- End of Daughter of Fortune, misc. thoughts by ren
17 y
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Blog: Education of a Starchild
I finished Daughter of Fortune...it was a great read. I picked up Portrait in Sepia and Zorro from the library. I also checked out another book on reflexology. I need to spend a morning designing a syllabus for myself.
-getting my practical nurse license
-starting a home course in homeopathy/naturopathy
-marksmanship (I think this one might belong in my other blog but there's a lot to learn about firearms so I dunno)
Don't mind me...these are some free floating notes I'm making to myself. I was taking my break in the facility activity room and studied the modest library of books. Just sitting and observing... there's so much to read out there, so much to learn! Why bother with the negative, the trifles of life... I left my big journal at work. I don't recall exactly what I wrote but if any of coworkers decided to read through it, they'd get incredible insight into my life and personality. At first, I freaked but I calmed down because I have nothing to be embarassed about. I never talk about other people. I'm glad I keep whatever thoughts I have to myself. Whenever we put our thoughts to paper, there's always a chance someone else will read them.
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- LPN vs. RN by White Tiger
17 y
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You must have like the way Eliza cooked and learned medicinal secrets from Tao Chi'en, the Chinese cook.
Did you learn how to dress like a boy like she did?
Joaquin finally found the gold, but it was in a california bank :-p
An LPN has more fun than an RN
LPN means...Long-Playing-Nurse
RN...Regular-Nurse
Guns are really simple, you just take a deep breath, point, hold your breath and very very slowly let the air slip through your lips as you aim, squeaze your hand slowly (not just your finger) like you would squeeze an orange until you hear the shot.
Target practice until you become accurate.
Read up on your basic gun safety rules.
Learn how to clean and oil your gun after each target practice session.
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- Re: LPN vs. RN by ren
17 y
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Oh yes! I loved reading about the learning process Eliza went through. I know myself. I love being a nurse aide now but in a few years I am going to get anxious and riled up if I stay on one level. I'm limited to assisting the elderly folks get ready for bed, feed,etc. but not involved in the process of healing as far as western allopathic medicine is concerned. That's why I'm reading about reflexology. I found a lump on a man's testicle while changing his pad but what then? No one is going to help him because most people go to nursing homes to die. Matters nothing what the elderly person themselves think :(
About guns... I live in an area where hunting is a big deal so there is no shortage of ranges,shoots,etc. I have no interest in hunting animals BUT the science/art of marksmanship holds great fascination.
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- Re: LPN vs. RN by White Tiger
17 y
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Hunting is a big deal here too, and even more so when I was kid.
I went on many hunting trips as a kid and killed many animals. We ate animals and sold animal pelts. I never enjoyed killing the critters in those days but it was a necessity for the poorer people, and I no longer do it.
There is no necessity to hunt for food anymore and, pelts can not be sold anymore.
For todays hunters, the thrill is in the kill.
It is not the thrill of having food on the table anymore.
The hunters throw the dead deer on the truck and drive around as they go from store to store and park to make sure everybody gets to see their kill and admire this dead animal, as if it was a great feat to pull the trigger.
Meanwhile the blood coagulates in the animal, and the meat becomes more rancid.
In the old days, we cleaned and skinned the animal as fast as we could and strung it up by the heel strings so the blood could drain out of it faster, so the meat would not become rancid faster from the blood coagulating in the meat.
The meat was sectioned off and refrigerated, smoked or cured as fast as we could to keep it fresh.
We never did like the taste of deer, bear or any other wild game more than we liked beef or pork.
Deer meat always had that nasty gamie taste to me. Bear meat is always course and stringy no matter how you cook it.
Believe it or not, the only wild game that really taste delicious is a diamondback rattlesnake! Or snapping turtle which has the exact same taste as veal.
If you make Turtle soup with small pieces pieces of pounded veal. I will promise you that, it is impossible for the most profound connoisseur of turtle soup to taste any difference whatsoever! Or any other way you cook the veal and call it turtle meat!
I guarantee if deer tasted as good as some people claim, farmers would be raising deer just like they raise cattle or hogs.
Deer meat has to be soaked in some kind of vinegary stuff to disquise the taste, but I will admit the only part worth eating is the steak part (venison) which is not very much of on a deer.
I have eaten deer, raccoon, even possum *ugh!, wild turkey, rattlesnake, turtle, wild geese, bear, rabbit and the list goes on.
There is still nothing that taste as good as the domestic animals raised for food on your table.
My guess is that none of this interest you. I was just reminiscing about my old days after I saw you talking about hunting :-P
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- Re: LPN vs. RN by ren
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| It is fascinating to hear the stories :-) My father-in-law still hunts at 79. He and his hunting buddy dress the deer right out in the field and then stocks his freezer. I respect hunting for the pot. I just don't understand the pictures in the local newspaper of the last deer hunt *lol8
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- Re: LPN vs. RN by yourenchantedgardener
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- Re: LPN vs. RN by kerminator
15 y
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