When life gives you rainy days, play in the puddles!

so, remember those 180s i was talking about earlier? yep, you guessed it...it reared its head again in my life! my whole life is about to change. between the divorce, my new job, moving back across the country, and other changes, things will be very different!

on a different note, i have recently been told that these "daggone suth'ners" have corrupted my speech! matter of fact, once i started thinking of it, i came up with a LOT of southern sayings and words that have been creeping their way into my speech. yep, that's right. i can now say "fixin to," "daggone," "y'all," and "yuhnta" (going to the store, yuhnta go with?) with the best of them! i now refer to pop as soda. however, some aspects will never change. my yankee "drawl" will be the same as always...fast enough to make any redneck's head spin! some little northern speech quirks will never be lost, EH?

all in all, things are going good! i'm happy with the way things are going; in fact, happier than i've been in a long time! matter of fact, i fell asleep without my lunesta last night! WOOO!


"Don't look for someone to complete you. you are already whole! look for someone who compliments you and makes your life even better!" ~Jen Galvin

Housewives DO work

one of my friends (who shall remain nameless) just told me that her husband told her that housewives don't work. excuse me?! let me start off by citing this excerpt i just read online by an author named Betty Freidan:

Can the problem that has no name be somehow related to the domesroutine of the housewife? When a woman tries to put the problem into words, she often merely describes the daily life she leads. What is there in this recital of comfortable domestic detail that could possibly cause such a feeling of desperation? Is she trapped simply by the enormous demands of her role as modern housewife: wife, mistress, mother, nurse, consumer, cook, chauffeur, expert on interior decoration, child care, appliance repair, furniture refinishing, nutrition, referee, chaperone, and education? Her day is fragmented as she rushes from dishwasher to washing machine to telephone to dryer to station wagon to supermarket, and delivers Johnny to the Little League field, takes Janey to dancing class, gets the lawnmower fixed and meets the 6:45. She can never spend more than 15 minutes on any one thing; she has no time to read books, only magazines; even if she had time, she has lost the power to concentrate. At the end of the day, she is so terribly tired that sometimes her husband has to take over and put the children to bed

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seems to me that this puts it very well. if it weren't for us women, some of the men out there wouldn't know what to do with themselves. hell, lonnie has a hard time cooking kraft macaroni and cheese! the man could scorch water, i swear! let's face it: every good man needs a good woman!

matter of fact, lonnie was deployed to haiti for nearly two months starting back in january. five days before he came home, my daughter jessica got really sick. i sat with her in the emergency room waiting area for TEN HOURS. she was listless, throwing up all over me every few minutes, and both of us were exhausted. two days after that, she was better but i was the one that was sick. so sick, in fact, that i had to butt-scoot down the stairs with her because i was too weak to stand up, let alone carry my daughter. how does this not sould like work??? of course it's worth it...but it's still the hardest thing i've ever done.

we don't get holidays. we don't get sick days. we don't get vacation time. we're on call 24/7 (oftentimes, going without sleep for long stretches at a time. we do the ULTIMATE job.

however, all that is about to change! i'll be moving back to michigan as soon as needed paperwork gets signed. i'll be doing the whole "single, working mom" thing again. this isn't necessarily a bad thing; i desperately need a change of pace! to all the SAHMs out there...GREAT JOB!!!

GOD BLESS THE AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE!!!!!!!!!

If duct tape or advil don't work, you're screwed!

so i fixed my car today, hillbilly style! I only used four things: needlenose pliers (to loosen the negative battery charge so i didn't kill myself), tinfoil, a ponytail holder, and DUCT TAPE!!!! WOOO!!!!

anyway, Jess has requested that i say how i did what, so here goes! y'all know that bunch of wires that ends in a round piece of metal to screw onto the main fuse box under the hood? well, the nut went bye-bye and we didn't notice, so it started arcing. the arcing caused the bolt to melt down (thus making it impossible to simply change the bolt). i unhooked the battery so the fuse box didn't zap the shit out of me. then, i took my tinfoil and wrapped it around those two pieces to stop the arcing (the charge will go through any metal, including common kitchen tinfoil!). then, i put duct tape around it all to hold it down. my lights were still flashing on and off a little bit, so i grabbed one of my elastic hair ties, cut it in one spot, and tied it around the whole job. that kept it in place adequately enough for the car to start!!!!!!!!!

I ARE SMART!



~If it moves and shouldn't, use duct tape. if it should move and doesn't, use WD40!~

To = towards. Two = 2. Too = also. And tomorrow we learn to tie our shoes!

so what has happened to the lost art of speaking and writing proper english?! more and more in my english classes (both back in high school and now in college), people can't follow simple essay instructions. i had an assignment due yesterday in english. it was straightforward enough: pick a problem in you community, write 4-6 pages about it, and propose two solutions. include thesis, intro, body, conclusion, and proper grammar/spelling. use APA format (citing sources, mostly).

not hard, right? WRONG, apparently. case in point. this is an assignment submitted (publicly) by a fellow classmate for this assignment.

The problem in all communities is “Who Will Help to Control Litter!” This is a needed discussion, because no one is taking the responsibility to clean up behind themselves.

This problem of people dumping trash has no beginning, but it should have an ending. It needs conscience minded people to understand that this earth we live in is not a huge trash can.

I believe that all of us humans are responsible for Littering the streets, parks, public transportation, sewers, lakes and oceans.

“To understand who are suffering from litter is people who makes an income on using what nature gives us (not only for ourselves) but for everyone else”?

How it affects communities is the overall seeing some areas full of litter, from abandon buildings, dirty yards, and unswept streets just to name a few. What happened to the way people took pride in their neighborhoods years ago, as caring about their surroundings.

Here is one possible solution is to take the time to educate ourselves in researching the websites that has some good information to get us involved in litter control. Like keep it in your car and wait to you get home to dispose of it in the garbage can. And cigarettes should be disposed of and place in the proper container and not dropped in the streets. Second solution is to have a community campaign or organization to help curb litter. Like adopt a highway. How about adopting a street or park and so on?

I feel that once everyone gets the sense of how serious this is in saving our Planet from refuse, we all have a better chance of keeping down germs and our Communities will look more beautiful in appearance. This is a tough situation, but” We all need to get involved!”

This online resource (on litter control programs) shows good support with communities on litter control.

A) 10 Litter Control- Has solutions on improving the image and appearance of our communities ( for instance… provides solutions to help citizens to plan their own groups and the council gives supplies to help you get started!”)

ok. i see too many problems here to list...my BLOG FOR FUN has better english mechanics than her COLLEGE ASSIGNMENT does!!!! wtf, people?! do you seriously care so little about our language and college classes that you'll turn in trash like this?! seriously...


on the up side, it makes my assignment look like God's work!!!! so...if my teacher grades on a curve, i'll have an instant A with all of the extra points! LOL

Let's write a novel!

so i am now considering going out on a limb and writing a novel! i have been trying to figure out something to do. since i really enjoy writing, a novel seems like the logical choice. i have always had a passion for protecting children of abuse, sexually or otherwise. i plan to come up with a unique storyline and go from there. suggestions are welcome!

my deadline? one year from today.

BAD day

so today started off horrible and just got worse from there. i've been going rounds with direcTV for the last few days because they installed my dish on the roof. they'd told me they got approval from housing, but (lo and behold) they didn't. sooo, now i have housing up my ass threatening eviction and directv is delaying coming out here to take it down!!! housing has been bothering me all day about this and i'm sick of it.

our car broke down again...and this time, i think it's computer problems. lights are flashing, warnings are dinging, the car's convinced the door's open when it's not, it randomly shuts off, etc. we just replaced the alternator and starter with ALL of our extra money this paycheck, so we're pretty much screwed. THANKS OBAMA FOR THE SHITTY MILITARY PAY!!!!!!!!!

not only that, but lonnie's chain of command has been treating him like shit and threatening chapter 14 on him once a week or so.....yesterday and today has been especially bad...AND IT WAS ALL OVER A DIRTY FLASH!!! i had JUST cleaned the damned thing, so i KNOW it was clean. not only that, but the NCO who was chewing him out had HOLES in his own beret!!!! pathetic, i tell ya. i would LOVE to get my hands on mejia or hanes...i'd give either one of them an ass chewing they wouldn't forget until their dying day!

jessica's just about two, so naturally, she's constantly throwing temper tantrums. couple that with new baby jealousy and missing-dad-itis, and she's CONSTANTLY howling...i love the girl to death, but i swear i have a headache every day anymore. of course, having a newborn in the house means i can barely get anything done, so my house is messier than it usually is...which really bugs me and makes it easier for jess to get into things.

i sure hope tomorrow goes better.......

NObama!!!

So what's up with the way obama's treating troops?! i mean, seriously, does he really care that little about our country's defenders? oh, wait, of course he doesn't care...he doesn't even have enough pride in the country he runs to put his hand over his heart for the pledge of allegience or national anthem! first, he proposes a ridiculously low pay increase (1.3%, then congress raised it to 1.9%). Seriously, this isn't even keeping up with inflation, so it's basically a pay DEcrease!!! most enlisted military families live paycheck to paycheck as is, which is sad considering what our soldiers do for this country.

then, he cuts the number of slots for several MOSs, including medic (as well as budget for civillian doctors). what does this mean? if one of my children get sick, the average wait in the on-post ER is about nine hours!!! INSANE! i have to schedule appointments months in advance in the pediatrics unit because of shortage of pediatricians. does this seem wrong to anyone else?!

there's lots more (and i'll probably blog about it at a later point when i get worked up about that jackass again), but i'm tired and am going to bed. january 2013 can't come soon enough!!!


~Let's do the hokey pokey on election day: put the right ones in and put the left ones out!!!~