tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90370126261996186072024-03-13T22:01:41.698-05:00The Dreamer and The RealistMusings from the 300-ring circus of my life...Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.comBlogger281125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-7669331680366697072016-06-28T10:25:00.000-05:002016-06-28T10:25:02.655-05:00Fellow Readers...<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fellow readers (or bookies, as I like to call myself. Yanno, like a foodie with food, but with books), I have an issue.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Several, actually.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But this one has to do with book content. Ya see, I devour books like dragons devour sheep. I love mystery, horror, fiction, non-fiction, romance, sci-fi/fantasy, etc.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But what I <i>don't</i> love is a large part of the romance and the whole baby thing. Cheesus Crust, I think of the last five books I've read, here's the situation in three of them:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Boy meets girl.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Boy and girl date/hook-up/one-night-stand.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Girl gets pregnant.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Girl doesn't tell boy.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Girl is distraught over pregnancy.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Girl hides child from boy/moves away/stops seeing boy/gives baby up for adoption.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Girl 'forgets' boy.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Girl runs into boy again.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Girl has to tell boy of baby.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Girl, boy, and baby/child live happily. ever. after.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I understand that people want a happy ending. I get that since it's what sells, it's what gets written. It's just. fucking. annoying.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For such strong, powerful women, some of these characters are fucking wimpy o<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">nce they find out they're knocked up</span>. "Oh noes, what will I dooooo! I'm with child, but I will be raising this child alone (sma<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">cks fist in palm)</span>, for I cannot interrupt his life with this change!"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bullshit. Sack up (or twat up, if you prefer). It took two of you to get into this mess, it's gonna take two of you to fix it. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Put your big girl panties on and deal with th<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">is shit head on.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Does this <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ann<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">oy anyone else?</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Steph </span></span> </span></span>Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-75860297102150949222015-06-30T14:47:00.002-05:002020-11-17T10:23:46.544-06:00The Rainbow Connection...<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">No, not Kermit.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">I have so many different friends, all with different views; from the hardcore Christians to the hardcore atheists, and every spot inbetween. So, here's my take and reasonings behind my support of all my fabulously flaming friends being able to get married like I did:<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><b>~1. </b>This country was founded on religious <u>freedom</u>, meaning that I am free to practice my beliefs and you are free to practice your beliefs. Now, if you really want your special brand of religion to be the law of the land and make everyone follow your rules, remember this: so does ISIS. So do Muslims practicing Sharia Law.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><b>~2.</b> You think that they'll try to convert you? Dreamers, Comedian Nate Baimel made a very good observation: "they're not Jehovah's Witnesses. They don't spend Sunday knocking on doors asking who's read from the Book of Judy Garland.... They're not vampires, they can't convert you.... If the reason you don't want to be around gay men is because you're afraid they'll be able to talk you into being gay, then surprise! YOU'RE GAY!<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><b>~3.</b> "But I don't want to explain to my kids why those two men/two women are holding hands/kissing/fornicating!" If they're fornicating in public, there's a bigger issue of what the fuck you're doing with your children and where the fuck are you taking them? The inability to explain things to your children when they're small will only get harder the harder the topics get, and can result in early promiscuity, 16 and pregnant, a host of sexually transmitted diseases, abusive relationships, and the need to wear Crocs and Spongebob pajama pants out to dinner.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><b>~4. </b>Even one of my outspoken Christian friends has posted this via Facebook:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><b>~5.</b> For those of you who are adamant Bible-followers, here are some discrepancies that I'm pretty sure that EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU HAVE FAILED! Unless you’ve never done any of them perhaps it’s time to lay off quoting what Leviticus in the Bible tells you shouldn't be done:</span></span><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span><span><span></span></span></span>-Eating fat (3:17) (no bacon, then)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span><span><span></span></span></span>-Eating blood (3:17) (medium rare steaks are out)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span><span><span></span></span></span>-Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve witnessed (5:1) (if you've ignored the man beating his child in a parking lot for dropping a soda, you failed this one)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">-Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve been told about (5:1) (keeping it to yourself when someone tells you they've lied about something is a sin)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"></span><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span><span>-E</span></span>ating an animal which doesn’t both chew cud and has a divided hoof (cf: camel, rabbit, pig) (11:4-7) (again, no more bacon)</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span><span><span></span></span></span>-Touching the carcass of any of the above (problems here for rugby and football and basketball) (11:8)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"></span><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"></span><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"></span><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">-Going to church within 33 days after giving birth to a boy (12:4) (I know some of you have children)</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">-Going to church within 66 days after giving birth to a girl (12:5) (some more than one)</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span><span><span></span></span></span>-Having sex with your mother (18:7), </span><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">father’s wife (18:8), your sister (18:9), your granddaughter (18:10), your half-sister (18:11), your biological aunt (18:12-13), your uncle’s wife (18:14), your daughter-in-law (18:15), your sister-in-law (18:16), a woman and also having sex with her daughter or granddaughter (18:17)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">-Marrying your wife’s sister while your wife still lives (18:18)</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">-Having sex with a woman during her period (18:19)</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span><span><span></span></span></span>-Having sex with your neighbour’s wife (18:20)</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">-Giving your children to be sacrificed to Molek (18:21)</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span><span><span><span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><div>-Having sex with a man “<span>as one does with a woman</span>” (18:22) (here we go--the big one everyone is up in arms about)<br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span>-Making idols or “metal gods” (19:4)</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">-Stealing (19:11)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">-Lying (19:11)</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">-Swearing falsely on God’s name (19:12)</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span><span><span></span></span></span>-Perverting justice, showing partiality to either the poor or the rich (19:15)</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">-Spreading slander (19:16)</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">-Seeking revenge or bearing a grudge (19:18)</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span><span><span></span></span></span>-Mixing fabrics in clothing (19:19) (You get a sackcloth! You get a sackcloth! Sackcloth and ashes for everyone!)</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">-Cross-breeding animals (19:19) (all of your designer dogs? against the Bible)</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">-Eating fruit from a tree within four years of planting it (19:23)</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span><span><span></span></span></span>-Practising divination or seeking omens (tut, tut, astrology and all you horoscope readers) (19:26)</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">-Trimming your beard (19:27)</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">-Cutting your hair at the sides (19:27)</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span><span><span></span></span></span>-Getting tattoos (19:28)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">-Not standing in the presence of the elderly (19:32)</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span><span><span><span></span></span></span></span></span></span>-Mistreating foreigners – “t<span>he foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born</span>”<span> </span>(19:33-34)<br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span>-Cursing your father or mother (punishable by death) (20:9)</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span><span><span><span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span>-Blasphemy (punishable by stoning to death) (24:14)</span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span>-Inflicting an injury; killing someone else’s animal; killing a person must be punished in kind (24:17-22)</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span>-Selling land permanently (25:23)</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span>-Selling an Israelite as a slave (foreigners are fine) (25:42) (so I can sell my niece? she's not an Israelite.)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span>Basically, if you're going to pick apart that it is an "abomination to lie with man as one lies with woman", might want to go through your closet and your pantry and your whole life, because you can't follow one Leviticus order and not the rest. I want you to tell me definitively how you can only follow one of these and still claim to be following the Bible and God's Word. Until you can do that, your argument is invalid.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span><b>~7.</b> I am a Libertarian. Yes, the government should protect the general welfare of her people--against outside tyranny, against outside harm; all else should be up to the states as a guideline and the individual. I have guns, I am all for legalization of marijuana, I am all for marriage equality. You don't want to wear your seatbelt? Don't. That is your <i>right</i> as an American to make that choice for yourself, as an adult.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span>Gary Johnson, my vote for President in the last election, and will be this go-round released this following statement in response to the SCOTUS ruling:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span><b>~8. </b>Marriage is a legal contract between two people. Holy Matrimony is a religious contract between two people and God. Separation of church and state? Easy. It has nothing to do with God unless you want it to.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span>~~ </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span>You know what? To most of you raging Christians, nothing I've said makes a difference. You'll still thump your Bibles and tell me that I'm wrong and that I'm going to Hell. I don't do religion. I don't do churches. I do God, the Great Spirit, the Goddess, the Divine Creator. S/He and I talk...well, I talk, S/He listens. And sometimes, S/He answers with a little bit of help that I so desperately needed.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span>So, if I am going to Hell?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span>I'll be sure to save you a seat.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span>Cheers,</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"> </span></span></div>Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-66895409020584518572015-01-16T16:30:00.000-06:002015-01-29T13:42:02.662-06:00Winter Weddings<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I know what you're going to say:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"But Ms Dreamer, you're already married to Mr Realist!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And I'll say, "But my bestie is getting married in October, and I was playing with what I would do if I were to marry Mr Realist again." And I found <a href="http://www.weddingtonway.com/">Weddington Way</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So I went to their site, and created a new bridesmaid look. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.weddingtonway.com/products/dessy-2858-bridesmaid-dress?sku=de-2858-charcoal-gray">The Dress </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I thought about this. Fun, flirty, and still elegant. Quasi-messy updo, anyone? How about we throw a small braid in, just for kicks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I love it!! Do you? If not, that's ok. This is just one of many designs that I would put together. What would you add/remove/change?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now all I have to do is convince Mr Realist that we need to have another wedding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Smooches,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**This post was inspired by Weddington Way! If you're looking for some awesome chiffon dresses (or just in general), go check them out <a href="https://www.weddingtonway.com/all/bridesmaid-dresses/with/fabric_families/chiffon">here </a>:) <br /><br />PPS: all images are using the Googlenator under "navy kitten heels", "silver swirly jewelry", etc.</span><br />
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Wednesday: Dress and Cardi from Old Navy; shoes Eastland from Zappos.<br />Size on dress & cardi: XXL; shoes: women's 9.5 wide<br />
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Thursday: white V-neck tee (stolen from husband), super large scarf tied into a vest (thrifted), dark jeans (Cato), brown Airwalk sandals (Payless, about 8 years old)<br />Size: tee, 2XLT; jeans, 20; sandals, men's 8<br />
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Today (Friday): white V-neck tee (also stolen from husband), navy tank dress w/waist tie (Old Navy), teal zip-up hoodie (Fashion Bug), brown Airwalk sandals (see above). It's chilly in my office today, so that's the reason for the hoodie.<br />Size: tee, 2XLT; dress, XXL; hoodie, 2XL; sandals, men's 8.<br />
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I take these photos to remind myself that I can still dress comfortable and cute and covered and not have to be all "if X skinny model can wear this belly shirt, so can I!" (I don't want to see your belly. Hell, I don't want to see MINE!). <br />
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Although, in the first picture, I do need different shoes. Found the CUTEST pair of <a href="http://www.torrid.com/torrid/Shoes/Crochet+Oxford+Flats+Wide+Width-10087134.jsp">oxfords </a>at Torrid...I want.<br />
It's either those or a pair of nude flats from Payless. I'd also like a pair of Keds that I can paint, so I'll get those as well. :)<br />
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My favorite outfit is today's. What's yours?Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-55927167568234305862014-04-10T11:42:00.004-05:002014-04-10T11:42:57.567-05:00Ouch...<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well, THAT didn't go as well as expected. I still have the scarf.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Such is life. You know, I'd like to be able to write all the time, but I don't see me ever being a <a href="http://www.danoah.com/">Single Dad Laughing</a> (cause I'm not single, and I'm not a dad), or a <a href="http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/">Pioneer Woman</a> or an <a href="http://www.epbot.com/">Epbot</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'm so flighty about things -- ADD on my knitting; I don't do book reviews because I can just let a story be a story, unless it's absolute garbage; I don't do fashion because I rock my own style whether anyone likes it or not. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So, if you wouldn't mind, tell me what you like to read about? What would relax you and take your mind off of kids and house and husband/wife and work and anything else?</span> </span>Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-86656678702516877702013-12-16T14:27:00.004-06:002013-12-16T14:27:50.116-06:00I'm disgusted...<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I have a friend who suggested that I use the Lose It! app for iPhone to track my calories (it's a heckuvalot easier to use than MyFitnessPal). She and I are friends in-app as well as IRL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I didn't think I ate unhealthily, just too much of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Today, I didn't have breakfast, but had Taco Bell for lunch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Good holy crap on a cracker...I'm already over 1600 calories!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I've been keeping track since Saturday, and it's really kinda grossing me out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It's been a giant kick in the teeth, even after only two and a half days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I know I posted yesterday that I'd have a Made It Monday last night, but yesterday was Tuesday, not Monday, and today is Wednesday, making today Wiseass Wednesday. I'll have a postie on this one later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So, I'm giving one away! It's long enough that you could stitch the ends together and make it a necklace/small infinity scarf, or leave it as it is. And no, the octopus necklace is not part of the deal. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">All you have to do is leave me a comment/email me telling me your favorite cold weather accessory -- is it your gloves that you knitted? Your UGG boots that you got at an outlet mall? The earmuffs you've had since fifth grade?</span></div>
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Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-66415436135965002172013-11-12T11:24:00.000-06:002013-11-12T11:24:21.039-06:00Eight Days A Week<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm working on it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Made It Monday</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Wiseass Wednesday</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Finally Friday</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Too-Far Tuesday?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">How about Ta-Ta Thursday? :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Whatchoo think? Email me! dreamerandrealist at gmail dot com</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'll have a Made It Monday up later -- finished a scarfy this weekend! lol I'm so lame </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-74464791571098403692013-11-08T14:17:00.001-06:002013-11-08T14:17:54.498-06:00I try to...<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">not snore, but it doesn't work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Wednesday night, I was in bed and asleep by 9pm...cause I had to be up at 5am to be ready to be picked up at 6.15 for a 1.5 hour drive for a meeting. So much fun :P</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Anyhoo...I was up and taking the dog out at 5; had to get Mr Realist up so he could drive me to the meeting spot, and I was perfectly punctual (for a change).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So last night, I was up until almost 11...it was Thursday, so I throw darts. Almost punched a woman out for being a Cunty McWhore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I apparently snored loads last night. My throat hurts and I'm exhausted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Guess who's going to bed early tonight? :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ms D. </span>Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-9219726237505392222013-11-06T09:15:00.000-06:002013-11-06T09:15:27.830-06:00Ohmigosh...<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Folks, if you've never read <a href="http://www.midgetmanofsteel.com/">Mental Poo</a>, and you're a fan of the irreverent and crude and hilariously funny, go check him out (@Moooooog35 on the twitters, if you're so inclined)</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Dreamers, he's snarky and fun and has more than on one occasion made me snort whatever I was drinking out of my noseholes (beer burns, yos). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I bought his first book, "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ANUF5WA/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00ANUF5WA&linkCode=as2&tag=midmanofste-20">Things Go Wrong For Me</a>" on my Kindle, and I couldn't put it down...woke my husband up a couple of times laughing. He's a master at Draw With Friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Well, he's got a new book coming out, and he made a comment on his Facebook that if anyone was interested in reading it early and putting a review on their blog, just let him know. I emailed him, letting him know I would, and I got a response!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Guys, you gotta check him out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/moooooog35">@moooooog35</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/moooooog35">Rodney Lacroix</a> on the book of Face</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Go forth, dreamers, and follow!! </span>Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-53939566039074859232013-09-21T11:42:00.004-05:002013-09-21T11:42:54.612-05:00Depressed Puppy<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wednesday was a bad night. I hadn't slept well for two days (approximately 6 hours in 48), so I took a melatonin at about 8.30 and was out cold by 9.15.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10.15 comes along, and Tom wakes me up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Daisy's gone." I didn't understand what he meant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"How'd she get out?" I asked, still asleep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"No, Daisy's dead, honey." I immediately burst into tears.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We got Daisy three months after we got married; she was born in November due to my sister's dog getting with the dog down the street. Daisy was the runt of four and born with a deformed front right paw. She was ours, our fuzzbutt, our princess, our baby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10.30 pm on Wednesday night, Tom and I were digging a grave in our backyard for our beloved dog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We don't think she suffered. Tom said she had her sleepy smile on her face when he found her in the doghouse when he'd gone out to hush Duke up (he was howling, something he never does). She was only a mid-sized dog, but her bloodline (rottweiler, shar-pei, shepherd, chow) are all large dogs, and their lifespan is only between 8-10 years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Three years ago, she had to have a pretty invasive heartworm treatment done, and the vet did say that it could weaken her heart. We think that's what it was, because even after she was cured, she never did slow down. Spastic right up until the very end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Duke, up until last night, hadn't slept because he has been looking for his sister (not from same parentage, but she's all he's ever known). We gave him a much-needed bath Friday morning and brought him inside (which is where he's going to be from here on). He's miserable and isn't eating much. I'm worried about him. Tom stayed home this weekend to be with him instead of coming to the con launch of the second book (I'm immortalized in print, yos).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He's not his usual self. I want my Duke back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And my Daisy. I'm wearing her rabies tag from last year. It's a heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Momma, Daddy, and Duke all miss you, punkin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-37179651501376915942013-08-23T10:51:00.001-05:002013-08-23T10:51:41.231-05:00My Friend<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you follow me on Facebook, you may notice that my profile picture is of me, but not my husband.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It's my friend Ryan. At a Party of Epic Proportions in March, so of course, it was for St. Patrick's Day. We drank. We ate. We made merry. And we danced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Two weeks ago today, my friend Ryan was killed in a drunk driving accident. He was coming home from work in St Louis as a DJ at 2am on Friday morning, when a woman going westbound on the eastbound side of the interstate hit him head on. Killed him instantly, and his car caught fire. The woman was in critical but stable condition last I'd heard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I don't care. She took my friend's life with her carelessness. If she makes it, she will go to jail and will have to live with what she did to Ryan for the rest of her life. Good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We're making some window stickers to as a memorial to him. They're the Batman logo--his favorite comic book character. I couldn't even look at the proof without having to go to the bathroom and cry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ryan, dude, this sucks. You stayed with us during Contamination. You are a fellow character in "The Apocalypse of Enoch" (zombie novel). Any chance you could stare at my boobs (or ANY girls' boobs, for that matter), you did. Most of us didn't even mind--they're just boobs, after all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You were my first DnD experience. You were the first to put BiL in his place with the 'your mom!' jokes. You were an excellent DJ and karaoke master. My biggest regret? That I didn't get to sing with you. I'm making that part of "My Ryan List" -- when someone asks me to sing karaoke, I'll do it. There are more goals on my Ryan List, but that's just to start. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I miss you. It's been two weeks, but it seems like forever. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">RIP Ryan. I just want to hear you from the heavens, leading the praise team as loud as you possibly can. Which, for you, would be normal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">~Steph</span>Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-7285357025929727602013-07-30T10:45:00.002-05:002013-07-30T10:45:48.986-05:00Well, crap.<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Well, happened again last night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I was pregnant in my dreams. Only not by anyone I would consider remotely a good father or friend or decent human being.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Really, brain? You had to put the douchebag in there?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Asshole brain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And it was yet another boy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This has got to stop. </span>Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-27263528128400194872013-07-29T08:51:00.001-05:002013-07-29T08:51:03.055-05:00Shredded Inside<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I've been adamant on here before about children. No way, no how, they're not for me. I'm selfish, shallow, stubborn, and children are sticky, smelly little creatures that I don't have much patience for. I love the fact that I can give them back to their parents after a few hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And that's a very large <i>but</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Ever since the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (Prince William and wife Kate Middleton, for you non-Anglophiles) were delivered of a son, His Royal Highness, Prince George, I've been dreaming about children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As in mine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As in being delivered of them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I think I'm going insane.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Please tell me I'm not insane.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Except I hate to be so adamant about something, and then change my mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is tearing me up inside, Dreamers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Help. I need someone to talk me through this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For good or bad.</span>Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-88963763734079758342013-07-26T13:27:00.001-05:002013-07-26T13:27:24.760-05:00Finally Friday!<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It's finally Friday here in the land of the weird. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I had a lovely lunch today with my friend Jen -- had a pork patty lunch from one of the churches here in town, and went to a park and just sat and nattered on for an hour. I needed it -- needed to get out of the office, to have some girl conversation, and just enjoy the outdoors. It does suck that summertime has pulled away the knitting night. Makes part of me yearn for fall and longer hours and more time. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I think that this weekend is going to be a good one. Moon's in its waning phase, and it should be a good night tomorrow night just to be outside with a small fire, some good friends, and a beer or three.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I hope everyone's week has gone well, and if it hasn't...well, here's to hoping that your weekend is better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Ms D </span>Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-51309616896868452792013-07-23T13:24:00.000-05:002013-07-23T13:24:05.891-05:00Costuming<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just so you know, LDs, I love playing "dress-up." And not in the "I'm raiding my mother's closet" kind of way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm talking cosplay...short for COStumePLAY. I am currently in a zombie hunting cosplay group: <a href="http://www.zod001.com/">Z.O.D.</a> We dress up in military-type clothing (all black, mind you--red's an accent color), and "hunt zombies." It's rather fun. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm slowly getting into the Steampunk genre -- I have a couple of madrigal-y type dresses that one of them will be modded into a mechanic's dress; the other, a lovely ballgown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm also working on a Captain America costume for a Party of Epic Proportions happening in September. I think that I may have found the base for my shield. Now to hammer it out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No matter what anyone says, you're never too old to pretend!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ms D </span>Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-65889354016212912412013-07-22T11:30:00.000-05:002013-07-22T11:30:00.344-05:00My So-Called Life<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You know, I don't think I ever watched that show. Ever. Although Claire Danes is gorgeous...as is Jared Leto. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I found this topic at some point over the weekend, and I decided I'd lead off with something easy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />"Share a peek into your daily life." (of course, they spelled it peak and it annoyed me to no end)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">6am~alarm goes off for the first time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">6.30~husband gets in the shower.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">7~get in the shower.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">8~get to work</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Noon~lunch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">5~headed home (or to the market or to a softball game, depending on the day)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">9.30~in bed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">11~sleepy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">See, that's super easy. It seems like I don't do anything, but I really do, I promise!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">While hubs is in the shower, I'm slow to get up (I hate mornings); during lunch, I normally read or write; between the time I get home and being in bed, I make dinner, pick up the house, run the dishwasher or a load of laundry, I may game or read or write or goof around on the internet; between being in bed and going to sleep, I'm usually reading.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm generally content to do all of these things, but what I need to do is to get busy working on my Captain America costume for the Party of Epic Proportions that is happening mid-September; that, and hub's Green Lantern costume...sheesh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What's your daily life like?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ms D </span>Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-4767997389874974042013-07-19T11:15:00.002-05:002013-07-19T11:15:30.597-05:00Breaking Out<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Nah, nothing insidious (good word for a Friday).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I don't know what it is, but I want to write. Here. My books. EVERYWHERE.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'm trying to Google for some ideas, but I don't want to turn this into some crazy, mass-media blog. That's not me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I guess that I could start with some easy stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Like who I am. Favorites. Pet Peeves. Hot actors. Hot actresses. Games.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Why the hell I called my boss "Dear" yesterday morning. O.o (yeah, totally did)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">If you read this via an email feed, shoot me one back and let me know. dreamerandrealist@gmail.com</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Ms D </span>Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-15167491781919619872013-06-24T10:11:00.001-05:002013-06-26T08:13:31.041-05:00Death walks among us.<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I know - maudlin title. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But he does.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He did especially on Friday.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Most of you don't know the feelings and heart behind the relationship (or lack thereof) between myself and the stepfather.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He met my mom when I was 2 (I was living with my grandparents), and married her when I was four (and my sister just four months). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He was an alcoholic and an abusive one. It was "my job" to look out for my sister (because there were more important things to do -- drink beer, smoke pot, etc.). If she got hurt or in trouble, I got the beating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And I'm not talking about a spanking. I'm talking full-on, grab what you can find (normally, it was his leather belt; hangers, flyswatters, wooden spoons, and a specially-made paddle out of a canoe oar all made their appearances), and beat the shit out of me. Don't get me wrong, she got hit, but not near as often or as violently as I did. There were many times that welts and bruises prevented sitting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Once, when I was young, I remember getting into trouble and being grounded from the television...but made to sit in front of it with my forehead on the console of it (it was an ancient one). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I couldn't practice my trumpet because "it's too loud, and you're not playing music." I was allowed two sports -- soccer and basketball. Volleyball and softball were out of the question because they cost more money. Creativeness was squashed -- "You won't amount to anything." I don't remember him coming to any sporting events--they cut into his drinking time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When we went on float trips during the summer, since I was the oldest, I had to paddle the canoe, because "someone has to have dry hands to open cans." Fetching beers was another 'favorite'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Crying over anything earned you a beating. Grades didn't impress him; neither did the coveted spot of being songleader for your class when it was your grade's turn to do all of the readings and such at Mass. "You can't sing and you're stupid."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"You're the oldest, you need to watch all the younger kids" meant that being only one year older than the next kid (who was a boy and mentally handicapped with an extreme speech impairment) and having to corral at the very least four other kids so they didn't get hurt or in trouble so you didn't earn a beating (and it didn't matter who was there when you took your punishment). The only justification that I got out of it was that when the boy picked on my sister or the younger kids, I could chase him down and beat the crap out of him. More than once I was told "I'm gonna tell my daddy!"...and they thought it was funny.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I moved to my aunt and uncle's house because of avalanching grades when I was 14, two years after the stepfather and my mom got divorced. That same year, I found out that he wasn't my real dad, something that I had prayed for numerous times; that my real dad would come to my mom and apologize for his last words to her ("It's not mine") and want me and I wouldn't have to suffer the beatings. That never happened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">After that, he and I had very little contact. Maybe two calls in five years; saw him on the rare occasion when I went to Springfield to see my mom and sister whilst I was in college. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My sister was supposed to bring my mother to my college graduation, but she was too hungover to be up in time...so she brought my stepdad, someone I didn't want there. I'm just glad she didn't decide to invite him to my wedding. I'd have cheerfully killed her and him both.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The reason behind the title? He died on Friday evening, after my sister made the call as his Power of Attorney to pull him off life support, but they got to the hospital before she did (he wanted a DNR--Do Not Resuscitate). Kidneys had already shut down, his liver was failing (that was due to his alcoholism), and he had lung cancer. In addition to that, he'd pretty much pickled his brain by drinking and crack (yes, he'd progressed from just beer and weed to smoking crack. He had loads of money after his mom and his sisters died, so he went crazy and blew more than $60K). The only thing that wasn't affected was his heart -- still beating strong even after they took him off of the vent for a couple of hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He went slowly and still in a coma. I was there for my mom and my sister, holding his arm and hand because my mom wanted me to. I would have been ok just sitting in the chair in the corner, being there for them. If they went down to smoke, I moved to the chair beside him. Only once did I speak to him, to tell him that I was sorry I wasn't the daughter he wanted, that I was someone else's by-blow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That was all. 8.08pm on Friday, he took his last breath and his heart finally stopped. I cried for my sister, my mother, and my niece. I cried enough over him when I tried to be a good daughter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Some of you know me personally and know that I am a caring person, that I hate hurting people's feelings and will do anything to help. I think I am more upset that I don't feel bad that he's dead. My heart hurts for my family, but not for him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He'd been "dying" for the last 25 years. It's finally done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">If you wouldn't mind giving up some prayers/good thoughts/love for my sister, it would be appreciated. She's having a really hard time with this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Stepfather</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">**Edit: correction on birth year. I was putting him at sperm donor's age*** </span>Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-26319632588095900252013-05-14T14:41:00.003-05:002013-05-14T14:41:49.066-05:00Stuck in the middle...<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's not a good day already. I feel blah - like just need to go home, crawl back into bed, and do nothing. All day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How about I'm sitting here in my office, trying not to cry because I'm so sick of people and their stupidity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm "just" Customer Service at the company I work for (more like my boss's assistant and CS and licensing and whatever else he needs done), but I don't get the same respect or help that "regular" CS does. I look like a fucking jackass when I get asked questions that I can't answer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm "just" Customer Service, but I get left out of training because I may not need it immediately...and then get left out of the fun things as well (dinner with our sales reps that I still talk to).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm "just" Customer Service, so my part of my mobile phone bill isn't paid for, but work can still call me on vacation days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I feel like a whiny baby right now...doesn't help that Auntie Flo is here and I haven't been sleeping well and we're not getting raises (at least until September...meaning not at all) this year, and I'm tired of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So tired...of everything.</span>Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-30477265858035406972013-04-30T08:27:00.000-05:002013-04-30T08:27:17.431-05:00Chubby Cheerleader?<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was perusing Yahoo this morning while waiting on my system to boot up, and the first story I came across was this one:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/sports-blogger-weight-shames-oklahoma-city-thunder-cheerleader-kelsey-williams--180043359.html">Female Blogger Weight-Shames Cheerleader</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Being a former high school and collegiate cheerleader, who was NEVER one of the skinny ones (gotta have bases!), I took immense offense to the hag who wrote the original piece. CBS Houston has taken it down, but I'm diligently searching for it. The Yahoo story was more on the positive side, but I found <a href="http://www.barstoolsports.com/m/boston/super-page/people-are-freaking-out-because-a-chick-did-a-story-asking-if-an-okc-cheerleader-was-too-fat/">one </a>that said that she should "either don't be a professional cheerleader or don't be pudgy." *facepalm*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You know, not everybody likes looking at super skinny girls where you can see ribs more than muscle or hip bones more than boobs. I have both slender/skinny/thin friends, and those who are built more like me (I'm fat, yos). The majority of my guy friends are more interested in a girl who can/will eat, and not just a diet salad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Maybe she enjoys her food, but still works out to maintain a <i>healthy</i> weight. Maybe she's got some water-weight gain from PMS. Maybe she's tried everything to get rid of the softness in her middle, and nothing's worked, so she said "<i>Fuck it. I'm an NBA cheerleader. As long as I can do this, I'll keep doing it, and I'm going to rock the outfit for those guys who prefer softness to hard angles."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I honestly don't know what she said to herself when this story came out. It doesn't matter. She's kicking ass and taking names in the NBA dance world, and she can KEEP rocking it. She's a new hero to girls all over who think that they have to have six-pack abs and huge boobs to do something they love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hell, she's a new hero to ME.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">MsDreamer</span>Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-69167966148954256002013-04-22T09:57:00.000-05:002013-04-22T09:57:56.600-05:00Updates for You!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dreamers, lemme hit you with some updates here!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr Realist got a job!! He's the new Director of Document Retention at a bank near us :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The nice part is, he was doing it at the bank he worked at before he went to the dealership, so it's all stuff he knows how to do! Thank you, thank you, thank you for all of the prayers and good thoughts that you sent our way. Now, to get on with being able to purchase needs -- new stove, new living room furniture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr Realist surprised me with some information on Friday night. We've got an extra paycheck coming in May, and he said that he's going to make it up to me for keeping him on track and mostly out of his depression for the three months that he was unemployed. Now, do I want a pretty necklace or earrings? :) In my defense, he did say he was taking me to a jewelry store.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're rearranging the house. Not just the stuff inside the rooms, but the rooms themselves. See, when you were to walk into my house, you were in the living room. From there, you could walk into the kitchen; left to the bathroom and the spare room; and keep on straight to the master bedroom.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, the spare room is now our bedroom (just big enough for our bed and two dressers); what was the living room is now the front room of crafts/storage/deep freeze; and what was the master bedroom is now the living room -- it's the biggest room in the house. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now...what do do with all my crap! I've taken almost 10 boxes to Salvation Army, and five bags of trash out (papers, misc stuff). I'm slowly organizing my crafts, and we're building a sewing table for me as well. Poor JB -- gonna have to deal with Mum's sewing noise. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How's your days been, Dreamers?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ms D</span>Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-27362421047853552052013-01-31T09:42:00.000-06:002013-01-31T09:42:21.870-06:00Stress...<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yanno, I'm starting to stress out here, just a bit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mr Realist is sick. Again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here's what kills me--he never, ever got sick this many times prior to them putting him on the Metformin for diabetes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm doing some research on metformin and immune system. So far, nothing I've read is good. Seems like it's depleting his B-12 levels, and that's what's causing him to catch colds so damned easily.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If any of you are diabetic and on metformin and are having the same issue, let me know what you're doing about it, please.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">PS--it doesn't help that we're on day 21 of no income for Mr Realist. Hopefully he hears back from unemployment today.</span>Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-74482534962369174372013-01-28T14:23:00.003-06:002013-01-28T14:23:45.032-06:00Yanno...If you were able to read my Baby Daddy post a few weeks ago, feel privileged I've since put it back to drafts - not because I'm ashamed of what I wrote, but for my own piece of mind, I've halted it.<br />
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I do miss my friend, but I miss my pupper nephew more. I want to snuggle with Foofer (not his real name) and have him waller all over me, letting me be the Foofer Whisperer. That dog lurves me.<br />
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I think I'm more hurt that I can't see him than me not being able to see her. The hurt that I can't see Foofer or Rulo hurts way more than not being able to see T.<br />
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Send up a few prayers for us, please. Mr Realist is still unemployed.<br />
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Ms DMs Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037012626199618607.post-683968781542870682013-01-10T11:08:00.002-06:002013-01-10T11:08:50.625-06:00Prayer<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I like to think that God and I have a decent relationship. I may not be a church goer, but I do talk to Him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sometimes on a daily basis, sometimes every couple of weeks or so, and sometimes, it's just to say "I'd like to hear you more."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are some days, like today, where I speak to Him from my heart because I need Him. I need Him to hold my hand and tell me that "I'll help you get through this."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I struggle with life sometimes. Work, bills, things I need to do vs things I want to do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's been a hard week so far, Dreamers. If you could offer up a prayer or some good karma or whatever, I would really appreciate it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ms D.</span>Ms Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140140906016226800noreply@blogger.com0