WOW, did that really happen to me?

SO, this AM I got a text from Beth saying her cars were broken into, IN her driveway! Talk about freaky....BUT it reminded me that I had a similar experience; or rather an even more frightening one.

In 1996, I was car-jacked at gun point in Columbus, OH...while attending college at OSU. It's weird, I must have blocked a huge portion of what happened from my memory, so much that I forgot for a second that it even happened. AND THEN all of a sudden it all comes rushing back to me. That feeling of helplessness when I wanted to literally knock out the person doing it to me. The moment of this could be the end, how have I spent my past years on this earth? (mind you I was only like 20). It's amazing to think it was that long ago, and I can still really remember it like it was yesterday.

Needless to say, there are some nutty people on this earth, you just never know when in your life you may encounter someone who is just not sane. I hate to think you have to live your life sleeping with one eye open, BUT none the less...better to be safe than sorry...

UGH not my usual delightful one, but certainly a life changing event for this girl.

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TERRIBLE TUESDAY

There's nothing like this, this day did, does and always will SUCK!!!!!

"RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS...."

Karen Carpenter said it beautifully..."Rainy days and Mondays always gets me down..". HOWEVER, rainy sundays, when I took the upcoming week off, is a beautiful thing! Just hanging in the apt with the family, what a fantastic thing; due in part to the fact that we rarely get to do out!

Picture this, the apt a TOTAL mess with toys and everything, everyone STILL in their pajamas AND Rio the movie on! SO freaking fun! We are not in a rush to go anywhere or see anyone, literally just doing things around the house, getting organized for our trip to Hershey Park this week, and spending QT time together!

No place I would rather be...although I do have to throw in a workout at some point too! HA!

See yah!
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DO ANNOYING PEOPLE KNOW THEY ARE ANNOYING?

I asked my mom at the ripe old age of 3 one day, "Mommy...do skunks know they smell? And if they don't, why don't their friends tell me that they smell!" SO my thinking is, do annoying people know they are annoying? Like do they know everyone thinks that they are annoying?

I don't know if that's really rhetorical, because I am inclined to say..NO, they have no idea; WHICH by the way makes them even MORE annoying! I guess then do people really have an honest account, on how others feel about that? I mean I feel like I am a pretty good judge of character (def. had some clients that we knew in in our gut, from the get-go where not all with it), but then in the end...editors helped us realize we were in fact right, they were whacked! BUT other than those few unfortunate mis-haps...I would hope everyone has some idea about what others think about them!

In any event, I have had a really ANNOYING day, thank the F__G lord it's FRIDAY!!!!
ENJOY the weekend!!


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HOLY SHIT, THIS ONE MIGHT TAKE THE CAKE!

So, there I am sitting with one of my best girlfriends (Lindsay Huggins), enjoying a nice glass of vino...when some TOTALLY odd woman turns to Lindz and says, "Um excuse me, would you mind taking your umbrella (which by the way was the size of a hand) off the bar? You know you just don't put those kinds of things up there (and mind you she was sitting about 4 seats away from us, so not even REMOTELY close to us). I looked at her, looked at lindsay and her again. Lindsay nicely (for god knows what reason, because obviously lindsay is a 34 year old woman who knows right from wrong) obliged. I then kindly asked the same woman to remove her bag from the bar, because well you know...you just don't do that sort of thing....
REALLY? FOR FUCK SAKE! GET A LIFE!!!

Nuff said!
xoxo
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LIFE AFTER....

I have been FEVERISHLY working on getting all the images, proposal and then some up to par...for my lovely agent to run with it! AND what I have noticed is that, between the business, the 2 kids, the husband and then of course other obligations...I have side-tracked my blog (not intentionally of course). BUT I am back now...to talk more and say less? I don't know whatever that means.

So two kids is a total shit show at times, but others it's just great! I don't think the transition from having 1 kid to 2 kids, hit me NEARLY as hard as 0 kids to 1 kid! I think I anticipated the worst and hoped for the best? There was no way another Aiden would come out of me, so instead I had a mini Brian. The most delicious, laid back, easy going kid...with a little streak from me; kinda perfect! I think the hardest thing is balancing the freaking calendar of events between 2 kids and our own social life. I guess I don't realize how packed it is, until my own mother gives me shit about how we should slow down, blah blah blah. One thing I don't wanna do, is wake up and have the kids fully run my life. This way, if we integrate both, our friends and their kids we too reap the benefits!

Over this past weekend, at a "get-together", there was a group of women sitting discussing birth, pregnancy, etc. and I thought to myself this is why I wrote my book! They all want the same answers, and the ones who don't want to know everything can skip a chapter. But it was in a group (some not related to me in any way), and we live completely different lives, and we have that commonality! Funny thing is, I was sitting there for about a ten min. (some know of this book) and it did not even come up, a resource that is..just reinforces all this time, and energy I am putting into this is worth it!!!

Aight, so that's what I am gonna do...I am going to be more proactive writing in my blog...b/c if I don't, I just look bad! HA

XOXO
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