Rides at theme parks

I went to the place where my husband stays and he took me and my daughter to a theme park. We had a good time in the water and then the problem started. My husband and my daughter wanted to go in the rides. I am terrified of going in the rides, but I did not want to disappoint my daughter, so I got into the big swing. The minute it started, I knew it was a big mistake. The ten minutes it went on was the worst of my life. I had to try very very hard not to throw up and all the time my eyes were closed and my heart was in my mouth. I was still shaking for a very long time after I got down. I know I will never ever get into a ride again.



I know most of them find it exciting and exhilarating. But for me, it was terrible. How about you?

My husband is the only attractive man on the planet to me!

I've felt this way about him since the moment I first saw him over five years ago. People keep telling me things will change, that we will soon be tired of being near each other 24/7, that you'll long to look at a different face...then why do we only seem to grow closer together?



We do still kiss with our eyes closed, unless it's a peck. We're so in love that not only do I get excited once he's home from work, but I get super excited when he calls me from work less than a half hour after he leaves the house. I find myself so much more comfortable with everything in life when he's around. Sure, I have hobbies, I have friends...but none of it matters as much as one day with him does.



Quite honestly, I feel awful for those people who feel as if their spouse isn't enough to make them content. I know how it feels for my spouse to mean the world and beyond to me, and it is beautiful! That's why I spent four years engaged to him, keeping things realistic and preparing for the rest of our lives, rather than rushing through like most. If the rest of the world disappeared and just left us, that would be A-OK for me.

After being with your partner for many years and after finding out more about him/her, do you still find your spouse attractive?

Being different

I had always been the odd one in the family and have done things which got me into trouble many a times. While all my sisters and brothers and cousins are working and earning their living, I gave up a lot of good offers and decided to be a housewife. I am still looked down for that. And my thoughts and actions are so different from my family's that I sometimes get the feeling that they just tolerate me for the sake of family unity. It becomes worse when you are not successful in life-like you don't have a job or don't earn big money and don't have fancy degrees after your name. I do have a masters in commerce but all the others are engineers or mba-s or doctors. I was the first to take commerce in my family and even though i got very good marks, in fact better than the others, it is not considered good enough. How do you deal with that?

New addition to the family

Today we went to town for me to pick up my fair entries, drop off paperwork at the college and take care of other errands including scheduling PT for my leg and back. Our last stop was at the grocery store for a few food items.

I had been considering a puppy for quite awhile. Monica and Little Bit are really great at lying around and doing nothing, which isn't good for Dachshunds. I thought about a toy Chihuahua which could be easily carried around. Someone had other ideas for me.

We came out of the grocery store and standing there was a young woman holding a Dachshund puppy. Bill pointed her out to me, so I had to go over and see the puppy. It turned out that she was giving away the poor little boy. So guess what soft hearted (or is that headed?) person immediately collected the puppy. Yes, good ole Loverbear. He is a sweet little boy, and there isn't anything that has frightened him yet. He has met all the family members and none of them phased him in the least bit. I figured that Abby would scare the daylights out of the tiny guy, but he went right up to her and touched noses to say hello.

I was even more amazed when I decided to stop on the drive home and take him for a walk. I had some cord in the back of the car and made a collar out of one end and the rest was the leash. He padded along with no problems, he didn't even balk at my walking him back and forth...and he didn't get frightened when vehicles drove by us. He slept in my lap during the rest of the drive home.

Now, I am trying to figure out what to name him. It's going to take a couple of days to figure out the name for the new family member, and even longer for Bill to quit kicking himself for pointing out the little guy and to accept that I grabbed him in a heart beat. The only problem now is his mouth. He is busily letting the world know that he isn't happy being in the pen with Monica and Little Bit. They are just sitting there watching him whine. I'm fairly sure that will stop when I turn off the lights and go to bed.

Okay, how about some name suggestions! I don't want the usual names for dogs...

I was so surprised today!

When I went into my garden. The garden is edged by rose bushes, some of them are about 20 years old and very well established. Some of them were lost last year due to some hard freezing. I had gone into the back yard last month and did the weed eating (some of the weeds were four feet tall!). In among the weeds was one of the rose bushes trying hard to start over. It was one tiny little shoot that was about 6 inches tall. I was so proud of the bush for trying to come up again. As I worked my way through the weeds I tried hard to remember to be careful around the little shoot, but I was getting tired and my bad leg was getting very weak. Suddenly I toppled over and accidentally weed ate the little shoot. I was crushed and felt really bad about the little shoot and my cutting it off.

Today I was fertilizing the garden and happened to look at the fence where I had chopped down the shoot...and I was so surprised to see that another shoot had grown in its place. Even through adversity the rose bush was determined to grow again. It made me stop and re-assess my life and what I was doing with it. Even when I am hurting so badly and feeling sorry for myself, I need to look at the tenacity of that rose bush and keep going.

How about you? Do you have things happen to remind you that you need to keep going?

Not Getting Enough Sleep

Let me start with the fact that I have trouble sleeping. Not going to sleep, but staying asleep.

Now, lets not jump in with quick suggestions, because tonight had a really annoying reason for being awaken at 12:30.

We went to bed early, because the last few nights we have been not getting enough sleep for various reasons, so I was already about 4 hours into my sleep cycle and a time I often awaken anyway.

But I couldn't figure out why I was awake.

Then, there was the sound of a helicopter and/or small plane that gradually got louder. It got louder and louder, then softer again until I couldn't hear it.

Then it came back.

And it came back.

hummm... that helicopter is circling, and that means its the police looking for someone.

I got up and looked out the window, sure enough, helicopter with lights.

Now, we leave the back door unlocked because normally the dogs are back there and one of them bites, but she's inside at night because she also barks.

I went to the back door and locked it, and turned on the back light. I then went and turned on the front light - just to kind of help the police see that there wasn't anyone on the porch if they drove by (too many leaves on the trees still to see from the helicopter.)

Well, the helicopter continued to circle and some IDIOT on the street car alarm kept going off.

so, you've got helicopter/car alarm, helicopter/car alarm, helicopter/car alarm, etc., etc., etc.

Bad enough once, but why does he keep resetting the darn thing when he knows its going to go off again?

Finally, the helicopter went away (I still hear it in the far distance) but the car alarm isn't being set off any more.

Now, I appreciate the police looking for criminals, but IF you have a car alarm going off every 5 minutes, why bother resetting it until the thing setting it off goes away?

We have the same problem during thunder storms!

so, here it is at 3 a.m., I'm up and annoyed and jerk with car alarm is probably happily sleeping and I hope jerk criminal either spent the night in a cold wet ditch or cuffed in the back of a cop cruiser...

Two of my favorite passions (beside my family) photography and creating wearable-art.

Cobalt Blue Sea Glass Necklace

Yesterday, I responded to a thread in the craft section and one of the FUROM members mentioned that she used to enjoy making and selling crafts, until "life happened" and she got away from doing it.

I have a similar story, both about crafts and life happening...

I used to work at a boutique, where I decorated shirts and sweat shirts and sold them to the tourists. I also made beach-type jewelry that we sold in the boutique. Stuff happened and the owner was forced to give up the boutique and I was forced to find a "real" job. Shortly after, I had my first child and crafting was pushed to the backburner. Life Happened and my crafting, which I really loved to do, was the loser. There was no time for it any longer, as the need for a real 40 hour a week job and my newborn son commanded every moment of my day.

Fast forward about a decade and I found myself knitting scarves for family members as Xmas presents, found people I work with wanting to buy scarves from me and I "got the crafting bug" again.

Since my situation is somewhat different, both of our sons are a bit older and my hubby is very involved in their activities, I found I had the time and energy to go back to crafting and creating.

It's something I really love doing, and while I do sell my creations, it isn't hardly enough to pay all the bills, but it does pay some of them and I'm having a blast creating again. I'm so happy to have the chance to get back to what I loved doing so much!!So, who else had to put something on the backburner because "life happened" and how many have been able to persue their passion once their lives settled down??