No suitable title for this entry, I don't know what to say.
Date: Jul 27th, 2006 1:51:27 pm - Subscribe
Mood: bipolar
I never have much worthwhile to say anyhow. To anyone.
Here am I again. It's apparently been a year since I wrote anything here. Looking back at my entries, I can see the depressive episode I was in at the time. I can also read the hypomanic episodes in a couple of entries as well.
Interesting, I haven't changed much....although now I'm beginning to recognize the shifts when they occur. It would just be nice to put a stop to them, or at least to ther behavior that results from them, when I see it coming. I even went through a scary suicidal period last winter....or was it this spring? can't recall. I can't kill myself, because of what it would do to my family; so I won't. But the pain at that time was SO SO SO bad. It was awful.
Well, I've been keeping a pretty steady journal at one regular diary sit online. It seems to work for me.
I'm still struggling with new meds, not wanting meds, some drinking off and on, anxiety attacks, some depression, a little mania, and a bunch of other crap. I'm truly tired of myself.
I just wish I could find who I am, and stick with that. Live a "regular" life, and be happy all the time.
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Hurrican Rita...
Date: Sep 21st, 2005 3:45:56 am - Subscribe
Mood: pretty sure of myself
Cat 3 by 12:00 midnight Central time.
Cat 4 by noon Eastern on the 21st.
Landfall at Houston by Thursday noon.**IF** it doesn't hang a right and head for New Orleans, which REALLY is MY estimation.
Just a guess.
I'm wicked, aren't I?
This is coming from the girl who LIKES earthquakes, and WANTS to take pictures of a tornado. Yeah...well.....so I'm wierd. But I **DO** know my weather.
Mark my words, people...my estimates will probably be pretty doggone close.
Hmm.
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Here comes Rita!!
Date: Sep 19th, 2005 8:24:13 pm - Subscribe
Mood: serious
Buy your gasoline NOW, while the prices are back down, because Rita is headed for the Gulf of Mexico, in the path of Katrina. There are approx. 175 drilling rigs in the gulf, along with many many refineries in Texas that Katrina didn't get on her pass through. The refineries in Louisiana are still down. The port of New Orleans, a MAJOR worldwide shipping port, has already been taken down.
What does that mean to YOU, the consumer? well, it means that railways, already expensive to ship by, are already overbooked; trucking is pricey, and now busier than a one armed man in boxing match. The trucking industry (and I speak from experience, wife of a trucker) already supports ALL of the other shipping industries. It carries EVERYTHING you buy, whether out of PORT cities, RAILWAYS, or domestic manufacturing. If you got it, a truck brought it, TRUST ME.
Gas in my hometown (Greenville, Illinois) went back down about 25 cents after Katrina passed, and the "recovery" operations began. But now, we have rita barreling into the Gulf, not crossing much land in Florida, therefore, able to gather steam in the warm Gulf waters, much like her sister Katrina did. The estimated path (courtesy of the National Weather Service) is anywhere from western Mississippi to the Texas shores, just west of Galveston. Hey Galveston, remember YOUR past history with hurricanes? Well, gasoline just went back up $4.00 a barrel (may not mean much to you, but my hubby ALSO worked in the oilfields for years, as did my grandfather, so we KNOW what that means!). You'd better fill up now, before Rita makes landfall. The prices will begin going up, by my estimate, by tomorrow, in anticipation of Rita's landfall, even though she's not expected to get there till Friday. but the rigs are all in the Gulf, so she will affect the oil industry way sooner than one migh expect!
As a weather buff, I find all this fascinating. (I live in Tornado Alley, formerly lived in California with earthquakes and wildfires...equally fascinating). I am glad I don't live in the hurricane range, and I have already given to the Red Cross, and am currently helping to connect separated families; but I have to say, Rita could very well be a repeat of Katrina.
Let me just add this-- I think, in spite of all his "positive attitude", that New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin is an idiot. why is he encouraging people to come back to N.O.?? Especially with yet another possible Category 3 bearing down on the Gulf? REBUILD the city, in the heart of the hurricane season?? What, is this guy FOR REAL??? Geez, I just don't get it. Now is not the time!! Of all the government boobs to be involved in this, I think he's the worst.
Well, that's MY say on the current hurricane situation. Let's just watch and see what pans out in the next few days....
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Mississippi
Date: Sep 9th, 2005 7:36:39 pm - Subscribe
Mood: amazed
I am very impressed with the governor of Mississippi, and with the people of Mississippi. They are not wallowing in their despair, wailing about what the federal government has not done for them. They are actually helping one another, trying to clean up and rebuild, and actually looking forward to getting it all done. They are moving on.
That is the way it ought to be after a disaster of this magnitude: people coming together, like normal Americans, and helping one another to move on with their lives.
Very impressive, Mississippi. Kudos.
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I hate when I don't have my camera with me!!!
Date: Sep 8th, 2005 11:24:42 pm - Subscribe
Mood: pissed off
Where the Streets Have No Name: The streets may have no name, but they will have no picture if I don't take it
It IRRITATES me to no end!!!! I very often see a very photographic moment, and the moment is gone.
And if I don't have my camera with me, the moment is lost forever.
I wish I could make a career out of this.
But most of all, I wish I could remember to leave my camera in my bag when I leave the house.
Even if I just go to the school or the store.
Sheesh!!!!!
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