May 28
Charity: I read in the Edmonton Journal that Singer Carrie Underwood donated $1 million to Oklahoma
after the tornado.
I read in the Globe and Mail that
Michael Kors (and Halle Berry) designed a $355 watch for the 100
series. $25 will go to the World Food Program. It is enough to buy 100
school meals for
kids.
I read in 24 that Rapper 50 Cent paid for a 14 yr old
girl's funeral. Her name was D'aja Robinson and she was shot on a city
bus in his hometown New York. 50 Cent posted pictures of the funeral on
Facebook and said he paid for the horse and carriage that carried the
casket.
Miracle birth: I found this on Yahoo. Erica
Nigrelli fainted and people around her performed CPR and used a
defibrillator. She was 36 weeks pregnant. She died for a bit, then she
gave birth to a baby girl, and then she was revived. Erica had a heart
defect that she didn't know. There are a lot of happy and positive
comments on the article.
http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/blogs/shine-on/expectant-mother-dies-gives-birth-lives-again-181037094.html?vp=1
May 31: I had talked about gas money.
"Dec. 31 Gas money: We
should all express gratitude once in awhile. I've read in books and
newspapers that it makes your happier. I learned this a couple months
ago. My dad drove to Calgary and it takes 4 hrs to get there. He drove
back and it takes another 4hrs.
In
total 8hrs =$115 for gas money. It's
a good thing I take the bus to work. It takes 1hr to get to work, 1 hr
to get back. If I drove to work, it would be 4 days and I would have
spent $115 on gas. The bus pass of $84.65 is a good price."
I then asked my friends Sherry and Leslie if I can quote them because they had something to say about it. They said yes.
Sherry: if you take a bus 2 ways 14 days a month bus pass is cheaper than bus tix
Me: Bus fare is now $3.20.
Sherry: so there you go. divide $89 by $6.40 and you know how many roundtrip days make a buspass a good investment
:)
Leslie:
Gas
burns by kilometer not time. Mileage is better on highway. It's
nearly 300 km to Calgary so 600 there and back. For 115 dollars that's
19.1 cents a kilometer. Meaning its much cheaper than your estimate to
drive to work for 4 days. For the true cost ask your dad about his
insurance cost per month and average that out per day then add 19 cents
for every kilometer traveled.
Sure, but gas mileage also varies by vehicle! Also if you want to add to
that- if you are paying a car loan you'd have to average in the cost of that per day as well.
Jun. 1 Eye exam: I
was reading the Edmonton Journal about how May is Vision Health month.
It talked about Tamara Gauddet who's 40 yrs old and had these terrible
headaches and blurred vision. She then saw an eye doctor and there was
increased pressure from fluid or inflammation from the brain. She
hadn't had an eye exam since she was a teen.
She now is a public speaker where she goes to schools raising awareness about eye health.
After
I read that article, I scheduled to get an eye exam for next week. I
went to it and they had moved to a new office that was close to their
old location. The new office is way bigger with big windows. The last
time I had an eye exam was back in 2011. I wasn't quite sure, but I
remember sometime in the past 2
yrs.
Jun. 3 Child-free living: I was reading the Globe and Mail
article "The Argument for Child-free living" by Elizabeth Renzetti on
May 25, 2013. A lot of readers emailed why they don't want to have
kids:
"One had a genetic illness and didn't want to pass it on,
another had terrible parents and was worried she wouldn't be fit for the
task herself; one woman was traumatized by an offhand remark, overheard
in childhood, about the pain of childbirth."
Richard231:
"Population is the main driver of anthropogenic global warming.
Therefore, not having kids is combating climate change."
My opinion: I
don't want to have kids because they're expensive. To raise one child
from baby to 18 yrs old, excluding college tuition, is $250,000. It's
also a lot of work and stress that isn't necessary. You don't have to
have kids. I have to graduate out of high school and I have to get a
job and make money.
When I was in my early 20s, I did think
about all the conflicts of having kids. You can't control them. What
if my daughter becomes an out-of-control teenage girl you would see on
the Maury show? When the kids are 18 yrs old, you can't control them
because they are legally adults. If they're teenagers, they can sneak
out at night and you would be asleep.
Pet care: So with
caring for a pet. When I was a kid, I wanted to have a cat, but my
parents wouldn't let me. They are so fun to play with when I was at my
friend's house, and there are sometimes cats in my neighborhood that walk
around my backyard. My parents won't get a cat because it will shed
everywhere, then it will scratch the couch. They also don't like some
animal walking around in the house.
Yeah, but it's not like a dog
where you have to walk it and pick up his poop. Now that I'm 27 yrs
old, I see that a cat does cost money. How much is it going to cost to
feed a cat? You have to buy a litter box and clean it, a scratching
post, and some toys. You don't need a cat. So it looks we saved money
by not owning any
pets.
Roots of Empathy: I read the Globe and Mail
article "Baby
steps" by Elizabeth Renzetti on May 6, 2013. She interviewed Mary
Gordon who created the Roots of Empathy program where she teaches
empathy to kids in schools. More than half a million kids have gone
through this program. It's been taught in New Zealand, Australia,
Germany, and the US.
The program is where a local mother brings
her baby who is 2-4 months old and places the baby on the blanket. The
students from kindergarten-gr.8 observe the baby and learn by studying
the baby's emotions. What if he wants to be picked up? How he would
communicate that?
The results are one boy in Toronto admitted he
stole Unicef money at Halloween. They praised him for his honesty and
offered to help him pay back the cash. Several parents notice their
kids are better at sharing the TV remote.
One that really
touched me was Darren, a 14 yr old boy who was holding the baby for a
few min. He asked: "If nobody has ever loved you, do you think you
could still be a good father?"
Gordon is also in the documentary by Alex
Gabbay called Love, Hate, and Everything in Between.
David Ranta:
In Mar. 25, 2013, I read a 24 article: "Freed after wrongful
conviction, NY man suffers heart attack." David Ranta, 58 spent 23 yrs
in prison for crime he didn't commit. He was accused of killing a
Hasidic rabbi, but then was freed after "the conviction integrity unit
of the Brooklyn District attorney's office concluded that the case
against him was fatally flawed."
"Investigators found that a
key witness, a teenager who picked Ranta out of a lineup, had since said
he did not recognize Ranta but selected him after a detective told him
to 'pick the guy with the big
nose.'"
Jun. 24 Calgary: There's all this flooding in
Calgary. I read in the Edmonton Journal that we should donate money and
not things. If it's things it takes more time and effort to sort
things and transport them. If it's money, it's faster. I read the same
thing about the Oklahoma tornadoes. |
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