Jeremy Herndon

My brother just moved to a very rural area where his television options are limited.  He can’t get cable television at all because no cable company has run their cables out that far.  The rooftop antenna only gets two channels and both of them are fuzzy.  So he has decided to get Directv installed at his house. 

He was annoyed at first that he couldn’t get cable because he thought that the Direct TV was going to cost him more, but he has found a package of DirectSatTV
 services that he is happy about and he said that the cost of that package is comparable to what he had to pay at his previous house for the cable services.  Now he’s actually excited about the service because he says that he is getting a few extra channels that he didn’t have before but had always wanted to get!

I was watching a repeat of the season finale of Monk this weekend. I hadn’t seen it before, so I was glad when it came on. I wasn’t expecting it; I had just turned on the television and there it was! I really like the show, but I haven’t had time to watch it lately. After the show they ran a commercial that said that the Final season of Monk will be this summer! I was sorry to hear that! I certainly will miss that show!

Many people have addictive personalities and don’t even realize it.  There are many kinds of addiction, but several of the types are not deemed to be a problem to society.  For example, there are “work-a-holics” that just can’t relax; they have to keep busy doing something productive all of the time.  A vacation where they are forced to relax drives them crazy! That kind of addiction may cause a problem for the addicts family, but not to society in general; that kind of addiction does not normally lead to crime and/or violence!

Because the economy is in such a bad spot right now, I think that more people are going to be turning to drugs and alcohol as a stress relief mechanism.  This is going to be a problem in the long run because it is going to generate a lot more addicts that will be in need of alcohol rehab or a drug treatment program down the road.  And before these people realize that they need help a lot of families will be destroyed because of the addiction problems.  Yes, we live in a dangerous time, that is for sure!

I was reading on the msnbc.msn.com website “Weird animal news” section that a courthouse in Palm Beach County in Florida is being over run with mice. The story claims that mice are falling from the ceiling tiles, running loose in court while court is in session, and running through the halls.  They can be heard scratching behind the walls, too!

Sounds like some Decon is “in order” in the courthouse!  That is just plain old GROSS!  It’s probably also a major health hazard!

As I was just saying, women have special needs. Especially when it comes to their emotional and physical health.  So many of our women are suffering from a lot more stresses than their mothers and grandmothers ever did.  Juggling families, homes, and jobs is more stress than a lot of them can handle.  Many women turn to alcohol or drugs in an effort to “self-medicate” the stress away.  Some of these women end up addicted and what used to help them to deal with the stress of life ends up becoming the most stressful part of their lives of all!

I think that It only makes sense to offer women a specialized alcohol treatment program that caters to their special needs. Generic “one size fits all” programs just won’t do as good a job as an alcohol rehabilitation program geared just for the emotional and physcial needs of today’s women.  One of the few places on the East Coast that offer these services just for women is The Orchid Recovery Center.  You can check out their website for more information at orchidrecoverycenter.com.