Qs and As and As and Qs

A couple days ago, I posted a status update on Facebook asking my friends and family to ask me some questions. Yes, I stole this idea from a page that I follow and thought that it was kind of creative. So I jacked it. Because this is the interwebs, and everything is a jacked idea. Even the idea of writing your opinions on a web page is a jacked idea. So I figured it was ok. Well, about 7 of my closest lovelies decided to take time out of their busy lives to ask me a question. Now I shall answer them. But first, THANK YOU to the 7 people that came up with something they'd like to know. You guys rock and I love ya to death! I don't have an order I'm going to answer these in, just random, so read on :)

1. Jose asks me "Why are you so gay? Tell us."
Jose... I'm gay because I was born this way! No really, I'm not actually gay. Well, I guess it really actually depends on which definition of the word GAY you are referring to.  I mean I am happily excited sometimes. And I also induce high spirits when I'm around other people who are equally inducing so I guess you could say I am pretty gay. Thanks for your question :)

2. My Daddy asks me "When am I going to be a Grandpa?"
Daddy, you know the answer to this question. Once again though, I will indulge you. We are not interested in the baby-having just yet. Maybe in the next 2-3 years we will start thinking more about it. We are happy being able to go do our thing, and have the money to do our thing. All that stops when the baby-having starts. Trust me, I wanna be a Mommy, but not until I know I'll be a good one. I'm sure you'll be one of the first to know when it happens though. So I'll let ya know :)

3. My good buddy Freddie asks me to describe my Dream house.
Take a ride with me real quick. Close your eyes.... well scratch that, don't close your eyes, you cant read with your eyes closed. Or maybe you can but your superpowers depress me, as I do not have them, so open your eyes! Ok back to that ride.... Imagine with me... we're riding down a red dirt road in Southeast Texas, trees line the road, we come to a driveway and turn down it, more red dirt... about 2 miles down the driveway we come to a house. This house sits on about 30 acres of beautiful Texas landscape. The house is big, 2 stories, wood siding. Huge wrap around porch lines with furniture for sitting and sippin lemonade and sweet tea on hot summer days. You walk inside and the walls are lined with family pictures. The furniture is all rustic and the décor matches. The living room is huge and spacious with a stone fireplace. The kitchen is next, huge with lots of cabinets. I cant have no one-ass kitchen with no storage space, one thing I wont budge on no matter where we live... I hate... HATE our current kitchen lol. Back to the house... Countertops are white marble. I have a dishwasher, and electric stove, and fridge, and they are all black because for some reason, I love black and white contrast in kitchens... yes, the tile is black and white checker pattern. Next is the Dining room, where there is a big table with lots of chairs. Surprisingly, I haven't put much thought into the dining room, except a big table with lots of chairs. There's a bathroom downstairs but bathrooms don't need description. I imagine the Hubs' Man Cave will be downstairs. That way if anyone goes flying out a window, there is a better chance they wont get dead. Not that that happens a lot, just a 'what if' that I've worked into my dream. Of course he will decorate his man cave, that's not my jurisdiction. Oh and I should mention the floors are all wood, no carpet at all downstairs. We go up the staircase to the first kids room on the right. Not sure the decoration or the color or anything as I don't have kids, and haven't thought that far ahead. There's another bathroom on the left. Down the hall a bit is another kids room. At the end of the hall is our bedroom, the MASTER SUITE!!! I've never had a master suite so this is going to be epic!! We're gonna have a bathroom too, and its gonna have a huge tub and stand alone shower with 2 sinks and a walk in closet big enough to be a room by itself! 

 

 

4. Alicia ask me "Do you have a crush on anyone, and Who?"

First off, Alicia... on top of me getting carded thrice in the past week, you ask me the only question I answered differently every time I was asked when I was a teenager. Now, as not a teenager, I don't really have crushes....on normal people lol. I mean I crush on my Hubby all the time, but I already snatched him up so I'm not sure if that counts. But if we're talking not-so-normal people.... girrrrl get ready!! Jason Aldean, Ryan Gosling, Jason Statham, Norman Reedus, Andrew Lincoln, the fabulous Neil Patrick Harris, Gerard Butler, Seth Macfarlene, Mila Kunis, James Marsters, the guy that plays Dr. Reid on Criminal Minds.... you see this could go on for hours! The only one that I'm ever allowed to have if he comes knocking is Jason Aldean, just like the Hubs can have Olivia Munn if she wants him... we have an agreement :)

 

5. My Mommy and Big Sister Tori ask me "When are coming to visit us?" (or some version of that)

Well guys... I wasn't going to tell you this until I knew for sure if it could and would happen but I really...REEEEAAALLLLY trying to make a road trip west this November. I have to do it at a time when I can take enough time of work to do it, which has to be my birthday and the weekend after it, and maybe that Monday after. Anyways, this road trip would include a night in Reno, then on to SoCal, hopefully a trip to Disneyland, and then the trip back. Tori, I know you live in NorCal... but I don't know we can make the trip up the coast or not.. if I could take more time off work I would, but I should get a vacation week next year so we will see what happens. As I said, I have no idea if this can even become a reality right now. We all know how many trips west I've tried to plan but haven't the funds to do it. Its to the point now that I am on the verge of not meeting 2 of Sam's babies and one of those babies is like 3 already. I miss my family and friends in California, and my Momma and brother in Reno, sooo much, I'm trying to get there I swear. 

 

6. Crisandra asks me "How did you meet your husband and how did you know he was the one?"

I love this question Cris! Any excuse to talk about the way we met!! So funny story, we met in a bar. In Cleveland. Called Buffalo Too. My aunt and I went to this bar all the time, I never found anyone worth keeping around, thankfully of course. I saw Tim as soon as I walked in, he was sitting at the bar by himself. I don't think he really looked at me though, we walked past him to the pool table, and ordered us some drinks. It was a Tuesday night, March 2010, which is weird because we normally didn't go up there on Tuesdays, Thursday was our night. Well after a few games of pool, we went to the corner table behind this couple. We sit down, I start looking for a song to sing because it's karaoke night, and this guy behind me taps me on the shoulder. He introduces himself as Robert and his fiancé Jessica is next to him. He says "Are either of y'all single?" I look at my Aunt and say "Well we both are, but she's a lesbian so good luck with that.." He kinda looks at me weird as if pondering something and then he says "Oh well its not for me, my buddy Tim he's pretty shy and I wanna know if he came and offered to buy ya a beer, would you let him?" I asked him to point him out, and turned to see the guy sitting alone at the bar. I said "Sure". He came over and said "Can I buy you a beer?" I said, "Sure, after I finish this one". It was easy from then on. We had a great time that night. We went our first date the day after. Had our first kiss the day after that. He made me his the day after that. My Aunt told me about a week after that "You're gonna marry that boy, ya know!" And about another week after that, we were sitting at his brother's house, just watching TV. I looked over at him on the couch. I just studied him for a few seconds, and then it hit me. Like a ton of bricks on my heart. It was like there was a GIANT neon arrow over his head blinking and screaming "HE'S RIGHT HERE DUMMY, YOUR SEARCHING IS OVER!!!" Just like that, I knew he would be mine forever and I wouldn't, couldn't have it any other way. 14 months and 2 weeks after that... he made me his wife, and now it's really FOREVER :)

 

 

Well, that's all folks. Thanks for tuning in this time and I hope to see ya back!! I hope the people that had questions got the answers they hoped for. I love y'all, and Good Night!!!

<3

Apocalypse... Now?

Last week was, for lack of a better word, hell. So many things happened, so many lives torn apart in seconds, so many lives lost for no reason at all. The world is crying right now. Cities are broken. If this isn't an apocalypse, I don't know what is. Humans are not capable of love anymore. Traditions that used to matter, don't. There is so much hate in this world, and it's not even reasonable hate, as if there were such a thing. We hate because of the God we choose to believe in. We hate because of the color of skin. We hate because that girl that sits next to you in class is just a little under the 'status quo'. It makes no sense to me anymore. Well, I guess it never made sense to me, I was just ignorant to it. I kept praying that He would open my eyes, and man, He has. My eyes are open in a way that it hurts to look at what they see. Elementary students gunned down in class. Marathon spectators having their limbs blown off. Fertilizer plants leveling half a town. Earthquakes ripping through countries, killing hundreds. Kids ending their own lives because that's easier than going to high school. No, I want to close my eyes. I don't want to see this anymore. I don't want to watch innocent people dying by the hands of monsters and industrial accidents and natural disasters. We find ourselves shaking our fist at the sky and screaming "WHY???" a lot more often these days. We find ourselves holding the hand of a stranger for a moment of silence at the loss of an 8-yr old boy. Martin Richard, taken in the Boston bombings on Monday, 4/15. I saw a picture of him holding a sign, probably at school, and he was smiling, such a bright smile. The sign read "People should stop hurting each other, Peace". He got it. He understood what for some reason others cant.

I've kept quiet this past week, on my Facebook page, to my friends, to the Hubs even, about what has been processing in my brain this week. And now I think I've figured out the jumbled mess. I am scared. I am scared. I AM SCARED! This is happening all around us, and we sit around and think, 'oh it cant happen to us'. Just, the fact of the matter is, it can happen to any of us. West, Texas is a 3 hour drive from my house. Just an hour, give or take, from my family in Eastland and Waxahachie. It could've easily happened to me this past week. Thinking about this makes me feel guilty and grateful at the same time. Guilty that I could be thinking of myself and my family at a time when so many are grieving and reeling from loss. Grateful that I, and my family wasn't involved. It's a torn feeling that I cant say I am a fan of. I'm sure that I am not the only one that feels this way. We just keep telling ourselves that it'll stop, people will realize how stupid the hate is, and all the beauty pageant contestants will one day really get their wish for world peace. I know I wake up every day reassuring myself that God has His gentle hand on my shoulder, and He's guiding me through the darkness. That's how I get out of bed in the morning.

I know this has kinda been a jumbled mess and it probably makes no sense as you're reading it. That's normally how it comes at me while I'm thinking it. I don't know what else I can say about this. My mind and emotions are exhausted from that crazy week. Tonight, I send up a prayer and I hope you'll join me. I've never done this before, and I'm not normally one to push my religion on other people, but I feel like this is what the world needs right now. Maybe my voice wont make a difference, but on the other hand, maybe it will.

Please take a moment of silence.

Heavenly Father, I come to you right now, broken. This craziness... well it's crazy. I don't know what to think of it, and I pray that you guide me through this craziness. I pray you lay your hand upon the families in Boston who bury their lost and visit their injured in hospitals. I pray you guide the prosecutors to Your will. Please, cover the town of West with your love and show them they will overcome. Lord, I pray your new Angels are getting acquainted and are basking in your everlasting light. Lord, I pray you lay your hands on the world, heal us Lord, show us Your will, show us Your light. I pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

Don't forget guys, hug your loved ones tight, tell them I LOVE YOU every chance you get, and don't take the little things for granted. Good night folks, much love <3

Binging...is it a problem? I say NO!

This blog writing stuff is pretty hard. I'm just saying. It takes a lot out of my brain to sit and think of something interesting that you Jokers would enjoy reading. The problem is that I just dont think I'm very interesting. I mean, apparently I am because a good handful of you awesome amazing people have continued to tune in whenever I write one, and believe me that I am sooo greatful that you do. It's a good feeling knowing some people like to check in and see what I have to say. So I just want to give a quick shout out to you my dears and a huge THANKS a bunch and I LOVE the heck outta ya! **big hugs, cheers, and rum all 'round**
 So now that I've gotten all the mushy junk outta the way, on to the actual topic of today's nonsense... binging. It's an epidemic I tell you, and thanks to the interewebs has gotten worse! I bring this topic to your attention because I myself, am a binger. My friends, I admit to you, that I have an addiction....

I'd guess the root of my addiction goes back to 2002 when I moved in with my Mom after a few years with my Dad. Divorce kid here, it blew... anywho... all of my sisters watched "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and I had never really watched it before. They got me hooked on it, and to this day Buffy remains my favorite TV show of all time. I picked it up in like the 2nd to last season, so had missed a whole lot of pertinent information. Since the interwebs were not nearly as advanced then as they are now, I had to slowly but surely acquire all 7 seasons of the amazingness of Joss Whedon's imagination on DVD. I binged, for hours, for days, who knows how long really... watching every episode of that entire series, and would do it again in a heartbeat because that show is just that great lol. I lost hours, getting lost in this TV show, and have noticed that I have done it recently as well. It's back, my addiction to TVSB... Television Show Binging.

 I am currently addicted to 3 TV shows that have me on Hulu or Netflix almost every day of the week. I am also interested in starting other shows, which I have to start from season 1 becuase I cant miss anything. I've previously binged on Grey's Anatomy a few seasons ago. I caught up to where it was on TV, and then they killed Lexi and Mark, my two favortie characters, so I quit watching. Oh sorry if I just gave anything away for you other bingers, I guess I should've said Spoiler Alert. Recently I got re-interested in the happenings at Seattle Grace-Mercy West and needed to catch up. I created a HuluPlus account for this reason alone. One day a few weekends ago, I watched every episode from the episode where Lexi dies until where they are now. And I'm super glad that I did because the show has gotten more awesomer... is that a word? Awesomer.... I dunno but I'm gonna use it anyways. I've caught myself using Hulu even to watch new episodes mainly because Grey's and my other addiction, Nashville, aren't shows Hubs likes to watch, so I just wait an extra day and catch up then.

 Nashville I had watched about 20 minutes of the pilot when it first started. I decided I didnt like it because it was about country music... and I didnt want to pervert my fantasy about what it's like to be a country singer, which has been a dream of mine since I was 4 years old. Anyways, after a day of binging on Grey's, I had run out of episodes but hadn't gotten my fix of TV shows. I was browsing Hulu and decided I'd give Nashville another try. I watched the whole pilot this time, and found myself clicking to the start the 2nd episode as soon as the first was over... I had found a new TV show to binge on. It hasnt been on nearly as long as Grey's and only has 16 episodes so far, but that kept me busy for a whole week after I got off work. Are you beginning to see how binging could cut in on life-time? People, myself included, are losing valuable hours binging on TV shows. Are we just that lazy, or are the TV shows just that good that we cant stop tuning in? Not that I'm complaing of course, as a person with this addiction myself, I am perfectly happy in my cozy binging bubble.

The Walking Dead is one TV show that we watch every single marathon of. Even if we have to sit through the commercials. Hubs is just as crazy about this show as me, so it's something we can do together :) We have seen season one 4 times, season two 3 times, and season three (with the exception of the finale episode) twice... and it's just as good every time. I go into withdrawls every time the show takes a hiatus... which is like 6 months long!!! WHYYYY do they do this to US!!!!!!!! Big jerks. This time is going to be especially bad because I'll be asking myself (spoiler alert) WHERE THE HELL DID THE GOVENOR GO? until freaking October! This was definitely a season where predictions for the next season would be fruitless... I think I'll be suprised no matter what happens. As a person who also binged on the graphic novel of The Walking Dead, I know the show hasn't really followed the book at all. I love both versions, and the only way I'd quit watching The Walking Dead is if they killed off Daryl, Maggie, or Glen... then I'd be pissed and would riot until they were resurrected... it's Hollywood, they can do it.

 In the near future I see myself binging on at least 3 more TV shows thanks to Hulu, and it may even be more because as I've been sitting here typing this, I have thought of 2 or 3 more that I'd like to be immersed in. These include: Sparticus, True Blood, Weeds, How I Met Your Mother, and I'm thinking I'd like to check out Buffy again, even though it will just leave me wishing for Joss Whedon to resurrect the show. My DVD set is in Nevada with my Momma so Hulu will have to do for that as well.

Before you think that all I do is binge on TV shows, let me assure you that I also binge on books. I am a helluva reader and have lost many hours to my own imagination and words on a page also. If the book is good enough I can finish it in a day. My sister Sam could read an entire book in one bath, granted she'd be pruned up by the time she got out, she still finished the book. Maybe she rubbed off on me a little bit. Which books I've binged on is a list entirely too long for this blog but it could end up as a topic in the future.

If you have a suggestion for something I should binge on... TV show, movie, music, or book related (keep it clean pervs :P)... just hit me up with a comment and I'll be sure to check it out.

Now for a bit of shameless plugging.... if you are on Facebook, which I'm sure you are since you are reading this and most likely connected to it through Facebook, you should check out my Jesse's page, HEY FREDDIE!... I also make an appearance on there as well since she was awesome enough to make me an admin. She also has a blog that you should check out too...

Hey Freddie: The Facebook Page
Hey Freddie: The Blog

Well, thats all folks... next week, maybe I will compare 1984's Red Dawn to 2012's Red Dawn... and how Patrick Swayze was a better teenage-militia leader than Chris Hemsworth.... maybe, just maybe...

Later, Lovelies <3