Me: I want to play a kender photographer
Pat: Not possible.
Me: Pinhole photography!
Pat: It hasn’t been invented yet!
Me: Someone has to invent it!
Pat: That wouldn’t be a kender
Me: Fine! A gnome photographer!
Pat: Outlining someone silhouette in char isn’t photography!
I look at early days baby pictures of Luke and I see Sammy.
I look at early days baby pics of Thomas and I see Sammy.
So…
Thomas is my sister Rachel’s doppelgänger.
Luke is mine.
Thomas and Rachel at 9 months is the same child.
Me and Luke at 9 months? Same child.
Me and Rachel, obviously related, but not doppelgängers.
Thomas and Luke, obviously related but not doppelgängers.
I look at early days baby pictures of Luke and I see Sammy.
I look at early days baby pics of Thomas and I see Sammy.
So…
I’m testing 2 different systems for linking between posts. You’ll see them at the bottom of each post. Be patient with them please while I decide which I want to stick with. If you have a constructive opinion, do feel free to share it here!
Please tell me when you guys come to me for help, I actually listen to you instead of going off on a tangent of what I think is best, not having heard a word of what you’re really saying…
If my version of the problem and your version of the problem are nothing alike, your advice while well meaning, is rather useless. No offense.
A decision that sits well with me, even.
I don’t know yet what I’m going to do about school. It comes down to 2 main choices:
1. Work part or full-time to support my family, while taking no more than 4 classes a year, therefore having it take roughly 15-20 years to get my master’s but I’ll be 100% debt free.
2. Stop working to dedicate my self 100% to getting my master’s as quickly as possible meanwhile using grants, scholarships and massive loans to the tune of 120K to both put myself through school, but also support my family for the 7 years it would take me to get my master’s.
Honestly, both options have their pros and cons. I mean, that’s a LOT of debt BUT the job I’m going for pays enough that I can afford it in the end. Assuming I get said job immediately. ETC ETC ETC
It’s a non-stop circle of pros and cons.
MEANWHILE our country (world) is in economic crisis. Wallstreet, banks, even the government debt ceiling which wasn’t that far in our past.
Epiphany of postponement because: Does NOW really seem like a good time to make a serious financial decision that if the slightest thing goes wrong will put my family in ruin?
I mean, retail isn’t glamorous or enjoyable, but bills are getting paid. And I am still looking for another job as we speak in a different field and there is hope it will work out. Worthwhile hope.
So the big decision, I’m putting off until things settle down. BUT there is no harm to making the lesser decision to take classes here and there to at least get me started. It is easier to start part-time and end full-time than it is to quit working, go to school full-time, acquire debt, realize it isn’t working out and…
I’ll start with the basics like that English class or two I really need to get out of the way. After all, no matter what degree I end up with, I’ll be required those two English classes.
With this post, I’m trying to balance respectful with amusement, all while remaining 100% truthful. If I failed in any way, please let me know and I’ll edit as needed. Not looking to start a religion war. I don’t see any point to it. I firmly believe we all have a right to believe and have faith in what best suits us or seems the most truthful or worthy to us as individuals. With that in mind I present:
My mom doesn’t get the paper. Ever. Hasn’t for years. No interest. No need. Doesn’t get the paper.
Sunday, for the first time in roughly a year, my mom needed a paper. She was carving pumpkins with Thomas. So Saturday night she prayed that she would remember to get a paper on her way home from church Sunday.
Sunday morning, when she woke up, there was a Sunday paper sitting on her doorstep. And it wasn’t from a neighbor knowing she needed it.
Oh, and I saw it with my own eyes. This is in no way exaggerated.
I don’t know what you believe. I myself am not Christian though I do believe in higher powers. A Goddess and a God to be exact, with the possibility of other, lessor higher powers.
So I don’t know if it was her God
A god
A goddess
But I can’t help but admit some higher power was at work there.
I don’t know who I’m blaming, but a couple on this list could fit the bill.
That, or if her religion is right, her God simply said, “A newspaper? I can do this!” Probably was one of the easier requests he’s received.