Been A While...

OK.  This sucker is probably gonna be long as hell...but I guess that's what I get for not posting in FO-EVA!!!

**Quick thought: it's been a while since I saw Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland...I should probably watch it again.**

As y'all know, I started school back in January. That is part of the reason, but not entirely, why I have been absent. I wrote two papers and they kinda kicked my butt a little. I got a 70% on the first one...Yeah. Not good. It was the first paper I had written since 2000 so I wasn't ENTIRELY surprised. I like to think of myself as a decent writer. That is, when the subject matter interests me. If it doesn't well...I'm kinda screwed on enthusiasm. LOL  Anyway, we turned in our second of two research papers and took our mid-term exam last Wednesday. I should have studied more for that exam and hope I did decent. This course has been an eye opener for me. A wake up call. "Hey, ass! Wake up and get your shit together and be serious!"  Yeah. Moving on.

In my last post, I mentioned something about The Monkey Chronicles. I LOVE that name but I think I've decided to continue my anonymity. And I don't know that I want to plaster my son's face all over the Internet (nothing against those that do). It's just a choice that I have made in order to keep from people, namely predators, from messing with my child. I like the free world and don't think that prison orange would make my already blotchy skin look any better. So, I ask you. Are we happy with Finding Gracie?  Maybe if I just put a tab up top that was for the Monkey Chronicles...I think I like that idea.

I hate not writing. I always have so much to say, but on the other hand, I'm an emotional writer. I write when my mind is right and fairly clear. If I'm burdened or deeply affected by something, often times I won't write about it until after the fact and then it's almost a moot point to write about it at all... I miss the blogosphere sometimes when I'm rutted like that. I'll try to be better at it...and now that I say that, I wonder how many times I've said it before. LMAO

I want y'all to know that one of my very best friends is also a blogger. (She's way better at posting daily too...) But recently, she has been doing some really cool give-a-ways.  You should check her out over at Mrs. Adventure...she'd love to have you!



I didn't make this but it's cool anyway.



Work sucks. I just needed to go ahead and say that out loud. I work with a bunch of children. My girlfriend across the hall way though, Miss Foof (short for "foo foo"--she's a tad more girly than I am) is truly my grip on sanity when these idiots start their crap. The midget was the one to start the drama last week. Or she is the best that we can narrow it down to. She's stupid, slow and just a whole lot of lazy and can't stand it when I'm done with my work and have more time on my hands to I dunno...blog maybe.  So, she started some shit that involved the big boss, an employee meeting, and references to me and the other chick we have in here.  I did not take lightly the personal attack she made on my work performance. I work, and I work quickly and efficiently. It's not MY fault she gets behind in her work because she's off being a social butterfly. (She's the first to put your business on the street too... Word to the wise...) Never before had I wanted to donkey-stomp a midget before that day... But you live and learn. I don't even look in her direction anymore. She doesn't deserve my time. She's a waste of space in here if you ask me.  Whiny midgets are the worst...



This isn't him but it's equally as bad if not worse



Speaking of work...I miss my office with a door on it. A door that I could close and shut everyone else out and not have to listen to all their problems and family drama. I don't mind if it's someone I actually care about. Miss T and Miss Foof are about the only ones I care to listen to up here. Every one else can just keep their crap to themselves as far as I'm concerned. I hate to sound all mean and hateful about it but I'm one of those people who gets all wrapped up in other people's lives and to hear about stresses just makes me stress. So a while ago I decided that I don't care to hear about everyone else's troubles. I've got enough of my own with my friends and family.   And I could slap these other two women in here who ask about how their lives are going...I can't shut the door on it because I DON'T HAVE ONE!!!!!  Grr.  So, one of my bosses is a short, rooooouuuuuuunnnddd, but not small man. Today, he is wearing his usual jeans with suspenders. Yes. I said suspenders. And a shirt that I could swear he stole right out of Monkey's closet. It is about 3 sizes too small. Wanna know how I know it's too small? I'll tell you. I can see the last quarter of his beer-keg of a belly sticking out from underneath it because it's too short to cover the damn thing. It's awful. My husband would not leave the house looking like that much less own a shirt to tempt him with doing so. Oh hell no.  Again, Miss Foof is my sanity.   She and I were talking earlier about how we really weren't sure how to take/read the other when we first met. Now? She-yit.  We're thick as theives now. LOL  It's nice to add her to my trusted friends list because she's real down to Earth and has a good head on her shoulders. I can talk to her about anything and everything and she doesn't judge me or act afool. It's a good thing. She'll be added to the "ALIAS" list when I can get around to it. She's a keeper.

Monkey turns 2 on Thursday. I'm kind of excited about that!  That means that I've been a good mother, well, good enough mother to keep him alive for two years. LOL  Sometimes I've wondered why he doesn't hate me for having to swat his butt or tell him "No" all the time but maybe I'm doing something right because he sure does always have a big smile ready for me when I go to pick him up from daycare. (Usually followed by a world class, junkyard, hissy fit tantrum...but hey. The smile came first. LOL)

I'm pretty sure you're wondering about the love life aspect as I haven't touched it yet.  Something worth mention has in fact happened. A week old recent event kinda has me guessing what's next but in a good way.

Last Tuesday I received a match so I logged in and looked at it. Now, mind you, I'm getting 8-15 of these things a day right now and sometimes they just don't catch my interest or I find something in their profile that doesn't quite sound good to me, etc. This one definitely caught my attention. His name isn't what caught my attention. His picture did. He looked very familiar and with the location he had listed, it was entirely possible that he was the same guy that a mutual friend had introduced me to several months before I left for the Marine Corps in 2002.  He and I had become friends back then and would have almost undoubtedly started dating had I not left for Boot Camp.  We lost touch after I left and I hadn't talked to him since.  So I sent this guy the initial 5 questions. And then thought better of it and skipped right to the email part and sent him an email. Basically, I asked him if his last name was what this guy's last name was that I'd known way back when and told him that I wasn't stalkerific but wanted to know because if it was him, we had a lot of catching up to do.

While I was gone, and it had been 9 years since I'd last spoken to him, I had every now and then tried to look him up. I usually didn't have much luck but one time I did find him on Facebook. I think at the time he was married so I didn't contact him at all. I didn't want to be "that chick" who resurfaces and butts into their life. I wouldn't want some woman doing that to me.  So I left it alone.   A few hours later, I received an email back and it said that he was in fact that same person and that *shocker* he had been looking for me for 9 years. (that's a really long effin time to look for someone) So, bam, Mr. History is born. (I promise to think up a better name as one brings itself to light. LOL)  Mr. History came down yesterday (he lives an hour north of me) to our family BBQ and really just kind of...fit right in if I had to be honest. It was like we'd all done that before and he had been to many of them. He told me later that it felt like a 9 year absence had never taken place and that it felt like it was just yesterday that we had seen each other.  I felt the same way. We are currently in the process of making plans for Saturday of this week.  No hurry. No plans for anything major. But it's nice to have him around again. LOL   I'll keep y'all updated.

Anyway. I am going to whip out my Nook and get some reading in. Currently it's:

Gracie