Just Let Me Say WOW!

   So if you've been reading the last few things I've written, you may have noticed I've kinda been interested in the stock market. 
   I've looked at different stocks. Not just the ones I've gotten through Robinhood, but I've also looked at some other stocks. Some of them that you can't even trade on Robinhood. 
   One of the ones I had looked at was interesting. In diversifying their business, they had moved away from their core business. That had made the stock exchange not happy. And they got delisted. So now they were only traded on the Over The Counter Market.
   They've been stuck around 38 cents per share for the past couple of months. They had appealed the decision and last night evidently the stock exchange had reversed their decision and an announcement was made that the would be relisted by Tuesday of next week. Evidently that's good news. REALLY good news.
   This morning the first trade was at 68 cents. Wow. Within 2 hours, it was over a dollar. Almost triple what it was at close the day before. 
   And it kept climbing and dropping all day. But mostly climbing. It went past $1.25.
$1.50. $1.75. 
   It went over $2. It got up to $2.14 before it dropped below $2 and wound up settling at the end of the day at $1.91. 
   Up 402% from the close of the previous day. 

   That's not a normal thing. But it happens. I saw another stock go up 50% in one day. 
   I don't think that'll ever happen to me. But, I can dream. Can't I?

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An Open Letter to My Wife

Dear Yvette,
 In case I haven't told you in the last few hours, I Love You!
   I've loved you since before we even met. I just didn't realize it at the time, cause I wasn't real familiar with what love felt like. At least not the love I felt for you. 

   I'll admit, I haven't been the perfect husband. But you've always been the perfect wife for me. You frustrate me sometimes, like when you want me to change the cats litter 2 days after I just changed it. Oh, about that, did I ever mention I really don't like cats? 
   You've put up with my corny Valentine's Day presents in the past. Like the 18/24 Carrot Necklaces (TWICE). Assorted sizes of stuffed animals. A bouquet of a dozen WAX roses. Steak cut in the shape of a heart. You know, that kind of stuff.
   But this past year has REALLY made me realize how much you mean to me. Last year at this time, I had spent a couple of months getting you to and from doctor appointments and therapy treatments. We got you healed up and I got sick, and Jeremiah broke his arm. We met at the hospital in radiology that afternoon. Then we took him to get his arm set. 
   First child we had with a broken bone. But you handled it well. A lot better than i would have ever expected you to, to be completely honest. 2 days later we were on our way to Memphis for a needle biopsy. Then Union City for a PET scan. Then a surgical biopsy. And surgery. And Radiation. And Chemotherapy. And waiting. Waiting for the time to elapse until I could have a final PET scan. Rejoicing over getting the result.
   Cancer Free!
   This past year hasn't been great, but YOU have been fantastic! I'm so happy to be married to you. Hopefully next year I can give you another 14 Carrot necklace. 

With Love,
Nelson
(Your husband)



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Let's Be Honest

   I wrote about doing this a while back. Planting some bulbs here. I like flowers. Always have, always will. Some people could become crazy cat people. I could become crazy flower person. Not in the house though. in the yard. I even have ribbons from back when I was a child and entered flowers in the Gibson County Fair.
   I planted them with the goal of seeing beautiful flowers blooming this spring. But honestly, I didn't know. I had dropped 60 pounds during the radiation and the chemotherapy, I was weak as a kitten. It took me several hours over 3 days to get the bulbs in the ground. I'd plant a few bulbs. Sit down.  Take a little rest.  I was sure I would be here. But I was waiting on the trip to the Doctor and the scan to say it for sure. The people on the Titanic were sure they were going to make it across the ocean. See how well that worked out for them.
   I've been watching the leaves of the flowers sticking up out of the ground for a while now.
   Then today, when I went to the mailbox to get the mail. I saw IT! I had a blossom from the bulbs I had planted. After I walked over and looked at it I turned to walk back towards the driveway and saw that on the other side, I had more!

    I'm going to have more blooms. The Crocus are beginning to arrive. This is their first year, so they're probably actually a little late.

Next year maybe they'll get their heads out of the ground and get their buds opened up before the flowers over at the old house get around to blooming. I'm not going to say it in front of the crocus but those daffodils were blooming a week ago.

  BTW, I think the groundhog may have been right. I would have to look but I think it was Feb 15th when they bloomed last year. This year February 5th. 
   I just want to say thank you, 2 people signed up using the link below so now I have 5 shares of stock with Robinhood. GRPN (which was on a rollercoaster yesterday and today ahead of its earnings report and which then took a dive in after hours trading after the report came out) ZNGA (which is up .15 since I got it). I was gifted another share of ZNGA when somebody else signed up which I sold and turned around and bought 3 shares of cheaper stocks that pay dividends. One of them is SDR. It cost $1.03. the next day was the ex-dividend date so I will get 4 cents of a dividend payment from it in a couple of weeks. I also bought 2 shares of another stock that will pay a dividend in 3 weeks. They're not great dividends, but if they keep paying, I'll be able to keep collecting.

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I Know, More Reading

   I told Yvette on my birthday that I had a goal.

   My goal was just ridiculous. But hey, aren't goals supposed to be something you have to work towards. My goal?

  To own 100000 shares of stock. And it's not unattainable. There are such things as penny stocks.  

   100000 shares of stock at $0.01 would cost $1000.00.
   There was a slight drawback to that. I didn't have an account with any brokerage firm.  And I didn't have $1000 to buy the stock if I did have a brokerage account. But in between applying for jobs, I did some research. And that got a little disheartening.
   Some of the brokerage accounts, you need $10000 to open. Then I found others that you only had to have $2500 to open account. Another you had to have $1000.
   But you know, the computers are watching everything you do online. They keep track of the things you view, the things you search for, the websites you actually visit. And they respond by showing you ads that align with your interests. 
   One of the ads they showed me was Robinhood. So I looked into it. 
  Hmm...... I could get a free share of stock just for signing up. I didn't have to put money up to open an account. So I did. I got 1 share of stock. I didn't get a share of Apple (AAPL) or Ford (F) or Sprint (S). I got a share of Groupon (GRPN).  
    So I'm inviting you, if you're over 18 and you don't have a Robinhood account, to click on the link below. When you signup, you'll get a free share of stock and I'll get a free share of stock.
   I only have 99,999 more shares to go to reach my goal.

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Natural Alternatives to Vaccination

   There are people who can't be vaccinated because of health issues or religious reasons. For everyone else......

   There ARE natural alternatives to Vaccination:

   Abstinence. If you don't have sex, you won't have a child that you can choose not to vaccinate.

   Abortion. Please don't choose this one. Much better would be.......

   Adoption. There are many people out there who would love to adopt a child AND have them vaccinated.

   Emigration. There are areas of the world where doctors are much more familiar with the diseases that we have vaccines to prevent.

   Insurance. The average funeral costs $8000, so at least $10000. Might consider having long term disability insurance in case the preventable disease just leaves then crippled instead of dead.

   Seriously, I remember people who had polio. I know people who have scars from being measles and chicken pox. Get those children vaccinated.

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I've Been Deported!

  No, not like that.
  The port that they installed to give me my chemotherapy has been removed. 

   There were 3 little bumps on the port that they could feel, they would stick the needle in the middle between the 3 bumps and that led to a tube that was inserted in my vein.

    Its got a soft middle  inside the bumps and that where they would insert the needle and check to make sure they were getting blood, there's a tube that went from the port into my vein that leads to the heart, It allowed my chemotherapy to be done in 3 doses instead of over several doses that they would have had to do if they were doing it into my veins directly. All in all, a very neat invention I think. 
   But today, less than 6 months after having it installed , my Bard Power Port was removed. That means they don't think they need it any longer. That's great news to me! It was a surgery in the office. I saw a doctor I had never seen before. Evidently they didn't tell him what I was there for. I say that because when he walked in he asked what I was there for.
    My friends were there to see the operation. They've been very faithful in going along on all my doctor visits, appointments,

and procedures. They were lined up watching very quietly. Yvette was there too. The nurse stuck a needle in me several times and moved it around to inject some numbing stuff. I didn't ask what it was, but it must have been some pretty good stuff. cause after it was shot into me, they took a scapel and cut a slice in my chest so they could get under my skin an take the port out. 
   I was given the option of leaving the port installed, but after a little bit of thought I decided I really wanted it taken out if they thought I didn't need it anymore. If I left it in, it would have meant going to have it flushed once a month. Considering I don't have a job yet, and a couple of the ones I actually got an interview for before I was diagnosed with cancer said if I missed any time during the probationary period, my employment was ended, getting the port removed seemed like the best idea.
   My only disappointment was that they couldn't take it out sooner. More on that in my next installment. Until then, I leave you the way I've been ending these little brain droppings:
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Making of a Quilt

   I mentioned that i had asked for 3 things for Christmas: a sewing machine, a pattern template for quilting, and a clear PET Scan. I've discussed the PET Scan and the sewing machine, now about that template.

   In making a quilt, you need consistently sized pieces to put together. This one is a 60 degree diamond. It's the shiny area that I used to make the pieces that I join together and hopefully turn into a work of textile art. Or at least something that you can place over a child while they sleep. Like maybe a baby quilt. Yeah, that's a good name for it: baby quilt. My wife says its no good as a baby quilt. That the colors aren't appropriate for a baby. She's probably right. She usually is.

    This is the fabric I used. I got it at JoAnn here in Dyersburg and i think that's where the template came from. But you take that fabric and the template and cut out pieces. You start putting pieces together and sewing them together. Eventually you wind up with something that looks kinda like this:

   

    I say kinda because I'm still learning. Both learning how to sew in general but also learning how to put the pieces together. but this is whats known as a quilt top. Or at least my version of a quilt top I still need to press the seams, make my sandwich, and baste the top, the batting, and the backing together before I sew them all together. then I have to add a binding to finish the quilt.
   I'll write about that when I get it done.

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