A meme

When you have nothing to write... a meme stolen from someone else is always fun. Enjoy.
Notice the lack of boldness... i.e. the total loser that I am:

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said "I Love You" and meant it (I have never said it and not meant it in some way)
09. Hugged a tree (Does it count if it was for laughs?)
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise (plenty of times)
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby's diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity (Most times, it is more than I can afford)
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment (I still say he would have laughed too)
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking (I do this quite frequently whilst drinking, actually!!)
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk (Just this last weeken, in fact. I shoulda been getting laid *pouting here*)
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign(Does trying to hack down a cross count?)
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach (Lake Tahoe beaches)
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero (magic Mom hides toys when little boys don't sleep!)
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day (Not much anymore, but it's the best cure for a hangover!)
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an "expert"
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship9
4. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised child(ren)
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone's heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone (my tailbone)
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery (C-Section)
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours (oh, I'm sure I have at some point, it's a far away and distant memory, these days, however.)
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days (this was my honeymoon!!)
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper (Used to play TAPS for Veteran's Day Ceremonies)
129. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one 'important' author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair (every couple of months)
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone's life(alcohol poisioning. Is it just me or is there a theme with drunk people and me? What does this say about me?)

Ok, so there were more bold ones than I thought there would be.

have a good one

Happy Thanksgiving all. I will try to post again, this night, but if I don't get back here, have a good one and remember to take a moment to reflect on all that you are thankful for.

seriously...

Somedays, you just gotta LAUGH!!
Otherwise, you'll cry.

Today is dark and dreary. My mom is doing well. The kid is sick. I have PMS and feel like a whale. Two of my paramours will be in town this Thanksgiving weekend. Guess what I'm thankful for? *hahaha*

Really, check out the video. Cutest thing I have seen in FOREVER.

what a wonderful world

All is well.

She came through just fine and is home, recovering.

She will go back to the Dr. on Monday and hopefully, get the

results from the four frozen sections he took and the nodes.

What a wonderful world.

there are times

There are days that it catches me by surprise.

Today is one of them.

I am so busy. Running and running and when I innocently stop to catch my breath, IT catches up with me: My mom is going in to have a rather serious surgery within the next 72 hours and given her current state of health, it is a possibility that she might not come back out of those doors.

I have talked and cried and thrown this thought around since the minute she told me that it was cancer and they were going to operate in a rather precarious area.

I thought that I had, to a degree, come to terms with the fact that I may soon lose my mother. Rather than the later I prefer.

It is just now starting to sink in, though. When did it stop looking like the future and turn into the present? How can it be here already?

Next week by this time, my life might be irreparably changed.

I find myself at the brink of tears, constantly. I keep trudging through and finding things to do with myself so that I can just keep putting the dangerous thoughts in the back of my mind while all I really want to do is go to her, find a soft spot and cuddle her for hours, talking of the past and the future, ignoring what the present may become. I want to go to her and spend hours telling her all of the things that I never said, but should have. All of the things that slipped by the way when I had to go or when I had to hang up because something was pressing or yelling or loud and I had to get away from our connection. I want her to know how much she means to me, to us. I want to review it all just in case she has forgotten how much of our world revolves around her and the memories she created for and with us.

But I won't.

I don't want her to go into surgery thinking that I am preparing myself for her death. I want her to go in there with the full intention of returning to us and I want her to carry the power with her that that intention carries.

I am so scared and so sad. Is this it? For me as her daughter and her as my mom? God, please hear my plea: I beg of you that it is not the last.

I don't know when I'll be back. I don't know when I'll post or what it will contain. Hopefully, my return with come with good news.

not a REAL post

Not a lot to post on these days.

The weather is getting cooler.

The boy is getting bigger and bigger. My god, he's above my waist now and my nephew Junior is almost as tall as I am!

School plods along.

Mom is having dreams about going towards the light. Her surgery is happening on Nov. 16th, in the afternoon. Say a little prayer, would ya?

My first parent - teacher conference is the next morning (Nov. 17th) at 9:00 a.m. I don't think I am going to make it.

My older sister will be here this weekend to help Mom prepare for the surgery and for part of the recuperation. It will be good that she is here for more than the weekend, but the circumstances suck.

That's about it. One of these days, I'll have a REAL post for you all.

Until then, take care and don't forget to vote tomorrow!

You Are 52% Republican

You aren't a full fledged Republican yet, but it's probably the party that fits you best.You probably consider yourself an independent Republican. You usually support the party, but you also think for yourself!

How Republican Are YOU???

Halloween Photo Ops

Happy Halloween!

My favorite of the Halloween photos.

JR is the 'scream' -er.

Ty is the skeleton.

Alyssa - vampire.

And Becca (I call her 'Boots') is the cinderella-princess.