I love my mom and I know she means well but she has this habit of every so often practically begging me to go back onto dating websites. Ok, let me re-phrase that.... She has this habit of asking me to go back onto jdate. She wants me to find someone and get married (bonus if they are Jewish) but I don't want to find someone online.
It's not that I am opposed to meeting someone online. It is more that I am an old-fashioned girl. I would rather see someone face-to-face and *BOOM* sparks fly we go out and eventually we have a great story to tell people one day. I have been on various dating sites and have had little to no luck. There are so many guys on those sites that message me looking for sex and just sex. I am not saying all of them are that way, I am just saying that everyone that seems to want to talk to me end up asking when we can meet and "hook up" or various other things.
When it comes to relationships, I want something a little more romantic than someone texting me asking when we are gonna "hang." I am also very tired of the bar scene. Yes I do go to bars but I do not go there to meet guys. I go there to hang out with my friends. I don't know what it is but I just want something else.
I am very tired of hearing about so-and-so's daughter who met her husband/boyfriend/fiance/significant other on [insert various dating site].com and how happy they are. Maybe I am scared of being one of those people who meets someone online and they end up being slaughtered by some serial killer or the person is totally crazy. Or maybe (with my luck) I will meet someone online and we will hit it off online but when we finally go out, it is a total disaster... Oh wait, that one has happened already...
Or maybe it is partly because there is one guy I really like. I know it will never happen but I can't seem to get over him. I have tried and tried to not think about him but he is adorable and sweet and funny and I know deep down a good person who has had a tough ride and is just trying to take things as they come even if he doesn't like it. He is a guy who every once in a while can say something so right that makes me feel so special or something so totally wrong (and/or stupid) but I know he is just trying to be himself and I am crazy about all of it. I fell for a guy who just wants to laugh and make others laugh.
Man I hate being old fashioned.... I don't want to find someone online, I want the guy I like.... dammit, I need to go log on to some dating site and find a date ASAP.....
Yes mom, you were right.....
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Saturday, January 26, 2013
1-26-13 Freezing times
So anyone who knows me knows how much I HATE the cold... so why then did I sign up to participate in the Polar Bear Plunge? Well, years ago I heard someone talking about a bucket list (for anyone who doesn't know what a bucket list is, it is a list of things a person wants to do before they die such as sky diving, reading certain books, travel to Spain, whatever they want). Well I started a mental bucket list that gets I check things off of and add things to every so often.
My list has including things such as the following:
- Doing something for charity
- Doing something people will think I am completely crazy for doing
- Traveling to England
- Work for an animal rescue (whether it be volunteer work or a regular job)
- go Zip-lining
(I have a few other things on this list but it's not a big deal.)
Well, a heard about something called the Polar Bear Plunge and started doing some research (more listening to the radio station who started doing stuff for the plunge) and realized that this would actually cross two things off my list. Now as I said, I HATE the cold with a passion. I have to be cool to sleep but otherwise I prefer to be bundled up and warm so why I would want to jump into cold water is just not something I would ever think of trying. I said screw it and not only signed up but I did it by myself.... Somehow I didn't have a major panic attack but I even had a lot of fun! I only went in to not even my knees and it wasn't even that cold (it was kinda cold but not ridiculously unbearable).
I had such a good time that I signed up to participate the following year. This time I got a friend to do it with me and I went in up to my waist. I signed up to do it for a 3rd year but woke up the morning of the plunge and wasn't feeling good (My back was KILLING me and I could barely walk) so I stayed home. After that I just kinda forgot about it.
This year for some reason I decided I wanted to do it again so I talked to a few friends and ended up plunging with four others. We tried to get a team together but for various reasons we fell short of having enough team members. Not only did I go in to my neck but it was EVEN COLDER this year than it was either of the previous years I had done it. There was freaking snow on the ground!!! (Maybe half an inch but still....) The previous years it was in the 50s and this year it was mid to high 30s and snow on the ground. OMG, cold!!!!!
Well, now my friends are talking about not only getting more people to do it next year (which is totally cool with me) but maybe even trying to do the Super Plunge (Um, I don't think I could ever do this once an hour for 24 hrs and I HIGHLY doubt I could raise $10,000). I have some serious doubts about doing this but hey, it is kinda fun and it's for a great cause so I will just have to see how things pan out.
The good news is that I have some awesome, crazy friends and my life would be so boring without them.
My list has including things such as the following:
- Doing something for charity
- Doing something people will think I am completely crazy for doing
- Traveling to England
- Work for an animal rescue (whether it be volunteer work or a regular job)
- go Zip-lining
(I have a few other things on this list but it's not a big deal.)
Well, a heard about something called the Polar Bear Plunge and started doing some research (more listening to the radio station who started doing stuff for the plunge) and realized that this would actually cross two things off my list. Now as I said, I HATE the cold with a passion. I have to be cool to sleep but otherwise I prefer to be bundled up and warm so why I would want to jump into cold water is just not something I would ever think of trying. I said screw it and not only signed up but I did it by myself.... Somehow I didn't have a major panic attack but I even had a lot of fun! I only went in to not even my knees and it wasn't even that cold (it was kinda cold but not ridiculously unbearable).
I had such a good time that I signed up to participate the following year. This time I got a friend to do it with me and I went in up to my waist. I signed up to do it for a 3rd year but woke up the morning of the plunge and wasn't feeling good (My back was KILLING me and I could barely walk) so I stayed home. After that I just kinda forgot about it.
This year for some reason I decided I wanted to do it again so I talked to a few friends and ended up plunging with four others. We tried to get a team together but for various reasons we fell short of having enough team members. Not only did I go in to my neck but it was EVEN COLDER this year than it was either of the previous years I had done it. There was freaking snow on the ground!!! (Maybe half an inch but still....) The previous years it was in the 50s and this year it was mid to high 30s and snow on the ground. OMG, cold!!!!!Well, now my friends are talking about not only getting more people to do it next year (which is totally cool with me) but maybe even trying to do the Super Plunge (Um, I don't think I could ever do this once an hour for 24 hrs and I HIGHLY doubt I could raise $10,000). I have some serious doubts about doing this but hey, it is kinda fun and it's for a great cause so I will just have to see how things pan out.
The good news is that I have some awesome, crazy friends and my life would be so boring without them.
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| 2013 MSP Polar Bear Plunge post plunge pic |
1-25-13 Chicks vs. Dicks
Ok so I know some people have problems balancing their time between work and play but if you say you are going to do something with your friend(s), do it! Don't make excuses because it makes you look shady.
For example - I had plans with a friend for over two weeks when I got a message saying they had to cancel because their boyfriend suddenly decided that he wanted to take her skiing. Ok, so SUDDENLY plans come up for something that can done another day..... ANOTHER TIME this same friend and I said we were going to go see a particular movie. When I asked her if she wanted to go a certain weekend she said she had just seen it the other day with her bf. WTF?!?!?
Ditching your friend(s) for a guy is NOT cool.
Ditching your friends in general is NOT cool!!!
I don't understand why people still have a problem with this. Why is it that so many people say they will be there but as soon as a significant other comes along *POOF* you get crapped on.
One day I will stop bitching about it and will just drop these people I still am dumb enough to call friend....
For example - I had plans with a friend for over two weeks when I got a message saying they had to cancel because their boyfriend suddenly decided that he wanted to take her skiing. Ok, so SUDDENLY plans come up for something that can done another day..... ANOTHER TIME this same friend and I said we were going to go see a particular movie. When I asked her if she wanted to go a certain weekend she said she had just seen it the other day with her bf. WTF?!?!?
Ditching your friend(s) for a guy is NOT cool.
Ditching your friends in general is NOT cool!!!
I don't understand why people still have a problem with this. Why is it that so many people say they will be there but as soon as a significant other comes along *POOF* you get crapped on.
One day I will stop bitching about it and will just drop these people I still am dumb enough to call friend....
Sunday, January 20, 2013
01-20-13 B - Employment woes
So Friday I went in to work and was let go after about an hour. It sucked but I understand why it happened.
I could tell when my boss and the VP were giving me the bad news that they were not happy with the decision but it was something that was unavoidable.
Why am I so calm about this? Well, I am only sort of ok. It sucks because I LOVED my job. It was a great place to work. Everyone was nice, we all got along. We even picked on each other all the time. We were that comfortable with each other and it was great. It also gave me a lot of new experience.
In the 2 1/2 years that I was officially employed by this company I learned so many new things. I handled payroll and both accounts receivable and payable. I helped create spreadsheets and did lots of billing. I learned a lot of useful skills for the job market.
I have decided to take the weekend to relax and just do not much. Monday morning I will start looking for a new job. Thanks to this old job, I will now find a new job in which I will make more money and I owe a lot of that to my former boss and the company I worked for.
Yes it stinks that I am out of a job but I know something else will come my way.
I could tell when my boss and the VP were giving me the bad news that they were not happy with the decision but it was something that was unavoidable.
Why am I so calm about this? Well, I am only sort of ok. It sucks because I LOVED my job. It was a great place to work. Everyone was nice, we all got along. We even picked on each other all the time. We were that comfortable with each other and it was great. It also gave me a lot of new experience.
In the 2 1/2 years that I was officially employed by this company I learned so many new things. I handled payroll and both accounts receivable and payable. I helped create spreadsheets and did lots of billing. I learned a lot of useful skills for the job market.
I have decided to take the weekend to relax and just do not much. Monday morning I will start looking for a new job. Thanks to this old job, I will now find a new job in which I will make more money and I owe a lot of that to my former boss and the company I worked for.
Yes it stinks that I am out of a job but I know something else will come my way.
01-20-13 A - Play time
I haven't written in a few days and I feel bad so I am going to do at least 2 posts today to make up for some lost time....
Today my niece and nephew (from here on out they will be referred to as Bug and Monkey) had a play date with our old neighbors' kids (A & Q).
It was a lot of fun because not only did the kids get exercise, the adults (my sister-in-law & the old neighbors) got lots of exercise too.
I have learned a few things following our "exercise" time:
a) I am very much out of shape.....
b) I love Bug and Monkey with all my heart but I don't think I will ever have kids.
c) I need to get out of the house more
d) I totally suck at frisbee.....
At one point all the kids were playing on the hill (we went to what the neighborhood refers to as "the bowl" because it is a field surrounded by hills creating a bowl effect on three sides.) and our old neighbors and I were throwing the frisbee. A couple times it went over our heads, a few times we totally missed it and once in a while I actually caught it and threw it to someone instead of WAY out of the way.Let's just say I won't be trying out for any kind of ultimate frisbee league but it was fun and great exercise so who can complain.
Monday, January 14, 2013
1-14-13 Shelby
So a few weeks ago I saw a post of facebook for a Siberian Husky looking for a new home. We had to put our husky to sleep a few weeks earlier (he was very old and it was time) and we were all miserable. I showed the post to my sister-in-law and long story short - we made contact with the woman who was trying to find this dog a home and a few hours later, we had Shelby, a 14 month old sweetheart.
In the beginning it was ok. She had a few accidents and hiccups but we figured we could work with her and things would get better. Unfortunately, they didn't. Now we are trying to find a new home for her. She really is a sweet dog but she is just too much for us.
The biggest problem is though that we do not want to see her go to the pound. There are all sorts of crazy people who gets dogs from the pound for terrible reasons (torture being one of them) and none of us wants to see that happen to Shelby. BUT at the same time, she started picking on the other dog (we adopted a 4 year old Mutt named Foxy) and the cats are totally petrified of Shelby and won't come upstairs.
What do we do? When is it just too much. I mean, we tried to give this dog a home but she gets out and runs. She jumps on the other dog and sometimes she snaps at the kids in the house. She does not listen and we had to start crating her during the day because she kept having accidents in the house but now she pees on the blanket we put in the crate with her (We wash it every night).
I feel so bad because she really can be a sweet dog but I know I can't deal with her. She is just too much for my family. I wish I could figure out what to do. I wish I knew I could take her somewhere right now and know she was in a better home that could do so much more for her than we can.
Sometimes I think my love of animals will be the death of me......
In the beginning it was ok. She had a few accidents and hiccups but we figured we could work with her and things would get better. Unfortunately, they didn't. Now we are trying to find a new home for her. She really is a sweet dog but she is just too much for us.
The biggest problem is though that we do not want to see her go to the pound. There are all sorts of crazy people who gets dogs from the pound for terrible reasons (torture being one of them) and none of us wants to see that happen to Shelby. BUT at the same time, she started picking on the other dog (we adopted a 4 year old Mutt named Foxy) and the cats are totally petrified of Shelby and won't come upstairs.
What do we do? When is it just too much. I mean, we tried to give this dog a home but she gets out and runs. She jumps on the other dog and sometimes she snaps at the kids in the house. She does not listen and we had to start crating her during the day because she kept having accidents in the house but now she pees on the blanket we put in the crate with her (We wash it every night).
I feel so bad because she really can be a sweet dog but I know I can't deal with her. She is just too much for my family. I wish I could figure out what to do. I wish I knew I could take her somewhere right now and know she was in a better home that could do so much more for her than we can.
Sometimes I think my love of animals will be the death of me......
Saturday, January 12, 2013
1-12-13 Football
So anyone who knows me knows that I am a BIG Baltimore Ravens fan.
How did I become a Ravens fans? Well let me start from the beginning:
My parents are HUGE Redskins fans and I was told I HAD to route for the skins. Me, being a crazy, silly kid decided that a) I don't have to route for them just because I am told I have to (I was taught not to give in to pressure) and b) I so do not look good in gold or maroon. In my early 2000's (I wanna say '02 or '03) I was told "Everyone has a team, you have to have a team!" I finally gave in and said "Fine, I like the Baltimore Ravens!" It made some sense because a) I grew up loving Edgar Allen Poe, b) it was still technically a "hometown" team (I do live in Maryland) and c) I look MUCH better in purple and black than gold and maroon.
In time I began really following the Ravens and becoming an even bigger fan/supporter. I mean, I listen to 98 Rock, the Flagship home of the Ravens and I have done the Polar Bear Plunge with a Ravens player. No, I have never actually been to a professional football game (I was SOOOOOO trying to win tickets to Ray Lewis' last home game before retirement) but I know one day I will see a Ravens' game so I am ok with that.
Tonight after the Ravens pulled out a 38-35 win over the Broncos in double-overtime I got a nasty message from someone I know who is a die-hard skins fan saying "the only reason ray lewis didn't leave in a walker is cause manning choked!"
REALLY?!?!?!!? Ok, some razzing is to be expected but that was a little overboard. Ray Lewis has had a GREAT 17 seasons and the Ravens want to win the Super Bowl so bad but that was just a little below the belt.
I mean come on! How awesome was it of Peyton Manning to wait an hour and a half after the game just so he and his family could congratulate Ray Lewis? I think it was pretty damn awesome and totally sportsmanlike.
Ok, so I also saw messages from other Redskins fans saying "They won't make it another week" or "Ravens suck, they just got lucky" and other BS like that. Sorry you guys didn't make it. GET OVER IT!!!!
Are you trying to compete against the Eagles and Steelers fans for who is the nastiest? Really people? Can we at least pretend to act like adults?
Grow up. Call a spade a spade and at least acknowledge that tonight was an awesome game and that is the most important part. It's not who wins or loses, it's who shows up and plays and both teams did that.
~J
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