Just a few things I have to gripe about or they will annoy more, which will just make me angrier, which makes me meaner. so here goes:
1. don't ignore me. If I call, text or email you cause I am worried and haven't heard from you in a while.....do me a favor and just say whether you are doing well or not!
2. When you ask my my name and I tell you don't repeat it back to me differently. You just heard me pronounce it! today I had a lady asked me my name. I said 'Maura' she says 'oh Mara, ok thanks.' I just wanted to go through the phone.
3. Our state is Nevada...NOT Nevawda. Say it like a hick and you'll be fine. Don't try to put some fancy spin on it. We don't like it!!!!!
4. Don't get angry at me because you didn't read the fine print when you signed up for your insurance company and now you have to pay out of pocket. I didn't make you sign your name and we are giving you all the help we can. Don't tell me "I'm ruining your life and I might as well come to your house and dig a grave. cause that's where I'm putting you" Truly...I get that....a lot
5. If I look stressed, or intensely busy...don't come over and make a comment of how my face will stick that way if I don't change it! chances are if I look this way, I'm stressed and BUSY! leave me a lone! or your face will be permanently changed when I pounce you.
aaahhhhh I think that does it for now. I feel much better. :) thanks for listening to my gripes.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Future Fashion Icon?
This morning I got Juliet some things to wear from the drawer. I got her new undies, a pair of jeans and a long tank with a flower pattern on it. Ok nothing to big, or special. Just something to wear to daycare.
I asked her to go get her shoes and she said sure, comes back five minutes later and seriously and revamped her whole outfit....and it looked so cute!!!!
she rolled up her jeans twice to make them capri's and tucked in her tank to show off her little waist then asked me to put a pink puffy scrunchy in her hair cause it looked like the flowers on her tank.
She looked ten times cuter and it was all her! I don't know where she got her fashion sense but its good. Now she's doing this at four...can you imagine her in high school? and if she's good at it in high school and loves it maybe some day you'll see her name dressing the best of them....but I get ahead of myself. She's four and frankly has a lot of interests and is good at loads of stuff. I can't wait to see what she becomes!
On another note today is my sisters Birthday!!!! Wahoo for didder! Happy Birthday!!!!!! Love ya!
I asked her to go get her shoes and she said sure, comes back five minutes later and seriously and revamped her whole outfit....and it looked so cute!!!!
she rolled up her jeans twice to make them capri's and tucked in her tank to show off her little waist then asked me to put a pink puffy scrunchy in her hair cause it looked like the flowers on her tank.
She looked ten times cuter and it was all her! I don't know where she got her fashion sense but its good. Now she's doing this at four...can you imagine her in high school? and if she's good at it in high school and loves it maybe some day you'll see her name dressing the best of them....but I get ahead of myself. She's four and frankly has a lot of interests and is good at loads of stuff. I can't wait to see what she becomes!
On another note today is my sisters Birthday!!!! Wahoo for didder! Happy Birthday!!!!!! Love ya!
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Word Vomit
Ever have one of those days were every single thing that came out of your mouth you wish you could take back!? I did yesterday.
Either I said something completely rude or the way I said something was uncalled for.
At work people kept apologizing on the phone for bothering me. When I said they weren't they would reply 'sure sounds like it'.
One of my good friends tells me her crazy ex-husband (who she's managed to stay away from for the last 5 years) contacted her and I say "that's funny"...WHAT? how is that funny!?
My sister tells me some awesome news and I throw it in her face.
A guy at works mom died so he will be out of the office and I say to the girl who told me "not like we will notice he's gone".....
Ok so I don't know what happened yesterday. Word vomit all day long! I hurt a lot of feelings and spent much of last night and this morning apologizing! Some of them aren't really talking to me and I don't blame them! I wouldn't want to talk to me either. I so wish I could rewind and erase sometimes.
UGGG. I'm such an idiot sometimes!
Either I said something completely rude or the way I said something was uncalled for.
At work people kept apologizing on the phone for bothering me. When I said they weren't they would reply 'sure sounds like it'.
One of my good friends tells me her crazy ex-husband (who she's managed to stay away from for the last 5 years) contacted her and I say "that's funny"...WHAT? how is that funny!?
My sister tells me some awesome news and I throw it in her face.
A guy at works mom died so he will be out of the office and I say to the girl who told me "not like we will notice he's gone".....
Ok so I don't know what happened yesterday. Word vomit all day long! I hurt a lot of feelings and spent much of last night and this morning apologizing! Some of them aren't really talking to me and I don't blame them! I wouldn't want to talk to me either. I so wish I could rewind and erase sometimes.
UGGG. I'm such an idiot sometimes!
Monday, July 20, 2009
Front row and hard candy.
At church our family sits in the front row. So its hard to hide anything that happens...unruly children, bobbing sleepy heads or the fact that one almost has to do the heimlich on a kid.
Well that's what happened to me this weekend. Juliet and Eric got a piece of Candy, they were being pretty good. Sharing books and coloring without any huge fights. So all was well. Until Juliet grabbed my arm like she was dying and in fact she was well on her way. I looked at her and her throat was bulging and the veins were popping, her eyes were watery and all you could hear was a desperate choking sound as she tried to take a breath in while her body tried to dislodge the candy.
I bent her over a tad and hit her back as hard as I could...twice then I hear her breath in. So I bring her back up....big mistake (course you really aren't thinking to clearly when you see your only child choking to death) as soon as she came back up to take her second breath. In popped the candy back into her throat and thus starts the whole terrifying process over again.
by this point my dad had popped up from his seat by the Bishop and was on his way down. I was getting Juliet in the position to do the heimlich when the candy popped out. She took one massively huge breath in and I grabbed her and piratically ran out of the chapel. Not that we couldn't have stayed there. she was safe, breathing and the candy was out. I on the other hand was not ok and desperately needed to get out before I broke down in front of everyone.
So after my dad checked her I hurried to the bathroom, took her in the big stall with me and held her and cried. She told me I was ok and patted my back. I felt bad that she was the one that had to comfort me after what she had gone through, but I just could not help it.
Afterwards I ran into my good friend in the hallway and she took my mind off it. She always makes me laugh and it was perfect that she was out there when I needed that kind of a distraction.
Scary! I'm glad I didn't have to use the heimlich, but also glad that I had the peace of mind that I knew how to use it and didn't have to rely on someone else to get to her. That was a comforting thought.
Well that's what happened to me this weekend. Juliet and Eric got a piece of Candy, they were being pretty good. Sharing books and coloring without any huge fights. So all was well. Until Juliet grabbed my arm like she was dying and in fact she was well on her way. I looked at her and her throat was bulging and the veins were popping, her eyes were watery and all you could hear was a desperate choking sound as she tried to take a breath in while her body tried to dislodge the candy.
I bent her over a tad and hit her back as hard as I could...twice then I hear her breath in. So I bring her back up....big mistake (course you really aren't thinking to clearly when you see your only child choking to death) as soon as she came back up to take her second breath. In popped the candy back into her throat and thus starts the whole terrifying process over again.
by this point my dad had popped up from his seat by the Bishop and was on his way down. I was getting Juliet in the position to do the heimlich when the candy popped out. She took one massively huge breath in and I grabbed her and piratically ran out of the chapel. Not that we couldn't have stayed there. she was safe, breathing and the candy was out. I on the other hand was not ok and desperately needed to get out before I broke down in front of everyone.
So after my dad checked her I hurried to the bathroom, took her in the big stall with me and held her and cried. She told me I was ok and patted my back. I felt bad that she was the one that had to comfort me after what she had gone through, but I just could not help it.
Afterwards I ran into my good friend in the hallway and she took my mind off it. She always makes me laugh and it was perfect that she was out there when I needed that kind of a distraction.
Scary! I'm glad I didn't have to use the heimlich, but also glad that I had the peace of mind that I knew how to use it and didn't have to rely on someone else to get to her. That was a comforting thought.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Harry Potter, Real Duels and an Awesome Movie Game
So of course I went and saw the mid night showing of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. and of course I LOVED IT! they did cut a lot from the book and tweaked the ending just a tad but all in all I think they captured what was really important.
Mom bought our tickets earlier in the day but we still got there an hour and a half early to get good seats. They showed it on four screens and had each theatre with a different house flag over it. It was clever. :) We were in Slytherin and we had some very interesting people. There was a group of teenagers who dressed up. They kinda rag dolled it. You know they were dressing up to kinda make fun of the dresser uppers but they totally had fun with it. They even treated us to a real duel in the front of the theatre. One of the boys dressed up as Hermione and won the costume contest. :)
Because we sat there for a good hour before the movie even started we got to hear all kinds of conversations. Usually after the first minute or so I don't listen anymore cause its not interesting. But the family behind us kept me interested the whole time. they were playing a movie game. You pick a major actor, they picked Harrison Ford and the next person says a movie he played in, then the next person has to say an actor in that movie, then the next person has to name a movie the second actor was in...and so on and so forth, until you get it back to Harrison Ford. Kinda like the seven degrees of Kevin Bacon. Only you can make this game go on for as long as you want. It was simply amazing the movies and actors this family knew and how they were able to connect all of them together. I would probably be out by the fourth movie or actor but they kept it up for a full hour and only stopped cause they knew the movie was coming on soon. Crazy huh?
Anyhow. I can't wait for the rest of the Harry Potters and that should be it for me for midnight showings for a while. :)
Monday, July 13, 2009
spices, ants and good friends
I helped my good friend move this weekend, I also helped her unpack and organize some of her house. We started in the kitchen cause lets face it you don't feel good until your kitchen is perfect right?
So Crystal (my good friend) was having a hard time trying to decide where she was going to put all her spices. She had 3 boxes of them....kid you not... 3 boxes and not little boxes either. So I ask her how many spices can she possibly need and also whens the last time she rotated them. "what do you mean rotate them?" that's when I knew we had a project.
I explained that spices expire and you have to throw them out. so we sat down and went through her three boxes. Oldest one found May of 2002 and she had like 5 containers of salt! so needless to say we really didn't need to find more room for the spices. By the time we were done she had room left over in her spice cabinet.
Ants are a problem this year. the little black sugar ants! man are they annoying. I tell her welcome to Carson that they are all over the place and you can get ant poison but she has to be careful to not let the kids or the dogs get it. So she comes up with a 'brilliant' idea.....she is going to get on her hands and knees and Lysol the suckers. Ya ok....like that's going to work. It will kill maybe the first 10 but the rest are out there and they will come. It was fun watching her try to demolish this ant line with a can of Lysol, a big paper towel and a mean look. :)
By 11pm we were both exhausted, delirious and giggly (ok more giggly then we usually are)...which didn't make organizing any easier.
Crystal and I have become such good friends over the last four years. I couldn't imagine unpacking and organizing going much funner. (funner....is that a word? is now. hehe). I love her bunches and hope for our sanity that neither one of us moves anytime soon.
good times. ;)
So Crystal (my good friend) was having a hard time trying to decide where she was going to put all her spices. She had 3 boxes of them....kid you not... 3 boxes and not little boxes either. So I ask her how many spices can she possibly need and also whens the last time she rotated them. "what do you mean rotate them?" that's when I knew we had a project.
I explained that spices expire and you have to throw them out. so we sat down and went through her three boxes. Oldest one found May of 2002 and she had like 5 containers of salt! so needless to say we really didn't need to find more room for the spices. By the time we were done she had room left over in her spice cabinet.
Ants are a problem this year. the little black sugar ants! man are they annoying. I tell her welcome to Carson that they are all over the place and you can get ant poison but she has to be careful to not let the kids or the dogs get it. So she comes up with a 'brilliant' idea.....she is going to get on her hands and knees and Lysol the suckers. Ya ok....like that's going to work. It will kill maybe the first 10 but the rest are out there and they will come. It was fun watching her try to demolish this ant line with a can of Lysol, a big paper towel and a mean look. :)
By 11pm we were both exhausted, delirious and giggly (ok more giggly then we usually are)...which didn't make organizing any easier.
Crystal and I have become such good friends over the last four years. I couldn't imagine unpacking and organizing going much funner. (funner....is that a word? is now. hehe). I love her bunches and hope for our sanity that neither one of us moves anytime soon.
good times. ;)
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Divine Intervention or All Me?
Ever have a HUMONGOUS decision to make and just didn't know what to do? I'm pretty sure all of us have had to in point or another in our lives. I'm sure we don't get doled out just one either. Many will come our way and we are judged on how we handle them.
I've had a few in my measly 26 years of being here, and only 9 years of those 26 have been on my own so I can only imagine what is still in store for me and hope that I pass those tests.
I have a friend who is going through something in her life that is not very pleasant, she is losing her house, her husband lost his job and they have to file bankruptcy. Now I have not had the pleasure of owning a house yet but can only imagine how bad it would feel to have to and to go through a financial strain like that. I have been on the low end of the totum pole when it came to money so was able to give her some advice on how to save money....like cutting the cable out, reducing your cell phone goodies so the bill is not so high, things like that. I'm no money guru but I know a few tricks here and there.
I also have a friend who is having some issues in her marriage. I'm no marriage councilor and I doubt I am qualified to give any advice to her but she like to talk to me anyway because I have a clear head and see things differently then most people.
now me seeing things differently....is that Divine Intervention or all in my head? I've been told by several people that I seem to give good advice. That I seem in tune with life and what path people should take. If that is true and I am in tune with 'life' (or the Lord) then how come it is so hard for me to figure out my life? that's what I want to know.
How come when it comes to seeing things clearly and being in tune to what path people should walk down, why can I not choose mine? why is it fuzzy for me and totally not in tune? And if that is the case am I really helping these people out or directing them towards disaster?
Small questions that will never be answered in this life time. I will continue to help my friends and family in the best way I know how, have faith that I am in tune and am giving them the small bits of advice that can help them live a better life and pray that one day I will be able to see my path clearly. :) wouldn't that be nice?
I've had a few in my measly 26 years of being here, and only 9 years of those 26 have been on my own so I can only imagine what is still in store for me and hope that I pass those tests.
I have a friend who is going through something in her life that is not very pleasant, she is losing her house, her husband lost his job and they have to file bankruptcy. Now I have not had the pleasure of owning a house yet but can only imagine how bad it would feel to have to and to go through a financial strain like that. I have been on the low end of the totum pole when it came to money so was able to give her some advice on how to save money....like cutting the cable out, reducing your cell phone goodies so the bill is not so high, things like that. I'm no money guru but I know a few tricks here and there.
I also have a friend who is having some issues in her marriage. I'm no marriage councilor and I doubt I am qualified to give any advice to her but she like to talk to me anyway because I have a clear head and see things differently then most people.
now me seeing things differently....is that Divine Intervention or all in my head? I've been told by several people that I seem to give good advice. That I seem in tune with life and what path people should take. If that is true and I am in tune with 'life' (or the Lord) then how come it is so hard for me to figure out my life? that's what I want to know.
How come when it comes to seeing things clearly and being in tune to what path people should walk down, why can I not choose mine? why is it fuzzy for me and totally not in tune? And if that is the case am I really helping these people out or directing them towards disaster?
Small questions that will never be answered in this life time. I will continue to help my friends and family in the best way I know how, have faith that I am in tune and am giving them the small bits of advice that can help them live a better life and pray that one day I will be able to see my path clearly. :) wouldn't that be nice?
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