Oh Hey.....

Yeah, I know, I've been naughty and left you hanging for like another week now.  Damn, life is getting in the way of me entertaining you and me reading all that you guys have to say on your blogs!!

Let's see, where did we leave off last week?  Oh yeah, girls beating on boys.  I agree with the point LivingDeadNurse made about guys not wanting to hit girls after provoked because it can always get turned around.  For sure on that one.  I've seen it happen before.  I guess the good news is that he and I are still talking, but she's doing some not fun shit like texting me from his phone at 4:45 in the morning saying all sorts of classy things.  Ugh, drama bitch....

Other than that, there hasn't been a whole lot going on.  I'm still trying to get my wrist all healed up.  It's a slow process seeing as I can't afford physical therapy.  It's bending kind of normal, but still looks all stupid.  I'll have to take a picture so you guys can see how fabulously I managed to fuck myself up....

Oh yeah, LivingDeadNurse also bestowed an award on me over at her blog

How very awesome.  My first award ever....  Now to fill in my answers and pass this baby along.....

1. Thank the blogger that gave you the award.  
Thanks bunches LivingDeadNurse!!
2. Sum up your blogging philosophy, motivation, experience, using 10 words.
Hmm, 10 words?  Love blogging, sharing my drama, hopes, dreams, disappointments w/u :)  See I can make it 10 words....
3. Pass the award on to 10 other blogs you feel have substance
 Wow, I can only pick 10 of you?  Nope, I refuse to do it.  If you check out all of the blogs that I follow, you're going to find some awesome peeps writing about a million and one different topics and I love each and every one of them for their creativity and honesty.

Anyway...  Oh, oh, oh, guess what?  I'll actually have interesting things to write about next week!!  I'm going to Ted Nugent tonight and the Ohio State Fair and seeing Weezer there on Saturday.  You know that I'll be taking pictures of all the freaks left and right, so stay tuned for all that.  It'll be a good time for sure!

Also in the hopper, the "Legalize It" Tour w/Cypress Hill & Slightly Stoopid, Stone Temple Pilots w/Cage the Elephant (which I'm SOOOO excited for), Foreigner and Black Crowes.  August is going to be awesome people, just freaking awesome!!

I'll leave you with this WTF???? moment from last week, caught by my wonderful iPhone... Sorry, I was trying to be sneaky and I kinda shake like a crackhead sometimes.....

I think it's CC DeVille from Poison...  I mean look how much alike they look!!!

The Psycho Girlfriend

I've never been that girl.  Then again, I've never been with a dude that was cheating on me or doing anything stupid like that.  If that would have happened at some point I would have just walked away from the relationship.  There are tons of fish in the sea baby, no need to stick around with a douchebag. 

Remember Sunday night when I got the 3 blocked calls?  Well, Monday at work, I got a call from a local number that I didn't recognize.  Again, since Nick's phone turned off, I thought it might be him, so I answered.  It was Andy's girlfriend asking me if "you've been fucking my boyfriend all weekend".  WOW, ok then...  This is one classy chick for sure.....  Umm, who is your boyfriend? I asked.  She told me.  I give her an oh yeah, he was at my party Saturday night.  We knew each other in high school.  She proceeds to scream everything that she could possibly think of at me.  I laugh.  Then she gives me an "as long as I'm in this house, I'd appreciate it if you would respect that he's with me."  Yeah, ok, whatever.  Not to mention he's been trying to get her out of the house for weeks now because she's a cough medicine addict.  Cough medicine, people.  WHO THE HELL is addicted to cough medicine?  I'd never heard of that before, but apparently it's more common than you would think.....  Basically, she doesn't have a job, got her kids taken away and is an addict.  She's freeloading off of him because she can.  Because if he says no, she beats the hell out of him.  Kind of a reverse domestic violence.  The kind that nobody wants to talk about because it's not very manly to be beaten up on a regular basis by a chick.  The funny thing?  He's not a small dude....

Holy shit.  He told me about all this on Saturday and Sunday and it was confirmed by the ex-husband, who apparently used to date her as well and they figured this out when they were talking on Saturday night...... WTF?  I just don't get it, much in the way I don't get why women stay with men that beat them.  My mom stayed for years and one day snapped.

He stayed so late on Sunday because he didn't want to go home, but then again he was afraid that she would do something to his dogs, which are some special breed hunting dog, so he felt like he had to be there.  I don't know, it's a weird situation that I know I need to stay FAAAAAAAAAAAAR away from, but I can't help it.......

The Birthday Week In Review, Saturday Night Pictures

Pics from Saturday night for you to enjoy :)

Ugly thrift store outfit #1, cut shorter because it was sooo fucking hot!

Ugly thrift store outfit #2, the pants were ridiculous, but they felt nice....

There is no pic of outfit #3 because I didn't get a good one.  This is outfit #4, which I like to call "Hotness" Pay no attention to all the shit laying all over my bedroom....

Sometimes there are accidents..... Bummer, those snake skin pants were hot!!

Mary's thrift store shoes!!

The penalty wheel, which featured fun things like motorboat your neighbor and dance on the stripper pole.  Unfortunately we didn't get to have too much fun with this because there were other things going on....

Like hula hooping.....

Boys on the stripper pole

Girls making out... or just about to....

Fun with silly string....  Well not much fun for me since it was in my hair....

and all over my bed & floor.....

Foam sword fighting....

Hugging Nicole's leg lol!

I'll leave you with this at 5:30am, I have no clue what I was doing....

The Birthday Week In Review, Part 2

So where did we leave off?  Oh yeah, going out on Friday night.  We headed to Lucky's for a bite to eat then we were off to my sister's bar.  I have no idea what was going on at the bar that night, but it was a STRANGE mess.  We had a drunk girl with a bad boob job hula hooping and falling on her ass, a quadriplegic drinking beer from an extra long straw getting danced with by the drunk girl with the bad boobs, girls who should never go near a stripper pole on it, a white guy in the band with an afro wig on and a crackhead running around in a grass skirt & his boxers.  I suppose that pretty much any weird thing that could have happened Friday night, did.  After several rounds of drinks and a round of shots we needed to get out of there before I was unable to drive us home.  We stopped for Fourth Meal, ran Nicole back to her place & headed home where one of my regular guys, Michael was waiting on me......

Saturday morning wasn't as rough as I thought it would be after being up until 3am.  I don't really remember much of the morning, but we laid around until it was time to take E to his grandma's house and then headed out running around and sightseeing.  We started with some much needed food, then started our sightseeing adventure downtown, driving all the way up High Street through the little sections of town, eventually ending up of the other side of campus at the thrift store.  I still needed to get an outfit for the party!  Two hours and bunches of fun picking out the most AWFUL outfits I could find, we were on our way back toward my side of town.  We stopped at Wal-Mart for party staples like chips, hula hoops, sidewalk chalk and foam swords, then picked up Nicole and headed back to the house to get ready.  Somehow time got away from us and we really needed to start getting ready because it was 7 and the party was supposed to begin at 8.  Lucky for us, my friends are always late.  It was kind of a show up whenever event anyway.  By midnight there were probably 50 people at my house and by 1, the police were there telling us no more live music.  That was the first time EVER the cops have showed up at one of my parties.  Must be the new renters in the neighborhood that suck.  Who knows, we just turned the music on the mp3 player back on and nobody came back telling us we were too loud, even though I know we were...  Oh well, whatever.  I think everyone had a good time.  My friend Donovan showed up with like 6 guys I haven't seen since high school that were part of the group I used to hang out with in my previous life.

One of them, Andy, immediately caught my attention.  Here we go again with the whole there's something about a boy with dark hair and light eyes.....  His are the most awesome shade of blue....  He used to live by me like 10 years ago and Nicole had a crush on him back then.  Not so much now, she had her sights set on some unfinished business with another one of them from like 4 months ago.  He and I talked for a bit and he claimed he didn't remember me.  I used the phrase "your sister used to fuck my kid's dad" and he immediately remembered who I was.  God she was such a skank, but I digress.  I sat and talked to him for awhile then mingled with the rest of the crowed, then back to talking to him.  I honestly have no idea when most of the people left.  My pictures tell me that at 4:30 the party was still in full swing, but by 5:30 there were only a few of us left.  550 jello shots, plus half and half poured drinks that started around 7 tend to do a number on a girl, lol...

Cameron, who you may remember as the guy who wanted to be with me forever, but has a problem snorting pain pills passed out in my bed, so Andy and I slept on the couch.  Somehow I ended up on the floor when I woke up at 10.  Wow, I felt like a trainwreck.  His cure for how we felt?  More jello shots.  Ok, fine then, but only if we chase a Vicodin with them for this headache.  We all laid around for awhile and then it was time for me to go and get E.  By the time I got back, Nicole and Cris were back at the house and everyone was trying to decide what they were going to do.  Nicole and Curious set out to see Amish people because Curious had never seen any before.  I finally pushed Cameron out the door and Andy and I just sat there talking about how fucked up his life is right this minute.  Bummer.  The last thing I need right now is a dude with these kinds of issues....  Eventually Curious and Nicole made it back to the house, having decided last night got the best of them and they just needed to rest, so we all laid around some more.  Finally around 3 Andy decided he needed to go home.  Ok then, I gave him my number and he said he'd get a hold of me when his life got less complicated..  At 4 we got ready to take Curious back to the airport and headed out.  By 5 we were back home trying to get E to take a nap so we could sleep.  No dice.  He was all messed up from being at his grandmas or something.  Finally at like 8:30 I got him to bed for the night and me & Nicole crashed out.

I woke up to my phone ringing around midnight.  It was a blocked number, which I don't answer.  It went to voicemail and the person immediately called back.  WTF?  I answered it because sometimes Nick does that and I still haven't heard if he's back in town yet or not.  I could hear someone on the other end, but they didn't say anything.  I hung up and they called back again.  This time I didn't answer.  I needed sleep so I could function at work on Monday since it had been a long weekend.

The Birthday Week In Review, Part 1

Wow, what a week it was...  What can I say, I have some of the best friends a girl could have...  They're also some of the worst on occasion, but it was actually a drama free week!  WOOT for that!!  On to the week in review...

Wednesday night, for my actual birthday, I met up with a bunch of people at Lucky's for Wasted Wednesday, the birthday edition.  WW didn't disappoint this week.  My coworkers, some friends and my mother made sure I had a good time consuming faaaaar too many shots.  So many in fact, that I have no clue how I ended up back at my house and half naked in my bed....  Looking back at the pictures, it looks like I had a good time.... I even found a couple on my camera that I went WHAT THE FUCK??  when I saw them...  Of course, you can't see those ones, but here are some from that night....

Bridget and Tara's boobs, lol

Tara showing that she double dosed on happy pills!

Every boy's favorite pair of shoes that I own. They go great w/a short skirt, lol!!

Quite possibly where the wheels started to fall off... Thank God Dave was there to keep me in check...

Thursday morning I was woken up by Tara and Sandi texting me asking why I wasn't at work.  Umm, quite honestly, I was still drunk at that point and remained that way until I ate lunch at 1:00pm.  Not sure if it was just all the shots I had or someone slipped me a roofie, but I have NEVER been drunk that long.....  Needless to say, Thursday at work was bad.  I couldn't even get out of my chair most of the day and I didn't want to go out for lunch because I was afraid I would sweat and everyone would be able to smell the alcohol rolling off me....  Luckily I made it through the day and RAN out the door at 4:00 free for the weekend....

Friday morning I had all intentions of taking E to daycare then getting some stuff done early because I had a doctor's appointment and to run to the airport to pick up my special guest, Curious.  My intentions were blown to shit by the fact E was up all night throwing up.  I let him sleep in until I had to leave for my doctor appointment and headed straight there.  I got my cast off and didn't receive good news.  I could tell just by looking at it that we had a problem.  The bone on the outside of the wrist is huge and that's not even where I broke it.  My doctor made me an appointment with the hand specialist for Monday and sent me on my way with a brace that I was supposed to wear all the time except when showering.  Yeah right.....

After that I ran around for a little bit, picking up some stuff for the house and then went to get Nicole so we could head to the airport.  Curious had a flight delay, for whatever reason, but by 11:45 or so, we were on our way to get lunch.  Lunch was good and after that, we had to acquire all the necessary ingredients for jello shots.  Somewhere along the way, Nicole decided it would be fun to soak strawberries in liquor as well.  We got everything we needed and headed back to the hood.

Hours and hours of jello shot making produced a fridge that looked like this:

Hell, we don't need no stinking food!  There were about 550 jello shots in the fridge that day.   We were nasty sweaty messes because the house doesn't have air conditioning & it was super hot all weekend.....  I don't really remember what we did after this, but eventually we got cleaned up and headed out to o show Curious a night on the town in Columbus, Ohio.....

If You Would Have Asked Me

 when I was 16 if I was going to be alive to celebrate my 32nd birthday, I probably would have told you no.  At that point in my life, 32 was old, double my life at that point and I certainly wasn't living a lifestyle that would have permitted me to live this long.  Luckily I came to my senses when I got pregnant just over a year later.  Things haven't been easy, actually I can cite more than a few instances where I've made things so much worse, but I'm moving along ok in my life these days.  My life still isn't where I want it to be, but anymore I'm taking things one day at a time and doing what I can to make sure my boys and I are happy.  That's all I know how to do at this point.  Things will fall into place when they're supposed to, and I'm ok with that.....

My friend Brad came over last night to look at this laptop that I'm trying to get rid of  and we were shooting the shit for a bit.  If you remember correctly, I wrote about him here.  He's pretty much why my life went in the direction it did...  I told him that I had been talking to Nick and his eyes got big.  I gave him the details of what has been going on for the last month and all he could say was, "He's your number one and you're his, you're supposed to be together."  Yeah Brad, you're not the first person to say that to me in the last couple weeks.  I'm still waiting to see what changes Nick has actually made in his life.  We'll have to see, I guess.  Brad and Nick were best friends back in the day and I pretty much ruined that.  It's good to see that everyone has moved past all that and we have gotten on with our lives.  I'm just in such a totally different place these days, I'm not sure how it would ever work.  I wish I had a picture of the two of us to show you guys, but I tore all of those up long ago....  I wish I wouldn't have acted stupid about that stuff, but my heart was broken.  Oh well....

Anywho, everyone have a FABULOUS Hump Day!  I'm heading out for happy hour with a bunch of friends and coworkers for my birthday, so there should be some funny pictures posted tomorrow or Friday, depending on what my hangover will allow......

Funny Shit I've Seen Lately

There has been no shortage of amusement around me these last couple of weeks.  I ALWAYS have my camera on me.  If I don't have time to pull it out, my iPhone takes pretty good pictures too.  I'll share some with ya today since I know you all feel neglected lately....

A fucking limo at the Burger King...  WTF?

These were all from ComFest, which is a big local hippie festival.  All the freaks come out to play this entire weekend, but it's lots of fun to people watch.  This is the first year I took my kids and they were NOT amused...

WTF? He's passed out on steps??? You're doing a real good job daycare....

 Another WTF? moment from yesterday.  Torrential downpour while the sun is fully shining.  I was really worried for a minute there would be a tornado, so I got back to my side of the suburbs where it didn't rain one drop.  There were flood warnings all night long...

Ha, I'm stupid....

Damn, this pic is messed up, but you still get the point.  This chick's pants looked like they were painted on, complete with camel toe in the front... EWWWW....

And there was this WTF moment at my sister's bar Friday night.....

That's it for now peeps.  I gotta actually do a little bit of work before I get out of here at 4.  We may or may not talk tomorrow, but for sure Thursday as we count down the days till the BIG birthday party.....  Have a great one!!

4th of July Weekend

Well, it started out pretty freaking lame....  Our city has "the biggest fireworks display in the midwest."  I put that in quotes, because that's what the newspapers say, though I'm not sure I quite believe it.  Yes, Red, White & Boom is an impressive display of fireworks, as evidenced below, but I'm not sure it's the biggest....

Sorry that first one is kind of blurry, if I could have anything for my birthday it would be a new camera.  It doesn't help that it was the end of me coming off the medication, so I was having weird tremors trying to hold still to take pictures....  Anyway, since my step-dad works until 10:30 my mom didn't have anyone to watch the fireworks with, so I volunteered the big kids and myself to go with her.  We used to go downtown every year when Nick and I were together with the boys, but it got difficult when he was gone to manage two little ones, so we stopped going.  Never mind the fact that every creep, freak, hillbilly, redneck, younameit, is downtown on this particular night.  My mom wanted to watch the fireworks from Huntington Field, which is where our minor league baseball team plays.  A quick $10 a person got us seats to some freaking lame ass music and a nice downtown view of the fireworks.

It was a pretty decent time.  The big kids were acting retarded as usual, but they pretty much were able to run around and do whatever.  When the fireworks were getting ready to start, we were allowed to move down onto the field.  It was pretty cool to be sitting down there on such finely manicured grass.  I promptly took my shoes off and ran my toes through it :)

(Gavin and his air guitar)

(Kids acting retarded, see, I told ya....)

(It's like they wanna play in the band or something...)

(Umm, that's my mom.. I don't know if I've ever posted a pic of her)

(Me & the big kids, yeah, you say they look like me until you get a glimpse of their dad.....)

(Toes in the nice grass....)

After the fireworks were done, we waited in traffic for what seemed like forever, but was only like 45 minutes and dropped the mom back off at her house and the big kids back off at my house.  I went and picked up Nicole for some adult non-family time.....

We went up to my sister's bar where I was supposed to be meeting a friend I used to go to school with.  I had met him up there the night before, so I didn't know if he'd actually show up for a second round....  Turned out, he did and we all sat on the patio drinking shots and shooting the shit for the rest of the night.  When the bar closed, we all headed right across the street to one of Nicole's friends apartment where we continued to party.  I was too drunk to drive all the way home, so it was a good thing we hung out there.  Nicole had one too many shots and ended up like this:

(I like to call this her "dead to the world" pic)

I literally sat on top of her dry humping away trying to wake her up with no luck....  She was out like a light.  As the sun started to come up, I fell asleep on the other couch.  At 9am I woke up panicked because when there are kids home (even when it's just the big ones) I NEVER stay out all night.  I grabbed Nicole and we headed back to the house.

As we're driving down the road getting ready to turn into my neighborhood a car pulls out in front of me.  It's my mother....  FUCK....  What the hell is she doing going to my house unannounced at this hour of the morning?  We pull in behind her and she is spastic going on and on about her missing wallet.  She didn't even ask why we were pulling in behind her.  Sadly, the wallet was not in my car from the night before.  She was seriously flipping the fuck out especially because she had to travel  the following week.  She hurried home to cancel her cards and all that nonsense, while Nicole and I breathed a sigh of relief.

Saturday was pretty much spent lounging around in the sun working on that bad tan line with the cast and napping.  After all, I had a birthday party to go to on Saturday night back up at the sister's bar.  I took Nicole to work and headed home to get ready around 5.  I'm not sure what happened in the process, but I laid down and didn't wake back up until shortly after 9 when my phone was going off with people asking me where the hell I was.  I managed to get up to the bar shortly before 10 and the party was going on.  I only got a few pictures that night because there were toooooooo many shots flowing....

(That's Sandi on the left, it was her birthday and we were drinking lemon drop shots)

(Monica, Me & Sandi)

That picture right above could have been so much better....  Monica, the one on the left is my favorite friend of Sandi's.  She stands about 5'3" and is a little British spitfire.  She's freaking awesome.  

Sometime around midnight all of us carted Sandi out and she headed home before her train derailed.  I stayed behind with some people, which proved to be a bad decision in the end.  Let's skip the ugly details and just say that I had to go back to Sandi's house and get my car in the morning and my keys were nowhere to be found.  Well, eventually they were found laying on the passenger floor of the car, but that wasn't the worst part of the morning....  Ugh, damn shots got the best of me....

Sunday was the parade and fireworks for our suburb.  The big kids were riding in our neighbor's truck that shoots flames out of the stacks, so it was just supposed to be me & E.  I didn't know how long he would make it considering it was like 92 degrees out, but whatever.  My mom called just before we were getting ready to go and said her, my niece and my step-dad were coming to watch with us.  Whatever, we all walked over to the parade route and met up with Nicole.

(Somebody needs a haircut and wouldn't leave his hat on...)

(There, that's better)

(Princess Lili in her 4th of July best)

(The big kids in the hillbilly truck.  One's in the passenger seat and the other at the back of the truck with the painted face)

Told ya we were hillbilly as hell around here....  Anyways, after the parade the big kids went who knows where and me & E laid down for a nap.  I was a little depressed that Josh hadn't called me since we had argued all weekend while he was gone and now he was back in town.  I knew that E wouldn't stay up late enough for us to watch the suburb fireworks, so I planned on staying home all night. 

As it turned out, he took a nap from 7-8:30 and was ready to go.  We headed over to Nicole's moms  house and ate & watched fireworks there.  Josh texted me that he was sad he wasn't watching the fireworks with me and I was sad.  I went home after the fireworks, put the little guy to bed and made a drink.  After lots of trying on his part, I finally got all spiffed up and headed over to the party where Josh was.  I hadn't seen him since Wednesday.  Let's be real honest here, I looked hot, and I did it on purpose.  He acknowledged, which I said before shocked the shit out of me and we had a great evening.

Monday we laid around all day messing with the kids and getting the house picked up from the weekend.  I was happy with the way the weekend had ended and ready to go back to work.  Too much family time will kill this girl....

Holy Crap....

This is kind of what I feel like doing to everyone right now....  Well, not  you guys, but everyone in my real life.  I really didn't realize it's been like 12 days since y'all had heard from me.  Sorry about that and thanks to Barry for checking in on me.  It's not that I don't have anything to write about, but life has been a little more than complicated over the last couple of weeks.  Then on Friday I broke my work computer again and couldn't remember my Blogger sign in for the life of me at home, so stuff has just been all stupid.

Where did we leave off last time?  Oh yeah, with the bikini picture, lol.  Funny shit.  I did actually wear it to the pool last weekend and wasn't too weird about it, so I guess we're all good on that.

As for the Josh thing, well yeah, I know I said in that last post that I was done with him, but I really wasn't.  He called me from Put In Bay (where he spent the 4th of July weekend) and apologized and all that shit.  We hung out on Sunday night when he got back and he was the nicest sweetest guy ever, telling me that I looked amazing when I walked in to the party.  I don't think he's ever complimented me (and yeah, I did look amazing that night), so I bought it hook, line & sinker....  We had a good week, then last weekend, a guy that I know showed up where we were and he flipped the fuck out.  I left him at the bar and deleted his number from my phone after he came and got his car and all the shit I had thrown in it on Sunday.  Over it,  over it, over it.  Let's never mention this asshole's name again.

Moving on, Nick has left again, so I don't know what's going on with him.  He's due back in town this week, so I'm sure I'll hear from him.  I almost went out to see him the night he called to tell me he was leaving again, but refrained.  Mostly because it's been so long since I've seen him, I just didn't want it to be right before he left.  I would bet that he shows back up in town this weekend and calls.  Or he calls tomorrow because he knows it's my birthday and I'll be extra emotional about not getting any gifts from a significant other.  Yes, I'm like a child, I like  presents.  That was pretty much the only thing I could count on the husband for, flowers and diamonds for any major holiday...  Look where that got him though....

Umm, let's break this up a little bit so it doesn't get too long.  Next post we'll talk in more detail about 4th of July weekend....