Okay so I figured it was time to stop posting these wonderfully morbid things about my love life and move on to something more important...like wonderfully morbid things about my health. So here we go!
About five times over the past 9 months, starting in mid october, I have had very odd periods of numbness/ tingling in my hands and feet. These weird little episodes usually last for about two days and then I wake up one morning and I am fine. The longest period that this has happened for has been two weeks (the first one in october.) So of course I wake up the morning I am coming home from our big family adventure to find that my hands have gone numb again. Let me clarify before I continue; when I say numbness what i really mean is that when I touch things it takes me longer than it should to be able to feel them. I can still feel things and I can still feel and move my hands and feet its just takes longer, and any sort of rapid movement doesn't really register. So anyway, I finally get to yesterday and decide that I should alert my parents to the fact that i am having another one of these episodes. I told them about the more severe times, and usually once this goes on for more than a day or two i tell them about it. Well of course my mother's first reaction is kind of an odd look and that i should google it. My father's first reaction is that i need to immediately call my doctor because my hands and feet are going to fall off of my body any moment. Seeing that i told my mother first i go and WebMD my symptoms. Here are the 20 possible aliments I may be suffering from:
*peripheral neuropathy
*Vitamin B12 deficiency
*Wernicke Syndrome
*Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
*Generalized Anxiety disorder
*Panic Attack
*Multiple Sclerosis
*Diabetic Neuropathy
*Scleroderma
*Median Nerve Injury
*Ulnar Nerve Injury
*Neck Spinal Stenosis
*Burn
*Chemical Burn
*CREST Syndrome
*Poorly Fitting Shoes
*Neck Spondlyosis
*Hyperventilation
*Cold Exposure
*Low Blood Sugar
I would like to put a big thank you out to WebMD for making this situation from odd to life threatening, while do absolutely nothing to help. This list encompasses everything from things that could be cured by a trip to the shopping mall with a relaxing massage afterward; to a fatal incurable disease. Wow...okay well I will make sure that if at all possible (because who knows maybe my hands are gonna fall off any min) that I will keep you all posted on my condition and that my next post will be at the very least funny and cynical. Wishing you the very best.
~The Singing Ginger
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Nuns and Lesbians
I have made my decision about this whole stupidness, and now I just have to be able to stick to my guns while I am looking him in the face and following through. Damn this whole situation to hell. I made a pros and cons list for myself and it was wonderfully obvious what needs to happen. It is not something I am going to post on here because as private as cyber space is...I am just not comfortable with the idea of putting that much of myself out there. Okay...breathe...and step off the edge...all will work itself out in the end. Will write more about the outcome later.
~The Singing Ginger
~The Singing Ginger
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Northern Treking
I don't know if I spelled treking right, if any one knows the proper spelling please comment. Okay so right now I am currently in the northern part of my state chilling out with the family and having a generally good time. Earlier this week I was in the Canadian wilderness hiking and kayaking and eating lots of fish and chips, it was a good time and a much needed break from the stresses of every day life. A few up dates:
The thing with the movie extra thing has continued. I am currently waiting to hear back from the company that organizes all the extras and should have my first day of filming on monday. I am super excited and looking forward to gawking at both Ellen Paige and Drew Barrymore. It should be fun and it pays more than my normal job does so it will be a nice little boost to my
pocket as well. If I get to see myself on the big screen for even a split second my life is going to be so cool!
The whole Jane and Jack thing, or was it Jim? We are now going to switch the dude name to G because I can remember that better and the girl name to C. Well G has gone off to ireland for his freshman seminar abroad, and C is left here in the states to ponder that state of what ever the heck it is that they are doing. C is torn since she truely is begining to fall for G all over again in ways that she hadn't expected and that may not have even exsisted the first time around. At the same time C can not handle this whole thing where G dates this other girl. I am not into open relationships I am not into juggling women or men and I totally understand where C is coming from. With that said C see a couple of possible options: She can continue with G as she has even though she suffers through an amazing amount of pain everytime she hears about his other women (and he tends to off handedly mention them when around her, not out of cruelty but more out of stories he likes to tell about fun things that include them.) C can also do what she has been feeling she should do for a while, tell G that this is hurting like hell, that she deserves so much more than this, and that she is not going to make the conscious choice to try things with G and only G when he is not making that same choice for her.
This would mean that G and C would meet up again once G gets up to C's school and they can see where things go from there. This sucks either way for C because she will miss G, and though she wants to think that G ill miss her too if she does this, he isn't doing anything to change it, which makes her think otherwise. G is risking that in his "playing of the field" he will lose C. C is not going to wait around to be the back up plan for G after he is done screwing around with everyone. C will be looking and pursuing other options while G does his thing. Either way this whole thing sucks and C is seriously just contemplating giving up on men altogether and becoming either a nun or a lesbian. C is also now realizing that this whole rant makes G look like a real jerk, but he is not, and he has been totally honest and up front with C about this whole thing and she just wants everyone to know about that.
Okay i am done with the drama today. Time to go play hillbilly horse shoes with the rest of the family.
~The Singing Ginger
The thing with the movie extra thing has continued. I am currently waiting to hear back from the company that organizes all the extras and should have my first day of filming on monday. I am super excited and looking forward to gawking at both Ellen Paige and Drew Barrymore. It should be fun and it pays more than my normal job does so it will be a nice little boost to my
pocket as well. If I get to see myself on the big screen for even a split second my life is going to be so cool!
The whole Jane and Jack thing, or was it Jim? We are now going to switch the dude name to G because I can remember that better and the girl name to C. Well G has gone off to ireland for his freshman seminar abroad, and C is left here in the states to ponder that state of what ever the heck it is that they are doing. C is torn since she truely is begining to fall for G all over again in ways that she hadn't expected and that may not have even exsisted the first time around. At the same time C can not handle this whole thing where G dates this other girl. I am not into open relationships I am not into juggling women or men and I totally understand where C is coming from. With that said C see a couple of possible options: She can continue with G as she has even though she suffers through an amazing amount of pain everytime she hears about his other women (and he tends to off handedly mention them when around her, not out of cruelty but more out of stories he likes to tell about fun things that include them.) C can also do what she has been feeling she should do for a while, tell G that this is hurting like hell, that she deserves so much more than this, and that she is not going to make the conscious choice to try things with G and only G when he is not making that same choice for her.
This would mean that G and C would meet up again once G gets up to C's school and they can see where things go from there. This sucks either way for C because she will miss G, and though she wants to think that G ill miss her too if she does this, he isn't doing anything to change it, which makes her think otherwise. G is risking that in his "playing of the field" he will lose C. C is not going to wait around to be the back up plan for G after he is done screwing around with everyone. C will be looking and pursuing other options while G does his thing. Either way this whole thing sucks and C is seriously just contemplating giving up on men altogether and becoming either a nun or a lesbian. C is also now realizing that this whole rant makes G look like a real jerk, but he is not, and he has been totally honest and up front with C about this whole thing and she just wants everyone to know about that.
Okay i am done with the drama today. Time to go play hillbilly horse shoes with the rest of the family.
~The Singing Ginger
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
I ROCK!
Why do I rock you might ask? Because I am going to be an extra in a movie! THATS WHY I ROCK! More later!
~The Singing Ginger
~The Singing Ginger
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Facebook Pro
So occasionally facebook has its benefits, this nifty little application asked me all about my political stances and forced me to then put my beliefs into words. Here is what came out:
2008 Presidential Candidates: I will be voting for Obama but was glad that McCain got the republican nomination.
Party: I vote people not party (independent), I think it is when people devote themselves to one party or another that they begin to truly ignore the issues.
Abortion: I am against abortion but am far from condemning those that chose that route in some situations.
Affirmative Action: Until we can think of a system that would better address the horrible amounts of racism that occur in this country everyday, I am for it. I would definitely be pro system for something based on economic standings, but this idea has yet to be placed seriously on the table.
Capital Punishment: I do not think it is the right of any government to take away the lives of its people. There is no way for this system to be 100% accurate which means that at some point you would end up killing an innocent person and that is not acceptable.
Censorship: I think under extreme circumstances a government may need to be able to keep things quiet, but I think there should be a time limit (other than the death of said president) for these documents to be released. Waiting for a president to die before releasing their documents is just another way of saying they shouldn't really have to be accountable for their actions.
Cuba: US should open trade with them and begin reestablishing lines of communication. The red scare is over people...move on.
Current Administration (Bush/Cheney): Since I am anti capital punishment I will just say this (I am being totally serious) Bush and Cheney need to simply go away where they can't have any more power and can not kill any more people.
Education: Education (including secondary) should be a right of the people not a privilege of the rich.
Electoral College: Stupidest thing ever. There is NO EXCUSE for having a system in which one person can earn more votes and still be denied the presidency. Bush v. Gore was at least the fourth time this has happened in our nation's history. No one visits Rhode Island anyway.
Flag Burning: It is the people who put power behind the flag therefore it is the people's right to then burn that symbol of power. This country's laws are not based on what should be respectful but on what is freedom.
Gay Rights: It is none of the government's damn business whom I chose to sleep with. When you try and mess with this you screw with every piece of the Constitution that assures people freedom of pursuit of happiness, not to mention the division between church and state.
Global Warming: Its exists and we need to fix it. Even if it doesn't what is the worst that would happen? We would end up with a cleaner planet.
Gun Control: If you aren't going to use a gun for bad purposes then you have nothing to worry about in a background check. To be totally honest i don't understand why pro gun people wouldn't want background checks, it prevents those crazies who go out and kill people with guns they buy at YOUR gun shows from being the population that represents you. People with guns don't kill people, crazy people with guns kill people.
Marijuana Legalization: It does not inhibit you any more than getting stupid drunk will. It has less medical implications than smoking or getting stupid drunk all the time does, and its original illegalization is based on white rubber plant owners seeing competition in black hemp company owners. Wanna help out national debt/ make the war on drugs a hell of a lot more efficient because they won't be chasing teenage pot dealers? Legalize. Not to mention it has been illegal now for how long and people can still get it relatively easily EVERYWHERE!
School Prayer: If you wanna have prayer in school you must allow and accommodate Muslim prayer, Jewish prayer, Wiccan prayer, and any other sort of prayer. Since I have yet to see a single educational establishment be able to do this, I am against it.
Separation of Church and State: Does not exist in the US, and should.
~The Singing Ginger
2008 Presidential Candidates: I will be voting for Obama but was glad that McCain got the republican nomination.
Party: I vote people not party (independent), I think it is when people devote themselves to one party or another that they begin to truly ignore the issues.
Abortion: I am against abortion but am far from condemning those that chose that route in some situations.
Affirmative Action: Until we can think of a system that would better address the horrible amounts of racism that occur in this country everyday, I am for it. I would definitely be pro system for something based on economic standings, but this idea has yet to be placed seriously on the table.
Capital Punishment: I do not think it is the right of any government to take away the lives of its people. There is no way for this system to be 100% accurate which means that at some point you would end up killing an innocent person and that is not acceptable.
Censorship: I think under extreme circumstances a government may need to be able to keep things quiet, but I think there should be a time limit (other than the death of said president) for these documents to be released. Waiting for a president to die before releasing their documents is just another way of saying they shouldn't really have to be accountable for their actions.
Cuba: US should open trade with them and begin reestablishing lines of communication. The red scare is over people...move on.
Current Administration (Bush/Cheney): Since I am anti capital punishment I will just say this (I am being totally serious) Bush and Cheney need to simply go away where they can't have any more power and can not kill any more people.
Education: Education (including secondary) should be a right of the people not a privilege of the rich.
Electoral College: Stupidest thing ever. There is NO EXCUSE for having a system in which one person can earn more votes and still be denied the presidency. Bush v. Gore was at least the fourth time this has happened in our nation's history. No one visits Rhode Island anyway.
Flag Burning: It is the people who put power behind the flag therefore it is the people's right to then burn that symbol of power. This country's laws are not based on what should be respectful but on what is freedom.
Gay Rights: It is none of the government's damn business whom I chose to sleep with. When you try and mess with this you screw with every piece of the Constitution that assures people freedom of pursuit of happiness, not to mention the division between church and state.
Global Warming: Its exists and we need to fix it. Even if it doesn't what is the worst that would happen? We would end up with a cleaner planet.
Gun Control: If you aren't going to use a gun for bad purposes then you have nothing to worry about in a background check. To be totally honest i don't understand why pro gun people wouldn't want background checks, it prevents those crazies who go out and kill people with guns they buy at YOUR gun shows from being the population that represents you. People with guns don't kill people, crazy people with guns kill people.
Marijuana Legalization: It does not inhibit you any more than getting stupid drunk will. It has less medical implications than smoking or getting stupid drunk all the time does, and its original illegalization is based on white rubber plant owners seeing competition in black hemp company owners. Wanna help out national debt/ make the war on drugs a hell of a lot more efficient because they won't be chasing teenage pot dealers? Legalize. Not to mention it has been illegal now for how long and people can still get it relatively easily EVERYWHERE!
School Prayer: If you wanna have prayer in school you must allow and accommodate Muslim prayer, Jewish prayer, Wiccan prayer, and any other sort of prayer. Since I have yet to see a single educational establishment be able to do this, I am against it.
Separation of Church and State: Does not exist in the US, and should.
~The Singing Ginger
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Writing Ginger
Okay so I have this idea that I am going to write a book and would very much like to share my ideas with the cyber world but at the same time am overly paranoid that someone is going to steal my ideas and write their own book that would then end up being cooler than mine,which...needless to say, is unacceptable. So yeah, I have this book I am writing about this guy, who goes to this place and does these cool things and it going to be really interesting, if I can finish it. Writing a book has been one of the many wonderful ideas i have had over the years that i keep trying at and then just not completing. It is much like going to the gym; I start out with all the right intentions and then just get bored/ stop being interested in it. I have started at least 30 books. I am an awesome book starter, I can start a book like no ones business, but lets be honest with ourselves, no one reads a book and then goes out to tell their friends and family how awesome the beginning was. So i am hoping that this one will stick and if it doesn't I guess that is just one more book down between me and the book I will finally complete.
On a randomly switching topics note, Jimmy (of the Jimmy from a couple of posts down) is being quite the confusing butthead again lately. We left off in this little story with Jimmy and Jane deciding that dating right now would not be the best thing and that they would remain friends who flirted an inappropriate amount for exes and that it was cool to see other people as long as they were up front about each other with it. Well Jimmy kept his end of the deal and was up front about it when he began seeing...Jill. Jill and Jimmy mostly just make out all the time but it is driving Jane nuts. Jane is well aware that Jimmy isn't really doing anything wrong and that this is sorta what she signed up for but that doesn't mean she can't be a little pissy about it. The funny thing is, is that even if Jimmy dropped Jill on her ass right now and went to Jane and told her she was the one for him and that he wanted her and only her, Jane would freak out and not want to date Jimmy. Jane is weird.
On another note that is going to be the last note because Jane...I mean I am getting tired, Celtic festivals are not the place to meet your future husband. I found this out the hard way by attending one the other day. I had hoped, like any self respecting Irish Catholic, that I would go to the Celtic festival and be swept off my feet by a big burly Scots and or Irish man, and that he would have red hair an accent and be wearing a kilt. Then he would sweep me off his feet and take me to Ireland/ Scotland and we would be married on a cliff with a bunch of bagpipers, and all the men wearing kilts. This, unfortunately, did not happen. I dragged my best friend Megan along and we parked in the elementary school lot and drove a bus with a bunch of older ladies to the fair grounds. Here we paid $15 to get in and promptly got our shoes stuck in the mud because it had been raining earlier that day. As we walked around the fair grounds in the scorching heat and sticky mud, the perimeter was surrounded by white tents loudly proclaiming the histories of the families that inhabited them. Near the back end of the festival was the highland games. Surely here I would find my kilt wearing, caber tossing future husband! But alas no, many a man where wearing the kilt but most of them hailed from the casinoed shores of Detroit, not the blarney hills of Scotland. Needless to say i left the Celtic festival with no husband but a much heightened pride of the exactly 1/16th Irish blood that flows through my veins. All in all I would say it was a positive experience and I plan on continuing my search next year. May all your clovers be green.
~The Singing Ginger
On a randomly switching topics note, Jimmy (of the Jimmy from a couple of posts down) is being quite the confusing butthead again lately. We left off in this little story with Jimmy and Jane deciding that dating right now would not be the best thing and that they would remain friends who flirted an inappropriate amount for exes and that it was cool to see other people as long as they were up front about each other with it. Well Jimmy kept his end of the deal and was up front about it when he began seeing...Jill. Jill and Jimmy mostly just make out all the time but it is driving Jane nuts. Jane is well aware that Jimmy isn't really doing anything wrong and that this is sorta what she signed up for but that doesn't mean she can't be a little pissy about it. The funny thing is, is that even if Jimmy dropped Jill on her ass right now and went to Jane and told her she was the one for him and that he wanted her and only her, Jane would freak out and not want to date Jimmy. Jane is weird.
On another note that is going to be the last note because Jane...I mean I am getting tired, Celtic festivals are not the place to meet your future husband. I found this out the hard way by attending one the other day. I had hoped, like any self respecting Irish Catholic, that I would go to the Celtic festival and be swept off my feet by a big burly Scots and or Irish man, and that he would have red hair an accent and be wearing a kilt. Then he would sweep me off his feet and take me to Ireland/ Scotland and we would be married on a cliff with a bunch of bagpipers, and all the men wearing kilts. This, unfortunately, did not happen. I dragged my best friend Megan along and we parked in the elementary school lot and drove a bus with a bunch of older ladies to the fair grounds. Here we paid $15 to get in and promptly got our shoes stuck in the mud because it had been raining earlier that day. As we walked around the fair grounds in the scorching heat and sticky mud, the perimeter was surrounded by white tents loudly proclaiming the histories of the families that inhabited them. Near the back end of the festival was the highland games. Surely here I would find my kilt wearing, caber tossing future husband! But alas no, many a man where wearing the kilt but most of them hailed from the casinoed shores of Detroit, not the blarney hills of Scotland. Needless to say i left the Celtic festival with no husband but a much heightened pride of the exactly 1/16th Irish blood that flows through my veins. All in all I would say it was a positive experience and I plan on continuing my search next year. May all your clovers be green.
~The Singing Ginger
Saturday, July 12, 2008
A Few of My Favorite Things
Okay so to those of you out there that might be reading I again apologize for not updating a bit more. Can I just say though, that my new little obsession when it comes to this blog would be the little counter thingy on the side bar? I don't know if it's just so that I know that it is not only me looking at this page from time to time, or just because it is always a pleasant surprise when it goes from 6 to 76 between my personal views, but thank you to all you random (or possibly not so random) people who are making my counter go up. It makes me happy. More later and soon I promise.
~The Singing Ginger
~The Singing Ginger
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