Aggravations

Grrrr. I'm still having connection problems. One day I'll be online and the next I can't get online if my life depended on it. Wireless is a real pain. For some strange reason, I cannot edit my profile. Every time I click on the edit button it takes me to the page that says "space is temporarily unavailable". What??? This is proving to be really irritating. If anyone out there knows how I can edit my profile without getting that annoying unavailable page, would you please leave a comment and explain how? Posting it to work this weekend was absolutely a waste of time. Everything that we done could have been done during the week and we really didn't accomplish anything tonight. On a little brighter note(if you can call it that), I actually won a battle on Battle of the Blogs at BE. It completely shocked me. Anyway, I need to head off to bed and get some shuteye. Later

Things I Wish I Had the Courage To Do

Learn To Drive: This is a big issue with me. I'm 34 years old, and I do not have my driver's license. I've never been comfortable behind the wheel. It's almost like I try to drive and the least little mistake I make causes me to fall apart. I'm always worried what the other driver's think of my driving(if I'm too slow, too fast, not turning fast enough, turning too fast, etc.). If I could get that worry out of my head, I can go places that I've never been able to go before, and I won't have to hear my hubby complain about having to take me wherever I need to go.

Publish My Own Book of Poetry: I am so negative about my own work. Everyone has told me that my poems are really good, but I just can't believe that they are. I love to write poetry, and I would love to someday be a published author, but my constant fear of people rejecting my work gets in the way.

Stand Up For Myself: I have a real problem with this. I am constantly letting people use me as a human doormat. I've never been able to stand up for myself or issues that I believe. I'm always afraid that other people will be upset with me, and for some strange reason, I just can't have that.

Self Confidence: If I had the confidence in myself that others have in theirselves, I could do so many things. I am the happiest when my nose is in a computer. I love to learn different things, but I'm terrified of making mistakes in front of people. I can't handle criticism very well, either. If I was beaming with confidence, I would have graduated from college, be working with computers, working with web design, and so much more. This is what my anxiety and personality problems have prevented me from doing over the years. I have basically become a turtle of some sorts and withdrawn into my "safe" shell. I would give anything if there was a magic pill that I could take that would make all of my insecurities go away. Later

I've Had a Fairly Good Day

As you can already tell, I'm home from work. The hubby and I took a holiday today in order to take my son to the eye doctor and schedule his classes for next year. His appt. was at 1:45pm so we went to the school and signed him out. He was happy over that. We arrived at the doctor's office and had to wait for about 15 minutes. Once back there he went through the regular routine of "is it clearer with one or two". After about 20 minutes we got our explanation as to why he can't see the blackboard anymore. He's switched from farsighted to nearsighted. He also has astigmatism and lazy eye. With all of this he requires new glasses. His new frames he picked out look really good on him, and I thought that it was time for him to have transition lenses. He seemed to think that was really cool. After the eye exam, we went back to school to sign him up for his classes next year. We listed 14 choices some being his actual requirements and others electives. We won't know what he actually has until sometime in July. His definite classes that he will have are: English 10, Integrated Science, Algebra II, and Political Science. His other choices were: World Civilization, Advanced Computer Applications, Word Processing II, Spanish I, Spanish II, Arts and Humanities, Life Skills and Multimedia. Man, if I had half of the classes to choose from that they have now, I would have had a ball in high school. We got treated to a hamburger and milk shakes from hubby afterwards. All in all it was a nice relaxing day. Later

A Typical Monday

First and foremost, I want to personally thank all of you who have stopped by and taken the time to look around and leave a comment. It really means alot to me knowing that my space isn't nearly as interesting as some of yours that I've seen. Thanks bunches. We started our day by going to Enterprise to pick up the rental that the other person's insurance is providing us. Progressive has been very good about getting us into another vehicle while ours is being worked on. We dropped ours off at the body shop, and they told us that we may have our car back possibly by Friday. I didn't mean to be laughing at my hubby, but it was so comical. I don't drive so I don't really know what it's like, but I can imagine that when you get used to driving one car and then switch to another makes it kind of annoying and a little difficult to manage at first. Now, my hubby is a big guy(sort of) and the car that they provided us is a compact. Hubby is almost 6' tall so when he tried to get in he was smooshed between the seat and the steering while. It took him a moment to ease the seat back. After a few times of getting in and out of the car, he finally found the controls on the side of the seat to lower it. This made it a little easier for him to get in. If that wasn't enough, where they had the controls for the wipers, he kept hitting them every time he turned the wheel. Needless to say, he can't wait to get ours back. I had a therapy session today and it boiled down to my problem of dwelling too much on what people think of me that it keeps me from trying anything. In order to keep everyone happy and okay with me, I give in to what others want and try to please them to the point of making myself miserable. This is so bad that I will literally hide and not try anything(driving for example)in order to keep anyone from becoming angry or disappointed with me or what I'm doing. This has become a real problem over the years. I've pretty much been this way since I was a little girl, and with each passing year, it just gets worse and worse. Visits now will concentrate on how I can overcome this obstacle in my life and be able to do more things. Work is becoming a pain again. They posted it for overtime and rumor has it that we will be working weekends until about the middle of April. This is a big issue with me. My weekend is my relief time to gain my sanity back so that I can endure that place for another week. When they take both days away from me, it's usually then that I become mentally exhausted and have more trouble functioning. It's also when that need to be particular on things kicks into high gear. I mean I will waste time picking the area where I work clean so that I can stand there and not get anything on my shoes when in reality I know that it is impossible to keep my area perfectly clean. I'm hoping that I will be able to keep it under some control. Need to close for now. Hubby will want some attention a little later and then I need to get some sleep to handle tomorrow. Later

And With the Coming of Spring

Follows the tormenting of the storms. We've had a few this week along with some tornadoes in the tri-state area. My grandmother called early this morning to tell us that we were under a tornado watch. They usually get up real early in the mornings while we sleep in. It wasn't long after she called that our power went off, but no major storm blew our way. We had some thunder and rain, but that's about it. What's so annoying about our power going out is that I have to make rounds after it comes back on to reset clocks and reprogram VCR's and TV's. I've added What's Your Story under my websites listings. I checked it out a little while ago to see what new spaces were listed and found to my surprise that I had already voted.? Now how I did this I don't rightly know since I haven't checked out the new listings until just an hour ago. This proves irritating cause I'm actually enjoying voting for the space of my choice. Any which way, while I was checking out one of the spaces listed I found a space that I deem noteworthy and deserves a "looksy". Libby Dawn Abraham is a soldier's wife whose hubby is in Iraq. Her most recent posts stresses that she hasn't heard from him in a few days and is making her uneasy. If anyone is reading this, if you don't mind stop by and give her a hello and maybe some comforting thoughts. Well I did it again. I entered my space in the Blog Explosion battle of the blogs. I am now 0-2. You just can't win for losing. Oh, well, it's just for fun anyway. Need to head off to bed and try to get some sleep. Therapy is tomorrow and that is always a joy for me (not!). Later

Hello Again

It's been awhile hasn't it? Honestly, this week has been kind of irritating. I've had to wait on hubby at work this week while he worked over. I've been getting home around 2 am so I haven't felt like posting anything. I've gotten behind on reading my friend's blogs too. Also, my hubby has had problems connecting to the internet. When he called tech support they said that the router(or whatever)was going out so they sent us another modem and router. Let's just say that wireless modems are for the birds. I've been having trouble connecting to the internet now since he hooked the stupid thing up. I got lucky today and got connected. I guess I'll be spending today catching up on email, blogs, and other things. Later

I Lost the Battle...

But I do have to say that it was a good fight, and if I had to lose I'm glad it was this close. The score was 8-7. It was fun, and I might just do it again. If ya'll don't mind please take a look and say congrats to Mik at Nonsensical Flounderings. Later

Battle of the Blogs-Blog Explosion

Okay, I did it! I entered my space in BE's Battle of the Blogs. I can't believe I actually am doing this. It was a spur of the moment thing. So for any of you that read my space please go to BlogExposion and vote for me. While there why don't you join and add your blog/space to their listings. You can earn traffic to your space/blog by surfing other blogs, playing Blog Rocket, and many other things. And yes this is a shameless self promotion by me begging for votes. Later

Yesterday Was Interesting...

to say the least. First off our weekend was ruined because they felt the need to exercise their powers and post it for weekend work. As the hubby was dropping me off, I was turned around trying to get my belongings out of the backseat when our car was bumped into my shoulder and leg. When I looked up, I was surprised to see someone else's car in our driver's side door. Hubby was surprised as well cause he was still in the car when it hit. The other driver(poor woman)was terribly upset. She was dropping off her son at work, and I'm still unsure as to why she backed into us. The hubby and the other driver were exchanging information and waiting for the sheriff while I was in medical with ice packs. I'm fine except for sore spot on my shoulder. Our car though is a different story. There's a big dent in the door. Hubby will be spending the next few days gathering estimates while I will be contacting our insurance tomorrow. Then I guess we just sit and wait until the insurance contacts us. I would like to say thank you to two bloggers that have added me in their links on their blogs. I know it's a little late, but I haven't felt like posting when I got home from work these past couple of nights. I'm linked to The New Century Notebook and Shelley's Scoop. The New Century Notebook is already added to my Blog list. As for Shelley's Scoop, I found Latte Lady by reading Tea and Bon Bons with Amy. Latte Lady is a realtor and coffee lover. She's just started a spaces of her own after reading others and getting bit by the blogging bug so she's just posted a little. Try giving her a "looksee" and tell her hello. The weather here has just been aggravating. First it's warm and then it's cold. My chest and sinuses are clogged up yet again over this constant weather teeter totter. I will be so glad when it warms up and stays warm. It's annoying not knowing exactly how to dress for outside after work. Hopefully next weekend I won't have to work and will have more time to play on the web. Like someone said, I am totally addicted to the Web and love it. Later

Do You Believe In Ghosts?

I can't say that I do or don't believe, but I can say that in no way will I ever be in a place that is rumored to be haunted. This subject has always fascinated me ever since I was a little girl. I would spend my time checking out books of haunting stories from the public or my school library. It was nothing for me to spend my time inside reading than outside like most kids. Now that I'm older(and have cable), I spend time watching haunting programs if I'm able to find them. I used to be a regular watcher of Ghost Hunters until it just got to be a pain to keep up with taping it. I would also watch that one show which Linda Blair was host, but I just can't remember the name of it right now. My reason of asking this question is because on the way home from work the hubby and I were listening to Coast to Coast on the radio and their guest was Erika Frost, a tour guide on board the Queen Mary. Why my hubby listens to these type of radio programs I will never know, but this one time it piqued my curiosity. Do any of you believe in ghosts or have had any type of ghost encounter? If so, would you please share your story? Later