lookit that!!

I wasn't gonna post today but I kinda had to... loooooooook



it's the first real snow of the winter... WOO HOO!! aside from a few dustings that all together barely equaled an inch this REALLY is the first time it's snowed in kittyville all winter!! it didn't amount to much... probably about 2 inches - but it sure is pretty (not that you can tell from that crappy picture) I kinda just wanted to have this on record - to remember the year that it didn't snow until it was almost February!! hehehe

oh well I'm getting ready to go to the chiropractor... keep your fingers crossed - if this doesn't work I'm gonna have to cut off my head!! haaaa

more whining... it's what I do best

well I suppose I should say something but I got nothin’ – my neck is totally messed up and it’s so uncomfortable it’s kinda all I can think about it!! and strangely enough hunching over my keyboard does NOT help it any… so I’ve been avoiding sitting here

right now I just feel like I need someone to whack me across my upper back/neck area with a 2x4

I’ve had problems with my neck since I was a teenager – a couple chiropractors I went to back then said that I may need breast reduction surgery at some point – I don’t see THAT happening so you’d think I’d just get used to it by now

but this feeling is kinda hard to get used to… it’s not so much pain as it is discomfort – but to call it that seems to minimize it… it’s extreme discomfort that makes me feel nauseous half the time and gives me a dull, nagging, throbbing headache the other half – I think it might be some sort of pinched nerve or something

anyway I SHOULD have insisted on going to the chiropractor yesterday but instead I agreed to wait until Wednesday… now I’m totally kicking myself in the ass… which I’m sure doesn’t help hehehe

there is good news (sort of) - my friend who moved to Ohio is in New York this week so I should get to visit with her within the next couple days – unfortunately what brings her here is a dying aunt… so that’s a shame – but I’ll be happy to see her!!

for today though I plan to do as little as possible so that maybe I’ll fall asleep or perhaps lapse into a coma somehow so that I can forget this crick in my neck

while I’m gone I suggest you click HERE to read all about why NOT to masturbate with live crustaceans

and… for your listening enjoyment

five words...

lately I’m getting pretty sick of Oprah but for some reason yesterdays show (about relationships) caught my attention – she told us to write down 5 words that describe our relationship and to have our spouse do the same... then afterward we were to share our lists with eachother

I’m not exactly sure what this was supposed to accomplish… she said she guaranteed it would spark an interesting conversation between us – this is not why I did it… I did it because I just always do those goofy relationship thingies… I’m a dork like that – but life being the way it is sometimes it’s kinda nice to have an excuse to just sit down for 10 minutes and really think about US

and sometimes it DOES spark an interesting conversation…

immediately I had a hard time coming up with words – I found myself paying close attention to the show hoping to bum words from some of the other people who did this (I thought, surely that is NOT a good sign… but this felt like a pop quiz and I never was very good under pressure haaaa)

however their words were all negative – I certainly wouldn’t use the words boring or stagnant to describe our relationship… although I’m sure some might!! haaaa

in the end I came up with my own list – wanna hear it? here it goes…

comfortable
affectionate
loving
fun
equal

ok so I didn’t say exciting, spontaneous, passionate or any of the other things you think you’d hope to say or hear – but in the end I was satisfied with what I had come up with

per Oprah’s instructions I then had Sam make his own list – this is what he came up with:

educational
grounded
happy
fulfilling
fun

he looked at my list – I looked at his list… we were both satisfied with the other’s adjectives and nothing more needed to be said... we both seem to be on the same page at least hehehe – so much for Oprah’s guarantee

but if after nearly 18 years we’re both still happy and having fun then I’d say we’re doing alright – it’s a work in progress and it’s impossible to narrow it down to just five words!!

so of course now that I’m not limited to that, there are lots of words I would use to describe us and our relationship – for example:

enduring - committed - communicative (sooner or later) – honest – respect – sometimes hot – sometimes not so hot - humor - partners - friendship – goofy - playful - devotion – individual - teamwork – supportive – stimulating - forgiveness – understanding – crazy – patience – inspiring – thought provoking and sometimes… challenging – maddening – frustrating and exasperating… in short its REAL!! and for that I am grateful

through the years we’ve had our ups & downs but with some luck, hard work and determination we’ve managed to keep it together

I remember one time someone told me that Sam and I are just freaks and that we lucked into what we have - they were complaining about the amount of work involved in making things work with their marriage – I just laughed… but I was a little offended… we have both put a lot of time and effort into making our relationship last!!

but I think they made an interesting and disturbing point which might explain why so many marriages don’t work out… because it seems like this is where a lot of people go wrong – they think marriage shouldn’t take any effort – it should just be smooth – like if love conquers all then it should be all that matters and if it was true love then there wouldn’t be all these struggles

but the thing is that the love is what gives you the patience and determination to work through the struggles

without that love you wouldn’t bother… THAT is HOW love conquers all…. but it’s up to the individuals to take that love and make it work for them… it doesn’t just happen because you think it should or because you hope it will… everything doesn’t just fall into place when you are dealing with two different people and personalities - as with all things, love takes work or it will fizzle out just like anything else

so if you’re waiting around for an EASY relationship I hope you enjoy your solitude because guess what honey… nothin’s easy!! and it’s like that for a reason… because if it was how would we appreciate all the good times?

here’s a little song that I think pretty well sums up our relationship haaaa

I’m sure I’ve played it before – but it's worth repeating

the weekend...

for some reason today, I’m reminded of when I was little and wished I could be a house cat – I thought… they have no stress or pressures in life… all they have to do is sit around and bask in sunbeams… wouldn’t that be nice!?! (this actually has nothing to do with how the name kitty came about for me)

anyway - when I grew up I realized people can have days like that too… you have to make them for yourself and sometimes even demand them but they are there if you choose to take them – after all that is why we have weekends isn’t it?

of course being all growed up it’s virtually impossible for us to enjoy weekends like we did when we were kids… things change – people change… well not me I’d still be very happy to sit down with a big bowl of cocoa pebbles and watch the smurfs but Saturday morning tv is NOT what it used to be – in fact it’s hardly even worth turning the thing on at all on Saturday mornings anymore…

so now my ideal way to spend a weekend is usually to use Saturday for running any errands that might need running or do any visiting and/or entertaining that needs doing and then have Sunday to just do nothing but relax - not that we don’t enjoy visiting friends or having company... it’s just that it’s nice to have that one day of total down time to just kick back before you have to start the week back up again

we used to be pretty good about taking that one day to do nothing – we’d shut off the phone and kinda act like we were snowed in… sometimes we’d do our own things and be content just being home together and other times we’d hang out together watching movies and occasionally playing games… even though Sam isn’t big on playing games once in a while I can manage to get him into it

I’d either make us a nice dinner… preferably something that could simmer all day in the crock pot so I could get it done early and not have to deal with it later… or we’d get this awesome pizza and wings deal – either way I wouldn’t have to worry about dinner and then I could just relax too (it’s hard for either of us to relax if I’m clanging away in the kitchen all afternoon!!)

this was back in our old apartment… before we wound up where we are now, which don’t get me wrong, is HUGELY better than say… living in a van down by the river hehehe

but for some reason we haven’t been as on top of making sure we get that one down day a week since we’ve been here – I think that’s because we live in a place where it’s hard to just draw the curtains and pretend we’re not home – it’s one of the down sides I hadn’t anticipated about not living on the 3rd floor of a twisty windy old building – here if someone isn’t sure if we’re home they’ll knock and knock – but there they’d have to find someone to let them in the building and then climb up a mountain of stairs… it was hardly worth it for a drop in visit!! sometimes I really miss that about our old apartment hehehe

somehow being where we are now has slowly drawn us away from the things that keep us sane… like those pretend snow days (with our nifty new climate here in kittyville, they have to be pretend haaaa)

but it’s so important to take that time to decompress... without it our brains become so fried that eventually we don’t even realize what’s wrong – we just walk around crabby and irritable… we keep ourselves busy with this person or that running errands or just getting out for whatever reason and when that happens we start feeling disconnected from eachother… even when we’re with eachother, we become so distracted that we aren’t REALLY with eachother if that makes any sense

two days off a week should be sufficient but you start feeling like you need more because you just can’t cram in all the things you want/need to do AND still have time to unwind

I guess that’s kinda how I feel about this weekend – maybe we’re just old before our time or something but we decided to have friends over on Saturday… which turned into an all day (and well into the night) affair… and then we had Sam’s family (most of them anyway) over here for his mother’s birthday on Sunday – so basically I spent the entire weekend cooking, doing dishes and straightening up

and for the most part that’s fine with me… I actually enjoy doing all that stuff - but I also enjoy having at least half a day a week to just do nothing… and weekends are the only time I feel comfortable actually doing that haaaa – I know I don’t ‘work’ and therefore could pretty much make any one of my days a lazy day… but mentally I can’t because unless I’m sick I can’t relax knowing there are certain chores hanging over my head – maybe THAT itself is a sickness hehehe

speaking of sickness… Sam came down sick with some weird stomach thing Sunday night – which is great after we just had nearly everyone we know over here all weekend, right? I say it serves them all right… each and every one of them has made us sick at some point so if they catch this it’s just payback haaaa - nice huh?

anyway… he stayed home yesterday and I was kinda glad... not that he didn’t feel well… but that we had an extra day to just sit around and do nothing – of course it would have been better if he somehow got well half way through the day so he could at least enjoy the time off… but the important thing is he’s feeling (mostly) better now - YAY!!

it was nice to just do nothing all day though… well mostly nothing – I had to take care of him as best I could… but he didn’t feel like eating anything so that made my job easier!!

of course now this place is a pig sty – but I have all week to make it sparkle again before the weekend!! that is unless I wind up catching his disease… I suppose THAT would serve ME right haaaa

WOO HOO

well I don't know if there was just something wrong with this idiot box or what but it never let me install all my fonts at once before - talk about a happy and time saving surprise!! gave me time to go in search of even MORE fonts today haaaa

so I think I have everything ALMOST completely back the way I want it now - YAY!!

maybe next week can get back to normal - that would be nice =)

anyway it's time for another TOTALLY AWESOME VIDEO - I've been meaning to disgus... err delight you with this one for so long I can't remember if I have posted it already or not - I don't THINK so... but if I have I'm sure you'll let me know haaaa

p.s. it doesn't look that blurry once you hit play...

I'm baaaaaack...

so every now and then my otherwise adorable husband gets a bug up his butt to completely wipe out our entire hard drive and start from scratch – why? I don’t know – I think the idea is that it’s easier to deal with reinstalling everything than it is to ungunk all the spyware, viruses and other assorted junk that the anti-spyware, anti-virus and other assorted anti-junk devices have let slip through over the last several months which have been slowly working to bog us down

of course the gunking is so gradual that I hardly notice it’s happening until one day I start wanting to put my head through my monitor – anyway that’s why I haven’t been around for a couple days… I’m sure you all missed me terribly and the internet nearly came to a grinding halt without my presence – but I’m back now… normal daily activities may resume!!

activities such as me bitching and whining - go with your strengths, I always say!! and it seems that bitching and whining are two of my few true skills

so anyway this wipe out happens just seldom enough for me to forget what a huge pain in the ass it is – but often enough for me to remember I need to try to back up as much stuff as I can – of course there are always casualties

for the most part I’m a total idiot when it comes to this computer stuff – I have my very basic box of tricks – most of which have been worked out by trial and error (more error than anything else) but the more years I spend staring at this idiot box the more knowledgeable (for lack of a better word) I become and the easier it is for me to repair certain damage and start to recover from this traumatic event - it used to be that I had to have Sam do all the reinstalling and fixing up of things around here – now I can at least do SOME of it myself… YAY ME!!

one thing I can’t repair is the idiotic new fangled updated versions of everything I end up with – we know I don’t deal well with change – but when the majority of your software is somehow begged, borrowed or err… stolen, you kinda get what you get – beggars can’t be choosers after all

things I’m not enjoying today: our new version of windows xp, internet explorer and the microsoft word that was installed – it says 2003 – I’m guessing the one we had was considerably older – anyway everything is just slightly different and I don’t like it – but eventually I’m sure someone (Brian) will help me figure it out… haaaa

I did save my old version of ICQ but out of laziness I didn’t feel like popping in the disc so I just installed whatever new version they have on their site… and I’m NOT happy!! - I plan to dump it and get my old version back

it’s funny (sad) the things you just take for granted – when suddenly your entire computer is wiped completely clean and you have to start fresh – unless you’re smart and back up your entire hard drive (I’m sure there’s some perfectly logical reason why we didn’t do that) it’s nearly impossible to remember EVERYTHING

I’m sure I’ve mentioned before that I’m kind of a font junkie – and horror of horrors I forgot to back up my fonts… well I have the fonts I just didn’t back up the ones I had already installed – it will surely take me at least 17 years to reinstall all my fonts - but it must be done!! I can’t be without my fonts!!

anyway pathetic as it is I tend to look forward to the big wipe out… it means our computer is out of commission for a day or two and I’m free to get other things done that otherwise get ignored due to my inability to break away from the mesmerizing lure of this glowing screen - yes I know I could turn it off… but that would be a pain in the ass!! hehehe

I imagine it feels similar to the way someone used to driving feels when their car is in the shop – which my mother describes as feeling like her legs have been cut off

I don’t really notice how much I’m tempted into being here on a daily basis – it used to be that if this thing was in the shop I could almost forget it existed… now you can’t do anything without being prompted to check out this web site or that – not to mention that it’s just such a habit… if I wake up at 5am and can’t get back to sleep I pop on here and blog hop or try to catch up on emails (I’ll never catch up!) – plus just knowing this idiot box is here any time you need to look up a number, address, or anything else you might need to know – ya know?

you start eliminating other things from the house, like BOOKS haaaa

everything I do is on here… my stereo is run through this thing so this is my cd player – it’s also my recipes box, my address book, my photo album, my organizer, my news and weather (it’s amazing how impatient you get when you’re used to having internet access – who wants to sit around waiting for the local forecast to roll around on the weather channel again?? hehehe

hell without this thing I can’t even clean off the memory card for my camera

speaking of which – I did get a couple cute pictures of our friend’s kittens – hopefully I’ll get to that later in the week

so like I was saying (I think I was saying it anyway) usually I take the time of the big wipe out to get all sorts of chores done around the house that I’ve been neglecting… and usually by the time we get the idiot box back our house is practically sparkling from top to bottom – unfortunately this time around my back went out so I’ve been pretty much incapacitated myself for 2½ days… I did get SOME stuff done – but not nearly as much as I wanted

I have to learn to discipline myself better when it comes to this thing... of course that’s not news to me hehehe it’s ridiculous that I should look forward to having the computer out of commission for 2 days just so I can dig into my chores & stuff

anyway… I guess I’m done bitching

in other news: my friend who moved to Ohio a few months ago, FINALLY got HER computer set up... I can't be too much of an idiot when it comes to the whole computer thing - I've been able to help her out some - of course I'd be surprised if she doesn't need written instructions to help her get her email (hey I used to be the same way so it's ok for me to make fun of her) hehehe

anyway I've been considering letting her in here - although I'm not sure if doing that will cause me to censor myself... not that I have anything to hide - but well you know how it is...

ok I'm just totally rambling so I'm gonna shut up now

pick a peck of pickled peckers...

clearly we still haven’t gotten our act together enough to get this idiot box into the shop, as is evident by the fact that I’m still here – so I thought I may as well post… ya know - start stuffing those yucky feelings down closer to the bottom of the page where they can eventually be pooped out into the archives – WOO HOO

and speaking of poo...

you know I’ve been kinda down lately – I’ve tried to spare my poor husband from the majority of it but one thing I couldn’t spare him from was the fact that he wasn’t ‘getting any’

granted it wasn’t ONLY because I was depressed… I also had my period and we’re just NOT period kinda people if ya know what I mean

anyway… for days he’s been making remarks and goofy little blowjob jokes - ya know... not so nonchalantly making sure I knew he was in need – but to tell ya the truth I just wasn’t even really paying attention… I was too wrapped up in my own head and being sad and bloated and miserable – so I blew him off – and NOT in a good way haaaa

yesterday morning though I decided enough was enough and umm shall we say gave him some relief of the oral variety

yadda yadda yadda

afterward he says to me something to the effect of ‘it’s about time! and it’s a good thing too because I was about to tell you if you didn’t do something soon I was gonna start flinging poo like a monkey!!’ then he proceeds to pretend he’s a monkey, flinging poo in my general direction

how can you NOT love THAT?!! - what a goof ball!!

anyway… I’m feeling a little better in the head (a little!) the waterworks have dried up a bit now at least

now I just feel like a fucking ninny haaaa but of course this too shall pass

so… it’s the weekend already huh? this week seems to have just flown right on by!! I hope this weekend is better than last weekend – helping my sister unload all her belongings… bickering with my monkey man… feeling all pms-y… YUCK!!

this weekend all the commotion is over, the hemorrhaging has stopped, I feel less bickery and I hope he does too!!

we have plans to go over to a friend’s house for dinner on Saturday I guess… that should be *gulp* cool - they have the super cutest new kittens... which because I’m an idiot I didn’t bring my camera last time we were there… this time I’ll be sure to at least try to catch them so I can bore you all to tears with a little cat blogging next week hehehe - I know how much some of you love the cat blogging haaaa

ok I'm done blabbering... now on with the humor portion of todays post...


ENJOY!!

and then there was one...

so the moment that I’ve been dreading for at least a year finally arrived – yesterday my sister and niece got on a plane and flew a million miles away (to Arizona) – almost never to be seen again

I don’t think I’ve cried so much in my whole entire life… it didn’t help that yesterday was day 2 of my period (the worst day of them all!!) – sorry guys! haaaa

never have people close to you move a million miles away at THAT time of the month!! seriously!!

also I had somewhat of a migraine yesterday too… you should never ever cry when you have a migraine!!

anyway… in June my best friend moved to Ohio and now my sister and niece are gone too – and I can’t help but feel all alone – sure I have Sam but well… he’s a little lacking in the estrogen department – there are just some things a guy isn’t good for – like power yard sale shopping, pigging out on buffet lunches, cookie exchange parties – ya know, all that kinda girly stuff!

I’m not really one for making friends… everyone in my life has pretty much been in my life since I was in elementary school – aside from Sam who didn’t come along until I was 16 – but still

so that’s pretty much it for me… since I haven’t made a new friend since 1988 I don’t see myself finding replacement people to hang out with - Sam is gonna have to start REALLY liking yard sales and chinese buffets or I’m gonna be lost!! haaaa

I guess I should look on the bright side - now that I have nobody to distract me I should have no problem doing all the other things I always mean to do… like organize the shoes and clean under the freezer

maybe I’ll take up knitting and make my cat some cute little outfits

it’s only the first day without them around and already it feels weird… I mean it’s not like they came by every day… but for the most part I did TRY to keep my house somewhat child friendly… now I guess I don’t have to worry about that

I guess Sam will be happy… he’s not a big fan of my sister a lot of the time and I know it drove him crazy when he would come home from work and find one or both of them here – which I can understand… who wants to come home from a long day at work and find a squawking child and sister in law (who’s most likely gonna ask you to do her a favor of some sort) in their living room, when all you want to do is get out of your work clothes and relax?

that didn’t happen very often but I’m sure to him one time felt like thirty hehehe

anyway… I know you’re supposed to be sad when people close to you move away… but I think I may be taking it a bit far - I’ve been moping around for 2 weeks in anticipation of this – so much so that I would tear up every time I flipped through the channels and saw that wonder pets or max and ruby (a couple of my nieces shows) were on - and for the last couple days I’m sure she noticed every time I see her my eyes water – she knew something was wrong which made me feel even worse

for the last couple weeks she’s been telling me ‘I go to desert… I make a princess sand castle!’ (it’s all about the princesses with this kid!) but she seemed mildly excited which was good – you want it to seem like an adventure… not like you’re leaving everything you’ve ever known and not coming back – and that seemed to be working for a while… but in the last few days she has really NOT been herself – she stopped sounding even a little bit excited probably because she knows everyone around her is sad…

yesterday she said: ‘I go to desert… but I don’t wanna cause it makes daddy sad’ I almost fell over she looked so pitiful… how can I not cry when she looks so sad? I tried to hide it but I don’t know how successful I was… she kept looking at me like she was concerned

ever since I got Mr. Fishy she’s been telling me HE looks sad and when I ask her why, she says ‘he miss everybody’ - good grief!! seriously… she was killing me… I REALLY didn’t need more fuel for the waterworks!!

my mother and I took turns watching her yesterday while my sister ran some last minute errands – mom had her last and when my sister picked her up she came in to tell me they were leaving and I totally lost it!! I didn’t even go out to say goodbye to the poor kid because I didn’t think she needed to see me all upset like that – she was having a hard enough time as it was with her daddy and grandma

of course now she’ll probably remember me as the one who didn’t even bother to say goodbye – that’s ok though because I plan on bombarding her with care packages so she has no trouble remember me hehehe

anyway… that’s what’s going on with me - I'll get over it... I'm trying to keep myself busy and distracted to keep my mind off things but it looks like we might finally actually be getting this idiot box straightened out this week - just so ya don't think I spontaneously combusted or was abducted by aliens or something if you don't see me around for a couple days

guess I better print out a couple of knitting tutorials to keep me busy while I'm disconnected... here kitty kitty

global warming… what are we so afraid of?

alright first of all… I understand the weather (here at least) has been freakishly warm… and I’m not complaining mind you… about that or THIS… but isn’t January a little early for CADBURY EGGS?!!

Saturday it was super warm here (more on that in a minute) and I was totally joking around all hopeful like as we were going into the store (because there are few things harder for me to resist than creamy delicious CADBURY EGGS) that because of the spring-like weather, ya know that maybe the Cadbury bunny got confused and started laying eggs a little early

like I said, being JANUARY and all I was TOTALLY kidding – but sure enough I walk over to the candy section and there they were… three giant boxes of creamy delicious CADBURY EGGS!!

HEY! I thought they were only around for EASTER!!! the last I checked we’re still more than a month away from VALENTINES day even (I just checked and Easter is not for another THREE whole months!!)

I’m not gonna complain… I mean perhaps this is just one more of the apparent ‘benefits’ of global warming

I don’t know what the weather is like in your part of the world but something freaky has been going on here for quite a while now – I know it’s been going on longer than this but I REALLY started noticing it about 5 years or so ago when suddenly we started getting A LOT more rain than we used to!!

I started joking around that it was more like the pacific northwest than the northeast – the winters seem to have gotten a bit shorter and noticeably more mild than I ever remember

for some reason I’ve REALLY been noticing it this year… I started thinking at Christmastime how when we were kids we would get new sleds or (for the kids who could ice skate) new skates, for Christmas and be out there using them that day!! which meant there had to be snow and cold long enough for the ponds to be safely frozen

now here it is January 8th – two full weeks past christmas and we haven’t gotten more than a dusting of snow one morning so far and there isn’t a frozen pond anywhere that I’ve seen – one morning a week or so ago I noticed one was starting to try to freeze over but I’m sure by noon all that ice was melted

it’s funny because toward the end of August I really started to think this warming trend might be over and that we might be in for a brutal winter when a couple mornings I woke up to the thermometer outside our kitchen window looking like this:



I don’t recall it EVER being that cold here on an august morning in my life!! but that didn’t last long – not that I’m complaining!! hehehe

so far it doesn’t seem like that strange cold was any indication of the kind of winter we’d be having – other than it being strangely WARM!!

I mean like I said it’s been getting steadily warmer and more rainy here in the last several years but this winter takes the cake!! and this past weekend was the ultimate in strange!!

this was our thermometer two days ago…



a couple different times I went in the back yard and had to dodge the bees that were buzzing all around – I’m sure they were confused as hell and probably tired from being woken up from their winter sleep WAY too soon!!

but this isn’t the first I’ve seen of bees this winter – I had a wasp in my kitchen window all last week – just kinda lazily buzzing around – I also had this other bug… I’m not sure of it’s real name but I call it a stink bug because when you squish them they STINK!! you don’t normally see them after the first frost or so but there was one in our living room last week - also a week or so ago my mother had ladybugs trying to get into her house!! – I’m trying not to mention the fact that the spiders haven’t fully taken their winter leave yet either!!

a couple days before christmas the nurse at my doctors office told me the pansies on her porch were in full bloom – and my mother in law told me that her crocuses were coming up

I was over at my sister’s house on Saturday helping her pack up some stuff for her big move tomorrow (more on that story Wednesday I’m sure) – anyway my niece, who’s 3 was outside in her little princess nightgown and her rain boots with no jacket and I was in a t-shirt… pushing her in her tree swing!! in JANUARY?!?!!

then I noticed her peach tree is budding… as are a bunch of other small trees and shrubs around her yard

she was donating a bunch of stuff to a thrift store about 20 minutes away and we dropped it off for her – while we were out the roads were full of motorcycles and convertibles with their tops down!! and everyone was talking about how they feel like they should be outside doing yard work – even though there’s none to do – I felt the same way… all day Saturday I was looking for something to do outside!! I don’t know why I bothered but I found myself pulling weeds in the garden – not that there are any plants in there to worry about haaaa although I fully expected to see the tomatoes reseeding themselves and popping up out of the dirt!!

being about 72º Saturday’s temperature was particularly odd… but in a way it didn’t seem THAT warm either because it’s been in the 50’s and 60’s here more days than it’s been in the 30’s and 40’s so far – even now the temperature has dropped again – I wouldn’t wanna be outside in a t-shirt but it’s still unseasonably warm – it’s about 48º and raining when it should be in the 30’s and snowing – I would totally go check my mail without putting on a jacket!! normally this time of year I would have to bundle up if I value my extremities and I’d be doing that stupid penguin walk, shuffling on the ice, trying not to fall into a snow bank

so on one hand all this nice weather is certainly more comfortable… not having to do that penguin walk – not feeling boxed in by the snow tunnels - not worrying that my husband is gonna slide off the road and get stuck in a snow bank somewhere - and I have to admit I’m not upset with all the money we seem to be saving on propane to heat our house so far this winter

but still I can’t help but be a little concerned… I mean this is NOT normal

and everyone’s attitude seems to be ‘well if this is global warming I’m ok with that!!’

GREAAAAAAT!!

so I guess I might as well just enjoy it… I mean I do my part as best I can – I don’t use styrofoam or aerosol cans (usually) – hell I don’t even drive a car!! – I rarely turn on lights, I conserve water as best I can… I even gave up using automatic doors at places where manual ones are available – I mean I’m fully capable of opening a door for cryin’ out loud!!

but if the rest of the world wants to drive gas guzzling tanks and suck down their daily lattes from plastic coated/styrofoam cups – who am I to complain?

I’ll just have to remember not to put my shorts away next fall… at the very least I’m pretty sure if things keep going the way they are I’ll be able to fill the christmas stockings with creamy delicious CADBURY EGGS next year!!

WOO HOO!!

happy birthday to me…

whenever my birthday comes up people ask me how old I’ll be - I thought that was one of those questions ya don’t ask people over 29 hehehe – anyway I knew if I told enough people I was 28 that someone would eventually believe me… of course I didn’t figure it would be one of my own AUNTS!! but sure enough she asked and I said… and she fell right for it – temporarily anyway – when she realized that my 32 year old sister is supposed to be younger than me I knew the jig was up – oh well it was good while it lasted hehehe

actually I have no issues with being 34 – I may feel differently next year though… we’ll see – 35 seems like a year you should have accomplished some things by… I’m not sure what but I’m sure there are things I’ll start kicking myself in the butt for not doing by some point and 35 seems like one of those points – maybe I better start thinking about it… or maybe not if I want to have a good weekend

anyway – it was nice… I got presents - I LOVE presents so what could be wrong about a day all about ME where I get presents?!

as I mentioned… Brian got me the first season of WEEDS on dvd which I really enjoyed – YAY – thanks again for that, Brian!!

Sam got me Star Wars episode IV (now I just need V & VI), Austin Powers – Goldmember (which we watched last night), Nosferatu (which I may watch today), and some movie about Vlad the impaler that I’ve never seen (which I’m kinda hoping to get him to watch with me over the weekend)

apparently he got me something else as well which hasn’t gotten here yet – GAH! stupid holidays and dead presidents delaying the mail!!

in addition to these presents, my sister bought me lunch the other day at this chinese place I like but never get to go to… it was super yummy!! – Sam bought me dinner at one of the only Indian places anywhere near here – that was super yummy too!! it was nice to go there for dinner instead of the usual lunch buffet they serve… the food was better and it was just nice and quiet and relaxing – I enjoyed it!

one thing that kinda bugs me about my birthday is all the phone calls – on one hand I’m very grateful to have people in my life who care enough to remember my birthday and actually call to speak to me – but on the other hand… it’s my birthday and I do NOT want to spend the entire day on the phone!!

Sam seemed kinda tweaked that in the end the only call I successfully dodged was the one from his mother (at least I assume she was calling for me) for some reason though I just can NOT stand talking to her on the phone… it’s excruciating to me – there are butt loads of awkward pauses… other than that it’s all just so much small talk – that’s kinda how it is with all the birthday calls which is why I dislike them so much – I absolutely loathe small talk!! I’ll go seriously out of my way to avoid getting involved in more small talk!!

I can handle his mother in person but on the phone I always feel trapped…

in the end it was nice to talk to everybody though – especially my grandpa!!

as far as birthdays go it was one of my better ones - I was warm and comfortable and people loved me... I got presents, had a good dinner, watched a movie AND CSI.. overall it was a pretty good day!!

oh… I’ve been meaning to tell you about one of the other gifts I got recently… not sure if it was for my birthday or christmas actually… it’s a new little fish!! his name is Mr. Fishy or Mr. Fishington although my niece calls him Gordy for some reason so now his full name is Gordon Fishington III – why the III? I dunno… it just suits him - actually I do that to a lot my animals… for example I often call my cat who’s name is Willow (short for Pussywillow) ‘Princess Pussywillow Fluffington’ or sometimes it’s Pussywillow McFuffybutt – anyway trust me Mr. Gordon Fishington III is a lot nicer than the name my last betta had!!

so for this weeks TOTALLY AWESOME video… it’s Mr. Fishy (set to music of course) – sorry for the crappy quality… although it’s not bad for my little camera… and if you look closely you can even see me!! well part of me anyway hehehe

GOODBYE 2006 – HELLO 2007… and PMS

ya all know how much I hate sixies - not only was last year a sixie but I was 33 and well two 3’s equal six – that’s 3 sixies right there!! ACK!! no good can come from THAT!! so I obviously wasn’t sorry to see 2006 end and 2007 begin…

I’m trying to think of anything remarkable that happened last year – my life is so… THE SAME… day after day that sometimes I’m not even sure what day it is haaaa – that is not a complaint – I actually like things to be the same… that is why they are!! the slightest variation often throws me for a loop

for example – normally I kind of enjoy spending Monday cleaning up… after the weekend this place is usually a pig sty for various reasons and I just like to bum around picking up and making things look normal again

but yesterday just coming off of Sam’s three day weekend, I watched my niece in the morning and spent the rest of the day out with her and my sister… that means I haven’t had a moment to myself in four whole days – the only reason I went out with them yesterday was because they’re moving to east butt fuck in SIX days and I wanted to spend some time with them… perhaps so I will miss them less haaaa!! if absence makes the heart grow fonder it only makes sense that togetherness makes the heart grow… less fond!! haaaa that is especially true with MY family

otherwise I would have been very happy to stay home in the peace and quiet and clean up the mess of the long lazy weekend

today is one of those days where the phone keeps ringing and people keep asking things of me - here it is noon and I’ve been working on this post off and on since about 7am!!

but since tomorrow is my birthday… I think I’ll shut off the phone and pretend I’m not home!!

I have things I want to get done and I’m still waiting for the holiday chaos to end so that I can dig in to my winter projects

as much as I’m gonna miss having my sister and niece around – at this point I’m kinda looking forward to their departure… I just want to settle into my routine again – I’m sure that sounds pretty pathetic but that’s how I feel

once upon a time I actually had a pretty good routine going – back at our old apartment (long before I ‘met’ any of you) – I actually baked muffins for us for breakfast and dusted my house and didn’t have to keep my shower curtain closed for fear that someone would come in and see the horrors of my bath tub haaaa (it’s really not that bad I just want things to sparkle and well… they don’t)

anyway a few years ago a series of unfortunate events occurred which sent me spiraling back down into a place where I kinda seem to have forgotten how to function

I think one of the keys to my ability to function back then was my distance from everyone else – our apartment was only one town away but it was enough of an inconvenience that people didn’t just drop in or ask for favors very often – since my sister is moving in less than a week (a week sooner than she anticipated) her life has been shifted into overdrive and now she seems to require more from the rest of us – that’s fine but I barely function as it is… if I didn’t know she was moving I’d tell her to go screw haaaa but I see a light at the end of the tunnel which is actually making their moving 2000 miles away a little easier to take so I guess I should be grateful

anyway enough of that

lets move on to new years eve - we were out for most of the day and one of our stops was the dreaded WALMART if that gives you any idea of how exhausting my day was - on the plus side though while at walmart I saw a cross eyed woman, someone with shriveled up legs, multiple people with what looked like it could be creeping crud, a healing tattoo and a chick with a bald spot (at least I think it was a chick)

Sam bought beer and the girl on the register asked him for ID - I'm sure that made his day!!

anyway my plan to just hang out and watch the twilight zone all weekend was foiled when Brian bought me the first season of WEEDS on dvd from my wish list

he’s been telling me about it for so long I just had to see it – so THANK YOU Brian… now that I'm hooked I’ll be checking the mail for season two when it comes out hehehe

that night I made it through almost the entire first disc but I fell asleep half way through the last episode – I’m so pathetic… here I am ahem… 28 years old and I can’t even manage to stay awake past 10pm on new years eve!! what is wrong with me?!!

I blame PMS… with all the sugar and salt I’ve consumed in the last two weeks I feel like a fucking thanksgiving day balloon about to lift off into outer space!! every part of me aches and even my elastic waist pants are cutting me off… my head hurts and I just want to sleep

for the last 3 mornings I’ve woken up to what feels like my entire back… from my ribs to my hips wanting to rupture – I’m not sure if it’s our granite mattress or PMS or what

this morning I wake up and Sam is groping me… incase you’re new here lemme tell ya morning sex is NOT my thing – I’m sure I’m in the minority with this one but I’m very much a morning person… the second my eyes open my mind is flooded with all the thoughts I’ve been suppressing with noise and activity – chore lists start writing themselves and I start running over every asinine thing I’ve said or heard for the last 24 hours – then there are my dreams, of which I’ve been having a LOT lately and for the most part they’ve all been moderately unpleasant

probably a mix of holiday chaos and stress from my sister and niece moving 4000 miles away to east butt fuck

so anyway there I am… mind racing, fuzzy teeth, morning breath, coughing up 10 hours of post nasal drip, back about to rupture, bladder nagging at me and Sam groping me – WHAT?!!

I’m sorry but WHAT exactly is even remotely appealing about this creature he saw laying next to him?

he’s well aware of my lack of interest in morning sex… but since I know I’m due for my period any minute now and I’ve been deflecting his smooth moves for 2 days now for various reasons I thought… what he hell – but I’m not going to hide my discomfort or choke on my own phlegm for his benefit – after all that’s what marriage is all about right? hehehe

anyway… I thought he was gonna give up a couple times there but he’s a trooper that man of mine – he trudged on and eventually we both got our cookies – now I expect to be grope free for the rest of the day!!

I’m sure I’m about to be booted from all the clubs now – the good little wifey’s club for relaying a less than spectacular sex story – I know we’re all supposed to be perpetually horny little fuck toys with glowing praise for our men at all times – haaaa

and the general chicks club for admitting to having PMS instead of blaming all my yuck on men

but this is real life here - it ain’t all peaches and cream… especially when the good little wifey is tired and stressed and bloated – so deal with it!!

if my dear husband would like to share his feelings he’s more than welcome to post them here

all in favor of the spousal unit guest posting here, say I… eye… aye? – oy!