see a girl from your high school but you look away.

So, party is today.  Can't get the pics of the cupcakes uploaded from my phone to facebook.  Hopefully I'll have pics from the party to post today. 

Bear woke up at like, I dunno, 516 am, not that I was looking, with a nightmare and refused to go back to sleep.  so that's where i am, now. Tired.  unmotivated.  

Hummus was a failure yesterday, too.  Ry says it's okay but it just didn't taste right to me.  Gonna go  buy some salsa or something.  I also forgot to pick up chocolate and graham crackers for these ridiculously large marshmallows ry has been so excited about for a month now. 

Don't worry, y'all, chubby alice in the hizzy.

So, watched lost boys 3 last night with marttiny and it was awesome.  I stole it (well actually ry did) from the vic but i'm gonna give it back and buy it for myself.  i liked it that much.  I'm not much of a movie buyer anymore with netflix.  I felt bad because brittish had already seen it and this week to boot but the vic made her watch it again.  I really need to come up with a good nick name for her.  Something Iron Maidenish?  I really don't know much about maiden so..that might not work.  I'll keep thinking.

Okay, i should get dressed (yes, i'm typing this drinking tea in my jammies while ry and bear play downstairs which still needs vacuumed) and going.  First batch of pulled pork is done, second just went in should be ready for party. Pretty tasty. 

we shouldn't touch other people when it's not okay

so, yeah....

i'm still feeling down about derby.  I missed last night.  My thighs still hurt pretty bad and I was just super depressed so, you know... :(

Plus, my bro and the vic watched lost boys 3 without me.  Like, one of my favorite movie series of all time and they watched it without me. I mean, everyone says that i am over reacting and they don't think that way but it hurt my feelings, like, i'm not cool enough to watch it with.  I get to watch it by myself.  Maybe i won't watch it at all, since i suck so bad.  I prob will.  maybe.  i don't know. the only person i hurt by doing it is myself but i hate myself anyway so who cares, right? 

Ah, it's one of those days.  My dress makes me look thick.  So, that's fun too.  and i get to spend all day cleaning.  even more fun. oh well.  

And people can tell me all day long that i didn't quit roller derby but i did.  and that is one more thing on my list of things i just couldn't get done.  i don' tknow, i 'm gonna try out maybe for the cleveland team (they have a cuter outftit anyway) in august, and train with Steph during the rest of the year.  i don't know.  

I need to end this pity party now and get cleaning.  Probably shouldn't even have written today at all.

it all just seems like excuses to me. 

Looking but never seeing, searching but never finding

Good morning. 

First of all, thanks to all the people who deal with me when I am crazy and stupid and stress about stuff that I really shouldn't spend so much time stressing about. 

Now, what was I stressing about?

I realized yesterday that I really might not have the time to roller derby.  It's just so much time in my life and I am feeling like I never have time to just relax.  But...I guess I need to prioritize.  I mean, I want to roller derby. I am bad at it but I'm having fun.  I am the slowest girl there, how sad is that?  So...I don't know.  I haven't quit yet, I went to practice last night where I learned how to "hit the bitches" and I'll more than likely go tonight.  I get all upset with myself if I quit something, even if, as ry said, i drive myself crazy doing it.  You know? 

I'm really glad I have such nice and supportive friends, too.  Thanks for not thinking I'm a loser. 

So, either way, I'm gonna at least try to finish out derby camp.  I paid for the punishment, right? :)  It's hard but satisfying, and it's making my body look really good in a swimsuit right now.  Oh, yeah. 

Meeting for real with the EPA today.  Should go well, acutally. 

And guess what?  Guess what?  got a letter in the mail yesterday telling me I can pick up my dress at the post office today!  Woot!

I'm feeling like a cowboy today, but the kind of steven king cowboy, not annie oakley.

But in the alley it ain't that sweet

Good morning.  Early morning at WS. I'm tired but I went to bed early.  I haven't been feeling 100% lately, my ears are bugging me and I have  been headachy.  I'm trying really really hard not to get sick.  Not just for the party but also for derby practice tonite and tomorrow.  Gah. 

Anyway...

All the changes at work have the hive in a hizzy.  My old boss is now not my boss and a guy who was a ranger is now my new boss.  i wonder if this will really change anything around here. I doubt it.  boy, I am pessimistic.  Maybe I need a derby name that emphasizes my pessimizim.  I know that's spelled wrong.  I just can't spell today.  And I'm too lazy to use spell checker.  So, i'll just look ignorant. 

Okay, to work. 

Drop that 808 it's too much for the club to take, shake it like an earthquake

Writing a quick post while on my tea break from cleaning and laundry and baby entertaining this morning. Gotta love having government holidays off.  

Unfortunately I am annoyed with ry because he can't seem to put things away or throw away garbage even when the can is 5 feet from him.  GAHHHH  cause I end up cleaning after him.  I can't stand it lately, I have such limited time and he makes it worse.  For example, I came home from work yesterday and he is complaining he didn't have any lunch.  It's four when I got home by the way.  He waited for me to make him a snack and then said, "Oh, you didn't have to do that".  See?  I'm his mother, not his wife.  It feels like it sometimes.  I have to tell him to clean up and pick up and do things for bear all the time.  

Anyway, did I mention that today is my 7 year anniversary?  Go us.  :l

Thinking about derby names.  Still.  anyway.  until tomorrow, have a wonderful Columbus day.   

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, everyone but me.

Good early sunday morning.  Two haunted house reviews coming right up.  Then I've got derby practice. I'm on vacation most of the week this week so I can get ready for my party so the updates might be hit or miss, just an fyi.

Factory of Terror, Canton, Ohio.

This one rocked pretty hard core.  It was def not as good as bloodview as far as acting or makup goes but it wasn't poor quality in that respect, either.  Compairing makeup and acting to bloodview for any haunted house kinda isn't fair.  The price of this house ($23, $20. if you have a coupon) is totally worth it.  This house is comprised of four houses, and over all it's HUGE!!  This is the biggest house we have been to this year and I doubt we will find one to rival the size (I hope I'm proved wrong, though...)Very nice overall.  I don't want to go into detail about each house because it might ruin it for people but it's very fun and they do a good job.  And the prop work at this house, pretty phenominal.  First of all, it is called factory of terror so you probably should expect a bit of a factory setting.  So, they already have all the factory equiptment they need, you know?  But, man, they put it to some good use. Good stuff. 

I give this house 7 out of 10 screams. With special consideration, though, I give the first house in this set of houses it's own special rating, 8.5 out of 10 cool points.  The first house is the coolest.

As a side note, I want to point out that Freddy Kruger kidnaped my brother and held him ransom until he could name a Justin Beber song or until someone else could come by and save him.  He didn't come out again.  No, wait, I lied.  But I can take 20 Justin Bebers in a fight, the internet told me so.

Fortress of Fear, Fearanoia, Garrettsville, Ohio

This set of houses is pretty good, if you have never been here before you definatly should check it out.  First of all, the houses are only $11.00 so it's nice for your budget (as far as paying for haunted houses goes).  It takes forever to get into the first house even if the line is short.  And I mean, forever.  Basically, it's because they only send one group of people in at a time.  And they wait for that group to finish the house before they send in the next group.  So, it's really nice having no one catch up to you or slow you down.  But waiting...well, no one likes to wait, right?

Once again, I won't tell you about the houses because I don't want to ruin them for anyone who would like to go.  I will tell you that nothing has changed if you have been to this one before. 

Another thing, the houses themselves (layout, prop work, creepy factor) are pretty good, especially for such a small operation in the middle of nowhere.  But...the actors, well, you know, it's just my opinion but there's more to working in a haunted house than wearing a mask and screaming at people.  And getting into a girls face and breathing heavy for  a long time.  Like, acting (not acting like a douche).  So, actors here, not so great, but overall is a good house to visit, especially on a budget. 

I give house 5.5 out of 10 black cats and 1 hairy witch butt as a bonus point since I'm opinionated from last year. 

on, off like a light switch, sometimes I don't know where you're coming from

Friday night at watersupply.  It's a quiet night.  Almost caught a trespasser but they got away.  Darn.  I am just not stealthy enough with sore muscles, I kinda fell down the side of a small cliff and alerted them to my presence, they just waited til I left and then they left.  Oh well, right?

Gonna go practice roller skating tomorrow, maybe Brit will come with me.  I gave her another nickname on here before but I forget what it was now, so for today it's Britt.  Oh, no, I changed it again.  I'm gonna give her a complex. 

Tomorrow is Garretsville and Canton Haunted Houses.  I forgot to pull money out so I'm gonna have to stop by the bank, too. 

Hung out with K-snyd today, too.  We chilled with our babies, it was nice.  Asher was super cute, he would get close to Isa and rub his cheek on her face and say "hi baby".  So super cute I wanted to throw up rainbows and unicorns all over the place.

Heard a podcast today that said if you aren't in the mood you need to hang out with nursing mothers.  This only works if you are a woman, though.  Just my helpful tip of the day.