Kim's Perfectly Cursed Life

postcardsfromanidlemind:

Vote for Honor, a psychiatric service dog for a veteran living with PTSD.

How can your vote help? Voting is easy and you can vote once a day.  It costs nothing, but it helps get psychiatric service dogs the recognition they need.  Our veterans deserve nothing less than the best medical care…psychiatric service dogs like Honor can provide that.

What do psychiatric service dogs do?  They can perform a variety of tasks for persons living with post traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury or other mental illnesses.  They can…

• provide safe personal space in public
• watch their handler’s back to prevent sudden movements from behind
• remind their handler to take their medication
• wake their handler from night terrors
• …and so much more.

What are the benefits of psychiatric service dogs? Service dogs have been shown to reduce the need for medication and increase the opportunities for living a full and enjoyable civilian life for those living with PTSD and traumatic brain injury.  

How do veterans receive psychiatric service dogs?  Through private organizations like Stiggy’s Dogs.  Stiggy’s Dogs rescues shelter dogs and individually trains them to be psychiatric service dogs for our military veterans living with PTSD and traumatic brain injury.  By doing this they are rescuing one to rescue another.  

How does this benefit the dogs? There are an estimated five million dogs sitting in shelters across the country.  Many of these dogs would make wonderful service animals for our deserving military veterans.  Psychiatric service dogs are provided with new families to love, a lifetime of care and support as well as work and tasks to do—something most dogs crave.  

Learn more about Stiggy’s Dogs here.   

ashleys-mama-blog asked: Thank you so much for your support. How are you?

I’m alright. Kind of in limbo right now. We have our next “second opinion” on Friday.  I’m hoping that this is a good fit and we can finally move forward. 

ashleys-mama-blog asked: Thanks for the advice! I will try this tonight and let you know how it goes. I have a bed buddy.

Hope it’s going a bit better. Another thing I thought about—are you standing or laying down while getting the shot?  Laying down makes a BIG difference.  Trust me. 

FET 2.0 was a failure.  I wrote about it over on PCL.  I’m working on setting up appointments for second/third opinions.  Maybe it’s time for a change. 

stfuconservatives:

cognitivedissonance:

Hundreds of fans camped out at a movie theater in LA awaiting the premiere of the Twilight movie, Breaking Dawn: Part 1

It’s a good thing they’re not protesting anything and just awaiting sparkly vampires! Otherwise, they might be subject to tear gas for creating a health and safety hazard. Some of them have been there for almost a week now! With tents and everything! We know what a big threat tents are to democracy!

I’d like to point out the juxtaposition of the headline on the ticker about Zuccotti Park. 

So, iPhones and movie camping = ok. Protesting the system = not ok.

What the hell, America? 

The right to peaceably assemble only applies to sparkly vampires apparently.

(via stfuconservatives)

The Detroit Lions logo pumpkin.  Not bad for a freehand drawing.  The Mister surprises me sometimes.

The brilliance of occupation lies in the fact that while the pen may be mightier than the sword, it often lacks a certain loudness that requires public attention.  The simple fact is that without people camping out in tents and gathering en masse, the plight of the 99% will go unnoticed or unattended.  This is clear from our history.  What served, in part, as a catalyst to change policies that led to the Great Depression was the scene of tent cities and bread lines where public parks used to be.  While not all of the people in Occupy need the shelter of a tent city or the warmth of a good meal in the way that it was needed in the Great Depression, the fact is that in our society today, the tent city wouldn’t be a likely outcome.

But occupation of such a place is a powerful visual that at least brings attention to the issues.

This visual is imperative to start the conversation.  Things take time to change.   Movements need time to grow.  But if we resist the urge to place pressure on the powers that are in order to show them that they might not be the powers that be, we fail to give them any reason to come to the table in the first place.

Tax the rich.

Forgive student loan debt.

Create jobs.

These are not concrete plans of action for sure.  They are ideas that people can coalesce around right now.  That’s what the movement needs.  There are plenty of things to criticize in any movement.  And in the coming months I hope we can talk about the the methods (the ability (or lack thereof) of people in the 99% to speak up for their own rights).  I hope we can talk about the message (what actions will benefit the greatest good for the people in the 99%).  But before that, we have to ensure that the discussions are involving the greatest number possible.

If no one notices there is a movement, the relevant parties cannot be brought to the table.

This is all you need to know:

Monday:  Someone was too busy to post.  Like a jerk. 

Tuesday:  Random Thoughts. 

You know what would be nice?  If strawberry daiquiris had caffeine in them and you could drink them as meals.  Just a thought.  (A very genius thought if you ask me…)

Wednesday:  The Power in Keeping it Really Real

But, at the same time, we have to continue operating in a world full of disappointment and somehow make sense out of our own paths.  To suggest that one should just look on the bright side or even better worse, see it as part of some aspect of God’s “plan” is foolish and detrimental to an appropriate outlook on life.

Thursday:  The Calligraphy Class That Changed The World

The genius of Steve Jobs is that he bucked this system while his peers invested in it.  This isn’t to diminish the issues Apple has with utilizing the lowest paid workers in the worst conditions possible.  The thing is, though, that the technology that Jobs and Apple have created can empower the people in the very countries that Apple has exploited in the past to start their own revolutions and connect to their peers and have a voice in a way that was not possible thirty years ago.  I just hope that Americans, some of the most resilient people ever made, are on the right side of that revolution.

Maybe the revolution won’t be televised.  But because of a simple calligraphy class, it very well may be public knowledge.  And maybe one day, we’ll all be focused on being more like Steve Jobs and less beholden to our corporate jobs.

Friday:  Open Letters Friday, Volume 67

Dear People From High School:

Every damn day one of you makes a post on Facebook that has so many grammatical errors I have to question whether you know English at all.  But here’s the thing, I know you know English and I know that you had a pretty decent education.  I’m not asking you to master the intricacies of the semi-colon.  I’m just asking that you perhaps learn how to use a period or to pick the right form of to/two/too or something really simple like that.