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Kandilokai Ach Ishte
Created on 2004-10-29 00:20:39 (#4980636), last updated 2009-07-05
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Basic Info| Name: | Kandilokai ach Ishte |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1966-11-05 |
| Location: | Fairborn, Ohio, United States |
BioI'm a writer. I think I was born to write. It's what I enjoy more than anything else. I really started out with writing music, but now it's more about stories. Well... stories and life rants anyway. ^_^ Now if Only I could find TIME to write, I'd be happy. After a 3 year break I went back to hacking pizza last year. I just couldn't make enough money at anything else, and unfortunately, now with the price of gas threatening $4 by next summer, I can't make any money at that now either.
I have an (recently) adult daughter who I have raised alone with no help from her other parent, or anyone else. We did not spend years on Welfare either. I worked for a living and put my own dreams on hold to raise her. I think she's turned out pretty well. Certainly she is not the kind of brat most kids are today. Somehow I managed to instill some kind of morals. Note, that we are not Christians. Morals are not the exclusive domain of Christianity. That needs to be said over and over and over. They need to teach morals in schools. It's not the same thing as teaching religion.
I have one cat now. She's a little orange weirdo who plays fetch. My daughter also has a new kitten of whom we are quite enamored.
I'm an avid cyclist, a participant in the MS 150 in 2007. It's not the kind of riding I need to do though. I need to ride shorter distances more often. One or two long long rides a week is not often enough for me to exercise, and is so time consuming that I can't manage to schedule time to do it more often than that. This year I did not participate in any of the big events I had planned. The MS Society chose a time when we are in economic crisis to raise the donation requirement (not goal as they call it... you don't raise it, you don't ride no matter that you already paid the high entry fee) by 50% from $200 to $300. Despite changes in the course to make it more inclusive, they have managed to eliminate a lot of people from being able to participate, and thus cut out many of the smaller donations that could have come from that. Pedal with Pete, I was going to do until the last minute, but it just wasn't feasible. Next year I will have more money, and will try to plan better for the events I want to do, and have more members on Team Fred to do them with us.
Additionally, I like to skate... Old school quad style, and am pretty good at it. I am on the payroll at our local skating rink, but I have not actually worked a shift in a long time. I haven't been skating as often as I once did either. Lately I just can't afford it. So I'm looking for another job. I want to get back into inbound catalog sales. I love doing it and generally the pay is decent.
This year my furnace broke down and now I work for hte furnace man. The business has a good change to grow into a real career for me. I have a lot of autonomy, and a lot of work, but for the moment not a lot of hours. About 13 hours a week, and then 26 still hacking pizza. So I'm working on helping this business grow so I can be on full time.
Many things in my future that need to happen. Job needs to grow. House needs to sell. Need to buy a different house that is less costly, and I like better. Need to get back on track with my writing. That's a biggie. It's important to me, and I really have had a difficult time doing it since my Dad got sick last summer. I did NaNoWriMo last November really in his honor, though I questioned my sanity at the time. I think it was because I knew he was dying even before the doctors said it, and needed something to distract me from accepting that while we were still fighting for his life. We all knew though. He's gone now, and the desire to write has returned. I just haven't gotten back to it. I think I'll try to take Gaias Song into Nano this year and see if that can give me a jump start. I have so many unfinished projects. Either that or I take Switching Tale in again with the intent of finishing another third or more of it. We'll see.
That's me. Or as much of me as I want to talk about right now. Last year I cut a lot of negativity out of my life. Today I cut a lot of it out of here. There is really no point in expressing bad feelings for things here. It doesn't move me forward, and forward is where I want to go.
I have an (recently) adult daughter who I have raised alone with no help from her other parent, or anyone else. We did not spend years on Welfare either. I worked for a living and put my own dreams on hold to raise her. I think she's turned out pretty well. Certainly she is not the kind of brat most kids are today. Somehow I managed to instill some kind of morals. Note, that we are not Christians. Morals are not the exclusive domain of Christianity. That needs to be said over and over and over. They need to teach morals in schools. It's not the same thing as teaching religion.
I have one cat now. She's a little orange weirdo who plays fetch. My daughter also has a new kitten of whom we are quite enamored.
I'm an avid cyclist, a participant in the MS 150 in 2007. It's not the kind of riding I need to do though. I need to ride shorter distances more often. One or two long long rides a week is not often enough for me to exercise, and is so time consuming that I can't manage to schedule time to do it more often than that. This year I did not participate in any of the big events I had planned. The MS Society chose a time when we are in economic crisis to raise the donation requirement (not goal as they call it... you don't raise it, you don't ride no matter that you already paid the high entry fee) by 50% from $200 to $300. Despite changes in the course to make it more inclusive, they have managed to eliminate a lot of people from being able to participate, and thus cut out many of the smaller donations that could have come from that. Pedal with Pete, I was going to do until the last minute, but it just wasn't feasible. Next year I will have more money, and will try to plan better for the events I want to do, and have more members on Team Fred to do them with us.
Additionally, I like to skate... Old school quad style, and am pretty good at it. I am on the payroll at our local skating rink, but I have not actually worked a shift in a long time. I haven't been skating as often as I once did either. Lately I just can't afford it. So I'm looking for another job. I want to get back into inbound catalog sales. I love doing it and generally the pay is decent.
This year my furnace broke down and now I work for hte furnace man. The business has a good change to grow into a real career for me. I have a lot of autonomy, and a lot of work, but for the moment not a lot of hours. About 13 hours a week, and then 26 still hacking pizza. So I'm working on helping this business grow so I can be on full time.
Many things in my future that need to happen. Job needs to grow. House needs to sell. Need to buy a different house that is less costly, and I like better. Need to get back on track with my writing. That's a biggie. It's important to me, and I really have had a difficult time doing it since my Dad got sick last summer. I did NaNoWriMo last November really in his honor, though I questioned my sanity at the time. I think it was because I knew he was dying even before the doctors said it, and needed something to distract me from accepting that while we were still fighting for his life. We all knew though. He's gone now, and the desire to write has returned. I just haven't gotten back to it. I think I'll try to take Gaias Song into Nano this year and see if that can give me a jump start. I have so many unfinished projects. Either that or I take Switching Tale in again with the intent of finishing another third or more of it. We'll see.
That's me. Or as much of me as I want to talk about right now. Last year I cut a lot of negativity out of my life. Today I cut a lot of it out of here. There is really no point in expressing bad feelings for things here. It doesn't move me forward, and forward is where I want to go.
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anthropology, archeology, biking, bleach, composition, crafts, crochet, cultural studies, culture, cybernetics, cycling, fan fiction, felines, final fantasy, fitness, fullmetal alchemist, gaming, ice skating, languages, linguistics, movies, music, prosthetics, reading, roller skating, ruroni kenshin, sewing, sushi, writing
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Harold Schnell Elementary School - West Carrollton, OH (1971 - 1978)West Carrollton Junior High School - West Carrollton, OH (1978 - 1982)
West Carrollton High School - West Carrollton, OH (1982 - 1985)
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