Wolfe ate granny? Who Knowles....

http://www.swagbucks.com/?f=55&t=w&p=1&q=gift+card+granny

some guy named LUKE KNOWLES founded Gift Card Granny dot com in 2009 and someone named JASON WOLFE is the CEO.  Granny, where did you go?  (Maybe she was never there.....)

whooshhh!

Listening to The Cure - DISINTEGRATION (1989, 2010 remastered edition) on Spotify.  "Plainsong" (Track 1) is such a great opener.  It's a good CD if you find yourself really in tune to the dirge of that song.  If not, it gets slightly more intriguing toward the end of the CD around track 8 or so....with a few songs in between that I'm mostly sick of, but can enjoy at times...I used to hate that song "Fascination Street", but it's grown on me.
I thought of it b/c I had added a few items to my cart @ Blowitoutahere.com, and figured I was nowhere near able to afford them, so I logged in to save the selections for checkout at a later (much later?) date, and noticed that CD still in my cart -- probably from about a couple weeks ago during one of my "what kind of dining room set defines me as a person" window shopping sprees, when I was price comparing, I had that in my Amazon.com shopping cart and didn't delete it from my Blowitoutahere.com shopping cart..

Prior to that piquing my interest, I was remembering this re-issue that I'd seen at the now defunct Hastings Entertainment of Fall Out Boy's 2013 CD SAVE ROCK N ROLL.  It hadn't even been out for a year before they released that thing, weird...that was one of their better CDs.  I liked FROM THE UNDER THE CORK TREE, but I'm thoroughly sick of it,  I can enjoy it on Spotify once in a very great blue moon, or hear songs from it on Pandora or regular radio if/when, but to buy it again would be totally stupid.  Buying SAVE ROCK N' ROLL would probably be the same.  I had it on MP3 for $1.99 @ Amazon (!!), but deleted it for some real stupid stupid reason (!!!!!!!!!!!....ok, I don't need that many !'s, but......ugh)
Anyway.
Then when my mind got distracted from the bouncy pop rock crunch toward the indie shimmer of that acrosstith the pond, I remembered a mini-goal I had yesterday to pick up SINGLES by The Smiths (1995).  As the title suggests, it collects the bulk of The Smiths' high charting singles.  I have R.E.M.'s I.R.S. era hits CD -- it is not self titled, but rather it is titled EPONYMOUS, which normally is a description of a self titled album, but literally the album is not self titled because the title is EPONYMOUS.  Damn, that's even worse than "What's the name of the breakthrough Nirvana CD?"  "NEVERMIND"  "Ok, sorry I asked."  "No, it's called NEVERMIND.  "Dude, if you're not gonna finish your sentence, just drop the subject ok?"  "No, you're not hearing me"....

Anyway.......
R.E.M.'s music was much better represented in album form.  I really like MURMUR, RECKONING, FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION, and AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE, but I don't really listen to them that often b/c their music just has this murky quality to it that doesn't gel with my sense of optimism, which shines less bright some times, and more bright at others.
EPONYMOUS is a rather bland CD.  It really became apparent when I heard "Driver 8" come on.  I don't remember off hand what the 2 or 3 songs preceeding it were.  "Don't Go Back To Rockville", "So. Central Rain" and "Talk About The Passion" are also on that CD, but "Driver 8" beats 'em all hands down, IMO.  The CD could have easily been 10x better if they'd removed some of the songs and replaced them with "Stand", Losing My Religion" and "Shiny Happy People", but half the reason the CD was released was because R.E.M. had just switched from I.R.S records to Warner Bros. records, who would go on to release those gems.

Oh the horror

I can't believe how much people are cringing in fear because there's a growing awareness on the vulgar effects of the TV shows and movies that Hollywood has been - and still is - churning out.  This article by the Daily Telegraph in the UK -- which I don't have enough money to pay for just to read that kind of bile, so I have not read the entire thing, but it seems to be a stupid fear mongering rant -- is saying that in 10 or 20 years, the stuff Hollywood is churning out will be illegal.  Why?  Because there's discussion on the internet about how FRIENDS (1994-2004) is a morally corrupt show.  HOW DARE anyone disagree with the status quo!  And it **IS** a status quo.  Why would something that gets high ratings on TV and elsewhere become outlawed unless the law in question is being made up by a dictator of some kind?  And since when has there been a "puritanical" dictator?

SAVE THE WHALES!!!

Ditch selling your CDs on Amazon.

Use Discogs!

Their fees are 75% less than Amazon's

Upload your inventory there and buyers will catch on

...I think....

Of course, if all you start hogging Discogs' bandwidth, they may have to raise the cost of selling there...bandwidth ain't free, ya know............maybe you don't know that, but if you don't, now you do.....so there...

x

thumbs about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimark_Pictures

I remember these guys disappearing right around the time the Lions Gate started popping up.  I was confusing Lions Gate with Artisan.  I do remember seeing an Artisan pic that had a copyright of 1998 according to the video tape of it I rented and watched some of or part of (it was called ABERRATION, don't remember the movie at all, at least not enough to say anything intelligible about it...I think it took place in a swamp town, but I could be mistaken).  But then it seems within 2 or 3 years Artisan pix started making movies that people wanted to see.  CANDYMAN III was a lame film, but if you didn't know that, you'd automatically want to see it just b/c of the title...unless of course you hated the 1st CANDYMAN movie for whatever reason....and STIR OF ECHOES was a damn fine movie, even though the concept of the movie is a dumb one, as most horror movies are, especially ones that deal with ghosts.  There was another movie I saw that I liked called PREMONITION, which I don't remember very well, but I remember being impressed with it.  And then of course there were others, not counting TERMINATOR and TERMINATOR 2, which they had no part in making, but had their logo on...the very first DVD releases of T1&2 didn't have their name on them, because it was almost immediately after the first DVD editions were released that Artisan acquired the video rights.  That probably explains the fact that the very first TERMINATOR 2 DVD release was in a snapcase and why an almost identical release was made shortly thereafter in a keepcase.  I'm pretty sure the keepcase edition from the late 90's had the Artisan logo.  As for 1, TERMINATOR, I'm drawing a blank...I remember the original DVD release with the strobe light colors in the back ground, but I'm not sure what the DVD release that immediately succeeded that looked like.  It'll probably come to me later....


Anyway.....
Speaking of CANDYMAN III --- I remember that movie came to DVD and subsequently came to VHS like a month or two later....that was one of the reasons my mom and I decided to get a DVD player...we went to a rent to own store to get one.  That seems crazy to me now, but that's only because blu ray was expected to eclipse DVD and eventually replace it, which still hasn't happened, thank God!  There are movies that were made not long before Blu ray technology was announced that look worse on Blu ray than they do on DVD.  I don't personally care about *detail*.  I care about consistency.  A movie is not a compilation of loosely connected footage.  A movie is one thing.  Yes, there are multiple scenes that are not filmed in one take, or even in one day but those various scenes are meant to glide smoothly from one to the next.  If a movie stops midway through a scene, even if it's a scene that you personally would rather be sleeping through, it's a jarring experience.  Sometimes movies will deliberately do that, but the effect is not quite the same, unless your senses have limited range.
So it really bugs me when I see movies like MYSTERIOUS SKIN (2005) and REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2001) getting blu ray releases that have the kinds of flaws noted on sites like Blu-ray.com 
  But I really underestimated Blu ray when it started making its way in shops.  Then it got to where I overestimated it, and now I'm just kind of trying to find a level attitude about it.  I like shopping, but when I buy movies, I usually have to choose -- DVD?  Or Blu ray?  Or do I just choose not to buy the movie?  Choosing not to buy something that I enjoy(ed) is a depressing thought.  It's one thing when I literally can't afford it (which is almost always the case), but...idk...I sometiems find movies that are old for like $5 or $6 and then I'm like "Ooh, it's on sale!", but then I realize that the movie is on sale b/c they've already made all the money they expect to ever make of the movie and if there weren't so many people involved in manufacturing, distributing and selling any given DVD(s), that $5 would go down to less than $1.  The filmmakers probably aren't getting *any* of that money and the CEO of any given motion picture studio is probably getting very little, with even less to pay his employees with.  Those DVDs may as well be free, unless you buy 10 of them, which is a joke -- how many $6 DVDs are actually worth buying?  Heck, how many $20 new releases are worth buying?  Of course, the same principle applies there, except it's a lot easier to think of it in terms of "we can do this if we all work together!"...And if my opinion of most movies were worth anything at all, then people who buy movies that really are not all that good, if they woke up and realized their wrong and acted on it, would be saving themselves money and eventually the studios would be saving some dough by not having to finance mediocrity at such a high cost.  Movies that are f--ing brilliant cost a good sum of money -- sometimes -- but movies that are far inferior cost the same amount.  And only some of those movies that are made for the sole *hope* that they make money are actually going to make any money at all.  BTW -- I really wanted to see BLADE RUNNER 2049, but by the time I knew it was in theaters, it was already scheduled for release on video within a month or so.  I might still be able to catch it, but I can't say I like the first one well enough to enjoy the sequel thoroughly enough to not let the financial failure of it temper my good spirits.  And the sequel, like the 1st, seems more like one of those movies where you're supposed to be playing philosophical pingpong while you're watching the movie.  I like the *feel* my movies.  The only feeling I got from watching the little bit of the 1st one I saw was this sense that it might be raining soon...idk...can't explain it.  Probably has something to do with the film-noir style that the movie was made in.
Anyway...
I'm not sure why I'm still typing....Ok, whatever THE END

i'm back...

Went to Missouri to visit my gramma over the Christmas time.

Was there for 3.5 days apprx.

Managed to survive the trip with my Mom to Missouri ***AND*** the trip back with my sis & my broNlaw.

Surprisingly the trip back seemed infinitely longer....the way to wasn't so bad.  The way back.....seriously have no idea why it seemed so long......I guess 'cause my big fat mouth wasn't engaged as much.  Me and mama just talked most of the way there.

My uncle John has wifi!  He was forced to either get wifi or not have internet at all...or something...he explained it and that's how I interpreted it, but I don't remember exactly what he said.  It doesn't make sense to me either.....something regarding the ports on his computer being incompatible with a direct/wired connection.....idk.....

I got back on the 26th in the late afternoon.

Managed to have one last visit with my old church before Pastor Jeremy leaves to be closer with his parents and his wife's parents who are both direly ill.  It'll be interesting to visit and see how the church is getting along without him.  I couldn't believe it --- Keith, one of the guys I bonded with a little over the small group study of THE STORY --- is not going there anymore, for reasons I don't really understand.  My gramma was explaining it roughly, but I think I missed part of what she said, so the little she said was that much more vague, so...anyway.....

One of the people at that church used to assist in my special ed class back in junior high.  She seemed hopeful that I'd be spending 2 or 3 weeks in Missouri...I told her I'd be there a few days.  She's cool.  She posts a lot of political stuff on Facebook, some of it is interesting, some of it is just b.s., but I'm sure she has her reasons for posting it.  One post was asking Republicans to back Trump for re-election in 2020 no matter what......or something like that........I can so easily list a number of possible reasons that may arise that would cause me to not re-elect Trump on top of the reasons that already are known to exist for not electing him in the first place.....which of course were ignored by (slightly) over half the nation......which makes sense in an election where the stakes are so high, I suppose.......you either have Clinton winning or....Clinton NOT winning.  My mom goes a little overboard in her reactions to people, but she has been an anti-Hilary advocate long before she had any qualms with Bill Clinton.  The only real qualm she seems to have with Bill is that he's married to Hilary and that he's a Democrat (pro-choice).  I've never heard her say anything concrete about Bill that would come across as a revelation.  And I myself know nothing about him other than what he looks like.  I was a tween when he was in office, I guess I was just turning legal age when he left and i'm now 34 years old and I still don't keep up with the news as much as I should.  I know more about Donald Trump than I ever did/do about Bill Clinton tho.  As a kid, throughout the vast majority of it, I relished my freedom to BE a kid and it seriously confuses me when people call babies selfish for waking people up in the middle of the night crying.  Is it really selfish to keep yourself from dying of starvation?  Or to let people know you need comfort and/or emotional support?  It seems to me the selfishness would be exemplified in wishing a baby could shut up and go to sleep & let you do likewise.  It's not a baby's role to bear its cross and lead humanity to Christ's promise of eternal life.  

Not to suggest in such rhetoric that I'm intending a defense for my emotional immaturity, in case it may seem that way....

(ugh)

So.............................

Yep.

Missed church yesterday.  God called it off for the day. I had been praying this prayer that the congregation was called by the pastor to pray daily at 3:58, I succeeded Monday - Thurs.  Fri  Sat I was asleep at least one of those days at 3:58 P.M.  I don't know if I was napping both days at that time or not...I think I was, but I'm not sure.  I had been feeling so pathetic and dour, having not read The Bible and wasting my days away doing practically nothing.

I did find out midmorning today that the Oak Hills Church channel Is functional on my Roku Express+.  I had tried a couple times over the past month or so to use it, and to no avail.  I watched about 2/3 of a sermon.  A guest preacher was on the one I watched.  He had some good points to make about the book of Joshua, focusing on Chapter 10, verse 6.  He stated something about people's disbelief in that section of God's word I had caught myself almost thinking.  He said something to the effect of

Some people read that and think "Uh....I don't know about that....Surely it's just a metaphor or something..."  It is a pretty bold statement of faith on the part of Joshua and the will of God to honor prayer.  A lot of prayers are given to God in a narrow perspective.  My Aunt Marie was a devout and faithful follower of Christ most of, if not all of, her life and she died a slow creeping death.  My mom was upset by it at the time, but she knew at the time that Aunt Marie was acting as a witness of the truth through that entire time she spent in the hospital -- not just a relayer of fact, but an effective conduit of The Holy Spirit of God.  My mom should be respected for her ability to see that and be glad for it.  I myself had no close relationship with Aunt Marie, and people dying just doesn't effect me for some reason.  I guess if my mom died, it'd be a big wound.  I know I was really sad when I had to say goodbye to my cat Napoleon.  I was a little less sad when his companion Harrison died, but not as much because I knew he was having health issues and I think in my gut I knew he was not happy being without Napoleon.  He did in fact die a few months after Napoleon did.  That was just a sad time for me in general with all that happening.  But if Napoleon is burning in Hell it's entirely my fault for living a life of unrepentant sin and raising him in that environment.  I can only hope that he's just gone, not in Heaven or Hell, because honestly, it just doesn't make sense that pets would be entering Heaven.  That's not to say I would call God a liar if I did meet him in Heaven, but if I don't see him, I'd be willing to accept that as well...I know from reading God's word that God does not exempt animals from the consequences of sin.  Snakes -- not just THE serpent but the SNAKE SPECIES -- slithers on the ground eating dust all its days because of the actions that one snake made long long ago.  Granted, humanity bore a much greater punishment for its sin.  But God didn't say "oh, well, you can't help yourself..........." to the serpent.

Seems like I should have a ton more to write.

Maybe soon.

I hope (sigh)

something less trivial

Forgot to take my meds yesterday and the day b4.
Finally took them today.  My head is swirling with out of balancenesss; it feels like a chore to try to remember the fact that I deed indeed take them today.
I thought today was Wednesday up until about an hour or so ago, because my sister didn't have her Bible Study Fellowship meeting that night, so I had in my mind that it was Tuesday.  TODAY is Tuesday.  Hooray.  By Thursday my brain will probably be back in line and I'll still have a day and a half left before I have to wake up and make a 9-11 hour trek from Gwinnett County in Georgia to Cape Girardeau County in Missouri.  Then I have to make another 10(?) hour trek back after 3.5 days of who knows what.  Christmas isn't until Monday, and we'll be leaving Tuesday.  I guess I'll be squished in the backseat of my sister's car the bulk of that time.  That damn thing is cramped with that giant car seat in there(!!).  I really don't want to NOT show up.  It's a stretch to say I'll be miserable the whole time, especially since I have no idea what I'll be doing or not doing the entire time.  I don't even know where I'll be sleeping.  I'm assuming I'll be cut off from the internet the entire time.  But will I?  How would I know?  I'm not walking from my grandma's house to the library.  And is there really any reason I need to use the internet EVERY day?  Not likely.

So anyway............................................

And I told the Cape Community Church of God that I'll be back to visit.  This will be the third Christmas in a row that that didn't happen.  I don't intend to make that a reality.  The pastor there is resigning to relocate closer to his parents, one of whom's health is failing.  It doesn't even effect me really, but I feel like I miss him already...vicariously perhaps, through people I haven't really spoken to in quite some time with the possible exception of a couple snippets on Facebook.

And my gramma *is* old.  She's not in the best of health, and no matter her health, she isn't going to live forever.  I don't want to emulate the lyrics of Right Said Fred's one and only hit single, but I don't want to deprive my gramma of my presence up until she's in hospice or whatever.  I don't know what she likes about my presence, but that's for her to know and me to NVM.

Ok, then.......
sheet!  Also got mucus running rings around my efen head and my breathing is effed as well.
At least I'm not dead.
I haven't read The Bible (part of/any part of) in at least close to a week.  I can see it too.
Need to get to that today and keep at it.

I did take a 25 minute walk today.  I lost 150 calories just from the walk.  I downloaded this step counter app for my cheapass smartphone (it works!) and its been counting lost calories even when I'm not doing anything with my feet OR the phone.  In the span of an hour, I had burned 50? calories.  I'd have to look again, that might be way off.  But the amount of calories I burned while walking was like 4x that much.  So my rather big breakfast was a little less big than it would have been otherwise.  I have a separate app for my food intake.  I ate a little more than a serving of Marie Calander's Chocolate Satin pie, but there's no option to tell the app that I only ate 1.5 servings.  And I don't think I even ate quite that much, but then you consider coffee w/ creamer & sugar and then maybe a glass of hot chocolate or whatever....it's not too terribly off the mark to say I consumed 1100 calories.  My lunch will probably be a little big, maybe 600 calories.  I ate a buttload of chicken nuggets yesterday, had been craving them for awhile and thinking it's rather idiotic that I hadn't been buying them with more regularity, but I finally got some.  And I ate most of them, or at least over half of them.  I think I might only have 4 servings left.  If i have a whole whopping 4 servings, I'll either eat all 4 or throw 1 serving away.  If I choose the former, I'll consume almost 800 calories, which is almost all of my day's intake.  I might be able and semi-willing to restrain myself and just have some grape nuts or whatever.  idk.
Sooo....I don't know what other anticdotes and updates I have to share.  I feel like it's time for bed and I"m already hungry again, darnit!!  Need to stop typing.  I may have already said something wrong.  ugh.

MT GHOSTBUSTERS

Got my European GHOSTBUSTERS shirt stylin me.  xD

Some guy on some GB fan forum that I don't remember the name of tried claiming that because THE VERY FIRST U.S. ad-poster featured the European NO sign *with* the no -ghost logo, the backward (English) no-ghost insignia was indeed not incorrect.
That would have been SO easy to debunk if I knew where to argue with this moron.  I have no idea why it took me this long to come up with this very sound logical presentation.
GHOSTBUSTERS was under a mammoth deadline and was made for the cost of a Hollywood meal for a party of 4.  Michael C. Gross and his team came up with 100 or so different illustrations trying to come up with a logo that would successfully embody the movie and the idea of "ghost busting".
It is a downright miracle that the movie came together as well as it did.  This one guy on YouTube who points out movie bloopers managed to spot at least close to a dozen bonafide bloopers on top of what he considers to be plot holes (as if the movie itself wasn't one giant plot hole).  FOR INSTANCE --- the VERY FIRST U.S. theatrical video ad (known as a "teaser") featured a song that was neither in the movie nor on the original soundtrack album.  SAY WHAT?  You mean THE Ghostbusters theme song is a song NO ONE REMEMBERS EVER HAVING HEARD?????
HELL F****NG NO!  Everybody knows damn well without a second guess that RAY PARKER JR. wrote the song "GHOSTBUSTERS".  The only one who thinks otherwise is Huey Lewis.
Ray Parker Jr. says that whoever approached him about doing the theme song was bemoaning that they had 100 songs written for the movie and NONE of them said the word "ghostbusters".
That teaser-trailer song I just mentioned **DOES** contain the word "ghostbusters".  So you know what?  That means during the conversation that Ray Parker Jr. was citing, most likely, someone was composing an entirely different song that was even good enough to be included in the movie or the soundtrack, but met the criteria that whatsisface had mentioned.  If they were not working with such a strict deadline, they probably could have waited for Ray Parker Jr. to finish his song, and then include that in the teaser, but instead they included some song that is only audible on a laserdisc copy of the movie and maybe somewhere on the depths of YouTube.
Michael C. Gross and Columbia Pictures probably knew damn well that there was going to a resistance to the reversing of the slash in the middle of the circle that makes up the EUROPEAN NO SIGN ---- and I've said this before, but in case one forgets -- THE EUROPEAN NO SIGN is ***NOT*** the meat of the NO GHOST INSIGNIA.  The meat of the no ghost insignia is the ghost itself.  The fact is that audiences probably saw the backward NO GHOST LOGO and were like "what the hell is that?" and so Columbia Pictures quickly changed the poster before the movie was ready for distribution.  The British had to wait awhile to see the movie.  If a British citizen working for a British movie company had utilized the no-sign in the way that Michael C. Gross had, the Brits would have had no problem accepting the modification.  Instead, they had to modify the ad campaign and basically spoon feed the film to British audiences because that's what happens when you pit art with politics.  Nobody wins.

in your darkest time...

 "They say that love goes anywhere.
In your darkest time,
it's just enough to know it's there"

"Polaris" - Jimmy Eat World (2004, Interscope Records)



I created this playlist (link to Spotify, it's free w/ ads ---- a measily $10 w/o ads) after a CD-R I'd made.  The idea is these are songs that reflect a "wordly" attitude.  These, for better or worse, are songs I've recently been hooked on.  Now, these songs are almost all excruciatingly boring.  Best Coast's "In My Eyes" and Journey's "I'll Be Alright Without You" were sweet jollipin' jams of ear worminess, but I'm freakin' serious -- I just got done with "In My Eyes" while typing this sentence, and I'm almost sick to my stomach.
You can see a bit of a pattern in the song titles
"On Our Own" ---
"Good Time" --- Luke 12:18-21
"Everything Is Easy" --- Luke 12:18-21
"Rain Rain Rain" --- Nehemiah 8:11
"Losing Your Memory" --- Proverbs 8:36 "Those who fail to find me harm themselves..."
"Dead Man's Party" --- Proverbs 8:36 "...All who hate me love death"

Some of the songs are vague reminders of God's presence in the world and in myself
"The Power Of Love" by Huey Lewis & The News
"While You See A Chance" by Steve Winwood --- Just a feel-good slice of early-childhood nostalgia.  This can go either way as far as being interpreted as Godly or un-Godly.  On one hand you should have the faith of a small child, but on the other, you should put away your childish ways and march toward spiritual maturity (paraphrasing; can't find the exact verses @ BibleHub).

The CD-R/playlist closes with reminders of the pressure of living life in these ways.
"Ugly" by The Exies, a song about self-loathing and bitter dissatisfaction
"Back Of Your Head" by Balance And Composure --- "If time heals all why's there still distance?"
"If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead." - Luke 16:31

Bible quotes are provided from BibleHub.com using the NIV translation.

close encounters of the chicken

"Sounds like a gay bar to me."
-- macho man, Paul

I have a weird memory...I swear, I ate two chicken sandwiches...no, seriously, that's not weird at all (it isn't!), but what IS weird, for me anyway, is I don't remember exactly when I ate them.  It's confusing as all get out, b/c I woke up around midnight and then went back to bed before 6am, and then woke back up around 7:30 or so.  I should have eaten around 6:45 if not later, I might've (probably had) been thinking that 5am was close enough to the 12 hour mark between diner and breakfast that nutritionists recommend, per what my mom has seen and/or heard/read...
Anyway.
I'm pretty sure that's what happened.  But then I woke up and I'd forgotten I did that.
So I downed 5 servings of egg nogg, roughly, (I actually lost count by the time I finished), and now I'm already a little under my 2,0000 calories.

I figure I very well may eat 700 more calories today even though I've already had lunch.  I'd been doing great the last 2 or 3 days.  So much so that despite having gone WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY over 2k calories one day recently, my average daily intake is 2225 apprx, which is a little high......it could be a lot worse and often was a lot worse for a good while there, not sure exactly how long.  For at least a week there it seemed almost impossible to stay under 2000 calories even just w/o dinner.  It's really difficult to estimate peanut butter and jelly usage tho.  When I measure my p.b., I'm deliberately trying to NOT use a whole serving, unless I feel outright piggish and fix myself 3 sandwiches.  And jelly is even more difficult to gauge.  Especially those jammy jellies, like preserves for instance. 

As for eternal matters, I'm downright serious -- I don't know how much of my 1yr Bible I read last week.  I know I didn't read as consistently as I should have been, but I did read at least 5 entires --- 3 on Sunday and at 2 entries or more later in the week.  I don't know if I read 2 entries on one of the non-Sundays or if I read 2 entries on more than one of the non-Sundays.  It seems like I was still behind by the end of Saturday.

I've been sleeping an awful lot.
I was taking my anti-psychotics 6 out of 7 days of the week, roughly at the same time every day when I did take them.  I still have my alarm set to help me with the time issue.  My sister had some sound words to relay to me about the importance of taking my medication at the same time every day.  So I've been obeying my alarm.  I had an alarm set several months ago, but I kept ignoring it, so I deleted it.
This last week I missed two doses. that might have something to do with the compulsion to sleep more.  I'm sure it's largely due to the colder weather.  A lot of it, come to think of it, might have to do with the sugar intake as of late.  That egg nogg is loaded with the stuff (glurp!).

Hmmm....
alrighty.  I guess that's it, more or less.  la-ter