<throwing arms up in the air in triumphant jubilation>
YES!!!! YES!!!!! YES!!!!!!
THE PATRIOTS SIGNED RANDY MOSS!!!
Ahhh….about damn time….now I just need Brett Favre to announce he's coming back and the entire Giants football team to get cursed with suckiness and all will be well in my football world.
IrishLuckyLass posted this on her blog and boy did it inspire a post for me! lol
This is a different version of the song, but I seriously don't think I could listen to the John Denver version. I'd be a sobbing mess. lol.
My mother left my father when I was about 8 years old. My brother was 6 or 7 and my sister was about 5. We all lived in Iowa on a farm and my mom, having had enough of being in a crappy relationship with a cheating husband and practically nonexistent father, packed us up and moved us back to Boston. We took a train.
We stayed with numerous family members until my mom could get a job and get on her feet. When we first moved back, I can remember me, my brother and my sister all curled up in one bed and we were missing our Daddy. We were laying in bed, holding on to each other, crying and singing this song together. We believed our Daddy loved us and we believed our Daddy missed us too. We grew up and realized how very wrong we were. Our father may have loved us then and he may have missed us….but he found a new family to replace us. A new woman to love and 3 new kids to love and adore. In the rare times I have spoke to him since my mom left him, he claims that he has missed us every day of his life. I find this hard to believe and frankly, I don't care. Actions speak louder than words and the man never attempted to be a part of our lives. Now, having children myself…I can't fathom it. I can't imagine never having anything to do with your children. But maybe the reason why I can't fathom it is because it was done to me. Who knows…..and I really don't care anymore. I mean, it's something I'll always wish I had had, a father…but it's not something I ever dwell on. I think when I'm going to have a problem with this is if something happens to him and we are not mentioned in his will. If he leaves us no letter or pictures or anything, just something that tells us he cared…that is when it will be tough, I think. I try to brace myself for this to happen because my mom says he's not the kind of guy to face the fact that he will die one day and prepare for it, but even still….I know that is going to hurt like hell. It just will be the final confirmation that half of what made us…didn't care about us…at all. Really, I should get a book on how to deal with that..there's got to be a book or something. lol.
Anyway…to this day…when I hear this song a sob creeps up into my throat and the tears come to my eyes and it's a struggle not to cry. Especially the John Denver version.
I have quite a few songs that do this, for various different situations or eras of my life and every time it just amazes me how a song can bring me back to a memory and make me feel exactly what I felt then..and this song makes me miss my brother and sister so bad, it aches…it makes me want to gather them up and tell them I am so sorry that our Dad didn't care….it makes me want to tell them how proud of them I am…and finally…it makes me wonder why…
Why on earth would a man choose to not be a part of his children's lives?
It's something I'll never understand…..
Anyway, here's the lyrics….
Leaving on a Jet Plane
By John Denver
All my bags are packed. I'm ready to go.
I'm standing here outside your door,
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye.
But the dawn is breaking, it's early morn.
The taxi's waiting, he's blowing his horn,
Already I'm so lonesome I could cry.
So kiss me and smile for me,
Tell me that you'll wait for me,
Hold me like you'll never let me go.
Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again –
Oh Babe, I hate to go.
There's been so many times I've let you down,
and so many times I've played around,
I tell you now, they don't mean a thing.
Every place I go, I'll think of you,
Every song I sing, I'll sing for you,
When I come back, I'll wear your wedding ring.
So kiss me and smile for me,
Tell me that you'll wait for me,
Hold me like you'll never let me go.
Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again –
Oh Babe, I hate to go.
Now the time has come to leave you,
One more time let me kiss you,
Then close your eyes, and I'll be on my way.
Dream about the days to come.
When I won't have to leave alone,
About the times I won't have to say …
Kiss me and smile for me,
Tell me that you'll wait for me,
Hold me like you'll never let me go.
Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again –
Oh Babe, I hate to go.
I am thisfuckingclose to pulling out my hair!!
Or at the very least taking a fucking valium and downing a very strong vodka and soda water. (blackberry…FYI…yummy!)
I cannot get a hold of someone that I really want to get a hold of.
And now I'm actually starting to wonder…..if maybe perhaps they don't want me to get a hold of them.
Now normally the thought of this person not wanting to speak to me would be ridiculous and it would be so absurd that it wouldn't even cross my mind to think that.
However….there was an incident (it's hard to describe and this is the best word I can come up with) between me and this person. The incident was bygone. It was joked about and talked about but unimportant in the grand scheme of things. But because this "incident" is in our past….and I have never not been able to get a hold of this person for this long….I can't help but wonder….and now I'm seriously worried. But I just can't imagine that this incident would effect our relationship, so long after the fact…but now I honestly can't help but wonder. And that's what's driving me nuts..the not knowing and then second guessing myself. Ugh!!!
I've always had a pain in the ass type relationship with this person. You know, like the little dog bouncing around beside the big dog.."Where we goin' Spike? Watcha ya wanna do, Spike?"…you get the idea….I'm the little dog. The pesky little pain in the ass that just REFUSES to go away. And I don't care. I have never cared. I adore this person and the dynamics of our relationship has always worked just fine for me. It has never phased me in the least to be this total irritating pain in the butt that won't go away. I know this person loves me….I know they care about me and I've always been confident in that. No worries….not ever.
But now….realizing just how important this relationship is to me and realizing that holy fuck, maybe I'm losing them. Maybe the incident was a bigger deal than I thought. Or maybe I've just finally overstayed my welcome.
Or maybe I just think too fucking hard and as usual this person is just too busy and hard to get a hold of.
I just don't know how many times I keep trying to call before I take the hint…before I should just stop calling.
ugh..that makes my heart hurt, just imagining not talking to this person again.
I wish I could read minds…..that would make this so much easier…..
I think I need that drink….
<wink>
Asante is gone….that was expected. I am okay with that. Bummed to see him go, but I can understand him wanting to go to the bank. I'm not saying if I agree with that philosophy or not, (my feelings on that is a whole other post…)I'm just saying I understand why players do this. I wasn't thrilled with his press conference (why not just 'fess up…I wanna get PAID!..you know?) but whatever.
Anyway, I think Asante is very good, with awesome instincts but I think the Pats system made him better. I don't think he'll have the same impact with the Eagles as he did with us. Obviously, I am no expert and I'm willing to concede I could be completely wrong. We'll see in September. 🙂
But what I'm REALLY upset about…
WHY THE HELL HAVE WE NOT SIGNED MOSS YET?????
Could we SIGN him, please???
I know the Pats know what they are doing…but my god..this is making me CRAZY.
Just friggin' sign the guy, will ya?? You know you are killing the fans with this waiting game shit…
We so should've tagged him…..ugh! Just for the sheer fact I HATE WAITING!!!!
Okay…I'm kidding…but really…
I wish we would just sign him already….or go to another team…whatever…just DO IT..like, today.
geez….
So my sneaky little sister pulled a fast one on ALL of us!
Rick and Niki have been together forever…I think like 7 or 8 years now and they have just never gotten around to getting married. They have never wanted a big wedding and they knew it could be awhile before all of the family could be there together, so five days ago they were like…"Hey, wouldn't it be cool to get married on leap year?" And they pulled it together, didn't tell ANYONE in the family and got married tonight!!!
I cannot BELIEVE she didn't TELL me!!!
What a little shit, she is!
I'm going to BE there in 14 friggin' days!! ARRRGGHHHH!!!!!
Honestly, I'm so, so happy for her and I have to say, the way they did it, is so very, very them.
Now I REALLY cannot wait to get there!! lol
I'm not supposed to tell anyone yet, she wants to be the one to tell everyone in the family.
Luckily, no one in my family reads my blog, consistently, so I should be safe posting this.
Crap…at least I hope no one does. Watch this be the one time my family decides to come to my blog.
Oh well, I just had to post, I'm SO happy I can't hardly stand it!!! lol
Congrats sistah!!!!
Congrats Rick!!!
Love you both SO much!!
See ya soon!
Jaime got her report card last week and for some reason this time I was a little apprehensive to open it. I have no clue where this came from. I am in Jaime's classroom for 3.5 hours every week and I know she is doing fine. Weird.
Anyway, the "grades" on their report cards go from U for unsatisfactory, I for inconsistent, S for satisfactory, and O for outstanding. Well I open Jaime's report card and see that she has gone from Satisfactory to Outstanding in SEVEN different spots!!! In one spot she went from Satisfactory to Inconsistent but that is in an area that we are aware of is an issue. We haven't determined if it's really a "problem" yet or not. It's in her time management area. She doesn't always focus and get all her work done. BUT in spite of this, she is still doing very well, so while we're aware of the issue she is doing well in spite of it.
I am SOOO proud of her! We had her conference and everything is good. She is doing excellent academically and socially and even with the time management issue, all is well!
SWEET!!!
Zak got her a card, wrote the most adorable little note to her from us in it and gave her $5.
It amazes me how absolutely proud of this kid I can be. I mean, I was struttin' for days, thinking, "That's my girl!!" :-) I honestly don't care if she's a brainiac (is that how you spell that???) or not so long is she is learning at the right speed for her age/grade, but when she does do well, I tell you what….I can't contain my joy! The teacher was laughing at me at her conference because I was so proud. lol.
Here's a pic of Miss Smarty Pants' report card…
Awesome, huh?
I'm just so proud and had to share!
So Mariah's got a new video and it's really cute! I love it!
J posted it this morning, so I went to youtube and found it and thought I'd bore my blog readers too.
ha!!
Seriously, I know most people aren't interested in this, but you're interested in ME….and I LOVE it!
So, if it's that torturous you can just skip the vid if you'd like! I won't be offended.
ha!
For those that watch it…enjoy!!!
Of course everyone has by now seen the Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon video, which I still say is one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my entire life. (I gotta learn the words, I wanna sing it at karaoke..yeah, right..but it would be funny as hell…)
Well, this is the second funniest thing I have ever seen in my life.
Jimmy Kimmel did a retaliation video….and his is star studded!!
it's HYSTERICAL!!!
Get the kids away and check it out …..
My cheeks hurt!!!
Freakin' LOVE it.
Enjoy!
So someone posted on their blog a blanket statement regarding the type of women that wear Ugg boots. It was not flattering, to say the least. When I read the post I was rather offended, but figured she was just venting and she didn't really think that of all women that wear Uggs.
Well J commented that she wore Uggs and didn't think she was brainless. Well then someone comments to her comment and they go back and forth a little. Then I post, VERY diplomatically and nicely, saying along the lines that her blanket statement was offending and while it is her blog and she is free to say whatever she likes, when someone voiced an opinion objecting to the blanket statement and she didn't offer up a gracious response, it leaves one to assume that she does, in fact, think that of all women that wear Uggs.
Well then she does this whole post, essentially saying that we really are as shallow as her assessment of all Ugg wearers are, that we're stupid to think (duh…that word essentially means stupid right?) that she really thinks that of all Ugg wearers and for the grand finale, we can shove it.
So I, not being a fan of being told to shove it in response to my very well stated and gracious comment, reply with the following. I think it's funny, so I'm posting it….(I've fixed a couple of typos…)
"Wow.
Holy crap…that's a first!!
Too funny….
I would post links, etc…but I think I have seriously upset her or offended her and I don't really want to start any kind of internet brawl, but I was so proud of my first that I couldn't not brag!
LOL
tah!
For almost as long as I have lived in Alaska, there has been debate about moving the capitol out of Juneau.
Juneau can only be gotten to by boat or plane, so in order for more people to be able to physically get to their legislators, the capitol should be in a place that puts it more in reach for more people…that is what the people that want to move the capitol say. Also, they feel if they move the capitol to a more central location, the expense of the legislative session would not be as high for the state.
In 1994 ( I think) a law was passed called the FRANK initiative. FRANK is an acronym for Fiscally Responsible Alaskans Needing Knowledge. This law basically says that before they can move the capitol, the state has to disclose the cost of moving it to the people and let the people vote.
Now someone has sponsored a bill that essentially eliminates that law. (in super layman's terms…)
There is a petition online that states we support the FRANK initiative.
You do not have to live in Alaska to support this. You do not have to live in Alaska to recognize how unfair it would be to eliminate a law that gives people the power of knowledge and therefore the power to decide themselves.
Never mind the capitol move issue, that is a whole separate battle….but please take a minute and click the link and read about the FRANK initiative issue. That is so important. I hate when lawmakers take knowledge away from the people they claim to represent.
The following is taken from an email that has been making it's rounds…
To
highlight the potential for a costly mistake, the following is an exchange
between KTUU News reporter Bill McAllister and Representative Bob Lynn, who is a
sponsor of the bill to repeal the FRANK initiative.
McAllister: "Now what about repealing
the FRANK initiative? I mean, voters said they wanted to pass judgment on the
costs before this happened. You're taking that away from
them."
Lynn: "Well, it's going to
go to the finance committee, and they work their magic in the finance committee.
But you know the FRANK initiative is history. A lot of people think that that
was flawed; it was before my time up here, but I think we need
to–"
McAllister: "It's
not history. It's the
law."
Lynn: "Well, it's the law,
yes, but it's still, the philosophy behind it is history. It needs to be looked
at again. I have no problem with repealing it."
McAllister: "Well, can you
elaborate?"
Lynn:
(smiling):
"No."
McAllister:
"Philosophically? Why? People voted for it; they haven't voted to undo it. Why
not honor it?"
Lynn: "Well, I think we
need to honor all of our laws, but my goodness sake, this is the year — what?
— 2008, and I think we need to re-evaluate this thing, see what the dollars and
cents are now, and press ahead. This FRANK initiative is based on old
calculations. It's time to make some new calculations."
McAllister: "My understanding, Rep. Lynn,
is that the FRANK initiative calls for a commission to be appointed to judge the
costs. It's not, there's nothing in the law that says what the costs
are."
Lynn: "OK, but let the
commission do their work again."
McAllister: "But if you repeal it, there
won't be a
commission."
Lynn: "There you
go."
********************************
Nice, huh?
You don't have to live here to understand how important this is!
Please go sign the petition.
After you sign the petition, you will be brought to a page that asks for a donation, at that point you have signed the petition regardless if you choose to donate or not.
Thank you!!!!!
Some of you will be getting an email from me regarding this too. I am going to forward the email I got today.
I feel so strongly about this!!
I want to do my part in getting a ton of signatures!!!
Anything But Gray 