Who's in Charge Here?

All the wrong people seem to get whatever they want with no questions asked. I know the saying goes "nothing is fair", but to actually come to realize that it is true in every case has made me somewhat ill. I was listening to NPR as usual today when new information on Terri Schiavo came across the radio, I can only imagine what her parents and relatives are going through and I pray to God that I never end up in this same situation. Today marks her fifth day without a feeding tube or water, the doctor projected she would live one to two weeks without these necessities; had her parents won the appeal against her greedy husband, she would not be suffering from starvation right now. Why should this woman suffer due to her husband not wanting her to live?, and why doesn't her husband want her to live? In my opinion her husband just wants her money that she has left and undoubtedly has a few insurance policies on her, if she dies he gets just about everything. How is it fair that her husband gets to make the decisions when her parents are and have been by her side, they have raised this girl to a woman and now they cannot even have a say on her future. Parents are your parents forever, husbands may come and go. We now have a woman that is suffering, after she has suffered so long with the brain damage already, why should she suffer more? Once again the question is, where's the justice? Let me introduce my train of thought on this topic; Prisoners facing the death penalty: these elite group of people that have been put on death row and are guilty of their crimes probably deserve to be there. If it was murder that was committed, they have destroyed numerous lives, tortured innocent people that did not deserve it. They now sit in prison, food, water, shelter, and clothing are provided as well as some recreational benefits in many prisons, needless to say they are well taken care of during their stay ( this is however subject to the "prison pimps"). When their time has finally come to face death, the government decides to either gas or electrocute them (if there are any other ways I am not totally aware due to lack of knowledge on topic) needless to say there are not days of torture, it usually is a relatively quick procedure. In this case we have an innocent woman starving, even though I don't have the slightest clue what starving does to the body but I know when I don't eat when I need to it's not a pleasant feeling. In my opinion the almighty dollar determines everything, and the situation the country is in right now means that those dollars are in the hands of all the wrong people and no one seems to care.

Another day another dollar. I have been trying to save up money and pay off my bills, which if you really know me, you would know that for me that's a huge task. I have officially opened a new account and have neatly kept my register up to date and get this, I made sure I still have money in the bank, no more overdrafting for me. It feels a tiny bit invigorating to be semi caught up on bills and stuff, I actually feel a tiny bit more mature. It's odd how quickly my view changed on finances. I mean I know I am only 23, still living at home, but I do have some serious debt, well under 2,000.00, that's serious to someone who doesn't own a home and has never had to pay for anything in her life before. I seriously need to think about saving up cash and moving out of the house. It's about damned time I took responsibilty for something besides my make-up. For those of you with life experience out there please feel free to tell me how big of a baby I am, but leave some good advice along with it please. Also if anyone would like to be a part of the Eric's Insulin Fund, please feel free to contact me. The Scenario: Neither Eric nor myself have jobs that offer medical insurance, therefore we have no prescription coverage for certain daily meds, nor do we have office visit coverage, this means we cannot attend a visit with the doctor because we both make under 25,000 a year and cannot afford a 150 office visit every 3 months, therefore we cannot attain samples of the medication. It's a lose-lose situation. I can go without my daily meds, but as for him he's insulin dependent and is running out of the last of his inventory. To pay cash for these insulin products is a little overwhelming due to the fact that a 10mL vial costs 65 bucks and would only last him a week if that. So please make checks payable to Amanda Michael and contact me for more info. Thanks for your support, receive a free pin with your donation today!

Ahhhh...vinyl........

I found the most extraordinary sofa the other day. I was shopping at St Vincent De Paul which is a thrift shop where I buy most of my accent pieces, so far I have been successful by finding a ceiling hung Tiffany lamp, a vintage Playboy ashtray, some awesome tumblers for Erics' )really mine) bar. I recently found a 60's black vinyl couch with a pull out bed, for seventy bucks, in perfect condition. I am naming it the smoking couch, although no smoking will take place on this sofa. I am now in search of a hookah pipe, ebay has some good deals on them, no I don't want to smoke out of it, it is a piece of art to me and with the way I want my future house to look with the sofa, it's an essential piece. On another note, as usual I worked today, can't stress how much I love my job once again. (cough cough,sarcasim) I'm looking forward to this weekend, last weekend was uneventful, maybe some karaoke maybe a concert who knows, hopefully a coffee house. I am now hooked on espresso or a "Tinny Puppy" as they call it at the Grind which consists of 2 shot espresso and 1 part coffee.

Espresso and a clove...

Ahhhh it's March already? Ok time to update, Februrary was the absolute shittiest month. Grandparents were sick, problems with work and money, problems with men. Valentine's Day was alright, I usually don't do much anyways, hopefully St. Patty's day will be more eventful, although I highly doubt it. I think I have just about had my fill with older married men hitting on me. I get a call at work the other day about a patient's bill, I'm not overly nice or anything to this guy but he sounded cute and was over polite to me and offered me to lunch (this was before I had his chart in my hand and knew that he was 30something and married). I call him back after figuring out a complication with the bill and he asks me out again and I made it clear that I knew he was married and could and would not do that. For some reason this turned him on I was told I had a sexy voice, he wants to take me out, I'm turning him on and he wants to spank me. No I am not kidding, I really truly wish I was on this one. What married man calls up a girl he doesn't know and asks if we can have a spanking session. Either way I am in hiding in the office now. Had a good night tonight, took the bro up to Dearborn Music for some culture in what a real music store looks like. We then hit the City Coffee House in Allen Park, which is a "real" coffee house with "real" artists,punks and beatnicks. I managed to buy four new cd's tonight, Head Automatica, My Chemical Romance, Thievery Corporation and Death Cab for Cutie, not to mention a grand deal on a used Blind Melon sheet music book. The artsy flame is back once again, I think it may be caused by my patchouli oil and massive amounts of espresso. Current events: there was a massive fire downtown at a really neat antiques auction house that I never got a chance to go into. It was quite a sight, and for Monroe it was a big deal. My coffee house downtown reopens Monday due to an apartment fire above them, just when I want to go to open mic night this happens. Anyways, I will be writing again soon, I am thinking of topics to write about as we speak and will have a new schedule commin up hopefully by monday. Ta-ta for now my book and new cd's are calling me. PS..Im in search of a track jacket and not a new one, if you happen to spot the saught after item please tell me.