i was dreaming and woke up right before th climax, dont u hate when that happens??

so i was at a convention center type building, or maybe more like a large craft mall cause it had lots of different areas set up. i had wondered in and th guy in charge said he was closing up but if i hurried i could have anything i could carry out for free. so i had called Tedibear to meet me at th door and im crawling over furniture and on chairs and all kinds of crazy things, finding th coolest stuff. and i get it all piled into various boxes and bags and balanced just right to walk out th door and boom im awake. it was so weird!! here is th list of stuffs i found

-really cool fake arms to use as coat hangers, 1 that was human claw like and 1 that was bird like
-scrabble (with extra tiles), skip-bo, and an old monopoly
-matrastroka doll cookie jar done in just blk/white
-big drink pitchers
-a butt-ton of costume jewelry
-a few pretty bags
-lots of interesting glass ware
-cool vintage spooky halloween stuffs

i kno why a most things are on that list, cause i have been lusting after them for some time. hopefully this dream comes true soon!!!

gonna try and get back to sleep......



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thats right! my Tedibear has been in training since th 5th to get her cdl and yesterday she passed her driving test!! th next step is she goes for otj training for 4-6 weeks, and then she does team driving for 6 mths after that. then hopefully she can get a regional gig so shes home more. im of mixed feelings bout her being gone for so long..... yeah im a hermit but i do kinda like having her around ya kno? :-P

and i kno its gonna be hard on her.

but i am so very proud of my baby!! she found something she likes to make a career out of! and shes continuing to spoil me by not making or expecting me ro go to work outside th house. although i might look for something part time just to have a little human interaction. maybe ;-P


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request for items.......

so, im gonna have lots of extra time on my hands while Tedibear is training and then otr, so ive been trying to figure out things i can do. i cant afford to donate to charities or th community right now, but i can make things that can then be raffled or auctioned off!! so im asking for donations of raw materials cause im sure some of yall are in th same boat (you cant give monies but you have stuff laying around th house that you could get rid of). these things will be made into new things and auctioned or raffled off locally and then 100% of what is raised will be donated to various charities!!! everyone that donates will receive (either mailed or emailed) a pic of what their donation made, how much it raised and where th monies went.

so th items im looking for are...
~ beer bottle caps - th twist off kind please
~ vhs tapes - i know u have some in a box somewhere!
~ tshirts - preferably with 'Pride' sayings or slogans on them, but any tshirt will be put to use!
~ yarn - this will be made into scarves and hats and donated to th homeless shelters here locally. also need wool felting yarn or wool sweaters.
~ old sheets - any size or fabric type, prints or solids.

if you can donate any of these things please leave a comment with an email addy and i will get in touch!

thanks in advance for your donations!!


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big suprise huh?? lol its just easier to deal with if i get it off my chest. and this way it doesnt start any fights.

2 things have happened this week that bring this up, one made me laugh and gave me th perfect chance to be my snobbish, snarky(i love that word), insulting self, and one makes me want to cry and then commit murder. seriously.

so heres my thoughts on this. family. you start with th one you're born into, but as you grow and develop your own ideas and personality you realize that sometimes th only thing you have in common with those ppl is dna. so some ppl evolve and figure out how to say 'i love my (blood)family but thats not th best enviroment for me anymore'. and they go on to form a new family, either by entering a commited relationship, or by surrounding themselves with likeminded ppl(a chosen family) and both of those options are ok. th problem comes when th blood family cant handle this idea and still expects unswerving loyality. how unrealistic is that?? once you are married your loyality transfers to your spouse and progeny before parents and siblings..... to a certain extent, if your spouse is demanding you cut all ties with your blood family (when you had a very close bond) and is extremely disrespectful to your parents/siblings then something is VERY WRONG and you need to take a step back and ask yourself some very hard questions.

oh and if you are married to someone that has slept with BOTH of your siblings, and your uncle is now your stepdaddy... you got no right in th world trying to talk shit bout someone that has been with th same partner almost 10 yrs! go away little troll and take your skank troll whores with you, no one is impressed no scared by you!!!


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blog whoring.......

i saw this mentioned on another blog and it made me giggle. im kinda a blog whore in that i will follow anyone that makes me giggle, either through gfc or rss (im suprised my phone hasnt melted from how many r in my rss!! lol) BUT.................


i dont leave comments. there i said it. i am th follower most bloggers hate cause i dont kiss up on every post i read. and im not really sorry and that wont change ever. i dont want to be a sycopant (im sure thats misspelled, sorry) that has nothing better to say than 'lol' or 'i agree'. if i leave a comment its cause that post touched me and i want to let the writer kno it (or its for a giveaway ;-P)

so these bloggers that beg or even demand that you leave comments, or even worse the ones that demand you follow them (just to stroke their ego so they can brag about how many followers they have) really turn me off. and if the requests for comments gets to be too much i have been known to unfollow them. oh and if you threaten to shut down your blog cause no one comments then not only will i unfollow u, i will make fun of u on my blog (without using names of course, im not a complete bitch), and i will laugh even harder when you set ur blog to 'invite only'. whiner!

whew, so anyway, i guess what im trying to say is get over urselves! its a blog for crying out loud! i have 2 followers, and im ok with that! even when i did a giveaway i didnt demand anyone follow me, just put a comment. i can see th pageview stats so i kno someone out there is reading my drivel (and its not just Tedibear :-P) and thats all i need.

off my soapbox now.


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crazy bus day

so first on th bus today we had the lady that was talking (i guess to herself cause no one around her was paying attention to her) about how evil th goverment was and 'they'were out to get her. 'they' attacked her cat, costing her '$1300 to put it back together'. and its 'too late for her but she just got a $20,000(?!?) tax refund that she is going to use to help protect others from our evil goverment'

then there was th older gentleman that was hitting on every female he saw. he was cute but harmless ;-P

and then there was th crazy cat lady. would tell anyone that looked at her how many cats she has (4), and that they had to have litter today (thats th only reason she went out today!)

hope u enjoyed my day on th bus!!



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peeving me off

slight pet peeves today

blog wise
- bloggers that demand you follow them and comment or else they have hissy fits and threaten to close down their blog....... really? put on your big girl panties and deal with it. some ppl just dont like leaving comments, esp when you beg for them in every post.

- joining every single link party you come accross and updating every post with said party link........ dont get me wrong, link parties are great, i just dont want to see the same post come up in my rss every day (sometimes multiple times a day) and the post gets longer and longer, i even saw one that the list of places she linked to was longer than th actual post!! come on. ive seen a few blogs that have a seperate page that they list the parties they regulary link too so that the actual post isnt taken over by party links, try that please.

everyday life
- girls that think 'skintight' means sexy, no matter what size they wear....... come on girls, once you are a certain size, skintight just doesnt work anymore, and that is a different size for everyone. form fitting will probably work alot better for you, i kno it will look better!

-ppl that cant match patterns........ just ask for help. please.

well i feel better getting that off my cheast........ ignore me, im just being bitchy today :-P


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blah blah blah 5-31-11

none of these are complete enough, or long enough for their own post so im consolidating.......

today on th bus Tedibear was asked if we were sisters........ we looked at each other and both said 'hey mister, we're sisters' and cracked up. so of course ive had 'la vie bohem' stuck in my head since then. :-P

im being taken advantage of by a very dear friend and its putting a major strain on our relationship. im allowing it cause i really love this person and dont want them out of my life. unfortunately, everyday the mistreatment continues makes it easier for me to walk away.

im trying my hand at basic embroidery (yeah cause i need more craft stuff cluttering up th house and driving Tedibear crazy!!! lol) it looks cute so far.....

i still think i will like needlepunch more, but i need diff/better fabric

im thinking bout putting an ad on craigslist for piecework sewing, i gotta buy more craft supplies!! ;-P

im mega nervous that my swap partner will hate what im making her........

i think thats it for now, gonna try and turn in early-ish tonite, i iz a tizrd puppy!!


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th things you see on th bus.......

can get interesting! like yesterday, there were homeless people (who were dressed better and had better phones than me) talking bout how they only 'work' a few hours a day so they have beer money. or the lady that went off on th bus driver for being rude to her because he didnt change th bus sign fast enough to suit her (i had to say something there because he was actually very polite to her and she was saying she was going to get him fired). or th girl that talked NON STOP for 45 mins straight!!

things like that are why i normally carry a book or an easy to transport craft with me so i dont get drawn into conversations. but you cant help overhearing things! oh like th fact that there was a quadruple homicide in our neighborhood!! yeah i kno right? scary stuff!!

anyway, im off again today, wonder what i'll see/hear this time!


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having a bit part in my past does NOT entitle you to a part in my present or future!!

ugh, so someone from my past just found me on facebook. sent Tedibear and i both friend requests. Tedibear approved her cause she didnt kno who this girl was (we used to call her by a nickname). i waited till i could form a polite brush off letter. then she posts bout how ppl need to forgive and forget and let th past back into their lives, and i quit worrying bout being polite. i told her we didnt have anything in common back then and i doubted we did now so i didnt see any point in being friends now, even on fb. forgive and forget right? there wasnt anything to forgive (we were trying to date but then i met Tedibear) we just didnt work out, but i had deffinately forgotten her, i wished her th best but told her there wasnt room in my life for her.

she came back with this rambling piece of crap that made very little sense and made my head hurt. how we might not have anything in common but we might in th future and what was i afraid of, then she was whining bout it again on her status update.

one, i wanna kno how her girl, who shes 'so in love and finally complete' with feels bout her begging an ex-lay to be friends again.
and two - omg really?? grow up! we talked for like 3 weeks (3yrs ago!!) and i could barely stand you then, (esp after she started saying 'i love you' in th first week!!). im not afraid of anything, i just dont like you!!! i tried to say that nicely but she didnt get it so now i gotta be mean. contrary to popular opinion, i dont like being mean. i just have no prob doing it when confronted with stupidity. if ppl wouldnt be stupid i wouldnt be mean.

ugh!! anyway, rant over. back to crafting, and posting my first giveaway!! :-D


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well that didnt work....

yeah i said i was gonna post everyday, and didnt. :-P i suck i kno. this is one of th reasons i dont do new years resolutions, i always have th best intentions (they make such great paving material!).... follow thru? not so much. actually thats not true, that should be timely follow thru, cause i do get things done, it just takes me a bit sometimes. procrastinators of th world unite!! ...... tomorrow! ;-P

ive been kinda productive this week tho, got th items from my last post done, prepped 50 new fridge magnets, tried my hand at granny daughter squares (fun for scraps, prob gonna try for a blankie out of these), got th supplies for a few more projects on my list, got to hang with th Mime and touch base with old friends. oh and got 2 orders for discoball hats!! woohoo!!

back to work


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crafty utopia ~ 365 in 2011 4/20

well i only got 30 mins to shop at hobby lobby on monday, but i actually managed to get most of th stuff i wanted!! it helped that Tedibear and th Mime went and got stuff off th list while i was getting some fabric cut! lol!!

so i was up to 106 things made....
- got 12 round bean bags mostly made, still have to hand sew 8 of them closed, but 4 are totally done!
- 2 mod pauged candle holders - layers of 1in tissue paper circles
- a crocheted washcloth for Tedibear and a handtowel sized one for me from leftover cotton yarn
- and started on th green rhinestone fedora, im counting it cause im almost done with it :-P

so that takes th grand total up to....... drum roll please.......... 123 things!!! woohoo!! go me!!

back to crafting!


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kinda 365 but not really......

not yet at least. we got th last disc of Lost season 3 today, so i prepped a few things but i didnt actually finish them so they dont count yet. ;-P

im also working on getting my wip and plan to do lists in order. ive been cruising thru craftsters boards and getting all kinds of new ideas!! got some good ones for some present day gifts! i cant wait!! but for tonight im going to try and get to bed early (3 instead of 5 like its been lately) but i wanted to check in here first, another one of the goals is to post every day, even when i have nothing important to say ;-)

nite nite


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so bummed!!

so i open opera mini (an app on my phone that has th rss feed) yesterday to catch up on my 60+ blogs i read. to find them all gone!!! it so totally sucks!! and of course i dont remember what all of them were called so its gonna take me a while to get them all back. but this time i think im gonna 'follow' everyone thru blogger as well so if this happens again i can find everyone!


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i wish you would want better for yourself.......

it is always so hard to see a loved one in an abusive relationship. ive been there and kno how hard it is to get out of. i think thats why i have such a hard time when someone i love goes back into one after trying to get out of it. it brings back everything i went through. and i normally end up having to distance myself from my loved one because it hurts and makes me so angry knowing that they are being mistreated but they think that because they love the other person they have to give them another chance. i understand loving someone completely, but you have to love yourself first. and sometimes that measn saying 'i love you but you dont love me back in the way that i deserve so we cant be together' and thats hard, trust me i know how hard that is! but you deserve so much better!! there is someone out there that will love you back just as much as you love them! and they wont hit you, or constantly tell you you are worthless, or cheat on you and blame you for their cheating, or tell you your opinion doesnt matter and they are going to do whatever they want no matter how much it hurts you.

i love you, and i will always be here for you, i just wish you wanted better for yourself!


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no more fb haitus

so my little haitus is over, and with th exception of getting on once to add a biz contact i really did stay off fb for 10 days! :-)

we are settling into th new place, and loving every sec of being back in ft wth!! we hit th spring break parties at th club and my sis-in-law won th sexiest pool wear contest! and i let them talk me into wearing my swimwear to th club (gasp! no worries, i wore one of Tedibears shirts over so too much wasnt exposed!! lol). and we connected with a couple that we never thoight we would get along with cause of ex drama, but we do! and we had a blast hanging wit them!

now imma be an old lady and spend th rest of th day not doing much of anything!! ;-P


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its moving day!!!!!

its finally here! and it couldnt come at a better time! th old landlord is getting stupid so it is deffinately time to be gone! more on that later, now im only focusing on th positive which is we will be out of here today!!

WOOHOO!!!!!!


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giving up......

ha ha! had you for a min huh? no worries, im talking bout Lenten Season. now we all kno im not xtian, so i dont really observe Lent, but Th Boy and i are challenging each other. i feel (as is only natural as his mother ;-P) that he spends too much time on th playstation, so i (half)jokingly said he should give up th ps2 for lent. he came back with 'you should give up cigs or facebook or something else you need to live'! well since its not safe for others if i give up smoking (i kill a lot less ppl if i canntake a smoke break and calm down!! lol) i agreed to give up facebook. and since neither one of us are xtian or masochists we decided 10 days was a fair amount of time. so i turned off my txt notifications and hid my icon on my phone, and then took th controller for th ps2 at midnite last nite. so no more fb for me til next saturday at midnite. its ok tho, im pretty sure he will crack before i do!! lol!


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have i mentioned.....

that i hate packing?? oh my goodness!! it is amazing how much shit you can accumulate in just 2 short yrs!! im trying to be good and get rid of stuffs as i pack, but i am part packrat so im prob not getting rid of as much as i should/could be. oh well, i'll try again as i unpack some of it.

th date got moved up, we figured it would be better to move on th weekend. oh and we sold th van. we had a van, i loved that van, but it was overheating pretty badly and we havent even touched it in forever, and we need th money to move. so i put an ad on craigslist. last nite. got over 20 inquiries in bout 2 hrs. small bidding war. and its gone and we gotz a few extra benjamins in our hot little hands!!! woohoo!

so i went grocery shoppen. how sad is it that porkchops and stuffing feel like a major splurge? :-P anyway, im maken Tedibear shake and bake chops, stuffing and green beans tonite!! YUM!!


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happy dance time!!!!!

we got approved for th apt!! we move on th 15th!!! life is looking up!!


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