Let's play a game....ball and chain?

ok ok so yesterday was a pretty average day, by my standards anyhow, I mean i got up early and did my morning routine, WAY before most of you even think about rolling out of bed. I went to work, and had a pretty good day, considering I hang with pygmies, who can be very unstable and unpredictable, and did I mention I also work with a bunch of women, who could also fall into the same category as the pygmies, only the women can come with a side of a nasty attitude as well. I came home and my best friend was recording his weekly podcast with his friend, a media mogul, also which is not out of the ordinary, except that they normally do it on Monday night, but eh, it still worked out. I made some delicious french bread pizza for dinner...YUM. Did a load of laundry and started to put away the clean dishes in the dishwasher. Now up until this point in my day I was having a very normal, some would even say boring, day. These are things I do pretty much all of the time.

That is, until, My Best friend came out with a brown box, not very large, but bigger than, lets say it was about the size of a box of pasta. He was grinning ear to ear when he told me that he got me something, as he handed me the pasta box.... naturally I was intrigued. As I was opening it, he told me I wasnt going to have that book smell anymore....leading me to think I was opening a Kindle...(which I totally want someday) as I opened it I saw a smaller box, navy blue in the center....My heart stopped, and I opened the box where i found the most beautiful, simplest, solitare diamond ring I had ever seen. I was in shock! ( i mean not COMPLETE shock because its not like we had never talked about getting married) I have been with this man for a little less than 2 years and he has been my Best Friend, he has helped me through so much crap, and here he was asking me to stand by his side for the rest of our lives! I naturally told him that I would think about it....................................................ok ok I told him right away YES! -----now let's just pause there for a moment, I know that some of you are thinking, wait, didn't she JUST get divorced, and yes, you would be correct. However, I have been separated (and by separated I mean not living together at all) from my ,now ex-husband, for a little more than two years. The divorce just took FOREVER!!! (clearly)

So after the excitement, he looked at me and said, how are we going to tell our families......*sigh* holy cow I hadnt thought of that!

So we (and when I say we, I really mean me mostly) decided to go public the following day. Because, here's the deal, I know A LOT of people and when I tell , even one, it will pretty much make the news at 5. No joke, I live in a smaller town and when you know everyone, well...you can imagine. So my best friend, who is now my fiancé, had to first tell his mom, before I told anyone because we wanted her to hear it from us, not everyone else.

And it went a little somethin like this... "mom I asked her to marry me and she said yes!" her response...."oh" nothing else just oh. I foresee some more "proving" of myself in the future. *SIGH*

We told all of his brothers, who were very excited, as were their wives. I told some of my friends, ok ok like all of my friends. Now the one question that EVERYONE (with the exception of my soon to mother-in-law, who is a woman of few words, I have decided) kept asking was... When's the big day? Holy cow, guys! I mean the man just asked me for heaven's sake, let's not get to far ahead of ourselves.........

At any rate I know that he is my bestest friend ever and I am so blessed that he asked me to be his wife.....now I hope I can live up to his expectations.........until next time.........

Bad case of the Mondays....

Yesterday I had a bad case of the Mondays.......It seemed like anything that could go wrong, went wrong....

I woke up and was not bringing my "A" game to the pygmie tribe, which they totally "smelled" as soon as I arrived at the post. So they almost overran me in the first five minutes. It was like everyone of them was trying to out naughty the others. NEVER underestimate the naughtiness of pygmies! I felt like I had stepped into the monkey exhibit at one of the zoos, complete with the flinging of the poo...no fricken joke! So the morning was a darn train wreck, as far as I was concerned...and just when I thought nothing worse could happen, well, it did. Because the State Licensor walked in..........now, step back for a moment, this lady stops in frequently enought that I kinda know when to expect her, so it wasn't a COMPLETE surprise, just not the ideal day for her to come in....I was ready for her (or so I thought).

So I called in some fresh recruits to man my post, so I could go "negotiate' with the wicked witch of the East. We got up to my office and she started in in the brow beating....I had everything prepared but missed one thing, and she made up a few others that I had "missed" although looking back on it, I felt like she interrogating me, instead of being helpful (like she is supposed to be) NOTHING I did was good enough and how dare I even think that I would come close to meeting her expectations! (this is how I felt) and that's when it happened...she made me cry....now for those of you who know me, I NEVER cry in front of people...or at least I try not to, because alothough some of you may think it's ok to cry, I think of it as a sign of weakness.....lame I know, but it's one of the crazier things I think. So here I was crying in front of this Wicked Witch....because she was SURE there was no possible way I was working as many hours as I had written down on these papers they require us to do. I will admit it seems outlandish when I say that I work 60 hours weekly, but really, I almost live at the pygmie post. If she wanted to confirm it, she could ask any one of of my friends, or my daughetr for that matter, since she is with me most of the day there as well. After the Witch made me cry, she left, I am sure she was licking her lips with absolute satisfaction because she beat someone down. *sigh*

After the Witch left I prayed, because that's what I do, and I felt a little better. I went back into the land of the pygmies and just went with the flow. I had to talk to Schlub, because he found out that Witch had been there, so I had to revisit the whole ordeal. And instead of bing helpful or even compassionate, he was condescending and arrogant...what a combination. BAH!

At the end of the day I threw in my towel and just decided to go with my best friend to see his brother and sister in law and have some drinks. While on my way to this event, which I was sure going to take my mind off the day, I received a phone call that one of the pygmies ran their parents mini van into our gate/fenced play yard! Ok, first of all, WHAT?!?!, secondly, REALL!?!?!? and then, Why, How in the hell does a pygmie run a mini van, into the fence? Where on Earth was their parent? OMG!!!!!!!!(yes I just text lingo-ed in a blog) Perfect......just the perfect fricken ending to my day!!! I think I may just scratch this one off as ---- it never happened it was all just a bad dream.......Until next time......

Rockin... well in my world anyhow

I got to hang out with my best friend's family over this weekend, and it was GREAT! Some little "nuggets" of entertainment also came about, so those are what I chose to highligh with this blog today....

My best friend's brother and family reserved a room for the week at one of our local resorts...very cool. They even invited us to join them pool side for the first afternoon...drinks and the pool...I AM TOTALLY IN!!!! Well, when we got there, we came to discover that there was an outdoor wedding also planned for the day, and yup, it was right next to the pool area....no joke. So here we were, hanging poolside, when ( enter the scene) dum dum du dum...the bride walked down the isle......I felt a little invasive, however, not so much that I was going to cut my poolside exeprience short by any means...but on some level it was slightly entertaining...

My best friend also decided to purchase ROCKBAND2 this weekend. If you are unfamiliar with it, it has a drumset (electronic), a microphone, and guitar...all of which play along with these preslected rock songs...you have to hit the right series of keys to rock out....well my charming 12 year old and my best friend played this new game, and man it was entertaining........I had to exclude myself from the play, becasue frankly, rockin out...not so much my thing. But watching those two sing songs like "eye of the tiger" ......

Then lastnight, we ventured off to the fair...good food, decent music (which is why we went), and family. (my best friend's mom also came along) While we were sitting there 4 older (like 60's 70's) ladies sat by us.....no big deal right? They ordered a pitcher of beer, which for the record I have never seen older ladies drink beer, so slightly disturbing...but eh whatever! :o)

I would have to say that over all its been a pretty rockin weekend with my best friend and some family along the way.... until next time........

Schlub and Pygmies?

Ok! I have had just about enough of the retarded people that I MUST interact with lately! Yes, I say MUST, because it seems that this one particular schlub just cant seem to get a freakin clue and stay out of my path!

Have you ever had this horrible gut feeling about a situation and someone in that situation, you know..... where you think that someone is seriously f***ing up your plan and seemingly undermining your every move forward? but you don't say anything initially because you would like to try and give them the benefit of the doubt? Yep, It's also known as the "i am a complete sucker, so take advantage of me syndrome....."

I have kinda had this feeling, for months now, that someone was pulling all kinds of shenanigans with me and my pygmie "post" I actually had myself convinced that I was just being plain old paranoid, and so, I let it go, again, and again. Ignoring my gut....what a dumb thing to do!

Well, yesterday I came across some information in black and white that not only were my paranoid suspicions right, it was far worse than I could have even fathomed!

I feel like Queen Ester, the Jewish girl who, through a series of God Driven events, came into being queen, only to save her people........a bit of a stretch for you? Well everyone else who has encountered and endured this schlub's idiocy and undermining destruction has bailed. Like really, just up and left. But I can't, I have to man my pygmie "post" and so I am driven to try and correct this issue. It's making me crazy!

The "Schlub" weaves such charisma with everyone they come into contact with, so me challenging anything is looked at as absurd! Can you imagine? A fricken thieving, conniving, lying, schlub, with the charm of a running politician. Only with politicians, you kinda expect this sort of behavior.....but "schlub" is supposed to be different, supposed to be righteous and guiding and what not.....BAH! Stupid Schlub! why on earth do I let the schlub crazy! That's it, I am done! I am doing what I always do, when I am faced with difficulties, I am going to......have a bottle of wine....totally kidding.(well not totally, but) i am going to dig my heels in and stand firm. I am going to stand and fight for my pygmie "post". Let the schlub come at me and weave his ridiculous web of lies and whatnot, it only lasts so long, I mean just ask the guys from Enron, hmmm now that's almost a comforting thought.......that's it for now, until next time........