Homeschooling

Our school year started on Monday...it's been good so far.

It's taken me quite a while to get the lesson plan straightened out.

I'll post more about this subject later on, I'm far too tired to think straight enough.


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Narrow minds

I just love how narrow minded people are.  It really does make me feel sorry for them.  Especially those that claim to be like you when you first meet them, then suddenly they're the opposite and are oh so much better then you. Those people that feel threatened by your ideals, by your beliefs, by your opinions, those are the ones that I truly feel sorry for.

If you feel threatened by someone's beliefs or their sexual orientation I feel sorry for you. There's no reason to feel threatened unless you yourself feel the same but are afraid to voice it.  Fear holds you back, fear makes you hate.

I don't push my beliefs on anyone, if people don't like that I don't follow their ways, or their god, they can either walk away or not even bother. My beliefs are strong because of the life I've lead, which isn't for everyone, I've been ostracized, chastised, ridiculed, bullied and tormented my entire life for being who and what I am, I won't stand for it any more. I'm pagan, I will never cheat on my husband or neglect my child, I make homemade things for my friends and family out of love.

If you feel that I have somehow wronged you or rubbed you the wrong way then by all means, tell me why or get the hell out of my life.  You're not amusing anyone, all you're doing is making your life worse.  Remember that, the more you hate, the more you bash, the more you disrespect...the more of that that will come back to you in the long run.

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Can I get a redo on my day?

My day started out well enough, until we got to Petsmart and my mom got into it with Bug. Bug said my mom flipped her off and my mom said Bug was lying. Bug doesn't lie to me anymore, she learned her lesson.  My mom had said that she needed stuff from the stores we were going to, that's why I brought her with us, and yet again she acts like a 2 year old. Seriously, she's 60 some odd years old and can't act like an adult.

Then when we were at Kroger's Bug almost got hit in a parking lot by some old asshole that refused to yield. I had to yank her back, then he had the balls to tell me I was in the wrong even though it's state law to yield to pedestrians in parking lots.  What the hell is wrong with people? 

We got home and we're doing the dishes before I made dinner, my kitchen sink backed up so badly that I had to use a plunger after emptying all the dirty and wet dishes onto the stove. 

To top it all off the dog stepped on Bug's ankle so hard that she was in tears for the past 45 minutes. So now we're sitting here at the E.R. Waiting to be seem. 

All this and we have a storm over us with winds about 20mph with 60mph gusts and torrential rain. 

To say my day has been rough is an understatement. I just want to crawl into a hole and hide for a while.

Emotional Spring Cleaning

Time for some spring cleaning of the emotional kind. 

Over the years I've lost a lot of friends, most decided they didn't want to talk to me anymore but never had the guts to say anything to my face.  

In the past year things have been hard for Bug and I. I've tried reaching out to friends, but they're always so busy. 

Maybe it's time I just stop reaching out at all. Stop trying to get together with 'friends'. I can't keep going through this, I can't keep letting Bug go through this too, especially when those so called friends have kids that Bug is/was friends with. 

It hurts that people are like this. But apparently we're not good enough for them. Even the people that I've met since we've moved here have stopped talking to me. 

Guess I'm just not good enough for them.  Screw them all, when they call needing something, needing a friend or what ever....I won't be there for them.  Why should I be there for them of they're never there for me? Of they need a friend they can turn to their husbands or their other friends. I'll be here with Bug missing my husband and keeping things going for the next 10 months without him. 

So to all you assholes that decided that I wasn't good enough to even talk to anymore.....fuck you! 

They know who they are, they're people I've known for years or people I've recently met since Bug started school, either way they suck and have shown to me that they're not worth my time.  Kind of like certain family members, they're too good to even call us or text, so they're not worth the time either.

There are some are always going to be in my life, they're the ones that have always been there for me no matter what. I've been there for them throughout the years and that's never going to change.

Now I'm going to eat sushi with my Bug. 

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Been a while...

It's been a while since I've written anything here...a lot's been going on.

We got to spend a few extra days with Strider, which brought it up to 18 days, because it snowed the day he was supposed to fly out.  That was a good thing.

When we let him get onto that plane it was hard, Bug ran to him to give him one last hug as she cried.  It was heart breaking to say the least.

Since then it's been rather interesting.

Bug's been going through these odd mood shifts that she doesn't understand. It's as though she's trying to piece together her personality and test it out, but there are parts of it all that are way too much like my mom. I told Bug that last night and she freaked out. She doesn't want to be like my mom at all because of the nasty way my mom acts almost all the time.

Here's a run down of what's happened since I posted the last time...

Jack had his surgery to remove the useless eye, so now he's truly One-Eyed-Jack and a lot happier for it.

Bug has asthma...yup, she has RAD(Reactive Airway Disease) like I do...not good.

I've been very creative...here are some pics of what I've made so far.

 Crossroads talisman

A Dreamer's Key for good dreams

Mother Goddess talisman(front)

(back)

Claws, beads and more.

Mother Goddess talisman

Triple Goddess talisman

A rug from old towels

Elder Futhark Runes

New key chain- This one is Bug's, mine is black

Ankhs

Egyptian Rosaries

My first attempt at wire work!

Gypsy runes

Trying my hand at hieroglyph (oracle stones)

Bug is really excited about the warm weather coming soon, it means more time outside, having the windows open, going hiking, beach combing...lots of fun.

My mom has driven me far too close to losing my shit completely.

There it is, the reader's digest version of what's gone on since the last time I posted.

Other then that my mom's just been driving us completely nuts with her bad attitude and the expectations that everything will be done her way. She drove me to an asthma attack today.

I'll write more later.


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Stolen property and canceled flights

On the 28th of this month Strider was due to come home for two weeks. I had hoped that everything would have gone without a hitch, but that was a pipe dream, seriously, it was just a dream. Nothing went as it should have. The entire day leading up to his arrival at the house was just one thing after another.

It all started at 8:20am the morning of the 28th. It started out as a normal day, got up, got Bug breakfast and started to get her ready for school. Then I went outside to start the car...that's when the bad shit started. My car had been robbed, as in someone had gotten into my car and stole stuff. The glove box and center console were open and the contents all over the car. Thankfully I never leave anything of value in my car, so all they got was the leather folio that the registration and insurance in kept in, the thing that holds the car manual and such.

So I called the police, the insurance company and the DMV, had to cover all my bases, you know? An officer came out to check out the car, he even tried to get prints but he couldn't. Let me just say that fingerprinting dust is messy as all hell! The officer and I stood outside and talked for a while, he let me in on a lot that's been going on in the neighborhood lately, which is a good thing. One of my neighbors had also had their car broken into that same night.

While I had been waiting for the officer to show up I had been taking a nap, that's when I got the message from the flight app that I had all set up with Strider's flight information...the flight had been canceled...

I was hard waiting for the plane to land at Dulles so that I could talk to him and try to get him set up with a rental car. And here's where it gets even better...it started snowing...in the first half hour we already had about 1/4 inch on the ground and we were supposed to be getting a total of 8-15 inches by the end of the storm.

Strider had finally called me around 4:30pm and let me know what was going on, so I did some fancy foot work with the accounts and got the money where he needed it and set up the rental for him...then the waiting started.

He finally got in around 10:45 that night, by then we already had a good couple of inches on the ground and were expecting to get a lot more. I had reserved an SUV and what did they give him? A minivan. Things finally got better at that point.

We ended up getting a total of 8-10 inches.

Strider's home with Bug and I, things can finally return to some sort of normal for the next two weeks before he has to go back to Bahrain for who know how much longer. We're still playing the waiting game with his orders, hopefully they'll be in so we know what's going on, the waiting is the worst part of it all.



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My mom's date from hell....

He shambled like a damned zombie or a drunk or something! I wanted to shoot him before he got close to the table!  He was a complete idiot.

 My mom went on a date with this guy that she met on some online dating service, it was a serious waist of time in my opinion.

 This guy, we'll call him John, has RA, MS and who knows what else wrong with him. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not against people with RA or MS, my mom has RA and my good friend Dragoness has MS. But this guy wasn't about to even walk all that well, he was rather large too, not talking large as in stature, I mean large as in over weight.

 Let's start from the beginning shall we? My mom met John on this dating site, things seemed all good at first, but then she started to feel a bit smothered. John was being uber clingy, emailing her up to five times a day, sending her e-cards two to three times a day and calling her who knows how many times a day. She had asked him not to be to damned clingy, he said he was sorry that he's not do it again...well, he did it again.

This all leads us to tonight...he wanted to meet up for dinner with my mom, Bug and myself. Guess he thought I'd approve of him or something. Not so much, the guy was sloppily dressed, slurred his words, and focused on nothing but himself the entire time. It was so bad that when I tried to talk to my mom about something he spoke over me! Can you believe that?! Talk about a self absorbed idiot. When he showed up he never even bothered to introduce himself to Bug and I, he focused solely on my mom and ignored us. Yet he claimed that he wanted to be a part of things with us...how exactly did he plan on doing that with the focusing his self centered conversation on himself? Oh, I'm sorry, he didn't always talk about himself...half the time he was talking about his ex. Isn't that one of the cardinal rules of dating? Never talk about your ex? 

Even Bug said she didn't like him. My mom is planning on telling him that things just aren't going to work and to never contact her again. I just hope that this guy gets the hint. The guy before this one was a bit odd too, my mom swore that he was a scam artist or something, who knows?

 That was my evening...now to get my head back in the game and finish getting the house ready for Strider's leave homecoming!

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Bird seed and the sink

Ever wonder what happens when your kid spills bird seed in the sink and doesn't clean it up? Well, Bug found out what happens first hand today. It grows plant life in the drain. And yes, I find this amusing. Not just amusing, it was actually kinda cool the way it looked and how it was growing up from the drain around the drain stopper.

You can see the little seedlings reaching up from the drain, kinda cool looking, and creepy at the same time. At first I didn't know what the hell it was that was coming up out of the drain! I thought it was some kind of strange creature that I hadn't seen before! Thankfully though, it was just the seeds growing.

I knew that I would have to take the pipes apart and make sure that the roots didn't go past the trap, thankfully they didn't even get that far. When I took removed the first part to get the stopper out I found that it was rotted. After I pulled it off I pulled the stopper out to look at how it was all growing in the pipe, when I cleaned it out a chunk of metal came out with the seedlings and a rather good sized glop of hair...small hairs...as in beard hairs...thank you, Strider, I needed to see that nasty gloppy stuff. So now I have to go out tomorrow or Monday and buy a new drain assembly for the sink, may as well dismantle the one in the other bathroom too and just replace them both at the same time. It;ll make my life easier and prevent me from possibly having a melt down if the stopped in the other sink suddenly gives up what little life is left in it.

Here's the moral of this story...The good news is that the drain is fixed....bad news is I have more work ahead of me. If it wasn't for Angie accidentally spilling the seed down the drain I never would have known about the rotted parts.

See, things happen for a reason, this is one of those times that makes me so glad that I'm not one of those moms that yells about everything. Instead I turned it into a lesson and explained to her how it clogged the sink and how it grew. So now there is a small container of seeds soaking in water for her to grow so she can see what they will become.


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