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Can someone tell me where this makes sense?



I have a friend on facebook who is unemployed and complained that the state threatened to cut her benefits because she made money without reporting it. She made the money via scrapping and netted about 200 dollars last month.

So she broke the law because she didn't report any income and is receiving food stamps and free money. Fine, not my business.



This is where I get a little confused. She keeps entering her daughter into pageants and bragged that she was able to buy her daughter a 158 dollar dress. She also then bitches about not being able to afford food.



Next best thing? She is trying to get pregnant. o.O



I think she also mentioned wanting a horse.



Here I am, going to college, doing a small amount of workstudy, and my boyfriend is working 40 hours a week at 8 dollars an hour. We have money, but we sometimes have problems affording enough food. We get our food stamps knocked down to 16 dollars a month because I'm a student. I also get told by my worker that gas isn't a reasonable expense in our budget. She said that we wouldn't spend so much in gas if my boyfriend worked closer to where we live. (He drives about 40 minutes each way) Seriously? We are actually attempting to do something with our lives and want to afford food. Yet people can spend money on dresses, attempt to get knocked up, and they get a full fucking ride?



Where does this make sense? :(

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SinginGhost88
17:50 Jun 29 2012

It doesn't. The welfare system is majorly flawed and often the wrong people are being overlooked while others are given a free ride.



Getting a smart and resourceful social worker is the best way to go. They know the holes and loop holes in the system and how to manipulate the red tape.

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Morrigon
18:05 Jun 29 2012

Really really fucked up priorities and a sense of entitlement. It's bizarre to watch.

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Nekirena
21:25 Jun 30 2012

Seriously?



Um, what doesn't make sense to me is she's still onwelfare benefits. From my understanding, here, in my state, once you have an income- no matter the amount, it gets docked from your benefits- if it exceeds your benefits- they stop them. In some cases if you are not using the benefits appropriately they can and will ask you for receipts. Clothing- NORMAL clothing is a reasonable expense. Dresses like that, however, wouldn't count as such.



And what I'm wondering is who is really paying for the pageant fees? The accessories? The dresses? The travel?



It's a wonder, really, it is.



It's annoying to someone like me- I WANT to work. I asked for assistance to help me pay for ONE month of daycare so I can go back to work and save up the money for daycare (one month of full time work would equal 2 months of paid daycare- I can manage that, IF I was working). I'd even pay them BACK afterwards. Know what they told me?



They can't help me because 1- I'm a veteran and I should be helped through the VA (which daycare isn't something they can outright help with), 2- I know who my son's father is, 3- I do not collect cash benefits from welfare, and 4- my disability income is over 500 a month. So since it's over what they think is enough for 2 to survive on ( $500 is enough for 2 people? With one of them still in diapers? While paying for food/utilities/rent/travel to and from medical appts, etc) they basically told me to go fuck myself.



Yet someone who wants not to work/isn't looking for employment and just collects, gets everything? It's fucked up. It's a corrupted system and the ones who really only need a leg up can't get any help but someone who'd rather not work and exploit their kids in 'pageants' get any assistance they could want.



I find it ludicrous and it makes no sense to me.

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Ugh...people don't seem to understand the difference between sugars and Vitamin D. I mean, it's not a hard concept.



Someone suggested I do the "cabbage soup" diet to help me lose weight.

So I looked at it and read through it.



I can't do it. Not that the food is unreasonable or I don't think I could make it.

It's the fact that for 3 days straight you can consume only fruits and vegetables. There are no fruits that have naturally occurring Vitamin D, unless they have been fortified. Want to know how many veggies have it naturally occurring? Mushrooms. That's about it. The 4th day of the damn diet has you eating bananas and drinking a minimal amount of milk. Which is the first sign of actual Vitamin D. Quite frankly, the whole thing gives almost no nutritional value.



Now about the sugar comment. I explained to this person that I can't go that long without the Vitamin D, and she said at first to just take my supplements. The problem with that is that I need food with it to help the supplements get absorbed properly.

Then there was the comment of, "oh, it won't be a problem, the fruit has plenty of sugars."

Except sugars aren't Vitamins....



Super awesome reason it won't work? I need to consume around 2,000 IU of that silly vitamin a day. 1,000 comes from a pill, the other half I have to attempt to make up via food intake. Once weekly, I have to take 50,000 IU. It is full of suckage. Yes, I try to do what I am supposed to do and try to get as close to 2,000 a day. I have a handy chart I use to help me.



Would the diet kill me? Probably not. But it would make it a lot harder to get my levels where they need to be and be pointless.



Target goal: 20

Last bloodwork: 8



I'd like to lose weight, but not risking aspects of my health that are already wonky.



Sorry for the mini-rant/health thing. I'm seriously welcome to suggestions on a decent diet that will incorporate what I need, so that when I'm given the green light by my doctor, I can start it.



I've been dealing with my mental health and I've gotten to the point where that is "healthy". It's time for me to work on my physical health. It's not a quick fix thing. I have to work at it and not do risky things.



:/

lalalallalalala Life update!



If I've already mentioned it at some point in here, I'm sorry. I'm losing my mind.



My back is all fixed and stuff. I had dislocated my SI joint. After two physical therapy sessions, all was well. I was told that if it happens again, give them a call and they will put it back in place. I wonder if I can get that ultrasound done on my upper back though...doubtful.



My Vitamin D is still low. I'm doing more replacement therapy and will just go with that flow.



My allergies. Let's just say I'm doing something no doctor would probably agree with. I'm doubled up on my allergy meds. I will continue with this path until the flowers quit making nookie.

I would much rather take an extra pill a day than have to use my inhaler out in public because I can't breathe. I've had to use it before and I got a nice remark about my weight and how if I lost weight, I wouldn't need it.



Even when I weighed 150 pounds, I needed an inhaler because of my allergies. Doubt losing weight is going to make me any less allergic to plant sex.



As for my weight. I'm not gaining any, but I'm also not losing any. The good lady doctor said that once we get the vitamins under control, diet and stuff will start. She wants to put me on adipex as well. I'll find out in 5 weeks if I can start.



Sean has been working 60 hour weeks. While the pay is nice and we aren't on a super tight budget, I'm having issues with it. I'm home all day, all alone, bored. If he was working these hours during school, I wouldn't have minded. I'm just lonely during the day. :/



Has anyone else sneezed so hard they felt their uterus move?



Seriously. ._.



Off to kill more stuff in Diablo!

Oh Facebook, you bring such great gems to me.



I had commented on someones status about the 50 Shades of Grey series.



My comment was pretty simple and to the point. I had talked to a few friends, read a few reviews, and gathered that it was a rather shit series. So I mentioned what I had learned just off-hand, to give the person an idea of what other people had thought of it. This was the response from one of her friends:

not true its a very good book and they weren't written by a fifteen yr old btw that might be there opinion u just got to read it for your self and not rely on others opinion. I love the book still reading it its a page turner and I can vision what they are writing about. So read it for yourself then you will have your own opinion about it I just don't understand why others rely on other people's opinion u just got to experience the book yourself all people's have different views of the book.



Ok. Let's examine this shall we?

First off, if you read "good" books, one would think your grammar would be decent.

Secondly, if you read, you would have understood the sentence "It was as if a fifteen year old had written it." I never said a fifteen year old wrote it, I said the writing was at that level.

So no, I'm not taking your thoughts on books. Also, when more than one of my friends AND the reviews all say the same thing, I'll steer clear of the books.



Yeah, this probably sounds snide and a bit egotistical, but what you read and how you write are directly connected to each other. It's not some secret. *shrug*

Trashy tacos was a bad bad bad idea.



Yes, I know we shouldn't eat out as much as we have the past 2 days, but there is a good reason!



We haven't had time to set the air conditioner up until tonight. Our apartment has been about 80 degrees all week.



Would you want to turn the stove/oven on when your apartment/house is that warm?



So Friday night we went out to dinner. This was actually planned because we had stuff to do. I needed to drop off some library books, pick up my meds, and get some grocery shopping done. We figured since we were out and about, we'd grab food. We didn't go to a fast food place, instead we went to Zimmys. Zimmys (for those unaware) is a nice eclectic place owned by Bob Dylan. Nice food, decent prices, and pretty cool atmosphere. I got myself a steak and Sean ate a burger. All was good in the world.



Saturday! We had some more running around to do so we grabbed a bite to eat from Hardees. I only ate a thing of onion rings. When we got home, we didn't want to turn the oven on so we decided that Subway sounded good. Sean left to get our food and then I get a call. Apparently the credit card machine was out of order at Subway and he wanted to know what I'd like instead. So my natural instinct was trashy tacos. I love trashy tacos and I only get them every few months or so. I keep forgetting why I don't get them often....



All I ate Sunday (today) was a small bowl of tuna salad and a few bites of dinner. It was seriously too hot for me to eat. We also managed to finally get the AC in the window and cool the apartment off.



Anyway! I'm sick. Very very sick. I know it was the tacos. I doubt the other food I ate was what made me sick. Bad part? I need to sleep and can't because I'm up and down in the bathroom. It has managed to keep me wide awake. I have things to do tomorrow...and I doubt it will happen with how I'm feeling.



Bleh. No more trashy tacos. I need to just make them at home. I just hate having leftover stuff sitting around.



And I know my diet this weekend wasn't healthy, but I tried! I think the most I ate was at Zimmys. It was a nice steak covered in mushrooms, onions, and blue cheese crumbles. The steak still mooed a little bit as well. nomnomnom



I also think I may be slightly manic. *shrug*



Good news though!



I got Diablo 3. Paid only 13 bucks for it because we traded in a bunch of old games.



I'm happy faced about that.



Keeping a positive outlook when I'm feeling like crap!

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sahahria
02:13 Jun 15 2012

I hope you're feeling better :)

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So about 2 months ago, I mentioned an issue that was "discovered" with my health. The vitamin D deficiency problem...



Today I got a call from my doctors office about my bloodwork. Apparently my body didn't respond well to the replacement therapy and we are trying a second round, this time with an increased dose. :(



If this doesn't work, I'll be prescribed a sun lamp. Once my levels get normal, I'll be able to start a diet. Right now she doesn't want to risk any other issues popping up while losing weight and lacking vitamins.

I was really hoping that the replacement therapy was going to work so I could work on the diet part.



Guess I'll find out in another 2 months :(

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Robin3x3
17:52 Jun 09 2012

have you tryed eating more foods with vit. D in it? just a passing thought.

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Abstract
20:08 Jun 09 2012

Yep. Doesn't seem to have worked.

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Been having trouble sleeping lately.

Tonight, I have stuff on my mind that has pissed me off.



Back in February, I commissioned an artist to draw me a tube. It was supposed to be a personal image that was for me and a couple of friends.



I found out yesterday that the artist now plans on selling the image to the general public.



I'm incredibly upset and torn on if I should expose these shitty ethics to the tagging community. It puts me in a really hard position being that he used to sell through PTE, the store I work for.



I'm probably going to show the world what shit he is pulling, as well as a paypal dispute.



Bleh

I thought physical therapy was supposed to help me so I'm not in pain.



Apparently the guy that I worked with didn't get the message.



He also thinks I can bend in certain ways, in which I can't.



"Does it hurt when I do this?"



You are pushing on my spine and I have a back problem, of course it hurts. Ya'll told me to not take my pain meds before coming....



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