Applying for College

Thanks to Roman May

We decided that we needed to get Bartlett satellite internet service when our oldest child turned seventeen. After our first junior parent/teacher conference, we were surprised to learn that to apply to colleges, everything would have to be done on the internet. There are really no more paper and pen college applications. You have to create an account through the college board to manage what colleges you are applying to. All of your application fees must also be submitted on-line using a credit card. You also use the websites to upload your transcripts from high school and to type and submit college essays. When my husband and I were applying to college, they sent your SAT score, your school sent your transcripts, and you mailed a check for the application fee. I did not seem like it was too difficult back then, but I also applying to a smaller number of schools than our oldest is applying to today. We are keeping our fingers crossed and can now check our e-mail at home to see if she got accepted to the places that she applied. I am hoping that she doesn’t move too far away!

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When writers can't write

I have been faced by a potentially serious situation in my writing. I can normally be very selective in when I should write about something and when I should keep my silence, however, I have been drawn into a situation where I really want to speak up about the malicious things that someone has said about my deceased father. This same person has also, in a prior posting, made despicable insinuations about my deceased mother. It is very difficult for me, as a writer, to not express my disgust at the things that the person has wrote about my parents and yet I really do not want to let them goad me into responding to their writing, because they are very clearly saying things that they know are wrong and hateful only to force responses.

I have been effectively crippled in my efforts to write, since every time I start to write I want to address the lies that have been made about my parents. As a writer, this has caused a serious injury to my business. And that is serious since my business is just starting to pick back up following the triple hits the past few years of the economic crash hurting my earnings and the deaths of first my mother then my father.

What is a writer to do when they find that they can not write? It is a very frustrating situation. One that is made even worse by the direct attacks that the person has made on my parents, who can no longer speak up and defend the lies that were made against them by someone that never knew them and, from what I can tell, only seeks to harm their memory because it seems that it might gain her attention. That is, in my opinion, the most vile of things that anyone could do.

Crestor Lawsuit

When our doctor prescribes a medication and tells us that it is good for us, we tend to believe them. And our doctors tend to believe the pharmaceutical companies when they tell them that something is safe for their patients to take. The cholesterol-lowering drugs known as "statins" are known to, rarely, cause serious side effects. In 2009 the Astra-Zeneca drug known as Crestor came under FDA scrutiny because of what CBS News reported to be misleading safety claims in the advertising for the drug.

Misleading advertising can be grounds for those who have been injured to file a Crestor lawsuit for any injury they may have been caused by taking the drug. Those wishing to know more about their rights in product liability cases should consult an attorney that specializes in product liability lawsuits.

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3D 1967 Chevy Impala, the Supernatural car

Everyone needs a relaxing hobby, mine is about to become building a car. In 3D. I really want to have the 1967 Chevy Impala that is featured in the series Supernatural. Fans will know it as Metallicar. I searched and searched but there is next to nothing out there that fits my needs, or even comes close to looking like the Impala from Supernatural, so I am going to make my own.

Here is a screen cap of my 1967 Impala 4-door after a few hours of work on searching for good pictures and getting it laid out for starting to build the basic body onto which the parts will all be crafted.This is shows the windshield and hood off and the front wheel wells starting to take shape. The overall body has been roughed in so I will be able to fine tune it as the vehicle progresses. If you look close you can make out where the driver door and driver side rear door are to be.

Home Based Bookbinding Business

I have finally taken the dive into my second lifelong love and began serious work toward the start of a home based bookbinding business.

I have loved bookbinding since I was a little girl of around ten, and have taken that now to the level of selling my books at local craft fairs (when finances allow the gas and fair fees), and will soon have them listed for sale on my website and in my ArtFire store.

I will provide links to the shops when I get that far. For right now, I am still building inventory and getting decent enough pictures to be able to list them for sale online.