Happy New Year!

I hope everyone has a safe and happy new year! I counted books all day at work. There were not alot of orders, and I didn't want to leave. I get tomorrow off though with pay!

Worlds Tallest Horse

I just got an email tonight about the worlds tallest horse named Tina. A really pretty horse and it looks like she is nice to handle. Good thing!!! http://simplymarvelous.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/tina-is-the-tallest-horse-in-the-world/

One of the radio shows I enjoy listening to recently went to one hour long instead of half an hour. Its at http://www.afa.net. It's called the AFA report and its really good.

A friend of mine got me a book for Christmas called The American Thoroughbred, by Edwin Anthony. It's about the pedigrees of thoroughbreds of this country and it is really a good book. He has a couple of chapters of tutorials that teach you how to read a pedigree and a breeding and racing tutorial that helps your learn the language so you can understand the rest of the book. So far it is really good. I will talk more about it as I get through the book.

Hello!

Hi everyone. I know I didn't say anything in the other posts I don't think, but I just got done working 60 hours a week for a month at Amazon. We are now back to our regular work schedule. From what I understand, last year the 60 hour work week started in late October, so sales were really down here, but in the paper I read that Amazon as a whole actually did better than other years. Friday and Saturday it was really dead at work, and I hope things pick up next week!

In horse racing, Visionaire is getting a winter vacation, and I think Mouse Soup is too, because I have not gotten any workouts from her for over a month. Nicanor, Barbaro's little brother, had a 3 furlong workout today that he did in 36 seconds, which is really, really good. It sounds like he is close to a race. His trainer said he will probably make his first start either in January or February. Since he is starting his career as a 3 year old and not a 2 year old, I don't know if he will be ready for the Triple Crown races or not, but you never know. Curlin didn't race at 2 and he won the Preakness.

I promise, now that I have my days off back, I will write more!

Hello!

Hi Everyone. My computer took longer to fix than I thought. they had it an extra week to do all the updates and fix it so it would go faster. I have been working full time at Amazon for 3 weeks now, but this week was the first time I got 40 hours. I worked 5 hours overtime today. I am basically a rebinner, but I learned a couple more things also. A rebinner scans the products and puts them on a cart that seperates all the orders. We get the products in totes that are on carts. Somebody in another part of the building (called "picking") gets the orders and puts them in the totes and when their hand held scanner says that tote is "done" they put the tote on a conveyer that brings it to the part of the building I am in. Then a sorter sorts out all the totes with their hand held scanners and puts them on carts, and when a cart is filled up we get it to scan and put them in individual orders. A couple weeks ago I tried picking but it made me dizzy lol. You are walking around in hundreds of isles and they have them sorted by letter and numbers, so you are walking and trying to follow the numbers and letters at the same time, and my eyes don't work that way!

I have got to download my camera on the computer since it was lost in the hard drive failure, but I will get the pictures of Keeneland and Kesmark up eventually. I have a photobucket site that I am going to download the pictures on and I will put the link to the site here.

Well thats all I can think of now. I will try hard to write some more tomorrow. A new lady is living here now to help with Dr Martin, so I will have more time to write stuff. But I am working full time now, but I will try to write more than I have. Talk to you all later!

Hard Drive Failure

Hi Everyone. The hard drive in my computer crashed, so I will not have my computer for a couple of weeks. I am posting now from the library. I wanted to write about my day at keeneland racetrack and post pictures, but I will do that after I get my computer back. Also I got a tour of Kesmark, which is a Equine Rahab center and I was going to write about that too, but I will get to all that in a couple of weeks!

I will be working full time starting next Wednesday, so I probably won't be able to get to the library after that, or mabe even on Tuesday because I believe that is a mandatory work day. Amazon wants to do a "stress test" on all the computers to make sure they will work correctly by November, so I will probably be working that day. I will know for sure Saturday. See you all later!

Man Who Died and Came Back

This video is really amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGpxfoF3SYg&feature=related

Jesus and the Old Testament

I have been doing an interesting bible study on the prophecies about Jesus in the OT. It's amazing how many there are (over 300) and I probably won't find them all. I am not sure there is a book that lists them all. You have to read all the books to find all 300. I am not going to write out all the verses, but just take time to compare these;
Micah 5:2 and Matt 2: 1-6
Isaiah 7:14 and Matt 1:18-25
Isaiah 35:5-6 and Luke 7:18-22
Zechariah 9:9 and Matt 21: 2-7
Zechariah 11:12 and Matt 26:14-16
Isaiah 50:6 and John 19:1-3/Matt 26:67
Psalm 34:20 and John 19:31-36
Psalm 16:9-10 and Acts 2:22-32

All of Psalm 22 talks about the crucifiction and all of Isaiah 53 is about the Person of Jesus Christ.

A really good book to read more about the prophecies is Evidence for Christianity, by Josh McDowell.

Hi Everyone! Sorry I haven't wrote in a month. Everything is going good here! There has been alot going on! Ellen, Dr Martin's sister found somebody who is willing to live in the other bedroom and help with Dr Martin, so I am excited about that! This will be good when I start full time at Amazon in a couple of weeks. I was out playing with the horses almost all day yesterday. One of the renters had the farrier come out and I when he was done I was putting them back in their paddocks, and then last night I rode for awhile at a friend's house.

I read a few books since then, the latest is a book called Hull House by Jane Addams. Jane started a famous settlement house in Chicago in 1889.

For weeks we haven't got any rain! But it finally did rain a bit last night. I don't really know how much, but it was enough to make the ground soft. I went out to pet the resident stallion, and my feet sank lol.

Work and Books

Amazing stuff happens when you pray about them. Three days ago the 93-year-old man that I help take care of took a bit of a slide for the worse. He is still ok, but his doctor doesn't want him to do most things on his own anymore. Well, I told his daughter that I would be willing to watch him on the weekdays and only work on the weekends for the time being. She is doing away with the rent in lieu of this. I think this is only fair, and I have felt an obligation to help with him. This had all happened AFTER I had been to my supervisor and told him I REALLY needed full time. The staffing service lady was trying to jump through hoops to get me "in" the company and start to work full time by next week. Well, I never did get a call for the orientation on Wednesday, so I called them and my name wasn't on the list! Well, I was just about ready to have a cow when the old guy's daughter called me and told me what the doctor had said. She had been praying for somebody to show up for awhile now that would be able to stay with him and watch him most of the time without needing them to pay alot, because they don't have alot of money. Well, I show up only working weekends!

I told her that if I didn't have to pay rent, then the money I make on the weekends would be plenty for me to live off of, and that I would do this for awhile. I don't know how long this is going to go on, but we are only going to take this one day at a time for now. A friend of the old guy is going to come visit him on Monday, and she is willing to stay for 3 weeks! So that is going to help out alot.

I told the Staffing service lady about my living situation and that I could wait awhile before I started working full time. She said that it was no problem at all, and when I was ready to work full time, just leave her a message at the HR office and she would get me into orientation ASAP.

I had been praying for a long time now for God to use me wherever He needed me. I feel like the last 8 years he has used me in situations I never thought I would be in, and certainly no situation I would have picked lol. But when God uses you, it's for His purpose, not ours. The daughter and I had a talk about this and was just amazed at how it all worked out like it did. She was about ready to have a nervous breakdown when I showed up and she is now starting to feel like she can pull back a little bit and let others help out more.

Anyway, now to my book; I am reading a bit of history this time, a book called Constantinople, Capital of Byzantium by Jonathan Harris. I am about halfway through it and it talks about the city's fortification and some of the myths that the leaders fed about the city. One part that I found really interesting was when the muslims were conquering the areas and they were trying to take over Constantinople, the christians were perplexed as to why God was allowing this to happen, thinking they were doing something wrong to have this happen to them. One of the few things that they knew about the muslims was that they considered any kind of statue a form of idolatry. The christians decided that must be the reason why their city was in trouble, so a bunch of them decided to try to get ride of all the statues. Well, there was a HUGE outcry about that because half the christians wanted the statues, while the other half wanted to keep them. Then a wise old monk said that it's not the statues that our worshipped, it's the person behind the statues. Well, that made everyone feel better so they decided not to tear down all the statues.

The people saved their city from the invasion by a weapon called "Greek Fire". It was concocted from a mixture of ingredients that was probably sulfer, pitch, and quicklime, and possibly crude oil because at that time surface deposits were available. This was highly inflammable when it was heated and could be shot onto an enemy ship and the flames could not be put out. It would even burn on water. This demoralized the enemy, esp when it burst from the siphon like thunder and it was fired from the bronze heads of lions and dragons. The Arabs dropped back at that point and the city was saved.

Blog Name

Ok, people may be wondering how I got this blog name. The name is actually a combination of two horses, Visionaire and Mouse Soup. Also, It works very well with Annie, because as you can see, she is sleeping soundly on the chair, and you can just imagine she is dreaming of mouse soup lol. Visionaire ran in the Kentucky Derby and came in 12th. He has been brought back to sprinting and he won the King's Bishop stakes today at Saratoga! http://racing.bloodhorse.com/article/46730.htm
As for Mouse Soup, she is a little two-year-old who hasn't raced yet. She is busy being galloping buddies with Nicanor, Barbaro's younger brother. That was my other news!

Work and a New Book!

Boy I have lots of stuff to write about today, but I will post it in two posts to make it easier to read.
First off, I will be converting from Integrity to Amazon.com on August 31st! The floor supervisor was not happy that I hadn't gotten a phone call for an interview yet. He really got onto the Integrity lady about that, because I had told him that I may have to quit to find another job if I wasn't able to get full time really soon. Integrity Lady jumped through hoops to get me an unscheduled drug test and totally bypassed my interview lol. I will be going, I think Wednesday, to a meeting where I will hear all about the company and their policies and insurance and such. It will be an 8 hour meeting. He told Integrity lady that I will be working the Wed thru Sat shift. I told him I would be interested in the M,Tues,Thurs, Fri shift also, but he said no, he wanted me on his shift lol. So at least I know I am wanted!
Ok I am reading a really good book that everyone needs to read, called The Edge Effect, by Eric R. Braverman, MD. He talks about the four primary chemical neurotransmitters and how they can cause so many physical and mental problems. We all are dominant in one of the chemicals, and some of us are dramatically deficient in others. Thankfully I seem to be ok. I am GABA dominant and slightly dopamine deficient. The book sends you through a whole bunch of questions and you answer yes or no, and you can tell from that what you are. Then there are chapters to help you learn how to combat your deficiencies and learn about your dominant chemical. Its really interesting! He talks about how doctors are giving patients the wrong meds because what is really wrong is their deficiency, and not any one problem. A patient will go in to the doctor for one problem, so the doc gives them meds for it, then a month later, that problem goes away and another one comes up. It keeps happening until the patient is a big mess. He gives numerous examples how he dealt with their chemical deficiency and the patient was able to get back to normal. He also gives you a web site that allows you to check your brain speed (mine is 36 milliseconds). http://bfc.positscience.com/eval/bst.php

Ok I don't want to ruin the book! Again, its called The Edge Effect, by Eric R. Braverman, MD.

Overtreated Pt2

Not a whole lot going on today! I am still waiting for The Call. I think that's what I am going to call it from now on lol. I am about done reading "Overtreated". WOW, everyone needs to read that book! There is so much in it to talk about I think I would have to write several blogs about it. One chapter, called "Money, Drugs, and Lies" talks about how drug companies spun their drug testing to hide risks. It also talks about drug representatives and how they influence doctor's prescribing habits. The most heavily marketed drugs are the ones Physicians wind up prescribing. The reps give the doctors all kinds of expensive gifts, dinners, even pay for home improvements to get them to use their drugs.
Another chapter talked about the New England Journal of Medicine and how they are influenced by the pharm. Industry. Doctors have to be taught how to read through the bias of the articles to make sure they are giving their patients the right medicine.
On the other hand, the book also talks about patients and how they diagnose themselves on the internet, and then go to their doctors and tell them what they have, then tell them what drug they want. the doctors have a horrible time convincing them they really don't have that problem, but apparently alot of times they don't have the time to argue with a patient, so they give them what they want.
Alot of time is also given to insurance companies, and how family physicians who just want to practice family medicine can't because when companies change insurance policies, the patients go too.
Again, the book is called "Overtreated; Why too much medicine is making us sicker and poorer" by Shannon Brownlee.

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How To Make Boatloads Of Money

I got something very interesting in the mail today. A little booklet, that on the front page says that ..."I can guarantee I can help you get rid of ALL your financial problems..."!!! Well isn't that nice? Apparently, if you let go of all your suppressed feelings about money, you can make loads of money. For example, Make a list of what you like about money, then make a list of what you don't like about money. Then go thru this "release" technique to get rid of ALL your ideas about money, then WHAMMO! Money will come to you like water out of a faucet. The idea is to stop being concerned about whether you have money or not. I did some research on the internet about this, and apparently it does work, at least that's what it says. Your supposed to touch certain parts of your face to get rid of all the negative energy or something like that. Very amusing. Another part of this booklet says that there are no such things as germs, it's all in your head when you get sick. Well.....ok lol.
I read today that Pimlico racetrack is closing it's doors to training because of money problems. If they don't fix these problems, they may not open up next year and its adios for the Preakness.
Well, Annie and Heidi are NOT going to get along. Heidi is Dr. Martin's tuxedo cat. When I go into the TV room to watch tv Annie likes to come in there too. Well, Heidi also likes to go in there and she doesn't like Annie. Heidi used to just hiss at her and that's it. Now she goes up to Annie and bats at her. Annie now runs away from Heidi. She used to just sit there and look at her.

Overtreated

There isn't much going on today. I am waiting to hear from Amazon.com about a transition interview. Once That happens, I will be working full time. I did go to the library and I checked out a book called Overtreated; Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker And Poorer, by Shannon Brownlee. It talks about health care being so expensive, that 1 out of 6 Americans don't have insurance, how the health care system overtreats which puts patient's lives in danger, and how they undertreat and kill patients. In the introduction a 12-year old boy dies from a brain infection that started out as a rotten tooth. His mother couldn't find a dentist that would take Medicaid payments so the little boy died. The extraction was going to cost $80, but she couldn't afford it, but it cost the District of Columbia $250,000 for the boy being in the hospital with the brain infection. This happened in 2007! I don't know the whole background to this story, but no matter what it is, it is really horrible.
I said in my last blog I was going to read Reasonable Faith, but my brain was hurting from the last book, so I thought I would take a rest.

Cat Food and Books

There isn't much going on today. I did venture to the nearest pet store to buy Annie some food. She eats Science Diet Adult 7+ and Oral Care. They had the Adult food, but not the Oral Care. The lady at the counter said no one has asked for Oral Care yet, but they just started selling Science Diet two months ago! They ordered me a package of Oral Care that will come in tomorrow.

I thought I would mention a book that I have been reading for the last month, called Choosing Your Faith, by Mark Mittelberg. It's a great book about how to ask the right questions about what you really should believe in a world filled with so many religious options. Even for people who have no religion, or think they don't anyway. You still are having faith in something. We go to a restaraunt with faith that the cooks are not going to lace our food with poison. We drive down the road with faith that no one is going to side swipe us. Anyway, its a great book that people should read. My next book is Reasonable Faith, by William Lane Graig. I will report on that when I start it.

Conyers-Burton “Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2008”

For the past couple of years the horse group I belong to, AlexBrownRacing.com, has been working hard in passing legislation to stop horse slaughter in the United States. In September of 2006 the House passed H.R. 503, but it failed to get any further. As of a few days ago another bill, Similar to H.R. 503 has now been introduced, called
H.R. 6958 (also title above). Information about the bill can be found here;
http://www.americansagainsthorseslaughter.com/

A bill tracker, to keep track of how the bill is doing, can be found here;
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-6598

Even though the slaughter plants in the US have been shut down, horses are finding an even worse fate across both north and south borders. This bill must be passed to keep American horses safe from the horrid abuse of the slaughter plant. If you haven't already, please call your congress persons and ask them to cosponsor HR 6598.

Introduction

Hi there, my name is Lynda, and I live in Versailles KY. I will be writing about various things. I have many interests and will be writing about most, if not all of them at one time or another. I just thought it would be fun to have a blog, and have somewhere to direct people to for news about me, if anything ever happens to me that is newsworthy. Some things I will be writing about concern horses, books I am reading, or have read in the past, christianity, My cat Annie, and any trips to interesting places I may make. There will be times I may write every day for awhile, and probably times I may not write for a week, so just check in every once in awhile for new posts!