Whatever I think

I am definitely going to get a tattoo. I want it to reflect something about myself. One of my greatest passions is astronomy not to be confused with astrology. Before I go on I will show you my daughter’s latest photo of a couple of her Tats. She gave me permission to post it.

I love the way the photo was done in black and white and the tattoos are in color.

My tattoo will be smaller and probably on my arm. I want to find what I want now, then when I am ready to do it I will be used to the photo of what I want and can make a final decision if I have picked the right one. Not everyone likes body art but I do and I’m going with it. I just have to lose all the weight first.

I am an amateur astronomer so I want it to have something to do with the sun, moon and stars. That’s always sort of been my logo. I have more sun, moon and star crap in my room then you could imagine. So far these are two I sort of like.

I am still looking though. I don’t want to end up with something I hate for the rest of my life.

Let me know which one you like? Or any artists out there I can use some ideas.

OMG, IT’S LITTLE MISS‘ BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!!!!

I LOVE CAKE!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VIDEO__WICKED FUNNY!!

Please click here to wish Little Miss a Happy Birthday. She is a great blogger and a great friend.

I saw this on the Bead Den’s blog and she didn’t tag anyone so I tagged myself.

I had a great Mother’s Day. Sarah and I went to the local huge garden center and she bought window boxes, soil and plants for the boxes, 2 hanging plants plus hangers to hang them on that stick in the ground. Then we went to that store I don’t like that starts with W but is the only store around where we could possibly buy the things we were looking for. We got four Tiki Torches and a small tiered tiki torch to put on a table which I have to return because it was broken. Typical W stuff. You have to always end up returning something.

We came home and Sarah started to clean up the side of the house where I want my Oasis. She also planted all the plants in the window boxes. She had to do everything alone because her hubby caught some kind of stomach virus and was sick. The wasband was out birding and offered to come home and help but she told him to stay out and have fun. She even cleaned the gutters.

SARAH WORKING HARD!!

THE FRUIT OF HER LABOR- ONLY THERE IS ACTUALLY NO FRUIT IN THERE.

THE HANGING PLANTS

Today, we went to Lowe’s Home Improvement Center and bought a Chiminea and solar lights.

THIS IS THE CHIMINEA WE BOUGHT.

I already have a bird bath and a wooden swing to incorporate into all of this. I also want some kind of outdoor statuary. I saw a Dragon statue online. Don’t know if the kids will go for it.

HE’S ONLY 17 INCHES TALL AND $65.00

THIS IS KING ARTHUR AND HE IS 4 FEET TALL AND $90.00 (ON SALE). I HAVE ALWAYS HAD A THING FOR THE ARTHURIAN LEGEND. I HAVE READ EVERY BOOK ABOUT HIM THAT I KNOW OF. MY DAUGHTER IS AFRAID HE WOULD GET STOLEN. I’D TAKE MY CHANCES.

I will probably have to wait for my birthday for something like the above which is June 9th.

I don’t have after photos yet of my Oasis because it isn’t quite finished. The chiminea has to be put together. Sarah is good at stuff like that so I’m sure she will do it but she might have to wait for the weekend. That’s OK I’ll be patient.

She also took me to lunch today and I did good . I had grilled chicken topped with salsa on a bed of rice with vegetables and I only ate half of it. Last night after all the work was done we had a barbecue and made our favorite teriyaki turkey burgers. It was too cold to sit in my Oasis but soon we will have the chiminea. It’s unseasonably cold here for May.

Hope all the Mother’s had a great Mother’s day and everyone else had a great day too. I also want to thank my daughter for giving me such a wonderful two day Mother’s Day.

I can’t wait to see the chiropractor on Wednesday. My back hurts so much from watching Sarah work so hard.

SEE WEIGHT UPDATE BELOW

Just a quick update on today’s meeting. I LOST 3.4 POUNDS THIS WEEK!!!!!!!!!! I am so happy. I really worked hard this week because I tracked every single thing I ate and weighed my portion sizes. This is what you are supposed to do every week but I was letting things slide a little but fortunately I caught myself quickly. After last week’s sad weight gain I knew I had to do something quick. I can’t risk gaining all this weight back.

I will write more later. I have to go to the P.O. and the grocery store. Whole Perdue Roaster chickens are on sale and this particular store will cut them up and skin them so I can cook them without fat in the crock pot. I need them for my Rosemary cashew chicken recipe. I’m going to buy a few and freeze them.

Ta-Ta! Did I just say Ta-Ta? Did I suddenly turn British? What the hell am I thinking. Watching that British Bachelor show too much. Later!!!

It’s a dumb show but I love it anyway.  I’m a reality/(we know it’s not reality) show junkie. I just like his accent.

Right off the bat, I’ll skip dinner. Weight Watcher’s certainly limits what I can eat at a restaurant but my daughter wanted to give me the choice just in case. I nixed the dinner. I WANT PRIZES!!!

What I really want is someone to clean up the yard. That would be the best present I could receive and it wouldn’t cost anyone any money, unless they want to buy me some outdoor hanging plants and tiki torches. We had a tree cut down exactly 5 months ago today. It was a big swamp maple in our front yard and all the pieces of the tree are still sitting in the front yard. I was hinting around last night that I would like the front yard cleaned up.

Well, there’s the wasband moving the tree today in the rain. WHAT A GUY!!! He really shouldn’t be doing it. I was so afraid he was going to hurt his back but there was no stopping him.

I have a deck off my bedroom that I can’t use because we need a new door. So on my last birthday the kids bought me a nice wooden chair and put it at the end of my driveway, right by the side door so I could get to it easily. I like to sit outside in the summer and read or just meditate (in other words do nothing). But it’s not the oasis that I dream about.

That’s it. Nice view of my wasband’s truck and the three other cars in the driveway. Also you can see the deck next door where they tie up the poor dog, though I have not heard or seen him in a couple of days.

My daughter came up with the idea that if they parked the cars further toward the street (there is plenty of room to do that, they can move them about 10-12 feet further back) it would give them more room to turn the swing toward the backyard, rake and clean up the ground, put out some tiki torches and some hanging flowers and generally spruce it up. I’d love a chiminea too.

OK, now things are getting expensive. I can do without the chiminea. But I have seen cheap ones for like $50.

I like to go sit out at night but there is no light out there. We need an electrician to come over because we have some major electrical problems and we had to disconnect the outdoor light. Tiki torches will do, better ambiance anyway.

BEFORE

AFTER

After my wasband was finished he came in the house and said “Happy Fuckin’ Mother’s Day”. I almost fell off my chair from laughing.

Then I made him a pizza.

I just read an article on CNN.com about blogging as therapy. It was interesting. Here is a link

These are the major points in case you don’t feel like reading it:

• Story Highlights:
• Report: Some 12 million people have a blog; many use it for group therapy
• Experts: Blogging shouldn’t replace face-to-face counseling
• Study: Men blog about politics, technology and money
• Study: Women tend to blog more about private lives.

I found it very interesting that women tend to blog more about their private lives. It certainly holds true with me. Though my blogger men friends all blog about themselves. I probably wouldn’t be a blogger friend to someone who only blogged about politics anyway. I would be bored to tears. I can’t blog about money because I don’t have any. As far as technology, as long as I have my cell phone, my computer and my crock pot, I’m all set. Since I stopped watching TV and listening to the news, Peter Pan could be running for President and I wouldn’t even know it. For all I know Peter Pan is president. That would be wonderful, then none of us would have to grow up.

I was just looking for an image of Peter Pan and I found out that the author J.M. Barrie’s birthday is tomorrow. How strange that I would think about him today. Should have waited until tomorrow.

I do go on news sites but only read articles that interest me, like the blogging one and gossip ones. I am just so tired of reading about politics and Iraq and other depressing crap. I can’t risk getting depressed again, it was just too depressing to be depressed. I really enjoy being happy.

Here is a post I enjoyed about finding the silver lining in the bad things that happen. It’s a post by Hannah at Blairs Boys

I did start blogging for therapeutic reasons, though I still see my therapist once a month. I started out seeing her weekly but it seems I’m not as crazy as I was so I don’t need to see her as often. Actually, I’m still crazy and I plan on staying that way but I don’t feel like driving into a tree anymore. I think being crazy is good for the soul.

I’d like to read some of those 12,000,000 blogs. I read about 30 so I only have 11,999,970 to go. That should keep me busy for a bit.

Now I have to go to the P.O.. At the price of gas, it will probably cost me $3.00. That’s crazy. The silver lining: maybe I’ll get a check in the mail.

Weight Watchers has come out with some new low point cheeses. I found out at the meeting Saturday, that the only place you could buy them right now was at a Walmart Super Center. I am not a Walmart fan but I really, really wanted the cheese. It was my daughter’s day off so she found out where the closest Walmart Super Center was and drove me there. It happened to be in Plymouth, you know, where that famous rock is and the Mayflower.

We got to Walmart and they had one cripple cart not in use so I grabbed it. We had to grocery shop anyway today so we figured we would check out what else they had. Somehow we spent $120.00. They had this vitamin water that her hubby drinks and it was half the price that he usually pays for it so we bought a bunch of it. It weighed down my cripple cart so much it would hardly move. Then I imagined myself 70 pounds heavier and I probably couldn’t have ridden one then. I used to have my food delivered by Peapod.

They had a few organic veggies but not much and we only eat organic vegetables. Of course, then I turn around and eat a lean cuisine with God only knows how many chemicals in it. They only had four out of the eight new cheeses that they make. We bought two of them. I am sure they have their share of chemicals too. I should start making my lunch. I make my daughter’s lunch but I don’t make mine.

Then we planned on going to Applebee’s for lunch because they have weight watcher lunches that even tell you how many points they are.

But they had closed down this particular one for some reason so we drove home, dropped off the groceries and went to Cape Cod Bagel. I got a wrap with grilled chicken and veggies, hopefully low in points. I estimated it to be about 8 points. Sarah made salmon salad for supper which turns out to be 13 points which didn’t leave me much for evening snacking.

Then we went to our usual grocery store to get the rest of what we needed and spent another $130.00.

It was nice to spend the day with my daughter even if it mostly consisted of grocery shopping. We did get our lunch to go and went to the beach to eat. It was a beautiful Cape Cod day.

We have new neighbors across the street. I wrote a post about it the day they moved in. The house is a welfare house. It has been a welfare house for the whole 34 years I have lived here and most of the families that have lived there were fine. I said hi to them and they said hi to me and we all minded are own business. My daughter has started taking her evening walks with her friend, who lives up the main road and as they walked by the mailboxes, the lady of the house across the street was getting her mail. My daughter politely said hello and this woman wouldn’t even look at her or say hi or nod her head–nothing. Well, that’s OK. At least I know they won’t be bothering us.

Then we have our neighbors to our right who have lived there about 5 years and we have never said hello to each other. I tried once but they didn’t want any part of it. That’s OK too. But they have taken it one step further. Two years ago they bought roosters which cock a doodle dood all day. I thought they just did it in the morning. NOT, they doodle doo all day.

Well, the roosters all disappeared. I swear I didn’t have anything to do with it. Now they have a dog which they tie up on a short rope on their deck. This poor dog cries all day, actually howls, and the lady of the house is home. Is she deaf? Does she not hear this poor creature howling until my ears feel like they are going to explode?

We have a pair of nesting red shouldered hawks which is very rare for this area. They are nesting right in our back yard. My wasband was home recently when a few of his bird watching friends showed up hoping to see the hawks. The woman, with the howling dog, was out in her yard and the hawks are nesting more in her back yard than ours. My wasband is very friendly and was trying to explain to the woman about the hawks and how rare they are. Her answer- “Can I shoot them?”. She was serious. My wasband tried to explain that if she did she would probably go to jail. She just walked off as he was talking to her.

LET’S SHOOT THOSE HAWKS, HONEY, CAUSE THEY’RE SHITTING ON OUR SHITTY CAR!!

Last year they were burning stuff in their back yard which is illegal at certain times of the year. A policeman, probably driving down the main road, saw it and came and told them to stop. My son was watching the happenings from the doorway and after the cop left they gave my son the finger. Evidently, they assumed he had called the police on them. Personally they could burn their house down and I wouldn’t care. My son walked right over there and straightened them out. They have a lot of people living there and they spent most of last summer sitting on their deck. I don’t mean just on weekends. I mean all day long, everyday, unless it was raining. I don’t care what they do as long as they don’t bother me and shut that poor dog up. OMG, I hope she doesn’t shoot it. I should probably call the dog officer.