So it has been a month

....and technically I have nothing to say! There are things going on in my life, for sure...but not all are for public consumption.

This I am doing that you can know about? CAMPING!!!!!!! We bought all the stuff this weekend and we are going on our first trip this weekend! WOoooO.


Also, I am unnaturally addicted to GraphJam....

see more Funny Graphs

yea, i need a real life right? well i kinda am developing one....haha

Wal-Mart is wrong, PERIOD.

Let's say you live in a state where medical marijuana was legal. Ok add the fact that you are terminally ill into that mix. Now let's say you have a job, a decent job, one you work really hard at, it pays your bills and provides you with insurance.


Ok, now you lost it.

Why you ask? Because your employer tested you after you hurt yourself on the job, and that herb that was keeping your horrible and nauseating pain away shows up. Now you never smoked before work, or worked under the influence. You didn't use for fun, or to *get high*. You were in pain, and it helps more effectively and less dangerously than ANY pain reducer on the market, prescription or otherwise.

This is outrageous to say the least. Wal-Mart is wrong, and they need to know it. If you agree, please email them, tell them that they are wrong and tell them that you wont shop there anymore.

Thats what I intend to do. I may not ever shop there again, which is not something I have ever considered before. I was a die-hard Wal-Mart shopper, making it a point to visit any new stores that opened, I like the merchandise, I like the savings. But not anymore. SAY NO TO IGNORANCE.

read the story here and contact wal-mart here

How I Spent March 9th (so far)

I woke up today wanting desperately to go camping, in a way I have never experienced before. So I jump outta bed, go to hit the net for supplies and all that good stuff. The internet is out :( so I watch TV instead.

When my dad and Jer wake up, we take care of the phone and its all set up again (obviously I am blogging right now lol). They took care of it really fast and while he is on the phone I look at my hair and decide I want to cut off the hack job the lady did on V-Day and maybe dye it a new color. Jer picks black (which I had secretly been wanting) but when I run it by the daddio, he thinks I will look bad, so I nix it. Apparently Jeremy also thought I should stick with red, but thought I didnt want red anymore so said black.

I go to the Supercuts (i had already spent 20 on this hair and it was an epic fail) and the girl is SO good at her job. She cut ALL the split ends (which I almost never have so I was super glad to see them gone) and fixed the bangs :).

I go to Sally's to buy my dye, and another brand has a buy 3 get 6 oz of my favorite conditioner/sealer for free. YAY!

So here I am, covered in dye (I forgot how much harder it is to do it alone) and waiting for it to set:

And my delicious lunch, Kalua Pork from the Hawaiian BBQ at the end of the street (on a side note this is an entry for my 101in1001):

Wet hair, right out of the towel, so this is the color my hair is when it is wet:

And finally! My hair totally dry and put up (i didnt feel up to styling it, and i lost my flat iron):

So there was my day (so far) and now I am off to work on some Geisha ATCs :)

I am no good :(

Ok, so leaving Craftster is kinda getting to me. I miss being able to share opinions and art with people on a daily basis. So I went to look for a new forum, and with my new obsession with ATCs I thought that a forum highlighting that would be ideal. I found atcsforall.com and figured I would try it out. First I was pretty sure I would be miserable, so I asked how to delete my profile (I looked everywhere before asking). Everyone was so nice that I decided to give it a real try. A bunch of people recommended adding some cards to the trading gallery, so I set forth to make some. I decided on a Travel themed set. I got halfway through the first one and started feel anxious, like it wouldn't be good enough. By the second card I decided to stop. Art should never make me feel like this, and it never has before (even swapping for as long as I did, I almost never worried about what I made, I knew I did my best).




I don't hate them, but I don't think they would be trade worthy. I do kind of hate that I feel so unsure of myself. I said it when I started out that I made these cards for me, and trading wasn't in my plan. I should have stuck to that plan.

Pouting because...?

On a message board I rarely participate in because there are MANY many MANY people with whom I strongly disagree with on most topics, and they are brutal about it, a woman posted a pity party thread that her request for prayers for her mother in law were largely ignored, while Marie Osmond received pages and pages. My issue with this:

1. Prayers are wishes, absolutely no tangible purpose.
2. She was upset that people didnt take time out of their lives to post that they were making wishes for her.
3. She seemed to really believe that if more people would have posted (or in her mind cared) it would have made a difference.
4. She is now relying on her *true friends* to wish for her.

Um, okay???

That is so petty, immature, odd and emotionally manipulative. You guys didnt make me feel wanted, so now you feel guilty for it. Boo-frickin-hoo. The fact that ANYONE made wishes for you, much less posted that they would, is better than none. Especially when what you WANT is support, not wishes.

It is just baffling to me that she would even think to post the pity party thread at all...

A little me :)

Working on my ATC's and decided to do a picture for the topic of "Childhood". I have a shit ton of baby pictures so I just grabbed a handful and picked the one I liked the best of those 10 or so. This is someone's birthday, likely mine. All I used was Picasa, so it isn't all fancy, but I really like it :).

Craft Room Chronicles Pt. 1

So I have been slowly working on my craft room, re-arranging it, cleaning and such. So here is where it stands right now. I know it looks empty, but I am putting my sewing stuff into the other bedroom along with some of my other crafting stuff. I haven't decided for sure if this is how I want it to stay, but I figured it would be cool to chronicle the evolution of the space.

My computer area

 

All my supplies for papercrafting.

The corner that has no purpose yet.

This is how my room looked the last time I took pictures, May of 2009. This was when I shared the room with Ashley still (tenants leaving later) so I was only using about 3/4 of the room.

 

The view from the door

 

My sewing area

 

The wall behind to the side of my desk.

 

Supplies, looks pretty similar lol.

 

My very full shelf, I am glad I am starting over in that department.

So that's my room, as it stands. It has changed alot since 2005, and it will change even more I know it.

It has happened again.....

...The boys moved out last night. I thought it was stupid to move your life because someone gets sicker (especially and older person) but I knew that I don't always understand human emotions. So I did my best to keep it to myself. Well as it turns out, it was partially my fault. Well FUCK THAT. I am an awesome sister and I do everything I possibly can (and sometimes even things I can't/shouldn't)  for the people I love. I still blame myself, because that is my nature, but I won't (READ WILL FUCKING NOT) let them make me feel like shit. Not again.

The only thing that really irks me is that they had the audacity to say that we were "trying to hustle" them out of their next rent payment. They left with less than 24 hours notice, and while I exxagerrated the exact nature of the impact of them not paying us, it is still practical sense. But whatever, unlike every other time, we are ok this time. My dad is working and even at only part time he can cover what they would have been paying plus a little which is good. If we were the fucked up people they think we are, we could sue them for a month's rent, but we would NEVER do that, we tried to get only the next payment because when you move out suddenly people still have bills to pay.

We consistently *lose* money by helping people and letting them live here. But of course we are just money hungry and want whatever we can (obviously my threat to take their PS3 was a bit over the top, but I was really mad because my brother, my FUCKING brother, didn't care for a second that he was screwing us, or hurting us, or anything other than his stupid boyfriends' selfish needs).

But that just shows that he really didn't care about being a family, we were just a place to stay till they wanted to stay somewhere else. Just like everyone else. I know I am not letting anyone move in for a very long time. I can't go through this again, not for a while. Plus it is obvious that other that my dad, no one really wants to live with me anyway.

I am still a little mad, but I am not really hurting as much as the last few times. I think I am just numb to it all. Josh is happy, and that is still really important to me. And me and my dad are actually going to spend time together tonight. Plus Jeremy promised we will start doing more things together, and I am going to get out there and try to make friends somewhere. I dont know where, but I am going to try :).

100 Facts about me

As an exercise from 43things.com I set the goal to write a list of 100 facts about me. It took me less than an hour, which I am impressed by. It was also nice for me to really reflect on who I am as a person and what I stand for.

1. I am a wife.
2. I am a daughter.
3. I am a sister.
4. I am a fur-mommy.
5. I am an atheist.
6. I love Disney
7. I love the Sims.
8. I watch a lot of TiVo.
9. I procrastinate.
10. I scrapbook.
11. I love to create things.
12. I feel happy in nature.
13. I watch the planes land at McCarren for fun and to distress.
14. I am judgmental.
15. I like that about myself.
16. I love animals.
17. I love to eat some animals.
18. I don’t believe in monogamy.
19. I do it for my husband.
20. I rarely (if ever) lie.
21. I love boy bands.
22. I actually think I am pretty (if no one else is around).
23. I have a paper addiction.
24. I have a fabric addiction that is almost as bad.
25. I would rather learn how to make/do it myself whenever possible.
26. I am pro-abortion (and obviously choice).
27. I am anti-guns.
28. I will not hunt (unless I am like trapped in the wild).
29. The only time I have ever had a traffic ticket was literally not my fault (our registration lapsed and it wasn’t my job to pay it, and my husband didn’t have the money because he was out of work for most of 2009).
30. I would rather smoke weed for pain now (so many risks that come with pain killers and prescription meds that only helped a little bit, chronic pain can change the way you view things completely).
31. I don’t think I will every have another best friend like Ashley.
32. I don’t ever want to see or speak to her again.
33. I don’t speak to my mother.
34. I am unnaturally attracted to gay men.
35. I love being an aunt.
36. I spend way too much time online.
37. I have been married since 2004.
38. I have to sleep naked, but I can make pjs work.
39. I love words.
40. I really love the “bad” ones (I think intent is more important than syllables).
41. My first tattoo is the castle on my right ankle.
42. The second is on my inside left ankle, clovers.
43. Mickey mouse sits on my shoulder, hidden unless I show you (which I show everyone )
44. As of 02/13/10 I have a fourth, on my right inside wrist, a heart with J in it.
45. I won’t ever get a piercing anywhere other than my ears.
46. I love the beach.
47. I love the mountains.
48. I love baths! Hot, bubble, soaks. All of the above.
49. Painting my nails makes me feel good.
50. I like the smell of matches.
51. Candles are my favorite scent distribution system.
52. Fire makes me happy (but in a totally sane way, I swear).
53. My favorite color is red.
54. I don’t really hate any color.
55. As I get older, morning seems to take me longer to get through.
56. My favorite comedians are Eddie Izzard, Jim Jeffries, Russell Brand and Stephen Lynch (there are many others, those are just my most favorites).
57. If I could only listen to Disney soundtracks for the rest of my life, I would be happy.
58. I hate rap, metal, and any music that is angry, derogatory, negative, loud or overly emotional.
59. My favorite flowers are daisies.
60. I love Chinese food.
61. Crab legs are my all-time favorite food.
62. Christmas is my favorite holiday.
63. Jeremy and I were born in the same month, 8 years and 2 weeks apart.
64. I love dressing up for Halloween.
65. I used to want to be an actress.
66. I still want to be a sex therapist someday.
67. I was engaged before Jeremy.
68. The fact that gay marriage isn’t legal is a crime in my opinion.
69. I think polygamy should be legal (not the pervs who marry children, I mean consenting adults should be allowed to marry as many people as they want).
70. I hate the following people: George W. Bush, Kobe Bryant, Michael Vick, Tom Cruise, Sarah Palin and Ashley Copley.
71. I wish I didn’t care that she was still sick.
72. My brother makes my life infinitely better.
73. My dad is and always will be my hero.
74. Scientology is as believable as religion, which is why it is so dangerous and why I hate that any people in the world take any of it as solid fact.
75. I love going to buffets with my family.
76. I don’t believe in soul mates, the one or forever and ever.
77. I love candy.
78. I wish I was more girly.
79. The only time I hate being fat is when I want to buy pants (but Maurices has solved that I think).
80. Beauty and the Beast is my favorite Princess movie.
81. I love “frat-boy” comedies.
82. There is nothing I wouldn’t do for my family.
83. Mickey is my favorite subject, especially for collections.
84. I love Dragon Age.
85. I have been collection Disney Trading Pins since 2005.
86. I currently have almost 70.
87. I also collect mouse ears.
88. I think Pirates are sexy.
89. But sci-fi geeks are sexier.
90. I genuinely love Star Wars.
91. I do not at all like Battlestar or any of those types of movies.
92. I love driving.
93. I collect mini albums.
94. I love taking pictures, of everything I possibly can.
95. I do not want children.
96. But I do love being around them.
97. I love packing and organizing.
98. I love being Filipino and eating Filipino food.
99. I love being Irish just as much, and enjoy the food half as much.
100. I am proud that I completed this list in under an hour.

Happy Valentine's Day!

This year we got our tax return the same weekend as Valentine's day, so we have been VERY busy indeed.

On Friday I went and picked up the stuff for V-day and finished those projects. We also went and stocked up at Sam's Club. I went to Ulta and bought a bunch of make-up and Maurice's and got new pants and a cute top to wear. I have never been able to just walk into a store and try on a pair of pants and have them fit perfectly!

On Saturday I got a bunch of stuff for my *lab* and some new soaps. I have almost all the supplies I need to maintain my skin (and relax and have fun too of course!). I am waiting for some stuff to arrive in the mail and I need to pick up a couple things tomorrow, and I am good.

Oh yea, and I got a new tattoo! I am, in general, opposed to getting someone's name tattoo'd on your body, but initials are ok, as long as you want that person apart of your history no matter what happens. Naturally that covers Jeremy, so I got his initial on my right wrist, in a heart (the lines are something I always add when I doodle hearts). It is so cool and it looks like I just drew it with some markers, which fits my style perfectly.

I dyed my hair early on Sunday morning, but it still feels like a Saturday decision. The color is my favorite shade of red, and I got it cut on Valentine's Day, but I don't have a picture of it styled yet.

Sunday was Valentine's Day, and anyone who knows me, knows I love to shop. That is what Jeremy gave me for Valentine's. We first went to Ethel M's and he let me get whatever chocolate I wanted! I love Ethel M's. It reminds me of my childhood and it is by far and away my favorite chocolate in the whole world. Then we went to Wal-Mart to pick up stuff for the house. I love having what we need and being able to make the house look nice.

A couple more highlights from this weekend:

 

I found this guy at Wal-Mart on Sunday, 11 bucks, which is a HUGE savings off the 40 it is everywhere else.

I got my both of these plus a stack of paper and a roll of glue-dots for 36 dollars, another big win in the savings dept.

We decorated and re-organized the fish tank. Bought 11 new fish and some live plants that will grow in about 3 weeks. You can barely tell, but Minnie is about 5 inches without her fins.

I cleaned my bathroom and am finally using my side of the sink. I have alof of stuff now. The soap you see is CP from the Whole Foods near us.I spent almost 23 dollars on soap! But it was so worth it, almost a lb all together. 

I have been cleaning all weekend, and actually this blog was just a break for me. I am going to organize more and I will likely blog about that too ;). Thanks for reading.

Work? yep. I do that now.

So what have I been up to lately you ask? Well I decided to take my opening a business fantasy a little more seriously. I have been working everyday, all day (except the last 2 days) on this project (while helping Joshy with his apps, hanging out with Kacie, farming and working on Jer's V-day gift).

I started a blog for the company, but have not yet posted as I want to have something concrete before posting there, in case something doesnt pan out right away. I have most of my bases covered, with the rest being taken care of when we get our tax refund.

As for personal news: Lily and Sonny are moving to Ca, and they spent the weekend here before leaving. Lily and I watched a movie (Monsters Inc) on Saturday with her *wunkle*.

 

  

 

On Sunday we went to the mall and yaya bought her a Cars stuffie and we had lunch (she had fries and I had Panda). When we got home we baked cookies and watched the SuperBowl. I already miss them, but I know that I will see them both again soon.

Jeremy and I laid tentative plans out for our vacation this year. Not Florida like we previously thought, he wants (and I must admit I want) to go to the Chocolate Festival in San Fransisco, so we are going to go up there and see my family and Alcatraz and then drive down the coast to Disneyland, SeaWorld and Universal Studios. I really hope Steven can get the time off too, because I think it would be the most amazing family vacation ever.

My plans for the rest of tonight include finishing up the work on my bath fizzies and then watching my Monday TV. How I Met Your Mother, Accidentally on Purpose, Big Bang Theory, Chuck and CSI Miami (though the last one I only watch sometimes).

Trying to be productive...

...has only lead to procrastination. What o' what will I blog about today? Nothing major going on in the house, everyone is expecting tax returns in the next week or so, cept Daddy, but that is a whole other story. I know I have most of my money spent, before I even have it, so Jeremy is not giving it to me all at once. I know for sure I am going to get my hair styled and I am going to color it. Either bright red as usual or black because its so long it might be easier to maintain and color that way.

Yep, I am one interesting person. I am almost done with Jeremy's V-Day gift. That is definitely a notch in the belt. I also recieved the pictures for 2 of my WDW 2007 albums, so I am going to start those soon. I am off to waste more time. At least I am getting better about writing more often.

A little journal prompt fun.

So I posted an entry on my Disney blog and penned an actual journal entry this morning. I figured I should write here as well. Right now I am working on Jeremy's V-Day gift; it’s all very hush hush. Because of that, I think I will find a journaling prompt and blog on that :).

The lucky prompt: What hobbies do you have?

Well isn’t that the perfect question for me. I have more hobbies than actual responsibilities. In no particular order:

Scrapbooking - I started in 2003 and haven’t ever really looked back. It is by far my favorite way to pass the time.

Quilting - Nothing is more satisfying for me than to complete a quilt or blanket for my family and friends. One of the best ways to show you love someone.

Paper Crafting - from handmade cards to ATC's i love working with paper.

Sewing - I make costumes, housewares and accessories. I am working on learning how to sew my own clothes.

Jewelry Making - I don’t wear much jewelry, but i love assembling and designing it.

Video Games - Current obsession: Dragon Age: Origins.

PC Games - The Sims (3) has been a part of my life since 2001. Every time there is a new expansion, I can barely contain my happiness. Very often you will find me glued to my computer screen.

T.V. - I watch A LOT of T.V. It’s really borderline addiction. My favorite shows right now are Psych and How I Met Your Mother.

Blogging - Kind of a new hobby, maybe not even technically a hobby yet.

Facebook games - more like an addiction, I just can’t stop :)

And that doesn’t even include all of the things I want to make hobbies, like camping and hiking.

A blog for wasted time.

I am a classic procrastinator, I put everything off until I have no other choice but to finish (or in some cases start it). At this moment I am surfing the lolDogs instead of starting Jeremy's V-Day gift or finishing the calendar. Both worthy projects that are lying by the wayside of my time wasting capabilities. To top it off, I have spent the last couple of days on lamebook.com while cleaning my room, but at least I was still getting something done right?

So I figured I should blog, or at least attempt to blog, something meaningful. The problem is, I can't think of a single thing worth saying. I am an incredibly talkative person who has lots of opinions, and apparently not one of them is springing to mind.

I guess the real question is, am I procrastinating or simply giving my brain a rest? Of course I know that I am procrastinating, but at least its not the end of the world. I have no deadlines to speak of at the moment and everything on my plate is totally optional.

I need to find a way to get motivated, something that will make a difference to someone, but right now all I wanna do is look at adorable dogs with funny grammatically criminal captions.

A new blog home.

Previously my private blog was on LiveJournal, but I decided today that it would be easier to have both blogs in one place, easy to manage and maintain.

If you are wondering about the web address, it stems from a conversation (the first of many) where I misspoke and it ended up being hilarious. I was actually trying to say there are no trees in Germantown (categorically incorrect as well, i know) because we were talking about how to decorate the foyer.

I spent a LONG time trying to figure out a suitable link thing, settling on *artofavoidingpain* and proceeded to ask the boys. Brandon suggested *notreesinpumpkintown* and I knew THAT had to be it :).

So welcome to my personal blog, it will be filled with my opinions, things I make and randomness.