tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251Sat, 26 May 2012 01:46:39 +0000sillycookie peddlingsugasmquizzesstressnewsfeel grossDaddydead kittiesrandomgenerationgapvideoskinky book tourstateoftheworldlife is goodventhoneymoonsappyRachel Kramer Busseldreamsalphabet gamelife is so sointrospectivelife not goodfamilygardeningbdsmupdatesmuthttp://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/noreply@blogger.com (red velvet)Blogger569125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-6769119628340110991Sat, 26 May 2012 01:46:00 +00002012-05-25T20:46:39.713-05:00this 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 http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2012/05/one-step-wrong.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-3143887457007144178Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:31:00 +00002012-04-15T10:43:16.439-05:00dreamsrandomlife is goodupdateas 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 http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2012/04/fun-updates-ha.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-3490505578316919662Sat, 24 Mar 2012 01:30:00 +00002012-03-23T20:33:35.443-05:00randomupdatelife is so sosorry 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 http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2012/03/oh-my-own-this-isnt-how-it-was-supposed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-8932898755990382332Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:29:00 +00002012-03-11T21:38:26.504-05:00i 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 http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2012/03/once-month-could-be-worse.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-3680123190448391627Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:21:00 +00002012-02-04T18:33:43.128-06:00updatelife is so sonot 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 http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2012/02/wow-shame-on-me-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-7322119025088343421Sat, 26 Nov 2011 03:03:00 +00002011-11-25T21:18:18.738-06:00randomlife is goodupdateNot 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 http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2011/11/okay-so-dilemmas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-5623522928764115769Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:56:00 +00002011-11-21T19:06:02.415-06:00ventintrospectivelife not goodstressfeel grossi'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 myhttp://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2011/11/by-leaps-bounds.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-4942361051030834235Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:31:00 +00002011-10-26T21:06:52.405-05:00updatelife is so sowell 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 http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2011/10/red-is-green.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-7955612206991541758Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:21:00 +00002011-10-25T09:37:59.870-05:00ventlife not goodstressupdatei'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 http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2011/10/red-is-blue.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-4093650070711394481Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:52:00 +00002011-07-28T10:10:20.906-05:00randomnewsstateoftheworldstressupdatefamilyi'm sitting here and i'm trying to decide what to do with all the chaos in my brain right now. i've been meaning to post for a while. i've started doing more to take care of myself inside and out and have been excited about that. i need to get on the workout kick but that is slightly interfering with my hair growth kick so i'm trying to figure out a way to balance that easier. maybe i can http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2011/07/off-rails.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-7678234987277669616Mon, 16 May 2011 00:53:00 +00002011-05-15T20:10:46.570-05:00ventlife not goodupdatei don't have logical reasons why i disappeared this time. some of the stuff i've been done has kept me busy but not so busy i couldn't have taken five minutes to just say hi. i'm in a weird place in my life right now. i'm five work days away from a much needed vacation and thankfully it looks like a relatively light five days but then there's a ten hour drive at the end of the week to see my http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2011/05/cant-keep-saying-im-sorry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-5733956590395426303Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:10:00 +00002011-03-27T11:19:16.553-05:00randomlife is goodgardeningalphabet gameEh not really this week. Busy as normal, didn't get as much done at work as i would have like--that's normal. Got mostly everything set up to start another week and i'm worried about a client but again all of that is very very normal. i'm hoping that the random ear pain i'm having is not an ear infection because i'm going to throw a mighty tantrum if it is. i'm waiting now to see if the http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2011/03/its-hard-knock-life-for-us.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-8650219384192583627Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:42:00 +00002011-03-20T17:49:23.870-05:00randomupdatei'm doing okay for the most part. Been busy doing all the little game stuff i do on the weekends and watching pretty good tennis thanks to the tournament at Indian Wells. Not sure how long this one will be because i really don't have much to update you on. i've adjusted the way i take my medication for my IBS again. That seems to be helping me get to work and staying there without having as http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2011/03/how-are-you-on-this-lazy-sunday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-5814186436440936130Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:27:00 +00002011-02-16T19:44:37.701-06:00sillyupdatei know i disappeared again and literally i have no good excuse. If you are every really wondering what's going on and i have vanished please send me a message via email. Just use the main website tag (redvelvetropeburn) and add an @gmail to it and voila access to red. Now i can't say this post will be terribly long mainly because my thoughts are jumbled up still and i figured i would share http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2011/02/shame-shame-shame-randomness.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-8026451379220077041Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:23:00 +00002010-10-17T18:43:39.984-05:00ventintrospectiverandomlife not goodDaddyupdateIt's been another one of those moments when i meant to write but a ton of things have been distracting me. Things at work are chaotic at best. Always more stuff to do, never enough people to do them and it's making me very tired. i adore most of the people i work with but i know it's starting to take a toll on me because there has been just one thing after another for the last year. Somethinghttp://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2010/10/have-you-ever.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-3195113405785255884Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:00:00 +00002010-09-19T17:05:23.251-05:00life is goodupdateWoot two posts in the same month, get out of town. i think the last time i posted i was in the middle of another round of testing. The doctor has eliminated another round of things that i didn't think it would be and i am on the last day of another test diet that will hopefully lead to him giving me the medication i wanted when i went in to the office in the first place. It's been nearly a http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2010/09/life-as-we-know-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-1891537945994498232Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:11:00 +00002010-09-11T18:25:33.013-05:00sillyrandomgenerationgapFirst let me apologize for not posting in the last month. Been a little sick again and no matter what my brain thinks it doesn't leak onto the template from my synapses. So i'll try to work on that again so i'm not MIA so often. Anyhoo, the summer is over, and work is back into full swing. i love it but man we need more bodies to do this work as soon as we can find them. Anyway, i've been http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2010/09/theres-whole-generation-that.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-1178490557941840715Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:45:00 +00002010-08-14T22:51:04.287-05:00life is goodupdatei haven't posted in a while. i meant to but yeah brain fart. plus i was on call with work and was just glad to get to sleep sometimes. it's been busy and productive and stuff at work is kinda chaotic but we'll get through it like we always do. Things at home have been interesting as well. my mother's family acted so crazy she was actually HAPPY to come home and has been rather agreeable http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2010/08/thank-heavens-for-small-favors.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-1316950797149217324Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:52:00 +00002010-07-24T18:01:14.177-05:00randomupdateThis probably won't be very long. i realized a few days ago that i have had one of my sponsored kids since December of 2005. it hadn't really occurred to me because i get the pictures they send every year but i look and go aww and then don't track it on a day to day basis. Mom and i adopted a few more about two years ago but the oldest one will be aging out of the program in a few more years.http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2010/07/random-thoughts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-2530801830318946569Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:27:00 +00002010-07-11T21:46:37.957-05:00introspectivelife is goodThis post is random so don't be terribly surprised by it. i realized something today. i am unusual in a lot of respects. The things i like, the people i admire, the quirks that are all mine wouldn't make sense to anyone else if they were all placed out there for the world to observe. i love Prince (his old symbol name thing is one of my four tattoos)but i also can rock out to everything from http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2010/07/what-i-am-is-what-i-am.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-1693524780993099890Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:50:00 +00002010-07-04T14:07:10.373-05:00life is goodupdateHope that you are having a good holiday and that at least some of you get the day off tomorrow. i do so yeah for me. And when i go back to work on Tuesday i get to leave early so yeah again for me. Things are interesting around here lately. The only plants that survived the heat are mom's tomatoes but i'll try again next year. Speaking of mom, she went to visit the grandkids (hers that is http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2010/07/happy-fourth-everyone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-2562305360176900643Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:07:00 +00002010-06-16T16:12:31.065-05:00updatelife is so soWell that wasn't the plan and i do apologize. The last post i made was shortly after the anniversary of my father's death and i kinda went into a funk after that. Especially since he died a few weeks shy of his birthday so that always comes fresh on the tail of deal with the first anniversary. i just got tired and bored for the most part. The herb garden did not take flight but it wasn't http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2010/06/well-break-for-station-identification.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-2922779508135482582Sat, 22 May 2010 21:56:00 +00002010-05-22T17:01:55.493-05:00randomlife is so sogardeningNot a lot going on today. Apparently, i overfertilized my callas so i have had to start over with new plants. Still haven't gotten around to the herbs so i need to do that at some point today too. Mom is flying off to see the grandbabies and my brother soon too. Oh i probably didn't share that with my intermittent updates. Cute little girl number two came earlier this year and is just as http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2010/05/one-potato-two-potato.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-62738775595893286Sun, 16 May 2010 00:17:00 +00002010-05-15T20:35:47.420-05:00life is goodupdatei guess i should expect that. i haven't exactly been posting up a storm over the last year. nothing much is happening this weekend. at some point before it's over i'm going to plant my herb garden and hopefully get to drag my calla lilies outside to get some sun this afternoon cause they are looking a little pitiful in the garage. just got through cooking dinner and quickly assembling a http://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2010/05/its-so-quiet-over-here.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149251.post-4651736545260126540Sun, 09 May 2010 05:41:00 +00002010-05-09T00:49:23.868-05:00randomlife is goodupdatebdsmred's life has been a big old jumble of things lately, and not remotely consistent on any level. i'm playing around on different sites and that keeps me busy. i'm also pseudo blogging there too and not massively but i figured i could at least update this blog at the same time i update the other one. i've been hunting for a new template for a couple of months now. i was tired of the formattinghttp://www.redvelvetropeburn.com/2010/05/i-swear-that-was-last-break.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (red velvet)0