STARTING OVER AT 47

Monday, January 7, 2008

The challenge of starting over with a remake home!
















For good or bad I realized I take myself everywhere I go. The same habits, speech, education ....haircolor:)))))) Well, anyway! I bought an extremely damaged , disgusting mobil home to flip. Never never did I think I would live here full time! I re-did the place and turned it into a gem! It was so bad..drug dealers (trailer trash) lived here. They busted out all the windows and let the water run over on the sub flooring. Pulled out the kitchen. I even found needles in the roof!!!! Yuck. When I walked into the stinky living room I saw a meadow in my back yard thru the broken extremely large windows. I said Yes!!! Everyone thought I was over the top..as usual!


I stripped the entire place of everything, yucky paneling, flooring windows. I helped put in more 2 by 2's . My friend is an electrician. We re-did the entire electricity- I was the helper! He couldn't''t believe there were actually nails thru the wiring. I helped him dry wall. I learned a lot! This was before my local police set me up for my insurance policy and before the brain surgery and cancer.


I saw another person who made a show room out of his mess and believed I could. I ...WAS going to use this place as a weekend place, than flip it. I was so inspired at what I saw the other person did in a magazine review of his single-wide, so I was inspired to buy this wrecked place. I have some photos you may like. Most of the stuff is re-purposed. I still have a long ways to go, but there are no limitations....I also don't have a mortgage nor do I have high property tax. A good thing when someone is starting over! I don't have any photos of before , but I do have photos of now!


The first photo is my new walkway. I put up lattice and also enclosed the patio with lattice. I re-upholstered some used beat up patio furniture I purchased for $2.50 each. A lot of work, but I did it! I learned as I went along. Along side the walkway ( my neighbor put in when I was in the hospital- as a gift!)







I had some (opps ) paint left over. Opps is mistake paint that is returned to the paint store. I paid $ 5 for a 5 gallon! What you see is what you get! But you can always mix little tubes of color to get close to what you want! So this opps paint was a lavender. I wanted that color anyway , so I bought it!








I have 20 feet of clay dirt in the front yard that won't grow anything, so I started a worm farm. Nobody knows the difference, but always comments on my beautiful plants. I only grow edible things like herbs, fruit trees, and hot peppers. I also grow roses. When I took a trip to Israel , a pioneer woman told me how to make a delight refreshing drink from roses...from her own garden. Wow It was delicious! The day was extremely hot , as North Africa gets!So what you see is a worm farm with plants and herbs growing over it.

The walk way my neighbor made for me is from recycled cement and tiles. Beautiful isn't it! He also put river rock around my home. I was so surprised because the front yard was a challenge, like everything else here!



I have a two bedroom home. Both of the bedrooms were funky. The picture is of the tiny , tiny bedroom next to the living room. The only way you could access it was Thur the hallway, so I added 2 by 2s and blocked the hallway and put French doors......( actually it was a patio door on sell as a close out . I got a fantastic price on it!) facing the living room and doubled the use of the bedroom /office . Through the French doors you can see a beautiful meadow and lots of oak trees in my backyard...all to myself! I haven't taken that photo yet...later. But now you can see the French doors.
The stinky time bedroom is now airy and functional! Simple and clean! I still have more work to do, but for now, it is functional.






















The home had 2 nasty bathrooms. In the first bathroom, the tub was falling thru the floor...Did I mention that we had to put new sub flooring throughout the entire place. We combined the two bathrooms and I bought seconds and used everything. I bought the paint on sale..I think! The claw tub was rusting out in someone's yard. I had it re-powdered and added minimal fixtures. We put in new windows and tiling on the bathroom floor. I bought a closeout shower and we put that Where the other bathroom was. I'm talking about tiny rooms, but I love the place! I put quilted pillow cases over the windows that I bought cheaply at a thrift store.

















The table on the right is a dresser converted for the bathroom for storage. I do not yet have closets so I use many shabby chic ideals and ideals from other start-over people!
















It's kind of exciting starting-over. It's me against me. For a while I sat and just couldn't put things together. Where was I going to live? What was I going to do for work? What was I going to do? Was I going to get restitution for the police racketeering against me for my insurance policy? I was humbled because I owned and operated an extremely large business and was (reduced or so I thought) to starting completely over.











The truth of the matter is , I feel more like a woman than any time of my life. I am alive and am building my life from scratch and it feels invigorating. I never want to be so stuck with no way out again. When the business was successful, I was miserable! People were stealing, I would get the steroid users unloading on me - I kept a crow bar next to the register! What a way to live!
My family says that God tried every way to get me out of business, but I wouldn't budge, so he used the police! I remember one time that I asked God to show me another way. I didn't exactly expect the way he answered me. I was devastated for a while, but the Great Creator is showing me a way. For example, the insulation I wanted for my home was too expensive! The man doing work for me was driving on the freeway and had to stop suddenly because a truck dropped about 25 rolls of insulation! The best super thick kind. The truck drove off and left the mess. My friend and a CHP officer loaded up my friends truck. The CHP told him thank you for helping her! It was like that through tout the project! Thank You Great Creator!











Things didn't always go so smooth, but when I needed something , It appeared! I thank The Great Creator all day long. I hope he doesn't get tired of it! I just can't help myself when I see what I had in front of me . I would never have the story this way. I never did see any kind of good out-come after having my business stolen from under me! I wanted to die! Even when I went through brain surgery and cancer, I never had the humiliation of having someone bear false witness against me.But the Lord saw me througt it and I am energized about starting over. I CAN DO IT! I feel strong and able. I did learn the biggest lesson. Before all this stuff happened, I thought I was in charge. Now I learned that the Great Creator is in charge...Period! Oh, how I was fooling my self. I needed to come down a few notches! I am a completely different person now, and much much happier. I know that God supplies our every need. I'm not trying to preach. I'm just telling you that I would rather have God on my side! It makes ALL the difference!..Oh sure, I still get saddened when I pass my old building...no fault of my own! But things happen for a reason.





So back to my bathroom. Here is a side photo of the claw tub and my new curtains.




The water heater was also sinking. What a chore that was!












The toilet and shower are next to my tub

Thursday, December 20, 2007

ALPHY




My mother found Alphy on a rainy day in January of 2004. She was a Ferrel cat. Alphy was born a blind dwarf with undersized front legs. What a combo. We make quite a a duo!


It took about a year before Alphy completely trusted me. Now , she tells me what time I should go to bed! She gives me angel kisses. Even though I have shreds on my arm from our beginnings, Alphy is like puddy in my arms.


It's amazing how she gets around better than anybody I know. Just like a blind person, I vocally navigate what is in front of her. If she is walking directly into something, I just say " watch". And, when she runs too fast, or someone just put something down in front of her I just say " be carefully". She then stands on her back legs and feels with her paws......just like a person.


She had a larger vocabulary than normal. She can't see, but she listens carefully. She is my pretty little girl. I love Alphy.I have learned so much from her. One night while I was sleeping I could feel a powder puff softly rubbing over my face. She was touching my nose and lips. She was seeing what I looked like. Just like a person! She even uses her front arms like a person.
I know she uses whatever tools God gave her to the fullest! What a wonder.


And what an appetite! Wow! She can eat!

FROM THE BEGINNING

I'm going to post my notes on my day to day feelings and actions of " STARTING OVER". This site is going to be about a new future and how I go about attaining the goal of success from very little. This is not a doom and gloom site. Things happen! One person told me that when you are all the way down , you only have up to look.

You see, I was the owner of the biggest Health Food Business in....... It was a multi-million dollar Company. The local police decided that they wanted my business insurance policy. One Sargent had a stroke. His friend , the other Sargent falsified police records to say that He was working and took something from me...and falsified police records to that account.

At that time I just got out of the hospital from 2 surgeries. 1 had brain surgery and while I was In the hospital the doctors found cancer. I had cancer 2 weeks later and 2 weeks after that , I was set up on a false lawsuit so the cops could get my business insurance policy. I never carried the product they said I sold them. The police ( keystone cops) showed the product around ( an ephedrine product) so people would associate me with it. They tried to get me on criminal charges for this particular product. As it turned out, I never carried it.Back to the Sargent who had a stroke.....The other guys from the station would come and buy their products from my business. They saw that at the time I was bald with staples......( I was supposed to take a 6 month disability, but did not have anyone to run my business, so I was back 3 days later).

When the police saw the staples in my head, they tole me that that particular Sargent was running on his day off and and drinking coffee and had a stroke. Because his buddy falsified police records, he and his wife got away with $400,000 in workers comp fraud ( for being injured on the job....they then went on to change the name of the product to something I did carry, even though there was a paper trail a mile long.

I was on trial for 21 days. The head of the police department's lawyer convinced the jury that I injured this person. The judge would not allow 89% of the depositions because she was covering for the Chief of police, the assistant chief of police, 4 lutenients......(one who was on the news for allegedly killing his wife for her insurance policy) and 4 Sargent's. The minimum sentence for each police for falsifying police records is 10 years. The wife even confessed ..before the trial, but the judge said if I mentioned anything about INSURANCE, there would be a mistrial !!!!!! Well the whole thing was about racketeering and insurance.I'll talk more about this in later blogs. I'm tired for tonight. So see you tomorrow!

Posted by LISA SIMPSON at 3:59 AM 0 comments

Time to move on !!!

For a while, I was fixated on the passage of time. I didn't know what to do. I spent 20 years building up a life. I didn't go anywhere, just worked. ..What a loss. Now I see that the only thing that matters is family and friends.

I did what I thought was the right thing. I thought I had all my i's dotted and my t's crossed. Paid my taxes, suppliers worked 7 days a week...what a waste. Well I'm 47 and am starting over. I met good friends along the way. I was holding out having children so the business could grow and I could buy a home. Well, I did reach success and than I got cancer.I can no longer have children.

Around the time of the brain surgery, I started taking photos. I have this really great photo of the sun with an Angel setting on the sun beam. There is a whole story behind it, but you wouldn't believe me, so I'll just show you this beautiful photo. Look Closely. There is so much more on it that I won't talk about.....yet!

This was one of the side affects of the brain surgery. Seeing more things to photograph! I heard of other people who had brain surgery being able to see things also. I would never mention this if I knew you. But since I don't know you , well, here it is. I hope you enjoy the photo....I have more.

THE SUN IS ALIVE

THE SUN IS ALIVE

About Me

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I am cherokee. I love life and believe that God has blessed me. I love animals and believe you can learn from them, if your not to egoed out.

THE WIFE CONFESSES ON DEPOSITION

THE WIFE CONFESSES ON DEPOSITION
THE JUDGE HID THE CONFESSION

ONE OF MY 1000 LETTERS TO THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

The first question is ...IS RACKETEERING LEGAL IN XXX XXXXXXX.COUNTY??? IF NOT, WHAT ARE THE EXACT STEPS I SHOULD TAKE TO REPORT IT. IT SEEMS THAT EVERYONE WANTS TO PASS THE BUCK. I HAVE MADE A CIRCLE TWICE TO ....YOU. NOW, COULD YOU PLEASE STEP UP TO THE PLATE AND TELL ME WHAT IT TAKES TO GET A LEGITIMATE INVESTIGATION( NO STONES UNTURNED), NO SARCASM, JUST PLAIN OLD FASHIONED NO NONSENSE LEGITIMATE , NO COVER UP INVESTIGATION. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. I WILL BE LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR RESPONSE WITHIN 30 DAYS . ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU.

WHO'S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT?????

WHO'S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT?????

The same story I received " 1000" times before...AFTER they heard my story.

webmail@da.lacounty.gov to me show details Oct 2 Reply

Without knowing the exact details, you can contact your local law enforcement agency to file a report. Once a report is taken the case would then be handed to an investigator within that agency and they would determine if the case should warrant prosecution by bringing that case to our office (District Attorney). We would at that point review the information to see if the case is suitable for filing. Racketeering is illegal and I will also forward your information to the Department of Consumer Affairs. You can reach them at: dca@co.la.ca.us


Well , of course they read all my letters in full, not just the teaser e-mails! And, they have no intention of doing anything about the racketeering. Too newsey, high profile! At least that's was several attorneys told me.