News from the NUTHOUSE!

My daughter has her first car!  OH THE MAGNITUDE OF THAT!  The first emotion is of course ROCK ON! thrilled, happy, and wow, she is old enough to be a car owner!  Then the second emotion hits, not near as fun as the first, it involves danger, and going to fast, and not being careful, and SLOW DOWN!  I keep going back to the fact that we as the human race have an extremely strong will to survive, however, teenagers, and cars YIKES!

Also, she is going to graduate, my baby girl, pink dresses, baby doll, soft and sweet, is now old enough to make her own decisions and yes even to vote!  I sure hope I raised her right, I tried to fill her up with all the rights and none of the wrongs, the good and not the bad!  Did I fail or did I succeed?  Time will tell, I am laying heavy odds that she is going to do well in life, maybe less to do with me, and more to  do with who she is!  She is for the most part a really lovely, kind spirited soul.  A bit too much like her mother at times but well, it makes her “scrappy”!

My daughter, her “faded genes” her words, not mine, black nails, funky jewelry, dog collar bracelets, all things to put it out there that she is unique as all the rest of the teens, she is a nut!  with a capital T!  silly girl, so fun, also, so wary, I love this daughter of mine, crazy kid!  She makes me laugh!

March 25th, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized | | 0 Comments

Warning!

Have you ever known someone whom, for whatever reason you are drawn to them?  Well I have this person who is in my life, way less now than before but after taking some time apart, I no longer see this person as all I thought they were.  I had mentally (is there really any other way) put this person up on a pedestal.  I went to this person for guidance and advice, and they always has lots of it to give out.  Well upon stepping back, I have noticed that this person knows most of what they know in a book sense, not in an applied sense, AND the biggest part of all, this person touts all of this knowledge to many around them, and people are in awe of the knowledge, and the wowness of it all, but in reality, this person is a website, just information, tons and tons of it.  Almost every bit of it unapplied, unused, and worst of all the appearance is made for the world around, as if this person ACTUALLY does and says all that they tout, and unfortunately it makes those around feel less able, less capable, and not living up to the standard.  All of this in a world that where we are all desperately needing to do the right thing, struggling to be perfect, we have someone who could do such good, but instead they choose to deceive  and mislead, not outright lie, just exaggerate the truth so much as to make someone who has not figured it out, feel unable!  What a shame!

March 25th, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized | | 1 Comments

Not a fan…used to be…but not any more!

So pretty much all my life I have LOVED snow!  I remember being young and snow would be forcast and all of the adults would be so negative, and I remember thinking that they were insane!  What could be more fun than a day out of school, playing outside all day, and drinking homemade hot chocolate (the only time we got the good stuff was a snow day).  Well guess what, I now understand their agony!  See, it’s not so much about the snow, as it is about the expectation of the children (my spouse is included in the children catagory for this).  They want YOU to go out in the COLD, snowy snow!  IN IT, ON IT, UNDER IT, ATOP OF IT and they mean business.  For me, a big window, a hot cup of coffee, nice soft pajamas, warm robe, and I am good!  That is a perfect snow day.  For my son to have a perfect snow day, I need to be somehow involved.  I need to be the target for his snowballs, the trail maker for the trails game, I need to see it, and feel it, and well I DON’T WANNA!

We took our son to a huge hill in a nice park with 500 other people,  first time down the hill he sits and rides, second time down he is on his knees, third time down he stands up, leans back and hoots and whoo hooos all the way down.  Good Grief.  I on the other hand have zero desire to go down, get my pants wet, then climb back up the hill and have a small heart attack, I don’t know just doesn’t seem to appeal to me!  My spouse has gone down a billion times with the boy, each trip up a bit slower, little more effort to make it to the top each trip, finally he says “this has to be the last time” off they go, to make it back up the hill the final trip is 2 hours 47 minutes, but “gosh it was so fun” WHAT EVER!

But being the awsome mom that I am, I made snow paint!  and now I think I am getting sick!  I am so not a fan of snow, or cold, or chilly, or nippy, or brrrrrrrr.

March 10th, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized | | 0 Comments

Don’t look directly at him!

So this weekend, my baby, (ok 7 year old) competed for the first time in a TaeKwonDo event! We had to get up at the crack of dawn, to get to the venue at half past the crack of dawn, get checked in 4 hours before we had to do anything, and prepare ourselves for a day of………………waiting, and waiting! Seriously, I should get the gold metal in the 40 year old waiting catagory! I waited with my back in horrible pain, but could not participate in the taking of pain killing drugs because I had to be a bored, wait no……board holder. Yes Yes, I am sure it was the second kind, the second one involved wood right??? I was involved in the one where wood was held! and to be honest, I was mostly the first one, and I didn’t even make an effort to hide it.

So the moment finally arrives, we go down to the board holding/breaking area, my son bows to the judges, then pow pow pow, three boards broken, another bow, and he is done. WHEWWW so then, I look at the judges for the scores, one judge did not give my son a fair score, that little asswipe!  let him get up and break the board, anyway, whatever!  So we are not sure if my son is in first or second place, 2 boys got the exact same score, and the exact same letter score, so we have to wait until we get up to the podium. They call out the boys names and GUESS WHAT, ALEX CAME IN 1ST PLACE, THE GOLD MEDAL, the highest spot on the podium, AND THE CROWD GOES WILD, ok just me but whatever, so out of 6 in his category, he was the ULTIMATE board breaker! Oh an FYI on that asswipe judge, he won best kickass black belt there or some stupid category, he might be pretty decent,  again whatever!

So after some more waiting, we go on to our final event, which is sparring, we didn’t even place! I think the judge didn’t like us, probably had it in for us cause we are so cool, he didn’t want the cool kid to win ALL the awards, or maybe Alex just didn’t do very well, but it was probably the first thing.

March 3rd, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized | | 0 Comments