Texas Ren Fest 2006 - Camping

I've waited a few days to collect my thoughts of this years camping at the Texas Ren Fest. Lessee no running water, no electricty, poor planning and drunk people make for an interesting mix of sex, drugs and celtic drum circles.

I've never seen so much public drug use, sex and craziness. I'm not much into the drug scene considering I've never touched drugs and don't plan to start. I highly value daily showers :P so I really don't see myself doing this again until we either get or rent a camper.

As far as the faire goes there are some new things. We didn't stay long enough to really explore it much. The weather was very hot and oppressive, why I let our friend talk us into going opening weekend I'll never know. Usually, we wait until the last weekend not to mention there's some good item discounts the last weekend.

Met some nice people at least and had some good games of cards. Realized we really need to get a new tent. We've not used our tent in so long some of the sealant is gone on the roof so all night long you had "drip, drip drip" on your head :P I somehow messed up the mantles on the lantern so when we turned it off the mantles went .. boom :P.

Overall I'd rate the weekend as a 6 out of 10. I'm still not sure if we'll ever do that again. The people are great but the setting just sucks much!

At least the costumes I slaved over were a hit.. so not all is lost.

~Z~

Kudos to 7-Eleven, bye bye Mr. Chavez

7-Eleven ousts Citgo

Finally, a US company has decided to stand up for our country and our government. We may not always agree with what our government does but there's a lot to be said for patriotism.

1. If you don't like what's going on in your country ... change it. Our government is made up of elected officials. If you don't like the candidates .. run yourself.

2. We need to be a cohesive country right now due to the nature of the world. So many fractured countries, wars and other country dividing issues.

3. We need to stand up for what we believe in. What does America believe in collectively? We should have some kind of goal, core values etc. Right now we are quite divided as a nation and when bad things happen it only fractures us more ... instead it should bring us together.

So like 7-Eleven who has vowed to end its longtime relationship with Citgo (a subsidiary of the State owned Venezuelan oil company). We too should stand up for our country, it's way of life and even our government. So I vote to ban Citgo gas. I personally will NEVER (yes, I'm serious Mr. Chavez) NEVER buy Citgo gasoline again. Even if it meant I ran out of gas on the freeway, it's a matter of principle.

Sure some will argue that this hurts the US workers of Citgo. Well to them I say ... go to another company. Houston (Citgo is based out of Houston) has TONS of jobs in the energy sector you don't have to work for Citgo you CHOOSE to work for Citgo. Personally, I couldn't work for a company that is even remotely related to Hugo Chavez and his ill begotten government. Teach Mr. Chavez a lesson that we the Americans deserve BETTER than him. We don't need his oil and we don't need his company.

We stop buying his oil, we stop working for his company and his country goes back to the stone ages. Obviously he wants to oppress his people into oblivion (he's passed a law where no one in Venezuela is allowed to speak out against the President/speak ill of him) yet it's ok for him to verbally abuse other heads of state.

Mr. Chavez, YOU sir are the Devil or maybe even the dreaded Chupacabra. No God fearing man with love in his heart could possibly talk of another human this way. Pray for Mr. Bush if you don't like what he's doing. Open a diplomatic dialogue ... offer some respect and you might be surprised. Keep up what you're doing and you're in for a RUDE awakening. The detention of one of your diplomats from the UN is just a start.

Z .. out

Art teacher fired for doing her job ...

Wonders never cease. This school Frisco ISD in Texas has a School Board that have completely lost their collective minds.

The following article http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4214639.html describes how the woman took the kids to the Dallas Art Museum

School board members have voted to not renew the contract of a veteran art teacher who was reprimanded after one of her fifth-grade students saw a nude sculpture during a school trip to a museum.

Mind you she took them there at the request of the Principal.

This woman has been teaching for years and for them to do this to her is ridiculous. So instead of the parents being PARENTS they are going to require that their beliefs be taught by the educators even though almost every set of parents have a different rule set. ART is ART .. The human body is and can be ART that's why it is an ART Museum.

To the Retarded Parents of this "said" child (yes I said retarded ... they must have mental difficulties to be acting this way), if you're concerned with WHAT your kid may see at an ART museum how about you DON'T sign the permission slip. It's not like they surreptitiously took your kid along with 88 other students to the Art Museum without your knowledge and consent. Every child MUST have a permission slip signed by the parents to attend such activities.

If you don't know what an Art Museum is perhaps you should actually VISIT one before allowing your kid to go to one. Wait.. that would require them to no longer live in their ostritch hole and be close minded anymore.

Ohh and to the "doo to doo" (said in the Mind of Mencia way) parents you better not go to Europe because they truly believe in the Human nude form as ART and advertising. You might have a heart attack seeing all the half/completely naked ads just out and about in the street for ALL to see regardless of age. Ohh wait their not hung up on their naked bodies.

Also, I'm curious in this family have none of the kids ever seen a one of their parents naked? (I find this hard to believe). Not to mention .. does the kid ever undress to say take a bath or shower lol.

Grow up! Take an art appreciation class, stop stifling your child's chance at a NORMAL/better future and quit ruining people's lives. BTW I'm going to assume they're religious freaks I hope they know they can go to HELL for ruining other people's lives. Just remember (parents) you'll have to answer to God some day for all that you do or THINK you are doing to better your kids lives, when in reality you're just causing misery for others.

Getting fired over artwork ... what's next getting killed for Free Speech in the US? .. wait it's probably happening as we speak. lol.

Just for the record I'm not a Democrat I've always been a Republican but it's people like the afore mentioned that are making me SERIOUSLY doubt their sanity and my choice :P.

Fun links for today!

Ok first up what could be better than the muppets + the matrix? The Muppetmatrix that's what : http://www.magicdonnie.com/themuppetmatrix.html

Ok next up for those who like a challenge - it's a fun line drawing thing that a guy sleds on the line when you're done drawing. Good luck I make the poor guy crash and burn every time I try it hehe.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/40255643/

Enjoy!

Zel

Over Heard in New York Website

This site was too funny not to post a link here. I guarantee hours of fun. It's rare to find almost all content on a single website that will make you laugh. This one surely did. Perhaps it's becuase I grew up in NY state or becuase the things people say are just outrageous hehe. Either way I really enjoyed this site and wanted to share it with all my friends :)

Ciao

Z

Morgellon's Disease ... fact or fiction?

CBS news story on this disease

The above news story pretty much sums up what most of the official sites say. Doctors tell the patients they're mentally disturbed and other things because they refuse to believe this is a real problem.

The University of Oklahoma has one scientist that is looking into this mysterious disease. Personally, being someone that lives near where several of these people have contracted the disease is VERY worrisome.

I think we need to shout this from the roof tops because it's too scary to think what's going to happen if this starts spreading like wild fire.

Some more sits about this bizarre disease:

http://www.morgellons.org/index.html

http://www.morgellonsusa.com/morgellonsusa.html

My heart goes out to the people who are dealing with this disease. Just remember they didn't believe AIDS was real in the 70s early 80s either. The doctors say it isn't real because they don't have it in any of their medical books ... it's called evolution, something cooked up in our labs, bioterrorism or some other foreign thing we've just not found yet.

There are still millions of species on the Earth no one has discovered... maybe more (so studies say). I guess when half the US population comes down with this disease maybe then they'll start to listen.

For all you Mike and Ike Fans out there!

http://www.mikeandike.com/main.html

Click on Stock up
then click on take a spin link and try to win some free candy.

mmmm :)

~Z~

The US sellout our bridges and roads, bye bye taxpayer revenues

Foreign companies buy U.S. roads, bridges

I'm appalled at reading this. I was appalled when foreign companies started buying up our cities. I realize we're the ultimate in Capitalism but come on there has to be a limit. If my hard earned cash went to pay for that damn bridge or toll road then those revenues should go RIGHT back into my community where that damn road or bridge is. It should NOT go to some foreign country and their citizens, PERIOD. This is a very sad day in our history, not like the past few years haven't been bad but it's going bad to worse and QUICKLY.

Call your reps in Congress, vote appropriately come election day. Let them know this kind of crap is unacceptable!

Just do it ... like Zidane

This is too funny to pass up not posting :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js0vOgjBfD8&feature=Featured&page=1&t=t&f=b

Vive la France! and all your creative way to deal with "your mother comments"

~Z~

The New MMORPG Frontier?

CyberSex MMORPGs - Yahoo News Article

So I was reading the above post thinking to myself ... I'm amazed they didn't already have something like this out there. Considering porn has always been one of the top money makers in the internet.

On a different note. When does love for an MMORPG game become obsession. Even years after you have stopped playing the game and maybe some of your online friends still play. You still care about how they're doing, conducting the "guild" etc. Especially, when many of you have been gaming together through games for over 9+ years. If you see them doing "questionable" things.. do you say something or do you keep your mouth shut. Personally, the way I was raised we speak out! I ask them questions about what they're doing and why they are doing it.

I guess the bigger question is why do we as the human race hate dissenting opinions so much? Constructive criticism (when done well) can help make us all better people. I suppose a lot of it goes back to the fact we don't see ourselves are we truly are. People can say they're self-aware but truly that's not the case. We romanticize our being, our actions etc. Even those who have low self image truly don't see everything the way it really is. If we could really become fully self-actualized there would be little need (usually) for psychologists :P.

On a lighter note.. if anyone is looking for a good book to read: Prey by Michael Crichton.

Be good to each other :) ~Z~

The MP3 Debate

Considering that I personally have a large collection of MP3s many which I burned from my personal cd collection :) I feel pretty strongly on the subject. So France is going to pass some legislation that opens Apple's iTunes format up to other players. Of course the "music cartel" in the US is going to have a cow about this issue. I say music cartel because well, isn't that what they are? "We're going to enmass arrest Americans for sharing music becuase the greedy bastards we are want our millions". Well how about making songs affordable to download? Why should an mp3 that's not even .wav quality be 99 cents or more ! Paleeese. How much of that do you think really goes to the artist? Very little unless the artist owns their own recording company which is far and few between.

However, with new foreign MP3 sites popping up that (for the most part) seem legit Apple and the music cartel here in the US are really going to have to take a second look at how they're screwing us over. For example: http://www.allofmp3.com/ or http://www.mp3sugar.com/ .
Enough said, your days of over pricing MP3s are over!!!!
Who said globalization was bad? :P

~Z~

Ever have one of "those" children ...

Well let me preface by saying there is this girl in my daughter's Girl Scout troop that is well ... satan incarnate! Sadly, she's also the troop leader's daughter so there's not much we can do about her actions. She's the kid that's the bully, loudmouth, interrupter, pushes, shoves, yells, cries when she doesn't get her way... etc well, you get the idea.

I knew after the first meeting for the troop she was going to drive me nuts so I figured I'll drink a margarita before I go ... and sure it made her antics not quite so annoying the next time but sadly didn't deliver when she started screaming through the loud speaker .... *sigh*.

Well they had an outing to the zoo last weekend and she was so bad my husband has sworn he will never go on an outing with the troop again because of her. Sadly, that may keep my daughter from going on a few of them as I'm not always able to attend the outings. Apparently, many parents feel that "outing" is some code word for ... "troop leader and other sucker parents babysit our kids day". Subsequently, that's what the other parents did... they dropped off their kids one by one and it ended up being the troop leader and my husband in charge of 10 or so 8 year old girls. That right there is enough to give anyone a acid reflux :P Then you add in the "satan child" and you have a real mess on your hands.

I've always been one to be honest about issues especially the big white elephant in the room such as this problem. Meaning, I would normally come right out to "satan child's mom" and tell her that her child is so disrupting, disrespectful and unruly during meetings and outings that I cannot subject my daughter to her presence anymore. However, I'm torn... if I do that my daughter will possibly miss out on many fun activities not to mention some of her best friends are in that troop. So for the sake of my daughter I've not said anything.

The double whammy is that "satan child's mom" is also pregnant. I don't want to put any more stress on her than she already has daily. I thought I'd vent a bit .. :P Feel free to chime in your thoughts.

~S~

Ok Martin I took the bait :P

You're supposed to BOLD the ones you've done.:
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smoked a cigarette
crashed a friend's car
stolen a car
been in love
been dumped
shoplifted
been fired
been in a fist fight
snuck out of your parent's house
had feelings for someone who didn't have them back
gone on a blind date
lied to a friend
skipped school
seen someone die
had a crush on one of your internet friends
been to Canada
been to Mexico
been on a plane
purposely set a part of yourself on fire
eaten sushi
been jet-skiing
met someone in person from the internet
been moshing at a concert
taken pain killers
loved and missed someone
made a snow angel
had a tea party
flown a kite
built a sand castle
gone puddle jumping
jumped in a pile of leaves
gone sledding
cheated while playing a game
been lonely
fallen asleep at work or school
used a fake id
watched a sunset
felt an earthquake
touched a snake
slept beneath the stars
been robbed
been misunderstood
petted a reindeer/goat
won a contest
run a red light/stop sign
been suspended from school
been in a car accident
eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
had deja vu
danced in the moonlight
liked the way you looked at least at one point in time
witnessed a crime
been obsessed with post-it notes
squished barefoot through the mud
been lost
been on the opposite side of the country
swam in the ocean
cried yourself to sleep
played cops and robbers
recently colored with crayons
sung karaoke
paid for a meal with only coins
done something you told yourself you wouldn't
made prank phone calls
laughed until some kinda beverage came out of your nose
caught a snow flake on your tongue
written a letter to Santa Claus
been kissed under the mistletoe by your boy/girlfriend
blown bubbles
made a bonfire on the beach
laughed so hard you pee your pants
cheated on a test
been kissed by someone you didn't like
gone skinny dipping in a pool

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Just for the record I can neither confirm or deny when the above occurred :P
It's been a wild ride... can't wait for the next one OoOoOooOoOooO hehe.
~Z~

Women's Rights in danger?

I don't know about the other 51% of the population out there that are the women but with no women to be on the supreme court I'm feeling very uneasy. Abortion rights and other important rights we women have not to mention minorities could be repealed. Why is it so many years after women's suffrage that our Congress, House and Court do not reflect the population? Women make up 51% of the population yet our voice is so little in our government. Women should be very worried and very vocal! Our mothers and grand-mothers before us often made hard choices so that we their daughters and grand-daughters could do the things we do today and take for granted.

If you get raped and they repeal the abortion law or the morning after pill, what will you do? What if this happens to your daughter or family member. Statistics have shown that nearly 50% of all women have been sexually attacked if not raped at least once in their lifetime.

It's bad enough in our country as it is, few women CEO's, few women in VP positions. Women are not encouraged and are discouraged from going for these professions. This happened with Harriet Miers and I'm sure she was threatened in some way. The "Good Ole Boys Club" didn't want her and hell be frozen over she was or any other women to get in while they're alive. Women really need to wake up and smell the coffee beans!

There was a movie not too long ago "A Day without a Mexican" that was supposed to show the people how much of a unspoken contribution the Mexicans make to America. What about the women! We need "A Day with Women". At first I'm sure the guys would laugh at this prospect but when you realize the implications the world could nearly come to a halt.

Chores that would go undone for both the stay at home moms and those that are working yet still expected to do the majority of house work. The children that would would not get taken care of and be wandering, existing aimlessly. The many key jobs in a company women typically do as jobs i.e. Executive Secretaries, Receptionists, Administration Assistants etc. would be without their key people. Often the receptionist is the first impression people get about the company. Why do they usually typecast this? A beautiful, young, sweet woman? Because A: Sex Sells, B: She will often be very nice on the phone when clients call, C: Very easy on the eyes etc.
Ok lets put a big harry, sweaty, guy up front with a gruffy voice. Wonder how that would affect business, guesses are it wouldn't be that great.

Well I could go on for hours but the bottom line is, Ladies be wary! Keep Alert because this could be a very bad era for us and our kind! Yes, we're a slightly different species (you know Men are from Mars women are from Venus). Men can't possibly know what is best for women as they are incapable due to not being a woman. Find me a man that has periods each month, gives birth to a child and deals with weight gain, societal pressures etc and I might not be so upset with an all male justice. Until that time we need to ensure more women become judges on the supreme court!

It's a very sad day for us ladies and sadly I'm not sure many are aware.

~S~

Rude Driver Database

I want one... anyone know if one exists?

If not we should start one! They have ratemyprofessor.com, ratemyapartment etc lol.

I want a ratemydriving.com !!! Bad Drivers beware, kind of like a registry for BAD drivers. They have one for sex offenders!

After my multiple, recent experiences of RUDE drivers I may look into this. I'm curious if it's legal. Would it be slander? Course to verify if the claim was true or not that may be difficult :P Photos ...

If anything I'm starting to take photos of license plates of people who are driving erratically, try to run me off the road, cut in front w/out turn signal or much warning. Or people who are just plain rude and try to go around you while you're backing up as you try to gingerly make your way out in order to not hit a working crew that are fixing/building something where you're trying to get out of. Really, what is wrong with people today?

Do they think we're not in a hurry too? Everyone is busy! Deal with it.

Stop being rude or You're going to be posted with pics ... Your fame will be that you're a jerk. Enjoy.

I fuzzed out the license plate: Pic
Better hope I don't see your car again on my street. Good thing my daughter wasn't playing there like many of the kids that live on the street do, they'd of been hit from this speeding driver, among other rude things he was doing.

~Z~

Credit Card Minimums to Double!!

News Article

Ok now that I lost what I just typed . Go to spell check, TY pop up blocker !!! and then it wipes what you had when it reloads /sigh.

On for try number two:

The article says as many of my close friends have that our credit card minimums are soon to double. This is supposedly stemming from the recent bankruptcy legislation passed to encourage Americans to get out of debt more quickly. What does all this mean for the average credit card holder?

Well if you have a balance of $4000 you're required to pay around 2% of the balance now which is roughly $80/mo. When this goes into effect (and they're trying to get it through by next month) you'll now be required to pay $160/mo. When the average household has something like 5 credit cards with around $4000 balance that's an increase from $400/mo to 800$ without much warning. Good luck paying that along with increased gas /fuel prices as of late.

In my situation my student loans are coming due next month which will already add $200 more a month to what I have to pay out. Granted their interest is fairly low but still that's a lot more per month than I currently have available funds.

Do I agree with what they're doing? No, and this is why:

I'd like to know why they aren't able to do some kind of graduated increase say 2.5 at first then wait 6mo to a year and go up to 3.0 and increase .5 every 6mo-1yr until they're up to the 4% they want to eventually be at. I agree behind the main principal that they wish to get Americans out of debt faster. Fine! But don't shove it down our throats when our wallets are already over stretched! It's salt in an already oozing, gaping wound! Anyone feel like a tea party? I'm starting too.

How many of you actually look at how much you pay in taxes to the federal and state government in taxes each paycheck? Add in sales tax etc. I'd bet that you're probably only seeing 30cents or less of each dollar. The other 70% goes to fed/state/local government. Do we really need all those services? I mean come on! What happened to the reports of the "fleecing of America" the NBC news used to do. How about you give us back more of our money then talk about doubling our CC minimums. We wouldn't have nearly so much on the CC's if we had more in our bank accounts.

Go talk to your legislators .. or start thinking about Mexico... that country is starting to look more appealing every day!

~Z~

Bug bites

well being that I've gone nearly the entire summer without mosquito bites I guess having some at the end isn't too bad.

But ....

They itch, and ITCH!!! You can put the anti-itch stuff on it .. but it still
ITCHES lol.

It's still in the 90s here wru COLD FRONT. It's about time the cold weather hit Houston.

Well class is to start soon so I guess I'll head on over there.

~S~

How to lose a crazy car chasing man

Imagine you're driving down the road it's night already so all the highway lamps are on overhead. Everyone is still trying to get home from a long day at work. People driving home at 7pm at night are usually the work aholic type and already tend to be the type "A" personalities which can make for some interesting nightly drives home. Well imagine you're in the far right lane and start to make your way to the middle lanes because the 2 right lanes veer off and turn onto another major freeway.
So you're going maybe 40mph and then right ahead of you in the middle lane that isn't turning off people are "stopped" right there where the other 2 lanes head off to the other freeway, slowly, trying to usurped their way in front of all the other poor drivers who sat in the long line of traffic. So they "sit" there in the lane, refusing to give up as if they have some God given "right" to push in front of all the other people who patiently waited. You are unfortunately behind one of "those" such people so you turn on your blinker and patiently wait to go into the lane to the left of you.
Whizzing by people go past you well above the speed limit. Patiently you wait, and wait until finally there's an opening. Now you're blinker has been on for well over 30s+ you pull in to the lane and you hear "HONK HOOOOONK". You turn you look to your left and some guy who was very far back in the lane you turned into sped up when you turned in. You think to yourself "WTF is this guy trying to ram me?" So you slow down as most people's reaction would be in such a situation with so much traffic whizzing all around you. The crazy man pulls along side of you to your left and veers into your lane as if trying to push you into the cement median. At this point you're pretty freaked out thinking "Ok, this guy needs some serious help". So you move into another lane to get away from the freak. What does the freak do? He pulls up along side of you and then speeds up, cuts in front of you and slams on the breaks causing you to move over into another lane. By this time you're getting pretty ticked off so you figure WTH ... fine 2 can play this game. You slow down, switch lanes get in behind him and beam your high beams.
You're in a nice tall Explorer and the freak is in a small white sedan, needless to say you're high beams are going to be QUITE the annoyance. So you figure maybe the freak has learned his lesson. No! So the freak decides to be a jerk again and do what he did again erratically driving trying to get you in an accident. So, you pull up speed up, move in front of him and slam on your breaks. He tries to helplessly high beam you. "Ha Ha" you laugh, your nice high vehicle saves you from his pathetically low lying high beams. So for several miles he stays behind you, in vain, thinking he's obstructing your view of the road. Meanwhile you get in your turn lane to get on the major freeway and long drive to your house. He turns with you. Getting a bit annoyed and maybe a bit worried you slowdown, change lanes and get a good look at the "Crazy guy" that's chasing you. He's a man in his mid 20's, business casual attire driving a small white sedan fairly new. He doesn't look outwardly angry maybe just a bit crazy but not angry. Thinking to yourself this is odd that someone would be following you just because he didn't see your blinker was on and act that way he must not be mentally stable.
Now that he's followed you onto the major freeway obviously not where he's intended to go originally you think hmm, ok time to lose this bastard. So, you drive really fast and try to lose him in the plethora of vehicles on the freeway. Nope, he patiently "if he's been patient at all" wades through the sea of cars and gets right behind you again and attempts once again in vain to high beam. You laugh a bit and think ok this is just funny. You break fairly hard, he struggles to break and continues to pursue you. By this time he's been following you about 20 mins and you think hmm, well the tollway is coming up "OHH IDEA" you look in your rear view mirror you see he doesn't have a tollway pass. You know the things that allow them to speed through the toll lanes because it gets your information from the small square you put on your winshield. Well you're in luck you have one he doesn't. Quickly, you switch into the turn off lane that goes to the Tollway going the opposite way of your house. He, seeing where you're going gets a bit panicky, he slows down and stays in the lane that goes straight on the freeway. You continue onto the tollway and "LAUGH".
You drive until the first free exit, exit off the tollway, do a U-turn and you're stuck in a bit of traffic but this is ok because that makes him all the farther away. About 10 mins later you get back on the main freeway towards your home and you eventually arrive, no crazy jerk in tow.

So the moral of the story is boys and girls. A) Don't be a self serving bastard who thinks women can't logically deduct anything for themselves. B) Don't assume you can chase us home either that's what We've got mace and a shoe for. We're not afraid to use them either.

Still you laugh, as you're driving down the street thinking "A$$h..." testosterone is the debil. If you men out there ever catch yourself playing the "crazy" role in the situation above please consider castration.

This has been a public service announcement brought to you by *Zelli*.

~Z~

Exam postponed ...

Well with all the Rita buzz and closings my University closed last week and will reopen for students Thursday the 29th. That pushed our exams that were supposed to be last week to this week :(. You'd of thought I'd of had more time to study ... nope. My weekend was filled with my mother-in-law her 6 pets she brought, cooking, keeping the kid occupied, taping the windows and cleaning. We were "hunkering down" getting ready for Rita to hit us. Thankfully it passed farther to the east of us than expected so most of that preparation was for naught. We got some nasty wind and a bit of rain but nothing too exciting.

On a side note... Any of you have a "flaky" friend? You know that person that's never on time, the person who changes subjects like the wind changes direction. Well I "had" yes had this friend we'd been good friends for a long while. She was one of those people you could say something and it would take her 5 mins to register what you said and finally reply. Now I'm still not sure if that was a mental thing or not she got light therapy and seemed a lot better. She had one pupil that was WAY larger than the other after that lol. Anyhew back to the flakiness :P She had the worst problems with men ever! Basically she had intimacy issues after being raped :( and really couldn't seem to get over them. After several years and her not being able to get close to man I figured hey I'll buy her a dildo and see if that helps. I figured after 6 + yrs she at least might be ready. She never really said much about it just laughed and seemed somewhat interested. (no this isn't going to turn into a Dear Playboy ... so stop wishing).

Anyhew... she was one of these people that when other people treated her badly she did the same thing to you ... took it out on you when you had NOTHING to do with it. She had bad timing too usually when I was stressed out from class/family/work etc. Well I'd say in spring of this year I'd had enough she'd been doing it to me or over 2 yrs (yah I'm pretty patient when I think people are hurting). I'd noticed with her new "friends" she'd become quite shallow and not so close to her faith in God which she often threw in people's faces saying how close to God she was. Her actions did not support what she said though. I called her on it one day and basically told her to "stop" the crap and told her I was tired of being her punching bag etc. Ever since that time I didn't hear from her much I know she was mad/sad or otherwise. She needed a wake up call and MAYBE it wasn't her mom why she was having so many family problems. Start with yourself! You might just find the solution starts and ends with yourself. She failed to recognize this. We got together maybe 2 x after that and all seemed well as she and I usually made up quite quickly. Well one day out of the blue she messages me and says she no longer wishes contact. I was like lol hmm ok. She said she'd met some "guy" and that they were going to move in together and that I "wouldn't understand". I'm thinking ... someone really is afraid of hearing the truth aren't they. See I'm one of those people who'll say it like it is regardless if you want to hear it or not. If you're wearing a bright lime green dress and you're pasty white and about 100 lbs overweight I'm going to tell you the dress looks like crap and suggest changing it :P

The main point is ... don't push away your friends just because you can't handle the truth. If you're in that situation you have bigger problems. Get therapy! Truly I'm concerned about her and worry and all I can do is pray for her and leave it in God's hands. Everything happens for a reason and fair weather friends aren't worth the brain cells. Don't just be an acquaintance ... if you don't care about me don't be in my life. Don't waste my time. Thanks!

So I'll stick to my online friends who have been dear to me for the past 11 years, not screwed me over, great in person and great to hang out with. Sad sometimes you have to look half a world away for "true friends" because the people around you are far too shallow or petty for any meaningful relationship. Not sure if it's a southern problem but I sure don't remember having this issue when I lived up north.

Rant off for now.. I've got a few about my current place of employment but since they've "attempted" to remedy their bs ! I'll not go on the soap box about that right now :P

ciao!

~S~

Exam week!

Well as the title suggests it's our first exam in class! Taking Unix Systems Admin, my last class to graduate with a BS :P Not to mention I have to apply for graduation tomorrow (keep forgetting to do it). Needless to say between the new house, school and work I've been fairly busy (why I've not updated in a while).

Our daughter is in soccer now with practice on Thursdays, Soccer clinic on Fridays and games on Saturday. She really wanted to join the Girl Scouts (yes, I was in them and I loved it) so I signed her up for that as well. It hasn't started yet but it'll be one more time consuming thing to do each week. I might just add as well good lord the uniforms are expensive! Ouch. I guess between those and cookies that's where they make all their money.

Reading Martin's Blog I've really got the urge to go find some ancient photos of me :P I'm at least FAR happier with the body I USED to have (ladies you know what I'm talking about). So I'll see what I can't dig up here in a while :P

Well I'm supposed to be working from home right now .. and I've done quite a bit but there's always more to do so I better get on it :P I also need lunch so ... as promised Martin here's the update hehe. Same ole same ole :P

caio!

~S~