August 12, 2007

  • Random Observations

    Wow, it's been so long I think I forgot how to blog.

    I have had some thoughts that have popped into my head since I've been gone.

    I passed a local carnival the other day ( the kind that travels around.)  I wonder if the people who run the rides ( and by that I mean the freaks) also put the rides together?  If you are a carnival worker, I apologize, but they all seem stoned and mentally retarded.  I know, not politically correct, so sue me.
    So, if they also put the rides together, that is really scary.  Why would anyone want to travel around with a carnival? 

    I am having a hot flash as I write this.  Hot flashes make me so irritable I could hurt someone. 

    Speaking of irritating, if men know what irritates their wives, why do they continue to do stupid things and then be sorry later? 

    Along that same thought line, why do men act like they could get in trouble with their wives at anytime for saying or doing stupid things, and it's not fair?  Learn the rules and follow them and there wouldn't be a problem.

    Matt goes to school a week from Tue.  I'm sad even though I said I didn't care and wanted my kids to hit the road. 

    His roommate looks like a serial killer.  He showed me his picture on facebook.  He was holding a racoon in a cage.  He looked crazy. Great.

    Jennie goes to South Africa on the 30th, the whole thing just makes me a nervous wreck. 

    Today is cleaning/semi packing day. 

    I'm still having the hot flash.  Why didn't people warn me how horrible these things are?  I want to rip someones face off.

    That is all.

Comments (44)

  • It has always irritated me how my husband does what he wants first, and apologizes after. But it just irritates me because he's never been stupid about it. Now if he got stupid with it, why, I would have to kill him.

    Sorry about the hot flashes. They suck so bad...

  • i love ur page:)

  • Years ago when I was still with the ex, we went to a small local amusement park.  It was the annual State Penitentiary picnic day, the ex was a CO.  I had one ride operator ask who everyone was, I told him and he looked nervous...lol.  He had an ex-con look about him...lol

  • I have yet to experience hot flashes, but I can imagine that they suck.

    At least some husbands apologize....I seldom get an apology from mine. *sigh*

    Hope Matt's roommate isn't crazy. That must be scary as a mom.....knowing that your kid is going to be living with someone and not knowing anything about that person.

    Have a good day!

  • I agree about carnival workers!

  • I think I saw that on a beer commerical once, the man's creed:

    "It's easier to beg for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission."

    Weaker sex my foot.  I think if any man had to deal with hot flashes, periods, or having a baby they'd be crying like a little baby.  The only thing they have to worry about is tucking before zipping.

  • i won't tell you the story my son just told me ... you should not tell your mother stuff like that... he's down South & apparently they handle things differently there than they do up North ... hot flashes ... nothing like having to change your shirt & socks at least 6 times a day or wake up soaked in sweat ... that's the one of the few things i'll take prescription drugs for...

  • thank you for your comment about the whole thing going on... I totally feel where you are coming from. And I really DO like these youth ministers. They know the kids are kids and mistakes happen... but, a few months ago, they did do the youth service about not dating anyone you wouldn't marry, and not hanging with non-christians... she and I discussed it then, and again this weekend.... we don't jive with that. So i thinkshe's good there... because at 13 she shouldn't be thinking about marrying anyone, and when she does, how is she going to know what she wants her man to be like if she hasn't spent time with different ones???

    I know, you are right about the boyfriend. And this truly isn't all about that i liked him... its more strongly about WHY she did it... I don't want her cutting people out because of their church attendance, you see? but... idk... its getting better this week...

  • actually I saw on the news that Carnival rides are inspected every time they set up and are supposed to actually be safer than Amusement parks cause they only inspect about 3 times per year or something.......

    Maybe Matt's serial killer racoon fetish roommate is actually a carnie who has enough brains for school?  Or maybe someone shaved his Mother's beard and they sued the Carnival and that's how he got his tuition.   You just gotta think like a freak,  that's what I do!  :P

    Sorry bout the hotflashes,  Ihaven't started that yet,  I have enough irritability...........so is semi ex finally moving out???  .........if so........we need a party!

  • Except for the hot flashes, you could have been channeling me today.  Getting ready to move  kids out (daughter C's got new roomies I don't know this year), sending kids abroad )T went to Europe earlier in the summer), carnie issues (County fair just left town--lots of dubious looking carnies)--all here too!  Hope life treats  you well starting NOW!

  • A good roommate is a treasure in college.   I usually found a way to not have a roommate, even if it meant living in a dive.    At least it was my mess.

  • My dad used to travel with the carnival when he was a kid. He told me you would never ride on the rides if you knew who was putting them up.

  • try evening primrose oil (pills from health food store) they really help my flashes

  • i have had hot flashes nearly everyday this week starting about 3 and lasting forever, it seems. ice water and standing over the air vent seemed to be the only remedy i've found. it rots, too.

    hope you get some relief, soon!

    hope jennie has a safe trip and matt enjoys his first semester.

  • I agree with you on carnival worker. They are a scary looking bunch. Sorry about the hot flashes. I am sure not looking forward to those.

  • Are men ever really sorry for anything they do??  Somehow I don't think they know what it means to be sorry or they wouldn't keep being assholes!!

    I totally agree about the carnies.  We have a carnival in town every year and I am always a little scared of the carnies .. weird bunch of people.  I do worry about the safety of the rides .. we are really at the mercy of their intelligence or lack thereof!!  I always am reminded by the Austin Powers line ... "only 3 thing really scare me .. one is .. carnies .. circus folk, have small hands .. smell like cabbage."  I always have to say that when the carnival is in town!

    Lucky you .. soon you will have the house to yourself .. that is unless Exsponge is still there.  Yikes about the roomie .. hope he truly isn't a serial killer .. maybe just an avid hunter??  (hope that's it)

    Have a great evening.  Oh, btw .. the only known cure for CATS is to step away from the computer.  And unfortunately, I can't seem to bring myself to do that!!

  • Damn .. I was long winded and I still forgot something!  I just turned 50 and so far .. so good as far as heat flashes.  I'm hoping I'm one of the few "lucky" ones that never have them .. but the way my luck goes, I highly doubt it.

  • I never did get those guys who act like they're going to get in trouble.  My husband knows I don't have many rules around here.. LOL.  It's got to be something serious to get in trouble over.

    Hot flashes?  Ugh.  I have not experienced them yet, but I have plenty of other lovely womanly symptoms. 

    Carnies (or is it carnys?) creep me out.

  • Oh, my son goes to college a week from tomorrow.  Sad?  Yup.

  • I've always avoided carnivals for the reasons you mentioned.  There are so many injuries and deaths from those cheap rides (put together by stoned people). What are you packing for? 

  • dude, i can't imagine shipping off all the kids at once, so you kind of have my sympathy with a little envy thrown in for good measure.  (mine are bugging the shit out of  me today).

  • dude, i can't imagine shipping off all the kids at once, so you kind of have my sympathy with a little envy thrown in for good measure.  (mine are bugging the shit out of  me today).

  • HOT FLASHES SUCK!!

    OK, now that's out of the way -- you said the key word. Men are stupid. That's why they continue to do stupid things and wonder why we get mad at them. It's why they know they'll get in trouble for doing stupid things, but won't make the effort to avoid the stupidity. It's sad, but true.

  • Used to, carnivals would hire people in the town to help set up.  At least my dad did that about 30 years ago, I'm not sure about now.

    I had a hard time with roommates last year.  But I would rather deal with the weird one or the one that shows up drunk half the time than the one that thinks that everything should be their way.

  • Carnies are weirdos....I agree.

    Kids leaving home......at first it is an exciting thought. But when it happens, you really miss them. I moped around for like 3 weeks when my daughter went to college. Then I got used to it. It was hard when she came home, we went through a really "bumpy" time. I hope you handle it ok.

    I need to update also. I have been so doggone busy!

    Hot flashes. Be glad you don't have a bossy little two year old hanging around you, crying over EVERYTHING!!! Loud, in your ears while there is sweat forming on the back of your neck in your hair line, making you wish you could pull a "Britney" and just buzz it all off, and hearing the 68th request for a popcicle in one day! Yeah, be glad.

  • I met a lady from South Africa over the weekend.  She was very nice and very normal.  So you can stop worrying now.

  • Wow having you own private summer is not always fun. I just wish I got them during the day when I am freezing my "a" off. No I get them at night when I am already warm. Go figure.....

  • South Africa?  I'd be a nervous wreck too!!!

  • First off *hides face under medieval type helmet*...LOL.

    I totally agree with you about carnival workers, they're what we Brit's call ''dodgy looking geezers''

    Men, well they can't help being dopes. They reputedly think about sex every 7 seconds or something, and the twitching in the trouser dept channels well needed blood from the brain to the penis, rendering them idiots.

    The room-mate, looks can often be deceiving.

    Your daughter and South Africa, all I can say is, though I'd be a wreck myself if one of my kids were heading abroad, if she enjoys it out there as much as my brother did, she will have a simply wonderful time. Is she going with an organisation like the GVI? If so, she will be well looked after.

    Hoping you feel better soon *offers a fan and a bar of chocolate*

  •  if men know what irritates their wives, why do they continue to do stupid things and then be sorry later?   Well... sometimes... it is the only game around to play.

  • A recent study conducted by UCLA's Department of Psychiatry has
    revealed that the kind of face a woman finds attractive on a man
    can differ depending on where she is in her menstrual cycle.

    For example: If she is ovulating, she is attracted to men with
    rugged and masculine features.

    However, if she is menstruating, or menopausal, she tends to be
    more attracted to a man with a spear lodged in his chest and tape over
    his mouth while he is on fire.

    No further studies are expected. I think they tried doing a study
    on women going through "The Change", but none of the researchers lived
    to tell about it.

    HEE HEE HEE

  • thanks for the comment on my site.. i know many people won't understand it, but thats ok too.. sorry bout the hot flashes, i can say from first hand witness, that watching someone go through one is painful itself.. my mom gets them alot, and i have huge sympathy for what you are going through...

    hopefully your son's roomate is better acting then looking! and south africa? thats cool, but i can understand your concern.. i wil be praying for both their safety!

  • I completely and utterly agree with the comment with men.

    I have that problem with my fiance, he repeatedly does stupid things to piss me off.  Sometimes I think he does that on purpose, and sometimes instead of pissing me off, he repeatedly hurts my feelings and then later apologizes after COMPLAINING that I'm angry still at him.  Well duh! 

    I honestly wish he'd be smart enough to act like a real gentleman around me and not a jerk.

  • someone told me soy is good for hot flashes, why I'm passing this along I don't know, hasn't helped me one bit, but maybe I don't take enough.

    daughter's roommate is the polar opposite of her also, yeah not thinking it's going to last long either.

    son left today, he didn't take all his crap either, dumpster is on the way

  • wow! I wondered where you were!

    I am so not looking forward to getting hot flashes. I feel like ripping people's faces off on a regular basis as it is. eeep

  • I know...my dad has been saying the same stupid things to my mom for 50 years...I think he must be bored and doesn't know how to have a real conversation.

  • My mom has been hot flashing for a few years now and it really freaks her out when it happens in 115 degree Arizona heat. Why have hormones been given so much damn power???? Stupid little molecules!

  • I saw a t-shirt once that said something like "It's not a hot flash... It's a power surge!"

    Now I'm wondering if Matt's roommate will be bringing the raccoon to school.

  • Take it from one who knows....you do get over the hot flashes.....eventually.  I even made it without seriously damaging another human being....Some other items in my house will never be the same though!

  • Hot flashes, good thing you stopped smoking. However Black cohosh got a bad rap, it works better if in a decoction of alcohol.....

    One lady has hot flashes frequently here. The exercise that she does help but she still gets flashes.

    In a way darn if you do, darn if you don't on some of the stunts that men do that bug the hell out of their women. It is partially a territorial thing that shows that men aren't henpecked.

    I don't know about carnivals but we have them frequently in los Angeles. I guess the more rarely a carnival visits the possibility that they will be creepy is increased.

  • I got lost at a circus once. This nice carnival clown helped me find my parents, but not before scratching his crotch several times. Totally creepy!

  • You get your ass back here and post more ... if you are posting this seldom it means you have a life

    I have no life and so you cannot have one either

  • Have you tried(for night time) always keeping one pillow in the freezer? Sure,they heat up quickly, but there's always the other one 'cause you replace it and since you can't sleep ANYWAY cause it's so smurfin HOT and your husband is PURPOSEFULLY radiating heat no matter how much you scrunch over to the side of the bed. So going to the freezer to fetch pillows gives you a purpose and keeps you from the knife drawer. Besides, if you slash anybody, guess who'll be cleaning up the mess? Not Merry Maids and not those lazy-butt detectives from homicide, either.

  • Tell Matt to stay away from the racoon. They don't make good pets. They are mean and nasty. Tell him to keep his fingers away from the cage!!  That poor racoon.....I hate seeing animals caged up like that. In fact, tell Matt to set the poor thing free....

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