Tuesday, October 25, 2011

TMI Tuesday

Not related.


1. Name 5 things you did more of before social networking (facebook, myspace, twitter, etc.)?

~Called people on the phone
~Read more books
~UNIntentionally ignored people I went to high school with, Now i do it with a purpose.
~Slept more
~Cared more about people... social networking really just proves again how much people suck and it makes me sad.

2. Your house is on fire, what do you grab as you run out?

My kids. That is a silly one! You mean aside from them though? probably my camera because I have 2700 pictures on it I am too lazy to take off.

3. Are you a morning person or a night owl?
Used to be a night owl because of some insomia problems but a trip to the doctor has returned me and my sleep cycle into a morning person and I LOVE it!

a. What time did you go to bed last night?

Halftime of the Monday Night football game while the Ratbirds were getting their asses handed to them.

b. What time did you wake up today?

Much earlier than I usually do. I woke up laying on my stomach to the feel of Atlas kneeling behind me pulling my shorts down. It was a GOOD way to wake up.

4. A kid comes up to you and kicks you in the shin, what do you do?

Punch them in the face... initial reaction... But really I would find out who this shitty kid's parents are and probably go punch them in the face because its THEIR fault society is gonna suck more than it already does.

5. What three things do you never leave the house without?

~Keys
~cellphone
~Ipod

Bonus: Name a place that you visited last week that you’ve never visited before. Briefly tell us about the visit.

No where? I have been staying really close to home lately. My days are consisting of visiting my sister and my grandmother, household chores, trips to walmart and droping off bags of stuff to goodwill as I am cleaning and organizing everything preparing for the move to Virginia.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

TMI Tuesday

1. “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours”…What is it that you will show me?
Probably attitude. I am all for treating people the way you would like them to treat you so if you are acting a fool I am going to treat you like a fool. The same goes for if you are a bitch I will be a bitch to you, if you are ignorant I will treat you as such and if you act like a small child, I will treat you like one of mine, and trust me I am a lot stricter parent than 95 percent of people I know.

2. What was the last thing you regret buying?

I do not often buy a lot of things for myself. When I do go shopping it is for something that we need. I regret buying some books, I have tried to read " Eat, Pray, Love" three times and have not made it past Italy... So that was a waste of money that just sits on my book shelf and when someone sees it and goes "OH what a great Book" I can't even agree because I didn't even make it a third of the way through it.


3. How happy are you? 1 = not happy at all to 5 = very happy

Truly depends on the day. On average I am a 4-5. I am extremely happy with my life, I just have a lot of stress recently and it is just now starting to works its way out. I am working out again on a regular basis so that really is helping with the stress level.

4. Last night, what did you go to bed thinking about?

Sex, its usually what I think about before going to bed. Unfortunately I was too tired to really make a move so I just simply asked Atlas to cuddle with me for awhile thinking it might lead to something else... it didn't but I woke up feeling much more refreshed.

5. Tell us something that made you happy this past week or made you think “that’s cool!”

My sister saying " I love you" and "bye" for the first time since her accident. I was there I heard it and it made me cry, happy tears of course. This from a girl the doctors told us had no brain activity and would never breathe on her own. The moral of the story, never lose faith... Believe like nothing is impossible.

Bonus: What is your favorite mark of punctuation? Why?

Oh this is funny and I have the same answer as Will! I overuse the Ellipsis (...) in my writing. I tend to write how I speak and I often leave a lot of pauses and allow my conversational partner a chance to speak. I also do this too much when I am "chatting" online, anyone that chats with me probably notices that... its like my thoughts just kind of trail off or I am patiently waiting for someone to say something... maybe not so patiently.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Disappointing

I'm not leaving after all. At least not until next month now but that isn't what I am disappointed in. People. People in general disgust me. My family...erg... my extended family has been torn into shambles in the last few months. My mom being sick and passing and my sister's car accident and her severe traumatic brain injury has really shown me things about my family that I do not like anymore.

As a child you think that everyone is good and that people are there to help you then as an adult you see people suck and generally want to help themselves. This is what I am bitching about. My grandmother, my mother's mother, moved in with me when I moved back into the area. After 3 years of living with me and my children she moved home to be with her daughter while she was sick. My mother lived in my grandmother's home, so did my sister. So now neither of them are there and my grandmother is in this house, a two story house that she can barely go up and down the stairs.

We live in Pennsylvania and there is no heat in the house right now. My mother used a wood burner and this is just impractical for my grandmother because she can barely walk let alone carry wood in and load the wood burner watch it burn close the damper take care of it ect ect ect. So my grandmother is staying in a house in 50 degree weather with no heat. There is also a leak in the foundation so every 3 days after it rains the entire basement is soaked with water. and 3 days after that the mold continues to grow.

Its sick. I am sick to my stomach over it and there is nothing I can do. I bought a house in Virginia with the idea that my grandmother can come and stay with me, she had lived with me for the last 3 years why not now. Everything on one floor, kitchen, bathroom, laundry her room, living room... but she won't leave here because she has my mother's dogs.

Okay, we need to get rid of the dogs, its a fair argument. Here is the part that annoys me, I talk to my grandmother this morning ask her how she is doing " I'm cold" well no shit you are its 45 degrees outside. So I call her back at noon to make sure she is up and moving and I tell her she needs to call someone and have them look at her chimney today or do something because next week there are snow flurries in the forecast. She goes on to tell me she has no money, that everyone wants her to do something else and she just has no money for it right now. I tell her I am calling my uncle who is a contracter. I call his wife " I am concerned that gram doesn't have any heat and its going to snow next week"
" why doesn't she have any heat" REALLY? REALLY? You are over there twice a week and you don't know how she doesn't have any heat? So I explain all of that to her. She says something along the lines of we will go over and see her tonight and see what she needs.

So, she goes on to say, gram needs to get rid of the dogs and sell the house. YES I agree and she can move in with me. "She would never move away from everyone"...

AWAY FROM WHO? From my mother who lived with her who is dead? My sister who lived with her who is now living with my dad because she needs 24/7 care that she can not provide? To the son and daughter who live a mile away but don't realize their mother does not have heat and is living in a moldy house? The other daughter who calls every three weeks? or the other son who only calls when he has something to bitch about to make her feel bad? I'm just sick over it. I am not doing this selfishly, I gain nothing by having her move with me. I want her to be somewhere where she is with a family, where we love her and can care for her. She needs someone to help her do regular things. She doesn't cook or clean...

What do I do? I want to wash m hands of the situation, and not care, and pretend that I know nothing about what is going on but I can't do that. Every time someone tells me that I am wrong for wanting her to be with me, I feel even worse. Before my mom got sick gram was going to come with me, no questions asked, she has nothing here to keep her here really... but I am the bad person who wanting better for her, I'm the bad one for complaining about the conditions she is living in.

If you wouldn't live there why should we expect/ALLOW her to? I would not sit in a moldy cold room day after day... but I am the only one that seems to care that she is living in deplorable conditions.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Leaving on a Jet Plane

So I will be leaving this week to go do some training. I will be without computer and internet for approximately 5 weeks. So I will not be blogging but will probably be able to answer emails. During this time I am going to make the blog private for the simple reason that I am not around to monitor it. So please, stick around I will be back... I will be going private towards the end of the week. Thanks!

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

TMI: Breaking up is hard to do

1. What’s the worst reason you have been given for breaking up?

My first real boyfriend broke up with me, for the first time my sophomore year of high school, a month after my grandfather died, and 3 days after my house burned down. He said that it was because he could not deal with all of my emotions. So... I am near break down levels and this kid decides that he can't handle emotions... we had been together for over a year too. A few days later he asked me if it would be okay for him to go on a date with some senior girl or if I didn't think it was a good idea... I obviously didn't think it was a good idea, and that girl jumped me at lunch a few days later. As I was kneeling on her chest ready to throw a punch my track coach came up behind me and picked me up off her and took me in another room. I did not get in trouble, and I got to run in the meet the next day. The girl was suspended. It was one of those stupid high school relationships where we were together on and off for the next 2 years.

2. What’s the worst reason you gave, to someone, for breaking up?

I ever told someone? Probably nothing, I just stopped answering my phone every time this one boy called me. I didn't like him, it wasn't that I didn't see a future with us, I didn't see a present with us.

3. Have you ever engineered the end of a relationship e.g doing something you know will put the other person off? If yes, what did you do?

I did. I went and hung out with an ex to get my current boyfriend to leave me alone. Happened that the same night I was hanging out with my ex, the current boyfriend was in a car accident and called me 30 times, while I didn't answer. I felt really bad about it because he was a really nice kid, had a great job and a nice car... but I wasn't really after those things then. I just wanted someone to have fun with and he wasn't fulfilling the fun quota.

4. Have you ever stayed with a partner just because you could not bear to end it?

Again, that silly high school boyfriend thing. I stayed long long LONG after I should of. My mother was extremely strict so when I would have to be home for the night he would drop me off and go to parties. I should of stopped then. But even after we had broken up we continued to have sex on a regular basis and it was horrible sex at that because there was no feelings behind it, when it was over I was glad to get up and move on to the next thing I "had" to do that day.

5. Have you ever encouraged a friend to end a relationship? What happened? Are you still friends?

Eh... guilty. I encouraged my best friend to end a relationship with a boy who I had been friends with since we were little. I encouraged this because I was jealous probably, but more because the boy and I spent a lot of time together alone and because things were progressing between us. We spent a lot of time together, fishing, and sitting around a fire, swimming in lakes, doing what normal high school kids do in rural areas... It is one probably the only relationship I have in my life that I look at and wonder what could have been. We are still friends, he and his wife just had their second child last year but when we hug sometimes, you can tell that there is more there. The girl? Yes we are still friends, She was my best friend and she didn't really like him, the were exact opposites, and I think they started dating simply because they had me in common.

Bonus: Have you ever been the cause of a relationship to end? Tell us about it.

I have, and then I was mostly intentional, I know I was a horrible person, but I was also a young stupid girl, and when it came to boys I usually got what I wanted. So although I may have been the cause of a few relationships ending, I am fairly sure that most of them got back together after I was done with it. It sounds mean and spiteful and horrible... and maybe I was that person then looking back now, but at the time it was all in good fun and I never saw the pain that I know now that I probably caused. I apologize to any girls who's boyfriend I may have borrowed... but it swear it was all in good fun.

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Monday, October 3, 2011

Feeling Frisky

Who wants to play? ooOooOOo I do I do, pick me pick me!

Sunday Stealing ( on Monday)

This is stolen from Jack and Jill over at Frisky in the 916... I'm having a hard time linking anything this morning so check them out if you get a chance. Thanks for the inspiration!


1. Can you cook?

I Sure Can! I cook almost everyday right now since I am home but once I start working again full time I usually return to cooking full meals 4 times a week with enough for left overs on the other days. Atlas is the professionally trained chef but I do the majority of the cooking in the house.

2. What was your dream growing up?

Not really sure what my dream was. To be happy I think. A lot of my childhood was spent in turmoil and viewing relationships that were not good examples of what I wanted. So I think I just wanted to get away from home and to be happy. My dream of happiness and love and comfort and being able to take care of myself has been very much attained.

3. What talent do you wish you had?

Playing an instrument. I am going to learn. Its the next thing on the bucket list. I just have to pick out what I want to play.

4. Favorite place?

Favorite place? I enjoy being at home. I love my house, I love my room, and when its quiet its the best place on earth.

5. Favorite vegetable?

I eat all kinds of vegetables. If I had to choose just one I don't know what I would pick. I like cooked spinach. I like it alone, I like it creamed, I like it in dips, I like it in eggs, in salads... Yes that would have to be my favorite.

6. What was the last book you read.

Something Nursing and Testing related, boring and annoying.

7. What zodiac sign are you?

Scorpio.

8. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings?

My ears are pierced, I have 3 holes in each but usually only wear two per. My belly button and eyebrow were pierced in high school and I took them out shortly after graduating. I have 3 tattoos, One on my hip that I got when I was 18, one on my hand that I got when I was 21, and one on my right calf I got two months ago.

9. Worst Habit?

Procrastinating. I should be studying right now but this seemed so much more fun. Then I should study and I will go do housework or start dinner... its always something.

10. Do you personally know anybody on Blog?
No, not personally, some people I know a little more than their blog but even that isn't much. I would love to know some of the people on here on a more personal level. Maybe someday.

11. What is your favorite sport?

Favorite sport to play? Basketball. I played all through high school, I love the athleticism of it and the sweat and the close contact and aggression. To watch I am a die hard football fan but my heart lies in hockey. It just such a tough sport, the skate and handle a puck with all the padding is incredible to me then add hitting and fighting and scoring and its damn near an art form.

12. Negative or Optimistic attitude?

Overly Optimistic.I always see a silver ling to everything and I don't see much point focusing on things that are out of our control. Worrying and stress never made anyone feel better.

13. What would you do if you were stuck in an lift with someone of the opposite sex?

Talk? LOL. I guess it would depend on who and how long we were there. I enjoy kissing maybe making out would be a good option.

14. Worst thing to ever happen to you?

See! The worst thing to happen to me? This summer all around has been fairly shitty. With my mom being sick and eventually passing and my sister's car accident, and everything else that happened along the way. However it didn't really happen to me, I was just an observer, I was connected genetically and emotionally to the entire situation so although it hurt, the physical pain and suffering of all the situations were not technically mine.

15. Tell me one weird fact about you:

I do not drink Milk... at all, I even eat cereal dry.

16. Do you have any pets?

3 large meat-head monster lap dogs. 3 Mastiffs... pets... more like horses.

17. Do you know how to do the macarena?

I do, but I haven't had to do it in a very very long time.

18. Is the sun shining where you are now?

No its cold and rainy here just like its been for the last 3 days. Its fall *sigh*

19. Do you think clowns are cute or scary?

Neither? I could really give or take them. They don't freak me out, but I don't really see the appeal of it either. I like stand up comedians because I like to laugh and they don't have to wear all that makeup to be funny.

20. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?

I think most of the things that I didn't like that I could change I did change. I didn't like my teeth, I got them straightened. I didn't like wearing glasses all the time, I got LASIK. I didn't like the way my boobs looked after breastfeeding for 4 years straight so I got them "refiled". I am really comfortable and content with myself and what I have so I wouldn't change another thing.

21. Would you be my good angel or bad angel?

I good angel. I think in general most people just suck so I feel most people could use a good kick in the ass and pointed in the right direction every now and again.

22. What color eyes do you have?

Blue. Sometimes its a greyish ocean blue other times they are very dark blue.

23. Ever been married? Yes 7 years and counting.

24. Bottle or Draft?

Neither, I don't drink beer. I just don't like the taste. If I am out and drinking chances are I have a grey goose and cranberry in my hand or a captain and coke, or crown black and coke. If I'm drinking, I probably want a buzz and beer won't get me there because I have to choke it down.

25. If you won £10,000 today, what would you do with it?

Turn it into dollars and then take a vacation. Probably Bora Bora, that is looking like the next adventure.

26. What kind of bubble gum do you prefer to chew?

No gum, I am scared it will stick to my teeth and pull them out. I know unrealistic ideas but it all makes sense in my head alright?

27. What's your favorite bar to hang at?

Bar a mile from our house. Its got good music on the weekends and a small crowd of townies that are real people and enjoy having a good time.

28. Do you believe in ghosts?

Why not? I am fairly certain when I was young like 5, I saw a ghost in my bedroom. I pulled the covers over my head and called for my mom. I remember all of this fairly well so it must of made an impression on me.

29. Favorite thing to do in your spare time?

Sleep, play on the computer, Chat online.

30. Do you swear a lot?

Heh, Like a Fucking Sailor :)

31. Biggest pet peeve?

Chewing with your mouth open or talking with food in your mouth.

32. In one word, how would you describe yourself? Charismatic

33. In two words, how would you describe yourself? Coolest Ever