tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36282352011-04-21T23:05:36.951-04:00Amethyst Kat's World ViewMy view of the world as I see it. The large and the small of it. I am an amateur writer. I am going to take this opportunity to publicly share MY opinions and thoughts through my writings. Maybe it will be interesting enough for you to read regularly. Enjoy. or not.K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comBlogger311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-1128126672235918432005-09-30T20:13:00.000-04:002005-09-30T20:33:55.283-04:00Okay, so, I haven't been around awhile, but I thought this was a good time to jump back into the blog world. My sister is doing pretty well, considering. She had a CAT scan a couple of weeks ago, and there hasn't been any growth in her tumors. Her cancer markers are down, too. She hasn't heard back yet about the MRI of her brain from last week. We kind of operate in the 'no news, is good news' K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-1075917513490724242004-02-04T12:58:00.000-05:002004-02-04T13:00:50.936-05:00Still pissed off about spending money on a space mission to the moon, when we have such a huge deficit here. I would rather see money spent on alternative fuels, energy and food sources. However, I don't have anything productive left to say or that I can do about it, so I am going to leave it alone.
Today I just wanted to check in and say hi to the world. I think the world has a lot of good K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-1074437959978176152004-01-18T09:59:00.000-05:002004-01-18T10:01:14.843-05:00Well, today is going to take a bit of a political bent. I have been watching the news about the different democratic candidates that will be challenging GWB and I see the need to do more research on the politics of this race. I am not a particularly political person, but I do vote and I do want to be a part of the process. I also want to make good decisions. Although I originally supported K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-1074034882107490132004-01-13T18:01:00.000-05:002004-01-13T18:03:11.623-05:00Oh wow, it has been over a year since my last BLOG. Well I still have my own little view of the world, but my perspective has changed a lot.
My sister has found out that her breast cancer has returned and it isn't going to go away this time. I am up to 8 nephews and a niece now....we reach into the barrel, and come up BOYS! I lost my dog and one of my cats last year, and gained two kittens. K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-807980082002-08-27T19:34:00.000-04:002002-08-27T19:34:35.326-04:00So, it has been awhile. For me, work has started back up again, and I was out of town for a bit too. So much has happened in the last few weeks. I will continue to work for my part-time summer employer, as well as teach school full time. I went to Baltimore, and got to see a GREAT exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Some really fabulous, and relatively unknown Impressionist works from the K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-800741152002-08-10T15:39:00.000-04:002002-08-11T11:22:36.000-04:00Warning, this is not a humorous post. It does contain religious content, and the views of the author.
Through the 'nextblog' link I found this site today, and found a whole new world of Blogs. As a Catholic who has struggled with her faith, and has, since Autumn of 1999 been actively discerning God's Will in her life, this was a blessing of a find. I haven't read it all, so I am not saying that K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-800583332002-08-10T01:59:00.000-04:002002-08-10T01:59:28.606-04:00Well, after a bit of a slow start, and a break to bake brownies, because it was the only thing I could make that was chocolate, and didn't require milk (I need to go to the grocery), I got through the first and second items on my list, and am on my way through the third one, which is kinda extensive, and I plan to take another 'nap' here in a minute and wow this is turning into the longest run-onK.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-800449852002-08-09T18:23:00.000-04:002002-08-09T18:30:34.000-04:00BLOGGERK.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-800439352002-08-09T17:52:00.000-04:002002-08-10T02:03:39.000-04:00So, I admit that I have been neglecting the Blog, but I have been really busy. Because of earlier summer procrastination, I am now playing catch up as I finish my summer job (a very interesting research gig), and prepare for my students this fall. My most involved preparation this past week has been to spend time at school (counting supplies, checking invoices) and at the library, tying up loose K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-797795822002-08-03T14:33:00.000-04:002002-08-03T14:33:10.960-04:00Found a neat BLOG about books ....check it out!!!K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-797603602002-08-02T23:24:00.000-04:002002-08-03T14:57:05.000-04:00The Good Life
: Sometimes, I forget how fortunate I am. Sometimes, I whine and bitch about things that really don't matter, and if you have visited here before, you know that. The truth is that I have a great life. Not a good life, a GREAT life. This is my recognition of that gift.
: I have my own home, my own car, my own debt, my own life to live as I please. How many of you can say K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-795091682002-07-28T09:07:00.000-04:002002-07-28T09:08:54.000-04:00Written at 4:00 am when I was awake because...
Galen (Number One cat in the house) is insane and it isn't even a full moon. Actually, I think the great insane one may just be constipated, you should have seen me at 3:30am chasing this loudly complaining, tail bushed out, VERY quickly moving, completely uncooperative feline around the house with a spoonful of pumpkin. (go ahead, laugh, I assure K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-794858972002-07-27T17:11:00.000-04:002002-07-27T17:11:08.096-04:00Okay, a focus. I am not sure I want a focus, because as soon as settle on something, I will change my mind. Or come up with a great, off-topic idea! So I will continue to muddle along for now. Thanks for reading along with me.K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-794744422002-07-27T10:25:00.000-04:002002-07-27T12:01:37.000-04:00A few thoughts.
One, I think it is great that so many people are participating in Blog-a-thon. Perhaps next year I can do that. I am, unfortunately, extremely short on funds right now, or I would have sponsored someone, probably NettKatt because she is supporting a great cause and she lives in my area, and hopefully will be at the meetup in August. So GO! Debbie, I can at least be a cheerleader. K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-793322382002-07-24T00:31:00.000-04:002002-07-24T00:31:28.310-04:00Okay, so I am petsitting a diabetic cat, who was found with his left side full of shotgun buck shot (or maybe bird shot), two broken legs, one irreparable eye, and almost starved. Now he is permanently crippled, and diabetic, requiring two insulin shots a day (bid). Appropriately, he is named Miracle. Find out what my boys think about it. He is probably the sweetest, gentlest, most easy going catK.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-793265992002-07-23T21:50:00.000-04:002002-07-23T22:08:20.000-04:00Okay, faith (all right, I really never had faith) in TV show writers has been restored to it's former level. The previous rant did not mean to discount the positive images that have begun to pop up on TV in the last few years. I was reminded of that as I watched the Guardian. Okay, they aren't really improved a lot, but my rant should be directed specifically at SOAP OPERAS, as these seem to be K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-792680572002-07-22T15:33:00.000-04:002002-07-22T15:40:57.000-04:00Enough levity, I have a rant. Yes, I know that people are tired of hearing from the fat people. Just lose weight, you say. But I am tired of the stereotypes. Some soap opera was on (I don't really watch them, but there is NOTHING else on TV when you don't have cable, unless you want an entirely different rant about Judge Fillintheblank.) and all the skinny, normal ppl walking around and then, K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-792229712002-07-21T13:27:00.000-04:002002-07-22T12:53:15.000-04:00I have been really busy! Unfortunately, I did not get to transport Sydney (not Sadie as previously listed) today, due the inability to find someone to take one of the trip legs between VA and WV. I am very disappointed. I still look forward to participating in what I feel is a VERY important cause, and perhaps I will get to do something for it soon.
Today, I am procrastinating again. (surprise) K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-791333022002-07-18T23:31:00.000-04:002002-07-18T23:31:00.933-04:00Okay, everything seems to be fixed for now. I have some topics for the next few days, and I remembered to write them down! I also remember WHERE I wrote them down.
I have a couple of new links next to the main text here, and some fun ones mixed with the serious ones. That is me. Fun mixed with a lot of serious. Life is too short to be serious all the time, but also too short to waste it. I wishK.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-791116912002-07-18T12:56:00.000-04:002002-07-18T13:08:37.000-04:00Errrg! mistakes, mistakes...need to fix stupid links.....
What Was Your PastLife?
K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-791115792002-07-18T12:53:00.000-04:002002-07-18T13:10:14.000-04:00Well, since I have descended into the depths of seriousness I decided to have a little fun today, thanks to Meetup (icon at bottom of my page also) which led me to NettKatt's site where I found all these fun links to personality tests. Apparently in NK's world, July 16 was test day.
Since procrastination IS my most defining personality trait, I was disappointed to find that it was NOT on any of K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-791060112002-07-18T10:34:00.000-04:002002-07-18T13:42:21.000-04:00"Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as you ever can."
— John Wesley
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-790740602002-07-17T15:01:00.000-04:002002-07-17T23:44:35.000-04:00My most recent nightmare, more scary because it is real.
The news tonight is about a 7 week old kitten tortured and placed on the hot coals of a grill by several men until a woman pushed her way (after being taunted) through the CROWD around the grill, and rescued it. Unfortunately it was too hurt, and animal control had it pts the next morning. One man was originally charged with a MISDIMEANORK.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-790229892002-07-16T12:14:00.000-04:002002-07-16T12:41:03.000-04:00Color. I am all about color. This page is a work in progress as I learn HTML codes for colors. I have yet to find a 'list' but I have plans to get my hands on some sort of book. I can't design a page, but I can modify someone else's!!
I have realized that, so far, my postings have been less than stellar. I would imagine that part of it is the learning curve, figuring out how I want my page to K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-789072282002-07-13T13:23:00.000-04:002002-07-13T13:49:53.000-04:00Okay, I woke up this morning with a great topic. I have since forgotten it. Isn't that the way it always goes? I am still procrastinating. I should be working on A: an updated membership list for a group I belong to, and am relinquishing leadership of tomorrow. or B: work I can actually be paid for, namely the book I am researching. Obviously I am doing neither, as I am here, typing.
I have, K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-788370952002-07-11T18:13:00.000-04:002002-07-11T18:13:53.363-04:00Whew!!! I GOT it. Sometimes, it is just so simple really. And yet so complicated.
That is all for now, I think I need to mow the grass. Well, actually, I know I need to mow the grass, I just don't want to do it. However, the weather is BEAUTIFUL today, and I could mow with relatively little exertion, sweat and heatstroke. So, I think I need to mow the grass. PROCRASTINATION.K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-788369482002-07-11T18:08:00.000-04:002002-07-11T18:10:40.000-04:00 HTML for dummies....here I come. I am trying to post a link, but even though I consider myself a fairly intelligent person, with better than average reasoning skills, apparently I am missing something in the instructions about 'links' to other websites. So for now, you'll just have to live with strangely incomplete sentences as I try, try, try again...
Trial 1.2
The website I spend most of my K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-788366262002-07-11T17:59:00.000-04:002002-07-11T18:03:16.000-04:00The page where I am spending so much time these days is .K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-788037942002-07-10T23:56:00.000-04:002002-07-10T23:56:43.713-04:00K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-788035872002-07-10T23:52:00.000-04:002002-07-10T23:52:09.363-04:00Sometimes I write poetry. I am considering posting it, just to feel that I have shared it, but I am not sure about the copyright situation here. So I will wait. Not that my poetry is spectactular, but I think it is good.
Sometimes I write essays, same problem.
I'll look into things.
At some point I will have favorite links, although right now, my most visited spot is Feline Diabetes Message BoardK.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628235.post-787732392002-07-10T08:41:00.000-04:002002-07-10T22:24:32.000-04:00July 10, 2002
I am a procrastinator. I have known this for most of my life, and unfortunately, I don't compensate well for it. Chances are, when you visit this Blog, you will find days and days in between posts. Hopefully, when I do post, it will be worthy of coming back and checking occasionally.
Right now I am supposed to be at work. I am working as a research assistant this summer, and it isK.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14905838415726381791noreply@blogger.com