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B.: Hey Socio! So far so good....I was graced with dreams of Vin Diesel.... That alone is enough to put a smile on my face!
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~Hussy~ : Top O' the morning to ya TT!!!
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Blythe: blog hopping here... nice journal. take it easy and enjoy the long weekend!
Headcase: Hey sis! I hope that you are enjoying your classes so far. Just wanted to say HI
llowid: hi...
Marce aka Qayin: Hey there B!!!! Been missin ya! Just wanted to stop by and give a & a
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Matty: Hi B!
Ajay: Hey B!
Headcase/Sociopath: Hey B!!! I hope all is going well for you and your family. We are gonna get a really good storm soon! I will have to go outside and watch it once I get home. Talk to ya soon sis, take care. peace out...
Marce: Hey there ! Just wanted to stop by and say LOVE YA! Missed that weekly chat like KRAZY! Happy Easter!
Ajay: Hey B! Just popping by to say hi!
brownrice2005: I just thought I'd drop by to say hi.... It's almost 12:30 and my plan as far as sleep started at 10 but somehow, I'm still typin' away...
Shari: Just saying Hey B. --Luv ya much. Have a great TT day.
Headcase/Sociopath: Hey there B!!! long time no talk. I hope Michael is feeling better, poor kid. just wanted to say what's up? peace out... haha I am silly today
B: Hey Ajay! Sup o.c.c.
o.c.c.: yo sup peoples
Ajay: Hey B! Sailing by...
Matty: Happy St. Patricks Day!
Shari : Hey -- Happy St Pats day. I love desperado ... nice tunes
~Hussy~ : Happy St. Patty's day TT! I hope you are having a great one and I MISS you! It's way TOO quiet without you...spooky really *looks around* Come back soon!
Headcase/Sociopath: Hey sis!!! I hope your day with yout TT is going well!..
Matty: Hey B! Sorry i haven't stopped by in a few days, work is hectic .. i need a vacation
Hussy: Your being quiet again TT!! Give me a shout out!
Headcase/Sociopath: Hey sis!!! I hope you get some writing done. I find myself web surfing alot when I try to write. So what I have discovered to stop the temptation is... I have to stay offline so I can behave, hehehe. Well just wanted to drop by and wish you luck.
Hussy: Good morning TT! It's Tuesday. One day closer to TT DAY!!!!! Lets pray for good writing! Come on MUSES!!!
dearabby94: thanks for visiting. i'm doing ok just busy and i need to be.
B: I'm doing much better today. Thanks Ajay!
Ajay: Hey B! Hope you're doing okay!
Headcase/Sociopath: Hell yeah sis!!! I need my Ryan as always....
B: Hope you enjoy your weekend and watch some OZ for me too Headcase! You know how much I love my OZ!
B: Well Happy Friday and a great weekend to You too Shari and Mel! I hope you feel better Shari!
Mel: Hey there, wishing you a great friday and a great weekend
Shari: TGIF there B Baby. I'm a bit on the sick side, but hope you are rockin!
~hussy~ : Where ya at TT? Your awfully quiet!
Headcase/Sociopath: HAPPY FRIDAY!!! *does the friday dance* I hope that you have a good weekend sis!!! I am gonna be sooo haha. I think I am in need of some OZ this weekend. Well I am off but I wanted to say ello...
B: I'm feeling ornery today because I am in such a great mood sooo.... HAHAHA!
B: Yeeeaaaahhhhhh! TGIF!!!
~Hussy~: G'morning TT! TGIF!
Mel: hey there...hope you had a good day so far!
brownrice2005: Hello! Thanks for dropping by my crib. Now, you're it!

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Sunday, July 24th 2005

10:54 PM (1700 days, 20h, 57min ago)

Rambling on.....

  • Mood: Moody
  • Music: Buggles jaggering 90 miles a minute in my lap
  • Thinking About: How far away Florida seems at the moment
  • Eating/Drinking: ice water

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near. ~Samuel Hoffenstein

I second that sentiment. Bored, restless and lonely, I decided to surf for a good quote about it and BINGO! Here I was, thinking about my family and how nice it is when they are around...my parents, Jim, cousins. The temporary uhm...we will call it reprieve from writing that they provide is nice. Once in a while it is nice to have company, people around other than the characters I so lovingly *cough* breathe life into. REAL people talking to me about REAL things, ones that want to hear what is on my mind and care about what is going on with my life. Not just urging me vehemently to tell their story and speak their thoughts. Yet when they go, it is almost like they have opened a void in me. One that at times like this, when I feel so isolated, alone, and far away from the ones that I love...I wish had remained closed.

I love these people so dear to my heart with a PASSION!! BUT..and there is a but, much like the quote, there are times I find myself LONGING to be elsewhere when they are around. Not VERY often, but it does happen. Anyone who has any creativity in them at all knows what I mean. You just get the URGE to work. You have a brilliant idea and you want to run with it, but you feel obligated to ‘play with others.’ The more time that goes by when you are socializing, the more restless you become. After a long period of time, you seem to go through some sort of writing withdraw. At least I do. After my muses have gone from whispering, to shouting, to tantrums and rage, they sit with their lip curled and a discontented growl. I tend to start to feel much the same way.

Writing often seems to me to be a double edged sword. It is a solitary work, that often leaves you spending many hours alone. Maybe you do it so much, you want to be alone, but no one likes to be alone all of the time. I love spending time with loved ones....I guess just not too much. I NEED to write when I get the urge. Lucky for me, they have come to understand this and accept it. It’s not depression that makes me stay holed up for days and cut conversations short, it’s a HUNGER that needs sated. It’s the times they don’t understand, I feel guilted into sitting on a couch pretending to stare at the pictures on the screen though my mind is a million miles away, or nights like now when I WANT someone to talk to that the above quote rings eerily true.

With all of these odd emotions brewing, I think it would be a good time to work some more on Inferno. By most beloved work...my Baby. Inferno is based mainly on Dino Ortolani and OZ. Such a rage-a-holic, Dino is a tormented soul prone to express it through violence. Seems there is only one place for both of us that can truly be called home and not be alone...and that is Angst Anonymous. Like I said, writing is often a double edged sword.

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Thursday, July 21st 2005

1:55 PM (1704 days, 5h, 56min ago)

Dreams

  • Mood: reflective
  • Music: Spirit of Enya~Marc Bradley
  • Thinking About: dreams...working a bit on my midieval novel
  • Eating/Drinking: Diet Mt. Dew

~ "I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind." ~Emily Bronte Englist novelist.

Dreams....are they merely the unconscious wishes of our soul? Are they warnings, advice from some unseen force, or just a side effect from a mind too busy to shut down even when the body does? Many people have had dreams come true in one form or another. Some dream in vivid colors, some in black in white, and even a few unfortunate souls claim to never dream at all. My favorites are the people who not only dream while asleep, but in their waking hours. The writers, the poets, the artists, the children playing make believe games. I think it is dreamers that grace the world with their visions and provide much needed distraction and a form of enjoyment from the grueling routine and reality of day to day life.

Whatever these slide shows are that play at night, I am forever grateful to them. They reunite me with friends and family that are no longer here, they stir long lost memories and inspire new passions. It’s like catching a free movie every night, often with yourself as a starring role. So many times, a dream has prompted me to pick up the phone and get in touch with a friend, to treasure those around me a little more, or to pick up my pen and write. The few hours before dawn each night when I close my eyes and drift away are often some of my most inspiring hours. The time when muses whisper in your ear and guide you along the way.

Some dreams, like a well composed song, can haunt you for a life time. Some play pleasantly on your mind, lingering through out the day like a sweet kiss. Often, they are reminders that life is short, beautiful, and something to be lived; not taken for granted. So...here’s to the dreamers of the world...may they find you and may you have the courage to follow them.

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Tuesday, July 19th 2005

12:25 PM (1706 days, 7h, 26min ago)

  • Mood: Happy~pensive
  • Music: When The Children Cry~White Lion
  • Thinking About: Writing
  • Eating/Drinking: Diet coke and a granola bar

   ~Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.~Jessamyn West

For the most part...I could not have said it better myself.  At least pertaining to my own situation.  I tend to be a really solitary person.  I live in my own little world 90% of the time and honestly, prefer it that way.  Writing though, has not yet become and occupation (maybe someday if the literary Gods smile on me) but an obsession.  I LIVE to write.  Somedays it is the only thing that keeps me going. 

There are days when I can sit at my keyboard for hours, my fingers moving quickly and things come to me so easily, and others where I stare at the wall.  The good days...are a mixture of that quote.  When I am on a roll, I hate to be interrupted.  It's just me, my music, and the words in my head.  Interruptions do have a tendancy to make me a bit savage in those cases.  I can go from a quiet form in the corner, spilling out my life's blood in words to a raging inferno in .5 seconds flat. 

It's not that I don't love my family or even the unfortunate friend that breaks the flow.  It's that they have broken the thing that I strived so hard to get in the first place.  Ten minutes of quiet...let alone silence is NOT something that comes often or easily in my house. 

So, yeah...family and friends can become the enemy when you write.  Nothing is worse than knowing you are on a roll only to have it be broken and totally lose your train of thought or the delicious images in your mind...to be told something stupid and unimportant like it is raining.  Or because the cat thinks that the letters going across the screen rapidly are a form of amusement for it.  Hey!  It's not like I was actually TRYING to do anything here!  Just walk across the keyboard...no problem!

There is one exception.  One major inexplicable one...I can't write without my Twin around!  I feel no inspiration when I can't get online and the only way to fix that was to pick up the phone and gab with her.  Still, I would find myself writing a sentence or two only to find myself DESPERATE to know what she thought.  Was it good?  Was I on the right track or was my story quickly turning into a marketable form of drug free sleep aide?  LOL..sounds pathetic, I know!!!  But it is TRUE!  Its almost like I need her stamp of approval on everything I am writing or its meaningless!  Maybe I am just the ultimate feedback whore or *GASP* I really am a PRAG and need someone to hold my hand every step of the way in my literary life! 

I was just wondering if any one else out there has similar experiences.  Do you feel volatile if you are interrupted when you are doing something?  It doesn't have to be writing, just a certain activity when you think by all rights and means...HEAVEN and EARTH should go OUT of their way to accomodate you and leave you BE? Is there one person who is not only immune to that wrath, but welcome to interrupt no matter what?  Who's opinion is almost vital to you being able to continue?

I know many turn to their editors or family for guidance...I think every writer has that one special reader or person in their life who's approval they seek over all others.  The one who will flat out tell you something sucks so you don't make a fool out of yourself by sharing it...who has priceless suggestions and an impartial objective view on your work.  If not, you need to find one...even after the 50 plus corrections and the bald patches when you pull your hair out in frustration trying to find the RIGHT way to go about things

...I think you will still find them a Godsend.







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Monday, July 18th 2005

11:33 AM (1707 days, 8h, 18min ago)

I'm BAAAA_AAAAAACK

  • Mood: Estatic
  • Music: Southern Belle~ Richie Sambora
  • Thinking About: How I can torment the rest of the world
  • Eating/Drinking: Diet...yep, that's right COKE
Yeah that's right kiddies....cringe in fear...shudder...weep for all the good it will do you!  ROFL  After a draining move and some minor rennovations...I have finally gotten my lifeline reinstalled.  WEG  I can't even put into words how GREAT it feels to be able to chat with my TT again and write and read all of the works that I loved indulging in before.  There were a lot of people that I grew to know and consider friends as well and I can't wait to touch bases with them again.  It's hard to explain just how damn happy the NET makes me, but it does!  I don't have too much to say for right now except..YES YES YES!!!!  FINALLY!!!  I'm sure later or maybe even tomorrow I will have some more insightful thoughts.  I thought it was only fiar to give the rest of the world fair warning and give them time to dive for shelter and hide in their little holes!  LOL  ~until next time~ B
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Friday, May 13th 2005

6:49 PM (1773 days, 1h, 2min ago)

What is missing??

  • Mood: Deep despair
  • Music: Incomplete
  • Thinking About: Life, death, friends...

I don't know.  All I do know is this is my journal and I have been undergoing some serious break downs in private.  I need to think aloud and get things off of my chest.  It seems crazy, to even be sad in my position.  I mean, I have a great family.  My mother, God bless her heart has done a pretty damn good job raising me and I think we are closer than any mother and daughter I know.  I'm buying my first home and it is well over 100K.  Hell of a starter home.  At 25, my income is now in the triple digits...but I'm not happy.  I feel so empty inside.  There is so much truth to the saying that money can't buy happiness.  Even though I look around and am doing so much better than almost anyone I know...I would trade places with them in a heart beat.

I try to fill all the voids in my life with superficial relationships.  With keeping myself so busy that I don't have time to think.  School...family...work...writing.  All I have managed to do is run myself into the ground with exhaustion and stess.  I read that Ryan is much the same way, and I wonder if maybe it isn't for the same reasons.  If I have five minutes to myself, I guarantee that my mind will wander and my heart will break.  How can one person who has so much feel that way?  It's actually a very simple answer, really.  Lonliness...the feeling of never really being complete.

I have my mother.  That's really it.  I think.  Those of you that know me, know yeah, I share my house with a man one or two nights a week if that.  It's so hard to go through life and not have anyone to really share it with.  Not the laughter, not the joy, not the tears.  Absense doesn't bother me...it's the fact that even when I do see him...we don't do those things.  I think sometimes it's just convenient for both of us...I do my thing, he does his.  I take care of him when he's around and he takes care of me when he isn't.  All the money in the world can't replace love or fill the void inside.  It just doesn't and any woman who thinks it does or would trade one for the other is insane.  I don't know what to do.  Sometimes, I just crave love so much...attention...just someone knowing that I am alive.  I'm someone who exists and is worth knowing.

I'm more brave in here than in person.  I feel like this is private because only maybe one person who REALLY knows me and who I am reads this.  Otherwise, I guess I'm a hard person to really get close to.  I must be..I don't know.  I have tons of aquaintances, but I sat down and thought about this last night.  I only have one FRIEND.  One person that I can talk to about anything, besides my mom.  That if I am lonely, I can pick up the phone and call.  Sometimes, I just want to talk...to hear another person's voice, have a conversation. 

I don't know why that is.  There are very few people that I have been close with in my life.  One is out of the country with her husband and has been for the last few years.  When she comes home, it's great...when she's gone, it's like a tiny part of me is missing.  The rest of them...for some reason or another, at one point has turned around and bit me in the ass.  I guess I have a cursed knack for only believing the best about people when I do begin to feel close to them.  Once I do, I will love ya to death and become VERY loyal.  I would die for my friends.  Heh...they tend to be the ones that kill me though.

I just feel like I am wandering through life alone.  Very...and completely alone.  How much can one girl do with her mom?  MY mom is the coolest, funniest person.  I get my humor from her, and I do tend to be the life in a room.  I have loved men that turned out to be utter monsters.  Loved ones I couldn't have for one reason or another...and lost most of my friends in life.  I have tried to figure out why...what I was doing wrong and the only thing I can think of was I love too much.  I will do anything for someone I care about...things I don't want to do...be unhappy just to see them smile.  People take advantage of that.  People also take for granted the people who care about them.  Its human nature.

So anyway...here I am, thinking about my mom.  She is dying.  Slowly, not as fast as with cancer, but from a disease just the same.  She has emphysema, glycoma...acid reflux...God my poor mom.  she already has health problems from not getting enough oxygen.  That is what really drove home the fact that I am losing her.  Then she tells me and the family that when she can't breathe anymore, that's it.  She made us swear that we would not let the doctors hook her up to breathing machines.  So now, everyday, I look at this woman, who I love more than anything in this entire fucking world...and know that someday, I am going to have to watch her die a horrible death right before my eyes.  It fucking kills me.  I would do anything to trade places with her.  I try to make the most of each day...spend lots of time with her and make her smile...but I don't think I will make it without my mom.  What will I have left? 

I think of the only friend I really have.   Sometimes, I get so scared that I will say or do something wrong.  Every day, I thank God for her, but remind myself that I don't need to call her everyday.  I'm afraid of smothering her.  Of seeming too needy.  I distance myself, but then things just feel different.  I don't have a best friend.  Maybe I don't need one.  I have a "sister" and a mom.  One, I never see and the other one is slipping away from me.  I think of the friends I have lost.  Four to car accidents...some to life period.  Death sucks, it is the one thing that you can't chase away and it has always haunted me and my loved ones closely.  It may sound dramatic, but since I was 8, I have lost a total of 10 immediate family members and 4 very close friends. 

I have been listening to this song and God it ripps me up because it is how I feel about so many people in so many different ways.  Some I will never be able to reach out to again and say that to...I'm not normally a pop girl..nor do I care for boy bands at all, but this one touched my heart deeply.  Until next time...

Empty spaces fill me up with holes
Distant faces with no place left to go
Without you within me I can’t find no rest
Where I’m going is anybody’s guess

I’ve tried to go on like I never knew you
I’m awake but my world is half asleep
I pray for this heart to be unbroken
But without you all I’m going to be is incomplete

Voices tell me I should carry on
But I am swimming in an ocean all alone
Baby, my baby
It’s written on your face
You still wonder if we made a big mistake

I’ve tried to go on like I never knew you
I’m awake but my world is half asleep
I pray for this heart to be unbroken
But without you all I’m going to be is incomplete

I don’t mean to drag it on, but I can’t seem to let you go
I don’t wanna make you face this world alone
I wanna let you go (alone)

I’ve tried to go on like I never knew you
I’m awake but my world is half asleep
I pray for this heart to be unbroken
But without you all I’m going to be is incomplete

Incomplete

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Friday, May 6th 2005

1:21 AM (1780 days, 18h, 30min ago)

Beautiful Disaster??

  • Mood: Perky
  • Music: Beautiful Disaster....was this song written about Ryan or what??? Ok TT maybe Keller too...LOL
  • Thinking About: SLEEEP.....ZZZZZZ
  • Eating/Drinking: Diet Coke with lime

That song, just the titel of it truly is how I feel about my life right now.  I am extremely tired, so just for those of you that know me, care, or are even remotely interested...YES I AM STILL ALIVE!!!  LOL

I have just been so busy lately I hardly know up from down.  I enrolled in college in March..Or maybe it was April.  LOL  Anyways, I am working on getting an Associate's Degree in Criminal Justice.  Add to that house hunting, finally finding the PERFECT house and getting ready to move, not to mention an extremely demanding ( and that is an understatement that anyone who has had a phone conversation with me in the last 4 months can verify) 23 month old...and I have had no me time, let alone the time I need to do the things I have to do.  We are all set to close on the house May 16th...12 days before my 26th birthday.  I am elated.  We have moved 9 times in the last 8 years and never owned our own home before.  This one is stunning...11 rooms.  Family room with a stone fire place, custom made cabinets that are unbeliveable....some of them with etched glass and light up inside.  Matching ones that are china cabinets built into the family room.  Living room, dining room, music room, 4 beedrooms, 2 bathrooms and an office.  I never imagined we would be able to buy our own home with all of the med problems I have had, let alone such a nice one and in an ab fab neighborhood...not to mention the added bonus of being next to the fireman's house.  The fire station has a house where the firemen live when they are on duty so there is potential hottie spotting...erm...I mean no.  So just to answer any questions...I am still alive and actually very happy.  I love ya (to my friends and you know who you are) and I even managed to get a new chapter finished today that I started ohhh 2 months ago.  LOL  Anywhooo.....life is for once going great for me and I hope you all can say the same.

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Monday, March 21st 2005

12:50 PM (1826 days, 6h, 1min ago)

Ehh....Look

  • Mood: Still thoughtful, but beginning to feel perky!
  • Music: Crossfade~Cold
  • Thinking About: LUNCH!!
  • Eating/Drinking: Another can of diet coke.

That last entry was pretty depressing even from my standpoint.  I really don't want to leave things off like that.  It wasn't meant to bring anyone down or even a bid for sympathy.  Everyone's life is full of trials, pain, and difficulties.  It was just what was on my mind at the moment.  I can make you all laugh though, I swear!

If you take a look above, you will see a neopet link.  Mwahahaha!  I was really bored last week caught in the throes of writer's block.  That was the cure.  It's pretty fun and I love the mini games.  ANYWHO...that little Eyrie, his name is Rymon Seawell.  That is the lovechild pet of my Cresty and Simon muses.  Ryan/Simon =Rymon.  Seacrest/cowell=Seawell.  Pretty funny huh?  Maybe no, LOL but it amused me and my muses.  The funny thing is, I swear that bird KNOWs who he is and it ACTS like Ryan!  Fucking metrosexual ninny of a pet!

He won't eat junk food...I groomed him and he said, "Yay!  Thanks, I look pretty good.  Can we go play some games now?"  I was like WHOA...WTF??  Yeah...my bird takes after Ryan.  LMAO.  He sulks if he doesn't get new presents or clothes or enough attention.  He pouted about not having a house and told me he wanted a pretty mansion.  It is supposed to be a MALE bird!  ROFL..

Ahh well.  The great news is that my writer's block is over.  I got a new chapter of Simon Says posted last week and am working on a new one.  Soooo....really, I am not as down and gloomy as that last post sounded.  Sometimes we just have to get certain things off of our chests and that was one of them!  I'm outta here to write!

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Monday, March 21st 2005

11:21 AM (1826 days, 7h, 29min ago)

The beginning of an incredibly long week.

  • Mood: Thoughtful.
  • Music: Broken~Seether & Amy Lee
  • Thinking About: My family. Jim and when I will see him again. My son, hoping he feels better.
  • Eating/Drinking: Diet Coke.

~Cuz I'm broken when I'm open and I don't feel like I am strong enough.  Cuz I'm broken when lonesome and I don't feel right when you're gone away.  Cuz I'm broken when I'm lonesome and I don't feel right when you're gone.  You've gone away, you don't feel me anymore.~ Seether & Amy Lee~ Broken

This is one of the most beautiful songs ever.  I'm listening to it now, thinking about so many things with such a mixture of emotions that it will be hard to put them into words.  I will try.

Yesterday, everyone from my mother's side of the family got together to celbrate St. Patrick's day as a family.  All except for the part that lives in PA.  We had a wonderful time eating, talking, and laughing all day.  MY mom really went all out on her decorating.  We enjoyed a traditional Irish dinner of corned beef, mashed potatoes, and cooked cabbage and carrots.  Afterwards, my cousins, mother, aunt, dad, and I all sat in the dinining room drinking chocolate raspberry coffee and savoring cinnamon sugar topped pisatchio pudding cake.  We go to reversing all of our names and laughing so hard we cried.  For example my dad's name ended up being Drawde Sicnarf.  LMAO.  Several times, I sat back and looked around at the beauty of these moments and my mother's house in all of it's festive glory and really missed my grandma.  She died two days before mother's day almost 6 years ago.  I was 8 months pregnant with my daughter Jamie at the time.

It was all very sudden.  For a few months, she had been complaining that her leg hurt.  One day, she collapsed.  She was hospitalized and very sick.  She had a blood clot in her leg that had broken up and traveled into her upper body.  There was nothing they could do.  For two weeks, I traveled back and forth from Clinton, where I was living at the time to Cleveland.  My son still remembers tossing pennys into the fountain at the hospital as I sat tossing them in one after another wishing and praying that she would get better.  The blood clots caused my grandmother to go into multi system organ faliure and she went into a coma.  They kept her on high doses of morphine to dull the pain and for a few days she was on a ventilator in ICU.  The day before she died, I went in and told her how much I loved her and tried so hard not to cry as I held her hand.  I told her that she was going to be with the angels that she loved so much and not to be scared.  I told her how much I wished that she could see the new great grandchild that she had been looking forward so much and asked her to look after her and be her angel.  I lost a child shortly before I got pregnant with Jamie, and I asked her to tell that baby how much I loved it and to look after it until I got to meet it someday.  Two days later, on mother's day, we were at her wake. 

I had my daughter a little over a month later.  Her arrival dulled the still very new pain of my grandmother's passing for the family.  Since I had a C-section, I came home 3 days later to my mother's so she could help to take care of me and Michael, who was only 2 at the time while Jim was at work.  Three days out of the hospital, my aunt Jackie called to say that my cousin Joey and his girlfriend were killed in a car accident.  I can't even beging to describe the devestation my family felt.  Just a month and a half agao, we were all together, burrying the woman we loved so much, and here we were again so soon...

Anyway...yesterday, I thought often of my grandmother and how much she loved the holidays and food.  She LOVED to eat.  I know she is often with us in spirit.  I know she watches after us all and I dream of her often.  As happy as yesterday was, it wasn't the same without her.  There will always be a part of the table where I look at with longing.  She is loved and she is missed dearly.  She was a beautiful, strong, Irish woman who loved her family and I hope that we will all be reunited again someday.  She would be happy at how close we all have become since her and Joey's death.  That taught us how much we love and need each other.

My son is very sick today with a high fever.  His little cheeks are all flushed and his eyes have that glossy, bleary look.  He's napping now.  Jim left this morning for North Carolina and then is dead heading out to D.C.  I will most likely not see him again until Thursday night...and that is if they don't work Friday.  So this song only seemed so fitting with all of the things weighing on my mind and heart right now.  It applies to the ones that we have lost and miss.  It applies to the ones that are still with us, but gone, even if only for the moment.  Some people we love so much, that we truly are broken without them.  Lonliness is a horrible thing to go through.  I can't tell you how much I savor my friends for that very reason.  Bless them for keeping me comapny so often, and making sure that I am okay.  I would be lost without them.

This wasn't really a rant, but I do feel better for having said it.  I'm going to go write some more.  I got another chapter of SS done and I am dying to get to the meat of the story!  Yeaaaaahhhhh!  Have a great Monday ya'll.

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Monday, March 14th 2005

11:35 AM (1833 days, 7h, 16min ago)

It's Monday. I will try hard not to leap for joy.

  • Mood: Rapidly swinging from every branch of the mood tree.
  • Music: Eagles~Desperado
  • Thinking About: MY NEED TO WRITE!!!
  • Eating/Drinking: Diet Coke, though a nice hot mug of mood mender tea is sounding really good.
Today's quote:  ~No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing. ~Claudius 10 BC-AD 54, Roman Emperor
 
My thoughts:~ Well, I picked this one for a reason.  I have been STRUGGLING to write for the past week.  There is probably a hundred valid reasons why I can't.  My son was sick, I was sick, I was distracted with a new puppy and Jim's job promotion.  It doesn't matter though.  None of these reasons offer me any comfort.  I've said it before, and I will say it a hundred times more, I'm sure.  I NEED to write.  It's like this deep DRIVING hunger that is seated somewhere in the depths of my soul that is only quenched when I write.  It's my demon...my saving grace, my gift and my curse, all in one inseparable package.  During times like this, I become quite irritable and frustrated, especially with myself.  I know what I want to write, what I want to happen, yet when I sit down to do this, I stare off into space or even worse, I web SURF. Arrghhh.
 
Add into that mixture, cooking, cleaning, laundry, tending to the kids and housebreaking a puppy, not to mention that I want to start a new story that is HOUNDING me relentlessly, and it really does make for one very MISERABLE person.  I'm driving myself mad with the expectations and deadlines that I place on myself.  With all of the things that I WANT to accomplish, and the very few that I actually DO get done.  Most writers will get very frustrated when that dreadful shadow and stifling weight of writer's block gets anywhere NEAR them.  Maybe it's sad, but I would rather be behind on laundry and see dust somewhere and have a few great paragraphs written than to have a sparkling house...at the moment anyway. 
 
The only problem with this is, it's just like life.  Wish in one hand, shit in the other and see which one fills up first.  You can WILL things as much as you want to, but that does not guarantee any of it will happen.  So, on that note, and with a very weary sigh, I am going to leave you with these thoughts and open up Word Perfect.  If I find myself doing anything but writing, or giving in to the temptation to surf, I will have to smack my own hands with a ruler or something because the true misery of wanting to get things done and not being able to do so is enough to make me  Pulling My Hair Out and at this point I might actually be willing to have someone stand behind me and  Whip 
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Saturday, March 12th 2005

10:05 AM (1835 days, 8h, 45min ago)

Ahhh the weekend

  • Mood: Somewhere in between
  • Music: 3 Doors Down~ Here Without You
  • Thinking About: My life...
  • Eating/Drinking: Sunkist

  Hmm where to start.  Friday is girls' night and like usual, I had a blast chatting with my sisters and my TT.  We have so much fun when we all get together to chat.  It's so wonderful just to joke and laugh with them, cry, or to vent, unwind, and get things off the chest.  We wound up having quite a few conversations with some very interesting topics.  There is something so fascinating about learning different people's point of view on things.  I don't know what I would do without them and hopefully I will never find out!  LOL

I'm not feeling all that great today.  My son, poor kid, was SICK last night.   I can deal with rubbing his back and soothing him.  It's when they don't make it to the bathrrom and you have to clean THAT up, that doesn't agree with me.  I have been nauseous since last night and it's not getting any better.  He on the other hand is feeling MUCH better and is happily playing his Game Cube at the moment.  I'm hoping that it was nothing we ate, though the girls both seem just fine.  Healthy as can be. 

My husband is at a company meeting.  No doubt so his boss can tell everyone how he stepped up.  They purchased him a new truck and a new trailer that will carry ten cars.  I'm proud of him, I guess.  LOL I'm struggling with mixed feelings.  This will mean even more time on the road for him and he's already gone so much.  However it will at LEAST push our income up another 30 grand a year.  AT LEAST.  He won't be transporting salvaged cars anymore just new and dealer trades.  If he has to do a run to California, I guess it will be like a week, but it pays him 3 thousand.  LMAO...trying to be funny, I asked him if he could just do those for like six months straight and then we could pay cash for that house we have been wanting.    We shall see what happens I guess.  I will say one thing about my hubby.  With respect, he is very materialistic when it comes to him and his family.  It was just the way he was raised.  To him it's all about how much money we have, if we have the newest and best.  I personally would rather have him around more, but...no matter how hard I have tried, I can't make him see that while necessary, money is not what really sustains people or makes the world go around.  This undoubtedly means that he will just try to spoil me and the kids even more to make up for his absence. 

I really think that's why I write SO much.  It is such an escape for me, a break from my life.  I can go where ever I want to with the characters I want to.  I can forget for a while, the part of me that is feeling so incomplete.  Escape from the kids.  LOL I love them, but when Jim decided to take this job to begin with, I made the choice not to work.  He told me if I wanted to I would be able to stay home, and I did.  I have not had a "JOB" in four years, if you don't call running an immaculate house and looking after three kids full time a job.  I wanted them to have someone there for them at all times.  To at least have one parent they could rely on to be there no matter what.  We make more than my parents do, but my mom was always home with me.  I was closer to her because of it.  Now...that I am grown, I TRULY see what a sacrifice that was.  What a gift...and I love her and respect her even more for it.  Part of me LONGS to be in the working world.  To have that escape and independence, not to mention socialization.  I think in the end though, maybe, just maybe...this could be more rewarding.  To ME personally.  Not everyone CAN or even wants to stay home with their kids and that is a choice.  I commend moms either way.  Either road is filled with sacrifice and the same duties and gifts.  Maybe the grass is always greener on the other side.  I would like to work when the Buggle goes to school.  We shall see.  Maybe by then, I will just be ESTATIC to have 7 whole hours all to myself.  OHH THE PEACE AND QUIET!!!

Well, I think I am done opening up for a while and my TT just signed on. YAAYNESS!  I'm going to try to write and not think about how terribly much this song is making me thing of Jim and our life.





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Thursday, March 10th 2005

6:48 PM (1837 days, 0h, 3min ago)

Listen up kiddies....

  • Mood: Creative
  • Music: My kids' laughter as they play with the puppy.
  • Thinking About: Not sure, but I am happy and content.
  • Eating/Drinking: Need you still ask?

Please take a minute of your time to humor me.  I have created a little poll that you can easily find to your UHMMM *checks hands* LEFT under the MUST SEE! links.  Who knows, you might even get a laugh out of it or a sick, twisted chuckle.

These questions will be changing MONTHLY though you can vote DAILY.  At the beginning of every month, I will change the questions and post the percentage results of the previous one.  So, rack up the points for your favorite answers!  All results are anonymous for my ermmm...YOUR privacy and saftey! 

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Thursday, March 10th 2005

11:35 AM (1837 days, 7h, 15min ago)

ONE more day...I can make it, I know I can!

  • Mood:
  • Music: Evanescence~Even In Death
  • Thinking About: Food, Hemorrhage, and tomorrow
  • Eating/Drinking: Diet coke...cooking seasoned rice
Give me a reason to believe that you're gone. I see your shadow, so I know they're all wrong.  Moon light on the soft brown Earth, it leads me to where you lay. They took you away from me, but now I'm taking you home...
Some say I'm crazy for my love oh my love (my love)  But no bonds can hold me from the side of my love...They don't know you can't leave me.  They don't hear you singing to me.  I will stay forever here with you, my love.  The softly spoken words you gave me...even in death our love goes on.  And I can't love you, anymore than I do~Evanescence~Even In Death
 
Have no fear, I am in a much better mood this morning.  My claws have been retracted, at least for the time being.   I decided to go with some verses from a song that I really love instead of a quote, because I love it and this IS, after all, MY journal.  I thought this would be a pretty good explanation of what might seem like utter insanity to anyone who has never had a muse.  LOL And I DO feel the need to explain somewhat after last night.  "They don't know that you can't leave me.  They don't hear you singing to me."  It's really like that.  Can't explain something to someone who has never had an experience that parallels it.  It is also a GREAT song if you have ever lost anyone that you love and still feel that they are around you sometimes.  I truly have to believe that we all have at least one beloved watching after us from some better place, checking in to see that we are doing good, visiting us, as we so often visit them in our thoughts.
 
On to other things.  I REALLY hate this cheapy keyboard.  I want my deluxe office version BACK! Bad bad Bandit.  Oh well.  I guess I will try this weekend.  They had a really nice cordless one.  Speaking of, my wireless optical mouse took a dive and that really irks me.  I reset the thing, changed the batteries and all and it still wouldn't work.    This must be the week of computer kaputzes.  *deep calming breaths* Ok all better now.
 
I REALLY REALLY want to get another chapter of Hemorrhage done.  I think if I am still struggling today, I might just move on to Simon Says.  I am hoping SOME year...or even millenium here, I will wrap one of the three up and get to start planning a new one!  Yeeeeaaaaahhhh!  I have a lot of little plot bunnies hopping around, but nothing really significant to work with building a story on yet.  I HAD been wanting to start an SVU tale, but after reading Hussy's and Kikki's, Shari's too even...Man.  I don't see thatahappenin.  That would be like Bug putting on Jim's size thirteen shoe and trying to fill it out and walk around.  I would like to do something along the lines of that though.  SVU has such great characters and WEG man you can come up with some wicked plots.  Who knows?  I'm not sure what I will work on when I have an opening for a new story.  It's hard to say with me.
 
Well, I have babbled on long enough and damn near put myself to sleep here.  I REALLY do have to get some writing done or I will start to get really down on myself.  Plus the family is coming over for a March Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow so I have some cooking/baking/cleaning to do durring those down time/thinking moments.  Hope everyone has a GREAT thursday and can hang in this last day until blessed FRIDAY rolls around.
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Wednesday, March 9th 2005

9:50 PM (1837 days, 21h, 1min ago)

For the love of Ju Ju Bees...Give me A F*KING BREAK!

  • Mood: Beyond IRATE
  • Thinking About: That certain someone
  • Eating/Drinking: Jack Daniels
Move over Joan of Arc, there's a new martyr in town.  I'm sorry people.  You might not want to read this post because this is going to be an all out rant...no holds barred and yeah I am letting Dino out to play on this one.  I'm tired of telling him to shut up and hearing his fucking yap anyway, often all night. *yes I do so shut up*
 
I knew better.  I fucking KNEW better than to go nosing around.  I was in a semi decent mood because my slash baby got voted through and Ryan was all happy and smiling and those emerald/jade eyes of his were just all sparkly.  I got on and what do I do?  Play the FUCKING FOOL.  I went where I had no business going out of some morbid sense of curiosity and now I am sitting here with my blood boiling.
 
Okay so she has had a rough time lately.  We all go through stuff like that but I'll just say, sorry for your loss.  Been there and it ain't easy.  But why in the fucking HELL must I be drug into things?  I have been minding my own FUCKING business and staying to myself.  Who I forgive and why is MY fucking business.  Get a grip and face some facts here.  Quit blaming the choices that you make for yourself (oh wait, I'm sorry, not capable of doing that...let everyone ELSE make for you because you know can't be an adult, stand up for yourself or make your own decisions..,OR maybe you did and just didn't have the FUCKING BALLS to admit it on your own and passed the blame elsewhere.  At this point I could really give a bald rat's ass either way and I REALLY do mean that) ANYWHOO...Don't say beyond their control, or out of my control, because that is SUCH LAME PATHETIC  motherFUCKING BULLSHIT.
 
If you make a decision, and I don't care if the fucking Pope himself is advising you...YOU make it.  No one can force you to do anything in life.  NO ONE.  Each and every decision we make as adults is our own.  Maybe it is influenced by the ones we respect and love, maybe it's one of the heart.  I love my mom with every fiber of my being.  I'm a total fucking mamma's girl and damn proud of it.  I am who and how I am because of my mom.  And yeah, a big part of me loves Jim.  But I would be damned to hell and back if I would EVER let them tell me what to do, who to talk to, who not to talk to, what to wear, eat, etc... DAMNED and they know that.  Real love never DEMANDS ultimatums it is about compromise and growth.  In fact Jim told me I was not going out any buying a new keyboard.  Two minutes later I was out the door.  I am an adult, I make my choices in life.  You get treated like a kid or like shit, it's because YOU tolerate it, you ALLOW it and I hate to say it but fucking wake the fuck up.  IT IS NOT BEYOND YOUR CONTROL.  At least be woman enough to admit that much.
 
I find it easier to forgive people who never swore to the fucking heavens and back that I could trust them, that they loved me, that they would never ever hurt me and couldn't live without me in their life even for a day...Than someone who did all that and then tossed me into the fucking trash to die.  I forgive people easier who never guilted me into feeling like shit for not spending every available second with them...for paying more attention to my muses....FUCK I gave up every fucking friend I had for a while and writing...why??? To make YOU happier.  I get a mother fucking cock sucking letter on Christmas DAY telling me that you can't talk to me ever again, not to call you, not to write, not to text...because it was not what you wanted but other people.  That is NOT beyond your control and honestly you fucking killed me.  I meant so little to you that you just threw me out like a piece of TRASH and then...ohh...*chuckles* THEN you have the fucking audacity to try to sneak around behind your husband's back because you don't have the gumption to stick up for yourself.  As always, I was the strong one.  I refused to call you at work because in some sick way I cared enough to try and get you to move on and stay away from me for your own fucking good.  I'm am a mean, vindictive piece of shit, just like my muse and YOU of all people should know that.
 
So, I stumble across your rant today, stupidly because like a moth drawn to a flame, maybe I was looking to get burnt.  Maybe I WANTED this and was secretly hoping for it so I could let go of all this shit that I have held inside for so long.  Since your rant was obviously about me...I hope you know this one is about you.  I hope you read it and think really fucking hard about everything that I have said here.  Because NOW I am really laying it all on the line.  Why the fuck do you whine about no one taking interest in you or caring?  Fuck me....Ok I get that.  I'm fucking scum and shit that isn't even worth hearing the words from your own mouth.  Why the fuck do you bother sending April E-mails and jokes but never once to say hi or talk to her?  What the fucking hell did she ever do to you?  Wasn't she supposed to be your friend?  You want people to care about you and be a part of your life it's a two way street there baby.  And Shari?  She is the sweetest person on the face of the Earth and as far as I know has NEVER done or said a bad thing to or about anybody.  Her heart is like gold while mine is black as coal thanks to people like you my whole fucking life.  So what did she EVER do to you?  The FEW misunderstandings however MINOR, I might have had with my TT, my TRUE twin and maybe the ONLY friend who ever had my best interests at heart and really DID care about me...and maybe the only person I will ever fucking trust completely besides my mom...While none of your fucking business just know we have confronted each and every one of them and talked them out.  Looking back I see 99% of the tension we had was all because of you and the jealousy you had of our bond.  Nothing will EVER break that.  If it can withstand you, the drama, and everything else, it can withstand ANYTHING. 
 
As for what happened last summer, I too once made the same mistake and if I want to forgive someone who is another of the most genuine, compassionate people I have ever met...(and is probably appalled at this B/Dino rant) especially for something as easily mistaken as fucking AOL and their BS IPS....I WILL and that is MY prerogative.  It is my choice who to forgive when it is my soul and my hurt, my friends.  I knew these people long before you and in case you hadn't noticed, they are around LONG after you. Remember mindya and fucking apply here..now.  They have NEVER ever hurt me like you and they never will.  I do forgive that to some extent, but not when you make sad pathetic excuses like "beyond control" and bitch about how things are.  You make your bed lie in it.  If you shit and get your nose rubbed in it...your bad.
 
Oh and one last thing...I always did love Dino more and you were so fucking right.  He never did like you...probably because he KNEW who and what you REALLY were all about and that I would get hurt.  Hell he was leaping for fucking joy and grinning for days when you left. But thanks.  You taught me to listen to his Italian ass even more and if you don't like this post, thank him.  He never could stand tolerating you and he really fucking doesn't like you now.  I have to say, I'm feeling quite the same, so please find something in your life to gripe about besides me and be HAPPY for the choices that you made and stick to them.  Stay the fuck away from me.  I don't like that shit it drags up or the side of Dino I have to hear every time your name pops up somewhere.  Trust me I WILL be doing the same, and that includes anything ANYTHING that has to do with you.  ANYTHING at all.  I was disposable like trash to you...well KNOW you are fucking dead to Dino and me.  Hope you enjoy life with the "warden" and hope he doesn't get all Souder like on you.  Then again, maybe I fucking do.  I'm outta here.
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Wednesday, March 9th 2005

8:43 PM (1837 days, 22h, 8min ago)

Well here it is...

  • Mood: Bad dog...bad dog...Bad muses.
  • Music: Nothing
  • Thinking About: Ry & Si and what the possibilities of a three way with Anthony joining them would be.
  • Eating/Drinking: C2

About ten minutes before American Idol...the results show.  I am NOT a happy camper.  I woke up this morning to find that Bandit had chewed my keyboard cord!  I had to run to Wal_Mart and get a new one.  HE RUINED TT DAY!  I got no writing done today.  I had to move my entire computer stand and all it's components in the living room, hook them up and so on.  Then..My mom wanted to help me spring clean.  We got the kid's room completely cleaned.  4 bags of junk toys trashed and three to go to Goodwill.  Hey!  They can put LIDS on their toy boxes now and their rooms are spotless. 

ROFL.  Before I tore aprat everything, my mom sat down at my desk.  Word Perfect was open because I had been trying to work on Hemorrhage last night.  She sat down and started reading it.  I think I purpled.  I really do.  LMAO.  She was like is this your writing?  Hahaha!  I looked around wishing I could blame it on someone!  DAMN Ry and Simon MUSES ANYWAY!  I was like uhm..yeah but don't read that one mom!  That's my slash story about Cresty and Simon!  I shooed her out and put up Simon Says for her.  She really enjoyed it but was lost as to what the hell snark meant.    Seems a common point of confusion.  LOOK IT UP!  LOL

Well last night was funny as could be and pretty inspirational for Hemorrhage.  Ry and Si started in on eachother right off the bat.  Ryan calling him boring and little baby blue.  Then Simon saying that girl looked the part, did everything right, but had about as much appeal as Seacrest!  WHOOP!  SHHHNAP!  Poor Ryan looked stunned and for a moment I thought he was going to choke Simon when he lunged at the table.  Instead, he cooled him off by dousing him with water.  *snickers* YOU ACT LIKE IT'S THE FIRST TIME YOUR PANTS HAVE BEEN WET!....wait what? *looks for mind in the gutter*  Ahh those two. 

Well I must go and see if my vote for Anthony Federov made the grade.  I want him around so I can wallow in the smut of my slashy mind.  WEG.  Catch ya'll later.

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