What more can I say?

Blogs are a very popular thing these days. Lots of people enjoy reading blogs until ... UNTIL ... they see something about THEM that although true, points out imperfections. SO ... since I've been getting a bunch of crap from a bunch of people over a bunch of years for talking about what's going on in *MY* life & what's currently headline news in *MY* life, all I have to say is this ... I will NOT stop blogging! Can I make this any more clear? Get your panties out of a wad & just deal with it. If I say I'm going to disown someone ... tough crap. I'm allowed to do that & I'm sure as HELL allowed to talk about it. My beliefs are my own & due to Freedom of Speech, I'm more than allowed to voice my opinions. There's a massive rift (again) due to my opinions & talking about my daily life. Well, let's see who else I can piss off. I'm on a roll, so I might as well go for the gold.

GUNS: I believe legal U.S. citizens who have no felony charges should own a gun. I believe in our right to protect ourselves. Don't like guns? Well then don't own one. Leave the rest of us alone & shut up about it already. I don't like fish but I don't go on rants & start petitions about how fish should be outlawed just because I don't like it. Guns are dangerous? Bull crap! PEOPLE who need medication & therapy are dangerous to the general population. If you're breaking into someone's house, trying to rape a woman, carjack someone, or in any other way threaten someone's life or the lives of their family & they shoot you, what did you expect? Ever see a gun levitate off a table & shoot someone? No. You haven't. A person with an unwell mind or a person defending themselves &/or their family, friends, or other people needs to pick it up & pull the trigger. Cane & Able. One killed the other & no gun was used. Guns aren't the problem. People have been hurting / killing each other LONG before guns were invented.

ABORTIONS: I believe in abortions. In cases of rape, incest, if the pregnancy would cause harm to the mother, too young, too old ... yes. They should have the right to get an abortion. Accidents happen. Bad things happen. Sometimes you may want the option of an abortion. In cases of "oops" or just plain carelessness ... you should consider other options. Adoption is always a good one.

GAYS / GAY MARRIAGE: Are they hurting you? No. Get over it.

WELFARE / FOOD STAMPS: Was there a family tragedy? Fire? Flood? Earthquake? Landslide? Death of a breadwinner? Car Accident? Well OK then. Everyone needs a little help sometime ... until they get back on their feet again. Lazy? Don't feel like working? Too damn bad. Get off your lazy butt & get a job. Stop mooching off the system & the hard working taxpayers. Have you no pride? No decency?

MOOCHING: O-M-G! Really? Get off your lazy butt & stop making everyone else feed you, clothe you, & clean up after you. You're not 3. GROW UP! Get a job, get your own place, & be a functioning human being in society! (This is my major pet peeve the past couple years)

RELIGION: Hold onto your socks. I believe everyone has the right to choose their religion ... or choose no religion. The only religions I'm against are the ones that say to hurt or kill people who do NOT share the same beliefs. No religion? Fine. Everyone is different & everyone should have the right to have their own personal beliefs. Me personally ... I'm kinda without religion. By that I mean that I have absolutely no idea what I believe in. My grandmother was a Southern Baptist. My mother a Witch. I went to Catholic church & liked it. It's been a very long time though & now that I'm older ... well, I believe in God ... I think. What I don't believe in is going to a church, putting an expected percentage of my income in a plate in order to be preached to. I'm fully capable of believing in God, loving God, & praising God right here in my home. I don't need to pay to join a "club" for God to know that I thank him for my family, friends, & blessings. He knows.

POLITICAL: The guy that's in the White House now? I didn't vote for him. I don't agree with him. BUT ... apparently the majority of you do, so I live with it. I'm a far right wing Republican. My grandmother was, my mother is, my husband is, & my son is.

GAG ORDERS: Ain't gonna happen. Just because you don't like what I blog about doesn't give you the right to tell me to stop. Why don't you just stop loading up this blog & go to the Disney page or something? Now just as I have the right to blog about MY life, you also have the right to bitch & moan about my blog. Notice I didn't ORDER you to stop? I simply gave you other options you might want to consider ... like go read a book or something.

FACEBOOK: I don't believe in having "friends" on facebook who are against me. If you've been defriended by me, it's because there's a MAJOR disturbance in the Matrix & I just don't have time for people who are only there to stalk me & then give me crap. Family who still like me, real life friends, neighbors, co-workers, & fellow EMS & firefighters are my friends on facebook. While I was playing Sims Social I had other players on my page so we could share whatever those things were you had to click on that other players posted so you could advance in the game. Most of those players are now gone due to the game being discontinued, but a few remain because we got to know each other & we like each other OUTSIDE the game. I'm not on facebook to be popular. I know people on there who have close to 500 "friends". Me? I have a TRUE 103. People who I actually know in real life & a few who I only know online, but actually talk to. They're not all just there to boost my numbers & make me "look" popular. While some walk around saying "Everybody loves ME!", I'm more of an honest person that knows that TRUE friendship is a gift & I value every one of mine. If you're on my facebook page, I believe you're a good person. If you know me & you're not on my facebook page by my decision, we either aren't friends or we have some issues to work out that are far from trivial to me.

Now, about me. Many read my blog but they don't know the real me. Who am I? I'm a 47 year old woman who was born & raised in Jersey. My husband lived in my hometown & we married, moved to Texas, & had 2 children together. I'm not that different from Sheldon in the Big Bang Theory. I have my spot that I, & only I sit in. I'm a little OCD & like to have everything in its place. My clothing is ordered by color in my closet, my books are all alphabetical as are my CDs, & I have a schedule & lists. My schedule is very linear. I do certain things on certain days ONLY. A good example is my crafts. I'll only machine knit on Sundays, for example. If I miss it, no, I can't just do it on Monday instead. Monday's craft is hand knitting. If I move machine knitting, then I don't get to hand knit unless I move THAT to Tuesday & then Tuesday's craft get's blown out. The things I do EVERY day of the week are done in a very specific order & no surprise ... that order is alphabetical. Amazingly, that works out perfectly. Just a stroke of luck with the English language. Breakfast (B), is early in the day. Lunch (L) is mid-day, & Supper (S) is close to the end. Pure dumb luck lets me go OCD on my schedule & alphabetize ALL of it with a high rate of success. Now I'm not sure OCD is the correct term, but it seems to fit the best. A cute little picture on facebook described it best; I have CDO (Yes, I even alphabetize my disorders). I like who I am though. I'm happy with who I am. I was independent at a very young age (13). I knew exactly what I wanted from life ever since 13. When I was 16 I started working & I worked hard every day until I became pregnant, got married, & moved. We didn't want a nanny raising our children so my husband & I made a decision together that I would be a stay at home mom. I thought, WOW! The easy life at last! HA! Boy did I not have a clue. Being a full time mother, wife, & housewife takes every bit of your time every day. There are no days off, no vacations, no sick days. I can honestly say I've worked hard my entire life & I'm still working hard. I have no regrets. I've never counted on others to feed & clothe me while I watched TV. I've earned every single thing I've ever gotten. I guess that's why people who refuse to work & mooch off of others disgust me so much. Even if I had the option to do that, I couldn't bring myself to do it. One of my husband's complaints is that I never slow down. I never TRULY relax. I'm always going, doing, cleaning, producing ... something. To just sit & watch TV without MAKING something useful at the same time drives me nuts. I can almost hear the wasted minutes ticking loudly in my head. I must be doing SOMETHING productive! This blog, although not productive in a way that's tangible ... & by tangible I mean it doesn't produce a clean house or a hand knit sweater to wear, but it does produce an intangible. It produces an outlet that's free. While other people are on medication to deal with their problems, & I'm not saying medication is bad at all! If you need it, it's the best possible thing you can do for yourself. While yet others are in therapy talking to a psychiatrist, psychologist, or group therapy ... again extremely good if it helps you, I do this because it's free & for me, produces the same self-help. I get everything off my chest here, whether some like it or not. As long as this continues to be a working solution, I will continue to do it. If the day ever comes where this is no longer enough, then I'll seek other options to supplement this or maybe replace it. But for now ... this works for me. It also has the added benefit of making me one heck of a fast typist! WOW can I type fast & I owe it all to being online. Before the Internet, I could kinda sorta type, but not like this. I'm lightning fast now & never look down at the keyboard. I'm sitting here in the dark right now. No lights are needed when you've got mad typing skills. :) So, I guess that's another way this blog is productive, because when Kyle graduates & I go back to work, if whatever job I get requires any typing at all ... I'll be confident that I've got that skill well covered.

Well, it's after 4:30 in the morning where I am. Now that you know a little bit about me & my beliefs, I hope you can make a smart decision to either stick around & keep reading or, if I'm not your type of person, then go find another blog to read or go hang out on Pinterest, read a book, watch TV, take up a craft, or get a job if you don't have one. Just please consider the fact that if you try to tell me to stop talking, it's not going to happen.