The battle with my neighbors finally got to me last night.  I spent the evening in tears because of what happened yesterday afternoon. I was walking back from my friends house with me youngest son, and saw my neighbor (Stupid Girl) and her friends (The Black Elk Bitches) sitting across the street in someone's front yard.  As I was walking up my driveway, Stupid Girl stands up, points and me, and yells "Look at her.  She's such a stupid fucking bitch.  She fucking called to...

My husband called at 0445 this morning to tell me he'd be home tonight.  Yay!!!  This 'annus horriblis' is almost over! I'm so glad he's on his way home.  I'm in desperate need of some affection.  I haven't been kissed in 7 months... that's terrible!  Now I'm wondering if I should dress up or not.  Should I go for the casual look and wear jeans and a T shirt, or shall I smarten up a bit and wear pants and heels?  Or, should I wear a dress?  It'...

I have to drain the water out of my washer so the moving company will pack it up next week. I have no clue how to do it.  Can anyone help? Thanks....

..and I'm glad that we're moving. My neighbors are away on vacation for a couple of days.  Ordinarily I'd have been glad to see the back of them and enjoy the tranquility, but I'm not.  The man of the house had weekend duty this past weekend, which called for him to be at work at 0500.  He apparently was getting up at 0330 ...because he's left his alarm clock set for that time.  Our bedrooms are on opposite sides of an adjoining wall, and I have been woken at 0330 the ...

Dave's scheduled to come home on Friday.  That means that I only have 2 days of solitude left. OMG!!!! It's finally starting to sink in now.  That he's coming home, that we're moving, that life is finally moving forward again.  This past year has felt like....like wasted time, almost.  It wasn't, because I learnt a lot about many things....but I can't help but feel like I didn't really do anything or accomplish much. The moving company called me today.  They'r...

I got my hair cut today.  I went to the salon on base...the last time I went there the woman cut it too short, and it took me 2 months to grow it out.  She's Korean, and her English isn't the greatest, so I attributed the bad cut to the language barrier. This time I decided to take a picture in so she could see what I wanted.  I asked her to not take it too short, said I really liked the length of it but wanted to lose some of the bulk. Mistake.  She cut it...and cut i...

Nuff said, I think....

It has been suggested in the past couple of days that I am a pessimist.  I don't think I am.  I think I'm a realist, but the suggestion got me thinking about the differences between optomism, pessimism and realism. The dictionary defines optomism as : A disposition to expect the best possible outcome or to emphasize the most positive aspects of a situation .  Nothing wrong with that, I hear you say?  No, not at all.  But when optomism is a person's sole view, and w...

There's roadwork on one of the interstate exit ramps/bridges about 5 miles away from here.  I got stuck in traffic because of it today. Which leads me to this rant. Why in the hell do construction crews decide to close sections of road for 10 mins at a time right in the middle of rush hour?  What are they thinking???  Isn't it common sense to do it at some other time, when there's less traffic to back up??? It was so bad this evening, vehicles were backed up onto half a mile...

I'm sending this in an email to Dave (my husband) tomorrow.  Dear Dave, As I write this I have a very small black kitten sitting in my lap.  She's been here for an hour now, and she sits like this quite regularly...if my lap is available, she's sitting in it. She seeks me out to come sit with me.  Today she patted at my ankles until I picked her up.  Spot-a-rooni was the last born and the smallest of Pixie's babies.  When she came out she didn't breat...

I'd like to pick your brains on this one... ...if the christian majority can accept that people are born with defects, conditions and differences...and that it's not their fault they were born that way....why is it that homosexuality is seen as a 'choice'?  That, to me, is like saying that a person is schizophrenic by choice, or near sighted by choice. So, gimme your opinions.....

I have a plan for another tattoo...2 tattoos, really.  I'm thinking about putting the mandarin characters for 'wisdom' and either 'courage' or 'strength' on the tops of my feet.  I know I want wisdom, but can't decide between courage and strength.  Right now I'm leaning towards courage. I'm a firm believer in inking my skin with outward symbols of inner feelings and beliefs. All of my tattos up to this point have been representations of what I think and hold to be true...

My kids went target shooting with our friends down the street yesterday, and then camped out in their backyard last night - leaving me at a loose end for the afternoon and evening. So, I went and bought 'Slaughterhouse 5'.  I've read parts of it before, but not the book in it's entirety.  I had settled down at homes yesterday afternoon to read it when the phone rang.  My friend Shanna had locked her keys in her car and wanted me to take Dave's Slim Jims and get it open for...

I'm reading 'Simple Abundance' and todays thought was about hobbies. I used to have an abundance of hobbies.  I used to sketch, knit, crochet, sew....target shoot, fish, swim, practice yoga... ...and somewhere down the line I ran out of time and energy.  I can't quite pinpoint where it was, but I simply stopped doing all of those things.  I didn't have the time, or the energy, to do my hobbies anymore.  When someone asked me what I did for fun, I'd have to stop and thin...