Just Pass Me By

Our apartment is very small, I like keyboard but I like guitars a little more. I can play both, and enjoy both. I ended up finally getting something to play this week after months of nothing. I am so glad. I didn’t need a boss gt 6 because mine is acoustic. However I seen them before and now how to work them if needed. I like acoustic guitars for some reason. Old fashion is nice.

Oh My goodness!!! My electric bill is crazy. 215$ for 1 months yes you are reading right. We decided to try to heat the apartment by wood fire I think this will be a lot less saying I can find reasonable wood. Well I do not celebrate it but maybe I should have got fire wood as gifts for christmas or at least asked for it. I am shocked with the price of my electric bill. It not to cold here and only have turned the heat to 60F so I just do not see how the heater could be using that much electrical power. About to tell everyone in this little apartment were sweets and stop the complaints don’t want to give the electric company my left arm here.

I have been looking to fulfill my practicum hours, 6 out of 6 places rejected me. Oh well I got a few more places I can go to.. I just have to remember to keep my head up. I haven’t looked for a job yet because I need to find my practicum site, first so I know what my schedule is, but at the rate I am going I might fail the stupid class because I can not find one. Which would totally ruin my gpa and my academics. Oh well hopefully I can find it soon. It is a little on the cool side maybe I should look into getting my hubby a carhartt sweatshirts for men, so that he not to cold. We still haven’t gotten our winter time jackets and wearing wind breakers.

I know I shouldn’t let this discourage me but it amazing how many people say no and how many say it’s because of my school which meets all the same requirements. Oh well I will keep looking and hopefully I will find something within the week.

Okay, I am now sick of Occupy Portland and the whole movement. Okay you want to complain about no jobs, guess what find work, create your own income. Another thing the police here have been tolerate and kind, and haven’t done anything yet that have been aggressive. However watching the news I see how a peaceful group isn’t exactly peaceful. I am annoyed. I have been with out work for a while now, however I do not blame the banks. It not the cooperate worlds fault I am not working, or that its not easy for me to find a job. I am so sick of able bodied adult crying over no work but being to lazy to actually try to earn money and would rather do protest and riots to get what they want! What has pissed me off, is them taking the US flag and hanging it upside down, shoot they lucky to live in this country others would kill them and be done with it! Not that I think death is the right way to go.

So lets see its the middle of the months and these guys have caused banks to need to close down. I wonder if they realize many people get paid around now, who actually work for their money and living. Banks are people at least those who work there are and they don’t deserved to be threatened because they are better off then us. You want to have money go find a way to earn and stop causing trouble for people already in their career. Seriously we need the occupy movement almost as badly as a whole in our head. They are like mold black & mild and need to be cleaned up!

I guess I am annoyed because this movement has been allowed to cause damage to several of our parks in Portland, push around police officers, and show general disrespect for people and our country. I get it there are people making money who are far better off then us poor people but do they realize how many of these banks they have closed for the day actually donate to different causes or at least their employees do. So hey how about we all stop working and force the rich to take care of us sounds like a good plan NOT!

We want to make money I suggest we find a job, and work our way up the cooperate later. That not for me though. I will continue working on my education so I can meet my end goal. You know to me the only thing that matters is having a rough over my head, enough food to eat and the rest who cares. There are plenty of services in Portland for homeless people, just like many other states. At least Portland has more temperate weather to deal with.

So I say we get these Occupy people of the streets and allow the banks and cooperate businesses in the area to go back to work. And my suggestion is that Occupy Portland find some job or work. I am sure they have many talents in the group, and maybe if they focused on that it be better then making other suffer because life is not fair. Yep Life is not fair, but we have to deal with the hand we are dealt!

Dad is driving us nuts. Today he couldn’t stop telling us how we could only be gone for 4 hours. Yeah we know clearly that we can’t be gone that long because he can’t take care of himself. Even leaving him for a couple hours makes us nervous. He keeps asking question after question the only quest he hasn’t asked us is how to get longer eyelashes , but has asked how to clean his face. He asks about when his money will come at least 4 times a day. Asks if hubby and I will go for a walk at least 6 times a day and won’t leave me alone long enough to get my homework completed.
He fed the animals yet again, after tell him not to feed them so the dog is puking and the cat has the poohs.

I learned something new today. I have always been allergic to MSG I can’t eat it. It causes me respiratory troubles, stomach aches and other unpleasant things. I found out tonight that MSG has gluten in it which means I can not eat it at all. I have not know watch spices closer, and other things I tend to like. If it has any MSG in it I need to pass it up. We went out to eat tonight, needed to get a dad out of the house. He was a little grumpy, so I figured his grumpiness was more to do with needing to get out and do something then just wanting to be a jerk.
We stopped in at our little mexican place. I was talking to them about needing to be gluten free. He was able to tell me not to eat the sour cream there because it had MSG in it. Now this answers why I gotten a few blisters in my mouth after eating it. I am glad he told me about it. I never realized msg is a can’t have it at all. It hard to avoid it nearly impossible.

Eating gluten-free is very expensive. Some days I wish I could go back to eating wheat but I know that would be very bad. It is amazing the price different between wheat products and gluten free products. I wonder if it will ever changed, and gluten free becomes about the same. I will need to look at coupons by dropdowndeals.com it seems they have many different option of coupons. They have things ranging from food to clothing to other items I use daily.
I guess I need to start planning my grocery shopping a little better and allow time to find the coupons I need or desire for different food products. Shoot I could even look for clothing this way. Next time I go to buy a DVD I might see if I can get a coupon to cut down the cost of it. Why pay full price when a coupon can take off some of the cost.

Today I had to bring Otis and Shadow to the vet. Time for their checks up. They had to stay there for four hours, oh my goodness what a long time. I think by the end of the four hours Dad had drive me positively nuts asking me where the dog or the cat was each time I told him at the vet. It gets stressful here trying to do homework and have him bugging me every 10 minutes. Then he gets mad at me when I tell him, leave me do my homework stop bugging me. Some days living with someone with Alzheimer is rough sometimes it not so bad. It is hard balancing out things that need to be done for him and things I must complete for the day.
I know that I can’t get chevy corvette custom floor mats, or anything like that because they are not vital to the family. It hard telling him no to donuts because we have to make sure there enough food for my husband and I to eat too. Or we just don’t have it in cash to run to the place that has them near by. It hard telling him we can’t go out till I am done with homework.
Then he complains that the house is cold yet I am hot, and feel it almost toasty.. It frustrating to be woke up everynight and then take 2 to 3 hours to fall back a sleep and everyone wonders why I might be shorter tempted or grumpy. Yet everyone else here can be cranky if they want but heaven forbid I get irritable.

Its been raining the last couple of days, I am glad because my allergies have not been good. I am so glad I do not have to worry about snow yet, not like in Minnesota. I will need to get chains for my car before snow flies so I might want to find where they sale truck tire chains because the car gotta be near by. I was starting to wonder if rain was a myth they all tell us, in the Pacific Northwest. I grew up here, and it doesn’t seem like it raining enough. Yeah I like the rain it not bad, and honestly it doesn’t rain that much in the last month or so we have had three days of rain, and two of those days have been the last couple of days. Yeah I am loving Oregon.

My husband just released his second book. I am very proud of him. He has worked pretty hard on completing it. I wish I had half of his writing talent but I guess that does not always happen. I have math as my strong point. He has his book available on paper or through amazon. I can’t wait for his next project, because I know it be good. We have been married for over 5 yrs now. I am glad he finally doing what he likes to do so much better then him coming home from the typical job and not feeling fulfilled. At least we do not need to buy a bunch of laserjet ink cartridges to print his book.