These are blogs entries from my life before blogger...
August 2,2013
I just submit as in less than five minutes ago, submitted my info for the “Cara Box” hosted by
Wifessionals. Super excited just sad I missed this month. You guys know my two best friends moved away and the boyfriend moved in. Things are just not the same, not that they are bad because by no means they are not. It’s just going from seeing your BFFs every day and talking to them daily to not seeing them for months is TOUGH. Poor boyfriend can only take so much talking and refuses to go shopping with me, but who can blame him. This is the reason I join this “Cara Box” to spread out my wings and try and meet new people.
I have also recently been going to what I call my “old ladies night” (please no one take offense) I call it this because majority of the woman or well over 55, no I do not think 55 years is old; but I’m the normal the oldest around my friends at 35 so for me its a change. The first meeting was bring 5 accessory items (watch, purse, scarf, necklace, etc) you no longer want. During the party you will exchange and steal (white elephant style) the accessory. Every month there is a different theme, this last month was a book club theme. We each brought one to three books that we would like to pass along. We had ten minutes to steal the book from someone else or pick from the pile. To keep it a little calm, we would take turns rolling a dice. If you rolled a 1 or 6 you could steal or pick. We had so much fun with the 1966 Hershey’s chocolate book. One of my godson loves Hershey’s, we have this little known thing every time I go up to see them I bring him a Hershey’s bar. Well, I wasn’t about to go home without that book, so his mother and I would steal from everyone. We teamed up to make sure we didn’t go home without it, but when everyone caught on to what we were doing then they all turned on us and kept stealing. It was comical to say the least. I have meet some wonderful woman that have help me along this path in my life with great advice, support and encouragement. Our next meeting is Aug 15th can’t wait already planning what I’m bring for my dish.
February 5, 2013 - WebMD makes it worse.
As you can see I haven’t been on much. completely fell out of my routine, with work, house and family my life has been CRAZY!
WORK: contract is up and we are on the verge of striking, which oddly enough I’m ok with. We are spoiled at the company I work for, we get at least one month of vacation or more if you have been there longer, we get our sick days PAID, great medical, and not to mention all FMLA is paid for. There are draw-backs, seniority means nothing, we work weekends, the shifts stink, quotes are a bitch and new hirers seem to get paid more than people who have been there for 5 plus years.
I’M READY TO STRIKE!!!
HOME: the work here is never done, my garage door has been broken for ever, my house has some how shifted in its place and has made all the doors in my home not shut or stay shut correctly and there are new cracks I’m finding daily. I am not the wicked witch of the west please house don’t fall on me.
FAMILY: my oldest son has a pile of college apps sitting her staring at screaming pick me pick me. I’m not ready for this, my first-born is going to graduate next year, this is INSANE!!! My middle has a GF and is back on the football team and has yet to speak to his father in almost a year. J and I are getting into our own routine and being in the same house every day seem to need some getting use to . My doctor found out I never sleep, hahahaha I could have told you that. This time he has proof, I only get 3hours of REM sleep and in each hour I wake up 24 times. WTH! this explains a lot.
My daughter……she has always had stomach problems but recently it seems to be getting worse. As far back as I can remember she would have an episode of vomiting, but since she always had them I just chalked it up as a sensitive stomach. Well now its festered into stomach pain, on controllable vomiting, headaches and to the point she can’t get out of bed. I recently took her to her peds and was advised to take stool samples. If any of you other parents have ever tried to take stool samples in a divorced family not to mention you’re at work when she’s at her dad and she doesn’t feel comfortable with her dad. OMG, I feel your pain!!! It was a grooley process but we got it done. So today I received a call from a doctors offices saying they have an apt for her.. I had not idea what doctor this is, we had just went to a neurologist last week for the headaches that came before the stomach pain and vomiting. She stated her headaches are hereditary. Come to find out the doctor apt for tomorrow at 9:20 am is 1 hour away with a pediatric endocrinologist. Which I now know from WEB MD has to do with hormones. Why are we going to a Hormones doctor, WHO KNOWS!! I don’t care what kind of doctor I have to take her to just as long as someone find something and gives me a solution to fix it and make my babygirl better.
To another sleepless night take care!
January 28, 2013 -
My First Youtube video
So I uploaded my VERY FIRST YouTube video… and I have to say it wasn’t easy. The video editor I’m using is easy to use, I just haven't mastered it yet. I’m new to all of this! I also didn’t realize that there would be a “free trail” in green at the top of the video for the first few seconds, hahaha. Guess I will be buying this program soon. I already can see where I need improvement in my videos, but here you go anyway…
*side note I have since deleted this video.. I have no clue what I was thinking.
January 26, 2013 -
My Birthday
Yesterday was my 35 birthday…….. and it was awesome. First my very special bestest person in the world dropped off my present the day before.
Then on my birthday Jay got some goodies for our bathroom. We have been looking for a shelf but couldn’t seem to find one. He found one at Target, which is a favorite place. He also got me slippers and a bath pillow. Believe it or not those slippers keep my feet really warm.
Top it off my very first ipsy bag come… YAY!!! I did a opeing vlog but i erased it when uploading the photos tonight. :/
Full view of all products in the bag
Big Sexy Hair 1.5 oz
Travel size $6.00
Concealar Brush $7.00
Body Butter $7.00
100% Argon Oil 15ml $14.00
Frappe $13.00
Total bag cost: $47.00
Totally worth the $10.00…. every single penny
I link each product to it's website if anyone wanted to purchase.
Today was the
first day of recording my stepdad cooking for his YouTube channel. It was a
very long day and I ended up recording my mother throughout the day, too. I
have to say she is pretty funny or at least we think so. Now she wants her own
YouTube channel, what did I get myself into? Oh dear lord help me get through
this, I have so much to learn with editing videos, which programs are the
easiest to use and how to work them. For now I started to use VideoSpirit Pro.
For two reasons it was free and it has some amazing reviews. Now I’m trying to
learn how to use the darn thing and so far it is not going to well. I think I
may need to leave my current job to do this, there is not enough time in the
day. Everyone wish me luck. I plan on putting up my own videos too. I have
thought long and hard if I should start recording and I have so many woman I
have got inspiration from. Now all I need is to figure out my content to Vlog,
everyone seems to have an idea of topics they want to Vlog about. I just
haven’t found mine as of yet. Maybe just my everyday life but there is really
nothing exciting. Anyone got any ideas??? What do you all Vlog about?
On another note, I have decided
that sunday posting will be schedule peeks, art journal and scrapbooking.
I’ve recently got back into digital scrapbooking and enjoying it. I’m also
going to try art journaling.. I have done a few in the past, like two page
hahahaha I wouldn’t call myself an art journaler as of yet. We shall see and
I’m thinking of positing those pictures on Sundays. Kind of a end of the week
here is my paper crafts I guess since they all have to do with paper. I just
realized that right now. Ummmm. Paper Sunday!
Today
I was able to finally sleep after being up almost 24 hours. Having a man that
works graveyard is tough on me. His schedule sometimes is my schedule. Met up
with my mom today and hit a couple of stores. Kelli and hobby lobby. Kelli’s is
a fine clothing store that has some of my Iphone Swarovski cases and I needed
to drop of a few more off and pick up payment for ones that sold. While we were
there we got some shopping in, Banana got her first pair of Tom’s white and
black cheetah print, so adorable. Hobby lobby didn’t have much I wanted on
sale. I’m a huge sale, clearance and free type of shopper. I was able to get to
goodwill today and picked up a few items for the house décor.
Will be adding more to my plate collection.
Some wall art for my command center wall.
I’m always on the search for old cooking wear.
I’m also getting back into
scrapbooking since the new computer is up and running and I have so much time
at night. Trying to get back onto all my old digital scrapbooking website and
comfortabel using my software again. It’s difficult to say the least. First
layout since I have been back.
I do not know why it is fuzzy/grainy…. but it is driving me crazy. it happened
when I resized the darn thing to go onto my scrapbooking website I’m a memeber
of.
Looks like I will be getting a
lot of my need To-Do list completed. Blog, filofax, art journaling, and craft
projects. I plan on making a weekly To-Do list between all and see what comes
from it.
Participated in the first Monday Mugshot
01/07/2012
Please check it out if you like to art journal or want to start. I have dabbled
in it alittle.. very little but it is one of my wants for the year.
On a crazy thought today is my
FIVE year mark working for the company I work for. The perk of being there for
five years is I get lunch on them and I gift. The lunch will be for my entire
team.. YEA me and the fact that we have three other people celebrating their
five year mark too. That means every week this month we will be having a
potluck lunch on them. For my gift I ordered a digital camera which I gave to
Banana, she was VERY happy. The camera I would have thought would be better
qaulity but it works perfectly fine for a 9 year old.
For
new years we went up to Coulterville, CA and did our annual thing with the
Morey family. I did a small post about it around the first of the year. As I
get older I cherish every moment,and every year it seems to get easier and
easier. This could be because the kids are old enough they entertain themselves
and we adults have more adult time to ourselves. We did just one thing
different this year, we have alcohol for us. Tequila! We played 10,000 to get
us to midnight, for a minute there we didn’t think we would make it. Who ever
lost took a shot. I lost 3 times!! Had a blast even though I’m a horrible
loser.
The next day we went down to the
coffee shop and organized as much as we could. Mary Lou’s
Cup of Brew is getting busier each and every day. Melynda is only
one person so anything I can do to help I try to do when I’m there. I also
mentioned to her that she really needs to blog about the shop. The daily news,
gossip or what in general is going on or how she is feeling. Starting a
business is stressful enough but throw in a husband, two teenage boys, four
dogs and small town citizens…. Anyone would go mad! She is an amazing writer
and funny to top it off. This past week I started a blog just for her
unfortunately she hasn’t been able to post anything yet. She has called to let
me know she wants my typos corrected……hahaha!
During the set up of Mary Lou’s Cup of Brew Blog
I came across this…
Teens are now wearing braces as accessories, I know this is crazy. Now keep in
mind this is a fashion statement overseas in China, Indonesia and Thailand. I
just can’t imagine any of my kids requesting for braces, but then again are
kids now a days are wearing clothes from the 70s, 80s and 90s; eyeglasses are
in style, being in band is the coolest thing around and no one wants to get
there drivers license. Things have certainly changes since I was a teen. You
can find the strangest things on Yahoo homepage.
On another notes:
I’m a huge crafter that likes to
find crafts to do but never really has the time to do them. So for this year I
am doing one craft a month to start, one for holidays and birthdays. Wish me
luck! I know some birthdays are coming up soon like this month in 19 days or
so, but I’m in Valentines Day mode.
2012 has come
and gone fast then anyone wanted it to. Our New Years was amazing as always
because of the Morey family. Sadly though J couldn’t make it this year he had
to work. It was very relaxing but that might have been the tequila shots right
when I got there. Lol. Some adult time as the kids ran up to the house. I love
being up there it’s like going to your older sisters house in the mountains.
The smell of wood burning, a wrap around porch you can relax on and sit in the
same chair you always sit in with a nice freshly brewed cup of coffee. It’s an
amazing quietness it has to it. Everyone who goes to “The Porch” as we call you
never seem to want to leave, the time flys by and you always need to go back.
Until next year we love you Morey
Family.
I also worked on the “Mary Lou’s
Cup of Brew” blog. I think this will help inspire a wonderful writer to get
writing but also help with the emotions of starting a coffee shop, dealing with
customers and the very small but crazy town it sits in. I’m super excited about
this. M.Morey is a funny woman with amazing details when writing. This woman
has been through a lot and has so much wisdom. Keep on the look out for a long
soon.
Christmas
has come and gone, but happy to say I stayed under my budget and the kids
Christmas list was completed. Well almost, some of the things they asked for
were just not feasible. Example my 16yr old son asked for a penguin.. Yes! A
penguin, he got a stuffed one.
I have had
this angel since 1995.
As I’m gearing up for 2013
getting into a new routine with the house, the kids, J and personal routines
I’m starting for myself. I was on the hunt for my old Filofax but couldn’t find
it. I search ever where and sadly I think it got put in the goodwill box. I was
bummed since I had that Filofax since high school. I went ahead and was
crafty/thrifty and created my own. With some amazing creators and Filofax
lovers I was able to print everything I needed. It’s still I work in progress,
but so far I have been using it. I will post either pictures or video.
I also have been slowly working
on my organization. This is my hallway closet we use it for our games and I
have to say it was annoying me. Every time you open the darn thing something
would fall out. So one night of many night I can’t sleep I did the dreadful
thing… I open the cabinet and went through it all. Got rid of games that were
broken or missing parts and donated ones we haven’t played with.
Before:
After:
Next is my scary closet… oh lord
help me.
So I have slacked majorly on my
posting. It amazes me how regular old life can take over and you have no clue
where the time has went. This is currently how I feel. Now that christmas is
over off to start prep for the new year eve kid bash we have every year. Even
tho my 16 year old is trying to go to Disneyland
with is BF. Oh how I wish I could go in his place. Im at working just finished
eating my lunch and thought I have time let’s post, but now I’m out of time. So
I will post later about what really has been goin on and how I was really close
to being put behind bars for murder of the love of my life… hahha. Oh poor
thing got a reality check on how it really is to live with a woman.
Books into movies:
I have been searching for another
book to read since I’m almost done with Vampire Academy.
I prefer series over just one book and the end of story feeling, but if it’s
good enough I will read just about anything. Now if only I can make more time
for it. I’m currently started managing my time better, since J moved in and we
are getting used to things and into a schedule. I need to spread my time
everywhere it seems, even my mom is feeling neglected. There are tons of top
best books to read or must read lists but I’m going to start with books into
movies. Since I love to read a book go watch the movie then complain how it was
nothing like the book and they missed this or that. Hahahahaha We woman love to
complain.
So, I did some searching… google
searching books made into movie 2013 and this is what come up.
Cosmopolis by Don Delillo
Something about a wealthy man needing a haircut at his father barber and a
strange situation. None of that appeals to me so off to the next one.
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Something about alien spirit host our body’s to live among us but one is
fighting mental to stay in control of her body. WEIRD yea I know.
Now I have this book and have tried to read it multiply times but I’m just not
getting into it. So for me this will be a see only movie.
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Ok here is one I want to read but fate has prevented me to. I went shopping
about two weeks ago I check the book isle just in case I find a book at a good
rate to read. I see a book that says City of Bones, I grab it and happy that I’m only
going to pay $8.88 Wal-Mart and their weird prices. I get home settle into bed
with my book I was so excited I sent a picture to my friend telling her I found
us a new book to read. We read the same books at the same time so we have
someone to talk about it with; kind of a two person book club. As I grab my
book and start to read none of it makes sense, it’s like a missed an entire
section but I just started reading. Well I grab book 4. GRRR! I returned it and
I have not went to pick up book 1 I have until Aug 2013 to read it.
Hunger Game by Suzanne Collins
I didn’t like the movie.
Fifty Shades of Grey the series
by E.L James
Lots of nastiness and love.
I have read all three books but what woman hasn’t in America.
Book 3 was a disappointment.
Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
Mysteries woman shows up in a small town and meets a widower with two small
children, They fall in love I would assume since its Nicholas Sparks
This is on my list. Who doesn’t love Nicholas Sparks novals.
Why we Broke up by Daniel Handler
A bookworm and a sport captian date and break up.
This is quite a different type of book for Daniel Handler not sure if I can
believe he went from Lemony Snicket to this.
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
A young girls loses her father and starts over with family in New Mexico.
This is on my list, a good read for me and my daughter.
Beautiful Creatur es by Kami
Garcia
On my list
This one is not on a lise to be
made into a movie, but I just join GoodReads online book club to read in Jan.
Wool by Hugh Howey
After a man made apocalypse survivors live underground.
This should be interesting.
My List: (will be updated as I
find more)
City of Bones
Tiger Eye
Beautiful Creatures
Safe Haven
Wool
Questions:
1. What is your favorite
thing about your dad?
Considering I have three of
them
My father – person you gave me life,
my dad - the man who raised me from the age of
2yrs
my stepdad – the gentleman who showed me how a man should treat a lady … this could
be challenging.
Father – Strength for stay clean
and sober for over 20 years.
Dad – hardwork and the fact that
he works hard to support his family; even though we are adults and the fact
that he and my mom have been divorced for my then 15 years.
Stepdad – knowledge on
everything, I know if I need advice or some input on a life topic/situation he
would give me the honest answer.
2. What are you favorite
smells?
Rain, Ocean, a baking cake, my
grandmother cold cream, freshly cleaned bathroom, markers, rubber cement, and
gasoline.
3. What is your favorite Holiday?
Halloween
4. What did you want to
be when you grew up?
A marine Biologist
5. How many different
places have you lived, towns not houses?
Six different Towns/citys
When I first started blogging many years ago I used to write about my life
and what was going on… very emotional stuff, thank goodness that’s passed with
an occasional cry from a movie. Along the way I used a few weekly prompts kind
of like I do now but from this one blog site. Since I started blogging again I
couldn’t for the life of me remember the name of the blog, I used to get 5
questions about yourself. I loved this because they would get you going about
yourself that we all seem to miss when writing out about me pages. I have
search for a week or so… and sitting at my laptop this morning I was racking my
brain.. “Ok what was the title….What was it called.” Then I remember it had a
WHO in the title, I think! So I went web searching and as I searched and asked
myself who what?? With the process of eliminate I figured out that it wasn’t a
Who but something close, very similar. I remember it because it had something
to do with the theme of the blog. Then it hit me, “HOO are you?” So I search
“Hoo are you?” and there it was Night Owl Crafting!!! I scream, but sadly it seems she
stopped doing the “Hoo are you?” the beginning of the year. I am hoping she
returns back to them since she is getting back into the swing of this with
blogging. We all have a life outside of our blogs believe it or not. It
seems she has been busy with a little one. Congrats!!
So what I plan on doing is going to Number #1 of “Hoo are you” and go from
there till I do all #62
1. If you could choose one of your personality traits to pass on to your
children, what would it be?
I would like my children to have my strong will. It comes in handy a lot in
all aspects of life.
2. What’s your favorite candy bar?
This one is tough… I love Health bars and Almond Joys
3. If you could vacation anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Figi
4. What 3 adjectives would you use to describe yourself?
Loud, loyal and safe
5. In one word, how would your best friend describe you?
Perfect!!!
Hahaha.. I think if you asked them each of them would give a different word
so Im going to list one from each of them
Strong
Opinionated
Motherly
- few regrets
- lots of memories good and bad
- a handful of loyal loving friends
- loving with no boundaries
Daily Prompt: Last Words
by michelle w. on
November 21, 2012
You
have the chance to write one last post on your blog before you stop blogging
forever. Write it
I took the daily prompt challenge
“Last words” as the last time I would ever be able to blog again. My first
reaction was to clearly state how I felt about topics and people in general…
Well lets be honest my brother came to mind first. Me being the GOLDEN
CHILD and him being THE CHILD EVERYONE HATES, now keep in mind we both are in
our thirties and he still has a complex. Thank goodness I stopped myself
from ranting and raving on and on about my brother.
As I started reading everyone
different take on the prompt and the simple words that jolted so much emotion.
Life is worth living
well enough that you want to write about it. - The ChatterBlog
Kick Asss!! – Bullets
and Dreams
Subject: Done Message:
Totally Worth it. -
TheMatticuKingdom
I sat back and thought what
truly would I write if this was my last blog…. …. ….
“Your story doesn’t end
just because your blog does”
So this last week dragged on for me… 8 hours of OT at a place I rather
not be at in the first place and 6 days straight. Talk about hell. At least it
was slow and I had some time to put my feet up and kick back.
The week ended with my two very
best friend’s hanging out in the backyard one last time. It was emotional but
to see them starting to spread their wings was very rewarding. Even though they
are 2 hours away I wish them the best and hope that our daily talks
continue and the time till they come down goes by fast. Going from seeing them
every day to not seeing them at all will be difficult. Time will only
tell how I deal with this new change in my life. I feel like a mama hen losing
her chicks.
On a happier note boyfriend has completely moved
in and our weekly routine is in full effect. He works out of town during the
week and home on weekends. This past weekend my sweetheart bring this HUGE
bottle of bubble bath. Tells me he is going to get our bath ready, nice
hot and very bubbly. I go to get into the tub and slip slightly as I’m stepping
in. As gracefully as I can, I grab the side of the shower door to prevent my
self from doing the splits. This is not off to a good start I think to myself.
The bath was hot and very bubbly.. VERY BUBBLY! I didn’t think anything of it,
he tends to buy the more expensive products. I just took it as some expensive
bubble bath that created lots of bubbles. As I’m getting out of the tub I
notice the big bottle of bubble bath empty on the counter… YES EMPTY!!! THE
ENTIRE BOTTLE!!! I pick it up, move it back and forth and the words
come shooting out of my mouth before I could stop my lips. “YOU USED THE
WHOLE BOTTLE????” He looks like oh shit wasn’t I suppose to and reply with
“ummmm no just a cap full or alittle more.” This is where it gets funnier or at
least to me it does and why men shouldn’t be in charge of certain things…
drawing a bubble bath is one of them. He is looking at
me questioningly wasn’t that a nice bath we just took… nice.. hot.. and
bubbly? Adoring boyfriend confesses “ I used the entire bottle because
there just wasn’t enough bubbles at first” I blink “I wanted lots of bubbles
and they Just weren’t producing.” I couldn’t help but giggle and hug my manly
man who has never drawn a bubble bath before, but I’m greatly please that his
first was for me.
Ok so you have seen these
(picture was suppose to be inserted) well I had pictures to be added to this
blog, but there is a memory limit. CRAP!! How did I not know this.. off to see
how I can fix this or get around it. Any ideas would be great.
Daily Prompt: Be the Change
by michelle w. on November 12, 2012
What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world?
As I read the Daily Prompt for Nov. 12, 2012 I sat in
my breakroom at work and thought blankly a the computer screen… how could
my little ol blogg change our big ol world?? I’m no one special, not even a
writer or good at it, just an thirty something mother living her daily choas
trying to survive what we call LIFE! Then it hit me.. If someone out there is
just like me and knows there is someone else just like them going through the
some things. At least they can rest assure they are not alone. So i guess
my blogg could change just one person out look and I would be happy and
content.. in all honesty my blogg isn’t for other people, it’s for me.
I’m just a California girl in her designer
boots trucking through all the bullshit of life while the warm sun shines
on me.
Today has come and I really don’t
know if there is anyone else who feels like I do. I have these two best friends
in my life that we have seen each other everyday for the last four years. They
are moving away together to another town 2hrs away from ME!
When they decided to make this
move I was not so keen on it. Through my eyes they have so much to learn still
and are crazy to move with no job, no money and no friends or family. CRAZY!
So I have done what any normal
heartbroken friend would do… Create distance and start arguing. Reality of the
matter is I’m going to miss them, they need this move and they will find other
friends. I just hope I’m not forgotten.
You
have three hundred words to justify the
existence of your favorite person, place, or thing.
I normally don’t participate in
any blog challenges or prompts, but this one got me thinking of some of my
favorite people and places. I really could go on about the places I love
to go to Carmel, San
Francisco, and Yosemite, but truly
those are a given to the reason why those are my favorite place.
So I’m going to tell you about
this wonderful lady I met 9 years ago. It all started with a spoon. Yes,
a spoon! We met in our son’s kindergarten class where we both were helping out.
I had my baby girl with me and it was lunch time for her. Some how forgot to
bring a spoon, but this short full of energy lady sitting at another table full
of 8 kindergartners tells me she has one. I look at her like she was crazy. Who
would have a spoon in there purse. As she digs through her purse low and behold
she pulls out a spoon inside a zip lock bag and hands to me.
That was our beginning.
Since that day we would meet up 20
minutes before the kids got out of school to sneak a cigarette, I at the time
was a closet smoker and she only smoked with people who already knew. We
would park down the street talk and smoke. This became a daily thing. We would
talk about life, how we both kept our smoking a secret from our parents even at
our age. Then she invited me to a bunco night and she served this amazing
broccoli salad. The salad she made is now one of my staple recipes. I try to
learn as much as I can from her, we both have our strengths hers is cooking
which I’m jealous of.
She is an amazing mother, wife,
sister, daughter and friend. I honestly can’t say that about most people, but
this woman has been through so much herself and has been one of my rocks
through some of the hardest moments in my life. She is the one I call when I
need advice or thoughts on a situation. She has so much wisdom and knowledge.
As I sit here and write about her
I am truly blessed to have her in my life and my children’s life. I love this
woman and at time wish I had met her many years before since I could have used
some major guidance way back then. Things happen for a reason. No amount of
words can ever express what this woman is made of or how I feel about her.
She is my soul sister
grrr!!! had a full-page and
POOF gone with one click. so here is the short version….
old glory HP crash got a new
CHEAP Acer. Computer geek save all my pictures and scrapbook
files. Yup that’s really what I should have said before instead of trying
to give you details and make you giggle at my crazy life. One great thing the
computer geek down at Actions Computer was able to save all my pictures and
scrapbooking files from my old glory HP and my external hard drive… YEA.. and
on there was some of my old things from the very first blog I ever did. Here is
the very first post….
Daily Dose 12/11/2008
Hello blog readers, my birth given name is Elina….but everyone calls me
Nena and NeenarNeenar has been my online name for the past ten years or so. I
have always wanted to dive into doing a blog and create a part of my life
thoughts, complaints and suggestions for others to read. We all know life gets
a little carried away and our wants seem to get pushed under something.
Let’s start with a little information about myself. I’m 30 years old, a
mother of three, working full time, and starting over. Love to craft,
scrap, sew and read. Going to the beach and listening to the ocean waves and my
kids playing is my favorite pass time. I try to learn something new daily and
can’t spell or write to save my life. So I ask everyone to look over that…if
you can. I take creative criticism and I’m brutally honest. Spontaneous when
needed, a people pleaser, and a tree hugger/peace keeper. Love the bohemian
style and all natural look when it comes to hair and make up.
Yup STARTING OVER!!
My life has changed dramatically these past few months, which has made me
be more aware of how I’m feeling and what path I’m taking. My 15 year
relationship/marriage has ended, on both good and bad notes. New year New Life.
At least that’s what I keep telling myself. During this time of my life I am
trying to stay the person I have always been… Since this split from my high
school love, I have seen myself changing into a person I do not want to become.
I can honestly say that has been the hardest part for me. I myself came from a
divorce family and never wanted my own children to go through that. There was a
lot more to my childhood story but for my kids I wanted them to be able to say
“my parents are still together.” Now they can’t and I feel like I failed even
though I know I did everything I possible could and then some. Amazingly or
children took it well. One thing we agreed on is we don’t lie, but we also
don’t tell if its grown-up stuff. Any time our children asked a question we
were honest, in a way children could understand.
Our kids are amazing…They are perfect amazing funny wild children. I don’t
need to go on about how much I love them and how important they are to me. So
we will bypass all that mushy stuff.
My life can be wildly fun, peaceful, dramafied, tornadoish, and plane damn lonely
at times; but I love it, because it’s my life.
I started Project 365 it’s
an iPhone app to take one picture a day for one full year. I have tried
similar challenges and never seem to keep with them. So I challenged my
Facebook friends list. So far only two others started it and didn’t even
bother telling me… but we have kept up with it. I will be adding the pictures
so you all can see.
Also Check out: Project 365 Blog
photojojo!
On another note it happening two
of my very best friends are moving I truly feel I’m being left.
So, my name is Elina I’m currently
34… I think. Let me do the math real quick…………yup! Currently I’m 34, soon to be
35. I think we tend to forget what age we are because let’s face it once you
hit your thirties it really doesn’t matter. I’m a single mom of three, ages 16
– boy, 14 – boy, and 9 – girl. I’m still gasping that I’m a mother of a 16 year
old. Being a mom is rewarding but it is always very stressful. Thank goodness
they are good kids so far, haven’t been hit with any “oh I’m gonna kill them
moments.” YET! I know at some point I will. I gave my mom a run for her money
and I know some where down the road it will bite me back with a vengeance.
Until then I’m thankful.
I was raised by my mother, she
worked hard budgeted every penny and provided as if we never struggled. She still
does to this day except there’s no more struggling. She is a control freak and
that is where I get it from. I need control but only over certain things. Kinda
strange because I’m so easy going indecisive loving motherly person. My one
true flaw is I’m verbal truthful. Now some don’t think of this has a flaw but I
have very few friends because of it. I do not play well with stupid people
either and let’s face it the world is full of stupid people. I have the
attitude if you don’t like me then you don’t like me. I can careless and won’t
try to find out what I did to make you not like me… Your loss! This of course
has gone for both family and non family but in the end I have surrounded myself
with true people that would do anything for my children and I… And let’s be
honest those are the only people you should truly have in your life.
My boyfriend recently moved in
and when I say recently I mean like 7days ago. I’m super excited, he is my
person, my exception to the rule, my guy that I take as he is. We plan on
growing old together and watch the kids never leave the nest.. lol two of the
kids have said on more then one occasion they are never leave mama house. Gotta
love them and currently at the moment I have all my loves under the same roof…
Just couldn’t be happier.
Movie: Love Actually, Pride &
Prejudice, Monster Inc., Todd Sweeny, Wizard of Oz, Underworld, and The
Goonies.
T.V: The Walking Dead, Greys
Anatomy, Scandal, Revenge, Big Brother and Grimm
Music: EVERYTHING!!!!
Favorite Drink: Ice tea or Dr Pepper
Favorite home cooked meal: my
moms pot roast
Favorite Place to go: The Beach
or The Porch
The person I miss the most: my
little grandma!
So a lot in my life has been
happening. I have recently had some health issue that are still on going, My
job give an insane amount of stress, started a company with a friend of mine,
and the boyfriend will be moving in this month. So in short version my life is
really turned upside down an I have no energy for any of it. I’m slowly trying
to get my house in order.. Organized and minimized. With three attached
children that’s hard to do. One room at a time… One room at a time. I plan on
documenting my progress but its going to be a hard reality of how bad I have
let things pile up. My recent clean out was my closet one full garbage bag of
bags and shoes and one full of straight garbage. Not even done yet. My life is
just so crazy busy. Time to make my self a schedule checklist.. Maybe that will
help. Ummm I have come across some websites that are on just organizing your
house maybe I need to research. Today project to do is laundry and action plan
for this little house on the corner.
It’s been one full week using the
Kinky Curly, I have to say I think
I’m in love. Now if I only can figure the right amount for my hair then it will
be a dream. It does seem this will be a little pricey considering a quarter of
its already gone but we shall see after one full month. The price of beauty!
I didn’t follow the direction the
first day… I’m a rule breaker! Hahaha at least I keep telling myself that. The
direction stated dripping wet hair brush product through with comb. Of course I
paraphrased all that. Come on I have three children to get out of the house in
the morning I don’t have time to sit there for dripping wet hair to dry….
SERIOUSLY! To be honest I was concern about the combing the product through…
All I kept picturing was greasy strings of hair. So I chucked their directions
out the window and did it my own way.
Here are my first day results.
Loved everything about these
curls.
Now I did try the directions on
the container and let’s just say I won’t be doing that again… Greasy stringy is
exactly what I got.
Completely different curls…. I
like the soft big curls. How I got those: I brushed my hair the way I always
do… Then towel dry so it’s not dripping wet. Split in six section, from the
root of the hair down to the ends massage the ick into my hair. Did this my
entire head then flipped and added a little more where I felt I missed, fluffed
my hair having my hair forward did not touch until dry… That is the most
important part.
I as none of you know have
naturally mind of its own beautiful curly hair. If anyone one knows finding a
product that fits your hair type is hard… Do I use a brush vs fingers… Wash
daily or every other day?. The list really goes on and on. Most of the time my
hair get done in the morning and mid day it’s up in what I’ve been calling a
Nena-Bun but now everyone calls a messy bun.. Which seems to be in these days.
I have done some research and found many costly products.. But let’s get real,
I’m a single mom wanting glamour hair on a shoe string budget.
I found Curl Box which is a monthly subscription
very much like Birch Box or Glam Bag for markup but this one is for hair. I
haven’t yet subscribed so I couldn’t comment if this was a good deal or not, I
did however ask for a 3 month subscription for Christmas. So I will keep you
posted, I think I’m on Santa good list this year……well maybe!
During my research I found this
stuff called Kinky Curly I’ve wanted
to try and it had great reviews, but like everything else it wasn’t at my local
drug store or Sally’s beauty supply. I was not about to order and pay
shipping.. I know I sound cheap, but at $16.99 plus shipping for me it wasn’t
worth it. 
I told myself I
would wait until I was in a town that had it in a store I was in to purchase…
So basically if I came across it.
This weekend I was once again in the battle of which product to buy that was
for normal straight to wavy hair. Standing in the isle over looking every
product I haven’t tried yet, I pick two cheap mousses, YES! I said it MOUSSES!
I know I know. What I’m I thinking… Why would I want crunch dry hair. That’s
all I know.
I go to the next isle only to see
in a very small section of a few products I’ve been wanting to try but to cheap
to order had have mailed. I couldn’t believe this my chance has finally came, I
chug my two bottle of mousse out of the basket and grab the Kinky Curly and head for the door before
I change my mind at spending $16.99 for this small jar of ick. Now mind you as
I was looking at all these products the poor boyfriend is standing behind me
BLOWING my cellphone up say PICK ONE ALREADY! Hahahaha this is another reason
he sends me shopping on my own.
Today was my first day I will
post pics tomorrow of two different ways of how I applied.
Until tomorrow.
Have so much to write and note
enough time. Maybe today will be slow in the cube and I can get some writing
done. Yea right. Until later
So mandatory over time which
means a ten hour day on the launch of the iPhone 5 to be in store at 8 am.. Are
they crazy… I think so. As a single mom of three I have to do what I have to
do… Go to sleep by 1am wake up at 5am and work from 8 am to 7 pm taking calls
are stupid people ignorant people. PLEASE IF YOUR GOING TO CALL YOUR CELL PHONE
COMPANY TOMORROE PLEASE BE PATIENT AND UNDERSTANDING WE ARE DOING THE BEST WE
CAN.
GOOD NIGHT!
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