Yesterday was payday and was also the last day to pay my electric bill.  I tried paying the bill and realized I was putting in the wrong expiration date on the card...duh.  And I screwed up last month's payment so it didn't go through either.  I was wondering why I had all that extra money.  So...got that all situated.  I'm dealing with some minor BS at work.  You see I work in a jail.  It's not glamorous by any stretch of the imagination.  No one is happy to come to jail.  They are either mad, or crying, or have been there so much it feels like coming home.  I have to book these people in and try to answer all their questions as best I can, get them dressed out (which is a totally degrading process by the way) and I have to see ALOT of women in their birthday suit.  I don't enjoy it in the least and I try to be very clinical about it.  So take a note and don't come to jail unless you want me to see you in just what only God gave you.  It is not pleasant for me and it probably won't be for you either.  I am not gay and I really could totally go through my day and not be upset if I didn't have to see your naked body.  Yesterday an inmate got it into his head that I was trying to poison him by giving him the wrong medications.  How the hell do you convince them otherwise once they have that in their head?!  Answer is, you don't.  They have the right to refuse meds even if they need them.  So that was my minor BS.  I didn't try to poison him or kill him or anything else.  What would be the point?  Other than he is a total pain in the ass right now, I do not know this person outside of my job.  I know what he is charged with, but he has the same charge as a bunch of other guys in the jail.  His medications switched from the name brand meds to a generic and because the pills did not look the same, he decided I was giving him the wrong medications and I was trying to kill him.  Honestly unless a male inmate kicks up a fuss I rarely even know they are down that hall.  We have over 70 so I don't know why he thought he was interesting enough for me to lose my job over him.  I am so glad I have a supervisor who understands and looks out for me.  I couldn't have a better supervisor.

I am probably going to post about food quite a bit.  I like to eat and I love to cook.

Just Random Thoughts

I am interested in SO many things.  It's really hard to list them all.  I think constantly and really consider sleeping a total waste of my time.  I am an insomniac by nature and thus find a million things to do or try or thing about.  I am slowly learning to do a million things and I will probably get around to some of those.  I have been doing genealogy for about 41 years believe it or not.  I started as a kid sitting at the kitchen table with my mom helping me to do a pedigree chart.  The obsession never really left.  I have made my own laundry detergent which works pretty good.  I have made my own dishwasher soap and have helped my daughter make her own liquid laundry detergent.  My new obsession lately has been learning to grow my own food.  The first year (this last spring) the grasshoppers ate all my peas and beans and what they didn't get, the aphids did.  So I am trying to learn to grow my own food without using any pesticides only natural repellants.  I figured out I could put a mixture of dish soap on the aphids and they don't like that.  I refurbished a lamp and recovered the shade which was a total success.  I also refurbished an old kitchen cart this year.  I did some glass etching.  I made an alcohol stove out of coke cans that worked.  I can hunt and fish and have done so to feed my family.  I don't know if there will be a total shutdown of society as we know it, but if it happens I am totally okay with hitting the woods and living out there for an extended period of time.  I can probably survive, not in luxury, but enough that I don't die of starvation.  I started a book, trashed it, started another one, trashed it too.  I can crochet a blanket but I don't know how to knit yet.  I am going to learn to weave this winter on a small scale loom and hopefully one day I will have a large one.  I want to learn to do all of the things my great-grandmother knew how to do but were lost because we "got citified".  I honestly believe my great-grandmother knew how to take care of herself if she had money or not.  It was the depression after all.  And we have forgotten all those important skills, like making quilts, canning, making soap, making candles, churning butter, etc. etc. in our determination not to have to live like that ever again.  We lost the ability to survive.  Now if it doesn't come from Wal-Mart or any other store, we would absolutely die.  How about raising chickens?  Well I have done it, but most people haven't and don't have a clue.  I have raised hogs, chickens, rabbits, and turkeys.  It's not fun, but there is a good feeling about raising and providing your own food.  I have made jelly, not too well but I made it.  I am not a half bad cook and like to try new recipes constantly especially if it makes a bunch.  So you see, I do have a lot of thoughts rambling in my brain...and I try to find outlets for most of it.  I have a great job which affords me a salary and some time to play with things I want to do.  I am not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination so I try to pick what I want to learn to do by whether it is going to cost more to do the project than I need to spend.  I used to embroider, my eyes are getting bad but I found out they have things called reading glasses that help with that, so I may get back to that this winter as well.  I kind of have this philosophy that we are only here on Earth a small finite time, and I am trying hard to squeeze every single drop learning to do new things and learning ways to improve my life or learn to take care of myself "just in case".  So I will probably post new things I have learned on here from time to time.  This is my brain, all the time...constantly random and full of ideas.