- Write a book
- Act in a play/TV show/movie(or all!)
- Visit Greece and it's beauty and so many other places that I'll add later
- Get married and have kids
- Be my own boss
- Get fit
- African safari(ahhhhh! I have to get used to the idea of maybe getting eaten...dang)
- Buy my mom a house
- Learn to play guitar...I have two songs I want to be able to play: Tracy Chapman's Give Me One Reason AND The Eagles' Hotel California
- Get a tattoo
- Ride a motorcycle(vroom vroom!)
- Go back to school - I still question my sanity on this one :)
- Meet Oprah
- Climb a mountain(a small one that I can fall off of without being seriously injured, haha)
- Go scuba diving
- Play on a game show
- Really learn Spanish or un otra lengua
- There's one more...but it's private. Shhh....
Thursday, February 25, 2010
My Bucket List
My sister recently decide to create a bucket list and suggest I do the same. Why not post it for the world to see? Maybe Oprah will see this and help me fulfill some of these. Well, folks, here it goes(in no particular order) and as I complete these things I will cross them off:
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Pooter and Me
Pooter is now almost 6 months old and she is driving me crazy! I love her one minute and the next she's on my last nerve. I recently saw the movie Marley and Me and it reminded me so much of Pooter. I can't turn my head for a second or she'll eat the couch. Trust me, she will!
I've always wanted a dog. When I was a kid, my cousin had a dog and I loved going over to play with her. She was the sweetest thing. So, now I'm all grown up and finally got the dog I always wanted. But it's not the perfect life I dreamed of...
Pooter will eat anything that fits into her mouth. She eats tissue, napkins, rocks, styrofoam, acorns, leaves, grass, bird poo, her own poo, cardboard, potato chips(I dropped one and she was quick!), gum(on the sidewalk while walking), bugs, cigarette butts(what?! We don't even smoke!) and even took a chunk out the wall! She has tried to eat plastic lids, a pair of knee-highs, bigger rocks, several of her toys, the shoe off my foot, and magazines off the coffee table.
I swear she has split personalities and no one can convince me otherwise. Last night I was on the floor rubbing her belly and she was loving it. She just falls out on the floor when you rub her belly because it feels so good. Two minutes later she's standing up and barking mad like CUJO. What happened? I have no clue.
Everyone keeps telling me it will get better. But will it?
Monday, February 8, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Brave New World!
In my quest to live life to the fullest I have allowed one of my also single friends to convince me(she's good too because she convinced me and 3 other girls) to enter the world of online dating. And what a world it is! Here's the first update of many:
All 5 of us signed up for Eharmony(EH). Very popular site with great commercials(I've got the song stuck in my head now). Everybody finds a match on EH, right? WRONG! So far, of the 5 of us no one has spoken to, emailed or dated any of our potential "mates". Is there anything else more discouraging? Fear not, for the answer is yes!
I, drum roll please, have an addictive personality. That personality of mine would not just let me stop at EH. So I joined 2 other sites…match and blackpeoplemeet(don’t let the name fool you because everybody is on there). Oh, how exciting life gets!
Well, here’s what’s happened so far. On match I was emailing back and forth with a particular guy. I had originally looked at his profile but something about it made me keep moving. Well, he must’ve seen me in his Who Looked at Me because he sent me an email the next day. Cool, he’s a Christian and he has a job…I don’t ask for much, LOL! So I emailed him back to say cool, we can chat and I asked him a few questions. He replied with, get this, a copy of his profile and his phone number. HIT THE BRAKES! And put it in REVERSE! Dude, I don’t know you yet. So I didn’t respond immediately. Well, being the go-getter that he is(and mentioned in his profile), he emailed me again not even 24 hours later and responded with the following(I kid you not!):
Subj: you have the number
your all ways on line why not just call or are you looking for a lot of men???
Please note the grammatical errors(a bit of a pet peeve with me but can be overlooked for the right guy, ha!) as well as the assumption that I’m always online because yes, I do check the site almost daily so my status usually says Active within 24 hours. But the kicker is the last part and as soon as I read it I could feel my blood boiling.
AT FIRST I was not going to respond. BUT I was so angry that I wrote him an angry, but as Christian as I could be, response. I will not tell you everything I said but it was nicer than the situation warranted and I had 2 other Christian folks read it before I sent it. I don’t want to misrepresent HIM, ya know? I told him that he was disrespectful and yes, I did tell him to pray about his issues because he obviously has some. I did not tell him he had issues in so many words just that he needed to pray. His profile talked about what a great Christian guy he was, and we gotta keep each other accountable right? LOL No cuss words at all! I even wished him good luck on his search. WWJD was my angle.
And yes, he did reply. And what did he say? Not much, just "lol me too"
WEIRDO!
Oh, and get THIS…I forgot to mention that I had convinced an old college buddy to sign up for EH and match. Well, I had her look at Mr. Nice Guy’s profile when he emailed me to get her opinion. Well, after our little “drama”, he must have found her in his Who Looked at Me and sent her word for word THE EXACT SAME EMAIL AS ME! Dude, be original at least!!!
Why don’t the commercials tell you about this side of online dating? Perhaps it’s in the fine print at the very bottom of the screen so no one can read it. Or they say it really, really fast and it just sounds like WHOOSH! I don’t know, but as I write this I have not given up hope! He may not be online but he’s out there…somewhere….
More stories to follow…stay tuned!
All 5 of us signed up for Eharmony(EH). Very popular site with great commercials(I've got the song stuck in my head now). Everybody finds a match on EH, right? WRONG! So far, of the 5 of us no one has spoken to, emailed or dated any of our potential "mates". Is there anything else more discouraging? Fear not, for the answer is yes!
I, drum roll please, have an addictive personality. That personality of mine would not just let me stop at EH. So I joined 2 other sites…match and blackpeoplemeet(don’t let the name fool you because everybody is on there). Oh, how exciting life gets!
Well, here’s what’s happened so far. On match I was emailing back and forth with a particular guy. I had originally looked at his profile but something about it made me keep moving. Well, he must’ve seen me in his Who Looked at Me because he sent me an email the next day. Cool, he’s a Christian and he has a job…I don’t ask for much, LOL! So I emailed him back to say cool, we can chat and I asked him a few questions. He replied with, get this, a copy of his profile and his phone number. HIT THE BRAKES! And put it in REVERSE! Dude, I don’t know you yet. So I didn’t respond immediately. Well, being the go-getter that he is(and mentioned in his profile), he emailed me again not even 24 hours later and responded with the following(I kid you not!):
Subj: you have the number
your all ways on line why not just call or are you looking for a lot of men???
Please note the grammatical errors(a bit of a pet peeve with me but can be overlooked for the right guy, ha!) as well as the assumption that I’m always online because yes, I do check the site almost daily so my status usually says Active within 24 hours. But the kicker is the last part and as soon as I read it I could feel my blood boiling.
AT FIRST I was not going to respond. BUT I was so angry that I wrote him an angry, but as Christian as I could be, response. I will not tell you everything I said but it was nicer than the situation warranted and I had 2 other Christian folks read it before I sent it. I don’t want to misrepresent HIM, ya know? I told him that he was disrespectful and yes, I did tell him to pray about his issues because he obviously has some. I did not tell him he had issues in so many words just that he needed to pray. His profile talked about what a great Christian guy he was, and we gotta keep each other accountable right? LOL No cuss words at all! I even wished him good luck on his search. WWJD was my angle.
And yes, he did reply. And what did he say? Not much, just "lol me too"
WEIRDO!
Oh, and get THIS…I forgot to mention that I had convinced an old college buddy to sign up for EH and match. Well, I had her look at Mr. Nice Guy’s profile when he emailed me to get her opinion. Well, after our little “drama”, he must have found her in his Who Looked at Me and sent her word for word THE EXACT SAME EMAIL AS ME! Dude, be original at least!!!
Why don’t the commercials tell you about this side of online dating? Perhaps it’s in the fine print at the very bottom of the screen so no one can read it. Or they say it really, really fast and it just sounds like WHOOSH! I don’t know, but as I write this I have not given up hope! He may not be online but he’s out there…somewhere….
More stories to follow…stay tuned!
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