Are you or somebody you know ethnically Irish?
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| Biggles | | posted 17-Mar-2008 1:03pm |
I know a few Irish citizens, and I also know a lot of people who could trace their ancestors back there. It would be surprising if I didn't when I live so close! | | thecomic22 | | posted 17-Mar-2008 1:10pm |
As I said in qual, I'm half. I dont know anybody personally who is full Irish though. | Melf    | | posted 17-Mar-2008 1:12pm |
I know a few people who are half-Irish, but not fully. | | Galomorro | | posted 17-Mar-2008 1:17pm |
There are so MANY of us Irish around. I've got some Irish "blood" myself. As one of my old bosses said, everyone is gonna SAY they're Irish on St. Patty's Day even if they aren't. | | LJD | | posted 17-Mar-2008 1:30pm |
My husband is half Irish, my granddaughter's boyfriend is all Irish | bill   | | posted 17-Mar-2008 1:35pm |
As far as I know, I'm mostly Irish. | cerealkiller  | | posted 17-Mar-2008 1:39pm |
I think my wife has a bit of Irish background. | | Enheduanna | | posted 17-Mar-2008 2:19pm |
I have a little bit of Irish in me--one of my grandmothers was partly of Irish descent. And my SO is part Irish, too. As are a number of my friends. | | kcthedog | | posted 17-Mar-2008 5:53pm |
I am part Irish, part Scottish, English, American Indian & Italian as well. | | RGirl | | posted 17-Mar-2008 6:45pm |
I have some Irish in me. Technically I'm half Polish but I don't really consider my biological father family so I don't really identify with it much. I grew up with my mother's side, Irish/English, emphasized. The man that I call 'dad' is Italian and I have his last name but I am not biologically Italian. | | llamamama | | posted 17-Mar-2008 7:29pm |
I am not Irish..My friend and everyone on her mom's side is. My friend's great grandmother came over on the boat..My friend's mom's birthday is today..Her sister's name is Pat though, which is a shame. | | justjulie | | posted 18-Mar-2008 5:52am |
yeah, hubby, so kiddos are. other folks too | | icurok | | posted 18-Mar-2008 11:23am |
My girlfriend is Irish. My paternal grandmother is Irish. Both right footers. | | Iseult | | posted 18-Mar-2008 1:03pm |
There's plenty of Irish I know. | | they | | posted 19-Mar-2008 9:20am |
My baby daddy. | | Kristal_Rose | | posted 19-Mar-2008 6:02pm |
Yep, I'm Irish/German. | | JessicaWoman99 | | posted 19-Mar-2008 7:36pm |
I am a bit Irish myself my moms dad is from England | | JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to justjulie) posted 19-Mar-2008 7:46pm |
> yeah, hubby, so kiddos are. other folks too
Hi Julie me again, and of course I am a bit Irish myself , just heard on the news about Leslie Fishbien KC Fine
Furniture she passed away at 55?
I am deeply saddened by this and gee after seeing her commercials so many times , she was such a wonderful!
person
Wow all she went in for was for back pain and to have this treated when something went wrong and she went into
a coma , and has been in a coma ever since that last time Julie i first told you about her
She and her husband both owned and operated KC Furniture Stores across Colorado and she was a successful
business woman , I just admired her courage and strength
| | JessicaWoman99 |
> Yep, I'm Irish/German.
Wow how neat Kristal Rose did not know that , me myself, I am a bit Irish and my moms dad he was from England | | Kristal_Rose |
It seems to be a pretty common combo. I also have some Scottish and French. | | JessicaWoman99 |
> It seems to be a pretty common combo. I also have some Scottish and
> French.
Yes and Scott and French just love their accent the French accent is so cool , and of course British love how they
say bloody oh bloody | | icurok |
And which one of your relatives is Irish? | | justjulie |
hello you again... 
i was just thinking about this lady a couple of days ago, and was meaning to ask you about her.
so very sad. and 55...geez! only a stones throw away, eh?
what's up w/ yo' man? he still coming to visit you? | | autumnlight | | posted 20-Mar-2008 10:58am |
My dad was born to Irish parents in Ireland, so technically him. But since he was adopted as a baby by Scottish parents in Scotland, then really he's not. | | JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to icurok) posted 20-Mar-2008 11:40am |
> And which one of your relatives is Irish?
I would have to say my moms dad he is Irish | | icurok |
You said he was from England. I appreciate you probably didn't realise that there are completely separate countries. | | JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to justjulie) posted 20-Mar-2008 11:52am |
> hello you again...
> i was just thinking about this lady a couple of days ago, and was
> meaning to ask you about her.
> so very sad. and 55...geez! only a stones throw away, eh?
> what's up w/ yo' man? he still coming to visit you?
Yes at 55 wow and me, I am 52 and 53 next year guess we can die at any age does not matter if we are 30 or 60, we
can still die from something and all she had was this injection for back pain after a horse back riding accident
and she went into cardiac arrest March 4th it was?
Leslie Fishbein was in a coma ever since till this day and passed away and we all think of our own mortality
that will happen someday
No , I have not heard back from my husband to be and like he floated away or something and just disappeared
he has not called me or anything but oh well"
There goes the honeymoon Julie and yes , I will find the right man someday soon like Romeo and Juliet
he will land in my arms hee hee | | JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to icurok) posted 20-Mar-2008 11:55am |
> You said he was from England. I appreciate you probably didn't realise
> that there are completely separate countries.
Oh yes now I see , no did not realize that 2 separate countries and all i remember my mom saying is England but
yes you are right | | justjulie |
i'm dying right now. so are you. have been since the moment of my first breath...weird to think of it like that, eh?
sorry 'bout yo' man...and yes...there is indeed a good true love out there. there has to be....
 | | JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to justjulie) posted 21-Mar-2008 1:02pm |
> i'm dying right now. so are you. have been since the moment of my
> first breath...weird to think of it like that, eh?
> sorry 'bout yo' man...and yes...there is indeed a good true love out
> there. there has to be....
>
Yes at the end of our life spans Julie and now a comet from space will get us while we sleep , at least we will not
know what happened??
Look what that comet did to us eeek", Yes we are all dying and we will meet our maker someday, to even think
of this is strange.
Oh yes for sure another honey bun he will come my way and we fall in love and get married , Crayons she did that
survey about online/relationships and just where I fall in this category | | justjulie |
sigh...
happy friday to you mah' dear....*cheers*
so...when will you have extra time and an extra dime? | | JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to justjulie) posted 21-Mar-2008 8:37pm |
> sigh...
> happy friday to you mah' dear....*cheers*
> so...when will you have extra time and an extra dime?
Let me see here I am just as poor as I can be right now , looks like April or May perhaps and yes working again
after being off work all of February and then getting hit by all these bills all at one time wiped me out
sigh" seen better days of course
So I should be good to go again say May? | | justjulie |
sounds good...i'm always here. so just let me know when you have a little extra of both. | | JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to justjulie) posted 22-Mar-2008 7:25pm |
> sounds good...i'm always here. so just let me know when you have a
> little extra of both.
Yes Julie I will do that and let you know, but meanwhile i am trying to get back on my feet again and it has been
tough on me this year so far jut wish I was getting paid every week instead of monthly
| | justjulie |
totally...in due time, in due time.
we get paid every other week...that's rough too. would be better if we got it every week. | | JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to justjulie) posted 23-Mar-2008 1:58pm |
> totally...in due time, in due time.
> we get paid every other week...that's rough too. would be better if
> we got it every week.
Oh tell me about it , I have been to the food bank 2 or 3 times and on the verge of running out of food, all I can think
of right now is a nice juicy pizza with everything on it yum yum", or just something tasty like a cheese burger
sounds good right now, which I do not have is burgers in my freezer? | | justjulie |
wish i could share what i've got w/ ya'! made a bbq pork loin this past week and have been nibbling on that and on a beef roast. | | JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to justjulie) posted 24-Mar-2008 9:40pm |
> wish i could share what i've got w/ ya'! made a bbq pork loin this
> past week and have been nibbling on that and on a beef roast.
Ah making me hungry Julie, and my freezer is almost naked right now and I find what i can to make a dinner out
of it and just used up some hot dogs that I bought and they were tasty
Just half to make it this week on half a tank of gas till next week payday at last will be a sigh of relief
I blame it on stupid Bush" Julie? | | justjulie |
yeah, blame it on him and also the fact everybody everywhere wants to make a buck or 2 on whatever they get their hands in/on
wish you lived in the Springs... | | JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to justjulie) posted 25-Mar-2008 2:29pm |
> yeah, blame it on him and also the fact everybody everywhere wants
> to make a buck or 2 on whatever they get their hands in/on
>
> wish you lived in the Springs...
That would be neat if I lived in the Springs, but I really enjoy! it out here in Grand County and love Kremmling, I nearly
grew up here came to Colorado in 1965 around the time I 70 was being built and when they built the Eisenhower
Tunnel under the Continintal Divide we came to Colorado me and my family | | justjulie |
i really enjoy it where i'm at as well. just very cool that i can look at the same mountain range everyday and it will take my breath away...!!
i didn't realize that you've been out here for that long. scotty's grandparents have been out this way since '72-ish. | | JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to justjulie) posted 26-Mar-2008 11:15am |
> i really enjoy it where i'm at as well. just very cool that i can
> look at the same mountain range everyday and it will take my breath
> away...!!
> i didn't realize that you've been out here for that long. scotty's
> grandparents have been out this way since '72-ish.
Julie it truly is paradise up here and at times just feels like you can reach up and touch the clouds, except Winter
does not know when to leave us and become Spring, yes been in Colorado a very long time and me, I have been
all over Colorado and I do like Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs that cave is pretty neat | | justjulie |
yeah it is. i've only been out there twice. once when i was 6 or 7, and then when we first came back this time around. pretty neat indeed. | | JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to justjulie) posted 27-Mar-2008 11:24am |
> yeah it is. i've only been out there twice. once when i was 6 or 7,
> and then when we first came back this time around. pretty neat indeed.
And that Royal Gorge is so cool standing on that bridge looking down ooow ah , I am afraid of heights and that high
is to high for me.
Right now i am trying to figure out what this weather wants to do and it looks all snowy and windy, maybe I will go in
to work today unless it gets real bad then I stay home and hide from everybody
Nobody will be able to find me Julie I will hide in the closet with my cat | | JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to justjulie) posted 27-Mar-2008 8:35pm |
> yeah it is. i've only been out there twice. once when i was 6 or 7,
> and then when we first came back this time around. pretty neat indeed.
Oh Julie holy chit it is happening all over again got this Cashier's Check in the mail in my name Jessica? for $4,760.00
and dam this time I called the Bank at this number on the check American Home Bank and i left a message
for them to call me back and verify this check myself Julie?
Oh god Julie say some prayers that this check is good and I can cash it ok?
Really right now Julie this is the answer to all my prayers if this is true and I just cannot see where the hell on earth
it could be some scam? it is a real live check in my name just Like a Regular Paycheck I get from work, and this is
a Job for me Julie a Secret Shopper just cannot see no way this could be any scam , i mean how can it?
The name of the company is right here Clandestine Marketing Company and they even have a web-site that
i am going to check up on right now and just see who they are http://www.clandestine.co.za
This just has to be legitimate and legal god I need the money and i am hurting right now
yes just sent them an e-mail as well asking them about this because their is a scam going on Julie in their name | | Kristal_Rose |
Even if the check has no agreement in fine print written on the back, your signature is an agreement to something. Did you get a credit card lately. The amount plus more will probably be charged to your credit card. I went through a period 15 years ago of my prayers being answered by what turned out to be scams.
Think.
Any company other than a charity organisation operates for profit. No matter what they give you, or even if they hire you, they are expecting back something worth more.
I'm not saying God won't help you, just that it won't take this form, or even be financial at all.
That web-site is from Zaire. Don't trust any offer from there. They are famous for scams, s if their whole nation makes money that way. | LindaH  |
Does that mean their economic system is scamunism? | | Kristal_Rose | | (reply to LindaH) posted 28-Mar-2008 2:31am |
Possibly. | | justjulie |
that's how i feel as well...if it weren't for the one kid who lives a few miles away, nobody would even come here...it's weird. nobody would even know for a while if i just slipped away.
the royal Gorge is so cool!! i like living near the arkansas river...it'll be interesting to see just how high the river will be here soon. | | justjulie |
oh boy oh boy....here's to hoping!!!
| | JessicaWoman99 |
> Even if the check has no agreement in fine print written on the back,
> your signature is an agreement to something. Did you get a credit
> card lately. The amount plus more will probably be charged to your
> credit card. I went through a period 15 years ago of my prayers being
> answered by what turned out to be scams.
>
> Think.
>
> Any company other than a charity organisation operates for profit.
> No matter what they give you, or even if they hire you, they are expecting
> back something worth more.
>
> I'm not saying God won't help you, just that it won't take this form,
> or even be financial at all.
>
> That web-site is from Zaire. Don't trust any offer from there. They
> are famous for scams, s if their whole nation makes money that way.
Kristal Rose sounds like another scam here just checked with Clandestine Marketing and they told me they sent me
nothing or no payments and they do not operate in the U.S. so here we go again and I did call the bank on the
check to verify this and there are more phone numbers to call to see what their problem is | | JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to justjulie) posted 28-Mar-2008 10:56am |
> oh boy oh boy....here's to hoping!!!
>
Sounds like all hope is dashed and gone Julie i made contact with the company and they sent me no payments
plus they do not operate in the U.S. is what they told me and to discard this
Glad I am very smart and take no chances | | JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to justjulie) posted 28-Mar-2008 10:59am |
> that's how i feel as well...if it weren't for the one kid who lives
> a few miles away, nobody would even come here...it's weird. nobody
> would even know for a while if i just slipped away.
>
> the royal Gorge is so cool!! i like living near the arkansas river...it'll
> be interesting to see just how high the river will be here soon.
Yea really Julie I could just vanish from life and who would know but my boss at work, she would send out a search
party to find me and she would be very concerned about me | | Kristal_Rose |
More good is returned to a person through karma than through personal petition. Instead of praying that 'you' get saved from finacial distress, try a genuine prayer that 'all people' in your condition are saved from finacial distress.
One way to explain what you are going through is that because you are expecting some miracle you are gullible, and the scams on this planet are psychically attracted to you. Without people in your state, they couldn't exist. The two of you form a pair in these scams happening.
Don't even waste your time checking up on these scams. If someone helps you it will probably be face to face in a situation where their kindness is obvious, and you are in a state of grateful grace, not just one of relief and elation. | | JessicaWoman99 |
> More good is returned to a person through karma than through personal
> petition. Instead of praying that 'you' get saved from finacial distress,
> try a genuine prayer that 'all people' in your condition are saved
> from finacial distress.
>
> One way to explain what you are going through is that because you
> are expecting some miracle you are gullible, and the scams on this
> planet are psychically attracted to you. Without people in your state,
> they couldn't exist. The two of you form a pair in these scams happening.
>
> Don't even waste your time checking up on these scams. If someone
> helps you it will probably be face to face in a situation where their
> kindness is obvious, and you are in a state of grateful grace, not
> just one of relief and elation.
Yes financial distress and I feel very gullible and vulnerable and being in my state of mind, just so hard not having
a paycheck every 1 or 2 weeks and I get paid monthly on the 3rd and that is a long stretch I have to endure and
wait forever it just seems, I am starving right now and anything sounds good at this moment | | Kristal_Rose |
Do you calculate the cost of your meals? Nachos with the works can be cheap if they're mostly beans. Also buy pantry style. If you eat canned pineapple every week which usually costs $1.40 and one day the cost drops to $0.90, buy a whole case of it. Eventually your cupboards will be full of all your non-perishable essentials at much less cost. Yogurt lids are good for stacking cans.
I am used to being out of groceries (except the pantry things), not because I can't afford them, but because it's a big rre ordeal for me to make it to the store. One nice thing about shopping rarely is that luxury items like cookies will be a smaller proportion of your grocery budget if you only buy them once per shopping trip, and have fewer trips.
If you can get away with it, using a bicycle with a huge basket can save you $3000/yr. Most of my clothes come from the Goodwill (I've even found things brand new with $140.00 tag for $3.50). My furniture is all found in the alley. I spend my money on school, art supplies, and internet stuff.
Saving money can help avoid problems, like switching banks or utilities where the bills are double for a month. If nothing else, save $10/mo. by pretending you checking account has that much less in it, because even the cheapest of common emergencies can cost $200.
When cooking dinner, make enough to be tomorrow's lunch too. That saves cooking time. Cooking extra rice can make a nice breakfast with milk, sugar, and honey fried bananas in cardamon and poppy seeds. Buy chocolate chips instead of candy bars, and keep them in the froeezer. Always compare price per ounce. Often buying bulk costs more per ounce (a common swindle).
Instead of feeling like you are deprived and suffering, make living cheap an artful creative challenge to be proud of, and then maybe buy yourself one nice outfit per year new. Explore all the thrift stores and 99˘ stores. They usually each have their own character, Some are miserable for the wrong clientale, and others will have great values on the type of stuff you like again and again. LA is probably a better place for living cheap except the groceries and gas. The wealthier throw out everything here just because their decorating tastes changed between seasons or they can't be bothered to pack a moving truck. | | JessicaWoman99 |
> Do you calculate the cost of your meals? Nachos with the works can
> be cheap if they're mostly beans. Also buy pantry style. If you eat
> canned pineapple every week which usually costs $1.40 and one day
> the cost drops to $0.90, buy a whole case of it. Eventually your cupboards
> will be full of all your non-perishable essentials at much less cost.
> Yogurt lids are good for stacking cans.
>
> I am used to being out of groceries (except the pantry things), not
> because I can't afford them, but because it's a big rre ordeal for
> me to make it to the store. One nice thing about shopping rarely is
> that luxury items like cookies will be a smaller proportion of your
> grocery budget if you only buy them once per shopping trip, and have
> fewer trips.
>
> If you can get away with it, using a bicycle with a huge basket can
> save you $3000/yr. Most of my clothes come from the Goodwill (I've
> even found things brand new with $140.00 tag for $3.50). My furniture
> is all found in the alley. I spend my money on school, art supplies,
> and internet stuff.
>
> Saving money can help avoid problems, like switching banks or utilities
> where the bills are double for a month. If nothing else, save $10/mo.
> by pretending you checking account has that much less in it, because
> even the cheapest of common emergencies can cost $200.
>
> When cooking dinner, make enough to be tomorrow's lunch too. That
> saves cooking time. Cooking extra rice can make a nice breakfast with
> milk, sugar, and honey fried bananas in cardamon and poppy seeds.
> Buy chocolate chips instead of candy bars, and keep them in the froeezer.
> Always compare price per ounce. Often buying bulk costs more per ounce
> (a common swindle).
>
> Instead of feeling like you are deprived and suffering, make living
> cheap an artful creative challenge to be proud of, and then maybe
> buy yourself one nice outfit per year new. Explore all the thrift
> stores and 99˘ stores. They usually each have their own character,
> Some are miserable for the wrong clientale, and others will have great
> values on the type of stuff you like again and again. LA is probably
> a better place for living cheap except the groceries and gas. The
> wealthier throw out everything here just because their decorating
> tastes changed between seasons or they can't be bothered to pack a
> moving truck.
No I do not think that I do calculate the cost of my meals, it costs me over a $100.00 to buy groceries, plus the fact
I did not work in February really did some damage on me
Made it to the food bank 3 times this year already and now I have run out of everything until this Tuesday or
Wednesday when the check comes in at last wow it will be a relief Kristal Rose and get me off death row
Yes I do feel deprived right now and very limited no money is in the bank at all plus I have no money on me,
it is bad as it can be and gee do I ever feel hungry just eating some mashed potatos with green beans for
dinner no more bread is left in the house shucks, I have been nibbling on peanut butter and what is left of it
Maybe I could start eating cat food if I get desperate enough, I will eat cat food for breakfast and dinner
and it will cost me at least $40.00 to fill up the car with gas running on an empty tank right now, just get as much
mileage as I can get with this car and take my chances that I will not run out of gas on the highway
So darn expensive to live anymore costs me everything that I have
If only there were a way to get some kind of Employment right here at home and get a weekly paycheck but
everything out there is a fraud and scam or they want $500.00 for you to get started money i just do not have?
| | Kristal_Rose |
$100/wk or $100/mo.? I spend about $243/mo. in LA. Cats cost me $30/mo.
I track all my expenses by category each month on Excel spreadsheets so I can calculate these averages as well as doing my budgets. If not for that I'd probably be bankrupt by now.
Sounds like you need to learn to cook and start building up a collection of spices. Potatoes are fine if you cook them a 1000 different ways and at least have slivers of cheese, sautéd onions and such with them. I eat a lot of cottage fries in cumin.
Rice is also good. I eat a lot of jambalaya made with rice, chipotle peppers, canned pineapple, onions, red bell peppers, cashews, shrimp, ginger, mint sauce, and chutney. The trick is to base your food on a cheap proper diet like rice and beans, then throw in little bits of things which make it exotic and appealing.
I think cat food actually costs more than good cooking.
Even peanut-butter can be combined with rice and tomato sauce or curry to create thai dishes.
You are looking for wierd jobs. What about just running a cash register at a clothing store or working as a hotel maid or gardener? Not fun perhaps, but better than mystery shopping in the longrun, and better than starving.
I'm guessing you have some disabilities and live in an area where jobs are tight. Private-message me and I can possibly give you better personal advice. | | JessicaWoman99 |
> $100/wk or $100/mo.? I spend about $243/mo. in LA. Cats cost me $30/mo.
>
> I track all my expenses by category each month on Excel spreadsheets
> so I can calculate these averages as well as doing my budgets. If
> not for that I'd probably be bankrupt by now.
>
> Sounds like you need to learn to cook and start building up a collection
> of spices. Potatoes are fine if you cook them a 1000 different ways
> and at least have slivers of cheese, sautéd onions and such with them.
> I eat a lot of cottage fries in cumin.
>
> Rice is also good. I eat a lot of jambalaya made with rice, chipotle
> peppers, canned pineapple, onions, red bell peppers, cashews, shrimp,
> ginger, mint sauce, and chutney. The trick is to base your food on
> a cheap proper diet like rice and beans, then throw in little bits
> of things which make it exotic and appealing.
>
> I think cat food actually costs more than good cooking.
>
> Even peanut-butter can be combined with rice and tomato sauce or curry
> to create thai dishes.
>
> You are looking for wierd jobs. What about just running a cash register
> at a clothing store or working as a hotel maid or gardener? Not fun
> perhaps, but better than mystery shopping in the longrun, and better
> than starving.
>
> I'm guessing you have some disabilities and live in an area where
> jobs are tight. Private-message me and I can possibly give you better
> personal advice.
Yes I do have a disability and can only work a part time job and the problem here is, I get paid once a month
from this job and along with my Social Security that comes in once a month 2 checks a month to pay the bills
and I am wiped out after paying those bills like where did the money go?
Rice and beans, I have lots of rice and I do have some beans as well this sounds like a great idea! Thanks
see what I can make up with my rice and beans on Sunday tomorrow
Some hamburger is left in the freezer and maybe I can make up something to get me by until at least Wednesday?
rice sounds pretty darn good right now and oatmeal for breakfast is good just ran out of cornflakes and only
one egg in the fridge is all I got left
Social Security is pretty tight with me working to many hours and I am getting 30 hours at my job 3 days a week,
plus I need gas to get to work and back here, just something else to supplement my part time job like some
kind of Customer Service job I can do right at home?
Been looking in the Colorado Job Service to no avail
if only I could have an extra check every 2 weeks god it would change things in my life Kristal Rose and yes in
June I will be getting that check stimulis checks from the I.R.S. and I expect up to $400.00 can really turn things
around for me whoo whoo
Oh and it costs me $120.00 a month for groceries plus my shampoo and conditioner and toilet paper, plus
anything for my cat | | Kristal_Rose |
It's social security for a disability. Well you probably know about how much you can work and do SSI/SSDI ot the same time. You should pretend that stimulus check doesn't exist, and save at least half of it when it arrives, and have the other half planned for well thought out luxuries you couldn't get otherwise, like a new comforter or coat or something.
Every dinner should contain rice, potatoes, or noodles of some sort. The beef should be mixed with the beans. One thing I used to do to have time for school and still eat well was spending sunday making a batch of burritos, pizzas, or chicken sandwiches which I would freeze. If you do this every Sunday, you'll soon have a variety of good cheap food in the freezer with less cooking time.
I eat my cornflakes with fruit, nuts, half a yogurt, and chocolate chips in it. The idea is to have a nutritionally complete variety and mix expensive tidbits with bulk cheap food so it all tastes rich.
If you aren't working, it's a good time to learn new types of creative cooking.
I also make sure I buy ingredients which will last a year, like grape leaves or oil cured olives. Four oil cured olives are potent enough to make a big change in a pizza or cottage fries.
State employment services never have good jobs, and when they have any jobs at all you'll be competing with too many people to get it. Working at home isn't a good possibility anymore either, because if the job can be done at home these days, chances are it's being done by someone in Asia for $2/hr. already.
The best way to find a job these days is to circulate town like you are on vacation, and when any place or people interest you, ask if there's any work you could be doing there. Best of all is when you can suggest something you see that they need which you know how to do, and suggest that.
Except when someone is too egotisitcal and needs humbling, for the most part I'd say God wants us to prosper and love creation, and do the things of service to creation which make that possible. Chances are that whatever special skill you'd most like to be doing is where your best cances at employment are. We have a hand in defining ourselves and the world collaborates. Consider yourself born doomed to suffer in a factory with no respect, and the world will comply. The key to a good job is humble self-confidence and a desire to make this world better for people. You sound like you spend a lot of time thinking about what you can get. That won't make you attractive to people, especially employers.
I hope you have a budget made and know what you spend on things. People would be surprised at how much a car really costs them if they averaged out all the related expenses.
Why is it you want to work at home? Just to save gas? It's my preference for concentrating (computer programming), but otherwise the isolation is depressing after awhile.
Until the day you can't walk around anymore or remember anything you're still young. You should put some work into daydreaming up a really fullfilling career which you could really do. If you have a good plan you might be able to get additional help from SSI to accomplish it, like paying your rent while you take some community college courses in something you'd like to do, or getting a loan to start a business making purses at home to sell on eBay and at craft-faires.
You've been thinking like this is the depression and your future is limited. It's not true at all unless you choose that. This world is a kaleidoscope of possibilities, and inbetween all the people you see suffering along with you are just as many people you can't see yet having a fantastic time. Choose to join them in their kaleidoscopic view of the world by becoming a sparkling gem yourself, and you will find much better opportunities than hanging out alone in a cave telling people you'll eat cat food.
Did your life always need turning around, or did it have joy and opportunity when you were younger? Hope, inspiration, and a love of life is a self-perpetuating cycle which first requires pulling yourself up by the bootstraps, telling yourself you deserve a better life (in a humble graceful, not bitter fashion), and gathering the willingness to take a mysterious adventure and commit to doing whatever it takes to get there.
If you're only committed to working at home for someone else, staying on SSI, and always just making it, I'd expect you to get depressed and have little success. You need a dream worth pursuing, and with love for this dream comes the magic of opportunity.
You need to be committed to working hard for it, totally immersed in it, and not just pursue something that might keep you occupied between TV shows.
Not everyone knows themself well enough to know what sort of vision to pursue, otherwise they wouldn't be in your position, but your friends and family probably have some clue. If that is the case, ask them what they imagine you might have done with your life if you were to be joyous and prosperous. They might suggest that you became payroll clerk for Circue Du Soleil, opened a poodle grooming business, sell wool to worldwide clients, paint garden sculptures, or something else which particularly fits skills and environments you love and have a knack for but have forgotten. Very little in this word is too silly to not be able to make a job of, though for really specialised things you may have to live in a big city to do it.
If you love doing something you will become good at it. People who do exceptionally well at most anything can command a premium price (or at least a comfortable living), whethar it's a circus act, researching ancient herbal usage, or adjusting equalizers for the acoustics of a room. You just have to believe in yourself, do some work, and connect with the people who appreciate you most, a win-win for everyone.
When you tell me you look forward to that check, you are telling me you'd rather not think about where you are now but don't want to work towards something better. Instead find something you could do now, however little you can afford of your time, where you could be happy and proud about the effort spent now working towards a goal. Figure out something you could be doing five years from now, and the steps you could enjoy doing to get there. Be willing to go hard the way, but don't presume that will be the case. Shortcuts and assistance will come your way if you really believe in what you are doing. | | justjulie |
indeed...better luck next time i suppose | | justjulie |
if it was just me and me alone, it would be weeks, before i was found...
but since that is not the case, i think it would take up to a week max. | | JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to justjulie) posted 30-Mar-2008 1:14pm |
> indeed...better luck next time i suppose
It will be a million next time $$$$$$ Maybe I will hit the jackpot whee whee | | justjulie |
!! | | JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to justjulie) posted 31-Mar-2008 11:25am |
> if it was just me and me alone, it would be weeks, before i was found...
> but since that is not the case, i think it would take up to a week
> max.
Calling search and rescue Jessica is missing, funny what a little bit of snow does to this computer? Had to clear
off the satellite dish to get this working sheesh think I need more sleep | | JessicaWoman99 |
> It's social security for a disability. Well you probably know about
> how much you can work and do SSI/SSDI ot the same time. You should
> pretend that stimulus check doesn't exist, and save at least half
> of it when it arrives, and have the other half planned for well thought
> out luxuries you couldn't get otherwise, like a new comforter or coat
> or something.
>
> Every dinner should contain rice, potatoes, or noodles of some sort.
> The beef should be mixed with the beans. One thing I used to do to
> have time for school and still eat well was spending sunday making
> a batch of burritos, pizzas, or chicken sandwiches which I would freeze.
> If you do this every Sunday, you'll soon have a variety of good cheap
> food in the freezer with less cooking time.
>
> I eat my cornflakes with fruit, nuts, half a yogurt, and chocolate
> chips in it. The idea is to have a nutritionally complete variety
> and mix expensive tidbits with bulk cheap food so it all tastes rich.
> If you aren't working, it's a good time to learn new types of creative
> cooking.
>
> I also make sure I buy ingredients which will last a year, like grape
> leaves or oil cured olives. Four oil cured olives are potent enough
> to make a big change in a pizza or cottage fries.
>
> State employment services never have good jobs, and when they have
> any jobs at all you'll be competing with too many people to get it.
> Working at home isn't a good possibility anymore either, because if
> the job can be done at home these days, chances are it's being done
> by someone in Asia for $2/hr. already.
>
> The best way to find a job these days is to circulate town like you
> are on vacation, and when any place or people interest you, ask if
> there's any work you could be doing there. Best of all is when you
> can suggest something you see that they need which you know how to
> do, and suggest that.
>
> Except when someone is too egotisitcal and needs humbling, for the
> most part I'd say God wants us to prosper and love creation, and do
> the things of service to creation which make that possible. Chances
> are that whatever special skill you'd most like to be doing is where
> your best cances at employment are. We have a hand in defining ourselves
> and the world collaborates. Consider yourself born doomed to suffer
> in a factory with no respect, and the world will comply. The key to
> a good job is humble self-confidence and a desire to make this world
> better for people. You sound like you spend a lot of time thinking
> about what you can get. That won't make you attractive to people,
> especially employers.
>
> I hope you have a budget made and know what you spend on things. People
> would be surprised at how much a car really costs them if they averaged
> out all the related expenses.
>
> Why is it you want to work at home? Just to save gas? It's my preference
> for concentrating (computer programming), but otherwise the isolation
> is depressing after awhile.
>
> Until the day you can't walk around anymore or remember anything you're
> still young. You should put some work into daydreaming up a really
> fullfilling career which you could really do. If you have a good plan
> you might be able to get additional help from SSI to accomplish it,
> like paying your rent while you take some community college courses
> in something you'd like to do, or getting a loan to start a business
> making purses at home to sell on eBay and at craft-faires.
>
> You've been thinking like this is the depression and your future is
> limited. It's not true at all unless you choose that. This world is
> a kaleidoscope of possibilities, and inbetween all the people you
> see suffering along with you are just as many people you can't see
> yet having a fantastic time. Choose to join them in their kaleidoscopic
> view of the world by becoming a sparkling gem yourself, and you will
> find much better opportunities than hanging out alone in a cave telling
> people you'll eat cat food.
>
> Did your life always need turning around, or did it have joy and opportunity
> when you were younger? Hope, inspiration, and a love of life is a
> self-perpetuating cycle which first requires pulling yourself up by
> the bootstraps, telling yourself you deserve a better life (in a humble
> graceful, not bitter fashion), and gathering the willingness to take
> a mysterious adventure and commit to doing whatever it takes to get
> there.
>
> If you're only committed to working at home for someone else, staying
> on SSI, and always just making it, I'd expect you to get depressed
> and have little success. You need a dream worth pursuing, and with
> love for this dream comes the magic of opportunity.
>
> You need to be committed to working hard for it, totally immersed
> in it, and not just pursue something that might keep you occupied
> between TV shows.
>
> Not everyone knows themself well enough to know what sort of vision
> to pursue, otherwise they wouldn't be in your position, but your friends
> and family probably have some clue. If that is the case, ask them
> what they imagine you might have done with your life if you were to
> be joyous and prosperous. They might suggest that you became payroll
> clerk for Circue Du Soleil, opened a poodle grooming business, sell
> wool to worldwide clients, paint garden sculptures, or something else
> which particularly fits skills and environments you love and have
> a knack for but have forgotten. Very little in this word is too silly
> to not be able to make a job of, though for really specialised things
> you may have to live in a big city to do it.
>
> If you love doing something you will become good at it. People who
> do exceptionally well at most anything can command a premium price
> (or at least a comfortable living), whethar it's a circus act, researching
> ancient herbal usage, or adjusting equalizers for the acoustics of
> a room. You just have to believe in yourself, do some work, and connect
> with the people who appreciate you most, a win-win for everyone.
>
> When you tell me you look forward to that check, you are telling me
> you'd rather not think about where you are now but don't want to work
> towards something better. Instead find something you could do now,
> however little you can afford of your time, where you could be happy
> and proud about the effort spent now working towards a goal. Figure
> out something you could be doing five years from now, and the steps
> you could enjoy doing to get there. Be willing to go hard the way,
> but don't presume that will be the case. Shortcuts and assistance
> will come your way if you really believe in what you are doing.
Yes I have always needed some help to get things turned around and started for me, yet I still do better than
my sister in Florida she is in some other time and world and she cannot do it on her own, my sister did have an
apartment for a year and now she is back in the hospital all over again
I know, I did flunk that one year last year I think it was and they took me to the hospital for really bad depression
and kept me there for 2 weeks in the hospital mental ward
Me and my sister we are having our bad times and it has been rough on me and her she is in Florida and me
Colorado and today could not figure out what was going on with my computer, funny what a little tiny bit of snow
on the sattelite dish can do to your computer
I have this ear infection today and it really bothers me , but the other day I did cook up rice and hamburger with
tomatoes in a can and it was yummy and very good, I make up my own milk Carnation Instant Milk and just wish
that I had some juice in the fridge , I miss my juice and I had oatmeal for breakfast that was good, not sure if
I will go into work or not today , hardly no gas in the car and I do not feel soo good today would rather just sleep
until I can fill up the car with gas which will be tomorrow on Tuesday I hope
There is a Winter storm headed this way and usually I do not drive in it and just stay home , all because my wipers
do not work. Gee hope my check comes in tomorrow the 1st it would be wonderful! | | Kristal_Rose |
I offered you a key out of your situation, but it doesn't appear you are really thinking about it any. That key is to find a dream you can believe in and always work towards it.
My advice on living well for cheaper is only a band-aid and won't last for years.
I can offer one more key, a key of understanding more than a key of change, and that is that we are who we believe ourselves to be. To stop being depressed and disabled, you have to stop believing that that condition is holding you down. You have to believe instead that you are making progress and finding ways to have a prosperous life in spite of your shortcomings. If you believe you are desperate, the world will bring desperate circumstances your way.
Being sick or desperate and rescued doesn't work for you anymore like it did when you were a kid. It's not a path to satisfying comfort anymore. Stop looking for comfort. You will be more satisfied doing without and taking risks which change your life in the future. If you just seek comfort you will end up shivering in a blanket watching TV without dinner. If instead you work hard to change your life you will feel more alive. Don't work hard out of desperation though. Work hard with the delight that you are becoming the person you want to be.
That's a good starting question: Who do you want to become?
All this time you think about lottery tickets or when your next check will come is time you are being miserable about the moment. Forget about the check until it arrives and it comes time to pay bills, and think instead about how to make the best of your time now. Having money to work with is only a small part of improving your situation. Do you want to spend your years in the future always just waiting for checks? If you think that way your life will always be miserable even if the checks were ten times larger.
I heard you discussing natural landmarks. Perhaps you would be happy as a receptionist for a tour guide, and could get a cabin to live in at the edge of some national park. If you can figure out something that really suits you, you wouldn't get so depressed, and people prefer to hire those who feel they are made for the part.
Have you taken art classes, can you sew? Perhaps there is something you can make and sell on eBay?
Do you have any hobbies like playing an instrument? Anything inspiring and life improving is better than nothing.
Please answer all the questions I've given you if you want my help.
What would you do if you won the lottery. Would you just buy things, or would you change the things you do? If you would change your life, how would you change it? | | JessicaWoman99 |
> I offered you a key out of your situation, but it doesn't appear you
> are really thinking about it any. That key is to find a dream you
> can believe in and always work towards it.
>
> My advice on living well for cheaper is only a band-aid and won't
> last for years.
>
> I can offer one more key, a key of understanding more than a key of
> change, and that is that we are who we believe ourselves to be. To
> stop being depressed and disabled, you have to stop believing that
> that condition is holding you down. You have to believe instead that
> you are making progress and finding ways to have a prosperous life
> in spite of your shortcomings. If you believe you are desperate, the
> world will bring desperate circumstances your way.
>
> Being sick or desperate and rescued doesn't work for you anymore like
> it did when you were a kid. It's not a path to satisfying comfort
> anymore. Stop looking for comfort. You will be more satisfied doing
> without and taking risks which change your life in the future. If
> you just seek comfort you will end up shivering in a blanket watching
> TV without dinner. If instead you work hard to change your life you
> will feel more alive. Don't work hard out of desperation though. Work
> hard with the delight that you are becoming the person you want to
> be.
>
> That's a good starting question: Who do you want to become?
>
> All this time you think about lottery tickets or when your next check
> will come is time you are being miserable about the moment. Forget
> about the check until it arrives and it comes time to pay bills, and
> think instead about how to make the best of your time now. Having
> money to work with is only a small part of improving your situation.
> Do you want to spend your years in the future always just waiting
> for checks? If you think that way your life will always be miserable
> even if the checks were ten times larger.
>
> I heard you discussing natural landmarks. Perhaps you would be happy
> as a receptionist for a tour guide, and could get a cabin to live
> in at the edge of some national park. If you can figure out something
> that really suits you, you wouldn't get so depressed, and people prefer
> to hire those who feel they are made for the part.
>
> Have you taken art classes, can you sew? Perhaps there is something
> you can make and sell on eBay?
> Do you have any hobbies like playing an instrument? Anything inspiring
> and life improving is better than nothing.
>
> Please answer all the questions I've given you if you want my help.
>
> What would you do if you won the lottery. Would you just buy things,
> or would you change the things you do? If you would change your life,
> how would you change it?
Yes Kristal Rose I have been thinking about what you have told me and the keys I need to think of, to get myself
out of this hole I am in. Yes I do want to reach my dreams and that is number 1 in my life is to help myself get to
where I need to be and yes, keep telling myself that I can do it with all my strength will and determination
yet the only thing holding me back is of course money to really be able to do anything
If I did win the lottery assuming I win the lottery , I would probably and most likely get a new home first, a much
bigger home than this one and with more space , I would have to get rid of stuff that I do not need and gee do
I ever have more and more stuff , 2 storage buildings that are just filled with this and that and I would have to
figure a way to get rid of some of this and garage sales really are not all that good any longer or even yard sales
are not all that great if you really want to sell anything people are so picky
Plus I just need some help with all of I got to sort it out to see what goes or stays and probably the only real thing
that is keeping me from moving to another home , plus my utilities as well gas and electric I would not even know
where to begin?
My mind is just not all that good these days and very hard to do any thinking at all.
I do want a better life for me that is my goal to go after it and yes I am listening to what you are telling me and
the keys I need to follow my dreams and really figure out something here
I have been trying to write articles for Helium and learn to be a writer and my works are not all that good just yet
and hoping to get a Biography about me one of these days , tell people a little about myself and I have been doing
these surveys were you get paid for a survey you do, this seems forever till they ever pay you
and I look at other things that I can do and E Bay like the sound of that to make something and sell on E bay
I am good with my hands at sewing and yes I have done these pot holders | | Kristal_Rose |
I am on SSDI myself and have been homeless. Just before that I was making a very professional salary. You don't have anything to tell me about money I don't already know.
Still, aboundant opportunities have come my way whenever I have resolved to do something with an upbeat joyous attitude. Do you imagine God only helps those with money, or my handing out money? The bible says quite the opposite actually. Paying your bills needs done, but it's the wrong thing to look for, as far as becoming your ultimate self is discerned. Life is about character and experience, not material value.
When I need something it shows up in the alley or at the thrift store or someone hands it to me unexpectedly. I resolved to build digital musical instruments, took a college class on programming microchips with my reg fees subsidized, it turned out that the class loaned me 100's of dollars of eqiupment I needed to build my prototype, and the companies which make the parts I need offerr free samples for development. Also I went on eBay and found $4000 worth of electronic parts (from a close-out/recall center) I needed for under $200. The class is over but this is a big R&D project so I gotan independent studies contract which allows me to continue borrowing the development equipment. Also when buying supplies on eBay, I tell people what I'm doing and they give me free things to help me out.
Let me tell you about one of the strongest magic tricks in the world. I call it 'willed surrender'. Determination and will alone are not enough. By using just them you are defining your position in the world as overcoming an obstacle. As long as you think this way you will always have an obstacle. Some people like it that way. It gives them something to do and blame and complain about. Total surrender is to bend like a willow in a storm. By itself it is no good either, because it will put you in limbo, going nowhere and not caring. The two seem opposite but they actually go hand in hand quite well. Will yourself to pursue your dream, but also surrender in several ways: Do not get bent out of shape when nothing goes your way, but gratiously accept that it will happen in whatever way God can afford you if it's meant to be; Be prepared to give up any way you thought it would work out and go with the flow presented to you; Let go of your passions and desires - instead of your happiness depending on outcomes of future situations; Find happiness that God is watching out for you and don't cling to anything material; Appreciate what comes, not what you hope to come; Be prepared to let all of it go without it affecting your joy that things are working out for you somehow anyhow. Another way of putting this is that you can't have your cake and eat it too. This method can also be called 'Doing without attachment'. It's like relaxing and taking God for granted to fulfill your needs, while at the same time not necessarily exypecting anything. Instead of being totally in charge and full of ego, like being self-employed, it's like you go to God looking for a job and suggest what skills you have and what you like to do, and then God puts you to work doing it, seldom in a way you expected. It demands being sensitive and intuitive and recognizing how God is working in your life. Your material life is taken care of as long as you gladly put in the effort, but your life increasingly becomes about interacting wih God rather than about interacting with a purely material universe. The nice thing about this way of life is that it makes everything which happens in your life more magical and meaningful, in the same way that a gift to you means more than the same thing you bought yourself.
The best goal I know of is to love life and spread that love to others. The way to start is to love yourself and feel blessed. You are of course but often people are too engaged in creating problems for themselves to recognize this.
You say it's hard to think clearly and that even though you have tons of stuff to get rid of, if you won the loterry you would buy more space (presumably for stuff). Consider the possibilty that your mind is cluttered with attachments. All that stuff in storage is a mirror of your mind, bogging you down. To fit any fresh new activity in your life you have to get rid of old stuff, physically, time-wise, and in your heads attitudes and attachments. Except for the SSI check, you would probably be better off if you threw out everything and went hitchhiking across the country. Keep that in mind and it will be easier to give stuff to the thrift stores. Probably you cling to your stuff because it might have some value and you feel poor. There is a saying 'If you love something, set it free. If it doesn't come back to you it wasn't yours in the first place'. Holding on to all that stuff is about not trusting that the universe will take care of you, and thinking yourself to be desperate instead.
I was hoping that your answer to what you would do if you won the lottery would include things like playing the piano, travelling to other countries, starting some sort of charity, or going scuba diving. Even if it was about getting many dresses or having a doll colection though, I could have given you advice on how to have the life experince you want without having to gain lots of money.
Unless they are amazing cute and cheap, I don't think there's much market for pot-holders. Sure, people need them, but they don't go looking for them, and you would be competing against people in Asia. To really make money with sewing things for eBay you need to be charging for an exquisite exclusive design, not for seamstressy. If you really want something that does'nt seem to exist, but could make it yourself with enough effort, then chances are that other people want something similar. For instance I would like mural patchwork collage comforters made of faux suede and velour in mostly earth colors depicting giant trees in a broad art-noveau style, full of fairies and stars and stuff, perhaps with embedded irish crochet and bead work. Something very magical, simple and woodsy, conservative, yet elegant. It would be full of fine detail, but also have broad expanses with no detail. I'd want to pay less than $200. Chances are the materials for this bought in bulk could cost 20yd@$7=$140. One might find silk flowers and doilies in bulk which they coud just sew on. If an hour per square foot of detail was spent, and it had 20 ft^2 of detail, and you wanted $15/hr for your time, that's $300 for labor. You'd have to charge $300+140= $440.00. Over time you could make them even faster and make $25/hr. The thing is, you could really ask $1500 for such a thing. Look for comforters on eBay sorted by price-highest-first. There are plenty selling between $400 and $800, and they wouldn't compare to a nice custom multi-media art mural comforter.
If you wanted such a career you would eventually find the materials, or find a way to borrow enough money for the materials to make one such a thing for sale on eBay. After you sal it, use the profit to buy more materials. Do the hand stitching during time you'd have been watching TV anyhow, and you really don't have much to lose. You might have to find help getting top notch photos and putting together a really classy eBay ad. It may take a lot of figuring to get the best design down, possibly discussing all your ideas and material choices with design-critiquing friends before actually sewing such a thing. You might make sure all the materials are pre-shrunk too so the thing doesn't get all warped the first time it's washed. Eventually you could hire seamstresses in Asia to make all your inset parts for comforters.
That's just one idea of how to pursue a dream. I d |
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