twitterpated

I joined twitter! I’m so technilogically savy that I linked it to my blog! Now you can all follow me through out my day! I update that WAY more than my blog!

Hope you are all well!

Live Long and Prosper!

A Funeral

Grandpa died March 4th. I went home for the funeral. I don’t mind funerals actually. The part I can’t stand is the “I’m sorry for your loss” and having to look like your sad. I’m one of those people who likes to hide from feelings. I’m pretty good at it actually. I’ll share something with you that I have a hard time sharing with others….. I’m VERY sad that I was unable to say good bye to him. I feel like I didn’t do all I could to make it clear that I loved him. I should have used all the money in my account, taken unpaid days off work to go home and sit with him while he died. This will haunt me for a while. I’m tearing as I type this. It is so incredibly hard for me to live so far away from my family during this time. I don’t tell people this. When they give me thier condolences, I say thank you and tell them that he was in a lot of pain. He was so very sad since his wife died 8 years ago and all his friends dying at an incredible rate. 

But all went well. There were no family squables and everyone made nice. One of my cousins played the marter, claiming to have spent all this time with him and using the experience she gained as a housekeeper to tell the nurses how to treat grandpa and what drugs to give him. She also came up to me during the “calling hours” to give me this pained look and acted like grandpa died at a young age and had his whole life ahead of him. Geez… the man was 90! His whole body was in one arthric mess.

I don’t want to sound completely heartless. I LOVED Grandpa. There is just so much drama I can take at my age. *sigh*

I miss you Grandpa! 

To the rest of you….. 

Live Long and Prosper

clueless

When did men become so clueless? When does paying rent, buying groceries, cooking dinner and doing most the dishes beat doing dishes ONE week and cleaning the bathroom ONCE?

Granted the boy does pitch in but I DO carry most of the load! He hasn’t paid rent from last month or helped with grceries in a while! AND he eats all the god damned food!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, this can’t last the rest of my life.

Live long and prosper!

Holidaze!

 

My sister's new puppy, Winston

 

Yeah, Chicago didn't feel at all like a communist state.... YIKES with the Stalinesque pictures!

 

My Christmas desert spread!

 

I spent all day on this dinner! I was very proud of my VERY FIRST Christmas dinner EVER!

So… I’m unemployed….

My previous blog entry was written at 5am from my blackberry while I still lay in bed next to the boy. Now it is 9:33am and I just got out of the shower, I’m wearing my warm LL Bean bathrobe, and eating left over pizza with bacon and pineapple. Yum. I’m unclear as to what I am going to do today. I’ve already read some funny blogs and applied to a couple of places and I’m bored already. Things will get more exciting as soon as the boy wakes up.

It’s going to snow and rain today…. bummer. Yesterday was so sunny and breezy… now I’m at a loss for things to write….

OH… I’m going to start advertising on my blog to generate a small income. So.. when you see them… take pity on a sista!

Live Long and Prosper!

Election Day

I feel like today is a vacation day or something. It feels so relaxed and I feel like the whole country is pulling together to make this democratic process a success! I want to  shout out to the people at my polling place! NO, I’m not telling you where! lol But I want to say thank you for being so helpful and having a great sense of humor! Granted it was early in the day, I was number #134 at 8:30am. I met a girl that lives in my building… she’s really cool! I waited about an hour and 40 minutes and it was the most fun I had standing in line! Starbucks across the street had a guy standing outside in line handing out samples. After I voted, I crossed the street and got my free tall Pike Place coffee. I’m not a huge fan of Starbucks but I am not one to pass up a free cup of coffee with the economy the way it is! I hope all is well with you guys… thanks for reading!

Live Long and Prosper!

HNT on a Sunday

Before I post my picture I just want to tell you all to rent “King of California” and “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” Both movies are great to watch and Wes Anderson is a freakin’ artistic genious!

And now for the main event………..

and now for something completely different….. and funny!

I fell off my chair laughing so hard when I watched this… ENJOY!

Crazy Busy

I have been super busy at work lately. I would like to write more when I get home but either I fall alseep or I can’t get a connection… Keep your pants on… I’ll get around to writing a proper post, mostly venting about work and my soul searching journey. I’ll keep you posted.

Thanks again for stopping by!

Live Long and Prosper!

Loser.

When you say the title of this blog, you must say it as if you were still in High School. Emphasis on the ‘L’ and ‘O’. It would look something like LLOO-ser. On to the subject…

I like board games. My family tends to gather around them at holidays. We have a lot of  fun too. We play Sequence and Pictionary and all other sorts of yelling games. One game that is always up for debate is Monopoly. For such a classic game, it hardly gets played. My dad LOVES the game. Mom hates it. My siblings could probably take it or leave it. My youngest sister prefers Dog Monopoly. I actually like the game, well I use to.

The boy bought the game the other night. He’d been wanting to play for a few days. I thought… cool. We got some burritos and settled in to play the game. We rolled and moved our pieces all over the board. The boy kept landing on property, I kept landing on community chest, or chance… or my personal favorite… Income Tax… Yup. Every time. Every time I passed Go, I had to fork up the $200. The boy kept telling me to buy property. I tried to tell him I would if I could land on it… but all my money was dwindling from paying him rent and being charged with something in the Community Chest. Even my Chance cards were “fork up 100 to each player!” Granted it was just him… but still…

I started thinking about all the games of Monopoly that I have played throughout the years. I never win. EVER. It’s no big. It’s the same thing every time. I tried to explain to the boy about it. He launched into this diatribe about positive thinking. I hate when he gets all high and mighty. It actually made me tear up. I was so frustrated.

So, to conclude, I have decided to black list Monopoly.

Also… a more personal side note….. My period is kicking my ass this week. I am run down and exhausted. I’m stressed out and and burned out. This SUCKS! I want to spend the whole day in bed!

Live Long and Prosper!