Honestly…
October 31, 2007 at 3:37 pm | In life | 3 CommentsTags: biffs, Blogging, Family, Flickr, Friends, online, relatives
I’m not sure what I would do without all the people in my life that keep me grounded.
I have my relatives, I have my family, I have my friends, and I have my internet friends. If you’re new to this whole social internet thang, then you might not beleive me that you really can just about be as close to people online as you can in real life. There’s emotion through writing, just not the exact emotion you get face to face, there’s pictures that portray feelings and thoughts…there’s enough to get by.
Life has its ups and its downs and when one aspect of life isn’t going that well, the other is usally thriving. I just wanted to let you guys know that you’re all awesome and that I appreciate you!
Laughter.
October 26, 2007 at 11:21 am | In life | 3 CommentsTags: funny, hiding, hilarious, iyiyiyiyiyi, laughter, mexican
Kalayah was in the kitchen a minute ago messin around… and I’m sittin here in the living room chillin and I suddenly had the urge to scream “IYIYIYIYIYIYIYIYIYIY!!!!” You know like mexican style. LMAO
She didn’t say a word…and I said, “Kalayah…did you know there’s a mexican hiding in the house somewhere?” She says, “No…” I said, “Didn’t you hear him?” She replies, “No, what did he sound like?”
I waited a few seconds then let out an “IYIYIYIYIYIYIYIYIYIY!!!” She jumped and screamed at me, “MOM!” Then burst out laughing!
OMG It was good times, good times…
Then she’s all, “I’m gonna go back into the kitchen so you can do it again.”
“Nope…I’m done now. Can’t *cough* do it *cough* anymore!”
“Was it too funny? Was it just too funny mom?”
“Yes, Yes it was!”
JUST What I Needed…
October 22, 2007 at 10:40 pm | In life | 6 CommentsTags: Alex, Bestow, bracelet, earrings, Jewelry, Lia Sophia, Lime Light, necklace, Savannah, Tizzy, Toffee
Sunday my mom hosted a Lia Sophia Jewelry party at her house…I’d never been to one so I wasn’t sure if they’d have anything I like…
They did.
The first think I’d looked at was the bracelet that’s pictured on the front of the magazine…I was a little concerned that it would be too big and it was, but it was so pretty!
The first piece that I really wanted just by looking at the magazine was this necklace called “Savannah”…
Then this “Bestow” bracelet…
Then “Alex,” which is the necklace, not the bracelet…
AND The “Toffee” bracelet…I’m definately in bracelet mode lately…
Last but certainly not least…when I was looking through the catalog I saw a pair of earrings that were cute and showed my aunt…she said, “Oh, your mom already bought those at the last party just because of the name!” I said, “What? The name?” Guess what they are called….
“Tizzy!”
So my mom gave me hers!
By the way, I didn’t pay a cent for any of this cuz my mom was able to get over $300 worth of free jewelry for hosting the party and for getting so much in orders, so she got me everything I wanted! Isn’t that cool?!?!?! Woohooo!!!
Pumpkin Goodness
October 19, 2007 at 11:48 pm | In life | 1 CommentTags: kids, pumpkin, pumpkin patch, Kalayah, Austin, field trip
Today must have been Pre-School Field Trip To The Pumpkin Patch Day, cuz there was buses there and kids with name tags and teachers and I see a friend of mine went to the pumpkin patch today too….
So, anyhow, I took Kalayah and Austin to the pumpkin patch today with the school. Keri and Parker rode with us and we had a good time talking (pssttt, Keri!…foot. lol) and being silly on the ride up there. Once we got there, we took a few pictures behind the wooden pictures…you know the kind you stick your face in so that you look like a giant pumpkin with a teeny tiny head. I have some pics but they weren’t up to par for what I want to showcase now days, so instead I give you the cuteness…
Unripened.
This….is Jorge. My friend Carl helped me name him. LMAO!
Kalayah & Parker - Cousins.
Austin and his baby!
Mr. Independent
As much as I always piss and moan about prying my ass away from the computer and this house, I had a really good time! Kalayah and Parker need to spend more time together and Keri and I could use a good catching up too!
It was a good day!
Inspiration.
October 18, 2007 at 8:25 pm | In life | 6 CommentsTags: Friends, inspiration, life, live, love, past, present, promises
This last week has been crazy emotional for me…I’m not sure if it’s soley from my past making its way into the present or if I’m just emotional right now.
I’ve come to realize that things we thought were so important to us back then have shit to do with the ways of life and what kind of people we need to be. I was driving the other day and a song came on the radio that I hadn’t heard before and I almost started bawling! Before you ask, no…..I’m not pregnant.
I’ve been feeling inspired lately to just be happy. I’ve made promises to myself first and foremost and I want to keep those promises for once in my life…I’ve walked around with my head down for long enough, it’s time to face the world head on. In the past I relied on my friends too much, I valued their opinion more than my own sometimes and I’m so past high school. It really is true that you find out who your true friends are after high school.
There are a handful of people in my life that have made an astounding impression on the way I live my life, I’m grateful to you. I feel like I’m an adult still taking baby steps, walking the fence between right and wrong. I can easily get direction from watching people make the wrong decisions but not quickly devouring the right.
I don’t have as much to say as I thought I did. I just want to be happy and have the people around me happy.
I just want to live.
So What.
October 15, 2007 at 3:43 pm | In life | No CommentsTags: cold, cough, gout, kids, lasts forever, medicine, sick
The weekend left faster than it got here. Friday was movies, Saturday was lounging without the girls at home. Sunday was laid back until the girls came home, plus Hannah and Riyyah. Suddenly 5 kids, 1 me and no Claude, he’d gone to Graham to pracitce with a band.
The kids were wiped out and Kalayah was starting to fall asleep on the couch so I had her get her jammies on and get to bed, the other two soon followed. A couple hours later Kalayah was coughing so hard she was crying and had a terrible headache. Me, being the fantastic mom that I am, ran out of cough medicine earlier that day figuring no big deal she’ll be ok till tomorrow. Wrong. So here I was at 10 at night going to the store. It was actually kinda busy in there considering what time it was.
$30 including medicine, bread, salad, bacon bits, creamer, onions, Ritz crackers, turkey kielbasa LATER, I came home. Claude administered the meds including a dose of Tylenol and sent her back to bed.
I kept her home from school today and it’s a good thing since she coughed for atleast an hour this morning while waiting for the meds to kick back in. This cough/cold bullshit lasts FOREVER.
Claude tried to get a doctors appointment today for his toe…he woke up Saturday morning with his big toe swollen, red and extremely painful. I asked him if he’d gotten it “stuck” in the carpet, I guess the technical name is Turf Toe (joint sprain). He didn’t think he had, he didn’t remember doing so, so we iced it and tried to massage it some but it hurt too bad to touch. Of course, the doctors office isn’t open today so he called the on call doctor and they had him go up to the hospital for a blood test and an x-ray. According to the symptoms it sounds like gout. For those of you who don’t know what gout it, it’s a painful form of arthritis that usually affects the big toe.
He has an appointment tomorrow with the doc, so we’ll see!
I don’t have much to report on other than that…I’m pretty “so so” today. Not a bad day but not a omgijustcantstopbeingsohappy kinda day either.
Timidity.
October 7, 2007 at 3:32 pm | In life | 2 CommentsTags: Blogging, breaking out, caged, enclosed, feelings, frustration, I won't let you, insecure, outlet, passive, relief, speaking my mind, stress, timid, you cant take this away from me
Sometimes I hold back, I don’t say what I feel, I don’t say enough.
Just because you think that blogging is stupid and that everone in blogland exagerates and falsifies every story, doesn’t mean that’s the way I am. I’m not everyone else. I blog because it’s an outlet…it’s a way for me to communicate out of my little box, my box being this house. It’s a way for me to reach people that don’t even know me, people that are too afraid to come out of hiding and let me know that “Hey, you aren’t the only one dealing with this shit in your life.”
I just can’t do it. There’s so much I want to say, there’s so much I want to be to all these different people and I just don’t see how that’s possible!
If I’ve had a bad day and want to vent…I might come in here and pitch a little bitch, but not enough to REALLY make me feel better. Getting all the feelings out on the table has a tendency to help not hinder feeling better.
I have a small group of friends who blog and who aren’t afraid to say how they feel. I admire them to the point of envy because that is what I want for my life. Not speaking my mind is what’s holding me down. I can’t be held down forever.
I’m no PRUDE, anyone that knows me knows I’m no prude. I don’t care if you’ve met me once or if you’ve known me for 15 years, you know. I have wants, needs and desires and one of them it to not be worrying about what you think of me…so I’m not going to anymore. I’m done.
You can’t one second be my friend and the next handing me a list of all my faults and all my insecurities and expect me to thank you. I don’t work that way and I don’t know of anyone that does.
I have so much anger and resentment inside of my body at any given time, I’m surprised I haven’t spontaneously combusted. For too long I’ve held my feelings in, tried to recycle them out as sighs and eye rolls. I can’t do it anymore, I won’t do it anymore.
Don’t you tell me one more time that how I choose to spend my time is a waste. It’s my time, my outlet, my energy, my dreams and my reality.
What I have is mine and I’m not letting you take it from me.
So Long Emo Kid…
October 3, 2007 at 7:16 pm | In life | 2 CommentsTags: , 80's, change, evolution, genres, Music, radio, TOTALLY!
Just for today anyhow.
I’m in country mode today. Don’t ask me why, but Alison Krauss is calling me! Yesterday when I was using MSN (Windows Live) Messenger, I noticed that there was a radio station that you can personalize much like other radio stations, so I created a few stations, Evans Blue, Red Jumpsuit and The Cranberries.
Diverse yes.
I can just sense the eye rolling.
I just added Frente’ and Belly to The Cranberries station. Sweet!
I guess what I really need to do it brainstorm all the stuff I used to listen to back in the day, well maybe not ALL of it. I’d rather not relive The Bodyguard Soundtrack, k thanx!
Actually, I’ll give you a few laughs. Here’s is what I used to listen to:
- Sandy Patty (lmao)
- Celine Dion
- Vince Gill
- Basically anything country, but not the real twangy stuff
- Whitney Houston
- Mariah Carey
- Alison Krauss
- Shawn Colvin
- Suzy Boggus
- Janet Jackson
- L.L. Cool J
- Tracy Chapman
- Belly
- Frente’
- The Cranberries
- The Scorpions
- Def Leopard
- Toto
- New Kids On The Block
- Richard Marx
- Jewel
The list could really go on and on, but that gives you a pretty good idea of me in the 80’s.
The me today, mostly consists of rock, alternative, punk and a hint of possible crap from time to time!
- Cold
- The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- Evans Blue
- Three Days Grace
- Avril
- 10 Years
- Moments In Grace
- Spoken
- Breaking Benjamin
- Framing Hanley
- Anberlin
- The Exies
- 30 Seconds To Mars
- Alkaline Trio
- Panic At The Disco
- Fall Out Boy
- Vertical Horizon
- Third Eye Blind
- The Rasmus
So I suppose you could say that I’ve changed a hell of a lot the past couple of years. I still manage to sneak a little Rascal Flatts in there sometimes though. I’m cool like that.
I might seem lame, but I’m totally rad. Or something like that…
The Kids Are In Bed & The Husband’s Playing X-Box
October 1, 2007 at 9:10 pm | In life | No CommentsTags: birthday party, drinking, Friends, Steve, Jagermeister, Cleaning, cruise, Family, group picture, Flickr
Here I sit. I was bra shopping. What? You didn’t care to know that? I’m sorry, but it’s my blog, so you can leave if you want. Don’t go yet though…I might spew forth some interesting shit that you can’t live without. Prolly not though.
Saturday night was our friend Steves birthday. We bought him some Jagermeister (at his request for the second year in a row) and a birthday card with some snarky “would you rather be hammered or nailed” quote it in. We drank to our livers content and had a great time bullshitting and carrying on about whatever we wanted.
Here’s a group picture:
Aren’t we just awesome!
Sunday I went and cleaned my parents house, Sunday isn’t my usual day to clean, but my parents, my aunt and uncle, Grannie and a bunch of other people I know, went on a cruise today and won’t be back till Friday. So Leslie (aunt) and my parents both had me clean for them this weekend. I made over $100 doing so, so why the hell wouldn’t I want to!
I’m borrowing a laptop from my mom, I love it! If (or when, if I get my way) she gives it to me, the only thing I’d alter is adding Photoshop and some regular picture editing software. I think on my desktop I’ve been using Microsoft Picture Manager or something like that, and I like it quite a bit for just resizing and crap like that.
Anyhow, I’ve totally changed everything around on here, downloaded new toolbars, updated messenger and even deleted some miscellaneous shit off of here. I love being able to just kick back in the recliner and browse around the interwebs, it’s great fun.
I suppose I’ll go and see if I have any new Flickr! comments now. Yay!
Peace! (Says Claude)
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