Mikala167

Vox Hunt: My Favorite Spring Flower

Show us your favorite spring bloom.

Chivalry-iris

QotD: One Hour to Live.

One hour to live. What do you do?
Submitted by Jeff Zie.

Call everyone in the world that i care about and tell them how I really feel about them. Have sex with my girlfriend. Go skydiving.

I love having adult friends.

Last night I had a get together with all my "bowling buddies" at my house. There were a good amount of people here.  I was a crazy person all day yesterday because of it. I really thought my house was just too small to have everyone but felt compelled to invite everyone.. so I figured it was a nice night, if we need to spill over onto the deck outside, so be it. Turns out it wasn't nearly as crowded as I thought, and I think everyone had a good time, I definitely did!  I love having people over my house :)~

So, I woke up this morning and noticed some MAJOR differences between last night's party and the usual parties I have (including family parties).  I've been throwing parties since i was a teenager and usually, when i wake up the next day, that entire day is spent cleaning up the epic mess we made the night before.  I also would wake up to a days-out-of-my-life-sucking hangover. However, I got up this morning and my house is CLEAN! Every empty bottle except for two were neatly lined up on my counter near the sink. Tables and floors were not covered in crumbs and sticky spilled drinks. Nothing was broken. There weren't ashes everywhere from people smoking. In fact, it almost looks like I never even had a party at all! It's amazing! I love that!! Oh, and i was very good with drinking last night.. I was forced into a couple of Fireball Whiskey shots, but I drank my spritzers (light cranberry and sprite zero) all night. Peed like a racehorse every 5 minutes, but shit, Im not hungover at all today! Katie and I had already been out and back this morning! We left the house at like 9.  That's unheard of on a Saturday morning after a party.

Now, I'm not saying that the other parties I've had in the past that I did need to clean up after weren't fun, or worth it, they totally were!   And I know that I will be having lots more of those as well. I'm also not saying that those friends are not adults... you guys know what I mean here.  It's just really nice to be able to wake up and not have a day already wasted with cleaning and feeling like shite.

In sum... in sum? Writing 101. Always use transition words.

To conclude, I'm just glad that I can have a party where I can have lots of fun without having to worry about the mess in the morning. It def was my first. Now I have the whole day! YAY! 

QotD: What never fails to make you laugh?

What never fails to make you laugh?
Submitted by BeautifullyBroken.

ummm this post...

and 

17 the come hither look on our twin bads pushed together to make a king

  katie! hahah so dumb.

Traumatized.

This morning, I was driving to work, stuck in traffic, as usual.  I was in the left lane on I95 and the only thing between the northbound and southbound side are those cement barriers. So being in the left lane, I am the lane closest to the other side of the highway.

Well, I was driving along and all of a sudden I see a black thing get hit by a car on the other side of the barrier, fly up in the air in an arc and land directly in front of my car. I wasn't going very fast so I could see what it was and it was a Robin.  It was hit on the other side by a car going the opposite way, bounced off that car and landed right in front of my car.

Of all people, why me? Why my car?

I immediately let out a startled gasp with my hand over my mouth in astonishment that it actually just happened, and then that astonishment turned into distress and grief for the poor thing.  If it wasn't dead already from the hit, it would be in minutes from a car running it over. I burst into tears in my car. Its all I have been thinking about all morning. I wish there was something i could have done to help it. I hope it's not a sign.

Already starting to miss it.

yesterday, I was on the phone with my boss. She was thanking me for the Mother's day gift I made with the kids for her. She really liked it. She couldn't stop saying how great it was and how much she loved it. Then, I started to thank her for the letter of recommendation she drew up for me. There were a lot of nice things about me in there that she wrote and it made me teary-eyed.  From that stemmed how much they are going to miss me, and how much the kids are going to miss me. That made it worse. I started to say things like "well, kids their age are very resilient when it comes to different caregivers" and my boss would rebut with "well alyssa always talks about you on the weekend about how 'Mimi says naps are good' or 'Mimi says no means no' and where are we going to find someone else like you".  That just breaks my heart. 

I know i complain about how my bosses are crazy... they are... but they are nice people. They have always treated me well. They are never difficult about requests for days off or if I need a week's pay up front to pay bills on time. They're very fair (even though it takes 7 conversations to make them understand something I'm saying, once we get there, they're very fair).  They always have birthday and christmas presents for me.  They're good people.

These kids.

It's going to kill me when i have to say good bye to Alyssa. I'm starting to well-up right now just thinking about it. God I hope I don't get my period for this event.  She makes my day, everyday, and it's going to be hard to not have that in my life anymore.  I love her like I would love one of my own kids.  She is very special and it's going to be tough to walk away from her knowing I won't be the one to cuddle with her on the couch or push her on her ladybug swing. I dont even know why im doing this to myself right now. I just am in one of those moods today... It's really starting to hit me that I wont be here and I'm just really sad about it today.

Im just going to stop here for now. :(

 

Tagged.

So apparently im bound by law to do this.  "The idea is to take a picture of yourself right now, no touch ups, no primping, no changing clothes, and post it before you can change your mind!" Direct quote from Tina's blog.

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here I am in all my tie-dyed glory! Chillin on the couch on the computer.

If you've read this, TAG! you're it!

QotD: Won't You Be My Neighbor?

What makes you a good (or bad) neighbor?

Well, I am an extremely good neighbor in that I don't bother other people and Katie and I are rarely loud. We have an occasional party, but it's always on the weekends and I always try to keep it down to a low roar.

However, I am a bad neighbor in that I have dogs and i dont give one fuck if they are barking.  They are dogs. dogs bark. But I am respectful about it. they're never out past 10PM barking or whatever. But if its a nice day out on a saturday and i put them outside and they're barking... TOUGH SHIT.  I have an old lady that lives 2 houses down from me and she has started to yell across the yards to us saying shit like "C'mon now, this is ridiculous! Put those dogs inside", and it's like during the day on a sunday or at like 6PM when we first get home. Listen lady, just because you go to bed at 5PM doesnt mean the rest of the world stops at 5PM. My dogs need to pee and poop. And I'd rather they do it outside.

Anyways.. for the most part I'm an awesome neighbor.. I guess just not to bitchy old ladies. :)

QotD: Bad Habits

What's your worst habit?

Food

eating. look at my face in this picture. Get the fuck out of here with that camera so i can eat all this food quickly and i can go up for seconds before its all gone. Christ.

what is that 3 chins I count? Its a good thing I'm doing something about it!

Vox Hunt: Morning Music

Share a song that you like to wake up to.

I actually dont like to wake up to any song... I find that if i do that, that song is permanently ingrained into my brain as a negative thing.  Waking up = Negative. Song that woke me up = BAD SONG. For example... I have a few songs that are good songs, but they had been on the radio when i was waking up as a child for school and now i can't listen to them without feeling like I was waking up for school and anxious and scheming a way to stay home from school. One of them is a Duran Duran song called "Ordinary World". I woke up to that song a lot for some reason. Stupid radio stations playing the same songs at the same f'ing time in the morning. I remember i woke up to that song and threw a huge fit and started crying that I missed my Dad (living with just my mom at the time) and wanted my mom and dad to get back together. I then tried to use that as an excuse to stay home and my mom wasn't buying it. I went to school that day.

  Another song is "I love your smile" by Shanice. To this day, I can't listen to that song without feeling anxious. So weird how the mind makes those kinds of connections.