Blog Site

After having this blog for sometime now ... I have finally went to "Blogs for Dummies" and figured out how to search for other blogs on this site, (yes there is actually a blog for dummies site).

I have come across some of the greatest stories! I have laughed and cried reading and reading.

I am so happy to see that there are so many out there that are in a lot of the same situations I am in ... the old "Glad to see I'm not the only one" thing. Once you realize, even though you knew, it makes you feel better. Thanks fellow bloggers.

Go Georgia BullDogs!!!

Georgia beat Florida Gators today, what a great game! Hanging out with friends, cooking out steaks on the grill, and a great football game with cool Fall weather. Saturdays just don't get better than this!

Teens love Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp has to be the most gorgeous man ... but teens in love with him? I don't get it ...

I remember when I was young, 13 to 16 ... I had crushes on famous people, but they were usually my age, or close to. I would say the oldest would have been around 21 ... but a 14 year old in love with a 44 year old man????

But then I remembered ... Elvis! Oh yeah, when I was 14 Elvis was 41, and I was so in love with him. So I guess it does make sense.

This is how it always is with Teenagers ... we completely brush them off as silly or immature, without even remembering how it was when we were doing the same thing. I think the "thinking it through" thing I try to always do, has helped make mine and my daughter's relationship to special.

Superstition

OK . . . so I'm superstitious! I can't help it though, thanks to my Dad (who I love and miss so much!), he was very superstitious about everything.

Once again, I face taking down the Christmas decorations before the New Year, or it is severe bad luck! As you might have guessed, my 17 year old daughter was suppose to help me . . . but again, dating has messed that up, and now I am stuck putting away all of the beautiful decorations alone. Which is a chore!

It is really sad when it's all gone, but is so rewarding to sit down, have a glass of wine, and relax knowing that you are done with the huge change over for another year. I wonder if when my daughter moves out one day, if I will just put up a few things and not do the big tree and all the decorations? Maybe there will be someone in my life by then, and they can help . . . so it won't be such a chore.

I guess I need to add that to the list of "what do you think about . . . ", when I am asking them the get to know you questions. "What do you think about superstitious people, are you superstitious?" "Did you know that you were suppose to take down the Christmas decor before the 1st of the year, or it's bad luck?" They might think I'm nuts!

Bad Family Get Together, Again!

OMG! I'm just writing yesterday about Family Get Togethers, and how ours is the worst because of my Mom . . . well, once again, today with the family is ruined because she is a nut. I know that sounds horrible, talking about my Mom like that, but she is awful.

She just recently visited Canada with her senior friends group (she is 78), and they went to some shows while there. There was one show that was music on stag while they had dinner (dinner and music she called it) . . . the music was BLUE GRASS. Now I like some country, but not much, and I really don't like Blue Grass (which she knows). But she does, and so she bought the DVD of the performance.

After we had our Christmas Lunch, and then opened presents . . . she puts in the DVD and tells us all to be quite and listen. Once it started, and it was Blue Grass, I asked how long the DVD was? "Two hours, and its the best show you will ever see!" I almost cried . . . to think I was going to sit through 2 hours of something I hated. I said, out loud to everyone. . . "after we watch this, I have an ACDC concert DVD that we are all going to be forced to watch!" She didn't think it was funny. She can't see that you can't force someone to watch or listen to music they don't like.

But . . . trying to not cause a problem, I sat there watching this awful Blue Grass band play. And I have been forced to watch and listen to a lot of Blue Grass in my life, so I know that this band really wasn't good.

The camera man was going around the audience, and Mom said, "now look for me, I might be on the DVD, they were taking pictures." I asked if they told her that the DVD she was purchasing was one made that night, or if they already had some made up to sell from prior shows, and she didn't know.

She was angry that I was talking during the music.

So I kept quiet and just started looking for her in the audience, when finally I saw her. "LOOK MOM, THERE YOU ARE!" She didn't even look at me, just completely ignored me with a smirk on her face. I said, "Mom, did you hear me, you were there in the audience, they just showed you, did you see it?" She said, in a smarty pants tone, "I tried to tell you, but you wouldn't listen!" I just got up and told everyone bye and we left.

Maybe I was being a baby, but she just gets under my skin. And as usual, she will call me tomorrow, and act as if nothing happened. If I bring up the issue, she will say, "you're silly, you misunderstood, or . . . I didn't do/say that," because she has done that all my life, no matter how many witnesses are in the room, they don't want to argue with her, so they will just say, I didn't hear anything, I didn't see anything.

I have to keep telling myself that I have a nut for a Mom, just to teach me how not to be with my child, or (one day) with grandchildren. I never want to be like her, and I will go out of my way not to force anyone to listen to something they don't like, and I will not put down something they like, as if my taste in something is better or the only way to go.

Blogs

I was just looking through some of the blogs posted on this sight, a lot in another language that I had to pass by . . . and a few that were "SPAM" selling stuff . . . but then there were families, happy families. Posting pictures of their families and new babies, beautiful smiles, and it made me smile to think that there are still happy families out there.

Although I love my family, I dread any holiday get togethers. My Mom is the worst, she creates so much stress . . . rushing, yelling, excited about everything. I dread the get togethers and can't wait to get out of there. I know that one day my Mom, who I love dearly, won't be around. But I am sure that this issue is just another learning experience for me to learn how to NEVER be. I believe this is why I keep a lot of thoughts tied up inside, as I do not want to be like my Mom. (Thank God for Blogs, to get my feelings out!)

This is why I enjoyed looking at the happy families on this blog site . . . tells me there are families out there that are normal. And I hope one day to have a normal holiday get together with my daughter (when she marries and has children), and it is a relaxed, none yelling love fest!

Almost Christmas

Wow! It's been along time . . . I have finally gotten around to writing. I shouldn't have stayed away so long, as I love putting my feelings down, seems to make me feel better.

So much has happened since I was last on here. I was laid off from my job, nice severence pkg! Started a new job 1 wk later, and it's in another area of Georgia, so I am working from home. Going from 38 miles one way everyday, to walking from the kitchen to the office is quite the change! And what perfect timing with gas prices getting up so high. This all happened end of March, first of April 2006 . . . so I have been spoiled with working from home for about 8 months now.

When the new job first happened, I had to jump on it due to being a single mom, I can't go unemployed . . . but the catch is, once my daughter graduates in 2008, we would move to this new area (125 miles away from where we live now).

My daughter didn't have a problem doing that, as there are great colleges where this new area is, and we were looking at it as an adventure!

THEN JULY 2006 CAME ALONG! You see, July 2006 is when my beautiful 17 yr old daughter met the love of her life, "her soul-mate". And now, she doesn't want to move, doesn't want to leave him, doesn't want anything to do with anything that doesn't include him!!!

Don't get me wrong, he is a great guy . . . but . . . if he is her "soul-mate" wouldn't you think he would follow her anywhere she goes! Right now, looks like I am moving in 2008, with or without her. She will be 18 and will have to decide what she wants to do.

Alone again! But you won't hear me complain, I am going to keep looking at this as an adventure, and hopefully God had a plan for me moving there, maybe my "soul-mate" is waiting there for me!