BLOGGER RETREAT

I would love to get together and meet in person my blog friends that have stuck by side through my crappy almost 3 months! It was so sweet to get personal e-mails and kind words from you all. So now I want to meet you! OK, ok. How can we do this? Let's say VEGAS!!! Oh, ya, that's not fair I live here, OK then how about wine country?? No, that won't work, I hardly drink. UUUMMMMM HAWAII!!! Yes, that would be wonderful, don't you think?? I WISH, as I sit at my desk, with my sweat pants on, wondering if I will ever smile again.. OK, that was a bit dramatic, I even smiled as I was typing it, but I think you know what I mean. I needs some FUN, I am talking laughing out loud, holding my stomach from laughing so hard fun.. Almost peeing my pants fun. Hoping that moment will never end fun. I can not even remember the last time I felt that way, so I am day dreaming about it and a blog retreat. I bet you 10 to 1 they have them! And if they don't, we need to start one because I need a good excuse to get away from life for a few days. I think it would be wonderful to meet you guys, unless you really are guys, named Randy! A 56 year old, never been married and still living at his mothers house, with his cat named Madonna! Blogging 24/7 because he has never worked a day in his life, except for taking care of his alien mother.. (breath, breath). Sorry, my mind started to wander, I think it is a protection mechanism, that protects me from going crazy, even though it sounds crazy. I really just cracking myself up. So I thought I would share my dream of meeting all you wonderful people, that sent me such kind words. THANK YOU!! I will try and stay around this time. I miss commenting and your comments. Think about the retreat thing, really..Unless you are a dude.

MY NOT SO BABY BOY

BY THE WAY

By the way, my new stress release is gambling! Yes I know, not such a great thing to do, but I have made enough money to pay an attorney fee.. WOO HOO. My luck has been amazing, and I have met such great people, whom have no idea what I am going through, and I like it that way. They just see the happy go lucky girl that is covering up the mother of all freakazoid stressed out basket case, that I really am right now. Should have been an actress I guess!! LOL

NO, I DID NOT DIE

Sorry I have not been around. You all have been so nice with the private e-mails asking how I am and if I need to talk you are there for me. I LOVE THIS. I had no idea people cared that I have never met. thank you for this. I will be trying to get into the swing of things soon, so please do not give up on me! My life is CRAZY, and if I can not fix it, I think about it way too much. I need to let go, and know things will work out as they need too. I have so much to do all of the time and it is so stressful that it takes from my creative side. It is funny that I am one way or another, no middle ground for me. I miss you all, and will try to get back in the game very soon. I tend to shut down socially during high stress. I do not think that it is a good thing, but I do not like to bring people down, life is hard as it is and you do not need my stuff on top of all yours. THANK YOU ALL.

My DIrty Little Secret

Really not so dirty or much of a secret, but I was hoping to get your attention for some comments. You know how I go to the casino for a little R&R. Well I have made Friends with a few of the bartenders at a video poker bar. This is new for me, the video poker thing, not meeting people, I have always been good at that one. Well, this bartender named Christian whom happens to be THE best bartender in world 9 times in a row! Huge feet if you could only see him in action, we have kind of struck up a friendship in a funny girl guy way. He knows I am very happy, married, with babe, but we click as friends. I tend to have male friends always have. Well any way, he has invited my husband and I or friend to the world bartender contest that happens to be in Vegas this year, and I am thinking this might be a fun thing to do! I was a bartender in my past life, meaning before marriage and motherhood, and loved it. I actually showed them a bar towel trick, that is very funny when you are with the girls havering a few cocktails. What was really funny, is not one of those twenty somethings had ever seen it, yes I felt like a dinosaur for a brief moment! But we had a laugh and I showed tham all how to do it. I know some people think is strange to have male friends, but not me, it's just the way I roll.. My husband knows me very well, and actually knows Christian from work, so this may be a lot of fun, and I can not wait to tell you all about it!

Hey, I can not tell you what I am thinking..

What has happened? Do I not have the secret code, or the brains to figure out why I can not leave some of you comments, Heather and Lisa. What happened, did you two change something on me, and my lack of computer technology is showing? I need to leave comments, I want to leave comments, and while I am begging, I want to be tagged too!! I would love to tell you guys things you do not know about me.. How pathetic am I to beg to be tagged, I realize I have not really earned it, but I think it would be really fun. ME ME ME please tag ME!! And I think I am ready to make my blog cool. What is the best way to go about this, for a not so computer literate person?? I am ready to pull up my skirt and join the big girls..

DAD IS IN TOWN

I have not been on your sites but I will be reading a catching up as soon as I can. My dad is with us a few day's and we are spending as much time with him as we can. So sorry about not leaving my usual smart ass remarks or advise, but I promise I will catch up this week. By the way, I took down my last blog do to the back lash!! I should have seen that one coming. My friends read them, but do not have a blog, what is up with that? They should make everyone have a site with some sort of something so you know who has been watching you! I think that should be a BLOG LAW!! LOL Miss you all and I can not wait to read all your fun and interesting words of wisdom and smartassness soon.. I do not think that is a word, but I like the way it sounds, smartassness!! CHEERS..

You all have so much to say

For some reason I seem to be at a loss of words in writing. I think I am so overwhelmed with my stuff that my brain has frozen, can that happen? The other day I put whore instead of wore. I was so embarrassed, but so happy a blogger brought this to my attention. Thank you for that, people must think I am a losing it. Then I went to write a blog and I could not post, so I started getting paranoid that I was in trouble for using that word! I notice I have been a bit more freaked about rules since that crazy cat law I broke. Whatever the case maybe, I am hoping to get back into the swing of things soon, and am able to write like I did. Most of you are keeping up with your blog, and it is amazing me how much cool, and interesting things you have to say. On a good note, my father's doctors think they caught his cancer early, and we will find out more next week. Until then I think he is coming to see me tomorrow for a short visit before surgery. He loves his grandson whom has no idea what is going on, and will not understand if we do not see grandpas for a long time. I need to get a video camera, we have not found ours since the move and I feel like we are missing so much stuff. He is at such a great age, and learning new things every day.

Holy cow, I need a hobbie

I have decided I need a relaxing Hobie to do. I have made jewelery, worked with ceramics, read, blogging, done art, well doodle art. I like to walk. So this is what I am thinking. Yes I would like to lose 30 pounds, but I eat well. I have never been a big eater, I am sure I do not eat enough for my metabolism. That whole starve your body you hold fat thing. I have been trying to eat more, like the little meal thing, and have a Pilate's dvd for beginners. So I think this will be my new hobbies for a while, and it will, it will, help me relax.. What do you think, Oh ya, I also have a personal trampoline. I was talking about colon hydothapy on another blog site, it is something I did in LA when I had more time and definitely more money. This therapy is the bomb. It gives you more energy then EVER, flattens your stomach, and makes your skin look great. It is really good for you and if any of you have any questions about it pleas ask me, because I highly recommend it for anyone. We have so much build up of tokens in are intestines, it would blow your mind!! You also have a diet you need to stick with, bread is out, it just lumps in you, red meat very little, more of a chicken, veg, little fruit, and a ton, I am talking a ton of water. Oh ya, the killer for me, was no coffee.. As it was put to me, coffee is like heroin too the body. Just very very bad for you, and I love it!!! So back to the eating. I have been eating turkey burgers, or veg burgers, with mixed greens and tomato, also a few green onions. All I put on it, is very very good EVOO, and a little SPIKE. You can find it all over now, I have had it from the 70's when my parents had a health food store. I also wore Birkenstock before you all new about them.. LOL Not really proud of that. So my theory on the weight loss thing is that you, we all know what you can eat, and what you need to do to lose weight, you just need to be ready for it, mind set. That is the hard part, being ready to commit to a lifestyle change. Good luck to all on this venture. I am so glad I am not alone!!

You know how I thought I loved VEGAS..Well

So I get this notice from the home committee board. (Man, I have a better name for them, that would be rude)! Well any way, it seems a wonderful neighbour complained about my cat deification on there landscape. OK, I AGREE, NOT COOL. But I would tell the pearson I had a problem with them, rather then report them! I mean to me that would be what you would do, unless you are a (chicken $@%#, back stabbing $#@%!! A$$ Hole!! I am fuming at this point, because of all the. HEY NEIGHBOUR, Sweet as pie. I told you guys something was wrong when I first started blogging. Actually I am very proud of that blog, it was very funny, especially the step ford wife stuff. ( IT WAS CALLED THE NEIGHBOURHOOD dated Nov. 22, 2008.) Now I know I sound really pissed off, and let me tell you why. My poor cat Nigel, stays in at night, and likes to run and roll in the sun in the day. He even comes for walks with us, and jumps out to scare us. He love us, and right now the anger has been overcome with weeping. I called animal control, to see if that was a law, and not only is it a law that your cat can not poop on another persons prop, but they also warned me that we have a leash law, YES, as leash law for dogs and cats!! What the!! So if your cat is not locked in the house, he or she must be on a leash!! OK, I am from California, and this seem really messed up to me. Cats are meant to roam, HELLO!! My cat is fixed. he is friendly, and there is a house on my block that has 4 roaming cats, that spray my house, and eats my cat food. Really my cat, poops in the dirt in my yard, that I have scooped up every day so my kid could play poop free. So I bet you anything my cat is being falsely accused because you can see him better then the others. He is huge and Orange! OK, back to why I am so angry and sad. I think this is animal abuse, not to allow the cat to do it's natural thing! So I have decided to ask my aunt if she would like to take him. She lives in a wonderful area with all kinds of fun cat things to do outside. Did I happened to mention, that I have to take my cat to be licensed on Monday, because GOD forbid the animal control people get him, it cost you $1200 YES $1200 to get them out of cat jail if they do not have a licence. So, I do not like Vegas very much right now! I have to give my cat up, whom would be very unhappy living like an inside cat, or on a leash the rest of his life. Comments welcome on this one as always, because I am seriously thinking about sending out a mailer too my block, about 12 homes, to blast the person who did this, anonymously of course.. Why did you not call me, because now that you have done this I am afraid you will call animal control, and have poor Nigel arrested, and I can not make this vivacious cat live by these laws. IT'S NOT NORMAL!!

The lady In Pink

I was out doing all kinds of errands today, and what do I see. A sight I have not seen in many moons, and forgot people even did it this! A woman walking into my bank with cute black tight caprice, a nice belt, a beautiful black blouse, then the dreaded pink scarf trying to mask her hair rollers, that her very bleached blond hair was stuck too. She also had some sexy high heel sandals on with a little anklet. But I think the best part of this was, at second glance, this woman was no spring chicken, no, not at all. This woman was a little old cougar, about 60 or more. Wow was she working it, and yes she had the hot pink lips to match that satin scarf covering her huge rollers, fake lashes, a lot of gold as well. This is just one more thing I love about Vegas. Some gals, never give up.. GOOD ON THEM. Though I would never have the nerve to do that.. I see some of your eyes rolling, (STOP IT), I am a mom now!! That will only happen if I go completely delusional and think I am 30 again, or on Halloween, or some sort of waked party.. OK, give me an excuse and I would do it..

I love to play black jack

I seem to have a little knack for black jack right now, and it could not one at a better time! Every time I go lately, I walk out with 40 to 140 dollars.. I get food comps at this great steak house, and I know half the pit bosses and dealers now. It is a strange thing to be known at a casino. I even came in 2nd in a black jack tournament. Who would have thunk it. Me a mom of a 2 year old, in her 40's, becoming a card shark. OK, OK, not a shark, but really enjoying myself. That was something I never saw coming. And trust me, I like to walk out with money, so I never push my luck too far. My husband likes it as well, me coming home with a little cash 3 nights a week. Tonight will be the last night I go for 5 days, so wish me big luck. I have to say, I DO LOVE VEGAS!

I AM BACK,

I really wish you all a happy new year, and hope yours has started off way better then mine! First off Christmas was great, and my father came to hang with us, we gambled and had a really good time. Then my dad came back like 13 days later after he had, had some test run that every one should have done at his age. We gambled, took Godzilla out for dinner (HE IS SO GOOD), and hung at the park. During this time my husband was going through some stuff at the new job, that by the was the only reason we moved so far from everyone. It seems the economy is even taking a big toll on Vegas, and they had to lay off people and cut back hours, and just not enough hours for us to live on. We actually thought his job was going to go away. Well a miracle happened yesterday, his boss and one of the big wigs went to bat for my husband, (Whom by the way is GREAT at what he does) and they have made a commitment to us with no hour cut and a raise as soon as they can.. OK, joy, joy RIGHT? WRONG! My father calls me before My husband calls with his terrific news. My fathers diagnosis is COLON CANCER! He had test run during that 2 weeks between visits with us, and got the results yesterday.. I am devastated! I have never wanted to say my father has cancer, I still do not want to say it! But what I will say, is that my father will beat cancer, my father once had cancer, yes, cancer runs in my family, but my father's is gone. Those are the things I will be saying. I also want to throw a shout out to Aunt Pauline, Carletta and Dad. You all know why, THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HARTS. I do not know what would have happened to us without you!! You saved our BUTTS!!!! And I will talk about it when we are done.

So I promise that I will blog about better things, yet will keep you posted on my father. And thank you for all the prayers that have been sent my way, but directed at my father. People are praying for you dad, churches have your name, watch out GOD may smile upon you, because you are the best dad ever!!! And I want you around, with a good quality of life.