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Scary, angry, mental monster

Recently, a situation came up where I had dealings with someone who has mental problems. Who doesn’t have something going on in their head that is considered "abnormal"? No one I know. We are all dysfunctional in some way.  But this situation makes me sad. This individual cannot stay in one place more than one night. They can't watch a show for more than 10 minutes at a time. They have to be moving constantly. They are paranoid all the time. They create their own personal hell because of their mental issues, and this spills over to others and makes the lives of other people who care about them difficult. We all need to realize that just because a person looks OK, they are not always. And when someone even severs a friendship because of something they did, and the dislike of the reaction to that, by the other individual, they are beyond what I could ever help with. I have been severely abused in my lifetime. I only say that because most of the abusing was either prec
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Greedy-ass fees

Recently, I read a post on social media that one of our local dentists is now charging a $90.00  "disinfection fee" to patients.  My comment: " Maybe I am seeing this all wrong, but I think that is sheer greed and smacks of resentment that the business was patronized at all!  To me, it's like charging a shoveling fee to a business that experienced a heavy snow and salt had to be used for the ice problem. Or a sweeping fee because the front of a business had to be swept after leaves fell, and solvent had to be used to remove some stains or gum, or maybe it needed to be pressure washed. Or like charging a dishwashing/table bussing fee to a customer at a restaurant because added disinfecting product needed to be used.  I know that ALL businesses visited by the public are having to ramp up disinfecting. I know it is more work and more of an expense. BUT it needs to be automatically done - this pandemic is not our fault!  $90 per patient for 10 patients = $900.00. I wonde
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Thinking out loud - a rant

WARNING: This is kind of a rant - thinking "out loud" I suppose. I need to blog a lot more, but I don’t, and I need to “journal”, but I don’t ... It’s just really difficult for me to do that (distracted, no focus, etc...) so once in awhile I’ll write it out. Pass it by if you don’t wanna read it. If I were someone else, I doubt I’d want to! It’s after 8:00 a.m. on a Thursday & I haven't slept since 3:00 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. I always feel tired - but I have insomnia and I don't feel sleepy . But I constantly feel/am exhausted . I have Epstein Barr Virus/chronic fatigue, so this is an ongoing battle. I absolutely hate it. I slept until 3:00 PM Tuesday because I didn't go to bed until 5:00 a.m. If I can fall out and get into a good deep sleep, I can sleep for 10-12 hours only waking up a few times to empty the bladder. It's the falling into the deep sleep that's the problem. I have GERD and a Hiatal hernia, so I used to wake up a lot choki
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Life is Tough But so are YOU

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" Life is tough my darling, but so are you ." ~Stephanie Bennett-Henry Reminder - You're much stronger than you think you are!  
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The Best Advice Regarding Grieving and Loss

Hi, I write this because I was led to a Go Fund Me page via the obituary in the newspaper. It always breaks my heart when it's a young person.  I have extreme empathy. I lost my son, Micheal in 2001 to the “choking game”. It was an accidental, but self-inflicted death. He was almost 19. Through the devastation of that loss, I have turned it to something positive by doing grief counseling for parents who have lost children, at no charge. I don't know if you would want to ever take advantage of this, but I'm available if you would and you can contact me via commenting below with an email address because I can't post my # here...  Please do as you wish. I do not even expect a comment/reply. You have enough on your plate . Do things at your own pace because this is hard enough without feeling obligated. Whether you take advantage of that or not, I have this to offer: 1. Never let anyone tell you when to grieve, how to grieve, or for how long.  -  There are stages to grief,
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Easy-tear check envelope, my arse!

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I collect payments and do accounts receivable once a month. I get a lot of payments to process. Because it's that time of the month again and I go through this every single month (for years), I must ask who the brainiac that invented the perforated sides "easy-tear"  checks is, because I would like to have them sit down with me while I am doing the opening of payment envelopes and give them every one of the ones that are like this and make THEM open them. While they rake in all the money for their brilliant invention, those who have to deal with them suffer. They're crazy hard to open and they take so much more time. When you're processing payments and you have a bunch of checks but you don't have an assistant to do anything for you, this sucks up time. - Add to that, if you are OCD, many times the edges are uneven and won't plug off the excess properly. I like a nice smooth line because I use a check scanner from my bank, and yes, I'm OCD,
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Cemetery Walk Around Sunset

Yesterday, a friend and I met at the cemetery and walked through, visiting as we went. It was storming and the sun was starting to set. Hence, I would like to share these pictures of the most gorgeous sunset I've seen in a long time.  When I got in my car, the sound of the rain hitting the roof of my car was massive. I thought it sounded like bacon sizzling in the video I took.  It's the first rain we've had in a long time, but it didn't last for more than 15 to 20 minutes!
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