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Posted by MAME
at 9:51 AM CST
Wed, 18 Jan 2012
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Thu, 29 Dec 2011
Topic: stop and think
To continue from the previous entry:
Why would anyone obsess over what other people do in their own bedrooms? Seriously. Why should who someone else loves concern you? Why not just live and let live? Why not be content to live your own life as you so choose and give everybody else that same respect?
How does that golden rule go? Do unto others as you would have them to do unto you.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Live and let live; fairly take and fairly give.
The love you take is equal to the love you make.
All you need is love.
(Yes, I quote The Beatles on occasion.)
You never know when it'll be your time to go. (from Kimya Dawson's song, Captain Lou) - I include this because, if you never know when your time here will be over, doesn't it make more sense to say kind things than insults?
You may be wondering why I bother to write about this. It's simple. There is too much bigotry, hypocrisy, and hatred in the world not to do something to try to reduce the amount of hatred.
Peace and love.
Posted by MAME
at 10:45 PM CST
Topic: stop and think
In this entry, I am going to address homophobia and religiously-justified hatred.
The "religious right" claim that they know what "God" wants. Yeah, sure you do. You claim you follow a god who is love, yet you spew more hatred than anyone. Claiming that other people are going to hell because of who they love is hypocrisy. How do you know that your way of life is right? It might be right for you to love who you love, but just imagine if that were against the law.
No, seriously. Imagine if, say, marrying a person whose hair colour is the same as yours were illegal. Would that matter to you or would you still love that person?
Think before you try to spread your hatred. Hatred is not a family value. If you claim it is, I want nothing to do with your family.
Those who claim that homosexuality is a sin have been, from what I've seen, self-righteous Christians. I'm not saying all Christians, or even all people who are religious, are like that. I'm only telling you what I have actually seen with my own eyes. I've known people from many walks of life and who follow different religions and have no hate in them for anyone.
On the other hand, when my parents were still sending me to CCD every week, I met admitted homophobes, people who claimed that anyone who wasn't Catholic was going to Hell, and "teachers" who believed that a vegetarian can never be healthy.
Yeah.
Going back to the "sin" thing. If you claim that homosexuality is a sin based on what is in the "Old Testament", why do you not also follow the other 612 mitzvot? If, when Jesus died on the cross, it negated the need for you to follow them, why do you insist on using a few of the mitzvot to justify your hatred?
No, really, I would actually like a rational answer to that.
And, if you don't have a reason why you pick and choose Bible passages that way, I suggest you re-examine why you hate anyone. After all, if God is love, would He approve of your hatred?
Posted by MAME
at 10:29 PM CST
Sun, 25 Dec 2011
Topic: stop and think
Here's another mind boggler:
Why is it that religious extremists claim that "God is love" yet hate anyone that is different from them (ie, doesn't adhere to the exact same religious practices)?
(Short but to the point. I don't really have much else to say on that one. Or the previous one, either.)
Posted by MAME
at 9:49 PM CST
Topic: stop and think
I will never understand people who want to outlaw all abortions on the claim that it's "killing an unborn baby" yet are for capital punishment (death penalty).
Yeah, sure. Fetuses are more important than a grown person. Remember that if you're ever convicted of a murder you didn't commit and are sentenced to lethal injection.
Posted by MAME
at 9:42 PM CST
Pro-choice, pro-life . . . Bah! Pro-HEALTH!
Topic: stop and think
After being harassed by a couple of people on twitter, I felt the need to write this. (I say “harassed” because they were the ones who initiated the “conversation” after I had retweeted something. Neither of them were willing to concede that any opinion/stance other than the one they both held was valid or worth exploring. And, with the limited space we are given for an individual post on twitter, it was just not worth the aggravation trying to reason with them.)
Forget the pro-choice and pro-life labels. I am pro-HEALTH. As in, I am for the option that means a woman can maintain her own health, be it physical, psychological, emotional, or whatever. If that means she can handle being pregnant with her rapist’s offspring, so be it. That is her right to decide.
But some women are not willing to go through that. Maybe she wasn't in a relationship and so had no need to use contraception. Maybe her pharmacist refused to let her have emergency contraception (aka the morning after pill) on the grounds that it's a form of abortion. Maybe she did get emergency contraception but it didn't work. Should she really be forced to have something growing inside of her just because someone else made that decision for her without thinking how it would affect her?
Unless you've actually been raped, you have no idea the emotional/psychological trauma that comes with it. Some women bear it or deal with it better than others. I won't pretend to know what it's like. I do, however, know what it's like to suffer domestic violence (but it could have been a hell of a lot worse than it was).
All I know is that I would not have been able to deal with bearing my now ex-boyfriend's offspring. Even if he had been able to father children (he had an accident that rendered him infertile), I doubt I would have been able to carry to term. He certainly put me through enough to warrant the concern that I would have miscarried had I actually become pregnant.
Moving on . . .
If a monogamous couple have been using contraception diligently and it fails, as does happen, and they make the decision together to terminate the pregnancy, guess what? That is none of anyone else’s business but theirs and her doctor.
If you are one of those who would prefer to see all abortions banned, regardless of the reason a woman wanted to have one in the first place, just remember this: You have no idea her medical history or her family’s medical history or the potential father’s medical history. Perhaps there is some genetic problem, ie Tay-Sachs, that would mean it would be kinder not to continue the pregnancy. Just because you would continue a pregnancy that would result in you giving birth to a baby who didn’t have a brain (or some similar debilitating condition), that does not mean all women everywhere should be forced to go through that as well.
Also, don’t make the mistake that, just because someone is pro-choice or against outlawing abortions across the board, it means she will always terminate a pregnancy. It only means that s/he recognises that carrying a pregnancy to term is not always an option for some women.
And let's not forget that long-term monogamous relationships are not for everyone. Some prefer the independence that being single affords them. If that's their preference, should they really be forced to remain celibate all their days?
If that's your stance, that sex should only be for procreation, then the infertile should also remain celibate. Any woman past menopause should never have sex again. Hey, they can't get pregnant, so what's the point, right?
See how silly that seems?
Going back to medical history, there are women whose bodies are ill-equipped to handle pregnancy. Having a tubal ligation is invasive surgery. Should someone like me really have to go through that, not to mention the recovery period after the hospital stay, just to prevent the complications of a possible pregnancy? I use contraception with my significant other, as I am not ready to become a mother to a human child and he has two grown children already. (I have three canine children.)
If and when I am ready to be a mother to human children, I plan to adopt. Besides, the abuse I endured at the hands of my now ex-boyfriend left me somewhat physiologically weakened. I honestly have no idea if I even can conceive. And, if I can, there’s a chance I would wind up compromising my health permanently. Is it right that someone else (religious extremists, politicians, et al.) should get to decide that for me?
Would it be right for me to make such a decision for you when I know nothing about you?
My point is that you have no idea what is going on in someone else’s life. Stating that what you feel is the right or moral thing to do and so should be what everyone follows might not be right or even safe for someone else.
As another example, say you’re having lunch with someone you don’t know very well. Perhaps it’s a job interview. The other person has a headache. You offer a painkiller that contains acetaminophen, but you don’t mention this. What you didn’t know was that person was recovering from a cold and was still taking a prescription medication containing acetaminophen. This results in an overdose that leads that person to be taken to hospital.
A bit of an extreme example, to be sure, but I am trying to make a point that there’s no way to know what will be the best choice for another person. Unless you are my doctor, you have no say-so in my medical decisions.
If you want to preach against women having abortions, promote abstinence or the use of contraception. As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, my high school had an abstinence-only policy in effect (We couldn't talk about sex, and we had to pretend it didn't exist.), yet several girls became mothers before they graduated. Come to think of it, a few girls got pregnant while we were in junior high! Um, middle school, that is.
Preventing pregnancies prevents abortions. Teach girls that they don’t have to have sex, but also teach them about the Pill and other forms of contraception. Teach boys about condoms. Teach them about STDs and what really happens to a woman's body during pregnancy. Remind them of the responsibility that they would face throughout a pregnancy, not to mention how their lives would change, whether they give up the baby for adoption or raise him/her themselves.
Don’t threaten them with Hell or try to impose religious restrictions. Those generally don’t work. I come from a fairly religious part of Texas - not far from the border with Mexico-, and most people around here adhere to some denomination of Christianity. Many of them are Catholic. But I won’t go on about that again. You can just scroll down to my previous entries and see what I said about knowledge being empowering and all that.
Topic: stop and think
After being harassed by a couple of people on twitter, I felt the need to write this. (I say “harassed” because they were the ones who initiated the “conversation” after I had retweeted something. Neither of them were willing to concede that any opinion/stance other than the one they both held was valid or worth exploring. And, with the limited space we are given for an individual post on twitter, it was just not worth the aggravation trying to reason with them.)
Forget the pro-choice and pro-life labels. I am pro-HEALTH. As in, I am for the option that means a woman can maintain her own health, be it physical, psychological, emotional, or whatever. If that means she can handle being pregnant with her rapist’s offspring, so be it. That is her right to decide.
But some women are not willing to go through that. Maybe she wasn't in a relationship and so had no need to use contraception. Maybe her pharmacist refused to let her have emergency contraception (aka the morning after pill) on the grounds that it's a form of abortion. Maybe she did get emergency contraception but it didn't work. Should she really be forced to have something growing inside of her just because someone else made that decision for her without thinking how it would affect her?
Unless you've actually been raped, you have no idea the emotional/psychological trauma that comes with it. Some women bear it or deal with it better than others. I won't pretend to know what it's like. I do, however, know what it's like to suffer domestic violence (but it could have been a hell of a lot worse than it was).
All I know is that I would not have been able to deal with bearing my now ex-boyfriend's offspring. Even if he had been able to father children (he had an accident that rendered him infertile), I doubt I would have been able to carry to term. He certainly put me through enough to warrant the concern that I would have miscarried had I actually become pregnant.
Moving on . . .
If a monogamous couple have been using contraception diligently and it fails, as does happen, and they make the decision together to terminate the pregnancy, guess what? That is none of anyone else’s business but theirs and her doctor.
If you are one of those who would prefer to see all abortions banned, regardless of the reason a woman wanted to have one in the first place, just remember this: You have no idea her medical history or her family’s medical history or the potential father’s medical history. Perhaps there is some genetic problem, ie Tay-Sachs, that would mean it would be kinder not to continue the pregnancy. Just because you would continue a pregnancy that would result in you giving birth to a baby who didn’t have a brain (or some similar debilitating condition), that does not mean all women everywhere should be forced to go through that as well.
Also, don’t make the mistake that, just because someone is pro-choice or against outlawing abortions across the board, it means she will always terminate a pregnancy. It only means that s/he recognises that carrying a pregnancy to term is not always an option for some women.
And let's not forget that long-term monogamous relationships are not for everyone. Some prefer the independence that being single affords them. If that's their preference, should they really be forced to remain celibate all their days?
If that's your stance, that sex should only be for procreation, then the infertile should also remain celibate. Any woman past menopause should never have sex again. Hey, they can't get pregnant, so what's the point, right?
See how silly that seems?
Going back to medical history, there are women whose bodies are ill-equipped to handle pregnancy. Having a tubal ligation is invasive surgery. Should someone like me really have to go through that, not to mention the recovery period after the hospital stay, just to prevent the complications of a possible pregnancy? I use contraception with my significant other, as I am not ready to become a mother to a human child and he has two grown children already. (I have three canine children.)
If and when I am ready to be a mother to human children, I plan to adopt. Besides, the abuse I endured at the hands of my now ex-boyfriend left me somewhat physiologically weakened. I honestly have no idea if I even can conceive. And, if I can, there’s a chance I would wind up compromising my health permanently. Is it right that someone else (religious extremists, politicians, et al.) should get to decide that for me?
Would it be right for me to make such a decision for you when I know nothing about you?
My point is that you have no idea what is going on in someone else’s life. Stating that what you feel is the right or moral thing to do and so should be what everyone follows might not be right or even safe for someone else.
As another example, say you’re having lunch with someone you don’t know very well. Perhaps it’s a job interview. The other person has a headache. You offer a painkiller that contains acetaminophen, but you don’t mention this. What you didn’t know was that person was recovering from a cold and was still taking a prescription medication containing acetaminophen. This results in an overdose that leads that person to be taken to hospital.
A bit of an extreme example, to be sure, but I am trying to make a point that there’s no way to know what will be the best choice for another person. Unless you are my doctor, you have no say-so in my medical decisions.
If you want to preach against women having abortions, promote abstinence or the use of contraception. As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, my high school had an abstinence-only policy in effect (We couldn't talk about sex, and we had to pretend it didn't exist.), yet several girls became mothers before they graduated. Come to think of it, a few girls got pregnant while we were in junior high! Um, middle school, that is.
Preventing pregnancies prevents abortions. Teach girls that they don’t have to have sex, but also teach them about the Pill and other forms of contraception. Teach boys about condoms. Teach them about STDs and what really happens to a woman's body during pregnancy. Remind them of the responsibility that they would face throughout a pregnancy, not to mention how their lives would change, whether they give up the baby for adoption or raise him/her themselves.
Don’t threaten them with Hell or try to impose religious restrictions. Those generally don’t work. I come from a fairly religious part of Texas - not far from the border with Mexico-, and most people around here adhere to some denomination of Christianity. Many of them are Catholic. But I won’t go on about that again. You can just scroll down to my previous entries and see what I said about knowledge being empowering and all that.
Posted by MAME
at 9:36 PM CST
Updated: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 10:35 PM CST
Sat, 3 Dec 2011
Yeah, abstinence programs are soooo effective.
Mood:
loud
Topic: stop and think
*le sigh* . . . I do enjoy my home state of Texas, even though some of the people suck. I mean, seriously, what kind of thinking is it for a high school to have an abstinence only policy (we couldn’t talk about sex or contraception AT ALL) yet also have a day care center for the children of students??? It was, like, “We won’t teach you how not to get pregnant or inform you about STDs, we expect you not to have sex, but, when you do, because you’re teenagers who didn’t learn about STDs or anything from your school system OR your parents - who expected you to LEARN while you’re at school - we’ll watch your babies.”
Ugh, if they would have had a decent sex ed class at my high school, there wouldn’t have been so many teenaged mothers in my class. I was lucky. My parents didn’t shy away from answering my questions. They didn’t try to keep me from learning these things in some attempt to keep me from doing anything. They understood that curiosity meant I was already ready to hear about it. Erm, the birds and the bees talk. And they knew that I enjoyed reading medical texts and encyclopedias.
What was my point? Oh, right. Knowledge is power. It’s been said plenty of times before, but it bears repeating. Educate yourself. Ask questions. Don’t remain ignorant.
The church where my parents sent me to CCD until I was old enough to say I didn’t want to go anymore did not encourage questions or exploring anything beyond what they wanted us to know. That’s why I’m not religious. If you feel you must label me, call me a pagan atheist. Or an Erisian (follower of Eris, Our Lady of Discord). Yeah, I don’t give a fuck about others’ labels because I choose not to label myself. I couldn’t care less what you think of me. I only know how to be myself, and that’s all I need to know.
Rant over.
Mood:
loudTopic: stop and think
*le sigh* . . . I do enjoy my home state of Texas, even though some of the people suck. I mean, seriously, what kind of thinking is it for a high school to have an abstinence only policy (we couldn’t talk about sex or contraception AT ALL) yet also have a day care center for the children of students??? It was, like, “We won’t teach you how not to get pregnant or inform you about STDs, we expect you not to have sex, but, when you do, because you’re teenagers who didn’t learn about STDs or anything from your school system OR your parents - who expected you to LEARN while you’re at school - we’ll watch your babies.”
Ugh, if they would have had a decent sex ed class at my high school, there wouldn’t have been so many teenaged mothers in my class. I was lucky. My parents didn’t shy away from answering my questions. They didn’t try to keep me from learning these things in some attempt to keep me from doing anything. They understood that curiosity meant I was already ready to hear about it. Erm, the birds and the bees talk. And they knew that I enjoyed reading medical texts and encyclopedias.
What was my point? Oh, right. Knowledge is power. It’s been said plenty of times before, but it bears repeating. Educate yourself. Ask questions. Don’t remain ignorant.
The church where my parents sent me to CCD until I was old enough to say I didn’t want to go anymore did not encourage questions or exploring anything beyond what they wanted us to know. That’s why I’m not religious. If you feel you must label me, call me a pagan atheist. Or an Erisian (follower of Eris, Our Lady of Discord). Yeah, I don’t give a fuck about others’ labels because I choose not to label myself. I couldn’t care less what you think of me. I only know how to be myself, and that’s all I need to know.
Rant over.
Posted by MAME
at 7:59 AM CST
Cyberbullies on twitter
Topic: rant
Originally posted to tumblr 15 August 2011
Okay, serious time now. If you’re on twitter, do you follow people that say things you don’t like just so you can harass them?
Yes, there’s actually someone on twitter who was following me, and he(?) started tweeting me tonight just to tell me to shut up and kiss his(?) ass. I was, like, WTF? I have my own opinions, and, if you don’t like it, don’t follow me. Why are you even following me if you don’t like what I’m saying?
That tweeter apparently follows a bunch of people just to harass them, including The Rock. I mean, the things that guy(?) is saying are just not right.
If it was just a matter of disagreeing and discussing that, it would be one thing, but telling people to shut up and kiss his ass, or even more disgusting things that disparage the person he’s tweeting and following, that’s crossing a line. It’s not funny; it’s called cyberbullying.
Don’t be a bully; be a STAR!
Peace and love!
Topic: rant
Originally posted to tumblr 15 August 2011
Okay, serious time now. If you’re on twitter, do you follow people that say things you don’t like just so you can harass them?
Yes, there’s actually someone on twitter who was following me, and he(?) started tweeting me tonight just to tell me to shut up and kiss his(?) ass. I was, like, WTF? I have my own opinions, and, if you don’t like it, don’t follow me. Why are you even following me if you don’t like what I’m saying?
That tweeter apparently follows a bunch of people just to harass them, including The Rock. I mean, the things that guy(?) is saying are just not right.
If it was just a matter of disagreeing and discussing that, it would be one thing, but telling people to shut up and kiss his ass, or even more disgusting things that disparage the person he’s tweeting and following, that’s crossing a line. It’s not funny; it’s called cyberbullying.
Don’t be a bully; be a STAR!
Peace and love!
Posted by MAME
at 7:38 AM CST
Pepsi Pepsi PEPSI!!!!!!
Mood:
caffeinated
Topic: recipes
4 oz coffee, (preferably freshly brewed and cooled)
2 oz or more cold flax milk, either original or vanilla flavoured (I have found that soy milk has a tendency to separate with the carbonation; I only drink plant-derived milks.)
Ice
Combine all in a large glass and serve over ice.
Don’t be rude; eat your food! Nom nom nom, you know it!
Peace, love, and SPEARS!
Mood:
caffeinatedTopic: recipes
I have been drinking this, or a variation thereof, for . . . I'm not sure how long, but it's been at least a decade. (Measurements are approximate. What? I've been making this for long, I don't need to measure it all out!) It gives me a nice caffeine buzz . . . Hehehehehe!
SpearBourne's Pepsi Flax
12 oz Pepsi MaxSpearBourne's Pepsi Flax
4 oz coffee, (preferably freshly brewed and cooled)
2 oz or more cold flax milk, either original or vanilla flavoured (I have found that soy milk has a tendency to separate with the carbonation; I only drink plant-derived milks.)
Ice
Combine all in a large glass and serve over ice.
Don’t be rude; eat your food! Nom nom nom, you know it!
Peace, love, and SPEARS!
Posted by MAME
at 7:34 AM CST
Had I stayed . . .
Topic: tumblr
Originally posted to tumblr 11 July 2011
After a few minutes, I realised something. Had I stayed with him, he never would have allowed me to join any social networks or to get back into wrestling. Yes, he really was that controlling; I was not able to watch what I wanted or even talk to people unless he knew every sodding thing that was being said. As he was illiterate and had no real interest in learning to read (even though he had asked me twice if I was willing to teach him, and I’d said I would), there is no way he would have let me have a twitter account or myspace or facebook or tumblr or a BlackBerry or … You get the picture.
And I just don’t know what I’d do if I couldn’t get online and chat with all of you about wrestling and all the myriad things we discuss. I have met so many people all around the world that have brought such … how do I put it? You’ve enriched my life in ways I can’t express.
And that is something that that idiot ex of mine would have taken away from me if I’d been online like this before I started dating him in late 2002.
Damn. Has it been that long? It was a lifetime ago! Four years I was with him … What the bloody hell was I thinking?!?
Well, you know the saying, hindsight is 20/20.
And my life is better now. I watch wrestling matches whenever I want to, I have a wonderful man in my life who is just as delightfully wicked as I am (and not possessively jealous), and I get to get online and write and have fun with all of you!
And for that, I thank you!
Peace, love, and SPEARS!
Topic: tumblr
Originally posted to tumblr 11 July 2011
Had I stayed with my ex . . .
This is going to be kind of emotional. Ok, it’s going to be pretty damn emotional.
If you’re following me on twitter, you probably saw my tweets about having seen my dreadful ex-husband while I was out at lunch with my mum. Just after I’d seen him at the restaurant, I made some tweets.After a few minutes, I realised something. Had I stayed with him, he never would have allowed me to join any social networks or to get back into wrestling. Yes, he really was that controlling; I was not able to watch what I wanted or even talk to people unless he knew every sodding thing that was being said. As he was illiterate and had no real interest in learning to read (even though he had asked me twice if I was willing to teach him, and I’d said I would), there is no way he would have let me have a twitter account or myspace or facebook or tumblr or a BlackBerry or … You get the picture.
And I just don’t know what I’d do if I couldn’t get online and chat with all of you about wrestling and all the myriad things we discuss. I have met so many people all around the world that have brought such … how do I put it? You’ve enriched my life in ways I can’t express.
And that is something that that idiot ex of mine would have taken away from me if I’d been online like this before I started dating him in late 2002.
Damn. Has it been that long? It was a lifetime ago! Four years I was with him … What the bloody hell was I thinking?!?
Well, you know the saying, hindsight is 20/20.
And my life is better now. I watch wrestling matches whenever I want to, I have a wonderful man in my life who is just as delightfully wicked as I am (and not possessively jealous), and I get to get online and write and have fun with all of you!
And for that, I thank you!
Peace, love, and SPEARS!
Posted by MAME
at 6:59 AM CST
True Friendship . . . SCOTTISH STYLE!! (None of that sissy shit)
Mood:
silly
Topic: humour
Mood:
sillyTopic: humour
Here's something silly that I received in a couple of emails last year. It never fails to make me smile!
Are ye tired of those piss weak ‘friendship’ poems that always sound good, but never actually come close to reality?
Well, here are a series of promises that actually speak of true friendship … You will see no cute wee smiley faces on this card. Just the stone cold truth of a great friendship.
1. When ye are sad — I will help you get pissed and plot revenge against the bastard who made ye sad.
2. When ye are blue — I will try to dislodge whatever is choking ye.
3. When ye smile — I will know ye are thinking of something that I would probably want to be involved in.
4. When ye are scared — I will shake the piss out of ye every chance I get until you’re NOT.
5. When ye are worried — I will tell ye stories about how much worse it could be until YE STOP YER WHINING!
6. When yer confused — I will try to use only wee words.
7. When ye are sick — Stay the hell away from me until ye are well again. I don’t want whatever ye’ve got.
8. When ye fall, I will laugh my effin head off at you, you clumsy arse,
…but then I’ll help you up.
9. This is my oath…. I pledge it to the end.
‘Why?’ you may ask. It’s because you are my friend.
Friendship is like pissing your pants; everyone can see it, but only you can feel the true warmth…
Send this to 10 o’ yer closest friends, then get depressed because ye can only think of 4.
Posted by MAME
at 6:18 AM CST
Topic: tumblr
Originally posted to tumblr 20 May 2011
Damn. Why the hell is my birthday surrounded by death?
My brother died three days after my first birthday (leukaemia). My aunt’s mother died several years ago the day after my birthday. My grandmother died a few years ago six days before my birthday, and my grandfather (her husband) died on the anniversary of my brother’s death.
And Randy “Macho Man” Savage died this morning.
Yeah, starting with the first one, my birthdays have always been a little … subdued and not ridiculously festive.
Is it any wonder I always loved The Addams Family? Yes, the series from the ’60s!
Keep fangin n bangin!
Mayv
Posted by MAME
at 6:13 AM CST
| You Are Snow White |
 Unfortunately, this also means that there are a few people who are insanely jealous of you. Your graciousness and simple charm make it easy for you to make friends. You are generous and don't have superficial bone in your body. You see past appearances and quirks. |
Posted by MAME
at 5:48 AM CST
I needed a little break from the feelings that rereading my old tumblr posts were dredging up, so I went to blogthings. That usually helps clear my head.
| You Are Enlightened |
 You believe the world is what you make of it. You take the blame for your failures and the credit for your successes. You consider yourself to be vulnerable. That's the price you pay for being so sensitive. You are a very balanced creature. You avoid too much of a good thing. |
Posted by MAME
at 5:34 AM CST
Topic: tumblr
(This is the tumblr post I wrote 15 April 2011, a few days after WWE superstar, Edge, retired. It's more about my father, but, because I also talked about a wrestler, this will also be posted to my other blog.)
Mayv's musings - 15 April
Mayv's musings - 15 April
In all honesty, I’m not as upset about Edge’s retirement as I think some people expected. The reason I’m not all that upset is because of my dad.
No, it’s not because he died days before Edge announced his retirement; it’s because dad did not heed his doctors’ advice.
For years, he drank every night; he was a salesman (he sold farm equipment and parts) and would go out for a drink with a client. Then, another client would show up and buy another round of drinks, and so on and so forth.
All the alcohol wreaked havoc on dad’s system. One day, while at work, he collapsed; they thought he was having a heart attack. It turned out to be pancreatitis, and he was hospitalised for three months. (I’ll leave out the details both because they’re hazy to me and because I just don’t want to relive that time.)
Because his pancreas was mostly “melted,” as mum worded it, he wound up diabetic. He quit drinking without much problem (he’d dried out in hospital) but started on a new vice: food.
He’d always been one to indulge his cravings, but he managed to control himself for a few months. Then he started in on the junk food and the sweets again.
Anytime he had a health scare, he’d heed his doctor’s advice. For a matter of weeks or months. Then he’d be back to his old habits.
He never took another drink (not counting O’Doul’s non-alcoholic beer), but he was still destroying himself.
Four years ago, his doctor said his kidneys were at such low capacity that he needed to start on dialysis and be placed on the transplant list.
Even with that, he did not avoid the foods a dialysis patient is supposed to avoid.
I’ve already written about what the last couple of months were like, so I’ll just leave it there.
Now I’ll get back to what I said at the beginning about Edge.
He is heeding his doctors’ advice and retiring from the gruelling physicality of wrestling. Yes, I’ll miss seeing him in the ring, but at least he won’t wind up in a wheelchair or worse because he refused to listen to his doctors.
I’ve had that rolling around at the back of my mind since Monday.
~Mayv
Posted by MAME
at 5:31 AM CST
Updated: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 5:38 AM CST
Topic: tumblr
(something I posted to tumblr 12 April 2011)
Huh?!? (True story)
Huh?!? (True story)
Yes, this actually happened. As you know, my dad died last Wednesday. Mum and I are still taking care of little things this week.
But some things get to be weird interactions, like the one I’ll tell you about here:
Mum had called either the insurance company or social security yesterday (she can’t remember which it was) and told them she needed to report the death of her spouse.
The guy spoke to asked, get this, if he was there with her! “Is he there with you?” he asked.
Mum’s response? “Uhhh … He’s *dead*”
Realising his mistake, he apologised. The rest of the call went more easily.
My point in relating this? Pay attention to what the fuck people are saying if you’re going to be answering phones!
Posted by MAME
at 5:26 AM CST
Topic: tumblr
(This was the tumblr post I wrote 9 April 2011, a couple of days after my father passed away. It appears as I originally wrote and posted it and has not been edited.)
Ok, here's how the last couple of months went.
Mid January - dad's shunt, in place for nearly 4 years for thrice-weekly dialysis, gets clogged, necessitating a temporary solution and was scheduled for minor surgery to clean out/replace shunt. He had to be cleared for surgery first, which was when three blocked arteries were discovered. They would have done an angioplasty, but one of the arteries was behind his heart.
27 January - dad had open heart surgery. He stayed in hospital for a day or two before being moved to a rehabilitation hospital facility just a block away.
The next month, he was doing pretty well. He was having physical therapy, as much as he could do, anyway.
But then he got an infection where his catheter was (up on chest), which meant that he had to back into hospital to have the catheter removed and be treated for the infection.
While he was there, in MICU, he also developed pneumonia.
He got over that and started getting better. He was still anxious, having infrequent anxiety attacks, and being, well, feisty, but physically, he was getting better.
Granted, he did have to have a tracheostomy for his oxygen because he hated the CPAP or BiPAP mask.
But he got well enough to be transferred back to rehab. Had he continued improving, he would have had to spend 25 days there.
Unfortunately, he couldn't be taken off of CPAP or BiPAP (I can't remember which they had him on; ventilator?) without his heart rate, blood pressure, and O2 sats dropping.
But, just a few days before he passed, his doctors told us dialysis was just causing his BP to drop and putting him in pain for, essentially, no benefit. There was really nothing more they could do for him. We knew it was coming, but hearing it said aloud was difficult. And so was agreeing to comfort-only care and stopping dialysis.
When the ventilator was removed and he was just on oxygen (via trach), he remained stable, even though his BP was on the low side. Morphine drip kept him comfortable and calm, and Wednesday night, he went peacefully with both me and mum at his side.
Tomorrow is the funeral.
Peace, love, and hugs,
~Mayv
Posted by MAME
at 5:24 AM CST
Wed, 30 Nov 2011
Re: Adverts and pop-ups on my blog and sites
Mood:
irritated
Topic: site update
I can't stand adverts on sites, especially those irritating pop-ups. Those that appear here, on Mayv's Musings Under the Midnight Moon, and at the Temple of the Righteous Cause of Strife do not necessarily reflect the views of the puppetmis- that is, the webmistress.
Unfortunately, because I don't make any money from my sites or my blog, they are a necessary "evil".
That's really all I wanted to say.
Mood:
irritatedTopic: site update
I can't stand adverts on sites, especially those irritating pop-ups. Those that appear here, on Mayv's Musings Under the Midnight Moon, and at the Temple of the Righteous Cause of Strife do not necessarily reflect the views of the puppetmis- that is, the webmistress.
Unfortunately, because I don't make any money from my sites or my blog, they are a necessary "evil".
That's really all I wanted to say.
Posted by MAME
at 8:09 AM CST
Updated: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 8:21 AM CST
Re: My lack of tweets
Mood:
a-ok
Topic: twitter
Mood:
a-okTopic: twitter
For the past . . . oh, couple of weeks, I guess, I haven't had much to say on my RatedRLilStar account. I didn't say I was going to take a break, but I haven't felt any burning desire to discuss wrestling, either.
The thing is that I was . . . well, you could say I was burned-out from tweeting. There's not really any other way to put that, is there? I had had enough of all the constant posting of the minutiae of everyone's lives and all the drama that seemed to proliferate. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, but I needed a break from it.
Then, there was the matter of spammers and trolls and people who retweet while changing my words so that it looks like I said something I didn't say.
I just got tired of all of it. 
I'm not really sure when I'll start tweeting regularly again, but I'm pretty sure it won't be any time soon. And, no, that does not mean you should try me at my other account. I go there to get away from talking about wrestling and away from trolls. Besides, I post darker tweets there. That is, when I post at all. Like I said, I'm burned-out from an overload of too much information and too much . . . everything.
Besides, the only way I was going to be able to update this blog (after a year of neglecting it) and get some actual work done was if I took some time off from social networks. Getting caught up in conversations was just . . . Don't get me wrong; I enjoy the conversations. But it was difficult to get much work done when I was stopping every few minutes to reply to something that I wanted to reply to.
That's not really anyone else's fault but my own. I have met some really interesting people via the interweb.
Someday, I'll go back to tweeting more often, but I doubt it will ever again be with the frequency it used to be.
Peace and love.
Posted by MAME
at 7:51 AM CST
Tue, 29 Nov 2011
Huh?
Topic: greed
Topic: greed
What? Does Chik-Fil-A think they own the phrase "Eat more __"? (See HuffPost Food: Chick-Fil-A Says Artist Bo Muller-Moore's 'Eat More Kale' Slogan Too Similar To 'Eat Mor Chikin')
First off, Chik-Fil-A, as stated in the article, already tried to stop Muller-Moore from using that slogan.
Muller-Moore, as pointed out by one commenter, used the correct spelling of the word "more" rather than "mor". (Yeah, you want to be taken seriously? Learn how to spell and construct a sentence correctly.)
I mean, really, how can a corporation act like they own every phrase that's similar to one that they use. Their claim that people will confuse their "Eat Mor Chikin" with Muller-Moore's "EAT MORE KALE" is just ridiculous. Who would ever think that?
Well, sure, now that they've brought such attention to it, people will think of Chik-Fil-A and their petulance when they purchase one of Muller-Moore's shirts. (He originally made three shirts bearing the slogan at the request of a farmer friend who grows kale. They became popular after that.)
What is wrong with these corporations that they don't want any small business to infringe on their massive profits? Do they not have enough money as it is?
It's not like this guy was opening a nationwide restaurant with that slogan.
But, and this is just my opinion, I think that they have just gieven Muller-Moore more publicity than he could have hoped. (I had never heard of him or his shirts, but that doesn't mean much since I've never looked for anything like that.) My guess is that, with the Occupy movement going and the working class fed up with corporate greed, this will just be another part of that.
The revolution against greed is upon us. Let's just hope it doesn't escalate in violence. With the reports that I've read on twitter about the arrests being made, I fear where it might lead.
And I really don't want to see the Reign of Terror, Parte Deux.
Posted by MAME
at 12:31 AM CST
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