My Grandma's Garden

My Interview With...

I need some ideas. A while back, I posted "My Interview With a Celebrity". It was so much fun to write and people seemed to like it. I need more interview ideas! Use current events, specific celebrity names, general people groups, political candidates - anything! As a serious sarcastic-mime-rip off-journalist with no credentials or reason to be taken seriously, my inbox of ideas currently sits empty.

Current thoughts - My Interview With...

A Republican

A Democrat

A College Frat Boy

Another Celebrity (on the topic of?)

Any Halloween/Storybook character

A Drunk

A Morning Person (could never understand them)

Your thoughts? Here's the afformentioned post discussed above:

My Interview with a Hollywood Celebrity

My Financial Oath

Here's the deal -

I have way too much debt and too many future dreams to let this current debt stop me. I HAVE to make a plan so that when I'm 80 and living alone with 10 cats that I'm not living off mac & cheese, ramen noodles or extra cat food. My plan (ambitious as it is) is to do the following:

1. Remove a large % of my checking and move it to the new savings account I created yesterday.

2. Set a maximum and minimum checking account balance. Anything over my predetermined balance will shift into savings.

3. Put at least 10% of my paycheck into savings IMMEDIATELY!

4. Current loan debts take precedence over eating out at fast-food joints. In fact, anytime I have the craving to visit Mr. McDonald, I will NOT! I will calculate what I would have hypothetically spent at that evil place and at the end of the month, put that hypothetical $ into savings. If I can spend money going out when I have more than enough food at home, it means I'm not spending responsibly!

5. Calculate how much extra $ I would need to send in order to remove a year off each of my current loan repayment plans. If feasible, then do it!

6. No more loans of any kind until I am completely debt free!

Last but not least (and this rule will make me cry) -

7. No more cd's, books, or gifts to myself unless I put them on a Birthday or Christmas gift list!

For those of you who know me personally - please hold me to this! I don't now or ever believe that cat food is a tasty alternative to human food of any kind.

I did it - finally.

Today I finally opened a savings account for the purpose alone of going on a trip to Jerusalem. And heck, even if I didn't end up going, that saved money would surely be the start of something great or be a total lifesaver.

I'm not a toys-r-us kid anymore. I'm such a big girl now.

No, I don't. Yes, I'm sure.

No, I do not want to be a nurse.

Yes, I do realize that my degree program at school allows me the opportunity to obtain a CNA license, and receiving that is the first step in becoming a registered nurse.

Yes, I do realize that any registered nurse would make more money than me initially after graduation and with that prospective money I could buy a nicer car than say, if I had less money. I believe that is how basic economy works.

Yes, I am sure I do not want to be a nurse. Stop asking me!

How am I sure? I hate blood, that's why. Snot, pee, crap, puke, phlegm and any other bodily fluid/matter I can deal with but blood, I cannot. Not long ago when in training for my new job, I was shown and then asked to prick my trainer's finger. I believe that the terminology used to bring blood to the fingertip (thus making it easier to draw blood once the finger is pricked) was called "Milk the blood". I felt woozy and wanted to cry but did it anyway. It was awful. My trainer was barely pricked and asked if I had actually done it. I ignored her and squeezed her fingertip to draw blood out and then tested it like I was shown. It is my biggest and most sincere desire to never have to do that again.

With that being said, let's assume hypothetically that I will actually do what you ask and become a nurse. When you are sick and ask me for help, I hope that you aren't bleeding. If so, one or more of the following scenarios will occur -

1. I will say - "EWWW! AAAAAH! I'm getting someone else, I don't feel so good."

2. I will say nothing and drop like a fly.

3. I will puke. Then cry. Then puke again. Then I will clean it up myself because that sort of thing doesn't bother me.

If you need your nose wiped, I will do it. Diaper change? Count me in. If you need me to get napkins for you to spit your phlegm in, I'll run for that immediately. Heck, I'll even empty your commode with no complaint.

But please do not ask me to prick your finger. And do not tell me I should become a nurse instead of a health/social work employee, because I AM SURE that is not what I want to do with my life.

Thank you.

Is this real?

I do not know if the picture below is real or not (photoshop does wonders these days)..but either way I think it is a WONDERFUL image. I got the following picture and text in an e-mail.




God Parting the Heavens!


I took this picture on Hwy 30, traveling to London City, KY. It has given me strength in the times of trouble. I feel I should share it with the rest of the world. I hope it is an inspiration to you. It just goes to show what we already know ... We have a God and he's watching over us.

I e-mailed this picture to News Chanel 36. I was contacted by Meteorologist John James. He said that this picture of the sky is showing up, in all states, around the world. He wanted to know where I was from and where I took it. He saw a similar picture taken in Texas. He said this is amazing to him!