vacation days…

Prepare yourselves for a long, long, long…post from me.  It has been a while since I have done a decent update to this blog and for that I apologize.

Ok, well I guess we can start with a little explanation about the list from the previous post.  I have been thinking that I would round it out and make it a 30 before 30 list.  So first let’s get to the adding:

• meet Bette Midler (like actually talk to her…or scream at her which ever reaction comes first)
• learn how to wire a light fixture
• ride a jet ski
• do a fasting for spiritual enlightenment
• move to another state – florida is the pits for gays.

I suppose to some this must seem dumb – making a list and going through it item by item but I think it sounds grand and I am happy to report that some items can already be crossed off!  While we were on vacation I learned how to play maj-hong and had semi public sex with my honey(this one will only get half a check mark until it is completed).  Somehow I also ended up being “watch-out” for my straight friend to get laid at the public pool in our condo complex….it was insane.  Apparently, I wasn’t the only one with a wish list on this trip!  Our vacation was otherwise pretty quiet and laid back – we hung out at the beach a lot and got lots of shells!

When we got home we decided that we are going to start another money pot for weight loss.  Our new goal is – who ever loses the most by 12/23 wins $400!  I could really use that money for some kick ass presents for her so I already started.  It was no surprise that after one BFN and two months off of exercise and calorie counting I gained 9lbs.  Seriously.  So the ticker will go back to 189…I hate to even type that number.  Enough of the self loathing…moving on.

In TTC-ville this week…like a dummy I took another HPT on vacation.  Let’s just say that after the -tive showed up I ate almost an entire plate of turtle brownies.  You may be asking yourself “why would she do that?”  The answer is – I was getting dizzy on the way down and had a total emotional meltdown the first night we got there.  I felt some nausea the next day and thought “what if?”  So in the spirit of responsible TTC’ers I reasoned that I should test if was going to drink just in case….  I am a fucking idiot.  That test threatened to put a damper on my whole vacation.  I know better next time – just drink… because 6 beers isn’t enough to hurt anything and I would be passed out before I finished that much anyway *sigh* I’m such a light weight.  Once I start working out again my cycles will straighten back out and we will try again in Sep/Oct. 

That brings me to another…somewhat depressing topic.  Families with assholes for members.  Sorry for the rocky transition of topics *crooked smile*.  First off let me point out that my estranged brother has yet to talk to me since about christmas.  While we were there he let us know that they would not be celebrating christmas anymore because it’s not Jesus’ real birthday.  I’m sorry but did he really miss the whole point of the season?!  I am not really one who follows any organized religion.  I go with what feels right to me – is that wrong?  I feel like he is trying to push me back into the closet and it is really distressing.  I miss my brother that loved me unconditionally, that could talk to me about anything and I him.  Its a damn shame.  Fucking fundamentalist… mental being the key word there….

 

as good a time as any

I figure I should stop in and post.  Things here have been crazy.  I don’t know where to begin.  Well, first let me say that I am happy that Obama is President Elect although that did not change the fact that here in the “sunshine state” things have been shitty.  Amendment 2 passed defining marriage between “one man and one woman” while at the same time – refusing to acknowledge civil unions and denying thousands of couples rights.  Bogus.  The last time politics and religion were mixed people were burned at the stake….seriously you would think we could move on from that!  While we are on the subject of religion – as some of you know I use this blog as a spiritual outlet – well I am about to vent again…..  My brother, whom I love very much, has started what I feel is a cult of sorts.  He has a preacher (with no knowledge or training at seminary) who he believes that God himself speaks to.  They have about 13 followers now.  I know that to some of you it may seem like WTF!?  It feels that way to me as well.  I don’t know how to aproach the situation – I mean they are screaming at people on the street that they are going to hell – my niece saw them and went to say hello and they scared her so bad she was crying her eyes out!  She is only 8 and his “preacher” told her she was going to hell – doesn’t Jesus say embrace the children not scare the shit out of them?!  He say’s he’s worried for peoples souls but not mine – because he only worries for the christians.  I am not even JOKING people – he has gone off the deep end.  They have a makeshift pulpit in their house.  How they think they have it right and ALL the churches are wrong is beyond me.  It is a little scary though when you think about it -  I mean what if they start cleansing the earth of sinner and come knocking on my door.   Creepy.  So…we are thinking about moving.