Thankful it's Tuesday...

I really hate Mondays... Things always seem to get screwy and fall apart on Mondays. So thank you Tuesday, for being a more stable day of the week, lol... Okay yeah, I'm a bit loopy today. But I'm feeling better, so it's to be expected. I think the kicker for my day yesterday was I REALLY wanted to listen to AIC-Dirt and I went and pulled out the cd case, and no disc. Not a clue when it disappeared, as it's been a very long time since I last listened to it... Maybe it's in the broken cd changer in the van...

When music speaks... listen...

These are words
Just for you
Only words
But it's all I can do

Reasons fade
As reasons can do
All I want
Is to talk with you

You cried with me
Laughed at me
Talked to me
Sheltered me
Fought by me
Lied for me
You lived for me

So call me
And I'll run to you
Ask me
And I'd die for you

You were there
You were always there
Like a friend
Like a life long friend
And I love you

I broke your heart
And you stole mine
Memories lie
But they're all I can find

Call my name
Sing my song
Call for me
I've been waiting so long

Just call me
And I'll run to you
Ask me
And I'd die for you

You were there
You were always there
Like a friend
Like a life long friend
And I miss you

Today I hate...

crossed signals, lack of information and lack of communication.
What do you hate today??

Current Mood: cynical
Current Music: Dido - White Flag

Pagan Fertility Symbols and Chocolate!

Happy Easter everyone! We do the purely commercial celebration of this holiday as well... Egg hunt, baskets and then yeah, that's about it... Not sure what's on the menu for dinner as we don't do the traditional dinner thing. The kids were actually happy to find the easter bunny had brought them minimal candy and each a sports bottle and full size ball (one basketball and one soccer ball). The little one got a couple small toys, some animal crackers, a stuffed bunny and of course a really cool bucket to wear on his head. I'll have to get a picture of him and his "bucket hat" later... It's been a pretty uneventful day around here today luckily.. Now just to go to the store yet again for milk and bread... and something for dinner... hmmmm what to have for dinner on an icky day... I'll come up with something I'm sure...

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Chris Cornell - Seasons

Whew!

Okay so I added an extra year onto my dad's life somehow. I guess he turned 66 not 67... oops, sorry dad, lol... His birthday dinner went well and he loved his cake. He asked for a pineapple upside down cake like his mom used to make him growing up. I made one. Not sure how good it turned out though, as I haven't made one in years. Update on the car... We're back to 2 cars again. Luckily Stevis and his buddy will were able to compression start it and get it home. When they got here, they tested the altenator and all the fuses. Luckily the problem was just a fuse and that was easily and cheaply remedied. yea! So less $$ we had to fork out on the car. So what does Steve do? he goes out to the bar then to a friends house for the night and spends $ we don't really have as it was meant for me to get the brakes done on the van. And of course he doesn't bother to tell me that he's not coming home. And of course Alex has one of THOSE nights where he wakes every 2 hours crying for daddy. So neither Vicki or I got any sleep. Or at least very little sleep. Hopefully I can make up for that tonight by going to bed early! Which is where I'm headed now... so good night all!

Happy Birthday to Dad!

Today is my dad's 67th birthday... I can't believe he's that old! I'm going to be making dinner and cake and all that jazz. My brother is bringing Dad up here, since he doesn't get off work until 4 and won't feel like driving the 2 hours to my house after a full day's work. I can say I don't blame him for that... I don't think I would either. Being lazy, the menu for tonight is far less "exotic" than last year. Pork Chops in a Vidalia Onion Sauce, Potatoes Au Gratin, Broccoli... And then cake and ice cream for dessert of course. Dad, building up his arsenal some more, bought himself a new gun for his birthday... Which reminds me, I need to wrap his presents today as well...

Of course, the wrench in everything is that the Toyota died on base yesterday and we are down to just the van for now. I think it might be the alternator on it. We know it's not the battery (steve had left his headlights on all day and drained the battery) because we went and bought a new one thinking the battery was just too dead to jump (tried with 2 diff vehicles). It still wouldn't start. Wasn't getting any real power... Hoping it's something stupid and cheap like a fuse, but not likely knowing our luck with vehicles... argh!

ahhhh sweet sweet misery...

How is it that I can repeatedly torture myself just by listening to some of my favorite songs... I mean, on an almost daily basis, I put music into my playlist and hit random and occasionally a few certain songs come up that just bring me to tears almost immediately. Now, logically, I'd just not put those songs in the playlist or just delete them from my drive all together. Nope. Guess I like to torture myself or something.. Some songs even bring a visual memory flooding back to me... I can actually picture moments in time somehow connected to the song... More and more often songs are doing this... soon I won't be able to listen to any music without having it connected to a memory or deep seeded feeling. Argh...

Interesting

You scored as Buddhism. Your beliefs most closely resemble those of Buddhism. Do more research on Buddhism and possibly consider becoming Buddhist, if you are not already.

In Buddhism, there are Four Noble Truths: (1) Life is suffering. (2) All suffering is caused by ignorance of the nature of reality and the craving, attachment, and grasping that result from such ignorance. (3) Suffering can be ended by overcoming ignorance and attachment. (4) The path to the suppression of suffering is the Noble Eightfold Path, which consists of right views, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right-mindedness, and right contemplation. These eight are usually divided into three categories that base the Buddhist faith: morality, wisdom, and samadhi, or concentration. In Buddhism, there is no hierarchy, nor caste system; the Buddha taught that one's spiritual worth is not based on birth.

Buddhism		75%
agnosticism		71%
Paganism		63%
Satanism		58%
Islam		46%
Judaism		42%
Christianity		38%
Hinduism		25%
atheism		21%

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Sigh..

Well, I think we're on our way to being well again, finally. Though I must apologize to everyone I have shared our germs with.... Didn't mean to get you sick! Really I didn't! I've had phone calls where I answer the phone and get "you stupid f*cking cow, you got me sick!" on the other end... lol.. oops. That's what happens when you hang out with sick people though, damn it! So, to everyone I got sick, SORRY! Blame this evil island!

Speaking of this evil island. If I don't start getting off of it more often, I'm going to jump off the bridge. Seriously, I'm going stir crazy here. Call it "island fever" (rather than cabin fever). The fact that I have to drive 45 minutes to get anywhere is annoying at best. The fact that I have to drive an hour and a half to get to where I want to be is the worst. Okay, done with my bitching for the day I guess...

Current Mood: blah

WHEW!

So, sickness has been running rampant in my house now for well over 2 weeks... Probably closer to 3 weeks at this point. Apparently there's 3 nasty bugs going around the island that you catch one after another. Basically makes you useless for 4-6 weeks! WTF man... Germ warfare er sumthin... fuck. So I'm now on leg 3 of this wonderful chain of illnesses. Ian is stuck on phase 2...the flu. I can't get his damn fever to break, he's been hanging out at around 100.7 for about 5 days now! Poor guy is miserable. If it doesn't break by tomorrow, he's going to the ER. Skye is doing better, still whiney and being a miserable brat to everyone, but nothing new or unusual about that. (lol) Alex is the one who seems to be dealing the best with it all... Thus far. We'll see how he does over the next few days. He's just been hybernating for the most part. When he's awake he's in a good mood for the most part. Even started spouting off random words last night (pointed to the peice of paper in his hand and called it yogurt, lol) again... Funny what words he picks up... Little weirdo.

On to better news... My home business is finally starting to take off. Of course, it happens right when life is hell and everyone is sick, including me. Being sick and handling food are not the best match. But I've managed to pull myself together for the party I had last night, and will do the same today. Luckily the one today will be with friends, so I don't have to be all perfect and display absolute professionalisim with them. They know me too well ;) So today should be a breeze :D The next party I have is on Monday morning... that one will be interesting.. have to prep on sunday night for that, as in the morning, I'm a freaking zombie, lol. Then I will have 2 more later on in the month, so I'll have some time off to finish recouping before those. Then I have 2 parties and an open house scheduled for April... Might cancel the open house depending on the health status of the household at that point. Anyhow... guess I'm really starting to ramble now... blah... lol... Need more sleep I think!

Current Mood: drained
Current Music: Social Distortion - I wanna be sedated