Ok, so i went in, its day 2 for me at 10gym, and im in the mindset to try to work my way up to a 30 minute walk with no breaks.
So i go in, get on my treadmill and figured out how to manually set the thing to clock down my time.
Set that sucker to 15 minutes. And walked.
Not 5 minutes in my chest was getting the pang...but i walked through it. Finished that 15 minutes.
Sat down, rested a few. Asked zack, how can i change the channel on the tv on that treadmill? So he showed me. Cause for what ever reason, if theres something on i dont like looking st...the minutes jyst...draggggggg on...lol
Change it to something i like, and magically, im in some crazy zone and dont even notice how much time is going by, or how much is left. So that tv HAD. To be changed...lol
So i changed the channel and i found a british sitcom on i enjoy at home. Left it on that. On PBS.
Got back on, manually set the thing to 15 minutes, and walked...chest didnt start up till the last 5 minutes..
Oh! Forgot to mention theres a 5 minute cooldown after you have set the timer. So i actually walked 20 instead oF my timed 15. Last 5 is a slower cooldown pace the machine sets for you based on the speed you have set for yourself. Cause you set that while you walk. Im right now walking at a 2.2rate (whatever that means, lol)
So, i get off, go rest again, and think...
I wonder...can i do a 20 minute? With no break?
Nah. Dont try.
Yeah DO try!
Nah, you did your goal, thats enough.
Youll never know if you never try...
Back and forth i heard the chatter in my head.
And another voice broke through asking me...
Why are you making excuses? Just go see!
So....i got up, set that treadmill to 20 minutes and was done in a flash! Like seriously...have no idea where the heck that 20 went. This Old House was on PBS. And i like the show, and before i knew...i was done. And i had a 5 minute cooldown walk with it too.
Amazing what you can do when theres something on a tv you like to view...lol
Just as a side note...i walked a mile and a half in that hour. Most ppl could do 4and some extra.
Yeah, im slow. But ill get there. This is just day 2.
Considered trying for a 30 minute, but ill be back in there in the am with the kid, so, ill try that in a few hours.
so, the other day, on my birthday, we were out and about, running around trying to get parts to fix the break on my car.
we happened to be at an auto parts place, and i mentioned it was my birthday...would they give us a discount (i was kidding! didnt expect anything to happen) and the manager, applied a 5% discount in the wiper blades for us!
folks, it never hurts to announce your events, seriously!
**inside tip..if you go to ON THE BOARDER, and tell them its your birthday, or anniversary, you get a free desert!
so, we were thankful, left there to head to another store to get something else, and i mentioned going in i should just have a shirt from zazzle, that says.."ots my birthday"
so craig said:
"one that says: Its my birthday and all i got was this lousy t-shirt"
i said that was funny! (cause it kinda is, lol)
said if go home and make the thing, which i did
im going to order one, and wear it next year on my birthday.
maybe if im out ans about ppl will just give us discounts, and freebies cause i have the shirt on..lol
LDS Church backs LGBT nondiscrimination and religious freedom bills
Posted 8:30 am, January 27, 2015, by Ben Winslow and Ashton Edwards Original article can be found here
SALT LAKE CITY – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is
supporting nondiscrimination bills involving lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender people — while at the same time calling for protections for
people of faith.
In a rare news conference on Tuesday morning, LDS Church leaders announced their support for LGBT nondiscrimination legislation.
“God is loving and merciful,” said Sister Neill Marriott of the LDS
Church’s Young Women’s program. “Jesus ministered to marginalized
outcasts.”
“It’s for this reason that the church has publicly favored laws and
ordinances that protect LGBT people from discrimination in housing and
employment.”
But the church also complained of people being branded “bigots” for speaking for their faith.
“When religious people are publicly intimidated, retaliated against,
forced from employment or made to suffer personal loss because they have
raised their voice in the public square, donated to a cause or
participated in an election, our democracy is the loser,” said Elder
Dallin Oaks, a member of the church’s Quorum of Twelve Apostles.
“It is one of today’s great ironies that some people who have fought
so hard for LGBT rights now try to deny the rights of others to disagree
with their public policy proposals,” said Elder Oaks.
The LDS Church insisted that it has not changed its doctrine, which
opposes same-sex marriage and insists that sexual relations should be
between a man and a woman only.
However, the LDS Church appeared to be softening its tone toward the LGBT community.
“I’d say we’re more sensitive than before. Our tone may be different.
Our beliefs don’t change our doctrines are what they are,” said Elder
D. Todd Christofferson, of the LDS Church’s Quorum of the Twelve, in an
interview with FOX 13’s Ben Winslow.
“We sense this is an opportunity where we can come together where
there is a chance to balance competing interests and rights respectfully
and find a solution.”
Church leaders insisted that an LDS physician, for example, should
not be forced to provide the “morning after” pill or artificial
insemination for a lesbian couple. Asked by FOX 13 if municipal clerks
should be required to perform same-sex marriages, Elder Oaks called it
an “individual judgment.”
“That’s an individual judgment to be made according to the law and
the conscience of the individual whatever his religious faith or lack of
it,” he said.
The announcement by the LDS Church sent shockwaves across state
politics, where a majority of representatives in the Utah State
Legislature are Mormon.
“The statement made by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints today is an additional and important step to help us find common
ground on these important issues,” Governor Gary Herbert said in a
statement. “It will be helpful in our effort to resolve these difficult
and emotional matters. I firmly believe that, in order to protect the
personally held values of people on all sides, any advancement of
non-discrimination legislation should be coupled with legislation to
safeguard protections to religious freedom.”
“I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with
religious, business and civic leaders as well as the LGBT community to
craft policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.”
Sen. Steve Urquhart, R-St. George, who is sponsoring the LGBT
non-discrimination bill again this year, told reporters he believed “a
major stakeholder just jumped into this debate today” with an
endorsement for his bill.
At the LDS Church’s news conference were members of the American
Civil Liberties Union of Utah, as well as the conservative Utah Eagle
Forum.
Utah Eagle Forum President Gayle Ruzicka later told FOX 13 she was
“happy” with the Church’s stance. Ruzicka has historically opposed
nondiscrimination ordinances.
“The Church said what we all believe,” she said. “It was great to
have the Church make it so clear the protection of individual rights,
rights of freedom and conscience… it just hasn’t been there in all these
issues.”
Ruzicka said she still opposes “gender identity” in nondiscrimination bills and worried about the wording of such bills.
“They’ve got to come up with the right language that does not violate
other people’s rights,” she said. “It can’t be the language they’re
using right now.”
The ACLU said it had some initial concerns about the LDS Church’s stance.
“The ACLU of Utah does express some concern over the limited scope of
public accommodation protection supported by the LDS Church, namely
only restaurants, hotels and transportation. Equality means that gay
and transgender people should have full protection in public
accommodations on par with race, gender, religion and other categories,”
the group said in a statement.
Senator Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, the only openly gay lawmaker in the Utah State Legislature, applauded the move.
“I am proud that the LDS Church has seen fit to lead the way in
non-discrimination. As a Church, Mormons have a long history of being
the victims of discrimination and persecution,” he said in an email to
FOX 13. “They understand more than most the value and strength of
creating a civil society that judges people by the content of their
character and their ability to do a job.”
The conservative Sutherland Institute also supported the LDS Church’s stance.
“Sutherland Institute has long called for protection of religious
freedom for individuals and organizations. This principle must be
reflected in any proposed legislation. Residents of Utah and citizens
everywhere are entitled not just to belief, but also to the free
exercise of their religious beliefs and moral conscience—both in private
and in public,” the group said.
The LDS Church did support a housing/employment nondiscrimination
ordinance in Salt Lake City back in 2009. Elder Oaks did not wish to
address whether the LDS Church’s statement could be construed as support
for federal protections for the LGBT people (known as ENDA), as they
are not commenting on specific legislation.
“We believe that what we have said will be informative for the public
at large and help people understand the balance we endorse,” Elder Oaks
told FOX 13.
I have Probably never bene mire proud to be a member of my faith than i am right now!
i have been a fairly different thinking member of my church, than allot of the ppl i know, and love, and...respect.
i have been raised, by my mother to not discriminate, based on color, or sexual orientation, or anything of status, faith, etc...
and raised in a faith...that says, God loves EVERYONE, Jesus dies for ALL.
yet, ppl around me, had a bias. in my human real life, work, school, associates, etc, and as well, in my faith, there was a seperation.
and i couldnt ever consolidate that within myself.
how can i beling to a faith that says..God loves EVERYONE.and yet, ppl within my faith sound like allot of other faiths in the fact they condemn those of a different sexual preference?
im a sinner, ill never NOT be a sinner...and yet, Jesus does on the cross for me.
but not for others? yet we say he did.
its a paradox.
recently...my faith made an announcment that said, basically, Hate the sin, LOVE THE SINNER, in regards to homosexuality.
i dont have to like you lie, steal, cheat, whatever it is, but i am REQUIRED..COMMANDED, even, to LOVE you..likewise, you do not have to love me, based on anything that i may do, or do not do. but your COMMANDED to LOVE me...
i really TRY to follow this thinking. its been a fiber of me for a very long time, and for a long time, ive been the "free thinking mormon", the one who sat "outside the box" the .."back sheep" so to say in my faith.
and with the afore mentioned announcment, i saw a change, a shift in my faith that was slowly, and openly opening a door, to the way i think..
and then this announcment, as well..right in line with my thinking.
what does it mean? do i agree with being gay?
personally, i say..her, want to be gay? who am i to stop you? go for it. be who your heart says to be, im not going to stand in your way, and im not going to preach to you what my faith says to believe, if thats not what you want to hear.
why? because you wont hear it, and i cant change your mind.
what will i do instead? love you, anyway. like i have loved.
why stop?
if i REALLY want to believe i am a CHRISTIAN (which means: to follow in the path of Jesus Christ, Representing Him to the FULLEST of my capability)..then THAT label, THAT LIFESTYLE, that part of my whole being...would LOVE EVERYONE REGARDLESS OF WHAT THEY DO...
PERIOD!
this is a hard change for allot of the members of my faith..allot of them still have the "old way" thinking.
and think that you have to turn your back on anyone gay to make a statement about the fact they have chosen a different lifestyle.
how is turning your back on your bother and/or sister showing them a CHRISTLIKE love?
i doesnt, yet, these ppl walk around professing to be CHRISTLIKE..
i have issues with it.
but were all on different levels of the same road, some far a head of others, and others just starting and then most of us somewhere in the middle, struggling to make sense of life, love, Religion, God, and everything in between.
i have to remember, they are human too.
and can...make mistake, just. like. me.
i am in no way, near perfect, i shall never pretend to be, and id never put myself so high on that pedistal id get knocked off..
nope. im human too. i make mistakes, and so will many of the members of my faith, in relation to this announcment.
its a step. thats all it is.
i can appreciate the step.
based on the fact we, as a faith, todaye, over 200 years later, STILL get harassed, and put down, for being a faith thats cionsidered NOT CHRISTIAN...we understand Persecution.
and because of that, we should be more tollerant to those others who suffer similar, for different reason, or the same reason, as we do.
its because of this, my faith has made this announcement, that all ppl should be allowed the SAME freedoms and no persecutions, no matter WHO and WHAT they are.
if your gay, you shouldnt be denied any other things simply because thats part of your lifestyle.
anymore than i should be denied anything because of my faith.
different, but the same.
its an excellent day to be a member of my faith!
im loving the shift, and loving the fact i am witness to its change.
i love my religion. it, in itself, has taught me how to be a CHRIST-LIKE individual, who looks at others with an open heart, and compassionate thinking, and loves them, no matter what.
just another group, to add to the list of groups, i co-run, or admin, and pages i own, or help with (roughly 40+ at this point)
i was looking through a potential members profile who wanted in one of my groups, and saw she was a member of a reborn group for her state..
one of the main admins i work with was in her state as well, i shared that link with her, and ever since then, i have thought that was a really good way to keep a network of your states ppl together.
id like to be able to chat with, and associate with, and network, ppl from my local area.
maybe even have meet and greets and get together (depending on location, of course).
and this is open for anyone with any ind of reborn doll..
regular, or alternative.
it shouldnt matter, your personal preference is yours.
if its a reborn doll, and you own, or have one, will be getting one, create things for them, buy/sell/trade them, then your welcome.
to each his own.
i make regular, AND alternative reborn dolls.
i appreciate the art, but i know some ppl like a preference, and thats fine.
your allowed to.
so, if your reading this, and in oklahoma, and have ANYTHING to do with reborn dolls in anyway, other than hate them..
this is NOT my husband..lol its a pic from the net.
so, we went to pick the kid up from work.
craig seemed fine.
dropped the kid off at home.
craig was fine.
went to order the part for the break on my car.
craig seemed fine.
came home.
craig seemed fine.
he went to attempt to fix the break (from what im am to understand) i went in to sleep, since im on the kids night schedule now.
craig seemed fine.
about 1pm, he crawls into the bed.
so, naturally im thinking hes done.
i ask...
"is my cars break fixed?"
my reason doe asking is i need to get some more yarn to finish up "babyloves" blanket by the actors party on the 31st.
he mumbles incoherently
"i came back in cause im dizzy and i feel nauseous"
UGH! NOOOOOOO! dont be getting the flue!
so, i come in the PC room, im up anyway, and just jottle a status on Facebook similar to my header for this blog, making a slight joke about it.
next thing i know..hes throwing up!
UGH!!
i so do NOT want to get this bug! i JUST got off this chest congestion issue (12 weeks!)
and all i need is to get this yucky thing and be down for a couple of days with it...nasty!
i get so paranoid when someones sick, ill almost make myself sick worrying about it and im not hypocondriac..
i just get sick so violently when i am, i absolutely HATE it...and dread is, and would rather have anything but the pukies...
ugh..so close to my birthday too...
(2 days)
blah!
so, far so good, i havnt had any symptoms like he has had, and nothing has come over me all of a sudden, like it seemed it did for him (thank goodness!)
im holding my own. (for now, remind me of this if and when im throwing up..lol)
so, for the hubster, cause he wont ask, if you wanna say a prayer, send good vibes, ask the higher powers that be, meditate in his favor, please do so. im sure hell appreciate it.
So I have GENN sitting beside me on my right right where my mouse is and each time I look at Him there, he's in the same area. I guess he's watching me... Lol
Maybe he's Annamored by my pure awesomeness! Lol
Don't know. But I can tell he's doing as fine as he can. Which is good.
By the way.... Fi still seems to be doing well too (apparently I have a prankster fishy on my hands....lol)
I just took these shots of GENN because he's there and he's so pretty.. Oh wait, he's a guy... Guess that's... He's handsome!
so, i run a Reborn dolly scammer info, and help group, a couple actually, trying to consolidate them both into the bigger one so i can just do everything in one group and not have to mess with 2 of them..
but, i digress...
had someone come to me today to inquire about a scam...
said she knew i dealt with reborn dolly scams, and was wondering if i could maybe assist her on an issue concerning a different scam...
wasnt sure, but told her to tell me the scoop.
so, she tells me, she saw an ad (somewhere, not sure, i didnt ask) for a car wrap sign company, willing to pay 300.00 for you to get your car detailed up in the message they would have you drive around in...
ive seen these cars around my local area...if you have the right kind of car, and the right style, this would be a super sweet deal, if you didnt mind your cars look changing all the time..(id think id forget where i parked mine in some parking lot when i went shopping..lol)
so, gave her info over, sent them her email, home address, make and model of the car... some other stuff. and found out..its a scam..
asked me what she should do.
my 1st word of advise to ANYONE who sees something they want to think about joining..
GOOGLE THE COMPANY AND ADD THE WORD: "REVIEWS"
like this: WrapCar reviews
or if its some guy your talking too: John Doe (or whatever his name is) see what info there is out there on that indidual, ive found, from googling a name, my best freind was chatting to some scammer from nigerai once, and his data was actually posted on a scammer site for the world to read about, and he was doing to her, what he had done to some other ladies...
USE THE RESOURCES YOU HAVE AVAILABLE...
see what GOOGLE has come up with...youd be amazed at whats out there for your info to know.
at the same time, do what this individual did and CALL THE MAIN COMPANY THEY SAY THEY ARE FROM AND ASK IF THEY DO IN FACT HAVE SOMEONE WHO DOES THAT KINDA THING (whatever it is they say they are doing for the company)
turns out this was some guy that she was connected to, or got an email from, and said he worked for..pepsi, she called pepsi to inquire, found out hes lying.
2nd word of advice: DO NOT GIVE OUT YOUR DETAILS UNTIL YOU KNOW WHAT THE COMPANY IS FOR AND ABOUT.
3rd IF ITS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE...it prolly isnt true.
YOU have power...USE IT!
the net is FILLED with resources for you to check out stuff, examin stuff, look stuff over, and protect yourself from a potential scam....
now, what do you do IF you have fallen victim?
(this is me, you may do otherwise) id GOOGLE the info about the company, gather as much info as i can, like address, phone number, web address, and id take every single document (printed up) in a file to the BBB..and show them.
thats what i basically advised this person to do..go to the BBB, and inquire.
if you have no comapny, take a print out of the conversation you had, to the BBB (keep a copy for yourself, in case you need to take that to a bank, or the police)
reason? your prolly not the 1st person to make a complaint, and if you are, youve started the ball rolling to get the company off the market, and out of the lives of decent ppl. good for you! your making a change!
the BBB, can use the info to stop them.
if you have NO INFO ON A COMPANY, as this person doesnt, then take the NAME and what info you have about them and what they are doing to the BBB. anything can help.
i also advised her, if she didnt give away the vital stuff, like social security number, bank info, and anything super personal, i really wouldnt worry about it, it could just be a way to harvest your info, to spam junk mail your email, and home address...but i doubt that they would steal an identity.
not saying that couldnt, but without the vital stuff, its not likely...
too many cross checks in a digital world anymore.
if you DO feel you may be getting a hack into your life. watch your account for suspicious activity, and youll be the 1st to know if a bill comes to your home with your name and address, for a purchase you didnt make with a card you dont own..
if that happens TAKE THAT TO THE LAW!!!!
AND THE BANK!!! and prosecute.
moral..just be careful out there...its a nasty nasty nasty world...
