Kitchen store and new pans

After stopping in at one of my favorite hangouts, (kitchen store) yes i am a geek, the owner told me about a report from the late 70's which did not get alot of attention. The coating of non-stick pans and skilets over time leach into your food and can chip and peal off. The effect is shocking. The coating goes to your kidneys and then due to is structure does huge ammounts of dammage. This stunned me. I could be hurting my children every time I cook. With some digging arround in the basement I dug out grandma's cast iron collection. This is a set that no one should be with out. Skilet, duchoven, deep skilet, and griddle. After some complaining from my wife all of our non-stick stuff went out the door and in the trash. What I found out was if you season the cast iron right it creates a natural non stick surfice.

Sleep problems

The bed that I sleep in is getting in bad repair. The bed is sagging. After a few years of ware and tare the center of the bed is sagging lower than the bed edging. With the problems with my back and knees I need to get a mattress that holds my back well enough and wont kill my pocket book. I am thinking about using a futon (japanese) mattress with a cheep or ok frame. This should not put me back too much but it still is going to hurt. I can't sleep in bed with my wife because of the schedual I keep. There is a problem with temp control between me and my wife. She is a tropical princess and I am a winter person. If I could go and write a check I would go to my friends store and get what he has called the "Ultimate Sleep Center". That would be a 11" futon and a very pretty sofa/bed frame.

Heat

I am looking for a way to heat part of the house. Kind of like the english way of wintering. Heating only the rooms that my daughters and wife sleep in. There are many ways to do this but there are only a few that could save me money. What I am thinking is about is getting an electric heater that could keep their rooms warm but the rest of the house would stay at about 50 or 65. During the day running the heat enough to keep the chill out of the air. During the night keeping their room with the heater.

A little knowledge is a dangours thing, but so is alot of knowledge

If anyone knows what that quote came from Ill be impressed. I am stuck at work for another 12 hours. I am thinking back of where everything went haywire. I am addicted to coffee, chocolate, children's Easter candy and camping. Let's face it I am pathetic. My children which are pictured here and here are both the love of my life and the bane of my existence.I am paying off my bills as fast as I can and looking into fixing or rigging up something for heat for the winter so we are not socked with the lovely 350 heating bill for a mid month expense. Beyond all that my life is great!!!!

COB

In military terms that is close of business, or final formation. I am about to hand over an empty building to the next guard. I cant wait to go home and get some sleep. Once again to be back in about 5 hours to take over for my next shift. I work about 36-40 hours in 3 days. The rest of the week is spent teaching my daughters stuff they need to know in order for them to go to kindergarten. Next I think Ill teach them how to eat paste.

sleepy starved and board.

later.

looking out the window at hell

It is way to early and I am still at work. Having to pull a double followed by two 12's the next two days. I am looking out on what could be called the most depressing sight I think I could ever imagine. The window is just a plane sheet of black. Rain and more rain. Siting out here in the middle of nowhere with the closest town about 20 miles away. Because of Pa nothing is open at night. Pa has a wired way of doing business that everything shuts down about 7pm. I need to be back down south or in the west. I am use to having things open for 24hours or at least till 1am. Even in my old home town in Arkansas there was something to do at night. I miss having the options of being able to call or run out and get stuff.

This job is not paying enough and even if they pull us up to the promised 40 hours I don't know if we could make it on this. I have been told that this is as good as it gets for this area. What happened to the American dream??? I mean relay, what happened. If you work like a dog you might be able to make you rent and utilities and don't even think about saving.

more later. got to do my rounds.

Loosing weight.

When I was new in the army this was not so hard. We ran about 5 miles every other day. Now with a bad back and replaced knees it is a lot harder than I expected. Reduce caloric intake and up the exercise is what we were taught in way back. Now there are so many choices for diet that it is making my head spin. Does anyone have a weight loss program that actually works without paying heavily for pre packaged food????

anyone chime in anytime with answers.

Battle Plans Stage 1

1st Loose Weight. Have to reduce my weight by at least 100lbs.
2nd Get re-trained. Either by my self or get someone else to pay for school.
3rd Start working to being debt free and wipe out the credit crunch.

if I can get these three at least started then I will be in better position to start Stage 2

Thinking of what happened....

I am at work sitting here in an empty building watching the clock on my 16 hour shift. Was life supose to be this boring or so pointless. I work for a security company who I would not trust my goldfish to. I am always behind in my bills because all the good jobs in the area have been outsourced. I went from making about 30 an hour down to 10 in three years. I have a collage degree and I think i would have done better if I had hung it up my first year and drove a truck. I am overweight because of my broken back and replaced knees that the army gave me. They never tell you that you will be tossed away when you sign up. The army was a great thing for me but I think I should have done something else insead of electronics. We are stuck in Pa for the time being. But things are going to change because I am going to make them change.