Friday, May 25, 2012

One step wrong

this will be short. i'm in the middle of the season of missing my dad and it sucks. in the middle of that i was blindsided by my job. i'm actively looking for a new job, some local and some near my family, to make sure that come August 1 i'm either gainfully employed full time or able to piece together a few things part time. i'm feeling a little out of sorts of course and it's periodically exciting and terrifying. it was time to leave, that i know, but the way it happened was tacky and is just making me dislike people i used to love and trust. i may or may not be around a lot for a while. i may be around a lot in july lol as i get to work from home but who knows. keep me in your thoughts. and before anyone asks--nope He's still not back.

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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Fun Updates Ha

as everyone knows, He's still gone. We're in a slightly better place but it's not all peaches and cream (i hate peaches too so no idea why i used that phrase). He's been really helpful when i have a question or am stressing out about things. i had to change all of the smoke alarm batteries one weekend and one i had to literally dismantle to get to the battery which He helped with after i sent a picture. He wasn't particularly happy that i turned into a contortionist and kept stacking pillows on a chair to get the ridiculously high one on the living room ceiling. i've mowed the lawn once and it's a pain. i need to get the weed whacker out and do the trim but not until the rain moves out of the area and leaves us alone. also need to get the brakes done at some point. They aren't squeaking but i'm paranoid about stuff like that. Still have no plans to whack off my hair but it's growing and i love it. There's something else i need to take care of before i share it with you and if it goes well yeah for me and you lol. If not it's at least a try. i may start a more vanilla blog at some point but not sure on that yet either. anyway in the mean time work on this. Had a long, continuing through several periods of waking up dream that i was dating Justin Timberlake and he was adorable.

k i'm out, have to hide from a storm
red

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Friday, March 23, 2012

oh my own, this isn't how it was supposed to end..

sorry when i typed in the title i started singing. we haven't split up, i just like the song. i'm by myself because someone is still gone and mom left on Tuesday quite unexpectedly to head to my brother's place. so it's just been me and a rainy week. my hair hasn't appreciated it in the slightest. trying to decide if i am going to take my hairdresser's advice and start transitioning to natural. i CANNOT whack it all off. it's taken too long to grow it out in the first place and keep it healthy so can't negate all that progress and hope for the best. i really don't have much to say lol, was just stopping in when i had a moment instead of forgetting about it like i normally do. how is everyone? heck i don't even know if anyone is reading this anymore. ahh well, see ya later.

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Sunday, March 11, 2012

once a month, could be worse

i haven't had much in the way of updates. more of a dilemma really. still trying to get mom out to visit my adorable nieces before i'm branded the worst sister ever but damn flights have gotten INSANE in the last few months. nothing much to update with Him. we aren't talking regularly and when we do it's hard not to fight. He doesn't want us to split up and is convinced He'll be back. He's been gone since the end of November and with the exception of a skype call we haven't seen each other at all since. His plans are still stalled and i'm about eight shades past fed up. years of waiting for RS and now Him has me at the end of my romantic rope. and then i saw something that just irked my nerves lol. i was ready to move forward with the book stuff and i hear that Paypal is nixing any indy booksellers that carry adult content they deem inappropriate which would definitely include my stories. frustrated a bit. any ideas?

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Saturday, February 04, 2012

wow shame on me again

not a whole lot to say. life is busy but not. i'm enjoying certain aspects but not others. and i'm a few days away from maybe starting on getting the book into print so that any of you folks that are still reading this blog can get all of the stories into your hands, including the four missing ones from the remainder of the alphabet. i keep debating whether to let this go dark or try to reinvigorate my love for blogging and the lifestyle. i'm sure i've mentioned it before but life is quite vanilla when we are together and this begins month four of Him being gone. there was some hope that He'd be back next month but with news that His grandfather is very very ill i just don't see it happening. definitely not next month if at all. none of the things He went down there for have happened and i'll be honest my patience is gone with them being resolved anytime soon. it's not His fault anymore than it was Roaming Soldiers. well technically the relationship status was pushed to where it was/is in both cases because of them. RS made a decision that we both knew could mean he could be MIA and that came to pass. His very developed sense of loyalty means that those in need, especially His family, come first. and while i may be a want, i don't need Him in the same way they do. sucks for me, and for Him, because it just makes me think there's never going to be a time when i'm always first. it's hard to be in a relationship when you don't think you'll ever be the number one priority. it's nearly impossible.

on another note i am taking care of myself still. have completely cut juice out of my diet. drinking crystal light flavored water in place of all of that. i've gotten rid of a lot of fatty snacks and have substituted them with healthy quick meals and a blend of nuts that i based on the planters nut-rition energy mix. i need to get back to the workout routine but i'm walking a lot more and tracking my steps with an app on my phone. need to increase my sleep but that is a pipe dream lol. i miss the sense of community that i used to have here in the blogosphere. but a rudderless sub isn't good company. back to watching mr. and mrs. smith.

red

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Friday, November 25, 2011

Okay so dilemmas

Not really dilemmas, i'm just trying to decide what to do with this blog. Our relationship is awfully vanilla and He's not here. i'm still working on getting the book published but i'm sure you would hear about that eventually blog or no blog. Might be harder to pass it on but you all like your smut lol and you're clamoring over those last four stories. i hate coming here just to vent cause that doesn't seem fair to anyone reading. and i kinda wanna do a retro vintage housewife thing if i could EVER actually become a housewife. ok i really don't want that, i'd shoot myself eventually. i've been home for the last two days and i'm thinking damn i have crap to do save mow the lawn and i'm still not in a rush to do that. i should work out but that doesn't seem fun right now either lol.



This is the duck i made for dinner, was delicious but now i don't want it anymore lol. i woke up not wanting anything i cooked yesterday. But i kinda wanna share stuff like that too. How my weight loss is going, my healthy hair journey and the like with photos of yours truly as i move from one phase to the next but that would be breaking a long standing tradition here because of the prior content and current profession and private life. ahh well i'll keep thinking on it. hope everyone had a great holiday and a good time shopping if you went out today.

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Monday, November 21, 2011

By Leaps & Bounds

i'm not superman but my brain has taken flight this evening. i hate Mondays, i tend to feel the worst getting my body geared up on Mondays. Hasn't mattered what is happening the days after or the days before me and Mondays fight. Today was no different, i felt funky last night, felt like crap this morning and almost didn't make it to my office but i had crisis coverage so like normal i drug my pain riddled butt to the office. for the most part it was a mild mannered day. one crisis, justified totally in coming in and it wasn't very long. i was looking for something that sounded kinda stupid and that led on my random train of thought phase and led to me looking up emp to see if he was still blogging or if his site was still up. to some degree it is, much like this one, even though i'll say i stop in more and to me ramble less but that is really off tangent. i scrolled through a few posts was simultaneously pleased and disappointed that i didn't seem to be mentioned and that led to me wondering when exactly he came into my world and when all that stuff imploded. The implosion appears to have been in early 2006 which means he arrived the year before which is really hard to even remember now but what can ya do. We don't always remember relationships in detail, just what can go terribly terribly wrong.

i know it was early 2006 because that's when the emails between Roaming Soldier and myself began. Not immediately but within a few months. And from early 2006 until late 2008, He had my attention and my heart. i had the same to a point but the situation being what it was He wasn't totally available in a different way than emp chose to be. Nevertheless, and without the same kind of trauma, that ended too.

Daddy had been waiting sort of for me to decide what i was going to do with RS and we started dating after that came to an end. Nearly three years later and He's still in my life but He's not here right now. He's away and we don't have a remote return date in mind. i've been going back and forth with feeling okay about that to wanting to punch Him in the head for making me wait for all of this to resolve itself. But then something came to me today as an old man, old white gentleman to be precise, aggressively hit on me as i was trying to grab some groceries and get home. i'm shopping alone and going home alone because i have perpetually chosen to wait for men to find me worthy. Does the title make more sense now? i know it's not a leap that is completely realistic but it's how i was FEELING at the time--still am. i'm single, by all legal definitions, and childless because i keep waiting for them to say that they love me and are never going to leave me. i want to be chosen in a different way than i have been thus far and i keep waiting.

And today that waiting and that aggressive old man who i think will likely be stalking me for a few weeks just pissed me off. It was made worse by Him not picking up when i called because to me, and again when you're mad you're not being totally rational, but when He calls--unless i CAN'T take the call, i always pick up. And there are very few times i can't take the call. i'm irritated. i'm cranky, lonely, and feeling quite stupid right now. Do i want the attention of a random old man? Of course not, but it would be nice to get some undivided attention and feel like the waiting wasn't pointless. Because let's face it two of the three mentioned are in the wind and i haven't heard from either in Lord only knows when.

He's gonna say i'm being unfair and i probably am. i'll cop to it, i probably am being unfair but i'm tired and i'm as i mentioned before PISSED. i just want to cuddle and complain about my ankles swelling while i cut Him the evil eye and tell my mother to go to hell if she keeps fucking with AC. i'm really tired.

on a positive note, i got a KitchenAid mixer for a fantastic deal, used it, love it and also managed to find just a gallon of peanut oil which is usually enough to fill the counter top fryer so fried turkey breast and duck it is for me. and me alone since no one is here with me.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

red is green

well i'm not blue at this stage. i'm not bright and sunny yellow but i'm feeling a lot better than i did when i wrote the post yesterday. we had a long talk and still not thrilled but sorta like the last time He left, a wave of this is just where we are hit me last night as we talked. we slept pretty well and had a decent "i'll see ya later" this morning--He doesn't like saying good bye in these situations lol. i managed to make it through the day with minimal tears--just a smidgen when i was walking to the car this morning to head to work. it's hard being in bed by myself don't get me wrong, but He did His best to reassure me that things would be okay. and i came home to find a present in bed. Daddy Bear is laying on His side of the bed. He doesn't give off heat and he can't hug but it's a cute gesture all the same. i'm going to try to nurture the bit of hope and faith that exists in my body and reinforce our home on this end and try to wait patiently for His return. as for now, gotta decide if i'm gonna sit under the dryer or hope my hair is dry in the morning. i hate the dryer so i'm probably just gonna pray about it and hope i don't have to flat iron in the morning. i didn't want to lose the routine just because i'm a little upset so i should go work out a bit before i get in bed too. see ya all later

red

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

red is blue

i've been trying not to come here and vent for the last few months. Because while some things are going great other things, the most important things to me, feel like crap. i've been doing a lot more to take care of myself and i can say that is because of His urging to some degree. i'm on regular vitamins, i've cut out a lot of the juice i consumed in favor of crystal light and fruitables (if you haven't had any, check them out, they are great), i've been more active with my workouts and i've taken a more genuine interest in taking care of my hair. that may sound silly but it's hard to make it healthy and grow if you are ignoring it all the damn time. since the last time i wrote, it's starting to thicken back up and is growing, bouncy and shiny--when i'm on my routine. it's not as shiny when i'm not lol but it's still bouncy and growing. on that front i'm in a good place but it's all been just covering up the explosion i must have been sitting on emotionally.

He's leaving again. Tomorrow morning, He's taking some unknown to me as of yet amount of His things with Him and is heading to where His ex is. Why you may ask? Are things with us on the outs? Not really, up until a few weeks ago even though this was a possibility we were doing pretty well. Enjoying the house to ourselves because mom is gone, cooking and hanging out together--good times. Even had a class planned to take together that He will now not be here for. if i go, it will be solo and right now i just really don't want to go at all. but due to something she initiated years ago the timeline got screwed up on His plan and due to her increasingly ill health and inability to do what He wants done with His kids, He's leaving our house again. This time for who knows how long. He has stressed to me though that He plans to return and i should just have faith in that plan. however, plans when it comes to her are never easily completed and i am tired of waiting for the issues with her to be resolved. it makes me sound cold, it makes me feel that way but i don't like her or the perpetual things we've had to put on hold because of her. He says i'm fixated on her and truthfully i don't think about her as much as i can but when this keeps happening it's hard not to look at what i see to be the truth in the situation and that all of our separations are because of her inability to be a grown up. He leaves to take care of the kids but it's because she can't/won't. He left to help her move because her family sucks and wouldn't.

if i am lucky He'll be back in six months. i don't anticipate being lucky. i anticipate this dragging on and me laying in what used to be our bed that i'm in alone wondering how much longer i can hold on. i anticipate hurting and i anticipate being angry that yet again our life is moving in slow motion. i want to be super supportive girl but she's pissed off too. how do you support something that is so fundamentally causing you distress? if someone knows feel free to share.

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