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Some moms lie!, for money

Monday, January 18th, 2010

And waste a week of my time argg!!!!

I bought the Graco ‘imonitor vibe’ this week. Tax included it was $100.00. No tissue’s included for the nose bleed.

What made it stand out was the 2000 feet range. “Wow!” I thought, “I can go to the storage room/car/gym without packing for a pilgrimage.”

On the package is a peaceful pink and rosy child having beautiful dreams. Across her head it in capitals screams DIGITAL. It must me the one for me.

When I get it home after a day of charging both appliances monitor and walking parental unit, I couldn’t make it down the hallway of my apartment building without the sound cutting out. If you have an apartment built in the last 200 years this piece of plastic is a true waste of money.

My sister says she bought the ‘Safety first’ brand baby monitor.She also lives in an apartment block with the usual interferences of non Amish proportions i.e TV, phone, concrete (to think how far we have come) and her packaging read monitor has a rage of 300 feet…


So I thought I would warn you all.

Oh and just to mention what pushed me toward buying this particular brand, on the monitor itself there is a sticker that proudly announces it is ‘mom tested’ this is a review from Parenting magazine. Well la-di DA! I guess those moms have some morning cocktails rice paper houses.

P.S I wasn’t paid to say this. Although I wouldn’t mind.



The Paranormal

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

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Paranormal what does it conjure for you? Ghosts, UFOs, angels, God like experiences, black cats? From my experience a large amount of people believe in things that are not scientifically confirmed.

I had an odd feeling that more people are inclined to believe in the unseen as late but upon internet cruising it seems skeptic.com says ‘More than half of all Americans believe we can heal each other by psychic or spiritual means. About one-third believe in telepathy and about one-fourth believe in clairvoyance ‘. Then goes on to state only 20% believe in after life communication.

I can be a skeptic. I have had hypnosis for quitting smoking that failed. My deep subconscious couldn’t shake the treat. Only drug treatments from doctors worked.

That I put down to how ’suggestible’ I am. For the test go here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcYnVPbX_6I

In any case I am open to discussion of these things as I am a ‘believer’. I saw a UFO when was 9 with my friend at the time. Since then I have always been fascinated with things that are not so mainstream. Perhaps even before then.

Scientists now are saying they have found a ‘God module’ that when stimulated forms hallucinations and God-like experiences. Duhhhh!-If we didn’t have a place in our brain for this to happen where would it be coming from? The fish in the air. Then it becomes the chicken or the egg argument of which came first.

Personally I am more interested in what it can do for us. Being one diagnosed as bi-polar I have long thought that epileptic people and saints had much to do with each other. Not in that ‘mad/artisan way, but in the area of the brain that controlled god like experiences, energy levels and emotion. I always assumed it was the pituitary gland which is more of a primary hormone center. I was wrong. Obviously I am no scientist I just take guesses and see if the pieces fit.

And to me this is all under the unseen paranormal because when you don’t totally know what a disease is sprung from or why it is still undefined. The difference between that and UFOs and back cats and such is that they have more of a stigma associated to them. When we look into the unseen it is scary and sometimes it easier to shrug it off than delve too deep.

However now we can see what science will do with this if mental illness can be cured by further knowledge of the ”God Module’ Until then we can have our experiences and leave it at that.