Hi I’m a 12 year old boy
Personally I don’t give a rat’s ass about this Anthony Weiner guy and his political future and his marriage. I just LOVE that the word Weiner is on the morning news shows and nightly news. Seriously, hearing Ann Curry refer to Mr.Weiner pretty much made my morning. Now if only we could find someone and make them famous with the last name of Fart-Blossom.
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New Beginnings – Life is full of them
I’ve been feeling blah about what I have been for a living for a while. I just lost my passion or my zest but not enough to do anything about it because change is scary and sucks. You get into a rut and while you may not be happy, you’re not so unhappy that you want to do something about it. Make sense? Well that all changed for me a little over a month ago. My friend died. He was 39 and died from complications from Leukemia. He was younger than me and was such an amazing man. I adore him and his wife. His wife and I have been friends for almost 4 years and they had one of those marriages that everyone dreams about. They adored each other, had so much fun together and traveled all over. They never sat around and waited to do something until later. They did it when they wanted to. They had this amazing life and now he’s gone. I’ve been waiting for years to start my life always saying, Oh when we have more money or Oh when I’m thinner I’ll do (fill in the blank). His death made me realize there may not be a later. There may not be a tomorrow. I had seen him in New Orleans 6 weeks before he died. We had made plans to go visit them in August for my husband and my anniversary. Now there is no couples trip for us. His death made me take that step that I’ve been putting off. I’ve completely done a 180 on my career. For the last 5 years I have been in direct sales selling romance products and while I loved what I did for a long time, the last year I just haven’t been feeling it and it showed in my presentations and my sales. So I went about as far away from it as I could. I have jumped into the nutrition and weight loss industry. Now I’m not in any kind of fabulous shape to be promoting weight loss products but I figured that’s the beauty, is if it works for me then it can work for anyone. That I can make a change in my life and help others make a change in theirs as well. I’ve struggled with weight my entire life and if I can concur this then there is nothing I can’t do.
It’s a new year and I’ve got goals. Ok well maybe I have goals
So there are so many things I want to do and say and read and accomplish and I get so easily distracted. (Is that a shoe sale? ) I have decided I’m not doing resolutions because that means that I will break them.
My goals for 2011 are-
To be better about contacting my clients – I LOATHE talking on the phone. I’ll text you all day and night but please don’t make have an actual conversation with you.
To read more – I have about 20 books on my bookcase that are waiting to be read.
To finish something I start, Anything I start – Since November I’ve started to crochet a blanket and a scarf, I’ve started to read 2 books and I’ve started to hang photos on my office wall and none of them have been completed.
To actually exercise at least a couple times a week- I know I won’t commit to everyday, that’s just crazy talk so I’ll do my best to do twice a week.
To be more mindful of my eating- We are trying to eat healthier and eat more at home which means that I have to keep track of what I am putting in my piehole. (Mmmmm pie)
To be less judgmental - I really want to work on this. I don’t want to be Judgy Mc Judgerson anymore
To be more patient- Ummm yeah, this will be the toughest one.
To live life – I want to stop waiting for life to happen
To be more social – I love my friends and I love going out, in theory but when it comes right down to it I want to get in jammies and veg on the couch as soon as possible once I walk in the door.
Hi
So I keep forgetting that I have a blog. I do have a ton to say I just forget that I have a place to write it all down.
I apologize and I’ll get better again. I promise
See ya Lindsay
I find it so sad that it’s taken over 2 years to get to this point. If this was a non-celebrity it would have never gotten this far. She would have been in jail a long time ago. Granted, we all know she isn’t going to serve all 90 days but at least some time behind bars should do her some good. I also hope she has to serve her entire 90 days in rehab.
Speaking as someone whose family has a history of substance abuse, I think rehab sounds like a great idea and I only hope that they make her serve the entire time.
How much devastation needs to happen
So I was reading CNN and came across this news story. It’s the story of a man who had been a boat captain for 25 years, then signed on to be a contractor for BP, learning to spot oil, deploy a boom and skim oil. Essentially helping to clean up this mess. He got so frustrated with all the sitting around, waiting, filing a 52 page (yes 52 page ) invoice in order to get an assignment and to get paid, that he took his own life. This man had a wife and 3 children. In a time span from April 20th until June 23rd around 8 am this man couldn’t take what was happening in the Gulf and the stress and despair and felt his only way out was to take his own life. The morning of the 23rd he had a BP meeting. An hour later he was dead. This man had to fill out a 52 page invoice just to get an assignment to get paid? And we wonder why the hell this spill hasn’t been contained yet? What the fuck is BP doing? Trying to bury the people wanting to clean it up in paperwork.
This family was happy and had a good living and then this oil spill happened and has destroyed so many lives, Human and animal. The whole thing makes me sick.
I really really hope that the wife sues the hell out of BP and gets a huge ass settlement. Not that money can bring back her husband or the father for her children but it will at least give her a monetary cushion.
Hi Hello Farrah
Does anyone remember Farrah Fawcett? She died the same time last year and it baffles me that people are only choosing to remember the “alleged” child rapist formerly known as Michael Jackson.
I would much rather remember the woman who launched a million orgasms with this poster
She was beautiful, funny, talented and never “allegedly” molested a child. How about we acknowledge her instead of him
Things on my mind today
1. How is it that we can put a man on the moon, build a baby in a petri dish, tweet to people across the planet but BP can’t plug a fucking hole in pipe. This baffles me that there wasn’t a fucking back up plan in place. OR a plan 3, 4 or 12. Really BP? You suck fish balls and I’m not ever buying your gas again.
2. That I continue to buy these amazing, beautiful platform shoes with an effed up knee. Granted they are on sale and once I can wear them I will be amazing but in the meantime I am just torchering myself.
3. Why are people saying the oil spill is Obama’s fault? I’m pretty sure he didn’t build the oil rig that blew up or use cheaper supplies.
4. Why are there people who spend almost 10 years in college and hundreds of thousands of dollars on an education but can’t decide what paint color to use or what curtains to buy or what gift to purchase? Really? You make my brain bleed.
5. Is it me or are drivers in Madison getting dumber? The last couple weeks I’ve noticed a trend that people are driving well below the speed limit. I don’t mind if you don’t want to speed. But if you are on the Beltline and the POSTED SPEED LIMIT is 55 I FUCKING expect you to do it. 45 is NOT the new 55. If you read about some blonde chic who goes postal on a Prius for doing 50 on the highway you can say you knew me when.
6. I go in for a haircut tomorrow. I want to grow it long, which to me means past my shoulders, but I can’t STAND to have hair on my face. Drives me INSANE
Ok that’s it. For now
40 before 40
So next year I’ll be turning 40 years old. Right now I’m ok with it especially since I don’t feel almost 40 and I like to think that I don’t look almost 40. I feel that I should make a list of 40 things I want to do before I turn 40 but honestly I can’t come up with ten that I honestly think I will accomplish before then let alone 40. I mean I have a ton of shit i want to do yet in my life but most of it won’t happen before April.
So the only thing on my list right now is to complete a 5K, which I have signed up for and will be doing August 28th. I haven’t started training and did I mention that I’m fat and have never run before? Yeah I didn’t think so . I know I can walk it, but I really would like to be able to run/jog/not make an ass of myself
Somehow I screwed up my right knee so I just might be stuck to walking it but dammit I will be doing it, even if it kills me.
Other than that I have nothing on my list. So if you have any suggestions please feel free.
So I’m just going to say it.
I think Gary Coleman’s wife is extremely suspicious. When I heard he died I told my husband that I thought she pulled the plug a little too soon. I mean less than 24 hours. Really? Now to listen to the 911 call, talk about a cold bitch. She wouldn’t even go in the same room as him. Wouldn’t surprise me at all if she pushed him down the stairs. I mean who refuses to help take care of a loved one. What’s the fucking point of calling 911 if you aren’t going to do what the operator tells you to do. Christ just call a damn cab to take him to the hospital. I would love if they would reopen the case and change it to a homicide.
will.i.am
So I love celebrities. It’s no secret that I love to keep up with the celebrity gossip and scoop on people. I really don’t know that much about will.i.am other than he is in a kick ass group and I love his music. I also know he is from Haiti. Other than that I know nothing about him. Today I learned he is an amazingly generous man. I was watching Oprah and it was her Hook Ups show. Now I don’t watch Oprah that often but last week started DVR’ing her again. Today there were 2 families whose houses were in foreclosure. They didn’t get in this position because they weren’t trying. The one family had 8 children, the husband use to be a CEO of a major corporation and got laid off. He took a job working the night shift at a donut shop making $10 an hour and ran through his 401K, stocks, bonds and savings and didn’t know what to do. The other family was a single mom who has a MBA and fell behind on her mortgage after losing her job and couldn’t get caught up. She was 2 weeks away from losing her home. In steps will.i.am. This man, this savior, this angel paid off both mortgages out of his own pocket. Now is $350K going to bankrupt him? No, but it’s still a big deal. He didn’t know these people. He said that all he wants to do is to be able to create music, perform and to help people. He has started a foundation, i.am home, and he plans on funding it with his own money in the beginning to prove that all it takes is one person to make a change. Oprah asked the two families, who had their mortgages paid off,what they were going to do with the extra money. The single mom said that she was going to donate to will.i.am’s foundation. I was so touched by what he did. I mean granted he is a celebrity but how many celebrities do you see that are paying peoples , houses off with their own money. I for one, will be purchasing more of the Black Eyed Peas albums and support this artist even more than I already do. I hope that you chose to do the same.
Food? Why yes, thank you.
So I mentioned that some friends and family said I should start blogging about what I cook and what we eat. I never thought anyone would care but I figured what the hell I can post about my love of food and my passion for cooking.
So tonight we had a basic meal of Grilled T-Bone Steaks, Green Beans, and Pineapple Upside Down Cake.
Let’s start with the steaks- Now I’m not a HUGE red meat eater. I will eat it but if I have the choice of dead moo, chicken or seafood I’ll go for seafood every time. However with the oil spill going on I don’t think I”m going to be trusting seafood soon. Which deeply saddens me, but that’s for another post. So the t-bones we had tonight were from a 1/2 cow that my mother bought for us. She lives in Florida, grew up in Middleton WI and I guess to stay true to her Midwest roots, felt the need to buy us half a cow. Granted I didn’t stop her but I was thinking, Meh how much meat can a cow produce. Turns out, a fucking shit load. I can’t begin to tell you how many steaks we had. Plus the roasts, and the prime rubs, and the hamburger, Jesus,Mary and Joseph, the hamburger. We had 54 POUNDS of hamburger alone.
So we grilled the steaks and I topped them with bleu cheese butter, which is a mix of bleu cheese, butter, salt, pepper, shallots and Worcestershire sauce.
We also had The Pioneer Woman’s green beans I didn’t use bacon fat this time nor did I have a red pepper but my husband said that this batch was the best ones I’ve ever made. I love them. So yummy.
So that was dinner nothing too fancy but damn tasty anyway.
Too many thoughts for one post
The reason I tend to slack off from writing is that I think that each thought, each rant, rave or issue needs it’s on separate post. When in reality, it’s my blog and I can do whatever the fuck I want with it. So if I want to post 5 different things in one entry I can and there is nothing any of you can do to stop me. HAHA!!!!!
So now to delve into the world of Barbie and her randomness. Buckle up, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
1. I am a designer label whore. I freely admit it and my friends know it. I just don’t want to pay top dollar for them. I am beginning to really get into finding fabulous clothes on the cheap. Like today, I got a royal blue coat from Chico’s at Goodwill for $7.99 It looks like it’s never been worn and I love it. Total score today was coat from Chico’s, 4 tops, a fabulous pair of retro look black pumps, and a wrap dress for less than $38.00 I LOVE IT.
2. I forgot that when you have longer hair, that while riding with the windows down feels so freeing, the knots that come from said window down ride sucks ass.
3. You can be in a completely chill mood and then spend 10 minutes on the Beltline and you want to kill someone.
4. Good karma pays off. Bad karma does not
5. Trying to figure out how to start running sucks ass
