You Decide Your Own Level of Involvement

I haven't written since the election.  I've been trying to get my mind off of things and that's hard to do given the threats to our country from within. Westworld is one of my favorite tv shows in a long time.  Yes Game of Thrones has been my favorite but it didn't make me think the same way Westworld made me think. I got drawn into this podcast and I don't even listen to podcasts but my favorite is The Westworld Podcast . I saw an article later that said that there was 28 Westworld Podcast because of all the theories! I've tried to listen to other podcasts, I shut one podcast off because they started discussing election stuff, it was brief but it still annoyed me.  I don't tune into your podcast to hear about election stuff I tuned into the podcast to escape facebook and twitter and election stuff.  They recently changed their name from Theorycast and I really couldn't get past the first episode of their podcast because they kept saying I don...

I have everything and nothing to say about this year's election. I'm not surprised but I do think that I am surprised at everyone else's surprise if that makes any sense. I have decided that I do want to take more of an active role in government, I do not want to run for any office but I feel as though a lot of capable people are complaining but not doing what they can to fill in their part and I'm guilty of that as well. Donald Trump has already started to side-step or move back on some of his stances.  He doesn't want a wall anymore, now he's saying he wants a fence.  He's not going to get rid of the Affordable Care he just wants to tweak it.  He's not going to kick out all of the Muslims. And then we found out that Russia had been helping Trump's campaign the entire time.  Are the appropriate agencies going to look into that as well? I just feel like we shifted into an alternate reality.  Nothing is real anymore.  Maybe it never was.

I have been very, very busy lately.  I went from someone with loads of time on her hands to someone who can barely find a moment to enjoy the day and relax.  So file that under be careful of what you wish for. Because I'm doing tons of things and very rarely is it something I have a lot of interest in.  I started volunteering with the Red Cross.  It's a remote position, I'm thinking about letting it go for time sake.  When I started it I wasn't working and now that I am, I need to find the time to do it.  It doesn't take more than a half hour at the most to do but I think by the end of December I may let it go.  I like volunteering but at the same time, I want to volunteer doing something that has more of an impact.  Not that fiscal reviewing isn't important but with everything going on in the world I want to do more. I mentioned earlier that I started a new job and I had hoped that with this new job it would force me into making my day more s...

Strings, Angels, and the Turning Gyre The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches ...

I don't have a husband, I definitely do not want to be one of those women who have so many ex-husbands they can get together and write a tell all book, or start a basketball team. You just need to find one great guy. Who better to listen to for relationship advice than Michelle Obama? Ivy League educations aside I think that there's a Barack Obama side to every great man who is husband-material. Last year ABC wrote an article on her called Michelle Obama….Oprah 2.0? She   basically says that she was attracted to how cute Obama is and more importantly the relationship he has with her mother and how he treats women. I think those are very great qualities to start off with. A lot of men think it's about money for a lot of women; I don't know the percentages but I know that a couple who are together because of money will not last long (look at history, they never do). But not Michelle. The Nuptials After dating for three years, Michelle and Barack tied the knot o...

If you're considering going natural or you already have and you're tired of all the tutorials that tell you how to get your hair to look like this: When your hair really looks like this When I first went natural my hair was tight, kinky, coily and poofy, and I could not figure out why it was so hard and so poofy and how to make it hang. Here's the secret ingredient to making it soft and to make it hang. I check out these blogs daily: CurlyNikki Not only does her site serve as a portal to many other naturalistas she adds a mental aspect to the world of being natural that helps you not only get through the transition phase of going natural but how to deal with people after you've gone natural.  The site is also informative when it comes to just learning new hair styles and how popular natural hair is. YouTube Vlogs These 4a or 4b ladies have been really helpful on my natural hair care journey Naptural85 JerseyStylezz CharyJay She's not a 4a, but s...

I hate it when people criticize science fiction for not being REAL science fiction.   What?  What is real science fiction?  I keep hearing it about my stories because people want me to explain the science behind stuff.  Here's a newsflash people.   It's not real. No one ever said, gee, I really wish Doc Brown would have really given us a lesson on how the flux capacitor works. You have to be kidding me; it's lights in a Y shape.  There is no scientific basis for how it works.  Absolutely ridiculous.  Then you have people who want to know how the space ship works.  I don't ever remember Star Wars explaining how C3PO worked, you just knew he worked.   It wasn't even until some thirty years later that Lucas even attempted to explain what the Force is.  You just knew it was a thing, you didn't need to know how it worked.  I just can't stand these unhappy people who decide to get a bug up their butts about...