June 25, 2013

Good afternoon & welcome to what's probably my last post for a week. We're leaving tonight (or tomorrow morning) for Myrtle Beach & I doubt I'll be posting from there. I might ... but we'll see. All is not "happy" between the family right now, so we probably won't stay long. It's going to be stressful to say the least & this really isn't a "vacation" by any means. My life is going to change in a major way the moment we pull out of the driveway to come back home. Either things will become very good, or things will become very bad. There's no

in-between unfortunately. We're past that. Waaay past that. No matter which way it swings, I'm prepared for it. When the coin is spinning in the air, all you can do is wait for it to land & be prepared for whichever side is up. Heads or tails, you can only lift your head, do your best with the outcome you were given, & don't look back. That's what I'm going to do. As we get in my truck to come home, the coin will be spinning in

the air. Once I put the truck in reverse, the coin lands. From that moment on is a new future. The way it is now is too stressful & agitating for me will be done. If the coin lands on the side I am NOT wishing for, I'll still just lift my head up, smile, & carry on ... knowing in my heart that I made the best offer that could be offered & the outcome of the coin toss wasn't up to me. I'm the one who tossed the coin & I'm fine with either outcome. Happier with one over the other obviously, but either way I'm not looking back & not stressing over it. Stress needs to go away out of my life & it WILL one way OR the other. Other than the upcoming trip, confrontation, & coin toss from hell, all is well. Yesterday I spent quite a while talking to Pete, then to Kyle, & then coming up with a bullet-proof plan of success that can ONLY fail if it's refused by the person I created it for. If it's refused, then I give up. Whole-heartedly & completely. That's going to be the cost of refusal. My "goodbye".  As they say, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink it. I just filled the trough ... now it's up to the horse to play or fold. You can't help someone who A) refuses to admit they need it & B) won't accept your help. I worked on my broomstick lace crochet & then surfed eBay & checked facebook & took my game turns. I finished just as Pete got home from work so then we settled into our nighttime routine after a couple phone calls. Yesterday's Sims game was Hemingway & my Sim Piper is still in the university & attending classes. Today I took the dogs out, chatted w/ Pete, & then Kyle & I went up into town for haircuts & when we came back my hair got straightened. Well, supposedly. Apparently my hair now refuses the programming. All those chemicals, all that time, all that effort & it's still curly. Now all I'm hoping for oout of all this is no more frizz. I could have had it professionally straightened, but it's $150 & as much as I'd LOVE to have my hair professionally straightened, I just can't afford it. It would take me 2 weeks to come up with that much & then I'd have NO money for anything else for the next 2 weeks, which doesn't work for me because I'm not in the mood to hitchhike everywhere for 2 weeks. LOL! Some people get that kind of expensive hair stuff gifted to them for being cute, but I'm 47 years old & past the cute stage, so I'm just going to have to live with what God gave me. Frizz. :P Anyway, I've finally hit that point in my life where I no longer care what other people think of me. I mean sure, it would be nice if people like me, but if they don't ... who cares? People don't like me because of my attitude, beliefs, clothes, hair, hobbies ... it doesn't matter. I'm happy & I have family & friends who DO accept me the way I am. Today's Sims game is a brand new one called Villa Octavia (2nd & 3rd pics). This is a beautiful home created by a talented other that I placed in Twinbrook in the spring. I created Edward (1st gen) for this home. Edward has no sense of humor, is rebellious, clumsy, socially awkward, & has star quality. His lifetime wish is to become a superstar actor & he likes cookies, custom music, & the color spiceberry. He's an Aries. His furry companion is William, an Oriental cat who's quiet, piggy, & proud. Edward went off to the university towards a fine arts degree.

Beware! A plumbing problem could result in divorce or worse. Carry your plunger around like a sword against the approaching enemy. It's your backup against a "back-up."

Butterfly tattoos look great on you when you're 25, but at 70 that tiny butterfly will become a condor.

Fit 200 games of computer solitaire into a single workday.

How does a dinosaur go to space? By hitching a ride on the Space Shuttle, of course! In 1998, a fossilized Coelophysis skull was taken to the Mir space station by a Russian cosmonaut aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor.

Keep cut flowers fresh longer by putting them in a solution of 2 tbsp. sugar & 1 qt. water.

Most effective way I know to being w/ the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed.

Most tattooed cities in America top 10:

1. Miami, Florida
2. Richmond, Virginia
3. Flint, Michigan
4. Portland, Oregon
5. Austin, Texas
6. San Francisco, California
7. Honolulu, Hawaii
8. Kansas City, Missouri
9. Los Angeles, California
10. Las Vegas, Nevada

New candy bar is on the market. The company that has made for years the candy bar Baby Ruth has come out w/ a new candy bar named after the N.Y. Yankee outfielder Reggie Jackson called "The Reggie." And getting big names is a very competitive thing now, & when the Mounds candy company heard about this, they offered Dolly Parton a fortune. -Johnny Carson 1978

Rouge should be well-blended far out on the cheekbone; circles of rouge don't look good on anyone.

VinylLove:

Play it, feel it, LOVE it..
Do you miss the old way of listening to music?
Carefully choosing which record to listen to?
Enjoying every single track, in the order they where meant to be listened to?
Do you miss that familiar crackling sound?
The fiddling with the pickup?
The very smell of vinyl?
We do!
And that is why we created this sleek vinyl record player for you to carry with you everywhere you go. Or to show off in your deskstand next to your stereo system.
VinylLove™ is all about nostalgia.
Browse through your record collection in a nice record crate system, listen to the albums one by one or if you like, use the pickup to find the right track (zoom in if you want to start in a certain place on a track). It even has the nice crackling sound to it.
And oh yeah, we haven't really solved the vinyl-scent part yet, but we hope this is doable with the iPad 3 (?)