Special Note: I am STILL working as a teacher in Chesterfield. I got the job with my completed University degree being verified, and I passed all criminal background checks back in the year 2019 when I was hired. Here are some of my latest classroom photos from this week’s projects pictured below. In addition I work two other jobs, and donate plasma. They drug test you REGULARLY when you plasma donate, and I passed ALL drug tests as clean. I point this out because I got an e-mail this week that a bitter wanna-be ex-boyfriend from a past job was spreading lies that I was an opioid drug addict. I would NOT be able to do teaching work, or plasma donation if this was true. Background checks and drug tests would have gotten me LONG ago as they check VERY carefully, and constantly, at both plasma and teaching centers.
Every year I watch teacher videos on “no sexual harassment in the workplace” and think “this could never happen” then I am sadly proven wrong when I open the newspaper. Please be aware that MANY men single and married have lost lawsuits for falsely accusing women of job or drug misconduct when they are REALLY bitter about being refused for dating and sexual advances in the workplace. Do people think sexual harassment offenders put on a billboard next to a freeway what they are doing? No they disguise it as “helpful” information. Many men hate competing with women for education, jobs, and money. This is where the anger is REALLY coming from in gender prejudice. I have been battling this so often in Virginia my voice is horse from repeating it at this point. No means no, and no woman owes men intimacy regardless of background.
I am moving away from Virginia as a project, but I need moving app recommendations. My family forced me to move here originally, and the experience has been horrific agony. I am saving every dime from my work to move from the dumpster fire called Virginia. There has been a lack of men to date I fully hate. What men I have dated have been abusive, and vicious. The tiny amount of nice ones abandoned me in a week. You know those dates that end up friends? Never happens in Virginia. This doesn’t happen to me in other areas. The art and local music completely suck, no one is friendly, and the clubs are all run by criminal idiots constantly robbing customers. Until the wonderful day where the rain storm of emotional pain ends, I am seeking information on leasing. Unfortunately many apps come up short on information. Until I can permanently move I am going to be RV road trip visiting other places often seeking rental information because the apps I have tried lack good information.
The online video game Line Play has me obsessed this month. My player code is JN68518106 so add me to friends. I just got my first riding pet so I need challengers for the races. I still play my other top loved games like Avakin Life, Lord of the Rings online, and World of Warcraft, but Line Play has an online journal that reminds me of the old school Live-journal level of activity.
This is January the month of New Years Resolutions. I personally am fond of my Fitbit I first started using in 2013. With so much fake information on the market how can you tell the real from the fake? I give the book “The Allie Diet Plan” by Caroline Apovian M.C. (c) 2007 a good review because it is not all celebrities selling crap with charisma. It has many research reports by Universities and doctors. Alli works without stimulants, and so it will not cause headaches. One side issue it does have is to start off you should take it on the weekend, or after work only. If you are female wear an extra panty liner. It will cause stomach upset at first. Afterwards it DOES make you lose 10 pounds without feeling jittery, and so it is good for resolutions.
As with any plan diet is not enough you will need to do fitness activities as well. The author Apovian MD works for the Metabolic Support Service at the Boston University Medical Center. She is also an associate professor of medicine. She verifies many research studies and shows the product is one that works. Then she recommends you wear a pedometer like Fitbit and walk 2 miles or bike 5 miles 4 to 5 days a week on page 47 and 110. Next she says chart what you eat on an app like MyFitnessPal. When “calories in” is less than “calories out” the magic happens. Fitness diagrams start on page 119. On page 133 the book turns into a lowfat diet cookbook with tasty foods made into diet dishes. Eggs and potatoes on page 146. Tuna noodle casserole pg 203, Sesame Fried Tofu pg 187, and Garlic Spaghetti p 256 are the ones I like best.
Fitness is not JUST about looks. Heart health, bone strength, and blood pressure can all suffer if diet and activity suffer. I like the this book author promotes the product, and does not say it is a “magic wand” or quick fix. I have gotten results from the plan in the past, and am re-starting it now. The well formatted research based plan has credibility, and I recommend it for resolutions. New Years is the one time you can talk about fitness without taking too much crap for it, and so I figured I’d mention my favorite tips.
Episode 10 of Season 5 – The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
*Note this is a double post due to a new posting schedule.
Promo: The Book Review Podcast by Andrea Menzies called Frozen History Seven Book Review Podcast has moved to https://frozenhistory7publishing.wordpress.com at 8 P.M. on Tuesdays. Checkout the new reviews weekly!
Episode 10 of Season 5 was posted over a year after the 9th one due to a fire. I was in an apartment I have moved away from due to fire damage eating my old podcast equipment. The old elaborate and complex podcast I streamed heavily was largely a side effect of extreme pandemic boredom. Like many people sitting at home being isolated I wanted more human interaction, and talking about books was a fun way to start it off. I streamed it on many pages with over 5000 followers each on 4 service providers including Facebook and YouTube. However, I am now re-employed full time, and I do NOT have as much time to read, and video stream detailed interviews and reviews. Plus viewers and reader have no time for long reviews, and so I can not get the huge streaming crowds of the pandemic era so shorter things work better all around.
I have finally admitted the new format forever needs to be short podcast-blog hybrid posts. Podcasts promos will be on Podbean and YouTube with other services for advertisement. The blog at the address http:www.frozenhistory7publishing.wordpress.com will have the ONLY reviews for books. When it comes to Internet URLs “In the end there can be only one.” It is like the Highlander movie. These blogs will be short with a few sentences of praise for the things I like, and that is it. I have way too much job-work to do these days, and so now it is short and sweet for posts on this blog.
I have chosen WordPress because you can load up many pre-scheduled post in a row. Keeping a posting schedule online is easier there, and so Tuesday 8 PM will be the new post-time. (This post however will be pre-posted online to kick off the new schedule quickly.)
*Start of Review*
The first book that has re-started my book praise kick is Anne Rice The Witching Hour as it is a great book I highly recommend. Not all books from the National Bestseller list or the Main Selection of the Book of the Month club are G rated, and this book is for older readers as it is R rated. This book is created by a female writer that is VERY homesick for New Orleans and the Garden District there. It is filled with vivid imagery of jasmine and roses in poetic gloom. The TV channel AMC is making the book series of the Witching Hour into a TV series starting January 8, 2023 at 8 P.M. The fact that this book reenactment is right up the ally of my old book review podcast, and almost passed without comment on my podcast made the podcast gain new life. I first read this book as a teenager girl, and moved to New Orleans after reading these books. The series seems completely changed after I really lived next to and in the New Orleans Garden District for years as I went to Loyola University in New Orleans and graduated with my first University Degree there. Truth is stranger than fiction in New Orleans. I listen to the famous song “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans” by Louis Armstrong sometime and remember how homesick I was when I left. This book is written in the thrall of that emotion.
I highly recommend this book and show, and the revival of reading and book love this show represents. Book, movie, and TV show tie-ins were heavily a focus of my old podcast, and are part of the new format today.
That is all I have time for today. Thank for reading, and hit like, subscribe, and leave comments as much as you can today.
Not only is The Mayfair Witches on AMC cable, but it has a great podcast you can follow on Spotify or Podbean by the same name. The Mayfair Witches is sentimental to me as the story takes place in the same area I went to University in for 4 years and graduated from at Loyola University New Orleans. It brings back so many memories!
