Sorry for the very long wait between posts. I have been very sick and had to take a LOOONNNNGGG break.

First up, I was banned from using my computer for a while because of something stupid I did, which was hook up my Disabilities Trust Fund to Paypal which really messed up my bank account and I had done it without permission. I had also snuck into my mom's room to get my banking information without asking. So she is very pissed at me and won't forgive me for this massive mistake even though I have apologized and even accepted the punishment as well as show that I truly am sorry for what I did. Forgiveness is not in my mom's nature. But whatever....

Second up, I got very seriously ill twice and it was found out that the parasitic bacteria that I had in February of last year has permanently affected my immune system. So now I am susceptible to nearly everything that is out there, including the flu and other, more serious ailments. As a result, I have had pneumonia this past Christmas which put me back in the hospital and I had to have my lungs drained of fluid. Then, this February, I had a bronchitis attack and had to be placed on steroids and antibiotics. Sucks.

Also, the pain in my feet was discovered not to be the result of bone spurs. No, it is something much more serious than that. I was diagnosed with a rare genetic problem that is becoming more common. This genetic disorder is called Plantarfaeschitis (not sure of spelling). Mine is so rare because I have it really badly in both of my feet. The muscles in my feet are stretching and pulling and there is so little muscle left that the bones in my feet are actually rubbing against each other and I am in serious danger of developing bone spurs as a result. Plantarfaeschitis is also often brought on by massive weight gain (which is not an issue in my case) and other issues. When the I asked the podiatrist why mine was rare, he explained to me that the reason it is rare in my case is that he has never, in his career, seen it this badly in both feet in any one person. He said that I would require years of intensive therapy and life-long commitment to taking pain medication. I was prescribed Mobic, or the generic form known as Meloxicam. I take this medication everyday right after I have eaten and it often makes me drowsy. Bleh...

Thirdly, when my grandmother on my mother's side passed away (she had a stroke and died), my grandfather on my mother's side had to be placed in the assisted living section of a nursing home. And, since my grandmother's passing, his health has deteriorated rapidly. He is now on supplemental oxygen and diuretics because his body is retaining fluids. And the diuretics, which are supposed to help, are doing more harm than good. My grandfather is now having to use the restroom every thirty minutes and is not able to even sleep. And what's worse is that he has put on weight, which is hard on his already weak heart. And his arthritis is hurting worse than ever. But at least he has help available to him 24/7 so that if anything happens to him or around him, help will always be available. And the nurses there have confiscated his medications so that they can give the medications to him when it is time to take them. This is because he no longer remembers when his last dose of medication was taken and even forgets his medication. This way they can monitor him and help him. If they had not done this, grandfather would have been in danger of overdosing on his medicines or worse, not take them at all and suffer from even worse health issues. He doesn't like it, because he likes to be independant, but he can't be independant anymore. I will be going to visit him in April of this year and hopefully bring a ray of sunshine into his lonely life. Meh...

Fourth, I am getting ready to move out on my own in a few months which I am really excited for. I am already looking for roommates. This is because my family and I are moving in May of this year to Tucson or Atlanta. The Tucson, Arizona bit is because my father's company, Freeport MacMoran, is deciding whether or not to go forward in their plans to build a laboratory in West Tucson. If they do go forward with their plans, we will move to Tucson within the month of May. If they don't, my father will have to find a job overseas, and my mother wants to live near the airport in Atlanta, Georgia. No idea why, but that is what she wants. When this occurs, I will either be transferred to another Safeway in Tucson, or have to find another job in Atlanta. But I am hoping that we move to Tucson. That way my plans for moving out will be put on the fast track.

On an unrelated, but positive note, I got a raise. I am now earning a whopping $9.35 an hour and am working 20 hours a week. I wish I could work more, but I have a lot of constraints, one of which being Social Security Disabilities Benefits and stupid Medicare and Medicaid. But hey, at least I am earning money!

Fifth is that I am getting ready to celebrate my 29th Hatching Day on March 17th this year!! I am so excited!!!!! I will be going on a huge shopping spree and buy everything Dragon or Deamon related!! I will probably buy some CDs and movies as well.

Well, gotta go now!! Love all of you!!

~rebm

Dear Furaffinity people to whom this may concern and others,

I am sorry to say that I will have to cancel all my commissions to other artists that I owe money to. We had a family emergency crop up; an emergency that involves me. I have to go in today for an Orthopedic surgeon appointment because for months now, my feet have been bothering me and the doctor suspects that I might have bone spurs in the heel and Achilles’ (not sure of spelling) tendon area. In fact, they are all over the heel and Achilles’ tendon area in the back of my feet. As a result, I have not been able to stand up very well, much less walk. So just in case I have to have surgery, I will have to cancel all the commissions that I have commissioned other artists to work on and cancel any commissions that I owe people until further notice. I will also have to notify Paypal as well, possibly. If I am to have surgery, it could possibly be months before I am able to come home and be able to pay off any artists that I have ordered commissions from. I am very sorry for this short notice, but that is what is going on right now.

On another note, my friend Cucupet, a.k.a Alaina, her dog was killed in a terrible hit and run. She had been having problems with this guy in the past, but this takes the problems to a whole new level. This guy (the driver of the hit and run vehicle) had been sending her threatening letters, e-mails, phone calls and text messages, stating that if she could not get her fucking dog to shut the hell up (her dog had severe barking and separation anxiety issues ) he was going to “settle the barking problem once and for all”. Ends up, she and her family live in the country where everyone has at least two or three dogs, a cat or two and some horses and this guy lives in the country as well but he HATES animals and anyone who has/keeps them. He claims that anyone who works with animals and/or keeps them is a Satanist and should immediately be dealt with accordingly according to what the Bible says how they should be dealt with. So one night, her dogs, Harley, Duke, Trouble, Roxy and, Jake, accidentally got out and she was calling him and her other four dogs and this same guy came speeding around the corner and aimed to hit her dogs. Four of them managed to get back inside the house just in time. Jake, however, was hit head on and killed on impact. Jake was sent flying upward and landed on the ground in front of the bad person’s vehicle. He then revved up his engine and drove over Jake’s body and therefore made sure that he was dead. Then he just drove off and left the body for Alaina to find. Alaina, after herding the other dogs into the house, came back to find Jake lying dead in her front yard.
As a result of this heartless act, she and her parents are submitting the letters, e-mails, texts and phone number to police for investigation in order to make sure that this never happens again to someone else’s beloved family member. And if anyone knows of someone sending threatening letters, texts, e-mails and/or phone calls regarding your beloved family member (namely your pets) please do not hesitate to call police. Just make sure to collect all the evidence, meaning the letters, texts, e-mails, and if you have Caller ID, get the phone number as well and submit it to police. This is a serious crime that should be dealt with accordingly and people of this type should be placed in a Federal prison as this is a serious felony. Cowards like this should be put away, possibly for 30 years-Life in prison.

And on a lighter note, things are going well at my job. I have made some new friends, mostly otherkin, and have yet to get another shop done on me. When I get my next shop, I hope I do very well. In fact, I hope I get a 100%! If that happens, I am told, I will get another raise! YAY, something to look forward to at last!! Also, next year, once things settle down with my family, I plan on returning to school for a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, and a degree in Web Design. So I am saving up all of my earnings for this.

On another somber note, I will also be gone in April to help my mom with my Great Aunt Mamie, who will be 96 next year, in getting her affairs settled and help her move into a nursing home since she can no longer take proper care of herself. She can no longer take care of her hygiene, do to arthritis, and is no longer able to walk much either, due to a recent fall. She is also having memory problems as well. Her short term memory is gone. So she will be moved April of 2012. Yikes!

Other than that, I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and I hope to be better soon! Love all of you Furaffinity members and staff!

Sincerely,

rebm

Just a note to all the artists I have commissioned. I have a new Paypal account and am now waiting for Paypal to confirm it. This will take 2-3 days. So, to everyone whom I have commissioned, please be patient.

On another note, I am a bit excited for Christmas. I have written a Christmas list that is three pages long. My "mother" informed me that I will not get most of what I asked for because of past "bad" behavior. And I will not get much anyway because my "mother" is claiming that I owe her money for the time I was sick and was in the hospital.

And on another note, I got in big trouble just for rescuing some badly abused adult Pug dogs. What led up to this was that one day, I was walking my dog and his two Pugs came running out of their front yard, which was situated in front of a busy road called Norton Road, with no leashes to restrain them. One of them tried to follow me home. So I looked at his collar and found the owner's number. I called the owner and told him his dog got out. He then showed up and told me to back away from his dog. I did so and then he kicked the dog in the face!! And then I told him that I was concerned about the dog not being on a leash and that the dog could get hit by a passing car. He said that if and when the dog gets hit, he will just purchase another dog. I asked him if he would do the same to his children and he said, "Yes, in a heartbeat!" I asked him why and he said that he has no time for his dogs because he is studying Dentistry in order to become a dentist. I later found out that this was a blatant lie. He is actually out and about selling drugs and having sexual intercourse with multiple women. He also has a drug dealer wife at home, with five children and another on the way and both parents have no job and no ambition to get a job or even want to get a job. They are basically living off of the government pensions and church donations. And even worse, he is one of these so-called Christian worshippers too. And he believes that the Bible says that animals should be treated like shit and that humans should dominate the planet and exterminate others creatures and those who the Christians deem to be Devil Worshippers which is just full of shit. He also then claimed that I was just bullying him and bossing him around. I bade him to have a good day and walked off. However, the next time his dogs got out, I called to them and both came over. I then called the shelter and informed them that these dogs were abused and tossed aside like trash and that they needed to be rescued. So Animal Control came and retrieved the dogs. Then this creep drove up at the wrong moment and saw this but did nothing and went on home. Then after the Animal Control officer left, this creep got back in his brilliant, fire engine red pickup truck and followed me home. He then sent his wife and five children to my house while I was at work and harrassed my "mother" with questions about the whereabouts of their dogs that they did not give a flip about. Then when my "mother" picked me up, she was in a raving temper. I told her, in protection of myself, said that the dogs got lost and I did not really know where they were. Then eventually the truth got out, because the little asswipe called police on me and fed them some B.S. lie about me, saying that I was going in people's yards and plucking dogs from loving owners. That is a big lie. Some of these so-called "people" are actually mistreating their animals and abandoning them and I am picking up the pieces and calling the shelter to take them in and get them better homes.

So here I was having to explain to the police officers and the Animal Control officers the history of this guy and what he does to the dogs when they are returned to him and that he is just lying. Then three of my human friends who also knew this asshole came by and actually stood up for me! They confirmed that this guy was a liar and that I never went in anyone's yards and that the animals I helped rescue were abused and abandoned and not loved or cared for at all. So the police later went and arrested the fool. Case closed. Or so I thought.

Then my "mother" closed the door and she actually believed the fool and his lies! And then she said, "Do you know that he now has to pay $70 to get the dogs out of the shelter?! And do you know that the dogs will probably be euthanized?!" I said that $70 is nothing to pay if...YOU. HAVE. A. JOB! And then I said that it is better to be euthanized than rather than be killed by a car or worse poisoned or shot by some idiot. I then asked how hard it is to just purchase a leash or collar and then microchipped. That way if the dog gets lost or stolen, the owner of the dog can be traced and the dog can be reunited with the owner. I mean, a leash is about $20 or less and microchipping a dog is only about $10 more than a simple collar! How stupid can some of these people get?!

Anyway, the police believed me and that is the bottomline. And now, this fool was let out on parole with the order of not having animals for the rest of his life. But this is not over yet. This creep is now spreading lies throughout the neighborhood about me stealing animals and my "mother" is helping him. So I am now at the dillema of explaining myself to some of the neighbors around here who don't know the truth. And he is now telling people that I steal children too!!! What a liar. He is also attacking the people who stood up for me saying that they are accomplices!

And he drives around harrassing people and saying that he will find out where they live and hurt them. Next time he comes by, I am calling police because I am scared for my safety and he can go to a state prison and be ass-raped by other inmates for all I care now. I hope the police will arrest him.

Well, that's it for now! I will write another journal tomorrow.

Peace out.

Rebm

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If you can't afford anything right now, at least advertise for me! D=
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~Porter Corgi

Please help this awesome artist!! I beg you to go see her work. No, I command you to see her work!

Taken from AylaStarDragon's journal.

A teacher in New York was teaching her class about bullying and gave them the following exercise to perform. She had the children take out a piece of paper and told them to crumple it up, stomp on it and really mess it up, not to rip it.
Then she had them unfold the paper, smooth it out and look at how scarred and dirty it was. She then told them to tell it they're sorry. Now, even though they said they were sorry and tried to fix the paper, she pointed out all the scars they left behind. And that those scars will never go away no matter how hard they tried to fix it.
That is what happens when a child bullies another child, they may say they're sorry, but the scars are there forever. The looks on the faces of the children in the classroom told her the message hit home. Copy and paste this if you are against bullying.

I myself have been a victim of physical, verbal and emotional bullying from both strangers and my parents. If only more schools and parents would see this and know what it is like to be scarred from bullying. Maybe, I would be more emotionally stable and have more love for myself and others. If the police would arrest some parents for bullying their children and raising children to be bullies themselves, this whole thing could be prevented.

Sorry for the long long wait between posts. I have been very busy and having troubles.

First off, the troubles were that my grandmother on my mom's side has passed away suddenly. She died of a sudden stroke and she also had lung cancer on top of one of her lungs. She was 84 years old. A couple of months, just to give you some insight on what was going on is that she had a heart attack and had to be rushed to the hospital. She was diagnosed then with Chronic Aortic Arrythymia (not sure of spelling) and two fully occluded arteries with one other on the well on the way to being occluded. Then a few months later, a clot that had formed in her left coronary artery in her neck moved up into her left side of the brain and she died. The stroke had left her braindead and even if she had lived, she would have had no quality of life whatsoever because she would have had chemotherapy, and she would have had no use on her right side of the body and she also would not be able to eat or talk ever again. So we, as family members, had to just let her go.

Well, I will finish this later...

I just published my website and am now accepting commissions! Here is the address to my site: http://www.wix.com/rebeccam_50/art-site

Hope you enjoy!

I am getting ready to publish a website for myself. I hope that you guys will come and visit it and view my art there! I will post a link to the site as soon as I get it published. And I will post all of my art there. I hope you guys will like it!!! I hope you guys will note me with any critiques on my website when you can when I get the site up. When I get the site up, you can contact me whenever.

Hello everyone, sorry long time no post. Especially on DeviantART. I've been sick and on vacation as of late. Two months ago, I was admitted to the hospital. You can read all about most of it on my DeviantART webpage at http://reb29.deviantart.com. My DevART name is reb29 and you can also view some of my older artworks there. With this site, I am hoping to upload some of my newer pieces only.

I was on a medical school graduation vacation. One of my cousins graduated from medical school at Vanderbilt University and just got his M.D. in Internal Medicine. We were invited to the graduation and the party afterwards. The party was great! I had loads of fun, especially visiting with this particular cousin and meeting some of cousin's cousins and their families. I also got a chance to visit a bit with my cousin's brother and his daughter, who is just so cute! And this was also a chance to visit my grandparents and my third cousin who was just born in October of last year and named Blake. Blake was adorable! And my grandparents were happy just to see me and my mom and everyone else. I also got a chance to meet some of my grandparents' friends, some of whom had Alzhiemers and kept asking the same questions over and over but were delightful to be with all the same. My mom and I stayed in a very nice La Quinta inn and the staff were very polite and welcoming. We stayed for around two weeks and then headed back home. We were lucky that we went on the vacation just before the Arkansas Mississippi River flood and left right after the highways reopened. I did manage to take some photos of the damage with just my cellphone and sent some of the photos via Multimedia Text Message to my friends. They called and said that they were astounded at the amount of damage sustained and the quality of the photos. So overall, this trip was very eventful.

Then we received some very bad news. One of my cousins on my dad's side of the family is in the hospital in critical condition due to double kidney renal failure and Type II Diabetes. Type II Diabetes caused her kidneys to shut down and her potassium levels to shoot through the roof and knocked her blood pressure out of control. Then her kidneys shut down and are no longer functional. If she survives and they get her blood pressure back under control, she will be placed on the donor list for a double kidney transplant. But the doctors aren't hopeful that she will survive due to her Diabetes and the fact that she was abused by her husband to this point when that weekend some friends of hers helped her escape and who recommended that she see a doctor right away. She refused at first, but then at the persistance of her friends and the doctor, she readily accepted the fact that she needed hospitalization. She was then admitted to the ER and they said that they were surprised that she survived this long and suffered for this amount of time before letting herself be admitted. We also found out that she was also abused as a child. Turns out and I don't mean to sound anti-christian, but this is how it is with most these days, her family worshipped the Bible and when they found that she was not your typical "good Christian child" and had some small, minor mental disabilities, they turned on her and started beating her in a most horrific manner. They would beat her to the point of near death with belts and dog leashes and bats all the while reading the Bible to her and praying over her almost lifeless body. Then they would nurse her back to health and start all over. When she grew up, she became Pagan/Wiccan, like me, and worshipped her own religious belief system. Then she married, without knowing what he was, this jerk. When he found out that his so-called "good Christian" wife was of a different religion than him when they started dating, he started beating her and often times quoting the Bible at her. She then was forced to swallow and hide her true self and become Christian. But he continued his horrific reign of tyranny on her, since he also figured out that she was mentally disabled but very slightly. He continued to believe that by beating her and reading the Bible to her routinely during these horrible sessions, that she was eventually going to be cured of this "Satanic disease" and this "Satanic cult religion of hers" and become Christian and "good". He also forced her two have two children and when the young girl was proven to be Autistic, he subjected her and her mother to even more horrific abuse. This poor Autistic child then grew into her own and became Hindu and when her father found THIS out, he got mad and beat the poor child until she was near death when her mother and friends intervened and were able to get the daughter to the hospital and the mother out of the horrible craphole of a house and husband. The son was also rescued by police. But by the time help arrived and since he was older, it was too late. He himself accepted this as normal behavior to a woman and is now behind bars for domestic violence against his ex-girlfriend. Now his mother, who is in her early fifties is in the hospital. He, the son, is in his early 20s. Pretty scary. Well, that's all for now. I better get going.

Thanks for listening.

Rebm