Tetanus Shot

Holy smokes! Got my tet on Friday and by Saturday my arm was imobile. Tried heating it a bit and than my entire shoulder blade became stiff. Now I am stuck with a soar arm and a stiff arm and shoulder. This shot takes a punch and beats the crap out of you. Been feeling ill all weekend as if I had the flu coming on. Tonight is the first time I started feeling a little better emotionally. Yet I am sure I will have this pain in the arm at least another day if not two.

Passing Time

Wow. I havent been here in some time. Don't really know what pulled me away either. Just loosing touch with my free time and how to use it wisely. Right now I am in class should be doing some sort of studies but not feeling it. Ever get one of those days?
Well now that this is open again and I can post - (meaning they havent deleted my account) I think I will pick up on this past time of writing. I miss it. Its relaxing.

Blood Diamond - a life changing movie

I would have to say this is a great picture. Not only was the film based on a real story line - the actors all played their roles to the top!

From the begining this movie takes hold of you and doesn't let go until the very end. Even then you are left with - thoughts - pains - and questions... Questions not about what happened in the movie but questions on how you live your own life. How spoiled we are here. You (I) try to question - "how do you change it"

Leonardo did a great job with his role - I would not have guessed him to play a part like this. He should be up for some awards due to the nature of the film and his great acting abilities.

The movie touches death in a light we are not accustomed to. Its true to life. So, seeing it, unless you are evil in your own right will make you just want to crawl into fetal position for all the death and terror these people have to go through daily.

Africa is a country that needs change - it is not only them that hurt themselves but yet - "we" contribute to each death if we do not make a change.

Watch the movie go in with an open mind - be aware that what you are seeing is real to the country and not just a role written for the big screen - be aware that the deaths - sweat - labor - love - losses are all what is realy happening there.

What can we do here to make a change?

Rosa parks - Great name in the civil rights movement.

Rosa parks - Great name in the modern civil rights movement.
Originally uploaded by shimmeringdew.

Rosa Parks dies today. Sad that time seems to be moving so fast. And allthough changes are happening, they just seem to be happening ever so slowly.
I bet most people didn't even realize that she was still alive all these years. I mean the people who heard about the lady on the bus and not giving up her seat. They don't think beyond that. They hear her name and most likely think it was so long ago she must have been past, maybe even before some of you all were born.
But none the less, for those of you who don't know that she was still in the movement for all the right reasons try checking out this link.
It gives and indepth yet to the point saga of her life.
Maybe you will also learn that her feet didn't hurt and that was not the reason she did not give up her seat on that bus that day. But just that she believed things needed to change.
Take a look here - Biography: Rosa Parks
Pioneer of Civil Rights

RIP - Rosa Parks - God has you now, and there is nothing better than his arms!

Ex Rat owner feeling sad tonight....death in any stage hurts...

Ok, I used to own 3 rats before my move made me find them another home. Most people feel scared or grossed out by the thought. This is because they are not educated about them or at least the pet kind.
But none the less I had three "Varcity" "Piper" "Zoey"..alll girls all beautiful.
Varcity was a grey cotton ball, Piper looked like a sewer rat and Zoey was a Dalmatian (yes, just like the dog)...

None the less...story is told...My little dog found a friend yesterday. A rat. She seemed to be just sitting there and I wasn’t sure if it was someone’s pet or a wild one from who knows where. BUT it just sat there as my dog sniffed it and walked around exploring it.
I was confused by her motions because most rats would run. So, I got on the garden gloves and proceeded to check her out. She seemed a bit off balance and closer looking showed she must have gotten into a fight with a cat or something. She was missing her left eye.
I had my daughter grab some food from the house to see if she would eat it and it seemed as if she would for a moment then again she got wobbly and couldn’t sit straight. I knew in my mind she was really hurt but wanted to figure a way to help...
We then made her a cup of water out of some foil and I slid it to her. She dove rather fast into the little tiny cup and drank so fast i thought then there might be help for her after all.

Long story short - I couldn’t bring her in the house not knowing if she was a wild one or not. But I didn’t want to just leave her to fend either all though it is just nature’s course or rules that animals have to live by.
*sighs* SO, I got into a box and set her close to some bushes made the box lay on its side so that she could go if she so chose to. I got a cap and filled it with water and left food in the box for her too.
Thought all was going well, I went to check on her about two hours later and she had walked from the box under the bush i put her near.
Than I left her alone as she would do as nature intended.
The next morning, I went to check on her before work, *Sighs* - She was back in the box with her little head hanging over the water cup (not in it) .... But she was dead. I moved the cup and she was already stiff .
So, sad...I sat there looking at her wondering if I could have done more.
I have seen other animals live in the wild with the loss of an eye before but I assume maybe what ever got her eye had punctured it to far in and maybe hit her brain and that’s why she was not stable in holding her own self upright.

Well, bless her little tiny soul. I feel bad ...I closed the box around her.

Maybe I will own some again when i get ready to move here at the end of the year...They are such neat creatures...a lot cleaner than you think if you have never been around them. They are also very smart.
"Varcity" she learned to follow me just by me tapping my fingers...cute thing...
Oh well this is what the ratty girl looked like that decided to leave this world....
I believe I will name her "Lady" because to me she fit the name...and she was trying to live...

This is not her actual picture/this is what I found that looked closest to what she looked like.

Rest In Peace "Lady".

I have been assimilated....But its cute eh?

Found this and thought it was cute. Something different.
Good lord i hope i dont start posting little weird things i find.
This blog is not about that. BUT none the less It's still cute.

A Different language of my name -

拉蒙納 - My name in Chinese

This just interested me and i wanted to keep it.

Watch out for Hurricane Kanye - ends with good opinion!

kanye-west
Originally uploaded by shimmeringdew.

I heard him speak this and was like wow he had the balls to stand up where tons of people didn't. Right or wrong in your opinion - to stand up at this high point in his career was outstanding! You rock Kayne!


Kanye West : "George Bush doesn't care about black people"
Singer Kanye West - "his web site" (who is black), in a promotional TV appearance with Mike Meyers (who is white) for the NBC telethon to raise money for Katrina victims.


[Kanye -- not reading from teleprompter, as planned]: "I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they are looting if you see a white family it says they are looking for food. (...) those are my people down there. (...) "We already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war now fighting another way and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us."

[Meyers, visibly uncomfortable, reads from prompter script. Camera cuts back to Kanye, who pauses, then says]

"George Bush doesn't care about black people!"

[camera abruptly switches back to a stunned Myers, then to actor Chris Tucker]



NBC quickly issued this statement: - not linked

Kanye West departed from the scripted comments that were prepared for him, and his opinions in no way represent the views of the networks. It would be most unfortunate if the efforts of the artists who participated tonight and the generosity of millions of Americans who are helping those in need are overshadowed by one person's opinion.

But they are far more than one man's opinion. - This statement is TRUE!



Used from – BoingBoing
A Directory of Wonderful Things

-----------> My opinon - Kayne is on to something don't ya think!?