The Next Day

So yesterday was my birthday as I mentioned in my post Birthday Blessings 2011.  First business of the day, I tried to drive to Walmart to get a futon however realized that there was no way to fit it in my little car.  I then tried to drive home before my friend was supposed to be there, I find that half of Gainesville, ok I exaggerate, just a huge part of University Avenue had been blocked off for the Gator Homecoming parade.  I was thinking 'NOOOOOOO', I then proceeded having to drive down side roads for detours through residential neighborhoods.  This was a maddening thing, well could have been, but I kept hope that I'd eventually make it through this traffic jungle of people trying to find parking places, and people charging $5-15 a car to park on the grass of their yards, and my urge to just start bypassing the traffic and driving through yards and barreling through fences with my little car.  Luckily I had awesome music to keep me sane.  I finally found my way through to a major road, after an hour.  It took me longer on the detour to find a major road to get me home than it took me to drive to Walmart and go in and find the futons and talk to sales person and decide that it wouldn't fit in the car.  Oh and to stop and look at awesome televisions that I cannot afford.  Fortunately this detour was the only odd moment of the day.

My friend arrived and we had a great time.  He happens to drive a giant beautiful pickup and took me to get the futon - yay!  Definitely one of those times to take a moment and thank God for Southern men and their pickup trucks.  We hung out watched movies, ordered food in, took shots of the super delicious Pucker Vodka citrus... it was all great!!  I spent the day doing basically nothing and I loved it!  In the past when I've had a birthday party I always ended up having to do way more work than any birthday girl should have to.  So it was awesome that I could actually sit back and relax and just enjoy having company for the day and no drama either.  The older I get the more I just try to find that elusive zen state, and yesterday was pretty close.

Balue has decided the futon was purchased for him.

I woke up too early though, and went to bed late, and woke up again today too early.  So what did I do the day after my birthday?  Well I napped... fantastic!!

Much love!!

Birthday Blessings 2011

Today I celebrate the beginning of my 33rd year of my life!  I'm happy to see the beginning of a new year for me.  I've always liked getting older.  The older I get the better life seems to get, or the better I get.  Some years I have ups and downs and twists and turns but that is what makes it life.  How else would I learn and grow and become stronger if it were not for having to climb mountains.  I've never understood people who are grumpy and mad on their birthdays just because it's their birthday and for no other reason.  It's so odd to me.  It's not that I've always had wonderful birthdays, quite honestly the majority of my birthdays would have been a complete letdown if I had depended on other people to make the day special for me.  I know it's my day so I try to keep the mindset that whatever bullshit that may come my way that day is just negative energy trying to drag me down and I won't have it.  Well I try my hardest not to have it.

One year the person I lived with decided to not say happy birthday to me all day or get me a gift and acknowledge it at all, though 2 months before I had done what I could to make theirs quite special and got them a completely too expensive gift... I knew they knew it was my birthday, and I knew they were just trying to piss me off.  Why would someone do that on your birthday?  So I decided to not feed into petty mind games and didn't say a word about it and kept my cheery birthday tone all day.  When we were going to bed he quite grumpily finally told me happy birthday and mentioned he couldn't believe I didn't get mad at him.  I guess the plan to make my day a bad one backfired on him since he was the one who ended up irritated and not me.  I know what you are thinking... I can hear you all unanimously thinking expletives.  I tell this story to not throw anyone under the bus, but to give example of turning tables and not letting other people's issues get to you, and possibly their crap will turn on them.

Wether it's people who are bringing your birthday down, like you walk in and a drunk party crasher is standing there and has eaten almost your entire cake with their hand and then calls you a bitch (try to not jab them in the balls, it's hard to not do but I know it is possible), or you didn't receive a gift or get a really bad gift, I've had both happen more than once and I now buy myself a gift every year, if you have to spend it alone, or everyone truly does forget it's your birthday... whatever it is push through it.

Your birthday is the representation of a new year of your life and even if the day isn't butterflies and roses it does not mean that you do not have a  new year ahead of you that is likely full of wonderful surprises and blessings.

This year I have no idea what is in store for my birthday.  I am spending it with a friend that I have absolutely no expectations of, however I know I will enjoy the company.  I also get the day off of work.  I've bought everything to make a fabulous dinner, or maybe I'll go out.  Who knows!  But here is to hoping for a wonderful birthday to chalk up on the board!

Enjoy your life, make sure to celebrate your own new beginning in whatever way you can.

A fun Scorpio birthday greeting a friend sent me. =)

Much love and many wishes of happiness! xoxo

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The mask I was supposed to be wearing,
but it was too hot and I just wore horns. =)

I know I know it's late... I had a super busy and tiring day.  Today was my work Halloween festivities that I've mentioned a couple of times.  Between finishing touches to decorations and then manning tour stuff it will wipe a girl out.  And let us not forget the food!  Good grief I ate too much!!  I had to come home and force myself to work out which actually did make me feel better.  Since then I've been sitting here in a sugar/too much food coma watching some television.  Anyways I couldn't let the day pass without at least saying something. I hope everyone has had a wonderful Tuesday!  Only 2 days and 2 hours until my birthday!

This is just the leftovers!!!

Much Love!!

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Halloween 2011 Ponderings

Happy Halloween!!  I’ve never been big on Halloween, even when I was a kid.  We didn’t really trick or treat or anything.  I think maybe one or two years my parents possibly took us to the mall to do the trick or treating there, one year I think I ended up at my school’s festival.  But besides that most years I spent Halloween at home, and I do remember even handing out the candy that I had obtained from school to the few kids that came by.  Oh and if I dressed up it was as a Punk Rocker, I loved Joan Jett when I was a kid, still do.  In my adult life I only handed out candy a few times, most years I’ll admit that I’ve just turned the porch light out and pretended no one was home, however it seems there are very few that actually trick or treat on the street anymore anyways.  Years ago I went to Halloween parties friends had, not because it was Halloween but because it was a party. 

At one of my old jobs the boss told us to dress up or not come in that day, so I dressed up for the sake of not hearing her moan that people didn’t participate.  I just used what I had, I had recently been in a wedding and had lost weight since it and the dress was falling off of me, I did my hair all crazy and was the bridesmaid from Hell.  That's the only real costume I've done since I was a 12 year old punk rock star, and it's been about 6 years since the bridesmaid outfit.  This year I’m in a whole new world.  My current job goes Halloween crazy.  Every section of the department decorates their area in mad fashion.  My area is Hell, another area decided to do a flip on us and do Heaven, there is a haunted carnival, a couple of non theme areas, and an area very dedicated to vampires.  I think the vampire crew is going to win, they went all out and the person who was the creative force behind it all is definitely not a Halloween decorating foe to be messed with.  Oh and everyone dresses up.  At least since my area is Hell I get to keep it simple and wear black or red and these silly devil horns.  Though I’m not a huge fan of Halloween the competitive spirit and the happy warm fuzzy feelings everyone has over it is very fun, it makes loving working here that much easier.  Though today is Halloween the competition and tours do not start until tomorrow.  Tonight I will be spending my Halloween dipping the rest of my cake balls that I mentioned in my last blog, Not So Lazy Sunday.

One thing I do love about Halloween is that it marks there are only 4 days left until my birthday on November 4^th.  Now that’s exciting!

Are you going to be dressed up partying your Halloween evening away or doing like me and hiding in the dark recesses of NoCandyHereville?

Much Love!  

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Scorpio Season

I love anything to do with astrology, mysticism, mythology, science fiction, etc.  I do no live by horoscopes, I've never called a psychic hotline, and I've never had my palm read.  I'm just super intrigued by the romance our minds have with these fascinating subjects.

When it comes to astrology I especially love Scorpio for the simple reason... I'm your Scorpio blonde girl.  My father is also a Scorpio and celebrates his birthday today, Happy Birthday Dad!!

My birthday is in 12 days on November 4th. I do not mind getting older.  One of the main reasons for this is because the older I get the better I get.  I also do not feel like nearly the dumb-ass I was when I was younger.  When I think about when I was 20 and thought I knew everything I kinda want to slap myself.

I'm super stoked that today is beginning of the reign of Scorpio my favorite sign.  A couple of my other favorite things this time of year are Fall my favorite season and Thanksgiving my favorite holiday.

In mythology the scorpion came to be in the sky after he killed Orion the hunter. The stories of why Scorpius killed Orion vary. One says Orion slept with the wrong chick and Apollo had Scorpius sent to kill him. Another story says it was because Orion was threatening to kill all of the beasts on earth and Gaia sent him to take care of Orion. Another I've read says that Scorpius and Taurus the bull were great friends and Orion killed Taurus while hunting and Scorpius retaliated. For some reason or another Scorpius killed Orion whether he was the hired gun or the loyal friend, and all of the stories tend to agree that Zeus put them both in the sky with Scorpio forever chasing Orion.

I am not an astrologer and will not go into a long rambling, which I could, about all of the traits and qualities of a Scorpio... but to sum us up, and I may be biased, I think we are pretty awesome.

Are you a Scorpio or know a Scorpio?  What are some of your favorite Scorpio traits or qualities?

Happy Birthday to all of my fellow Scorpios!


Much love!