Summer fun . . .
Jul 22, 2009

Summer fun . . .

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We’ve had much fun this past week, enjoying the sunshine and being outdoors. Here are a few pictures of recent activities, including a car show we went to Saturday afternoon.

Papa & Nate mowing
Papa & Rissy Mowing
Yellow Flower
Papa, Nate & Rissy by a custom classic
50's Chevy
67 Chevy El Camino
60's Chevy II Nova
60's Camero
41 Willy's Coupe
69 Chevy Stepside

If you want to see more pictures from the car show, you can check out my flickr photostream. They’re all uploaded there.

And I’ll be back shortly with some Around the Web posts and a few recipes we’ve tried lately that were just awesome!

Hope you’re having a wonderful summer! We are enjoying the beautiful weather here in Washington.

In the arena,

That stepside brings back memories for me! I had one of those after I graduated from high school until my oldest daughter was about 2 and then I traded it for a more suitable family vehicle. Boy, do I kick myself now! Perhaps someday I’ll have another one. ;-)

Annie Anderson is a freelance copywriter and graphic designer specializing in the small business and real estate markets. Her tagline “Making your business, my business” means that she’ll take the utmost care when creating words and images for your business – just as if it were her own.

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Brain fog . . . and a plea
Jul 15, 2009

Brain fog . . . and a plea

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Several months ago, I started feeling a little off. I was having “brain fog” – couldn’t think clearly – and I started avoiding reading things that were very long because I just couldn’t focus on them. I was also tired all the time and just not feeling well, in general. I thought perhaps it had to do with my allergies or something which really seemed to be flaring up a lot at the time.

I’d gone to the doctor a couple of times between January and April. During those visits, the nurse checked my blood pressure and found it to be high. Now, since I’ve always had low blood pressure – around 98/65 – we thought perhaps it was just due to some recent stress. But it continued to be high into April so the doctor finally decided we’d better start on some medications.

Well, things are getting much, much better since I’ve been taking the prescription. The brain fog is pretty much gone, I am not feeling dead tired all the time and I find I can focus long enough to resume reading full length books.

So . . . here’s the plea – please, please, please have your blood pressure checked regularly. A lot of stores, especially those with pharmacies, have BP machines and they are quite accurate most of the time. If you don’t have a store nearby with one, stop at your doctors office. Most of them will check your BP for you if you just walk in and ask, even without an appointment.

Now, I’m generally not the kind of person who takes medicines, especially not ones a doctor has to write a prescription for. I do not take them unless it’s absolutely necessary and I try to take natural or homeopathic remedies first, only resorting to prescription medications when nothing else has worked effectively. Often, I can manage to get well taking homeopathic sources first and rarely, rarely resort to anything prescribed by a doctor.

My doctor told me high blood pressure is dubbed “the silent killer” because people think they’re just not feeling well as a result of something else – like allergies. Most people who have high BP, have no idea. And it can go undetected for a long time. But it’s so easy to correct so don’t ignore it.

And that’s all I have to say about that. ;-)

In the arena,

Take care of yourself. You owe it to your family to do everything you can to remain healthy. Far too many people die young when they didn’t have to if only they had taken better care of themselves. Don’t be a statistic.

Annie Anderson is a freelance copywriter and graphic designer specializing in the small business and real estate markets. Her tagline “Making your business, my business” means that she’ll take the utmost care when creating words and images for your business – just as if it were her own.

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US ignores real cause of swine flu
Jul 14, 2009

US ignores real cause of swine flu

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Pearls Before Swine

Here’s something that should make you mad – the US government is ignoring the fact that the real cause of the so-called ‘swine flu pandemic’ is factory farming. And in their ignorance have decided the best way to handle the ‘problem’ is to vaccinate millions of innocent school-aged children.

Excuse me? You want to vaccinate MY CHILDREN due to your stupid commercialization of farming? You want to vaccinate MY CHILDREN because the FDA overstepped it’s bounds years ago and made farmers who wanted to stay in business – in order to feed their own families, no doubt – to put additives in their animals foods and inject those same animals with antibiotics and the like?

Well, you know what? I think not. We will definitely opt-out of the program and I will not be allowing my children to get this vaccine.

And I think the best course of action is for the government to stop meddling in farming. I think we should call for a revamping of the FDA and any organization that handles our ‘health and welfare.’ Clearly, they do NOT have our best interests at heart.

We can see THAT in the effects of the bail-out monies given to loads of corporations as well. Now the government not only has control of our food supply, our farming methods and our educational systems, but it also has control of free trade.

America is going in the wrong direction and our citizens better sit up and take notice SOON or there will be no America worth fighting for. The lives and sacrifices of our veterans will have been made in vain.

Don’t let it come to that.

Get educated and remember that government is supposed to be “FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE.”

Other links of interest:

  • Solutions for forced vaccines and flu pandemics
  • Consumer Warning: Big pharma’s swine flu vaccine coming soon
  • Exposing factory farms for causing swine and bird flu
  • GRAIN – Update on swine flu
  • Corporate Ag doesn’t understand why consumers oppose inhumane, unhealthy factory farms
  • Climate change, animal agriculture and food safety

    • In the arena,

    The government works FOR us, not against us. Let your voice be heard. Don’t give up any more of your rights.

    Annie Anderson is a freelance copywriter and graphic designer specializing in the small business and real estate markets. Her tagline “Making your business, my business” means that she’ll take the utmost care when creating words and images for your business – just as if it were her own.

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    Behind the scenes . . .
    Jul 14, 2009

    Behind the scenes . . .

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    Well, I’m having a few behind the scenes issues again with WordPress. Actually, more like my database tables are malfunctioning and causing file size errors, which partly have to do with my web host. So they are making things not work correctly for me in the admin area.

    I know that’s likely a foreign language to some of you – I apologize. Just suffice it to say, the software and such that runs AA|Blog is not working correctly. ;-)

    But I think I’ve got the latest issue resolved. If you notice anything out of the ordinary (assuming you’re reading this on the site and not in an RSS reader or email), please let me know ASAP.

    There are a few things disabled at the moment, so if you notice some things missing that are normally around (like CommentLuv or something, for example), rest assured those will be resuming as soon as possible.

    Again, though, let me know if anything is out of whack – buttons in the wrong places, links that may not be working, or anything like that – so that I can fix them as well. Since I’m having these problems in the admin area, I may not notice things out of the ordinary happening on the blog itself.

    So . . . there you have it! And I’m tired (it’s after midnight, even) so I’m off to bed, finally.

    In the arena,

    “Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get.” ~ Forrest Gump’s Mama

    Annie Anderson is a freelance copywriter and graphic designer specializing in the small business and real estate markets. Her tagline “Making your business, my business” means that she’ll take the utmost care when creating words and images for your business – just as if it were her own.

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    Speaking out
    Jul 9, 2009

    Speaking out

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    Speaking Out

    Yay! The latest WordPress upgrade seems to have cured my dashboard issues I wrote about a few days ago, thankfully!

    Now that I have that out of the way – LOL- here’s what I really want to say today . . .

    I don’t talk much about certain subjects because I was raised to believe that certain things were personal and therefore, nobody else’s business. Chief among those things are subjects such as religion, politics and money.

    The other reason I don’t talk much about these issues is because I can be very opinionated (as anyone who knows me well can attest!) and very passionate about things I believe in.

    But . . . lately I’ve been thinking that maybe it’s part of my calling – part of my purpose on this earth, to be opinionated and passionate about those things for which I would give my all. Maybe by NOT talking about these things means I’m not fulfilling that aspect of my life here, that by keeping my mouth shut, I am not living to full my potential. And that as a result, I am doing a disservice to my fellow man.

    So, I’m going to test the waters and see what happens. Now, don’t worry, though – I’m not about to become the next Bill O’Rielly or Rush Limbaugh or something. ;-) I just want to give people another voice and I hope that voice will be able to rise above all the other noise and serve a purpose greater than me.

    I do believe we all were sent here for a reason, that our lives do have a greater purpose. And I believe mine is help people. Part of that help is to be a voice to those who cannot speak up for themselves. Those who know me, know that I have always stepped up for the downtrodden.

    I’m still working out exactly what all this means for me right now and in the long term but I’m starting somewhere . . . and starting NOW.

    In the arena,

    “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr

    Annie Anderson is a freelance copywriter and graphic designer specializing in the small business and real estate markets. Her tagline “Making your business, my business” means that she’ll take the utmost care when creating words and images for your business – just as if it were her own.

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    Zen . . . ‘breathe’
    Jul 8, 2009

    Zen . . . ‘breathe’

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    Someone asked for a desktop wallpaper earlier today with the word ‘breathe’ on it, so I’ve created one. As always, feel free to download it for your personal use. If you wish to use it for any other purpose, please contact me.

    Enjoy!

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    @N04/3702596576">Zen b&w

    If you like this one, let me know if you have favorite word you’d like to have on one and I’ll put a few more together.

    In the arena,

    “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

    Annie Anderson is a freelance copywriter and graphic designer specializing in the small business and real estate markets. Her tagline “Making your business, my business” means that she’ll take the utmost care when creating words and images for your business – just as if it were her own.

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    Adding disqus
    Jul 8, 2009

    Adding disqus

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    Update 7.9.2009 – I’ve deactivated disqus. I really don’t like how that it doesn’t seem compatible with CommentLuv and the author highlight plugins I’m using. Disqus has potential and maybe later it will work inline with the others but for now, I won’t be using it.

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    Just wanted to take a moment to let you know I’m adding the DISQUS comment system to my blog. It’s importing all of the current comments but it may take a while to get the most recent ones imported. So, if you’ve commented recently and don’t see it there, just be patient!

    I’m not sure I’m going to like disqus – we’ll see. So far, it seems to have some limitations and I don’t know if the other plugins that I have for comments (like the author comment plugin that uses a different color for my comments and commentluv) are compatible. I hope so because I like commentluv and don’t want to lose it. If it doesn’t work well with those, I will be uninstalling disqus as I’d rather have the colored author comments and commentluv than it.

    So let me know what you think, if you like/dislike disqus or if you have any trouble with it.

    Thanks! And I’ll be back with more interesting posts soon. ;-)

    In the arena,

    It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not. ~ James Gordon, M.D.

    Annie Anderson is a freelance copywriter and graphic designer specializing in the small business and real estate markets. Her tagline “Making your business, my business” means that she’ll take the utmost care when creating words and images for your business – just as if it were her own.

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    Stop SOPA