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~~Is Firstfruits a Feast?
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~~Firstfruits: Mimouna!
Leaving Egypt
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14 Iyyar
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Feast 4: The Jewish Shavuot
~~The Messianic Pentecost
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Tammuz 17
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Time of the Gentiles
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Elul Countdown Chains
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~~When is Rosh Ha'Shana?
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~~2006 RH in Pictures
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~~2012 Feast in Pictures
10 Days of Awe
Feast 6:Yom Kippur
~~Yom Kippur Rapture
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Feast 7: Sukkot!
~~Booths & Prepping!
~~A Savior born on Sukkot
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~~Sukkot Family Banners
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~~Sukkot's Living Water
~~7th Day:Hoshana Rabbah
~~8th Day:Shemini Atzeret
~~9th Day:Simchat Torah!
Cheshvan 17 - Day of the Dead
Cheshvan 17 - Ark Day
Feast 8:The Hanukkah Story
~~Messiah in Hanukkah
~~Hanukkah Happenings
~~Hanukkah & The Tree
~~The Hanukkah Menorah
~~More Four in the Driedel
~~Hanukkah & the Rapture
Feast 9: What is Purim?
~~Haman's 10 Sons
~~Purim & the Future
Hold On!
Holy Epistle: Galatians
(a review of an FFoZ book)
Judaism & Marriage
Jew or Christian?
The Law isn't for Me!
The Law isn't for me II
The Wonder of a Niddah
The Beauty of a Mikvah
(see "Purification Problem")
Mixing Fabrics
Mosiach ben Yosef/David
New Moons
New Moons II
Our True Purpose
Purification Problem
Purification & Baptism
Sabbath Pt 1 & 2
The Messianic Box
The Name above All Names
Numbers in the NT
So which Tribe are you?
Something's Not Right
Ten Days, Two Brides
Torah Observance: Part I
Torah Observance: Part II
Torah Observance: Part III
Tsit-Tsit
What is Talmud?
What to Keep
Wrong Messianic Teaching
Yehovah vs. Yeshua
2009 Fall Feast Chart
SPIRITUAL MATTERS
Anna on Attitude
Baptism 101
Be Intolerant (Dobson)
Beliefs I - II - III
Biblical Love Posts
~~Biblical Love
~~Biblical Love Revisted
~~Four Factor
~~More Four
~~Even More Four
~~Four in the Feasts
~~Love is our purpose
Bloggers in the hands
of an angry God
Christ Offensive
Christian Purpose
Circumcision
Come after Me
Confessing Christians
Connection Question 1 - 2
Conscious Habits
Cut of the Cloth
Don't Worry, Be Happy
Dying to self
Eagles vs. Turkeys
Equipping the Saints
Faith & Works
Follow Me
The Four Seasons
Freedom in Christ
Get right in Gethsemane
God & Patterns
God's Bio
God on Guns
Grace & Spirit
Ignorance/Wrong thinking
In it, not of it
Irrational Faith
Is God Tolerant?
Is it really Evil?
Is your Faith Offensive?
Jacob's Blessing/Esau's Curse
Jacob's Prophetic Ladder>
Key to Happiness
The Law isn't for Me!
The Law isn't for me II
Legalism Issues
~~Added Commandments
~~Judging the World
~~Profanity: What the Hell?
~~Profanity: Revisited
~~Profanity: X-ianity Today
~~Profanity: Sabbath Healing
~~Profanity and Nonnies
~~Headcoverings
~~That Christian Glow
~~Righteous/Self-righteous
~~Frumpy Women Syndrome
~~Tattoos Taboo?
~~Xianity & Entert'ment
Letter to a Skeptic
Lord, Liar, Lunatic
Marriage/Relationships
~~Biblical Mate-finding
~~Biblical Divorce Post
~~Love Languages
~~Wives: Submit!
~~No Stone to Throw
~~H is for Homophobic
~~The Gay Debate
~~Sex and God
Movie Spirituality
~~Matrix: Biblical Allegory
~~Matrix: Reloaded
~~Matrix: Revolutions
~~Matrix/Passion
~~Free Your Mind
~~Harry Potter I - II - III
~~Judas & The Matrix
~~The Merovingian
((a DaVinci Code post))
~~H is for Homophobic
~~The Last Starfighter
~~Is Twilight Evil?
~~Changed Incorruptible I
~~Changed Incorruptible II
Miraculous Restoration
My Marah
My Personal Laodicea
Missions: A Religious Racket
On Getting Angry
On Impressing Others
Once Saved, Always Saved?
One Hundred Twenty-Seven
Our personal cross
Our Rocks
OT Punishment/NT World
Parachute, The (Cameron)
PastorChat 1 - 2 - 3
Patterns & Intelligent Design
Participation Factor
People of the Bible
~~Bringing in Balaam
~~Earth's Ruler: Adam?
~~Elkanah - Dissin' My Man
~~Faith like Father Abraham
~~Judas: The Betrayer
~~Judas in Heaven?
~~A Look at Lamech
~~Lot's Wife: Why Salt?
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~~The Night Belshazzar Died
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~~Who is Yeshua?
Praying after Meals
Predestination I - II - III
Present a Wonder
Present Perfect I - II
Proverbs 31 Preparedness
Rationalizing Ignorance
"Real Christians"
Real Seeker
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Running Hot & Cold
Self-esteem & the Bible
Sharpening Iron
Sluggard vs. Saint
Something & Nothing
Sower's Seeds
Spiritual Discernment
Spiritual Dyslexia
Spiritual Gifts I - II
Spirit World Pt I - Pt II
Stuff-chasing (by Shaun)
Three days in the... Grave?
Three Days or not?
Twelve vs. Seven
Twelve Talk: The Zodiac
Two steps back
Where's God when I'm Scared?
Who do you listen to?
You are what you Think
STUDY SERIES Proverbs 31 Woman
The Beatitudes
Pastor Don's Sermons
Fruit of the Spirit (partial)
Holiness Living
FALSE TEACHINGS Purpose Driven Life (original)
CGM: Church Growth Movement
CGM: Warm Fuzzies
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CGM: PDL Verse Misuse
CGM: Poll Results
CGM: Church Talk
CGM: Decisions for Christ
CGM: Emergent Church (Bell)
CGM: Refuting Rob Bell
10 Tip-offs to a CGM church
CGM: Ultimate PDL Video
Warren: Your Purpose isn't Prophecy
Left Behind: For Itching Ears
The Weigh-Down Workshop
Is the Trinity real?
The Left Behind Lies
Wild at Start
Narnia's Not Christian
Five Love Languages
The Passion
The Passion pans out?
Prayer of Jabez
Crossing Over
Translations of the Bible
Westcott & Hort
Dumbed-Down Christianity
1611 Gang: A few good men
Translation Troubles
Islam
Islam Insanity
What is Islam?
Ishmael or Issac?
Mohammed like Moses?
Shake a Jew's Hand
Mormonism
Mormonism: The 'Christian' Cult
Mormonism Clarifications
DNA vs. Mormonism
Catholicism
Catholicism the Cult
Communion vs. Euchrist
Catholics & the Rapture
The only true church?!
Can priests have wives?
Faith defeats Heresy
"St." John wasn't Catholic
Pope FAQs
Pope & War
Pope & War II
St. Malachay
Before Israel...
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~~Tradition Transition I - II
~~Talking Time
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~~Easter: for the Record
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~~ Christmas Gifts
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Demons vs. Aliens
I'm not going to Heaven when I die
Jesus Walked on Ice Chunks
Laodicean Christianity
Many or Few?
Intro to Preterism
Preterism: Foolishness
Regarding Relativism
Revive Us, O Lord
Speaking in Tongues
"Tolerant" Christianity
Vertical Retribution
Woman's role in the Church
Your God vs. My God
The Church & the church
The Church & the church II
Decisions for Christ
Church and State
DANIEL'S PROPHECIES
The Statue
The Four Beasts
The Little Horn
The Ram & the Goat
Messiah Math
The Kings I
The Kings II
Daniel & the Last Seven Years
More from Daniel
Daniel & the Rapture
Daniel & The Jubilees
BIBLE TIMELINES
Church Era Timeline
1 Samuel: Timeline?
Biblical Timeline
Enoch's Timeline
Ezra: Timeline to the end?
Isaiah 21 Timeline
Isaiah 30 Timeline
Isaiah 49 - 65 Timeline
Jeremiah 23 Timeline
Jeremiah Weirdness SMS & END TIMES
~~The SixMonth Suggestion
~~Seal Two Fulfilled
~~Survival & the SMS
~~12/2008 & the SMS
~~If... Then
~~2009 look at the SMS
~~Seal Five Apology
~~Six month Scenarios
~~2010: Is it the Year?
~~Seal One Apology
Olivet Timeline I
Olivet Timeline II
Olivet Timeline III
Olivet Timeline IV
Olivet Timeline V
Olivet Timeline VI
SMS: What's Next I
SMS: What's Next II
SMS: What's Next III
SMS & Spring Feasts
SMS & a new Timeline
A Jewish Timeline?
That Darn Circle
Day No Man Knows
Revelation 9B
Releasing Winds
SMS: Looking at 2012
The SMS2012 chart
That Darn Circle II
SMS: Lowering it Down
2012 SMS Summary
End of the SMS
Post SMS apology
Rev 7:The Split-Away Verse
Rev 7:The Verse I Missed
Rev 7: Wind Recap
Rev 7: I screwed up
Rev 7: Parenthetical
Rev 7: 2 periods of Three
Rev 7: The Summary
THE RAPTURE
Children & the Rapture
Covered by Faith
Debunking Post-Trib
Great 'falling away'
Is there a Rapture?
No Man Knoweth
No Man Knoweth II
Place & the Preps
PreWrath Post I
Prewrath: 6-month Suggestion
Prewrath problem
Pre-Wrath vs. Mid-Trib
Rapture Gallery
The Rapture & The Bible
When will the Rapture Be?
Prepping Others for your Rapture
Hanukkah & the Rapture
PROPHECY
(in chronologial order)
~~ WHY NOW? ~~
Anna and Prophecy
Anna's Opinion
An Abomination
AntiChrist True and False
As in the Days of Noe
Behold
Coming Mahdi, The
Damascus Four
Do's & Don'ts
End Times Graph
Fifteen & Redemption
Give it Up Already!
Hopi Prophecy & Scripture
The Martyrs (Seal 6 Apology)
Matthew 24 vs. Revelation 6
Matthew 25: Ten Virgins
The Mayan Mistake?
The Millennium Factor
Number Crunching
Plagues n' Judgments
Plagues n' Judgments II
Prophecy: Keep Watch!
Prophecy Summary
Prophecy & the Feasts I
Prophecy & the Feasts II
Prophecy & the Feasts III
Prophecy and the Feasts IV
Prophecy & the Feasts IVa
Prophecy & the Feasts V
Regarding Resurrections
Reptilian Reality?
Sanhedrin Reorganises!
SixSixSix
Sixes & Sevens
Strange Convictions
Temple in the End Times
Three of a Kind?
The Two View
Two View Redux
The Two Witnesses
Voice in the Wilderness
Warning of Three
Watching for What?
Widow & the Drought
1000 yrs of Technology
1948: A Prediction Fulfilled
2003: The start of fulfillment?
2004: Prophecy Fulfillments
2007: A Prophetic Year
7/1/07's Seal?
The Distraction Deception
Peter the Roman: Blair?
Blitz: The End in 2015?
The Oil and the Wine
The Earthquake Thing
Solar & Polar
Ure, Blitz, and 2012
Blitz Boloney
Herb vs. George
Trib Stances
Birth Pangs
When Webbots Confirm Me
The Coming Quake
Daniel & the Jubilees
Year 5770/1
Cord of Mosiach
How could He Know?
Jewish Take on Prophecy
The 5771 Ushpizin
The Latter Rains I
The Latter Rains II
Knowing what Man shouldn't
Testing the EMP?
Time of no Truth?
Beginning of the End?
Here for the Duration?
It's Coming
Devorah's Message
The Josef Code
The Josef Code II
The Last Week
The Prophecy
The Prophecy II
The Cosmic Clock: 5772
Terence's Timeline
Prophecies for 5773
He who will Pour Out
The Earliest Pesach
The Pouring Out
NOTEWORTHY NEWS
(in chronologial order)
Brief Facts on Israel
Messianic Seal
Ten Kings
News & a Sign
Gog/Magog re:Iraq
Fun to play with
Whore on the Beast
10-horned Beast
Horn Plucking
Terrorism & Ramadan
Catholicism & World Religion
One Nation Under Nothing
Herb: Two in the Way
The Solana Stance
Temple Projections
Three horns, Three scenarios
A Seven year Treaty?
Solana Interview
Contiguous Pal State
Pope JPII DIES!
The Secret of Gaza
Why Peace in 2 Years?
The Hidden Mahdi
A Sobering Reality in America
One World Surveillance
Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP)
Circle of Power
Rabbi reveals Messiah's Name
Tale of Two Men
Wish I were Smarter
King of the North
George & the G20
Remergeance of the Big Three
The Altar building begins!
Where is Israel Going?
Word on the Street
Sanhedrin & Sacrifice
Rationales, Reactions
WEU disbands & more
God in the Ash Cloud
An Oil Catastrophe
Gulf Spill = Trump 2?
Sea Becomes Blood
Three Gorges Dam
Think o' Sinhole
Three Gorges Redux
Russia Reloaded
Checkin' in with China
1/11/11 1/12/11
Timeline of Die-offs
Egypt Prophecies
3/18/113/29/11 3/31/11
Homer, History, & Hashem
The Imam and Shavout
Norway, Ishmael & Esau
Solana is back?
T'was the week before Elul
8/31/11 9/19/11 11/21/11
Elul's Timeline
12/2/11 12/3/11 12/15/11
12/19/11 12/21/11
Oil Seal Found!
The End of Noteworthies
Papal Problems?
How's it Going?
February Fireballs
Poised at Purim
Purim War I and II
Seeing Signs, Hearing Words
Transit of Venus
Double Trouble & Other News
2012 Israeli War Timeline
Weather Changes
Israel Revisited
Returno de Solana
Chelyabinsk Meteor
Benny the Rat Retires!
As Lightning Strikes
Meet Pope Frank
BIBLICAL ASTRONOMY
(in chronologial order)
Astronomy Timeline
Signs in the Heavens
II - III - IV - V - VI - VII - VIII
IX - X - XI - XII - XIII - XIV
Signs Overview
Summer 2007 alignments/dates
Sept Signs (07)
XV - XVI - XVIII
Musing on Macholz
Bombing the Moon
XIX - XX - XXI
Summer 2010 alignments/dates
XXIII - XXIV - XXV
XXVI - XXVII - XXVIII
XXIX - XXX
Christ's Comet?
12/21/2010
Blue Moon 2010
May Alignment
Elenin and Elul coming
Cross-Quarter Day
XXXI - XXXII - XXXIII
Twelve & Seven
XXXIV - XXXV
Pending PANSTARRS
2013 Updates
The Chelyabinsk Message
Amazing Alignments
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| FiNaL uPDaTe!!
- I have all the Messianic posts, False Teaching, Daniel, Timeline, SMS, Rapture, Spiritual, Prophecy, Noteworthy, Astronomy, general Home Ed, Lapbook, SotW and Proverbs 31 posts transferred. That's 678 posts, moved one by one. WHEW! I even moved over pretty much everything from March thru the Xanga announcement. It's NICE!!
- The sidebar at the new blog LOOKS like a working archive, but I have not yet hooked the posts up to the newly moved posts. So they'll take you here... for now. I'm working on this, next. In the meantime, if you want something on the sidebar at my WordPress site, just type the name in the search box, and it'll come up. Easy-peasy!
- All links on my Pinterest have been changed, but unfortunately if you have links to any of them on YOUR Pinterest, they'll still take you here... so you have to delete them and get them anew. I'm sorry - I can't help that it doesn't update what you've pinned, and there's no way to notify people who pinned from me.
- I'm not going to do the home renovations (too picture intensive), the 'Luvv' series (too personal), or the art posts (again, picture intensive). So they'll have to go by the wayside. Choices have to be made.
- My friend Cagey asked an interesting question: Xanga needs $60K to stay open. So... if they raise $52K... do they get to keep it and close, anyhow? That thought explained why she felt they were blackmailing us to me REALLY well... which is why I'm not helping, and not staying.
- I also helped Lydia to move her entire blog over to Wordpress, since she hasn't posted much (and has only been here since 2010). Isaac is 'coming of blogging age in my household' this year, so he'll be getting a blog, soon, too... which will also be at Wordpress. How fun!
- Someone asked me what happens if Xanga raises the $$ and stays open. I think I might keep this as my ‘archive’, but continue at WordPress. I like it there, better, and I wasn’t sure I would. But it’s FREE, there’s moderated commenting, I have double sidebars, it’s FREE, it’s easier to ‘follow’ people, the support seems stronger, the HTML is easier to work with, the buttons don’t pull up stupid pop-up windows to change the color, it’s FREE… ((grins!)) I love the way you can edit the link addresses, I love the way they give us control, here. I even love the layout look better, overall. It’s nicer there!
So am I happy? YES! It's wonderful.
Apparently I just needed a kick in the pants
to make the leap to something better!
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| As posted by Xanga God, John
 It's hard to believe, but Xanga has been around for over a dozen years. In that time, we've soared to great heights... and then come back down to earth. Through it all, we've stayed with the site for over a decade now.
We're now at a crossroads, as our lease is up soon on the networking facility where we've been hosting our servers. As the status quo is no longer possible, we've been working to figure out the best way for the Xanga community to move forward. We've seen other sites go down different paths... some have sold their sites to the highest bidder, while others have doubled on their own platform. The thing is, it's really hard to grow a social site that has fallen from previous heights. MySpace, Friendster, LiveJournal... lots of people have tried to resurrect these sites, and it has rarely, if ever, worked. ...I believe that [in] a plan that could give Xanga a fresh lease on life. And life is the key word, as our options look like this: Door #1: We can't afford to renew our expensive lease at our networking facility, so we would have to offer everyone a free download of their blog posts, and shut down the site. :( Door #2: We would find a way to port Xanga to open source blogging software like WordPress, and reinvent the site together with the community.
We strongly favor Door #2, but need your help to pull it off. It would require two things to open that door: time and money. I'm willing to work for free, but we'd still need roughly $60k to open door #2. Because of this cost, we would have to move Xanga to a paid model, where bloggers pay for hosting for their blogs. I would donate our time to get things up and running... but programmers and webmasters would still need to be paid to relaunch the site. So we are launching a Kickstarter-style fundraising effort, with the following rewards: - A year-long Xanga blogging membership ($48)
- Two year-long Xanga blogging memberships ($96)
- Three year-long Xanga blogging memberships ($144)
- Four year-long Xanga blogging memberships ($192)
- Five year-long Xanga blogging memberships ($240)
We have been busy assessing the feasibility all this, and started the work necessary to launch Xanga 2.0! If we can raise $60k by July 15th, we will be able to keep the site up! If not, we will understand and will use the time between now and then to help users download their data. .. no matter how things turn out, we've made it so that all members (Classic and Premium) can generate and download a backup of their data through July 15th: http://www.xanga.com/private/archives.aspx Beyond that, here are the key dates for the next two months or so: * May 30th: We launch this fundraiser, and continue our work building a WordPress version of Xanga. We will contact our registered members to let them know about the fundraiser, and also allow any and all users to download their blogs and media files for free.
* July 15th: If we've raise $60k, then we will move over to the new WordPress version on this date. If we haven't raised $60k, then this will be the last date that Xanga is up and running. If our fundraiser is successful, we will be migrating over the logins of every single one of our Xanga users. So all of your friends and subs will transfer over to the new system, and anyone will be able to subscribe or comment on blogs. In the new Xanga system, people will be able to comment and subscribe for free; the fees will only be for members who want to host a blog.
aNNa'S NoTe: Xanga looks to be closing. I don't believe that Xanga is going about this correctly. When someone is financially in trouble, the first thing they need to do is to pare down the extras, cut out the excess, and tighten the belt. What is Xanga doing? They're trying to raise money to maintain the status quo. That's irresponsible thinking, to my mind.
The other thing Xanga is doing wrong is telling people that they will have to pay for Xanga (via WordPress) in the future. Now, I already pay for Xanga... but I have a FREE WordPress just gathering dust over there... so WHY would I pay for the Xanga version of WordPress when I have free WordPress? And you can bet everyone and their brothers will feel the same way. Further, Xanga is 'fundraising' $60K by July 15th in order to even DO that... that's on top of paying for a not-so free WordPress via Xanga. Are you noting the stupidity, here? NOBODY with half a brain is going to do this. And if they only raise $50K... do they get to keep it and close? Bah...
What do I think? I think Xanga's rent is due, and they can't afford as big a place as they have, so they should downsize and go it smaller. Get rid of 'pulse', get rid of 'chat' (that's what FB is for), get rid of 'top blogger', get rid of 'skins' and 'reviews' and 'audioblog'. All that extra stuff? Ditch it.
Send out an e-mail to all Xanga accounts that have not had activity in the past three months. Say that if there is no activity by June 30th, the site will be closed down. Do you know how much space that would free up - all the pictures and data that would be shed in just THAT move? Heck, of the 127 people I used to read, here, only THREE are still blogging - the rest are at Facebook, and don't plan on coming back. SHED them. Save room. Tighten the belt. THIS is what should be done. Xanga is a blog host, not a social network. You have to stay true to what you are - or you spread too thin, and falter... exactly as they are, now.
If needed, go to all-Premium, and have everyone pay $36 for their blog (That's cheaper than WordPress' paid acct by $60!). Those who don't want to can bail, but those who do (and are loyal) would do it, willingly. But after downsizing from an inactive user shed and an extra-feature purge, they should be in FAR better shape. They could move to a smaller space, and stay viable. They wouldn't NEED to raise $60K by July 15th, or close up forever.
Personally, I'm a little unhappy with the way this is being handled. But then, I'm MORE than a little stressed at what's going down. I've posted just about every single day here for almost THIRTEEN YEARS... do you have ANY idea how much data that is????
Here's where MY issues come in: Xanga is allowing us to archive our whole sha-bang, and download it to our PCs. BUT... the format of the archives is not compatible with other blog hosts. In other words, I can't take that Xanga archive and plug it into WordPress and transfer everything over. It's not possible.
SO! I for the next 45 days, I'm going to be going out-of-my-head, and flat-in-the-hiney while trying to cut/paste all of my posts from JUST the sidebar links (and homeschool links) to my free WordPress - one by one. It's the only way I can think of to transfer my stuff over... the important stuff, anyhow. I run into problems where my pictures uploaded to Xanga aren't going to be available, but are linked inside of the posts... so this is NOT an easy process - I have to save them to my PC, re-upload them to WP, and then re-insert them into the posts. Oi. My. Vey. And I'm going to lose all of the comments people have left here... there's no way to transfer them. So I lose your insight. (((sigh!)))
So there's the skinny. I'm moving.
I'm a little scared and overwhelmed.
So bear with me... I'm getting at setting up.
Not by choice, but that's the way life goes, I guess! | | |
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| Friday Funkiness
 It's PAYDAY!!!! How awesome... money! And also not awesome, because it's the payday after vacation, which means it's Payday: Intensive Version. Because I need to sit down and get to color-coding my check register orange for everything vacation-related, and tying all of that to the income tax transfer designated 'vacation'. I know that's anal, but I like to code things, so it's easier to figure what we spent on vacation, what we did with the income tax. Brian bought new tires for his truck this morning, too, so that's another transfer from income tax, with color-coding in green, since it's a single-time purchase, not a week-long incursion on the income tax $$. And yes, why yes, my check register is very colorful... because all ATM/POS purchases are coded blue. Balancing the checkbook is intensive, at my house. In case you wondered. Which I'm sure you didn't, but there's a little more insight into my particular level of psychosis.
PS: Speaking of psychosis... I thought I'd share with you how wack I am: when we discovered the basement was an inch underwater on Wednesday, I called Brian's work - I thought he might have a suggestion for me to try to get the sump working, again. Brian's boss (read: THE OWNER) answered the phone, "Workplace Industries, this is Mike." And I'm used to getting Very-Uninterested Front-Desk Patty on the phone, so that threw me off. I don't TALK to big bosses... ever. Sometimes not-gay Gary (who sounds gay, and wears sweaters with animals on them, but is happy married with children) answers the phone in his high-pitched voice, but I'm good with him, like Patty ... but I'm NOT good with Mike-the Boss. He's the BOSS, hello!
 So I put on my Anna-Is-Professional tone (which sounds like Office Barbie), and said, "Yes, may I speak to Brian, please?" (which, to be fair, is what I always say when I call, even when I get V.U.F.DPatty on the phone, just not with the same, stiff posture). Anyhow, Mike-the-Boss says, "Certainly... who may I ask is speaking?" And... and... that was IT. First of all, neither Patty nor Gary ever question me, they just say, "One moment, please." and page Brian. I did not CALL to be interrogated, not even one question's worth. I'm already on tinterhooks, having to converse with Mike-the-Boss, and now he's QUESTIONING me? Should I tell him that it's Brian's ball-n-chain, and I realize that it's not lunch or break, but in my defense, it truly is an emergency, my basement is wall to wall water, and I'm in crisis? Does he even need to KNOW this? He shouldn't even be asking me who I am!!! In spite of this HUGE internal discourse, I answer, "This is Brian's wife." in my most pleasant voice, hiding my complete hackles-up, totally on-edge true condition... and his voice gets pleased/pleasant (?!?!??!) and he says, "Ah! Just a moment."
And meanwhile, I'm all shades of bristles on the other end of the line, thinking, "You should NOT be asking me questions. I don't like questions. I don't like bosses. I don't want to explain anything to you - who I am is not relevant. I called to speak to Brian, not you. I don't like this. I'm feeling defensive, and it's YOUR fault!" Of course he knows none of this. He thinks I'm a little, happy, blonde housewife with a Barbie voice and plastic manners, on hold. But I was SERIOUSLY traumatized... because of my own personal, unique level of psychosis. ((This is why I mostly avoid phones, at ALL costs.)) And Brian laughed his HINEY off as I went into this whole rant on the way to dance class, later that night, trying to convey my anxiety and the situation there. I got over this... it took about three days, and... well, okay. I wasn't completely over this.
But as I was writing my payday FB status here, today, Brian called (his daily noon call). He says his workplace is sponsoring the Grand Rapids Whitecaps (baseball) a night in August, and the whole shop and their families are invited, and there'll be a BBQ on the deck. Thing is, everyone else is signing up 2-4 people... we have SEVEN. Yikes. I initially told him to ask them if there's a limit to the number of people an employee brings (because I could stay home with the littler kids)... but he seems to think we should ALL go. Okay... but then the gravity of the situation hit me. ALL of his co-workers (and bosses) and their WIVES are going to be there. With anti-social Anna and her herd of noisy, crazy, BBQ-dripping children.
I... no longer think this is a good idea. I don't like people, or BBQs, or sports. Or co-workers, or bosses, or their wives. We won't be able to pull off good behavior for THAT long, with THAT many kidlets. We shouldn't go. It's a bad idea. Brian just laughed and told me not to even THINK about starting to talk myself out of it, because we're going. He's tickled as all get-out over the fact that - by the end of our phone conversation (HATE phones!!) - I was a complete train wreck. I think my psychosis may kill me, with this one. If I'm dead by August, you'll know what got me. I may be sick today... just finding out about this.
And now you have something to laugh at. The little blue update is now massive and green and... crazy as hell. But then, look who's writing it. Anyhow... I gots t'go. There's a checkbook register needing some colors and numbers. So... talk to you later. If I don't die of a self-induced aneurysm over all of this. | | |
| Got the hay/feed storage and the chicken coop cleaned out from the winter. 'Nother job done... just the goat barn and compost pile left. But today was it's OWN level of stink... so let's think about the rest another day.
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