100 Things About Me...Part !

So I stole this from The Average Twenty Something Blog that I read and thought it would be fun and pass some time.

Actually I think I started it and never got very far. So in order to keep this from becoming a daunting task I'm going to do this in segments, 25 at a time! Now that is a test I can get behind. If only we could make this multiple choice.

• I am a Leo and I thrive on it
• I adore tattoos, I have six and think I want to continue
• I become more attached to my animals in my life than a lot of humans I meet
• I would love to live 5 years in New York City
• I desperatly want more commentors
• I LOVE Chinese food. I could eat it once a day.
• I try to look at the bright side of things but that doesn't happen most of the time.
• I came off my anti anxiety drugs in January and I am not sure if this was the year to do it.
• I use my hair as a canvas, always changing it up and I love having it funky.
• I like imported cars and beers....I refuse to buy a domestic car (EVER) and only drink domestic beer on float trips.
• I want to travel around the world.
• Having kids doesn't appeal to me AT ALL!
• My mom thinks I have to quit being such a wuss or I will never get through this life.
• I have come to appreciate my significant other's mom and while that was happening I have come to grow less fond of my significant other's sister.
• I enjoy art...creating it, looking at it, touching it. It brings something out in me.
• I wish I was as succesful as my mom thinks I am (but I guess in her eyes she is super proud of how far i have come).
• I wish I would enjoy sex more.
• I am very concerned that my dog will die while I am on vacation in December which would be horrible as I don't want him to die alone.
• I use to think I was very tall until I started playing club volleyball!!
• I am Irish and love that fact about me but wish people would educate themselves before making Irish comments.
• My favorite animal is the penguin.
• I have wanted a horse since I was a little girl and hoping someday I will be able to get myself one.
• I love white wine.
• My relationship had a bumpy first year and I am grateful that it did because I now appreciate my mate even more.
• I love anything that will get my heart pumping and cheat death.

Heart Failure Breaking My Heart

I have always had animals growing up. They were very loved family pets and I adored them all. The last one that I can truly remember dying or us having it put to sleep was my german shepard. I was 13. I can't remember much on how I felt when my mom told me. I probably cried.

Now I just found out that my dog has heart failure. He has fluid in his lungs. His symptoms started on Saturday and I got him into the vet today. They gave him a shot and a bunch of pills for his heart and fluid on the lungs. His heart is also enlarged. None of this sounds great to me. My vet said he isn't going to die right away but it is going to shorten his life. Everything I have been researching has all told me that he probably ony has a few months to live if that.

So now we have to make him as comfortable as possible. He gets his favorite food everyday as well as his favorite treats. He lost a half pound in the past month or so, which is a lot since he weighs under 10 pounds at a "healthy" weight.

So this is the first time that I will have to cope with the death of "my" animals. I will admit tears have already been shed. They were shed the moment the word heart failure was spoken and than even more when fluids on the lungs was mentioned.

Please say a little prayer for my tough little guy battling it out for his life. He means the world to me.

Welcome To Texting!

Let me first off say that I adore my mother. She is truly my rock, but she is also an older woman that is really starting to get a handle on on the "new" technology, i.e. texting.

The first time she texted was about a couple days ago and she asked me how to do it so I sat down and showed her. I had to be very patient because as with everyone, the first time using something is usually the most difficult. She caught on pretty well though figuring out that she has to hit a button several times in order to get different letters since she is lacking a full keyboard.

It is now a few days later and the woman is a texting machine. I know it takes her longer than it does me but that is what always makes me smile when I get a long text from her. She put enough thought and determination into that though she just had to pound it out right there at that moment and share it with someone.

I am just waiting for THIS day!

Thank You For Clearing The Waters

I am getting ready to make a choice, but, I'm a little confused.Let me see if I have this straight.....



If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're exotic, different."

Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.


If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.

Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.



Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.

Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.



If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.

If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.



If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.

If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.



If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.

If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you're very responsible.



If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.

If your husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

OK, much clearer now.

Seriously...You Are Family.

I have never in my life even heard of something like this. It astounded me to a point that I couldn't believe.

I was speaking with someone that is very dear with me and they were telling me about a situation. This "family" is suppose to be close and great, you get the point. But everytime they are cutting one another down, throwing insults out there and are just straight up being bitches, although I do think that word is a compliment for them because at least a male dog wants to mate with a female dog. These women are beyong bitches!

Let's call this woman the "mother hen" for the purpose of this blog entry. She holds the "top" woman status in the family. Mother Hen decides to pick on a baby chick (think a woman in her very early 20's and is really starting her life off on the right off, college degree, etc.). Mother HEn starts telling people that baby chick is sleeping with her boss! I kid you not....knowing baby chick, I about fell off my chair in shock because she would never do anything like that....EVER!

So what baffles me is that Mother Hen probably thinks that there is nothing wrong in what she said or probably nothing offensive. And this is how the family works, they insult one another to the point where they don't speak to one another instead of truly standing up to one another. It is sad but I am way too close to it and now find it somewhat comical because I have seen it WAY too many times.

So whatever family life you think you may have, trust me, it can always be worse!!

Why??

Why am I writing this blog without letting you know who I am. The answer is simple. I do it so I can speak my mind freely and express everything I feel without having to apologize to anyone or worry about hurting thier feelings.

There is very little you will find out about me personally through this blog. I will share my thoughts, ideas, stories, mishaps, etc. through this blog.

Don't bother asking who I am because I will never tell. I could be your dad, sister, mother, brother, or even your lover!

That is the beautiful thing about being anonymous!