Natalie

(Added) Sugar Detox 2.0 - 13 Days marked and... counting! 100 Days of Thanks - 61% complete Duolingo - I am still trying to slow down due to the notebook catching up time... Armageddon - now on chapter 15 post-interlude... CBS!Isaiah - this week's class was cancelled due to COVID-19 Today's Quick Reads: Buddy Bison's Yellowstone Adventure (most distracting educational book I've ever read by far besides the sex ed I wanna read at some point in the future) and the 2019 bilingual Disney Farm Animal board book (recommended for kids aged 2-5) This Past Weekend's Quick Reads Included Woodpecker Wham, Eat Like a Bear, and Vulture View (all by the same author and illustrator who were brought to you by Squirrels Leap, Squirrels Sleep - again recommended for grades K-3)

Armageddon (Left Behind, #14 in chronological order) by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

(Added) Sugar Detox 2.0 - 11 Days marked and... counting! 100 Days of Thanks - <60% complete Duolingo - just trying to slow down due to the notebook catching up time... Armageddon - 202 pages in... CBS!Isaiah - pretty much on hold and the school district was closed for up to 10 business days due to the coronavirus; I am not sure whether the fellowship classes are going to get optionally cancelled over time or not because I have never experienced such withdrawal from the public outings in my life before - everyone's scared of the virus right now...

February is such a difficult month for me... my friend passes on from cancer and I was ill at least twice. None of which came from covid19. I suffered from respiratory issues and they were very mild. Nothing too serious... The good news: I finally resumed Left Behind with book 14 called Armageddon! I can't wait to finish before yet another Super Tuesday near now (my state is participating in the primaries this upcoming week). I survived the novelization of Frozen 2 and Resurrected Light combined. But... I am not sure what happened earlier since I don't remember anything else this past month. Correction: I did a bit of Face-to-Face Volume 2 from the last several pages of the preface up until the end of chapter 2. Quick reads included Squirrels Leap, Squirrels Sleep (recommended for grades K-3), a small 20+-page biography of Jim Henson (recommended for ages 8-11), and the Seattle Walk Report (y'know for kids since it is dumbed down enough to be aimed at elementary schoolers who were interested in walking adventures and nothing's too complex like Seattle in real life where the big bad city was run by "corporate" Democrat Socialists that spawned the homeless in the disguise as criminals and the insane minded for some). And I almost forgot to tell you something: I finished my sugar detox and started another one.

It has been a while since I last posted this, and I am kinda sorry that the coronavirus just spread throughout my entire county in the past week or so. I feel kinda sorry for the poor people who are vulnerable to this kind of a latest illness in the world. That affected my constant going-out as I was being told to stay home by the fake news media, even though I wasn't sick (well almost due to the sliver of a cucumber on top of Adam's apple). There was nothing to worry about but just myself and health whatsoever... I wasn't mentally stable, but physically I was well. Am I really demon-possessed? Am I nothing but a sociopath? And am I a psychopath? I slowly moved on to other things, but the news and information are still in the way of my daily life. That took a little toll on me as I saw cases and cases of the coronavirus go up. My county had like less than 100 if I underestimate it right, but a few people perished from the infection (some are residents of a nursing home). I know, I know... #covid19 #stopgermsstayhealthy

It has been 2 days since my last post and I am trying to feel a little bit better; but however, it turns out that I cannot eat meat and other hard foods as of yesterday at the ER. I was okay eating flaky fish, but I don't feel comfortable eating things like old-fashioned circus cookies, freeze dried apples, and pretzels. I am not really up to popcorn. I thought I was going to just eat purees and drink smoothies. Water counts as the vocal cords need it the most. The Internet tells you to stay away from alcohol, nicotine, miscellaneous smoke, and caffeine, yet my heart is at rest and I am capable of drinking a cup of coffee. My neck hurts left and right, knowing I was in a bit of pain and I should've considered either a humidifier or IcyHot compressors. I kinda hate to reduce the quality of life to zero because do you know the reason why my old friend passes on shortly after my sugar detox ended? She had a brain tumor and considers going for radiation therapy, and so she did. However, it accidently killed off the pituary glands and retina. The hormone receptors can't respond properly. It was really unexpected while I was still fasting from sugar. Kinda reminds me of "the child" being taken away into heaven at the very end of the mess... that was about more than a month ago. I feel sorry for her. 😢😭

I can't talk right now. I am writing to you an update instead. 1. Something frustrating happened yesterday: a cucumber edge shaped like a smile was in the bottom of a throat and I can't seem to get this thing out despite the fact it will take a few more weeks if not a bit more longer than expected. 2. I finished Frozen 2 in a rush, but I wasn't in a hurry with Resurrected Light. I believe it should've been done by now before the primary campaigners are mailed in a ballot. But no... I was at a part where the characters transform into white spirits. 3. I will hopefully be back once when I am 100% better!

This past weekend is pretty much more like some kind of a mixed bag, but yesterday was a good time to dye my hair a different color to burgundy. I had some suicidal thoughts because: a. I've seen some stupid trainwreck finally with Dad and b. I already felt the loss of a loved one from cancer the past week. When we come back home, I watched YouTube for one hour and I had fun watching it with my "pet Toto Buddy" (he's a small black Scottish terrier stuffed animal with a red and white striped scarf attached). It ended on a really good note... I got my evening cup of mocha for 20 minutes and watched the news for like 40 minutes. For the next hour, I saw the usual: Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. Once when an usual hour is up, I went back to my room and watched one more video on YouTube. By the time the next video was starting, I was only a minute in when the soonest part was so funny, I just wanna laugh because that is what all it took too long and didn't care. My sisters and I were used to keeping track of little critters at one point during childhood (back in the 2000s) because it is a bonus sim game. I wasn't quite sure if I have to come back to the bridge behind me or not, but I don't have the space, time, and money to do so which is good. We went out to Wendy's and I had a kids meal for dinner: plain cheeseburger, apple bites, and a bottle of chocolate milk. They gave me a free toy: a 3D puzzle of a giraffe. Man, how overrated! Oh, good night. I mean... how "original"! I am planning to build the giraffe sometime and use it as a home decor. Perfect for kids in a modern home I see over and over and over on HGTV at Grandma's house. Then I let go of the thoughts and emptied my mind while I was lying in bed with my "pet Toto Buddy". How could she (my old friend who is recently deceased)?! I was waiting for the memorial service to show up officially, but nothing happened quite yet... I did the journal of the planned speech for the funeral of my old friend in the other half of the entry compared to the first half of the entry talking about how my day went. Again, nothing progressed any further for the day except for the countdown to both my next sugar detox and my next weight loss clinic appointment. I fell asleep, feeling much better somehow. The mental recovery would take 1 to almost 2 days before the next visit to Grandma's.

It has been a few days now since I last posted and I am nearly better. I have been annoyed by being so forced to go see the latest movie I really don't need to watch because it has nothing to do at all with something I had admired as a kid. Ugh... I hate it when it happens like this these past two or three days... Thanks a lot, Dad! Moving on... Resurrected Light - 2/3 complete (I am on the cliffhanger when a character purposes marriage to his lover - the question was asked: "Will you marry me?" And we'll never get to see the response afterwards. As always, I don't want to spoil you the last one third of a story each time because it was a literary advice from 11th grade.) Frozen 2: A Deluxe Junior Novelization by David Blaze - 36% complete (17 chapters in) and going real fast... I have seen the movie called "The Man Who Came to Dinner" today. It was really a holiday film in disguise, they used the penguins as secondary objectives compared to the local play poster ads - for which it was based on "a stage play" - I had already seen several years back. Duolingo - still trying to focus on the composition notebook for Norwegian while finding the right new words; haven't done anymore Spanish today (Added) Sugar Detox - the next one begins in 10 days 100 Days of Thanks - <40% complete 8 Days Until Next Weight Loss Appointment CBS!Isaiah - volume 2, page 27 (some questions are answered and others haven't)

The doctor said that I only have a few more weeks after I run out of medicine to recover back to normal, which is considered somewhat good. Now, I am facing life or death when it comes to curing the chest congestion in me beyond dealing with my breathing problems (which somehow declined to the point where I was at a normal range of the breaths per minute - it went from 20 to 12 in less than three days; same thing with the oxygen saturation percentage ranging from 98-100%, but I called 97% according to the latest charts a new low as I am getting closer to being at risk for having low oxygen saturation if I don't keep up with the antibiotics - and I feel somewhat better in ways I wish I would feel free to do with my respiratory system 24/7). Now then, onto the overall progress of how are things going in my log of stuff here. Norwegian and Spanish via Duolingo - I am trying to get at least 100 XP or more everyday, so I can stay ahead in the "leagues" and move on. (Added) Sugar Detox - the next one begins in 13 days 100 Days of Thanks - 35% complete Resurrected Light - I got ten-plus chapters read this week and I need some more left to go. Ah, I miss fiction! 11 Days Until Next Weight Loss Appointment (despite the fact that I had a brief respiratory problem) CBS!Isaiah - I need some catching up time to do while I am still recovering from an illness.

I found out that last Monday I only had shortness of breath. I was only .15 points away from being diagnosed with PE/DVT when in reality it was just aspiration pneumonia. In the case of emergencies, I have a red inhaler in my parents' bedroom and I have perscription drugs that will help me breathe better. Plus, it'll take away the affected area from my body, thus making a part of my lower right arm to develop a skin rash.

I am a tad bit sick. I am sorry for the inconvenience. The doctor's appointment is likely tomorrow. I barely had difficult breathing, but I really don't have a fever. Right now, my temperature is at 98.1 degrees Fahreinheit. It doesn't mean I have pneumonia. Maybe it's strep throat. Maybe it is bronchitis. I dunno for sure. I'll see if I get the stupid food particle from last Tuesday evening out of my throat, chest, and lungs.

Norwegian via Duolingo - I had learned a few new words, but my Norwegian grammar was already messed up for now 'cause I was going too fast and I just wanted a break already that now I already completed my checkpoint test from nearly a week ago. I am working on the second unit right now. I am not moving on as of yet since I have to record new words into the composition notebook. I am familiar with some of the words I just wrote in the memo paper for the past month like "smørbrød" for sandwiches, "kaffe" for coffee, "te" for tea, or "jordbær" for strawberry. (Added) Sugar Detox - ending tonight at 11:59 PM PST 100 Days of Thanks - 32% complete Face to Face Volume 2 - now on chapter 3, I am taking a break... 15 Days Until Next Appointment What I Will Do Within 1 Week Say goodbye to my old friend (I know she had cancer, but life is short for her) Sign up for work-study via local library. - contact the human resources Get involved in my sister's local community college - sign up for sewing class(es) over the Internet Do lessons 18 and 19 of CBS!Isaiah

Norwegian via Duolingo - moved on to the second unit right after maximizing unit 1 and doing my first ever checkpoint test as of yesterday (Added) Sugar Detox - 6 days left to go 100 Days of Thanks - 27% complete Face to Face Volume 2 - will plan to read the Introduction and up 20 Days Until Next Appointment What I Will Do Within 1 Week Sign up for work-study via local library. - contact the human resources Get involved in my sister's local community college - sign up for sewing class(es) over the Internet Do lesson 18 of CBS!Isaiah

@Amphibian220 Here is the link for the summary. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25226215-the-epic-fail-of-arturo-zamora

I am about a month of being (added) sugar-free! Yay! My next sugar detox will be better than the previous one I am currently taking now (it ends on Monday). It will take place on February 26th. Hopefully, I will pass the 20-day mark and break the record of being (added) sugar-free, thus I am gonna make it to day 41 blameless and free of corruption for real next time.

Do more Spanish and Norwegian via Duolingo - Today, I will review things in a turquoise composition notebook for the first checkpoint test that now the weekend is over when I fulfilled the goal of maximizing greetings and actions skills. This morning, I maximized the animals skill and will plan on maximizing two more skills for the day: phrases and food. (Added) Sugar Detox - 7 days left 100 Days of Thanks - 26% complete Face to Face Volume 2 - just finished the preface section as of yesterday (it took me like 3 months to get there from the beginning, so I am glad I did it by far) 21 Days Until Next Appointment What I Will Do Within 1 Week Sign up for work-study via local library. - contact the human resources Get involved in my sister's local community college - sign up for sewing class(es) over the Internet

Hello. I only posted a limited amount of tags, but I cannot add anymore of it into my journal of productivity because some contain health content and some if not the very least would contain finances, job, education (because of college (that used to be mine) or high school for some of you), and other life circumstances. What could I do to create a new tag? Somebody, please help. It would be awesome. Thank you!

New Month's Resolution: February 2020 Go find fabrics at JoAnn's - done as of last night Check out a next batch of books to be read from the local library (e.g. No More Mr. Nice Guy?, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Songs of Willow Frost, the first two Hannah Swensen sequels) - will do once when I read and reviewed Draw Me a Star Do more Spanish and Norwegian via Duolingo - got a bit of Norwegian taken care of, but will review things in a turquoise composition notebook for the first checkpoint test (keep in mind I am planning to maximize the greetings skill following by actions this weekend) Sugar Detox - 9 days left 100 Days of Thanks - c. 24% complete I finally got Armaggedon as of last night. I am planning to read today. 23 Days Until Next Appointment Sign up for work-study via local library. - contact human resources Get involved in my sister's local community college - sign up for sewing class(es) over the Internet There are a few books at home that I would like to have it fully accomplished that I NEVER get to finish in 2019 alone: Face to Face Volume 2, Neverwhere, and 5 Levels of Leadership. Maybe, I would reset Arms From the Sea all over again because I was only at the beginning and DNF (just started and abruptly gave up due to circumstances of life). Note to self: don't forget to read Resurrected Light by Savanna MacPhee because Valentine's Day is coming up shortly. CBS!Isaiah - will catch up and get ahead hopefully every week

New Month's Resolution: February 2020 Go find fabrics at JoAnn's Check out a next batch of books to be read from the local library (e.g. No More Mr. Nice Guy?, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Songs of Willow Frost, the first two Hannah Swensen sequels) Do more Spanish and Norwegian via Duolingo Finish a not-so-perfect sugar detox by next Monday (I know I cannot relapse once I am over 50% of the process 'cause I have been tempted to just "run to the pantry" a few times before) and start a new but better one by Ash Wednesday or, my 10th spiritual anniversary of "turning away from sin and being faithful to the gospel" Keep up with 100 Days of Thanks It is better to finish the Left Behind series sooner than just never. Why NOW?! My next weight loss clinic appointment is on Monday the 24th of February. I just wanna see how many pounds I have hopefully dropped from 214.6 lbs and onwards. My same question: Am I ever gonna remain the same gosh-darn 216.4 lbs or is it gonna go up I'm afraid? Hopefully NOT! Sign up for work-study via local library. Get involved in my sister's local community college (it is more than just typical like mine with a bunch of very vulnerable people from minority groups (they just want their voice to be heard 24/7 while drowning out my own and I won't give up on fighting back always) - it is a technical school and I am not sure what racial/ethical demographics students seem to just fit in) While I wait for my next batch of books to be placed on hold, I will read Resurrected Light by Savanna MacPhee ('cause Valentine's Day is right around the corner). And I would like to finish February off with the continuation of Neverwhere and hopefully finish The 5 Levels of Leadership before I can finally move on. Nuff said!

Yesterday was a mood swing day. I just started my period, but it is spotty with small dark patches all around knowing I have the "sickness of the flower". Keep in mind I am not teenaged anymore. I am a grownup and I know what it is like to be a cis hetero feminine female since 1996. It's 2020 and one month is closing in on me. I would like to look back a decade 'cause I know it is gonna be posted late. Here it goes... I did junior high track and field twice, had done other sports and PE the entire 9th grade, graduated junior high a valedictorian, moved on to high school a sophomore, worked my way up the ladder in one year and got promoted back to the resource program, enjoyed much of my high school experience within the society on campus though I was leaning more into the liberal arts aspect with music and drama (I've seen a few broadway shows within a fewish years or something, but I enjoyed it - have you seen Anything Goes or Arsenic and Old Lace? Let me know in the comments or simply, click on the textbox below the post and have fun reflecting), and had been to the multicultural show at least twice. One show we tapdanced as a group and the other is me singing to a song my Mom chose. I sang 3 of 5 verses, and I DNF because I developed stage fright after rehearsing and performing over and over with the group too many times in my life. The reason why I developed stage fright at the last minute is because of too much memorization and me forgetting the 2 latter verses in public. And another reason is because I used the hobby of reading literature books as escapism since sophomore year with Reading Improvement class (that's 11th grade IEP-level English course). I am not the only one who was at a loss of words during a performance. Other people done it beforehand. Less than two-ish months later, I made a comeback with a song I chose on my own during the moving up assembly and my parents missed out on my standing ovation. I know for sure that one day I am gonna be the next American Idol and nothing is gonna stop me from letting my childhood ambition come to fulfillment. But the day after the moving up assembly, I graduated from high school on June 13, 2014. I know what I am gonna do after high school: I am going to the local community college I have been bound of since age 16. It took me 3 years from visiting just the outside of a campus to finally being accepted at just age 19. Between my original high school graduation and my first week of college, I have generated a ME book project and many more journal entries that had everything to do with my "vain imagination" mixed in with reality altogether. But then, I had been on and off with my boyfriend sometimes. In other times, I had company with my sisters and friends, even though at one point an ignored group of men hit me with a ball a few times not aware of the surroundings with people around them. During my time on the high school campus grounds, three students died in different times. I graduated with a decent GPA score of 3.77. In my college life, there was always ups and downs with me being serious with all of the homework accomplished and whatnot as far as social life goes. At least in the past 4 years of my life, things changed. When things changed, God is good! My two older cousins from my maternal side of family are married and had kids. Both of my dogs died. Both of my sisters graduated high school. I worked my butt off, completing requirements what I needed to accomplish in my degree, and I finally graduated college with distinction and an associates degree in Arts and Science. I am game free for almost 8 months until Christmas and I am about a month free from video games again! #icandothis Thank y'all for reading and happy belated New Year. Not only that but you wish me a happy belated 24th birthday, too.

(Added) Sugar Detox - 28 days marked and counting (13 to go) 100 Days of Thanks - now 1/5 complete Duolingo - I had done a bit of more Spanish than Norwegian today, but then again I am taking a day at a time with the two (I didn't know Mom could do some German like Dad would, but it was my friend's heritage language (in case you are not confused with his native language called English).). CBS!Isaiah - my workbook is finished for now until tomorrow morning during the fellowship meeting Epic Fail - The reason why I finished the book today is it made me wanna do more Spanish Duolingo for like one lesson every 3 chapters of the book. What was so funny and weird is I completed it on José Martí's 167th heavenly birthday EVER (eh, he died exactly 104 years before Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was released to the cinemas)! Have you read his poetry before? Then you should look it up on the Internet for more information. In the search bar, type in "José Martí", click on the magnifying glass button, and viola! You got results about him! I don't know what happened to the Hungarian poet I learned a bit from back in 2017 with "Blood Rose Rebellion", but I must be on the search for him in some way. Anyone help me who it is? Thanks! By the way, The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora was a very predictable book. I can't tell you spoilers ahead. Note: this is a story aimed at "children and young adults". I'm out of a targeted demographic. Who cares? Next paragraph... I mean everyone in my generation is literally into Harry Potter, Twilight, Hunger Games, Divergent, and Game of Thrones with some bit of HSM in it growing up. But then... they went their own separate ways instead. I am different from everybody and it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. I mean these franchises are overrated back in the day, it is that bad, nobody cares... I was in love with the original Percy Jackson series back in 2012 and it was that good. It wasn't until a few years later in 2017 when I did the Left Behind series and I just wanna wrap it up before the uber-democrats get more and more crazy for the agenda of "everyone is getting a fair share". My 2018 entry in my secondhand plum primrose journal will be posted on my blog sometime this year for more specific details, but I just don't want to link it. I will do something different within the same website. I have sleep to work on... 😴😪😴😪😴😪😴😪

Agree. Except... I called the "basement" floor as my own since I live in a house that is a half-century old. To be honest, I have a learning disability since age 2 and I can't have a job for the past six or so-ish years now due to the social security income by big government. Worse case scenario: I am never gonna have $1k in savings and $200 in checking in a long run. Anyways, welcome to GQ. Good luck!

To recount all of this, let's get moving before I have to go to sleep and not wait until midnight for a new day of devotions. Sugar Detox - 27 days marked and counting (14 to go) like I have said earlier 100 Days of Thanks - now 19% complete Duolingo - I had enough for the day. I am so tired working on Norwegian all day (not literally, but most of it due to an afternoon in downtown of my hometown with immediate family) CBS!Isaiah - will work more on it starting tomorrow Epic Fail - 18 chapters in and I know for sure I have to just "write here". My tan physical spiral journal deserves some love as I promise to self I will catch up page after page. Good night! See you tomorrow. I have to go to bed. Zzz... 😪😴😪😴😪😴😪

@Amphibian220 I am talking about the 40+ day fast from added sugar not only for my physical wellness but it is because of my healing from the pre-existing chronic conditions as a way to start 2020 right with swift action. The fruit was fine because it contains natural sugar content all the way. Kobe Bryant was one of the greatest LA Lakers of all time. He was a basketball player. The sports world remembers him and it has been going on for nearly two days now. He died pursuing the basketball dream. Joining him in the afterlife was a 13-year old daughter named Gigi (in case you are not confused with my younger second cousin from my mom's side of family who will be 3 on Annunciation Day (March 25) with her older twin brother), a basketball coach from a local college, and 6 others in the accident. It's official that Mom said we can finally get a chance to continue doing the workbook tomorrow. I know I was sorry for the delays because I now live in "a sports town" (that is Seattle by itself).