Awesomeness!

So, I am in Ohio for work.  I am having the most wonderful time ever.  Irene’s birthday was on Thursday, and we went out to eat.  Today we went to the movies and saw The Proposal.  It was teh awesome.  Right now we are watching Juno….which is a bundle of cool.

The only issue is that it is COLD up here.  It is colder than Tennessee.  How the five star is that possible?!?!?  It is a difference of 6 hours!   On Friday, one of the new hires was saying that she was going to have a pool party on Saturday….I have no idea how that could be possible.  BUT….I do love it here.  I love big cities.  I feel like there is so much that we can do.  I will never feel bored unless I actually want to be bored.

So my random thoughts of the day……

Bald people who have shiny heads…..that is stresses me out.  We were in the movie theater and there was a guy with a huge bald spot that was uber shiny.  I pointed it out.  Apparently I was louder than I thought.  Testerman was concerned that the bald guy heard me.  BUT…..seriously?  Did he not KNOW that his bald spot was shiny?  Did he not plan that?  I would have thought that it was a compliment because I was noticing it.

Fat chicks should not wear pants with sentences across the butt.  Especially stupid phrases that do not make any sense to be across someone’s butt.  I took this picture, while in line for a roller coaster at Six Flags in St Louis.

WHAT IS SHE THINKING??????

The tribe has spoken???  NOW…I know what that is from…..BUT what the hell is it doing on her BUTT?!?!?!?!?

Today we took the kiddos to the zoo for the yearly easter egg hunt.  If you have ever been to our zoo, you know that they have the most wonderful Jungle Gym.  It is HUGE.  It has fabulous slides.  It has draw bridges and tunnels and what not.  Usually we let the kids roam and we just watch.  Today was apparently different because I was watching and the next thing I knew my mom was crawling with the kiddos around in this rope bridge:

The rope bridge

I would like to point out that this goes up about 3 floors.  So, naturally, I go and say “Mother!  What the heck are you doing up there with the kids?”  And she responds with “Playing!  Come here and play with us.”   So, I went and got on this crazy rope thing that went on FOREVER.

We stumble on this thing for a while and we get all the way to the top of this.  There is a stair case at the end of it….since I am so trusting, I just followed the kiddos and my mother.  We get to the top of this stair case, in which I am informed that the only way down is to go down this huge tunnel curving slide.  I just kinda looked at them…..

First of all, this is how high the slide goes up:

The building that the slide goes out the top of.

Second of all, this is a tunnel slide that is meant for children….not 2 grown adults.

So I announced that my mom had lost her ever loving mind.  She just laughed…keep in mind that there is a line of kids behind us.  The kiddos went down the slide first.  Then my mom went down on her back.  I got down and laid down on my back….and pushed off.   It is dark!  And it was one of those spiral slides!   It then occurred to me “WHAT HAPPENS IF WE GET STUCK???”   Apparently I said that out loud because my mom started laughing at me.  This went on for a while…..Then finally there was light!  And my mom was taking her pretty little time in getting out of the way so we almost collided.  The only reason we didnt is because I put my feet up on the sides and stopped myself.  So mom is trying to get out of the way and I hear the other kids coming down behind me.  Christian is sitting there, laughing at us.  I announced loudly that she needed to get moving a little faster because there was about to be a collision between her head, my legs, and 3 semi big kids.  She told me that she does not move any faster.  Christian just kept laughing.

It turns out that I might be too old for the twisty 3 story slides.

I am not a very serious person, unless it is needed.  Due to this, I usually take a day a week to reflect and think about things.

Lately I have been thinking about faith.

Mainly, about the fact that I really have none.  I am not necessarily talking about spiritual faith (I need to work on that also, but baby steps…..).  I am mainly talking about just general faith in people and situations.  I have recently realized that I do not trust people to do what I view as right.  People that I SHOULD trust.

This is a major problem.

I used to trust people.  So when did this change?  I have no idea.

Anyways, this is something that I am going to work on.  I am going to start with my baby daddy (LOL, I am sure he would appreciate being called that).  He is a good dad and I should trust him to make the right decisions for our child.   He has never done anything to harm my lovely, perfect child.  Why would I not trust that?  It is all so complicated.  Also, I am going to trust his wife.  She is so wonderful and she is a good person.  She has done everything for my child and never asked for anything in return.

When I do not have faith in the people that are my life, my family, I hurt them.  I also hurt myself.

For the record, THAT SUCKS.

OK….I am done with the seriousness.  You may continue on with your lives

So on Saturday I woke up feeling like crap.  Over the weekend it just got worse and worse and worse.  I slept for 38 of 48 hours.  Chills and whatnot. I went to one of those walk in clinics because my doctor’s office was booked on Saturday.  50 bucks later, they gave me some serious drugs and told me that I probably never got over the past sinus infection.  I went home and slept forever.  I got up this morning and I am still feeling like crap.  I called my real doctor and they started talking crazy about pneumonia and other stuff.  So I went in and they shoved this q-tip up my nose and declared that I had the flu.  Then they proceeded to tell me that I would feel better in 2 weeks.

EXCUSE ME?!?!

That is completely unacceptable.  So they took me off the pointless antibiotics….and left me on the cough syrup that makes me drunk.  I am back at home and sleeping some more.

To make myself feel better, I am posting this pic of my sister.  It makes me giggle.  It was taken after her surgery for her knee.  She could not move or shower.  Mom and I had given her a shower and then tormented her by pulling her hair into pigtails.

my sis

That is uber sexy.

Last Christmas, my wonderful friend Testerman and I were talking about what he had purchased for his beautiful wife for Christmas.

If you did not catch that, I LOVE both of them.  A LOT.  They moved to Ohio and it causes me to be sad when I think about them not being where I can see them whenever I want to.  They are the perfect lovely wonderful couple.  I like to tell people that I am married to them….just to freak people out that are hitting on me.

ANYWAYS….that is a whole other story that will be explored at a later time.

SO…..he was buying this strange book called ‘Wreck This Journal’.  I looked it up and was completely weirded out.

http://www.amazon.com/Wreck-This-Journal-Keri-Smith/dp/039953346X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236473955&sr=8-1

Now you may be asking yourself….’Why would she be weirded out by a book?’  Well, I am majorly OCD.  It goes against everything in my nature to do what this book asks you to do.  Example: The first thing that you do is break the spine of the book.  WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT???

So, I told him how weird he was and explained that he would never be able to do these things…..He is just as crazy as I am.  He said that is why he needed it and probably why I should buy it also.  I shrugged it off and said whatever.  But I did save it in my lists with Amazon.

Fast forward a couple of months….when I am thinking about going to Texas.  I was on Amazon, because I was wanting to get a couple of books for my trip (btw, I heart me some amazon.  I buy all my books there.).  I pulled up my lists and there was the ‘Wreck This Journal’ book.  I thought ‘WELL……this might be something fun for me and Dee to do while I am in Texas!’  Dee is awesome:

Dee = The most awesome cousin EVER

First of all, let me say that Dee does not have my hangups.  She is so wonderful and perfect and I love her so much.  I am thankful everyday that I was blessed with her in my family.

So, I ordered the book.  The day before we left, I got my package.  The book was so nice and pretty and so CLEAN.  I read through the different things that we would be doing to this book.  Some of them are:

1) Break the spine

2) poke holes in pages

3) spray it with good smells

4) drop it from high places

5) take it in the shower with me

The list goes on and on.

So I called Dee and asked her if she would like to do this with me.  Of course she said yes because she is wonderful like that!  My mom, who was going to Texas with me, thought I was nuts.  She lovingly told me that this was a project for 6 year olds and that adults do not have time for such things.

…….whatever.

While we were shopping, we sprayed it with various sprays.  It was horrible.  It stinks so badly, even now.  Dee did a wonderful job of breaking the spine.  We threw it off her balcony and off of her second story look over.  We attached it to her dog leash and took it for a walk.  I bounced it off of every sign while we took it to the park.  We smeared dirt on it.  It was lots and lots of fun.  To my mom’s delight, we involved the 4 year old and 7 year old that live near Dee.  They thought it was the coolest book that has ever existed.  By the end of the trip, we did not complete even half of the instructions but the book split in half.  I have had to tape it back together with packing tape.  Here are all of the pics:

Anyways….everyone needs to get this book.  It is teh wonderfulness.  Dee and I had a blast!!

Over the last few months, there has been many issues that have happened in other people’s lives that has made me contemplate if people understand that there are consequences to every action that you make.  I believe that, in today’s society, we are all so concerned with the ‘now’ that we do not think about what consequences our actions will have at a later time.

EXAMPLE: Every morning, on my way to work, I stop and get coffee from Starbucks.  I then go to work, happy and caffeinated.  So….lets analyze this situation….

ACTION: I go to Starbucks and get a yummy yummy Venti White Chocolate Mocha.

CONSEQUENCE: I am 5 bucks poorer but I am caffeinated and happy.

Is it worth it?  To me?  YES.  To someone else?  Not necessarily.  Someone else might say that I could be caffeinated using the coffee at the office….but I am happier when I have Starbucks.

So, my sister had this boyfriend who is in the Army.  He went to Iraq at the beginning of January and OF COURSE there was lots of ‘OH I love him!’ ‘He’s the one!’ ‘I will wait for him and we will be the most wonderful love story ever!’

For a variety of different issues, my sister decided to break it off with him and persue a relationship with another man…about a month later.  So she broke up with him via email or myspace or the phone or something and moved on.  He is now in Iraq, shooting things and cleaning guns and obsessing over her.  Today, she got a weird email from him that sounded a lot like a threat and was extremely rude.  She was honestly shocked over this.

Let’s analyze this situation:

Action: My sister broke up with a guy who is in Iraq.  When he left to go to Iraq, she told him that she loved him and was going to wait for him and that they would get married and blah blah blah.

Consequence: My sister is probably going to have a stalker/crazy man after her when Army Boy comes home for R and R in a couple of months.  Army Boy has had nothing better to do but to dwell on how she broke his wittle bitty heart and he is going to be MAD when he sees her again.

I would also like to point out that my sis will be TOTALLY blindsided by this because she did not think about the consequences of her action.  She only thought of the ‘now’.

Another fine example…..

A guy I know was married for about 5 years.  In that time frame, he was a little bit….promiscuous….for lack of a better term.  The guy and his wife got a divorce and everyone moved on with their lives.  While going through the divorce, the guy met another girl and fell in love.  As most guys do right after a divorce, he suffered from what I affectionately call ‘diarrhea of the mouth’, and told the new girl about all of his indiscretions, in fabulous detail.  Later, him and the new girl got married and had a baby.

Can you see where this is going??  Above is the action….can anyone guess what the consequence is??  Well, new girl is completely convinced that he is 1) cheating on her or 2) going to cheat on her.  Why is she convinced of this?  Because he has already proven, in great detail, that he is perfectly capable of cheating on someone that he is married to.

NOW…I know what you are saying to yourself….’OH he was so wonderful and he told the truth and blah blah blah blah vomit vomit vomit’.  WHAT THE HELL EVER!  That was dumb dumb dumb dumb.  What exactly did he accomplish by telling her about this?  NOTHING GOOD.  He felt good.  She had it planted in her head that he is a dirty cheater.

As a side note…..the old girl NEVER tells anyone why they got a divorce or any details of the indiscretions.  It is nobody’s business besides her and the ex.  THAT is how it should be handled.  Point is….old girl = smart and guy = not so smart.  Guy did not think of the long term consequences of his action.

SO….I implore all people to start THINKING before ACTING.  And if you need to know what the consequence of whatever action you are planning to make…..just send me a note and I will be happy to let you know what it is.  I predicted ALL of the above situations.  SO…..morale of the story is……Just ask Amanda before you do anything!  Amanda = genius!

On Feb 19, 2009, my mom and myself drove to Texas to spend time with my family.  The trip down was wonderful and completely uneventful.  We got in around 11:30PM to my Aunt Susu and Uncle Lanny’s house.  We stayed up until around 1AM visiting.  We gave my Aunt Susu the bowl the kids made for her.  She loved it and was very happy.

The next day, we went over to my Aunt Sherrie and Uncle Phil’s house.  Their new house is BEAUTIFUL.  Aunt Sherrie, Aunt Susu, DeeAnn (the most awesome of cousins ever), Fred (the cutest baby), mom and I went to eat lunch and to stimulate the economy…..everyone should know how much I love to do that.  It was a lovely day.

That evening, Joseph (the most awesome cousin-in-law), DeeAnn, and I went over to Liz’s house for her birthday party.  I had such a good time over there.  I can tell that Liz and her husband are very much in love and are very happy.  They have been trying to have a baby for about as long as I have known Liz and that evening she took a test and found out she was pregnant.  I personally believe that the reason why the test came back positive is because we were all there and having such a wonderful time

That evening I went back to DeeAnn and Joseph’s house.  I love being here at their place.  It is very comfortable and happy.  Being here makes me know that DeeAnn is happy in her married life.  I have loved seeing how loving her and Joseph are to each other.  They are so cute!!  They call each other Mr and Mrs Woolison all the time and it is adorable. The other thing that was so great is that they are both very close with each other’s family.

Anyways, I shall write more laters…..I will leave you with this awesome pic of Joseph and Fred:

Joseph and Fred