ever have one of those days where you just feel out of it? you feel constantly tired or confused. you can’t seem to focus. you can’t hold onto anything, you just drop or knock over everything? well,  its been like that for me all week! I don’t know whats going on with me. the other morning getting ready for work i just couldn’t hold onto anything, everything I touched dropped. another morning walking into work i just felt weird, just not all there, almost zombie like and I got plenty of sleep so it wasn’t that. and just now i was loading dishes into the dishwasher and just completely knocked a bowl into a glass on the counter and it fell off the counter into the dishwasher! Glass Everywhere! I hope I snap out of it quick!

this is CUTE. I saw it on ria’s page and she got it from lil miss firefly’s page. (pic from photobucket.com)

Your fairy is called Columbine Iceglitter

She is a bone chilling bringer of justice for the vulnerable.

She lives in mushroom fields and quiet meadows.

She is only seen in the light of a shooting star.

She wears lilac and purple like columbine flowers. She has icy blue butterfly wings.

Get your free fairy name here!

So… I didn’t realize how long it’s been since i’ve blogged… not that I have been very regular with the blogs lately anyway, but I just haven’t thought about it. I haven’t had the time or the inspiration really. I have kinda of been wrapped up in… someone else’s life, honestly. lol. It sounds so weird to say that, but its true! My friend is going through a rough time and she has really been the only thing on my mind lately. I strategize  with, or for, her. I try to be her shoulder to lean on as best I can. If we lived close we’d probably spend a ton of time together too, which is even harder that we can’t! But I just hope and pray that she gets out of this rut soon, and unscathed. I know she will though, I have faith in that. She is a strong woman and I know she can make it if she tries lets just hope this works itself out sooner rather than later for her sake! But I will be here for as long as it takes!

so that’s where I’ve been! Maybe something more interesting in my life will come up for me to think about blogging about I do have a book review i’ve been wanting to write, but I knew one of my readers was going to be reading it, so I didn’t want to give anything away!! I will write that one soon because I think she’s done with it or will be soon.

Chou

I saw this in SleeyJanes blog and decided to answer the questions too

1. What is in the back seat of your car right now? a suit jacket and some flipflops
2. When was the last time you threw up? I can’t really remember to be honest and I’m kinda glad i don’t
3. What’s your favorite curse word? um i dont think i have a fav…
4. Name three people who made you smile today? Rialeilani she always makes me chuckle in her daily emails, Dan who sits next to me at work he’s always trying to do or say something funny and Jill from work (she was laughing hysterically at someone who tried to sit where there was no chair and fell on the floor, her laugh is contagious as it is but her trying to tell the story btwn laughs was even funnier!)
5. What were you doing at 8am this morning? working and eating my banana and strawberry breakfast yumm
6. What were you doing 30 minutes ago? making brownies! they just came out Yumm again
7. What will you be doing 3 hours from now? um… probably a movie
8. Have you ever been to a strip club? Nope
9. What’s the last thing you said aloud?  I was tellin the rabbits to go outside
10. What is the best ice cream flavour? phishfood- ben and jerrys
11. What is the last thing you had to drink? h2o
12. What are you wearing right now? red nike shorts and a white”GIVE” shirt for awareness of cancer
13. What was the last thing you ate? raisin bran cereal and a banana (I didn’t feel like cooking dinner tonight so i had breakfast for dinner lol)
14. Have you bought any new clothing items this week? No, however I might tomorrow!
15. When was the last time you ran? running thru the weir’s trail when we were getting eaten by mosquitoes  and chased by bugs on my MI vaca last week hahaha
16. What’s the last sporting event you watched? part of the basketball game last night
17. Who is the last person you e-mailed? Rialeilani
18. Ever go camping? YES for a whole summer practically back in 2000 and many times before and after that too
19. Do you have a tan? actually i have a tad bit of a tan but my fair Irish skin does not tan very well
20. Do you drink your soda from a straw? thats the best way! and my soda Must have ice!
21. Are you someone’s best friend? Yes.
22. What are you doing tomorrow? going to lunch with a friend and shopping! probably some scrapbooking too.
23. Where is your mom right now? on vacation! Lucky Duck
24. Look to your left. What do you see? my bookcase with lots of books
25. What colour is your watch? I dont wear a watch anymore but i have 2 silver ones that died
26. What comes to mind when you think of Australia? kangaroos
27. Would you consider plastic surgery? nope unless it was to fix something from an accident or something like that
28. What is your birthstone? aquamarine
29. Do you go in at a fast food place or just hit the drive-thru? usually drivethru unless i’m out of town
30. How many kids do you want? Two
31. Do you have a dog? no but i might want one…
32. Last person you talked to on the phone? hmm someone at work
33. Have you met anyone famous? hm no not really…
34. Any plans today? going to watch a movie and then go to bed
35. Ever go to college? yep graduated from CMU
36. Where are you right now? in my “office” aka the “spare/guest room”
37. Biggest annoyance in your life right now? pms lol hence the brownies
38. Last song listened to? I’m watching “Music and Lyrics” they are making a song, they just sung the lines “I’ve been living with a shadow overhead” hehe
39. Are you allergic to anything? codeine (in pain medicines)
40. Favorite pair of shoes you wear all the time? My brown and blue Airwalk flipflops
41. Are you jealous of anyone? hmmm maybe little bits and pieces of different ppl
42. Who is your favorite actor/actress? Kathrine Heigl right now
43. What time is it? 834 pm
44. Do any of your friends have children? Yes
45. Do you eat healthy? I try. sometimes i dont do so well…
46. What do you usually do during the day? Work…. lol
47. How old will you be on your next birthday? 27
48. Have you ever been to Europe? I went to Spain about 10 yrs ago
49. Name one thing you’d still like to do. travel more
50. Favorite colour? Blue is my alltime favorite and i go through periods of other colors, like gray or purple or silver, but blue has always been there.

Your Turn!

So my hubby is leaving for me a week… well almost a week. It’s a “guys trip.” Two of his friends just flew in today and they’re going to go to Key West. I’m kinda jealous cuz I really want to go there! I’ve only been to Key Largo, we didn’t go any further. Then they’re going to Orlando. I think they’re going to Adventure Island but not sure which park. Then on the way back as long as it isn’t stormy, which it might be, they will stop somewhere in between Orlando and here and go golfing. Sounds like a good time. But It’s going to be weird having the place to myself. Coming home from work to  a quiet house is the norm since I usually get home first, but then when it stays quiet… I’m going to go crazy. I’ll have to leave the tv on 24/7 for background noise or something haha. I have nothing planned out either, other than a lunch with a friend on Saturday. I need to find something to do… But I am pretty stoked about having the quiet time and time to relax. Even though I am somewhat relaxed still from my “girls trip” I just got back from on Sunday. We had the best time in Northern Michigan! AHHH HOME! I really felt like I was home when we were driving farther and farther north, even though I’ve never lived that far north. But it just has this calming effect and welcomes you in to the beauty of the nature and the land. Here are a pics of my trip!

Sunrise over lake Huron…

Overlook of the treetops…

During our Morning stroll on the beach…

The start of a trail we used to hike, had to do it one more time for good measure… (i can’t believe we actually found it again)

And the best for last… the true meaning of FRIENDSHIP

So last night I finally finished the book I’ve been reading, seems like for forever. I don’t read very fast, or very often, so it takes a while to finish one book.

Bitter is the New Black is a true story, and even though it says “memoir” on the front, I didn’t really realize it until I saw her website. I was almost finished with the book when I saw her website. It talked about her 2 dogs by name and I said, Hm… thats what she named the dogs in the book. Then I saw her husbands name, Fletch, definitely an odd name- couldn’t be a coincidence- haha. Well this book was alright, didn’t strike me as the “BEST BOOK EVER” feeling, I was left with an, “EH” feeling. It was good, don’t get me wrong. And it’s definitely an admirable transformation by Jen, you have to give that to her. She went though a huge change. She started off as a snobby “rich bitch.” Once she lost her very well-to-do job and was unemployed for so long she started changing little by little and was humbled by the experience. By the end…cue the fairy tail music. *raising one eyebrow*. I’m happy and all for her, but I guess I didn’t expect, or want, it to end happily. Sometimes people deserve whats coming to them, and most of the time, in real life, people don’t learn hard lessons and stick to being “good.”

And I’m not one for dwelling on differences, even jokingly being sarcastic of ones own faults. She made too big of a deal about being overweight, in my opinion. I mean, I guess it did play a big role in her life and the way people treated her, but come on, enough is enough. lol, if that doesn’t sound insensitive I don’t know what does, but I just don’t like people playing the “Oh Woah Is Me” card and getting pity for something like that.

And the end was kind of choppy for me… She was babysitting for her nieces and nephews and came to the realization that they now like her because they actually know her. She has time to visit with them now that she’s not working 24/7. Now that is a good realization and would have been a good ending. Then she goes to her friends wedding and sounds Super Annoying, pretending it was her wedding since she couldn’t mingle with everyone at her own because she was so busy with pictures and this and that and she got completely hammered and then made an annoying drunk phonecall to a friend. Learn anything there… I think not. that part could have been left out and it would have been much better, it was like she was just trying to fill space like it had to be so many pages long or something and she wasn’t quite there. Then the ending was back to the transformation, she went to get her hair done and the hair stylist remembered her… 2 years later *roll eyes*… and remembered how she was always carrying shopping bags with her and pointed out how she always got her nails done and spa treatments, but she only wanted her hair colored and stuck to that. Which is good, good for her for finally learning to splurge less. Then the epilogue i just skimmed through, didn’t interest me haha. so it was pretty choppy at the end which left me with an EH feeling.