Single

I've never been single. I don't do well single for very long. Yes, I hit the huge anniversary of being with my hubby 1/2 of my life, but it is so much more than that.

Just a disclaimer: I am not wishing things were different, they are what they happily are. But sometimes it is difficult that I haven't experienced things.

I have never lived alone. I went from living with my parents to living with hubby. I go back and forth now that I can have all of them away at the same time. Mostly guilt comes in and I don't get any sleep.

Loneliness sucks. I've never had the physical loneliness. I have had many a lonely night, but not from being alone too long. Just from shutting myself off emotionally.

Well I was ready to type more. But I am up alone at 3am and this is exactly what I'm talking about. I miss my HUBBY!!! 1 1/2 more weeks and we can get into a more normal groove. It's spring break and the kids went to their friends house. I am up to get my hair done early tomorrow. So off to bed for me!

Hmm, what city?

I'm proud to have gotten this rating on the first time through. I figured I'd get Seattle right off the bat. But maybe that wasn't one of the options. lol

You Are Las Vegas

Wild and uninhibited, you enjoy all of life's vices. You're a total hedonist, especially with sex, gambling, and drinking. You shine brightly every night, but you do the ultimate walk of shame each morning. Famous Las Vegas residents: Wayne Newton, Howard Hughes, Penn & Teller, Siegfried & Roy

What American City Are You?

Rock girl gala

Well I am going to miss this years gala. I'm super, uper bummed about it. But alas, it can't be helped. Hubby and I haven't gotten away together in over 2 years now because of our schooling and we have to do it. Of course, once we plan our weekend, www.kisw.com plans the rock girl gala. FUCKERS!

Then, to make matters worse, they bring in Puddle of Mud as the headliner. Hmm, is it worth the argument? Hmm, is it worth me replanning and fighting? May be. That was one of the first cd's the kids bought me for a gift and they aren't very old. lmao They were really young when they told Daddy that I wanted that cd. lol They are such good kids!

So I will miss the gala. Yes, I will. It will be ok. I will pout on here and I will seriously bitch after I have to hear about it from the dj's. But alas. I am running away for a naked weekend with my hubby. Nothing but shopping and wine tasting. I just want the best of both worlds. But I'll pick him anyday. ;)

Fell of the blog universe

Yet again! It's amazing how that happens. I can go for weeks on end of posts every day or every other, then there comes a time I'm barely able to get on here. I hate that! I'd be happy posting every day. But life is good busy. The only downfall is that I need a laptop in a super bad way. SO if you have recommendations, please let me know. I applied for a biz load through dell and that was a joke. Umm, no thanks on the 29% interest rate. I know my biz has no credit, but come on! It's been in biz for 4 years now, that should count for something.

But anyway on to the topic of laptops. I have to have one immediately. I am getting busier at work and that is awesome. Unfortunately that doesn't leave me much time to get on here when I get home. Especially since my herbalist has told me I need to sleep. WHAT? 5 hours a night isn't enough? What is she thinking? So I feel better because I'm getting sleep, but I'm not getting enough done. Laptop will let me get it done in between clients at work. ;)

So what else is happening in my life? Hubby has only 2 weeks left of school. Man, that never seemed like it would end. I'm super excited for him. But now he will be home so much more. AHHHHH, worse than the kids! See, I must have a laptop so I can hide at work.

This week is spring break, but I still have a lot to catch up on. SO hopefully I can get it all done. I really need to spend more time at the gym to get a few more clients. But I also hate to take advantage of my Mom for the week. Stupid guilt!

new ozzfest rumor

Well here's the latest scoop I heard today. I really need to go subscribe to the site. Or even visit the damn site. lmao

But the news just gets better and better. Despite our rain, you really should live in Seattle. We get great music stuff here. Lot's of bands come around and play the little clubs. But I'm digressing.

So here's the newest scoop for you all to be jealous of. Not only is it opening here, less than 12 miles from my HOUSE! But a second show will be over at the Gorge on Sat. night!!! HOLY CRAP! July 14th at the Gorge? That's gonna be freakin amazing. Now I'm not sure which show to get to. We've got to stay the night if we head to the Gorge. So guess I better start working on people that own campers to go with us.

WOW, it's gonna be an awesome concert summer. I can tell!

EDITED: Well it's not a rumor. I just went to the site and it's official. The first 2 dates are up here in WA. Now we just need to find out when the damn tickets will be out and how in the world we are going to get them. :)

Zune!!!

This is the best toy ever made! Hubby gave it to me this weekend. It's supposed to be for our anniversary next month, but I guess he wants his ipod back. Believe me, he won't ever have to worry about me stealing it again. Ipod's completely suck compared to the zune. lmao And I've only been playing with it for a day, so have no idea what other cool stuff I can do.

The video is super clear. I'm looking forward to getting some missed shows or just some cooler vids on it. Then the option of having radio is killer. Especially since I can pause the freakin' radio! Our tv's at the gym can be heard through fm stations and it was awesome to hear it and not have to read the subtitles today. lol It's not cool to watch Days of our lives and decipher what the typos are.

Now I just have to figure out how to get the music I just bought for the ipod switched into my zune's account. That may take me some time as I have no time to mess with it in the near future. I shouldn't have been playing with all of it for hours yesterday as it was. lol Or I'll just go in and buy some new stuff while I'm waiting. The songs are only $.79 instead of $.99 like on itunes! YIPPEEE!

Man, I'm gonna end up playing on here with it again tonight. I can tell. Nothing is going to get done this week. lmao

OzzFest baby

Alright, it better be fucking official soon! This afternoon I caught a quick trailer commercial that not only do they have dates (not official) but those "dates" changed and they are no longer going to start out in CA like planned.

But they will kick off right here in mother-fuckin-washington!!! OMG, if that happens it will easily be the best concert ever. To kick off the whole damn concert series! Are you kidding me! And this year it is free! ARE YOU KIDDING ME! You better believe I've already booked the tentative date off my calendar and the friday after. roflmao Umm, Mom, you can watch the kids right?

Good grief I need to get to a concert soon. I'm dieing. Daughter and I are going to see my favorite Gwennie on June 16th. That is going to be incredible. There are never Sat. or Fri. night concerts here anymore. So I'm gonna get us a hotel room and we are going to party all night. My good friend and her daughter (our daughters are good friends) are going with us. But I'm getting a room for just the two of us. We are going to do this right. BTW, the concert is like 14 miles away. lmao But it's the experience man, not the point that the hotel is farther away than our house. Don't bring me down!

Positive things in life

After that last post I needed to come in and post some good things.

Hubby got a 95 on his last test. That makes a 93/95/95. Pretty damn good!!!

I am taking over a site that I'm totally psyched about! www.scrapfacts.com

I have been working out again regularly.

My clients are awesome!

My kids have been fun to hang out with!

My daughter got a new dwarf hamster. I'll have to post pics of it. Plus she didn't have quite enough money and had to owe me. So I got my floors done and their bathroom cleaned with NO ISSUES!

I bought my turtle a new cage that is huge. She is a happy Yurtle the turtle.

I took my chubby doggy jogging today and she was great on the leash.

Oh did i mention we had record highs today? lol Boy I wish I'd been up on the mountain boarding. No better way to get a sunburn around here.

Raining and pouring around me

And I'm not talking about the Seattle weather as it was record high's here and almost 70. But don't worry, cause there is no global warming. God damned stupid oil tycoons! Hmm, make a few more hybrids so we can buy American please.

K, got off topic, but that's cause I don't like the topic. No sooner than my friend Anita works on recovering from her lung surgery. But I just got an email from my friend and her husband is going in for open heart surgery in the morning. Surprise! That is how much notice they got. OMG, she says she loves his family and will be surrounded by them tomorrow. So I don't need to cancel everything and head over. But I told her she better call me as soon as she needs me.

I was going to call her in the morning since it is 11:30 here. But I couldn't wait. Yes, I let it ring like 5 or 6 times. I suck, but I knew she wouldn't be sleeping since she just sent out the email a little while ago.

He is only 47, not a heavy drinker, doesn't smoke, no family history. WOW! What does that say for me? I have lot's of family history. :( My grandpa died of heart disease at only 35 or 37.

Oh my word, tomorrow is going to SUCK!!!! I hate waiting for news. :(

The Magic of Nature

Yes, I do believe in miracles. Hence the reason the last post bothers me so much. I don't believe in coincidence. No sooner had I sent that post off then I decided to check outside and see if it was still snowing.

Yes, I said still snowing. In almost March, in the Seattle area. Hmm, think there might be something to this global warming bullshit you keep hearing about? Yeah, just a little climate change going on in the last few years. ;)

Anyway, it stopped snowing and that bummed me out. I love the late night snow. It's like a secret around here. I'm a night owl, or vampire (whatever you want to classify me as LOL )and there are many mornings I wake up and no one knows that it even snowed. Tonight was gorgeous. Huge flakes were coming down and it was coming down fast. We got about 1/2 inch in under an hour. That's quick for here since the ground was wet with rain. lmao

So, bummed I was that it stopped. I decided to double check and opened the front door. Yep, it really had stopped. No snow day with the kids tomorrow :( How bad am I getting that I really want that? Pitiful I tell ya! But as I have the door open I''m hearing a really odd noise. It's a big crackling type noise. Listen for a few minutes. Man it's cold. DING, DING, lightbulb. The noise is the world around me freezing. WOWOWOWOW, it was truly incredible. I am in awe of nature and immediately out of my funk from the last post. How can I compete with that?

Good intentions

Umm, shall we talk about what good intentions get me? Nada, zip, kicked in the ass? Betcha can't tell how today went. It was mostly crap. I tried not to focus on all the negatives, but when you just keep screwing up it's hard not to. lmao The funny thing is the appointments I screwed up on weren't scheduled on the same day, so how did I end up with all 3 of my appointments being messed up in one day? Only I could do it I guess.

One of them is a bad mix-up. I've only messed up 2 appointments ever. Guess who they were? Yep, both the same person and both in the last 2 1/2 weeks. I was working 50 hour + weeks for 5 months and never messed up an appointment. Today tells me that I have some issues I need to deal with and fast! My head is not in the game.

On a very positive note...I put up the first flyers for my relay for life team and got 2 girls to join immediately! That is awesome! I want to kick some serious fundraising butt on this. Nope, I'm not competitive in the least, what made you think that? If you'd like to donate to my team and personal cause of the American Cancer Society then please check back for the link. I will include it here as soon as my god damned hosting stops having problems!!! rassin' frassin' damned stuff I can't control!

So here I am online again at 12:40 when I swore I was going to bed at 10:30. What does this mean for tomorrow? A nap in the afternoon. :( I'd much rather be up and working then, but I am not even close to tired right now. I have some major bad habits to get rid of.

On a happy note, I should be able to change over to wordpress soon. That is part of the damned hosting issues right now. For some reason it hates my domain names and won't load them. I've been using this company for almost 2 years now without any problems that I didn't create for myself out of stupidity. Now all of the sudden I can't do anything with 2 accounts and there is no rhyme or reason to it.

Please send positive energy my way. I'm trying to stay positive, but the negative energy is pulling me under fast!

Transitioning again

Well hopefully this will be the last switch from blogger. I made the move to wordpress before, but I had a complete moron moment and deleted mysql for it one night. I didn't email them fast enough and there was no restoring it. :( I miss WP. I have my own hosting account for this blog now and will move it over as soon as I find a template cool enough. I'm bummed that I can't take this template with me. I may be able to. Oh Retta! Want to give WP a try with this theme? lmao

So I'm off to upload a template. You'd think by now I'd have one picked out. I have a ton bookmarked. Oh another problem is that I can't just transfer the blogger posts to WP yet. Since blogger did the updates, the transfer script won't work. RATS! This is supposed to be easy for goodness sakes. Just waiting around for the techies to catch up. lmao K, not making fun of them as I have no idea where to start to make that happen.

Hubby will be home from studying soon, so not sure I will get the WP up tonight. I grabbed Babel and want to watch it tonight. Then again, that may be to serious for us to watch. I'm really wishing I'd grabbed something stupid. Well we can always fall back on the many classics we have here. Strange Brew, Funny Farm, Night at the Roxbury. You know, the no brainer movies ;)

Enough sleep?

Well of course I don't get enough sleep. But some how I managed to score higher than Retta on this little quiz. She must get more sleep during the day is why. Cause I know we are up talking most of the night and since she's east coast that means she's up later than I. lmao

You Don't Get Enough Sleep

You definitely don't get enough sleep, and it's turning you into a mental zombie! You need to get more sleep, starting tonight if possible. Avoid caffeine, keep a regular bedtime, don't watch TV before bed, and sleep in complete darkness.

Do You Get Enough Sleep?

Don't have caffeine! WHO THE HELL MADE UP THIS STUPID QUIZ? Lame-o's Regular bedtime? What is regular? You want me to be regular? How boring. Nope, I stay a zombie thank you. Although I prefer to be called a vampire. Much cooler clothes. :)

Online friends

Having online friends can suck sometimes in a very big way. Take today for example. I have a good friend that went in for surgery at 10am (hopefully went in on time). It is a major surgery. They found a mass on her lung. Everything is supposed to be routine and even "if" it's cancerous they shouldn't even need to do chemo for it. Just remove the 3rd lobe and all is good. It didn't show any signs of having spread. Of course that is before they get in there.

Now a local friend I would probably be watching their kids for them, or I would at least have the option of going over and helping out while they are home recovering. But since it's across country from me I just feel so useless! All I can do is sit here and worry.

She has a lot of things going for her, but she also has some not good health issues. She is only 29 for cryin' out loud. You're not supposed to be sick so young. She did already quite smoking this year before they even found the mass. So 3 cheers for not having withdrawals and surgery to recover from! Good job girl!

I know my Grandpa had a whole lung removed and that was ages ago, so medicine has gotten so much better since then. But I just can't stand this waiting helplessly. Thankfully I have sporadic appointments to keep me busy. They are also letting me check in online to see if another friend has heard from her hubby yet. You know, the email tree? lmao

I know I will hear some news in a few hours and I know she is going to be just fine. She has a lot of positive energy behind her. But I just feel like a mommy today and I'm so worried. If I had someone to watch the kids, I'd so hop a plane right now!

Long week ahead

The kids are out for mid-winter break. I love that cause we don't have to get up early. But it's going to be rough for scheduling. I think we've got it under control and thankfully my Mom is available so I don't have to pay a sitter for the entire week.

I can just feel that it is going to drag on. I am so worn out. I know I've been staying up way too late for too long. But still, come on! It's not the staying up late so much as the getting up early a couple of times a week that is killing me. I guess I need to get to bed earlier than 2am if I'm getting up at 6. Who'd have thunk it?

I've been working my ass off on my sites. I got www.busymommawellness.com completely transferred over to the new template and have banners and buttons being created right now. This week is going to be all about www.littlescrapbookshop.com I had that redesigned last year and am still in love with the paisley. This to has some banners and buttons that were just created. But I need to get a bunch of new articles on there, links exchanged, and many more products added to the store.

I really wanted to work on one of the 2 other sites, but if I'm going to have her build me new templates it would be stupid to work on them right now. I'll wait and put the effort into my current moneymakers instead. There's more than enough on them to keep me busy.

Hubby has made it through his first week of the fire academy and starts week 2 tomorrow. I miss him bad and I think it was even worse having him home for a few days and then shipping him back off. Again, it's going to be a long week. :(

We did make it up boarding yesterday and the kids and I had a great time. The sun even came out for a little while which was so cool. It's so beautiful up there. But then the temps dropped dramatically and daughter took a good tumble. I just can't be in two places at once so we had to head out a little early. I'd only bought a bunny hill pass anyway, so we'd gotten our money out of the day. We want to try to get up again this week, but I have appointments, so I don't see how it will be possible. We'll just have to wait and see.

Went to the movies

We never go to the movies. I mean never! Maybe once a year if we are lucky. It's so hard to justify $50 in food and tickets to go to a matinee for goodness sake. Especially when I spend $30 a month for video rentals and we have a big screen. lmao But ever since I saw the preview for Ghost Rider I knew I had to go. So we went out today with the kids and saw it. Hubby needed a school work break anyway.

It is a great action flick. They did a great job of making us jump in our seats with the special effects. lmao I hate when stuff jumps out at me. :( Nicolas Cage does a good job playing Johnny Blaze aka Ghost Rider. And of course I always melt for Sam Elliot. That mans voice just gives me shivers. And he plays an old cowboy to boot. Ahhh, gotta love that!

Kids and I are off to snowboard tomorrow. It promises to be another fun day with them. I hope the rest of mid-winter break goes as smoothly. I'm so looking forward to not having to wake up early! Summer is going to be bliss!

Thursday 13

Thirteen Things about YOUR NAME Well I had computer issue's so I am late getting this up. But better than never. ;) 1. Hubby got home last night. 2. Kids had a great valentine's day. 3. I had a great workout. 4. I completely transferred over www.busymommawellness.com to the new template. 5. I signed a new client and she's awesome. 6. I stayed up too late talking to Retta too many nights. But then, this is usual. lmao 7. I got this super-duper cool skin! 8. My check finally went through after 4 weeks and I can pay bills and buy advertising! WOOHOOO 9. My house is still clean after a full week. It's a serious miracle. 10. I kept up with the laundry. Yet another miracle. 11. We didn't eat out once this week. 12. I cooked every meal. 13. Kids weren't late to school once ;) BAHAHAHA Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. Retta 2. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)

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Giving up on productivity today

Good grief, I'm doomed. I'm gonna get my pages done and just be super happy if I do anything else today. I had one cancellation today which turned out to be good cause son's awards assembly went long. Then I forgot that daughter has an after school thing, so of course the youngest can't come home to an empty house and sit on the front porch. lmao So rescheduled an appointment for tomorrow instead. I only have one appointment left tonight and I need to double check that she knows it's Valentine's day. lolol

So I came home to work on my site of course and get the damn thing done. I grabbed season 6 of Sex in the City a couple of days ago from the video store and popped that in to listen to. I've watched them so many times I can just listen now. lol But I don't know which season is which and made a horrible mistake. I'm PMSing and grabbed the damn episode where Miranda is getting married and Samantha finds out she has breast cancer. SHIT! Hope my eyes don't end up too red from the bawling. DANG, dang, dang. Can't turn it off either must watch.

Ideas, ideas, focus

Wow, I've been trying to focus and when I have it has worked wonders! But then I write up a to-do list that started out as only for today and it was a mile long. lmao I have so many ideas running through my head again. I seriously need to build these websites and then sell them. They will make money, but I don't have time to keep them up. ARGHHH, how come there is only 24 hours in a day?

I did hang out at work today a little more than I have recently and that is always good. I'll be getting free tanning asap. This is always good as I'm starting to look pasty. I should put up my newest pic, but most would say I'm not pasty so what good would it do. Yes, I was blessed with my Mother's Native American coloring, but I'm still pasty for ME! So back offffffffff :) I need my sunshine, fake or not. I live in the Seattle area for crying out loud. The grayest damn place in the country. Give me a break here. Skin cancer is not our usual concern.

See, even this post is all over the place. This is me off drugs. Hmm, k don't know what me on drugs is. Only time I took any was after my wisdom teeth and I really didn't like the lack of control I had on them. Kind of led me to believe I have control issues. lmao But this is definitely what I'd be like on drugs. ALL OVER THE PLACE!

Where did I even start with this post? Oh yeah, focus! I have almost completed the switch over to the new template for www.busymommawellness.com and it feels great. I just put it into smaller goals and have gotten it done faster than I thought.

Work has been super cool. I had a great session with a lady today that is going to do some wonderful weight loss and I can't wait to be a part of it.

K, this is just too random. I can't take anymore of myself. Till tomorrow!

Hot Blog Theme

You know you are jealous of my blog theme. The same Retta from my superstah saturday post made this template and I had to have it. She didn't want to, but I made her. Funny how you get sick of hearing the IM sound over and over again. tee-hee-hee

All those in favor of Retta making and selling themes for your blogger, give her a shout out! She needs to hear from everyone about how cool her abilities are:)

I really wish I had any graphics ability. Alas, I even had to have her put the damn template in for me cause I trucked it up hard. lmao In my defense, it is 1am and my eyes are crossing. Not really a good time to be messing with code!