November 4, 2008

• I hope you are having a grooovy day.
  Beware: Well this is the longest postie ever.
  I got up early with the Fall time change.

  I had a fun day yesterday… drove to the rink on gasoline fumes! I did not realize my gas tank was near empty until I was driving over the American Legion Bridge (part of the Beltway) You see, I am a princess. Hubby loves to buy all of my gas now that he works at home. he spends a lot of time playing with the cars.
  I picked up a few gallons in Maryland for the drive home. I noticed I had a new gas cap, as this one is not connected by a plastic tether so I had to put it somewhere while I was pumping gas.
  At the rink:
  Doreen brought all of her left over Halloween candy and forced us to eat it all.
  Man oh man I was flying high on chocolate… then I started feeling kind of icky.

  When I got home, I carbo-loaded with quality food (figure skating makes you really hungry)…. then
  hubby and I went for our usual walk.

  

  

  

  We live in a nice community with loads of trees
  
   and it is pretty much like a park.
  we have about 5 miles of trails in the woods as well as the usual sidewalks everywhere.
  

  I frequently feel like I would like to sell our house and move somewhere else…
  different, smaller property, but we will stay here in this house for a few more years.
  I do not know where I want to move. Hubby wants to move somewhere out in nowhere.
  I do not want to do that. I am really a city girl… suburbs is okay with me.
  
  Our house is way too big, 3700 sq ft, not including the basement… maybe I should open a B+B. haha just kidding
  I do not think they allow that here. Oh well.
  With the economy the way it is… and the way it is predicted to go…. we will stay here.
  I like this house … besides I have my big fat piano here and I do not want to live in a squishy little house and
  give hubby a headache with all of that loud bad playing of the piano and also having our mountains of clutter all piled around our heads in a smaller house. We would be tripping over all of our clutter. We have lots of it despite that I give a lot of it away every month… it just grows like moss.

  Okay… I am very busy the next few days, Thursday around 11 am or when ever everyone shows up, we are leaving for our roadtrippie.
  My parents will get here after the sprinkler system guy comes over to their house in Annapolis and winterizes their sprinkler.
  Dad says they are first on the list.
  you can click to biggify.
  
  Christabelle is coming along too.
  I have not packed yet, I am going to do that today.
  we are staying the first night in Abingdon.
  I picked the best rated hotel in the area by checking ratings online.
  Abingdon is in Virginia about 44 miles from the Tennessee border (Kingsport)
  Hmmmmm So I will drive 6 hours, sort of, the first day
  5 and a half hours on Friday.
  Send good vibes. I am bringing my own puffy flattish pillow that I love, to sleep on at night.
  I am doing all of the driving. we are renting a Ford Edge from Budget rent a car (Dulles Airport)
  I hope my parents behave.

  Here is a photo of me when I was 17 years old. I lived at home, we were living in the US here and I was a hospital volunteer.
  I was excessively nerdy and dorky.
  
  My dad talked me into getting my registered nurses degree. I really wanted to go to art school but my middle sister did that
   and she ended up having loads of “problems” with alcohol and drugs.
  My dad did not want me to get involved in that, even though I was the obedient child!!!!!
  I was a bit naive though… a little bit, so I can understand his hesitation.
  While I went to college, I worked at a goofy steak house restaurant with a bunch of lazy apathetic co-workers. I did all of the work there…
  I also worked on week-ends at a toy store (that was not a fun job, lots of crabby parents threatening me if I did not go in the back of the store and miraculously find the scarce cabbage patch doll they wanted)
  So, those jobs got me through nursing school.
  My parents did not live here in the US anymore. They had moved to Brussels.
  My dad was clueless about college costs in the US, so I really struggled and I did not ask my dad for any money.
  Man I was dirt poor. I did not own a car, I got a ride to school everyday with this woman in my classes (also nursing).
  She was a very mean grumpy lady, always complaining about something. She smoked like a train too.
  Finally after our first clinical, she got thrown out of school because she totally flunked her first clinical.
  They told her she was lousy, so guess what? no more ride.
  I had to get to school and sometimes I walked and hitch hiked. I know that is very bad but this was back in dino days and there were not too many creeps in the world yet.
  Wow I was really poor back then, any money I made had to pay rent and food and stuff. I was living with my sister.
  She was in bad shape drinking a lot and just doing a lot of BAD things
  Finally I called my parents long distance and told them to come and get my sister. Gosh she was in bad shape and it was really compromising my education!
  So, she packed her stuff and went to Belgium (lucky).
  I had to move out of the apartment… I moved into a house of a friend of mine. A GUY!
  I rented a room in a house with two men!! oh gosh these two guys were “interesting”. they were always eating my food! One was a successful plumber and the other was… I don’t remember.
  By that time, my boozer sister’s car was out of the auto shop (too many crashes) and I bought it for $800 from my dad.
  So I drove that car until it started having some bad engine problems and sold it “as is” about 5 years later for $2000 hahahahahahaaaaa
  end of story.

  I think we will find a lot of surprises in the next few months.
  If BHO wins this thing, you will hear a very loud crash. 3/4 of the US military will also prepare for “retirement”
  So, he might have to institute the draft, which will be really popular and make many folks happy, right? hope and change, people.
  Get ready for a sharp left turn with BHO and his friends.
  Remember to continue to live on your own good moral principles.

  I will end here, as I must do a zillionmillion things
  I hope you have a great day.
  I am planning on it. Life goes on folks. I have lots to do.

  AND, I need a vacation! I am going on a road trip with MY PARENTS
  Thank you God I am so glad that Christina is coming along too. No really my parents are hilarious and we get along just wonderful.
  My mom is very cute. My parents have been though so much.

  I have to shop and pack today
  Tomorrow I will probably skate early, then we have video~chat with my parents.
  I am pumped for driving for a zillion hours and then being at my nephews wedding. I know that my oldest sister Dolley (not the boozer) will be there in spirit.
  Oh my, I miss her so much. It is hard to believe it has been 8 years.

  This is the longest blog I have written in years.
  just wow
  love always
  

  An astounding number of
  “Americans”
  seem to be prepared
  to vote for their own extinction
  
  
  “Suppose you’re a voter, and you’ve got candidate X and candidate Y.
  Candidate X agrees with you on everything,
  but you don’t think that candidate can deliver on anything at all.
   
  Candidate Y you agree with on about half the issues,
  but he can deliver. For whom will you vote?”
  ~Bill Clinton
  
  

   

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