Best Christmas Gift Ever

This made me tear up. This is one of the nicest sweetest things to hear about so close to the holidays. What a wonderful thing to do. Definatly something I want to do once I have the money that I can share the holidays like that.

Snow

Snow fall I have discovered is a wonderful thing. I have always loved snow. I've always wanted to live somewhere that gets snow in the winter. Now I do.

If you want quiet go outside at night surrounded by fresh snow. I took the puppies out tonight to let them play. I didn't even realize what I wanted was quiet but I did. I found it so wonderfully quiet. The entire world is covered in natures own sound proof blanket. Cars aren't as loud. Even the dogs aren't as loud when they bark.

Going out there and being wrapped in that wonderful quiet was FABULOUS! In a house with 5 people quiet is a rare and beautiful thing to come by.

It's so hard to find the words I want to describe the feeling I had out there. My heart felt so much lighter. I felt elaited. I want to move my bedroom into my backyard.

Not only did the quiet sound beautiful, but every now and then the wind would blow and the trees covered in ice would sway and the creaking sounded like crystal.

The dogs were also lightening to my heart. They love the snow and to watch them run around exploring it was great. I would pick up some ice/snow and show it to Lacey who would run over and taste it then run off again. I'd pick up more and do the same thing over again. She made me laugh so much. Then right before we came in she had dug up a clump of snow/ice and I found it. It was in the rough shape of a kong so I picked it up and had her sit for it. I tossed it up for her to catch and she did quickly destroying the ball as she bit into it. She looked around all over the ground trying to find it. It was so funny.

The cold outside made my nose pink but it was worth it for the 20 minutes of blessed silence I received.

My kind of protest

orgasm for peace

Summation of this artical is that a couple in California wants everyone to protest the war...not by going out and walking the streets or even having a sit in but by staying home on December 22 and having the entire world have an orgasam at the same time. The thought behind it all is that one is the most at peace just after an orgasam when the mind is clear.
Intresting views for sure but not really the best way to show your protest. Millions of people will be home and hundreds of thousands could have an orgasam but who's to know why they are or if they are?
I'm all for protesting the war we are not so willingly involved in but that is just not the best way to show it in my opinion.

Thoughts?

What would you do different?

I was talking to a friend recently, ok so recently that we are still chatting on IM, about high school. We talked about the fact that I had a crush on him in Highschool and he honestly didn't know. He said he had even thought about it back then but never acted on it. So odd to think that two people liked each other but were both to scared of the other persons reaction to act on it.

Even knowing that now I don't think I'd change a thing about HS simply because all those things helped shape me into who I am today. And if I wasn't me I don't think I would have ended up with my husband whom I love and adore and at this point can't imagine life without him and really don't want to.

Would you change something different? Is there something so bad that changed you in such a way that if you had that golden change to go back and redo it you would? I just can't see that for me. I can't change who I was because doing that would change who I am and I'm happy. I'm truely happy with my life. Sure there are things I don't like, hell life will never be perfect but who the fuck cares. It's not about perfection just about enjoying who you are and where you are while you are there.


One thing I know for sure. I can't wait to go back to my HS reunion and just throw it in some bitches faces just how happy I am even though they tormented me in HS. Though I doubt they'll remember me. They never remember those they torment in the years past and yet those that are tormented never forget it.

Captain Jack Sparrow

This is just one of the many reasons I'm the luckiest woman in the world.

Paris Syndrome

"PARIS - Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological treatment after visiting Paris as the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets clashes with their expectations, a newspaper reported on Sunday."
Full Story Here

Ok so how can anyone seriously be so deliusioned by what they've read and seen that they truely believe that a city and it's residents will be perfect? There is no where in the world that I would expect to not have some kind of down side. I'll admit I picture Paris being glamorious and I'm sure parts are, however I don't expect the entire city to be such. I'm not that dense.

Comments?

Lacey

My own little Princess Lacey, her "brother" was Darth Vee

A new year

So this is a bit early but close enough. Another year older. A week and two days away from my first wedding anniversary. It's been a very LONG year. Stressful, full of changes. Getting used to being a home owner and having to take care of all the problems that come along with it. Getting used to being a wife and all the problems that come along with that. Anyone who says the first year is the easiest is full of shit. It's not the honeymoon year. It's the hard one. But we made it and I think, I hope, we will have a stronger marriage for it. One thing for sure I know without a showdow of a doubt I love my husband with everything that I am.

This year also brought my brother-in-law and sister-in-law into my home. I love them both very much. And I am glad they are part of my family. It's been stressful for us and them to have them living here. But I hope that things will improve now that we've gotten our concerns more out in the open. It's hard having 5 grown people living in a house as small as ours. Everyone has a limited amount of personal space and those that are married have even less because Neri is the only one lucky enough to have her own room (bitch ;) ). But we will make do because we are family and we love each other even when we don't always like each other.

well it's getting late and I think I'm going to go for now.

AFI's 100 Years 100 Movies

This is the list Neri, Gehnen and I went though a few nights. I've seen about 15 of these movies, Gehnen saw I think he said 50-something, and Neri saw 77 (bitch) so I'm gonna go down the list (maybe not in order) and try and watch most if not all.

The list

1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3. The Godfather (1972)
4. Gone with the Wind (1939)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
6. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
7. The Graduate (1967)
8. On the Waterfront (1954)
9. Schindler's List (1993)
10. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
11. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
12. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
14. Some Like It Hot (1959)
15. Star Wars (1977)
16. All About Eve (1950)
17. The African Queen (1951)
18. Psycho (1960)
19. Chinatown (1974)
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
21. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
23. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
24. Raging Bull (1980)
25. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
26. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
27. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
28. Apocalypse Now (1979)
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
31. Annie Hall (1977)
32. The Godfather Part II (1974)
33. High Noon (1952)
34. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
35. It Happened One Night (1934)
36. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
38. Double Indemnity (1944)
39. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
40. North by Northwest (1959)
41. West Side Story (1961)
42. Rear Window (1954)
43. King Kong (1933)
44. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
46. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
47. Taxi Driver (1976)
48. Jaws (1975)
49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
51. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
52. From Here to Eternity (1953)
53. Amadeus (1984)
54. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
55. The Sound of Music (1965)
56. M*A*S*H (1970)
57. The Third Man (1949)
58. Fantasia (1940)
59. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
61. Vertigo (1958)
62. Tootsie (1982)
63. Stagecoach (1939)
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
65. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
66. Network (1976)
67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
68. An American in Paris (1951)
69. Shane (1953)
70. The French Connection (1971)
71. Forrest Gump (1994)
72. Ben-Hur (1959)
73. Wuthering Heights (1939)
74. The Gold Rush (1925)
75. Dances with Wolves (1990)
76. City Lights (1931)
77. American Graffiti (1973)
78. Rocky (1976)
79. The Deer Hunter (1978)
80. The Wild Bunch (1969)
81. Modern Times (1936)
82. Giant (1956)
83. Platoon (1986)
84. Fargo (1996)
85. Duck Soup (1933)
86. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
87. Frankenstein (1931)
88. Easy Rider (1969)
89. Patton (1970)
90. The Jazz Singer (1927)
91. My Fair Lady (1964)
92. A Place in the Sun (1951)
93. The Apartment (1960)
94. Goodfellas (1990)
95. Pulp Fiction (1994)
96. The Searchers (1956)
97. Bringing up Baby (1938)
98. Unforgiven (1992)
99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Neri making fun of me.

Wedding Toes

For my soon to be sister-in-law

Stop bitching! I posted! *wink*

So life...well my brother-in-law and his fiance are moving into my house at the end of this month. I'm excited as well as nervous. We will have five people living in our relatively small house when you think about that many grown adults living here. Last time I lived with this many people the house was much bigger. We have also inheraited (sp? so sue me) an additional dog and 3 cats. And then my current roommate got a puppy herself. So house hold total? 5 adults, 3 dogs (2 currently puppies) and 5 cats. No one else can move in here till someone else moves out. Sorry but we just are running out of rooms. Unless you can convince my roommate to let you share her room. (good luck)

I am still doing the whole Mary Kay thing which is taking longer to take off than I had hoped but I'm kicking my butt into gear and "getting out of my own way" as my directer tells me. I have new names and numbers and am gonna get out there and get more and get this going. My mom signed up as my first concultant and I have another woman who plans to sign up as soon as she can get the cash from her ex-hubby. My goals are the same even if they've been moved back a bit. I plan to get to directorship by the end of the year, as in debeuting first thing in January. And I've started taking steps that way to do so.

I hate Staples still. I mean I like the people I work with. I can even handle my managers most of the time. But it's retail and people are stupid and I have to deal with them in abaundance there.
I had a man come in yesterday who spoke very limited broken english and handed me his cell phone so that his friend on the other end of the line who also spoke very limited broken english could tell me what he wanted. From what I gathered he wanted an arrow table that was 6 mm long. Yes 6 mm he actually said that. I'm not sure what an arrow table is and I seriously doubt you only want a table that's six mm long... But how do you tell someone sorry but I have no fucking clue what you want? I don't mind immigrants or people who know other languages but IF you are not going to learn English please do not move to a town that is close to haveing no diviersity at all and where very few will be able to understand you. We have China town in a few different big cities and some of those cities are even affordable to live in.
And I had a woman a couple of days ago that came in wanting some pens we had on sale. I was on the register covering a lunch I couldn't leave said register as no one else was there to cover it. She asks me where the pens are and I tell her isle six. She goes over there and comes back with the right brand and style but not the exact pen set that was on sale. (you had to get the multi colored pack) she asked if those were the right ones, I checked the ad, they weren't, I told her so. She stared at me for a bit. She asked if we had them in stock and I told her I didn't know but I could page someone to help if she wanted me to. She just kind of stared at me with her other items on the counter. So I asked point blank...Do you want me to page someone over here for you? She said I don't know....while still standing there so I started to check out her items. We got to the end she paid and stepped to the side...then stared at me for a bit and asked So are you going to call someone to help me? *boggle* WTF? God I hate stupid people....she never bought the pens, I hope we were out.

On a bit brighter note as far as Staples goes. Yesterday I met a woman who I ended up offering a Mary Kay facial to because she seemed like my type of woman and we had chatted a bit while trying to find what she was looking for. She seems alot like the oldest of my sister-in-laws. Not quite the same but gave off that vibe. I can't put my finger on it exactly she just did. So I plan to call her today or tomorrow and set up an appoitnment. She said she doesn't wear makeup but everyone needs skincare. Plus...she seems the type I wouldn't mind getting to know past Mary Kay. *nods sincerly*

Well my hubby is up and I should go say hello.
Peace out *flashes some kind of sign that really doesn't mean anything*

yeah I know

Yeah I know it's been almost a month since I updated. I should try and stay on top of this but life has been relatively mundane lately. Till about two weeks ago. I have a friend from work, well kinda. I met her there but I don't actually work with her. Or I didn't...anyway she used to have my job at Staples. Then she left because she had her second kid and didn't want to work at Staples anymore. So she sells MaryKay now. We were talking she invited me to a facial and long story short. I now sell MaryKay. Or well I'm a consultant. I haven't actually sold anything yet, but I will! My goal is to become a director and allow S and I to both retire..or for me retire as much as I can while selling MaryKay. One of the directors I work with got her W-2's today and on commission alone last year she made over 89 thousand dollars. That's more than three times what S and I currently make annually combined. And she's only been doing this for six years. Not saying I will reach that level anytime soon but I should get pretty far pretty fast if I work hard enough at it which I fully intend to. Well that is my life update for now.