Sparks

@sparkofinsanity (20471)

Regina, Saskatchewan

Joined myLot 16 years ago

Wife, mother, sister, friend. Solitary Wiccan. Don't mess with me or my friends and we'll get along great!

Discussions (287)

Sparks's Discussions

Do you remember......

Sparks @sparkofinsanity (20471) • Regina, Saskatchewan 15 Aug 15

Every year practically since I joined the Lot, I wrote a discussion about selling my house and the two properties we own across the street. Sad to say, the sale(s) never happened. I was beginning to think the Lot had jinxed...

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15 people

What a difference a year makes....

Sparks @sparkofinsanity (20471) • Regina, Saskatchewan 11 Aug 15

Last year on the 29th of August, (my birthday) I landed at Heathrow in the UK and began the epic journey through Britain that I had been longing to make, and writing about making for years. It did not disappoint. I have over a...

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6 people

Facing My Mortality....

Sparks @sparkofinsanity (20471) • Regina, Saskatchewan 8 Aug 15

This morning I received a visit from my neighbour whom I never thought to see again as she has been receiving treatment for spinal cancer. She is between treatments and was only home to pick up a few things she needs before...

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25 people

Do you know this man....

Sparks @sparkofinsanity (20471) • Regina, Saskatchewan 7 Aug 15

Do yourselves a favor and type Roosh V into your search bar. Be prepared to get violently ill. The person (and I use that term loosely) that calls himself Roosh V is a woman hater. He calls himself a pick up artist and teaches...

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12 people

I may be old, but I'm not as slow as I sometimes pretend....

Sparks @sparkofinsanity (20471) • Regina, Saskatchewan 6 Aug 15

Ok, so it's been about 24 hours since I rebonded with the new lot. I am not completely happy with some of the features.......especially getting discussions noticed as we no longer get alerts to our friends/followers postings, so I...

brilliant strategy to find friends discussions

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7 people

The Suggest Button..........

Sparks @sparkofinsanity (20471) • Regina, Saskatchewan 5 Aug 15

Just discovered that I can suggest my own discussions to my friends. I have to scroll through my whole friends list (don't remember it being SO many!) though and that's a bit of a pain. I rather miss the old way, wherein when a...

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9 people

Internet Withdrawal!

Sparks @sparkofinsanity (20471) • Regina, Saskatchewan 5 Aug 15

Ding dong, bang bang..........someone's at my door! But which one? Oh, there he is peering in my kitchen window! Power company advises they are replacing some poles and power boxes in town today and we will have no electricity...

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9 people

A computer guru I am NOT!

Sparks @sparkofinsanity (20471) • Regina, Saskatchewan 5 Aug 15

I have a touch screen Asus 64bit Windows 8 laptop. I run Mozilla Firefox as my browser as IE and I have NEVER gotten along. When Windows 8.1 came out, my computer refused to auto upgrade and MicroSoft was no help at all...

computers

crashing

windows 10

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4 people

Life gives and life takes away.....

Sparks @sparkofinsanity (20471) • Regina, Saskatchewan 5 Aug 15

When I moved to this don't blink or you'll miss it little spot on the map in the middle of the Canadian Prairies 8 years ago, my hubs and I were met with a lovely welcome by our nearest neighbour. Over the years she has shared my...

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3 people

Couldn't have come at a better time......

Sparks @sparkofinsanity (20471) • Regina, Saskatchewan 5 Aug 15

Get your mind out of the gutter! My title refers to my discovering mylot again. I have run out of books to read and re-read and the next trip to the city is weeks away, so being here just might save my sanity..........for now!...

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5 people

Who Knew........?

Sparks @sparkofinsanity (20471) • Regina, Saskatchewan 11 Jan 12

In leap frogging back and forth through last year's journal, I nearly threw it through my window in disgust at how whiny I sounded. Instead I threw it across the room where it landed and stayed behind the couch. Yes, last year...

journals

life lessons

self perceptions

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2 people

A Question of Propriety

Sparks @sparkofinsanity (20471) • Regina, Saskatchewan 16 Nov 11

A week ago my mother in law passed away. The hubs and I went to Alberta immediately to see to the arrangements and get a date for the service. My MIL wanted to be cremated and her ashes buried with her mother back in Ontario. The...

respect in death

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8 people

Canadians loss is their governments gain......how sad!

Sparks @sparkofinsanity (20471) • Regina, Saskatchewan 22 Aug 11

Today Canada lost the leadership of the one and only truly honest and visionary politician it has ever had. Jack Layton of the National Democratic Party (NDP) lost his battle with a new cancer that was only diagnosed a few weeks...

oh my

tears for a politician

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1 person

Feeling Helpless Update

Sparks @sparkofinsanity (20471) • Regina, Saskatchewan 27 Feb 11

I gotta tell you guys that I was so pleased by your responses to my previous discussion. I sent the link to our dazzlebox jewelry maker and this is what she had to say to you all: "I have just been to ML and i wish i could get...

get a pap smear now

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6 people

Feeling Helpless............

Sparks @sparkofinsanity (20471) • Regina, Saskatchewan 26 Feb 11

In this age of social networking, sites like this and FB, it doesn't take an avid computer owner/user long to form friendships across the globe. Most of our 'friends' remain at arms length, in that they are just an avvy and a...

pray until your brain bleeds

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11 people

2011..........so far a lousy year!

Sparks @sparkofinsanity (20471) • Regina, Saskatchewan 6 Feb 11

I had high hopes for this year. We are barely into February and already this year has gone to hell in a hand basket. Most of you know my hubs is facing hernia surgery any day. While he waits for the call from hospital that a...

2011 sucks

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10 people

What makes a hero?

Sparks @sparkofinsanity (20471) • Regina, Saskatchewan 6 Feb 11

I just watched the story of Ernie Davis, the first Black athlete to win the Heisman Trophy, the highest award a college football player can win. He won it in 1961 while playing for Syracuse University in New York...

not all athletes are heros

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2 people

Frankly I'd rather be playing in the rain...........

Sparks @sparkofinsanity (20471) • Regina, Saskatchewan 3 Oct 10

The title says it all. I am sick to death of social sites that are used for personal power trips, full of petty judgmental people who think that just because we can't see their faces, they are safe and better than those they...

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14 people

I'm Here! I'm Here!

Sparks @sparkofinsanity (20471) • Regina, Saskatchewan 27 Sep 10

Hi. Remember me? I'm the 'travelling box' you all have read about. I apologize for the delay in talking to you all again, but I got kinda lost crossing the big pond between England and Canada. Here's what happened.......... I...

found

hates to travel

lost

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9 people

Now I'm Really Scared............

Sparks @sparkofinsanity (20471) • Regina, Saskatchewan 11 Sep 10

Today is September 11th. We pause to remember, to pay tribute, and to say "Never Again". Well wake up people, because it's going to happen again and again and again.............. I just read an article about Denmark and the...

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6 people