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myjaxon February 22nd, 2007

I don’t get what the problem is.  So a state wants to make it a requirement that sixth grade girls receive a vaccine that will help prevent cancer.  That seems like a good idea to me.  I would want to protect my child from Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) if I could.  There are people out there who think the government is meddling in a parents right to decide that, but how is this any different than requiring newborns to have certain vaccines within the first few years of life?  The vaccine is there to help prevent a disease.

“For the life of me when the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) and the other experts come forward and say this is safe, it’s been tested and it’s available, why in the world would we not make it available,” Gov. Rick Perry said. (Businessweek.com) I have to agree with Gov. Perry.  If it has passed the CDC analysis and there are other experts saying it’s safe, why not take advantage of it?

“Genital HPV infection is very common, with estimates suggesting that more than 50% of women will become infected with one or more of the sexually transmitted HPV types at some point during adulthood.  By age 50, about 80% of women will have been infected with genital HPV infection. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004)” (wikipedia.org)

As a society, we’ve already started taking precautions against HPV.  As a female, we schedule year Cervical Pap Smear test to make sure we haven’t caught anything.  One of the things doctors look for during this procedure is HPV, and since HPV can result in cervical cancer, why wouldn’t a person take an extra step to ensuring that you don’t get it?

Maybe I’m just ranting at this point, but why are people against a cancer vaccine when everyone is crying for one to begin with?  Yeah, it’s not one of known killer cancers (i.e. lung, breast, etc), but it’s still a cancer.

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myjaxon August 14th, 2006

I don’t ask for much, but when someone schedules a meeting with me, I actually expect them to show up.  Is that to much to ask?

Here’s the story. When Jesse and I moved into our apartment in April, we noticed some problems with the built-in shelves in our loft.  We put in a work request order thinking we would get some kind of response within 24 hours, per the guarantee and what they told us when we signed our lease.  We finally got some kind of response around day 100 and a contractor came out and sanded and stained out shelves (what I was looking for) and we were told that the actual shelf railings were the responsiblity of Ramblewood.  We placed a call into Ramblewood about getting the railings replaced (since all you had to do was blow on them and they fall apart) and possibly getting our shelves back (they orginially took our shelves in May to work with, but we never saw them again).  Their response to fixing our railings was shoving the shelves back into place.  They literally jammed them into the slots.  They never did fix the railings.  We found this out when we tried to adjust the shelves (did I mention that they were supposedly adjustable?).  It took Jesse 20 minutes to adjust the one (1) shelf.  After that, I placed in another call to Ramblewood to see about getting them fix or if they were finished with me.  Since I received a work request completion survey from them the next morning, we both assumed that they were wiping their hands of us.

Come to find out, the following Wednesday (4 business days later), I receive a call from the Maintanence department requesting to set up a meeting with the Dept Manager so he could come out and discuss what exactly I want to see if it could possibly happen.  We set up a meeting for Friday, August 11th, at 1pm (since the meeting had to occur before 3pm, I had to set it during my lunch break).  I get to my apartment 10 minutes early on Friday and proceed to wait for 30 minutes for the Dept Mgr to show up.  After waiting 30 minutes, I leave to go to work and call the Service Dept to see if I was confused as to the time.  It turns out that the Dept Mgr forgot about the meeting and tried to save himself by having his office tell me that he was on his way.  By this time, I had to get to work and I told them as such.  We set up another meeting for today, Monday, August 14th, at the same time.

Guess what.  Again, the Dept Mgr stands me up.  I call the Service Dept again to let them know that he did not make it out to the apartment and if he was still interested in meeting with me (since he WAS the one who initiated the meeting in the first place), than he would need to meet with me after work some night as I was not wasting another lunch hour waiting for a guy who has no intention of showing up.

Maybe it’s too much to ask for a Dept Mgr to actually go to meetings he set-up and initiated or maybe they just want to see how far they can continue to jerk me around.  At this point, I’m through with the.  I’ve been patient re this work request considering it has taken them over 4 months to complete the request.  I was unable to unpack the 400+ books that Jesse and I own prior to our 30-day deadline for the movers, so if we’re missing any, we’re out of luck.  And now, after I figured they were done with us, they continue to have poor communication and they wonder why I’m frustrated and upset. 

It would have been one thing if I had received any kind of message saying he was going to be late or needed to rescheduled; but to give no indication that you’re not going to be there is not only unprofessional, but tactless as well.

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myjaxon July 31st, 2006

Just for the record, no I am not planning, thinking or even considering this, but it still offends me.

Jesse and I just got back from the doctor and we found out that I am 8 weeks and 3 days along (due date of March 10th). We go to Meijers to scan the ultrasound picture and on our way home what do we see…..PRO LIFE ADVOCATES. Okay, I have nothing against people stating their opinions, but I do have a major problem when they are using blatant falsities and trapping me into witnessing them. Driving down 44th street, there are a ton of signs depicting an aborted child of “8 weeks” looking like a war victim. I’m sorry, I just got a picture of my 8 week old child and it looks nothing like that. And no, they weren’t saying these were 8 week delivered babies; they were 8 week aborted babies. It honestly offended me to be trapped into seeing these pictures knowing that that isn’t what an 8 week old fetus looks like. Not only that, but they were holding up traffic DURING RUSH HOUR on a busy street trying to get people to sign their petition. I’m sorry, no I’m not going to sign your damn petition because it isn’t your choice what I do with my body. It’s my body, it effects my life, not yours. I will do with my damn body and anything in it that I will damn well please to. And I will not wait in my car during a green light while you get other people to sign your petition. You are not only entrapping me into your beliefs, but I will not allow some middle aged men who don’t know what it feels like to give birth, to bear a child for 9 months to tell me what to do with my body. Do they know who I am, do they know what I’m going through. No. Do they care. No. All they see is an individual who wants/has gotten an abortion and that is all they want to see.

So until the day that MAN aka (the idiots making laws who have Y chromosomes) can carry a child full term (40+ weeks), go through labor and raise it, I don’t want to hear anything from them. If you can’t experience pregnancy, than by what right do you have to make decisions concerning it?

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myjaxon July 17th, 2006

This has been bugging me all day, and I can’t believe it was discussed, but it bothers me. When someone has an event occur that is great news, one does not normally pick on the one aspect of the event that could go wrong and then go on about how it could happen. Yes, I’m pregnant, but that doesn’t mean I want to talk about miscarriages. I know I didn’t wait four months before telling people, but I’m excited. What can I say. Neither Jesse’s nor my family has a history of miscarriages, so I’m not that concerned about it; but that doesn’t mean I want to talk about – the potential of losing my child. C’mon on now, it doesn’t take common sense to know that one does not want to talk about that. Seriously, I started freaking out last night because of a small muscle twitch/spasm. Needless to say, I’ve been taking extra caution today even though the doctor said I was under NO restrictions. I was seriously depressed when someone brought up the topic of divorce when I was planning my wedding; what do you think talking about miscarriages will do to me?

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myjaxon May 24th, 2006

Lately it seems like I’ve been encountering a lot of irritating moronic people. While this is nothing new, I thought I would rant about what irritates me.

First – I hate it when people have a problem and they don’t discuss it. Especially with the person they have a problem with. I mean, how do they think the problem is going to be solved unless the person knows about it. Sometimes people amaze me.

Second – The only thing I can say with clarity right now is that I am so glad I don’t give a damn what other people think of me. If I offend them, if they don’t like my views, fine. They are entitled to their feelings. I conformed to society in high school and I hated it. It amazes me that people will make decisions on what other people say and do. The moment you start caring what other people think of you, of how they perceive you is the moment you stop being true to yourself. If they don’t like you the way you are, than they are not worth it. If they cannot accept your decisions, than they are not your friends. Or at least, not as close as you thought they were. Friends are there to help, to be supportive, not to decide who you should be with, what you should be doing, what you should be wearing. If it makes you happy, than do it. If they can’t handle it, than it’s their problem, not yours.

And finally – People say I’m judgmental and opinionated. Guess what, I am! Big surprise there. However, they are my opinions and I’m entitled to them. So people can either take it or leave it. They don’t have to accept it.

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