fry (I recommend canola oil for less saturated fat)

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It's true that money is the root of all evil

I was praying all night after a friend said some really terrible things to me. Her points of view were partially that she is blessed and I am not because she has money.



While we are not wealthy we do have enough of what we need. I am very happy with my family and what we have. We enjoy a comfortable living and have good food on the table each day. We have extras like cable TV and new cars. We are doing better than basic and that is fine.



This friend of mine said some pretty evil things to me and then she dipped back 30 years to toss out more mean things in my face just to try to hurt my feelings.



I honestly did not know what to say or do.

Her position was that I was trying to make myself seem better than her because we were discussing the bank bonuses and I said that I would have given mine back.



Her thought on this were that I would be making a stupid decision because my family would suffer if I made a choice like that.



Well I would think that my family would be just fine without millions of extra dollars.



Now don't get the wrong idea. Money is great to have because there are lots of things to see, do and have when you have more of it.



But if you think that you are blessed because you have it then you are looking wrong at what blessings are and that can lead you to say and do evil things to protect that financial blessing.



In any religion that I know of the simple things in life, the ones you can't buy are the most important things in this world and, most importantly, in the next, or in certain cases in the next incarnation.



Because you can't take it with you defending your money to the peril of the feelings and lives of others is the very definition of evil.



This defense of money drifts off into sub categories. Like thinking that if your children have the best toys that you are blessed. What happens when your children grow up and are very unhappy because they later tell you that they would have rather had you there then out working for 16 hours a day to give them things.



What happens when you start avoiding people because they may ask you to share you wealth. You become distrustful and selfish. You start to guard that fortune just to prevent others from having even the tiniest part of it. That selfishness, when others are in need is evil.



Yes. Money is the root of all evil. Because it is so easy to say it's mine, not yours and go against every spiritual principle of caring for others when you have it. And when you have more of it it adds to the other vices.



You have more money you have more power. Power corrupts. We see that everyday.



You have the ability to indulge in more things and Gluttony is a sin all over the world. Except if you are Hedonistic. Well, even they have rules on that subject.



You may kill to protect YOUR THINGS.



Money may become so important to you that you practically worship it by taking time from other spiritual duties to make more of it.



It can become idolized. People pride themselves on the amount of large bills that they might have in their wallet as a status symbol. Status symbols and some people go to any lengths to have these.



You might do things that are dishonest, unethical or just conniving all these things dishonor your parents. The most basic desire for a parent is that their children be good people FIRST. Doing these things to get money does not make you good.



People want to be with you so it makes adultery more of a possibility.



Money makes the world jealous and thus not only you are in jeopardy of committing sin but by flaunting you may tempt others into envy. Which is a sin because it can cloud your mind and distract you.



You will bear false witness in many matters when the loss of money is at stake. If you boss asks you if you did not do that job or your partner. you might choose to keep your pay rate safe and say your partner, so that when reviews come up you will get that bigger raise.



If you see a beautiful person money makes it easy to think that you can have that person. In reality money can't buy friends. But having the ability to buy just about anything will make you think and even give you the illusion that it can.



Last but not least without money there would be no need to steal.



I just went through the basic 10 that we all follow. Yes ALL. No one can dispute the basic morality of the ten commandments even atheists.



I suppose I could have gone point by point through the Egyptian version of sins which has over a hundred points to follow.



And the last thing that makes me think that money IS the root of ALL evil. Is the first thing I saw when logging on to my computer today and checking my email was this Plinky prompt after I had been praying all night.



That is more than a sign to me that I don't need to allow myself to be treated badly by people with money. The way that you try to make others feel that they are less than you because in your eyes they are NOT blessed if they don't have money. Is the ultimate, the most evil thing you could EVER so to anyone.