Jottings From Jersey: October 2010

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Weekend Reflections #58

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Camera-Critters #134

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Friday, October 29, 2010

Skywatch Friday, Season 4, Episode 16

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Thursday, October 28, 2010

My Name Is Fibromyalgia

by Terri Been

Hi....My Name is Fibromyalgia, and I'm an Invisible Chronic Illness. I am now velcroed to you for life. Others around you can't see me or hear me, but YOUR body feels me. I can attack you anywhere and anyhow I please. I can cause severe pain or, if I'm in a good mood, I can just cause you to ache all over.

Remember when you and Energy ran around together and had fun? I took Energy from you, and gave you Exhaustion. Try to have fun now! I also took Good Sleep from you and, in its place, gave you Brain Fog. I can make you tremble internally or make you feel cold or hot when everyone else feels normal. Oh, yeah, I can make you feel anxious or depressed, too. If you have something planned, or are looking forward to a great day, I can take that away, too. You didn't ask for me. I chose you for various reasons: That virus you had that you never recovered from, or that car accident, or maybe it was the years of abuse and trauma. Well, anyway, I'm here to stay!

I hear you're going to see a doctor who can get rid of me. I'm rolling on the floor, laughing. Just try. You will have to go to many, many doctors until you find one who can help you effectively. You will be put on pain pills, sleeping pills, energy pills, told you are suffering from anxiety or depression, given a TENs unit, get massaged, told if you just sleep and exercise properly I will go away, told to think positively, poked, prodded, and MOST OF ALL, not taken as seriously as you feel when you cry to the doctor how debilitating life is every day.

Your family, friends and coworkers will all listen to you until they just get tired of hearing about how I make you feel, and that I'm a debilitating disease. Some of they will say things like "Oh, you are just having a bad day" or "Well, remember, you can't do the things you use to do 20 YEARS ago", not hearing that you said 20 DAYS ago. Some will just start talking behind your back, while you slowly feel that you are losing your dignity trying to make them understand, especially when you are in the middle of a conversation with a "Normal" person, and can't remember what you were going to say next!

In closing, (I was hoping that I kept this part a secret), but I guess you already found out...the ONLY place you will get any support and understanding in dealing with me is with Other People With Fibromyalgia.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Guess Where I'm Going This Weekend?

Known as being the most expensive building built in the U.S. at the time, the Eastern State Penitentiary became a prototype in design to 300 prisons.

The facility was operated under the Pennsylvania System from 1829 to 1913. This system, used by the Quakers, was designed to force the incorrigibles sent there to look inside themselves and find God. In reality, the system which placed inmates in complete solitude, drove many a sane man to madness. Read More Here.

Now why am I going to this prison you ask? Because of this. And besides that, the prison is really haunted! See the clip from Ghost Hunters below:

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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Introducing My 2010-2011 Calendar!

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

That's My World!

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Durr Farm

Wrightstown, NJ

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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Saturday Six – Episode 340

Patrick asks:

1. If you had to choose between being married to someone you no longer loved with no chance for divorce or separation, or being single forever, which would you choose? That's a tough question. If I chose the married answer, infidelity would probably play a part in that. And if I chose single forever, that would mean I would be lonely at home unless we moved in together. Either way you are screwed. I guess I would choose married, because at least I would be ok financially.

2. If you had to give up either the use of your arms or legs, which would you choose and why? Legs, you need your arms for so many things. I don't think I'd be able to deal with not having arms.

3. Which annoys you more: poor grammar or poor spelling? Spelling!!!!

4. Which would you enjoy more in an arcade: a video game or a pinball machine? Video games don't do anything for me. I've always loved pinball machines.

5. You have the chance to spend time with a close friend: would you prefer to spend time one-on-one over a homemade meal or in a nice, quiet restaurant? Restaurant. This way neither one of us has to do anything but enjoy each others company.

6. For one month, you can only communicate with those around you electronically: would you choose email or texting, and why? I am not a fan of texting at all. E-mail is my choice.