InMOMniac

Many of you won’t see. 
And that’s okay.
This blog is not about hurting you.
It is about finding my voice.
It is about finding me.

Mister Valentine sold everything to serve a mission.  He was the lone member of his family to join the LDS church, at the age of 13 and rode his bike across town to attend each weekend.  He baptized me.  He has always followed “the iron rod”.  He has always followed his leaders advice.  Keep in mind, [...]

This is a long post.  But you’ll likely gain great information from it so I urge you to read it and ponder it.  I’ve spent the last month delving into questions I’ve wondered about throughout my life.  I think I’ve finally found some really interesting and quite possible answers that make very logical sense to [...]

Wow.  The recent decisions I have made sparked a new sort of obsession.  No longer am I interested in the latest update on The Huffington Post.  Instead, I want to read National Geographic.  I want to read all about history, the beginnings of mankind and their art, culture and ways of life.  I am fascinated with [...]

I have made a very personal decision to leave The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 
I am NOT leaving to go live in sin.   I feel utterly peaceful and comfortable in making my decision. 
This will be a difficult time for my family, as my husband has not yet made this decision.
I believe a [...]

In August, Mister Valentine was networking and finding referrals for a marketing company.  One of the referral clients he was working with offered him a very discounted deal for eyebrow tattoos since she knew our anniversary was coming up.  She knew me already and she was being really nice by offering this. 
It seems to take [...]

I am so fed up with “righteous truth speakers” who think they can prove anything just because they have a scripture or five that backs up their arrogant points.

I know enough to know there is a scripture and quote to prove practically anything true or false.

In fact, I can go as far as to use scriptures and words of Prophets (which the “righteous truth speakers” think are literally unchanging law) to “prove” our very church and even God are untrue: a very best a mess of mixed up and very conflicting laws and scriptures.

To use quotes to make your points, which are actually just your human opinions, and think you are speaking firm, unwavering truths means you are very arrogant.

So just as you can “prove” we should not have a government health care or any welfare systems via scriptures and quotes from Prophets, so to can I can prove through the use of scriptures and quotes, very intelligently and through Prophet’s examples, like Joseph Smith who died for what he believed in and John Taylor who did the same that you ALWAYS have a choice. I can take it as far as intellectually proving our very dear church is untrue or at the very least, in a state of apostasy for not still practicing polygamy. And yet I have a firm testimony that it’s true because I know each scripture and each quote could be interpreted many ways and for many situations.

Some people are still saying that government welfare programs take all their rights away and remove their free agency. Actually, YOU DO HAVE A CHOICE. You have several. You are not being forced to do anything here.

If mandated health care passes and you hate that, you can:
A) chose to not pay your taxes
B) chose to move out of the country
C) go be Amish or join a similar group where they go back to 1700’s style living and pay no taxes, legally, I might add
D) make your own, new Amish-style compound and live any which way you want to. In fact, go buy a private island and move there with like-minded individuals.
E) Go run for congress, win and begin to make the changes you say should be enacted.

Christ’s death itself was, in a sense, enslaving to Him. In fact, he prayed that the burden would be lifted from Him. Nevertheless “Thy will be done”, and he died for our sins.

Many of you, through the discussions on this blog and others over the last several weeks have fiercely denied that charity in the form of government welfare is right and that anything that “enslaves” you into helping another person is wrong.
To fully accept Christ’s atonement, you MUST accept that charity, which comes in MANY forms, even perhaps via government welfare programs, is NECESSARY in some ways if we are ever to accept His atonement.

Dear S. Logan and other conservatives who cannot see past my comment that spoke of socialised medicine: While you have a great, noble story and I thank you for making a martyr of yourself for purposes of proving me wrong I STILL see some major issues which need addressed before I can trust you and the rest of Conservatives to make the right choices for me and my family. I very well may BE wrong. However, I’d like to challenge you to live your principles to a tee, then.
Please don’t ever utilize an emergency service again. It infringes upon my rights and I don’t want to be taxed so you or your family can be rescued via fire department, police department or ambulatory services. Actually, let’s just take those out of the picture altogether. Because I don’t want MY money going to pay the salaries of these men and women who fight to save our lives ANYMORE because it infringes upon my liberty – it’s “stealing” from me. It’s enslaving me and my family.

Dear Blog Readers and Others Who Defy Me (TEASING! – I know you have the right to your opinion, too) ; )
Free agency WAS God’s plan, yes. What I don’t understand is then how you can talk about free agency and at the same time support that our God
A) inspired the US government (all governments use force in some aspects)
and then
B) say that “force” is of Satan.
If force is of Satan, then our Government is of Satan. Right? How can it be inspired of God when force is of Satan? Yet many of you make that very argument.
I don’t know that its ALL one way or the other. There are some good things about your points and some good things about mine. I suppose here it is good to insert the “good fruit/bad fruit” example. You know a tree is good by it’s fruits. Well, I’m a good person. I think health care is good for people. It’s a good fruit. How can saving someone’s life be “bad fruit”?
But if you DON’T force people to do it – GREED gets in the way. So the government steps in FOR THE GREATER GOOD OF THE PEOPLE (because its FOR the people and, as I’ve heard many of you say, INSPIRED OF GOD…RIGHT? If government is not for the good of the people, then how can you say it’s inspired of God?).
Look, people should have access to health care.

(I did mention that I recognized that the United States wasn’t ever going to turn into a communist/socialist USSR in my comments under my Democratic Manifesto. And that Marion G Romney’s comments are based on a USSR style socialism. I speak of socialistic principles in the kindest, most Christian way possible, people!  Not in a mean [...]

We had a really fun Christmas. 
The kids enjoyed some fun gifts (I found some great deals at Ross this year) and were very happy and excited.   Mister Valentine and I had a $25 limit.  Because it’s not about gifts, right?  It’s about him letting me be right.  LOL.  Just kidding.  (He gets to be right lots [...]

A large group of people see words in the media like “scare tactics”, “liberties”, and “propoganda” and FREAK OUT.  They only hear what’s said in the media and forget the big picture. They start thinking that evil Democrats and Obama are going to take all their rights away.  Most recently, Republicans are freaking out because they are angry that a [...]

Okay, so this is my plan:
Get organized so I actually make cooking a part of my day. 
Learn about Vegan forms of protein.  Because I have a son and a husband we need more than tofu, which is soy, which is made of soybeans and therefore: estrogen. 
Buy food staples.  This means I need lots of whole [...]

I’ve come to a point in my life as a woman where I begin to think: “do we keep going? or do we stop here?”
With all we’ve been through it’s probably a very normal reaction to say “stop here.”
And I know I’ve got LOTS to work on, change, fix, learn, etc before another baby is [...]

I haven’t blogged in more than a week!  It’s really just a test to see how long I can go between posts.  That’s all. 
I’m not tired or exhausted or out of stories to tell. 
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.  
Not at all.  Never. 
Thank you for staying tuned.  I hope the holiday planning is going well for you all.  We put up [...]

Last night I was reading the Ensign Magazine  and felt reminded to follow these steps during the ALWAYS too hectic holiday season:

Forget about exchanging gifts with each and every person out of obligation.  Rather, express your love in words.
During financial difficulties (and as an ongoing tradition, perhaps) make a “Thankful Box”.  Have each family member place a [...]

I apologize for not blogging much lately.  It seems like with the new larger house layout, kids fighting and being more difficult to control and my health issues I just haven’t found the energy. 
I went to a new doctor regarding the health issues I’m having.  This doctor was not American.  He was of Polish decent (he [...]

So, I’m drinking lots of water. 
And this may be way too much info but…..I’ve still got blood in my urine/stool and stomach pain. 
Then, on a routine check I do over my body, I noticed two areas.  One is about the size of a dime, pink, scaly, flaky.  Circle shape.  The next is new, dark, big, [...]

Since the move we’ve all been sick.  Then, remember that stomach pain I was talking about a month or so ago?  It got worse.  Suddenly.  I would feel a cold sensation each time I ate or lay on one side.  Air, food, liquid seemed to be pouring into my abdomen (if I were to best [...]

Remember Carrie Prejean?  She was the one who ran for Miss California and probably would have won if she hadn’t made an answer to the effect of: Yeah, I’m against gay marriage personally but I’m fine if other people dig it.  A dozen or so famous people chimed in and called her a bigot…essentially acting like a [...]

Each year we’ve chosen a new motto.  This past year was dubbed “Looking Fine in 2009″.  And we kind of achieved it.  I’ve lost about 25 pounds over the year and Mr. Valentine lost about 40.  Neither of us did much in terms of muscle gain but perhaps after things settle in here a bit. 
Our [...]

We have an official date to be out of this temporary apartment: Wednesday at 11am.  Movers come tomorrow.  We’ll then take Tuesday and unpack as much as possible with the kids hanging around, then I’ll go back to the apartment with them.  We’ll take the rest of everything else and do a quick clean on [...]

I’ve never considered myself an angry person. In fact, rarely do I let myself feel anything – this is what my drinking days were about so many years ago – getting and staying numb. I realize now that I do the same thing, only I’m not taking in any sort of substance. This lack of taking a numbing substance causes a rage inside because I’m left to feel those emotions. Even if I DID take a numbing substance, I’d still have the issues, so I know that’s not the way to get around it either.

I switched up the blog design. First, switched the domain over to nearly free hosting with free Wordpress. Saving money is always a plus. This way is even more economical than the prior “really economical” option I had. That switch created a Wordpress template with one generic “Hello World” post. So I switched everything over from my prior platform. Tried to keep it intact, somewhat.

Dear Blog Readers, you’ll either love it or hate it. If you hate it, just thank HP for including some rad software with this computer called Windows Movie Maker so you did not have to watch MORE of me.
Introducing my first “vlog”.

Daily Gratitudes

1. This digital camera comes with video. For your vlogging pleasure.

2. [...]