Vitamin E (aka the fountain of youth)

By V. Martin

This stuff is amazing! My stretch marks that I had had all my 40+ years went away with a few applications of pure vitamin E oil. Now I smear my face with it, especially around my eyes and mouth. Oh and do not forget the neck oh heck put it every where, give it a few to soak in before getting dressed or climbing into bed. This stuff is awesome so long as you do not use it on any open wounds because they will get infected. It sounds crazy, I know, but trust me and the label. It does not spread real easily but use enough so it does a little easier but expect some resistance. It takes the itch out of every bite and/or stings I have had this summer. (which is a lot)  Discovered entirely by accident because I thought they would get infected since I had scratched them and maybe they still will but for now I am not scratching them into giving me a scar. I also like to mix it with my regular lotion for a healthy glow. Don’t take my word for it, check it out for yourself.

Higher Education

Does Not Equal Higher Intelligence

by V. Martin. 2019

Not too long ago I went back to college at a local community college, I won't give the exact college but they will know who they are.  The first time I got a D which is passing but not for my degree, they are hoping I will change my degree because I didn't get a C or better. So, I took it again. Really, I should have dropped the course and tried again in the fall but I'm stubborn and since I already took it, but I got an F. The professor wasn't interested in teaching me in fact had accused me of having ADHD or some other personalty disorder when in fact I am dyslexic. 

During the entire summer class I participated whenever she paused to let someone answer it was I who called out the right answer, most of the time. It was getting so other students were starting to notice. In Math lab I stopped going because she would obviously ignore me when I had a question or was stuck on a problem. All I can think of is that I missed an appointment with her on a weekend day and I totally forgot until recently. Even still, not to even care but to make fun of me with the other students? Uncalled for but I could hear them as I left the classroom in search of the HR department to drop off the surveys we were asked to take. I told them what my professor did. The fact that I displayed all the classic signs of someone who has dyslexia but is accused of having some other disability that require drugs and at age 50 by someone who isn't qualified is ridiculous.

Just because I switched schools hoping for a fairer shake at a sister campus did not pan out like I had hoped. So all I can do now is test out of this stupid Math class and hope I can take the test in another country.

The first Math professor I had for this same class was a module class the one I got a D in. She decided not to log all our lab hours, which is how they determine if you qualify for a tutor, when I asked for one they sent me to a math lab. I was already spending ten to twelve extra hours a week in math lab but no hours were showing up and no-one told me this was why I didn't get a tutor. It wasn't until almost the end of the semester before they assigned me a tutor and by then it was too late. So you tell me what you think? She knew I was trying to get a tutor, I told her as much but all she did was move me to the other side, where the students for Math 050 sat. Now that I think about it I really got a C the first time if they were to grade it at a normal level because I had accidentally signed up for advanced classes which has a different grading scale 100-95% is an A B is 95-85% a C is 85-75 and a D is 75-65 and I got 73% which is a C in a normal class.  The same goes for my CSI, maybe not, I got a C in it and a low one at that but that's another thing, a C? Really? In CSI? 

To hell with it no one wants to teach a 50 year old woman with dyslexia and an IQ of 137. They all think I should know it all but I don't. I know less than more. 

WritingBackwardLeftHanded

From Right to Left

by V. Martin (aka Vonia)

Recently, I spit for 23 and me to find out about my DNA and as I've always suspected, it's unusual. One of the questions they asked was if I can write backwards, without ever having done so I answered "yes" because I knew I could. A few weeks later, bored, I decided to try it with my left hand writing from right to left, no problem. Then I decided to try both at the same time, my right writing normal from left to right my left writing backward from right to left and it worked, no problem. It looks kinda cool too but other wise another useless talent. When I looked it up online, this is only reported to happen to Leonardo Da Vinci or mentally handicapped or people with a tumor or having had a stoke. There is little hope of being added to a list with the likes of Da Vinci and I'm only 50 years old and have never had a stroke. I am dyslexic and ambidextrous who can write backward left handed while writing the normal way with my right but not cursive just print and different from one another. My DNA also says I have fewer Neanderthal variants 239 is less then 87% of 23 and me customers.  The one associated with straight hair is the only one I have. My maternal haplogroup is unusual also U4b1a1 only 1 in 2,300 23 and me customers share this maternal line.

What all this has to do with anything is beyond me but thought I should share it.

As in a previous post, I was naturally left handed but forced to be right handed which I believe led to my dyslexia. Looking back, I think I was always ambidextrous just no one noticed. Same reason my dyslexia has never been diagnosed, by the system, I aged out of it in Arizona. 

It is much easier to write backward with my left hand then forward due to the fact I can read it as I write without putting my hand in an awkward position or smearing what I just wrote. 

I cannot read what I write this way unless I put it up to a mirror.

If my drop box wasn't so full I would post some photos but as it is...
Great here are some photos.
If there is anyone else out there that has this ability I would appreciate you reaching out to me, via this blog. Thank you.

This is a sample of both hands at the same time.

writing backward with my left and forward with my right.

Prisoners

Do Not Forget

By V. Martin

It’s important that we all evolve that means prisoners too. This is your chance to leave prejudice where it belongs; in the past. Like everything in life the way you live is a choice so choose different. Lift each other up instead of keeping each other down. If you think about it you have at your finger tips one of the largest pre designed networks in the world. You all should be using this to your advantage. Think about it if ex prisoners were to only deal with other ex cons. That does not mean you con each other on the contrary, that is the last thing you should do. Hold yourselves to higher standards, knowing your criminal tendencies, be strict with yourselves and each other. Most of you don’t have family so be each other’s, keep one another in check. If you see someone on the edge pull them back and do what it takes to snap them out of it. Prison can be what you make it, make it a place of healing what’s broken. So many of you are broken but with help from one another you can mend.

Disposable

Disposable

by V. Martin

"Temporary" is the word of the generation

That throws everything away

Everything is disposable including me

Like trash, I haven't gone far just down the street

To age biodegrade and they call me a park or a house

where the landfill used to be it's still there under your feet

But nothing is for nothing so you better pay for what is free

I've been thrown away so many times the stink is apart of me

You can't wash it off no matter how hard you scrub

There isn't enough water not even a full tub

Recycling roh2o

Question: Why doesn’t every building have an ROh2o system that captures all rain water but also used water from the house to be sent through the ROh2o system? Every building would have and use only what it needs recycling what it does and doesn’t use? With no water leaving the building there would be no water coming in from an outside source other then what comes in the form of rain? I am not sure how it would work but it might. The water company would not be happy but why should they make money on a natural life giving substance that falls from the sky on all of us? If people were allowed to be responsible for there own water there would be less disease and illnesses at least that could be spread through water.
Also, the trash and waste from the house could be used to generate energy to power, hopefully, everything. Of course, power companies wouldn't be happy but they would just have to evolve like the rest of us. Because if we don't do something it is going to get worse. Pure water can solve so much. I'm convinced it is my calling in life to get the message across to as many people that I can. No one is going to listen to me who am I? No one but me and I'm telling anyone who will listen to study water, pay attention, even if you can't afford to. You will be amazed, as I am, at the power of pure ROH2O nothing else. You can add a drop of whatever cleaner you want but only a drop or two. The reason HE washers are high efficiency due to the on board filtration systems. I'm not sure what kind but it is why you only need a fraction of the detergent and why it doesn't need an agitator, anymore.

All that probably belonged on my other blog but oh well.

Running

Running

by V. Martin copyright 1987

I see you running in the fields of yesterday

Never looking around to choose a way

Just running, running

From yourself you always hide

Never letting anyone run by your side

I see you running in the fields of tomorrow

a little slower but with a lot more sorrow.