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.

Sick

Being sick sucks ass. That is all.

Happy birthday to me

Meet Shoelace aka Lacy

Letter to myself

Dear me,

So we are fifty now. What have you accomplished in life? I hope you did great things. Did you have great kids? Are they still around because you were able to instill a strong sense of family closeness without feeling like you were smothering them? I'm pretty sure you did.
Don't forget what you felt like the day you got married. The elation of walking down that isle and seeing the man you love so dearly standing at the other end of it. How proud you felt as you said your vows to become his wife.
Don't forget to trust people. I'm sure you have been hurt over the years, it happens. But trust is something that is important. You have to trust even when it means you may be hurt because if you never trust you will stop feeling the joy of meeting new people and making new friends that will change your life greatly.
Don't forget to act silly. Just because you are fifty doesn't mean you can't enjoy life and act a little silly ever now and then. It will keep you feeling young and let you live a longer fuller life. Don't tell your husband to cut it out when he rolls down his window and yells out at someone passing by on the street. Remember how you used to laugh at it when you were first together.
Please remember your age as well however. Don't try and dress like you are 20. It doesn't look good on you. Remember your promise to yourself and your friends that you would never let one another dress older or younger than you really are. You don't have to wear loud floral prints just becuase you are 50 but you also shouldn't wear a mini skirt that has your butt hanging out all over the place either I'm sure by now it's hanging a bit lower than it was when you hit 25.
Always remember your friends. Those that stand with you no matter what. Those that don't mind when you act a bit silly. Those that agree that an extragagent purchase every now and then is needed. Those that you can call up at 2 am even now when there is family home you might wake up because you really just need to talk about something important. The people that are still with you now are the best ones you can have. Those that make it are the ones that stuck through all the good and bad you've had and will continue to do so. They are your family.

Remember most of all to be true to yourself no matter what you have gone through during your years. In the end yourself is the one you need to please.

Love always,
Me

Another day another year

So tomorrow I turn 25. What will next year bring. What should I do to celebrate this year? What will I think of myself now when I'm 50?
So I'm 25 and married, and living in yet another state. My own mom didn't get married until her late twenties and hasn't moved out of Texas her whole life. My dad on the other hand was already on his second marriage by 25 I believe and lived in many different states over his life time.
It's scary how much we end up like our parents when as we are growing up they are the ones we usualy want to be least like. Hopefully we only pick up their positive traits. Hopefully we learn from their mistakes and make new ones of our own. Then when we have our own kids they can learn from what we know.
Having my mom out here for my wedding showed me where a few of my traits come from. I laugh like my mom, I also cry like my mom. I think I have my dads sense of adventure. My giving nature I took from both of them. My goofiness...I think that is something all my own, that or I stole it from Angie.

-Me

Married life

So I'm married now. Less than a week so far. The difference is...he's my husband, I'm his wife, I have two rings instead of one and my last name is ****** instead of ****. But for the most part our relationship is still the same. Our communication didn't become perfect overnight. We've already had a misunderstanding between the two of us. But those come and go and we always overcome them. I don't feel different in the relationship other than to feel slightly odd when saying my new name or when I call him my husband. It feels strange to be in this new "club" of married people. Not better than before just strange. I heard a woman today say she was waiting for her husband and I was like...hey I have one of those too (in my head of course *smile*). Just a new feeling I'll have to adjust too. But definatly something I don't mind getting used to at all. I love being married to the man I love so dearly.

Mrs. Grinningcomb signing out.

2.99 a gallon in MISSOURI *boggle*

Yeah so I just filled my gas tank and it cost me 37 dollars that is more than I EVER spent living in CA. And what I HATE is that this is price increase on a possible expected gas shortage. At this point we aren't even short gas. And we went up 30 cents in one day and then 10 more cents the next day. *sigh* god this sucks.

next post to be posted later...I'M BUYING A HOUSE!!!!!

Retail retards

If you go shopping please don't be stupid and don't be rude to the cashiers.
I had a shit load of crap ass customers yesterday.

I had a customer that wanted an extra discount because an item rang up differently from the price on the shelf. Because we were wasting her time. Well first off honey it's not law that we even give you the shelf price. What is in the computer is what is correct if you don't like it get the hell out. She said Wal-Mart would give her an extra discount. Oh sorry we aren't Wal-Mart and make so much money than an extra couple of dollars off won't make a difference. And second liar. Wal-Mart isn't gonna take the time to go check it unless you make a big stink.

I had another customer walk in and go to the customer service counter where no one is standing and no lights are lit up while there are three registers open and people in line at all of them. We are all trying to check out as fast as we can because about half the people in the store all decided to check out at the same time. I got done with one customer and turned and asked her if she had a return and if so she could stand in any three of the open lines. She said "well I wish someone had told me bfore I waited here for 10 minutes." *whap* You bitch you know it wouldn't have hurt you to turn around (Her back was to us all as she stared at the empty customer service counter) and quickly say "where do I go for a return" none of us would have minded.

I was ringing almost constantly for the first two hours I was on shift and the above two customers were just the ones that stand out the most in that time. I decided I needed a break. Well my manager says don't log out that way they can call you up if it gets really crowded. Alright but I'm gonna run over to Wendy's for some food. No worries she's alright with that. I go over and of course there are 5 people in front of me. The one time I really need to hurry. I call my roomie and vent so I'm using my time waiting well *smile*. I patiently wait in line as there isn't really anything I can do to hurry things along. Then when there is one guy in front of me a second register opens up. Well I point him over there because he hadn't noticed and then I step up. Then the little punk behind me steps over behind the guy that was in front of me now at the other register. *boggle* excuse me? It doesn't work that way. There is still just one line and I should be next. I get off my phone so I can say something but not fast enough and the little punk gets to go next. The guy behind me at least was nice enough to say (not in these words) that the kid was a punk ass. But the best part. The part to just top off my Wendy's expirence last nite...as I was walking out of Wendy's to go back to Staples (they are in the same parking lot) the little punk was walking into the Staples parking lot and sat in the bed of the truck while (I assume) his parents are shopping....he was the child of a fucking Staples custoemer!!! Of course that fits so well. grrrr...

That wasn't the end of my nite but this is a really long post already so I'll leave it at that. It does sum up most of my nite rather well.

Although I must say this...9:15 we are just about gone. One of my coworkers was outside putting the chair he had just assembled into a customers car and a woman walked up to the half open doors (because my co-worker was outside) we are all about to cry because we think she is going to come in. But then!!! SHE DOESN'T!!!!!! She read the time on the doors and saw that we were closed and left! *boggle* OMG we couldn't believe it. It was amazing.

Ok now I'm really gonna end this post now.

Tom & Katie

I figured it out, with my sweetie's help, Katie Holmes is with Tom Cruise because she is gonna marry him, adopt a couple of kids, have a stifled movie career, then get divorced after 10 years so she can get a career like Nicole Kidmans. It's the only reasonable explination. What do ya'll think?