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Getting ready to see what look I want to have for the big christmasday party. This is for the evening/night not during the day time.. Me likes alot :D
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I haven't been online at vox since (see post below..) I even forgot on how to make a post..haha! Can't beleive I really forgot all about this place, thanks Cris for reminding me...by you adding me to your neighbourhood. This is soo much easier then blogging the old fashion way like I am (whenever I find time to blog that is, spending most of my time study and at facebook - while online that is..) I guess that the whole html and boring stuff like that puts me in a "ahhh, too many things to do before blogging" mood. But this is fun..
My mother (Gloria Smith, RN) is the FA of Davita Platte Woods Dialysis Center,
located Platte Woods, Missouri.(Platte Woods is a suburb of the Kansas City Metro area)
Recently the (the handsome and upcoming politician) Jason Grills (D),
paid a visit to my mothers facility.
The legendary visit was published in our local Kansas City Star paper (sample 1).
Jason Grill also informed many people about this visit, by including it in his monthly news letter (sample 2).
Mr. Grills is the States Representative of district 32, which includes Platte Woods.
I am very proud of my mother for providing loving care to her patients, and running a wonderful facility.
I am also impressed by Jason Grills, and his continuing efforts in health care.
I do not currently live or work in Missouri.
I do not work for Rep. Jason Grills (but i do want in the future to be a supporter).
I do not work for Davita, yet I do volunteer for my mothers clinic.
This is just a personal blog boosting about my Mama and Jason Grills.
I am just giving credit where credit is due, and it is due.
(this is not a press release, nor published by Davita or Jason Grills)
Thank you,
Jackkey Brown
Kansas City Star
August 24th, 2007
(sample1)
Rep. Jason Grill visits one of Kansas City's Leading Kidney Care Providers
Rep.
Jason Grill, D-Parkville, took time recently to visit with the staff
and patients at one of the nation’s leaders in kidney treatment
services when he made a stop at the DaVita Dialysis Center located in
Platte Woods. Rep. Grill toured the facility and learned about the
specialized prevention and treatment services provided by the DaVita
center.
Rep. Grill spent time talking with the manager of the facility, Gloria
Smith, RN, and also visited with DaVita Regional Operations Director
Richard Pedrick. Rep. Grill met with every member of the staff ranging
from nurses to social workers and facility operators. He also met with
some of the 36 patients currently undergoing dialysis treatment at the
facility.
“My visit to the Platte Woods DaVita facility was incredibly rewarding and a true eye opener for me as I was able to see first hand the amazing work they are doing to help people overcome serious kidney ailments,” said Rep. Grill. “The members of the staff are all amazing people who are dedicated to overcoming the odds and ensuring a higher quality of life for their kidney patients. We are blessed to have this amazing facility in our area where Missourians can have access to the most advanced care currently available.”
Davita Staff
Gloria Smith, RN
DaVita is the largest independent provider of dialysis services in
the United States. It has more than 1,300 outpatient dialysis
facilities and acute units in over 800 hospitals located in 42 states
and the District of Columbia. DaVita serves approximately 103,000
patients nationwide.
Jason Grills News Letter
for September about August
(sample 2)
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Wow, in 9 days, it'd have been a full year since I last updated my vox. If I think about it, a lot of things have changed since then. My love life, my music tastes, my jobs, my personality, my friends, and possibly my appearance have changed at least just a little bit since then.
Since I last updated my vox, I was heartbroken (lol again), engaged to somebody, fallen out of love, and started a friends with benefits. Not that you guys ever need to know about that. But, you know, its quite astonishing how it feels like nothing has changed yet.. everything has. Everything. Perspectives, life experiences, they're all different right now.
I think for the most part I'm happy now. I've been so unhappy so much this past year. So I'm just glad I'm finally happy and okay with everything in my life. Thats all that counts, right?
And to know I will be continuing to change and grow as the next year
rolls by is a great feeling. I hope when I look back in a year from now
I have more things to compare between how much I've grown up and
matured, since I'll behitting my big Two Oh. Mrr.. 20~. I'll probably
still feel like the runt of the family, too. Lol. Oh well. I can never
be old enough. :x
Anyway, I'm glad I'm not engaged anymore. That was a nightmare.
And.. I have to get ready for work now. So maybe I'll update this more.. I don't really know. Hopefully I'll do it before a year goes by. Its kind of sad that I've neglected this journal/blog thing for that long, lol.
Looking forward to Harry Potter 7. And Guitar Hero 80's. And Dethalbum. And Metalocolypse. Yay!
What was your favorite TV season finale this year?
Submitted by Kristine.
Definitely, HEROES !!!!!!!
Nothing can beat that
Tell us about an event that changed your life forever.
Submitted by Miss Scotch.It is so ironic that this was todays question!
ONE YEAR LATERIt has been one year to the day sence he left. It has been the worst year and the best year of my life.
My beautiful daughter has started school, and rains at the tip top of her education.
I wounder though some mornings getting ready when we are running late, like this morning.
She is well ajusted no matter the lack of her abusive father, her counsler sad so too!I get to have my gastric bypass soon, i do not have to have a sleep study, yeah!
So hopefully i will have it done by the ed of the summer.
i have accomplished more this last year than in 10 years with his dusty ass.I have been through my therapy to deal with getting over a abusive husband.
On my way to getting my divorce.
Had to get tested for aids and all the other goodies that he could have
given me by hanging out at porno both stores.
I have my restraining order that i had to get when he was stalking me trying to come back.
I have lived in several places now.
But now I am own my own, have my own house. My daughter has her own room,
with a door.
She has a great private back yard to play in.My life has been soooooooooo much better this past year.
I can only wait and hope for the up coming year.
I think I am going to celebrate this day now as my that i was freed.
I have also assisted 2 great mothers into getting help, no woman should be thrown around like a rag doll like they were.
I do not give a DAMN if it is a double standard.
No real man will ever lay a harmful hand on a woman, ever!
I no longer have to walk on egg shells worried about if i confront him or ask him to do anything, that it will end up physical. I no longer have to watch him sit on his ass day in and out, playing video games.
I do not have to beg him to get a job.
I do not have to worry that he will not let me use the car, can only spend 100 bucks a month on food.
I no longer have to lay down and fake orgasms just to get him off the top of me, or beg for pleasure.
I do not have to worry about the lights and gas getting shut off.
But most of all I never have to worry that that filthy son of a bitch will ever paddle my child with a fraternity paddle again.
Nor will he ever scream, hit, or degrade my child for ruining his games for asking him a question or that she has to wear pull ups at night. My beautifully angel will never be hurt by him if my body still has a pulse in it.
We are safe and FREE!
Free at last,
Free at last,
Thank the Goddess almighty,
We are free at last.
So, I finally cracked under the pressure and upgraded my OS X to 10.4.8 (from 10.3.9). It ate a nice chunk of my tax refund (of course, I didn't need nearly as much of video game splurge fund as I thought, as Persona 3 was pushed back until the summer), but it needed to be done. Not because I care about the Dashboard (I'm sure I'll come around to widgets in time, as they're sort of cool, but I can and do live without them) or Spotlight (Quicksilver for life, baby), but because I want to be able to use reasonably new software. It was starting to get really irritating to see every cool application I wanted to try out labeled as being for 10.4. And it's nice to be able to upgrade to the newest and shiniest versions of various applications (I can finally use a version of Quicksilver that's not a thousand years old, I'm so happy!).
Why not wait another couple of months and buy Leopard for (probably) the same price I paid for Tiger? Because I'm on a three year old iBook with a 1.33 GHz processor and 768 MB of RAM. Leopard is probably going to crawl on my system built to run Panther. Given that I used Panther up until Leopard was practically out, Tiger will probably last me until the hypothetical 10.6 or my iBook dies, whichever comes first.
But anyway! The point is that with 10.4.8, I've been downloading the trial versions of every creative writing program in sight so I can find one that clicks with me and buy it. Unfortunately, the results haven't been spectacular-- I keep finding myself going back to JEdit (the Japanese one, not the Java one). And when I'm writing in a text editor made for programming, well, that's a bit weird. I'm actually composing this entry in JEdit right now (yes, I'm weird and always compose my entries in a text editor before posting them to a site... which is why the forced rich text mode on this site drives me nuts, since it means I essentially can't format my text before I post, but that's my quirk to deal with and not the site's). So far I've tried out Copywrite (tried before on 10.3.9), Avenir (also tried before on 10.3.9), Jer's Novel Writer (tried before on 10.3.9), Scrivener, Storyist, and GlassWriter Pro. And though it's two programs instead of one, I also tried the combination of WriteRoom and Mori used together. (I also tried DevonThink instead of Mori.)
Why not use a word processor, like Word or AbiWord or NeoOffice? Because word processors tend to produce gargantuan files and slow down horribly with very long documents. The only one I haven't had that issue with is Nissus Writer Express (which saves to .rtf), and I didn't like that enough to pay what they were asking for it. I'll use Word to type my resume, but please give me a different program to write seven hundred pages of fiction.
Copywrite is honestly my favorite program in the bunch. I tried it before and liked it okay, but at that time I was in the middle of Nanowrimo and thus didn't need much in the way of organizational features-- I just wanted to write. Now that I'm looking at programs for serious writing, though, the project organization and the browser (and the notes to the side, which are fantastic for storing outlines) seriously help. I kind of wish it had a tabbed interface, but the browser sort of makes up for that. It's very simple (lacking the character and plotline organization of other programs), but honestly, I like that.
Avenir was like the evil child of Copywrite and Scrivener (which I'll get to later). It just did too much of what I didn't want, and not enough of what I did want. Too much organization, not enough writing. It was probably the third-best of the group for me, though, after Copywrite and Jer's. I tested this awhile ago and didn't like it enough to try it again under my new OS like I did Copywrite and Jer's, so my impressions of it are sketchy, unfortunately.
Jer's Novel Writer is what I used to write most of my Nanowrimo last year, because it was one of the few programs that ran under 10.3.9 and hey, it's free while under beta! It also has a couple of features that are rarely duplicated among the other programs (margin notes!) and isn't so much of a dedicated, compartmentalized organizer that it distracted me from writing. A really cool program, and I'm using it until I decide whether or not to buy CopyWrite. Also, using the newest version (instead of the buggy one that sort of worked on 10.3.9) only improved on things. Man, I'm tempted to donate when this comes out as a 1.0 release even if I decide to go with Copywrite, just because of how much use I've gotten from the free version. The only reason I'm not totally sold on it is that it doesn't let me link multiple documents together like Copywrite does. The database theoretically negates the need for this, but I like linking documents.
Scrivener is, if people on writing forums and Mac blogs and the Nanowrimo tech forum are to be believed, the program of gods and angels. I went in expecting to be blown away. I... wasn't. The big draw it has for most people are the storyboarding features and the incorporating pictures and multimedia into documents (for example, for research) and neither of those really work with the way I write. It's a good program at what it does, but unless you write and think in a very specific way it will most certainly not revolutionize the way you write like people claim it will. Honestly, it was one of my least-favorite programs of the bunch.
Storyist was a lot like Scrivener, actually, except without the outlining features. The hierarchial structure on the sidebar was nice, and the organizational features it had were all right. It didn't impress me enough to warrant the $59 pricetag, though. As someone who sometimes writes fantasy, though, the built-in template for a "Hero Adventure" was good for a laugh from me. It was ridiculous and therefore awesome.
GlassWriter Pro had a lot of good ideas (like the separate windows for the story and the background), but I really dislike the side-by-side interface. Enough so that I have trouble using it. I'm not terribly easily distracted from writing, either, so when I say something is distracting it's really bothering me. This interface is distracting.
WriteRoom was fun to try, but I doubt I'll be keeping it. It's not anything I can't replicate with the full-screen mode of Jer's or CopyWrite. I might keep the free version (1.0) around and use it when I honestly want to black out everything, such as during Nanowrimo, but it didn't have anything that made it better than the others. I used it in conjunction with Mori, which I adore and will likely be purchasing (you know how I said that Scrivener's storyboarding didn't work with the way I wrote? Well, Mori is just perfect for me for outlining the way I write) no matter which writing program I use, and I also tried it with DevonThink. DevonThink, however, was just too ambitious for me. I don't need a database of life, the universe, and everything. I just need to outline.
CopyWrite and Mori together seem like my best bet now, although Jer's is still up there as a contender (especially while it's free!).
Now to go back to upgrading all my software and installing increasinly more extraneous Quicksilver plugins! God, I am so addicted to that program.
Well. I feel like I have really wasted space and a perfectly cute account name with my Vox account. Hm. Should I keep this account...or no?
http://haidochan.livejournal.com -- Main Livejournal
http://x-ultimatum.livejournal.com -- Serious Livejournal
http://community.livejournal.com/_hellpainter -- Icon Journal
http://myspace.com/lord_lee -- Myspace
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=503186593 -- Facebook
You pick one.
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