Well SHIT! This has completely just crept up on me, but I JUST realized I am going to be THIRTY is about 3 1/2 weeks! Someone please tell me how that happened?!?
It's so true what they say, 30 isn't old! But I remember being about 11 or so and thinking about how far away 21 was! I just couldn't even fathom being that age or imagine what it would be like. But as with everything else, before I knew it, it came!
29 has been a great age! I've had a WONDERFUL and BLESSED year!! I feel that I am just finally finding myself and feeling more and more comfortable in my own skin and with my own identity! Don't get me wrong, I have always loved myself and been who I am. But I am coming into a time in my life where my confidence is soaring, my life truly rocks and the future is really bright!
My husband is such a beautiful and caring person and he really is my soul mate. My daughter is such a blessing and I am so thankful to have her and to be a mom. My friends are amazing and have really been wonderful to me!
As much as I am dreading the big 3 - 0 I know it is primarily due to the social stigma that surrounds the turning of this age. I actually am ready to start my climb "over the hill". Most of the women in my family age gracefully and do indeed get better with age. So, I guess I will just hope for the "good genes" in the family and take the leap!!
So........here's to leaving my 20's!! YIKES!!
So what do you do when someone you care about is being stupid?
I am so mad I cannot see straight! And it's making me even more mad because it has completely altered my mood ALL day! Today was our "family" day. Just the 3 of us, going shopping, planting flowers, playing in the yard, etc. Bub will be starting his 1st hitch with the new company and we don't have a clue how long he may be gone this 1st time! Anyways, every time I would have a bit of quite all I kept thinking about was this damn situation.
Have you ever known someone who is just a rotten person and a HORRIBLE friend? You know, one of those bitches who try to steal your boyfriend - or at least sleep with them every chance she gets, stabs you in the back, talks bad about you and loves to kick you when you're down?!?! Well, someone I love very much has been friends with someone just like this for years. I have never liked her and was SO glad when she finally got rid of her! Well, they are now friends again and I am beside myself! I am furious and it is a damn good thing I like as far away as I do! I feel like doing ANYTHING to keep this SKANK away from this person I love!! I know she is so much smarter than this.
I have decided I am going to let her make her own decisions and stay out of it......but it's hard cause I know how it's gonna end up! Cause it ALWAYS ends the same! It has always ended the same for the last 12 or so years!! Ugh!
Well, after about 5 days of waiting for this $215 to hard post to our account so I could fly off the handle at come company.......it just disappeared! What the hell?! How is a portion of MY money going to be held for days with no way to know who or how or why. And then after all the phone calls and aggravation, it just goes away!
Very frustrating and makes me feel sort of violated!! But, in the end, at least it's fixed and over!
It has been such a nice surprise, the friends I have made since moving here 4 years ago! I never would have imagined that the desire to move here was really the best decision we could have made!
I have met the most amazing people and found probably THE truest friends I have ever known! In the past I have been really shit on by almost everyone I've been close to. Be it friends or family! I feel that I give 100% to whomever I hold dear to me. I am way more apt to offer help than to ask for it. It's usually my downfall. But I've met a lot of really great women! One I might even consider to be my "best" friend or if there was such a thing as a friend-soul-mate, she would be her!
I am very afraid to use the term best friend! When you get burned, you don't really want to label anyone as such. It makes me feel like it leaves the door open to get hurt! Plus, at 30 (almost) do we still call people our bests?! When you are married, is your spouse supposed to be your best friend?! I don't know, the whole thing is confusing! Anyways, the point being, I have been doing a lot of thinking lately and come to a lot of realizations. One being that this little California girl has turned out to be my dearest friend and someone I know is here for me just as much as I am for her! And one of the best parts is she lets me do one of my favorite things - make fun of her! Which means she makes me laugh and keeps me on my toes!! Regan adores her and her daughter and I find we always find more and more ways to hang out!! I guess she is my road dawg! lol
I wish I could reach through my computer and slap the shit out of whoever is trying to charge us this $215! The charge was originally posted on the 3rd, which was Thursday morning. I saw it about 7 in the morning. And called the bank at 8 when they opened.
Well, it's Saturday and since it hasn't hard posted to my account it won't until Monday at the soonest. What does this mean. Well, it basically means that the $215 is in limbo and though we could really spend what is in our account, it will no doubt eventually bounce things. So we are unable to use any money in our account for fear of the extra complications it would cause. The bank assured us that any fees we might incur would be taken care of once they straightened this out. But I just can't see doing that unless completely necessary! So unfortunately we are using credit cards until this is sorted out. And I JUST paid one of them completely off! I even stared at the bill - or should I say the zero balance bill just last week! Sigh!
It's also torture since we are awaiting all of Bub's last Baker related things - check, per diem, retirement, etc. The waiting sucks! Especially since he decided to fix the Chevy and use that to drive to and from the ports. I think I am just as excited as he is to start fixing it up and getting it looking pretty again! I had actually hoped to spend this weekend looking for parts and maybe checking out some u-pull-it places or junk yards! BUT, since we have no money it will have to wait another week or two.
Here she is. Used to be blue and beautiful with a louvered hood. When we got her back she was half blue and half primered with some purple flames on the hood. It was very sad! So it's now mostly primered black. I think he decided to paint it white. He's been pricing a few places. Hopefully with everything coming in and the new pay he won't have to wait too long to get her pretty! Next we just have to get the title "found" and get her street ready! I can't wait!
Next week is Bub's last week of training. For all or most of the week Regan and I will join him in Houma. This is the disadvantage of having only one street legal and well working vehicle. But, at the same time, we haven't needed a 2nd car for almost 4 years! I told him we should just get another Element!! (insert HUGE smile here!)
Well, there's a lot going on lately! So much so, that I am having a hard time keeping up! Oh, and of course I just keep packing things in there!
Right now I am sitting in a hotel room in Houma. Bub took a new (well paid and well deserved) job with Tetra Technologies. He is in training for that new position. I think today is he doing his water safety stuff. The whole thing is really pretty exciting, but it's so stressful for me since I'm so used to knowing what and when and how!
In other news, we got hit with some fraud with our debit card. Some friggen company debited us $215. After doing A LOT of looked and googling and calling, the company ended up being something called lunarpages.com. It's some internet company that sell people web sites or pages or something. I am pissed off. They cannot find us in their database. Well guess what - it's cause we didn't authorize or purchase a damn site! They said, well, we always call before starting sites to make sure the authorization is real. Okay, if you call the person who set up the account, do you think they'll tell you it was their card! Ugh! So frustrating! Hopefully the charge will hard post to our account so I can start the process with the bank! I just wish I knew how they got a hold of Bub's card number. My debit card is the one that we use for everything online. Hopefully I'll have more answers tomorrow!
You know, I had intended on using this blog almost daily, as my life is so packed with thoughts and revelations and feelings and issues and stress and happiness........
But the odd thing is I have been OVERLY consumed with all of these things at the same time that everyone time I sit down to start to write, there's just too much to say. I cannot seem to focus on one thing or one point or even one day!
Lets see....... a recap of just the past two and a half weeks - ready?!
First, my playgroup coordinated our bi-annual charity event, adopting a local no-kill animal shelter called Lafayette Animal Aid. We spend 6 week collecting items on their wish list and alos monetary donations! At the end of our time frame we were able to donate a LARGE amount of good and also raised $220!! The people at the shelter were wonderful! I don't know who was more excited about it all, us or them! It was a really great experience and I am so glad we chose them!
So, I decided to host a family reunion for the Etie side of my family. I coordinate it around the time when my dad, step-mom and little sister come to visit. The day before they are supposed to leave Texas I get a call that my dad has been fighting the flu for about 5 days and they may not be coming. (granted, this is two days before the reunion!). Later that night they call and say he not only has the flu but it has now turned into Well, going a little further back I decide to host a family reunion here at my home for the Etiepneumonia. He was going to rest, gets some daily shots from his doctor and would hopefully be there in time for the reunion. They ended up getting here at 10:30 am...... the reunion started at 11 am! lol I was very relieved they made it thought! It wouldn't have been the same without them!
The reunion went very well! Not everyone was able to come, but I met people in the family I had not yet been able to meet and they were a pleasure to be around! There was a lot of talk of old times and of our ancestry and about people I had never had the privilege of meeting!
I hope we take advantage of the family we do have and take the time to make this an annual event! At the end of the day, family is all we have!!
Well, there is more, but I am short on time at the moment! More to come!!
