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I feel like we’ve been doing the best we can to conceive but it’s just not happening. The previous month was spent waking up a little earlier and taking BBT or basal  body temperature. Basically, your resting state temperature. Experts said that doing so would increase the chances of conceiving by taking note of when the woman’s bbt takes a dip and comes back up. Ovulation is likely to occur when the temperature takes this slight dip before it shoots up again. I thought we were doing everything right, but apparently wasn’t enough as we were still unsuccessful this month. I think it’s time to call the healthcare provider and get me tested. This is getting very frustrating.

Since we’ve been trying to become pregnant, I have been very careful about the things I could take, eat, apply to my skin as there seems to be a great concern about how these products might affect the baby or unborn baby. In my case, the yet-to-be-conceived-baby. I went to my dermatologist the other day to have this what seems to be like an acne break-out checked up. He immediately wrote 3 Rx’s, and made it sound like those would be the cure for my issues. And then he asked, if i had any questions so I asked him if this would affect my planned pregnancy? And then he said to ask my OB/GYN, but he suggested not to use any of it til after the baby’s born and done breastfeeding (if i was to breast-feed). Great. Can’t use that, so Im stuck with zits?! Geez! 

Today I am having sneeze-fits. Allergy attack! I was about to use my nasal spray when I thought of checking the lit that came with the Rx spray. Again it said, “If you’re pregnant or planning to get pregnant,  consult your doctor before using this product”.  Ayayay! So now I have runny nose and zits. The things we do for love.

We have a small rose garden filled with different varieties of roses. My husband loves looking at the roses and I really think he’s more obsessed with them than I am! I do a lot of deadheading and fertilizing, etc but lately, I noticed some of the leaves have been eaten, some with just holes, some were completely eaten! I thought they were just snails but I did not find any slimy trails. I left it a few days and the roses were starting to really deteriorate. I looked more closely and noticed these light green little bugs under the leaves! I think they’re aphids! We found a ladybug and placed it on a bud infested with aphids and whoa! watch that lady [bug] kill/eat ‘em all! I think we’re gonna get more ladybugs…

The only thing that I do around the house lately aside from the occasional real work that I do, is tend to my garden. I transplanted a few bell pepper and tomato plants and they’re all doing fine. I also have  a basil plant that had been blooming flowers but the whole plant doesn’t look good. I wanted to keep the blooms because I often see bees around them and you know me and the bees, i want to preserve them as much as possible. Anyway, I did a little research on how to grow basil. Turned out that you should preven the basil from blooming for as long as possible, by harvesting or pinching off the top sets of leaves as soon as the plant reaches about 6″ in height. If the plant sets flowers, it is on its way to going to seed and will not be bushing out with leaves. Once a basil plant goes to seed, the existing leaves lessen in flavor.  Yikes! I cut off all the flowers. We’ll see if my basil recovers.

Here’s another one of those stupid lawsuits in America, the land of lawsuits. Seriously, really?!

“LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A judge has thrown out a Nebraska legislator’s lawsuit against God, saying the Almighty wasn’t properly served due to his unlisted home address. State Sen. Ernie Chambers filed the lawsuit last year seeking a permanent injunction against God. He said God has made terroristic threats against the senator and his constituents in Omaha, inspired fear and caused “widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants.”

Chambers has said he filed the lawsuit to make the point that everyone should have access to the courts regardless of whether they are rich or poor.

On Tuesday, however, Douglas County District Court Judge Marlon Polk ruled that under state law a plaintiff must have access to the defendant for a lawsuit to move forward.

“Given that this court finds that there can never be service effectuated on the named defendant this action will be dismissed with prejudice,” Polk wrote.

Chambers, who graduated from law school but never took the bar exam, thinks he’s found a hole in the judge’s ruling.

“The court itself acknowledges the existence of God,” Chambers said Wednesday. “A consequence of that acknowledgment is a recognition of God’s omniscience.”

Therefore, Chambers said, “Since God knows everything, God has notice of this lawsuit.”

Chambers has 30 days to decide whether to appeal. He said he hasn’t decided yet.

Chambers, who has served a record 38 years in the Nebraska Legislature, is not returning next year because of term limits. He skips morning prayers during the legislative session and often criticizes Christians. ” - breitbart
 

Last week, I got a call from  my mother asking me to call some people for her. She said that she was being charged for something that she did not receive, and it was getting ridiculously expensive. She said she ordered meat (turned out to be worth $1200 - I KNOW!) and then she was supposed to get cutlery and cookware worth $4900!!! ARRRGH! I knew she was scammed. My mother is so freakin’ trusting and naive, a senior citizen who doesn’t know a lot of things, and who is very ‘independent’ that she doesn’t want to bother her children when it comes to her decision making, etc. So obviously, a perfect target for scammers.  So I had to do a little bit of investigation and research as to what she was talking about. She said LTT meat, so I immediately did a search and added the word “scam” on the search. Sure enough, that’s what I saw. Here’s a link to a some of the things I found online:

From Ripoffreport.com  and here’s a query of all the reports posted about LTT.

From TOPIX.com

And my thing with this Jeffersion Financial is that it knows who they’re making business with (LTT) and by the way, they’re not a bank, I think they’re just collectors. They don’t have an actual address, just a PO Box in Dulluth, GA.  They call themselves financial institution, but I think they’re more of a criminal organization. I tried to call them in behalf of my mother, and told them that they’re charging for something that she did not receive and I said we will not pay them anymore. The guy on the other line, said, we’ll see. “Do what you want to do, and we’ll do what we have to do, and you suffer the consequences”.  That sounded like a threat to me.

I will try to publish as  much information as I could about these scammers, and maybe other victims can come forward.  We need to fight together to stop these bastards from operating.

A married couple in Cambodia who had “finally had enough” of each other have gone their separate ways by literally cutting their home in half.

  The husband sawed off his half of the house following the split Photo: PHNOM PENH POST

The wife will stay put with the upright half while her husband has carried away his half to start again on the other side of the village.

Neighbours said the couple saw the radical action as the most cost-efficient and equitable way to avoid each other in a country where divorce lawyers can be expensive.

Vorng Morn, the headman of Cheach village, fifty miles from the capital Phnom Penh, told the Phnom Penh Post: “We tried to persuade them to think clearly before they did this because they had been married for nearly 40 years. But they did not listen.”

Mr Morn refused to identify the couple to protect their privacy.

The impetus for the break up was the husband’s alleged malingering, or the wife’s alleged lack of care, depending on your point of view.

“His wife said that if her husband got sick and stayed at home, she was made to pay for his medicine, but if he stayed at his parent’s house, she wouldn’t have to pay. So they separated,” said Mr Morn.” - source

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awesome. I wonder who got the toilet/bathroom? The wife probably got the kitchen.

Last night I looked at my husband and I noticed that he was  looking a little glum and the first thing that came to mind was “uh oh, did he get fired?! We can’t afford to get fired, we just got the house!” No, he didn’t get fired. He’s too good of an employee and a very valuable one, too (thank goodness!) but he did say that because of the state of the GLOBAL economy, there’s a big chance that his company is going to start laying off people next year. Eeks! That won’t be good! But it seems inevitable, and that’s the sad fact. This state of the world’s economy is just bringing everybody and everything down. We personally don’t have a reason for it YET but we’re starting to get depressed. Yeah, depression! It seems like that word’s all over lately.

I wish the change of the US administration would give instant relief to everybody and we really need CHANGE.  Get it?

Hindu and Buddhist priests appointed a living goddess in Nepal on Tuesday.Wrapped in red silk and adorned with red flowers in her hair, Matani Shakya received approval from the priests and President Ram Baran Yadav in a centuries-old tradition with deep ties to Nepal’s monarchy, which was abolished in May.

The new “kumari” or living goddess, was carried from her parents’ home to an ancient palatial temple in the heart of the Nepali capital, Katmandu, where she will live until she reaches puberty and loses her divine status.

She will be worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists as an incarnation of the powerful Hindu deity Taleju.

A panel of judges conducted a series of ancient ceremonies to select the goddess from several 2- to 4-year-old girls who are all members of the impoverished Shakya goldsmith caste.

The judges read the candidates’ horoscopes and check each one for physical imperfections. The living goddess must have perfect hair, eyes, teeth and skin with no scars, and should not be afraid of the dark.

As a final test, the living goddess must spend a night alone in a room among the heads of ritually slaughtered goats and buffaloes without showing fear.

Having passed all the tests, the child will stay in almost complete isolation at the temple, and will be allowed to return to her family only at the onset of menstruation when a new goddess will be named to replace her.

“I feel a bit sad, but since my child has become a living goddess I feel proud,” said her father Pratap Man Shakya.

During her time as a goddess, she will always wear red, pin up her hair in topknots, and have a “third eye” painted on her forehead.

Devotees touch the girls’ feet with their foreheads, the highest sign of respect among Hindus in Nepal. During religious festivals the goddesses are wheeled around on a chariot pulled by devotees.

Critics say the tradition violates both international and Nepalese laws on child rights. The girls often struggle to readjust to normal lives after they return home.

Nepalese folklore holds that men who marry a former kumari will die young, and so many girls remain unmarried and face a life of hardship.  -source.

 If I were the parent of a child who was chosen to be a goddess, i think I would have a really hard time about letting go of my child. Imagine, you wont see her for years and years, and when she gets out of isolation, she’s maladjusted, and nobody would want to marry her because of fear that they will die soon after! Poor child. If my child had the potential to be the next goddess, I think i will just let her scratch anything that itches, maybe she’ll develop a small scar that would disqualify her from being chosen.

I am getting depressed just reading/hearing about the economy, the politics etc. As much as I am a little annoyed with how this whole bail out bill got passed to become a law, I think it will be better for  me to take a deep breath for now and just see where things go in the next few weeks/months/(years??). I want to blame the big investors who didn’t think first before getting into the sub-prime market business, I want to blame the greedy little nes who thought that just because there were some stupid people managing our country who was giving loans to whoever wanted it, that they also deserved to live in a $500,000 home even though they could barely afford a their $1000 rent, I also want to scream “UNFAIR!”, but I know it’s not gonna do me any good.  It’s now Monday and the stock market plummeted down yet again. As taxpayers,  We’re paying for the $700B, that better take us to somewhere more pleasant than where we are right now.  I think all these stress about the current state of our nation is contributing to our (me and the hubby) unsuccessful attempts to make a baby. L