July 8, 2009 by shishnit
Seriously, people make me sick. How could you attend and then sell that item? Greed…it’s what makes our society so sad.
p.s. my sister and I did discuss the “plinking” sounds soon to be coming from the casket as his plastic pieces decayed loose. I’m sad too. I also hear there’ll be another concert…er…wait…memorial in London.
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July 5, 2009 by shishnit
What is your guilty pleasure? I have a few. Buying a candy bar and then sitting down to eat the entire thing, dragging the process out into nearly a half hour. Yum. This of course is something I rarely do because, well because I’m fat and I can’t be doing that all the time. Going to a movie instead of work and stopping at Target to buy a bag of rosemary popcorn and sneaking it into the theater. I really love to sneak food into the theater, it makes me feel happy crazy inside. I equally love to take a personal day from work and sit in a bookstore ALL day long picking out as many new books as I want.
My other guilty pleasures include:
Taking a bubble bath every night after work. Reading in said bathtub. EVERY NIGHT! Drinking Coffee whenever I want. Buying trinkets off of etsy. Reading the entire set of “Shopaholic” books when I was sick a few months ago. Sometimes scrolling the Internet is a guilty pleasure when I should be studying or writing a paper for school. I’ve just had a guilty pleasure weekend whereby I’ve done so little schoolwork it’s been awesome.
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I also have a long list of guilty pleasure telelvision shows. I do not watch “Lost” or “House” or any other intelligent shows. My brain cannot handle that stuff. When I do watch television, it is “The Gene Simmons show” (seriously my favorite show ever….I laugh throughout the entire show, I love that family and I was never ever a KISS fan!), “Tori & Dean”, “Denise Richards It’s complicated” (something I secretly call “The Fun Bag’s show because seriously when the hell does that girl do anything complicated?”), Rev Run’s show, Hammertime (stop with showing us your Twitters..it’s stupid) and the Kardashian show…the latter is really addictive, I especially love Bruce Jenner on that show, he’s always doing something stupid. Ahh you get my drift? I also watch TMZ with Rick all the time. It’s guilty television watching and I can’t help it. I like to be entertained and yet not committed to having to see every episode or being on a television viewing schedule. I don’t have time for that. I also love to turn off the TV and realize that if I mis something I won’t stay awake all night wondering what happened. I cannot stand any show whereby someone has to win a key, be chosen, be dismissed etc. I watched one season of Rock of Love and I watched all of that crapola with Flava Flav and New York big tit’s dumb girl. “Yah boy!” Yes, it’s not something I speak about or blog about because it’s total crap and its a total waste of my time, but..it is my guilty pleasure, that’s for sure.  I love crap television, let this be my confession. Oh yah, I also watched 2 entire seasons of Tila Tequila and thought for a few moments that I surely was gay because that girl is HOTT. Yes, there I said it. She’s hott. I have no idea why I think she’s hot because I do not ogle women etc. I have two lesbian neighbors and they are far from hott. I wish they looked like Tila. Screw Angelina Jolie, Tila is hott. Yes, with two t’s.
But more recently, my guiltiest pleasure was reading through “sTORI Telling by Tori Spelling”. I bought it last night and read it last night until 4 a.m. with Rick sleeping beside me. Ahhhh……bliss. I like Tori and I like her and Dean together and I think their relationship is really genuine and real. I could be being bluffed…but I don’t care. Her book was a relatively quick read and she kept me interested throughout. I realize she didn’t write it entirely herself, but that’s ok too. I was entertained and happy while I read that book, something I can’t say about some other highbrow novels.
Yes reading what some would consider trash novels…that’s my guilty pleasure. I bought that book and hoped that no one of substance saw me doing so. I wanted to hide the cover of Tori’s book, but I loved it. I loved every sentence and I am now trying very hard to stop myself from buying her second novel until it comes out in paperback. Oh….I’m going to hold back on that pleasure because sometimes waiting is the biggest tease of all.
Liam is adorable….Stella equally cute and the thing I love about watching them is that they truly seem to love each other. I hope they don’t get hit by the “reality tv show curse” because I personally might cry. I like their happily ever after story. I like how they cry when they have to part from each other. I am a sucker for it all. I like Tori Spelling and guess what….I never was a big fan of 90210. I really couldn’t stand Brenda ever. I used to watch “Jon & Kate +8″ and have now boycotted that show. I stopped watching regularly about a year ago when I got tired of watching Kate hit Jon on air, belittle him on the joint couch and basically yell at him every chance she got.  The more weird her hair got, the less I watched. I’m not going to watch that show anymore and I hope beyond hope they cancel it.Â
I’m a smart girl, I read tons of books every year despite being in college. I still read good for your brains material. I watch the Discovery channel, etc. etc. etc. I try to justify my guilty pleasures……but really they are just that. Guilty pleasures.
What is your guilty pleasure? Do you have more than one? Do share. What are you hiding from the world?Â
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July 3, 2009 by shishnit
Rob Thomas released a new CD. The sun is shining. I made friendship bread last night and it’s on my plate. I bought a slew of new “beach read” books for the next few weeks. I am caught up with school. Rick is working. Chloe is napping on the library footstool. I was off yesterday, off today…
Life is good but…
I miss Keith. Yes…I miss you Keith.
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July 1, 2009 by shishnit
Over the weekend my brother in law Doug and his new live-in girlfriend Cindy came to visit for the first time. Yes, my husbands family does things fast. He just met this woman and they moved to Daytona, FL and she bought a house on a short sale and voila they are officially shacked up. Rick’s brother Doug is about 12 years older than him and so I suppose when you get in your fifties and you grasp something good you don’t waste time.
She and I had a brief exchange alone on my back patio whereby she told me that Doug is “patient, quiet, easy going†and that when they met apparently it was like a firecracker going off without noise. She described it as “I just knew he was different, I felt the impact like a firecracker, but he was calm, there wasn’t any loud noiseâ€.
Now this is hard for me to hear about my brother in law Doug because we have a love/hate relationship. I love to hate him and he hates that he loves me. Err..or…er…yah *snickers* that’s right. However, upon hearing her explain this to me I got it. I really got it.
While Doug is Rick’s half “brother from another mother†something my poetical mind loves to repeat over and over because isn’t that a joke…and yet for this situation it is completely the truth. Doug is Rick’s brother from another mother. See, I even delight in typing it because it gives me the giggles, but certainly not because I’m being disrespectful.Â
Very calmly I whispered to Cindy, “Don’t tell him but he’s my favorite brother in lawâ€. She smiled. I honestly hope she did tell him because I’m stubborn and I can’t. I do have other brother-in-laws. But Doug is my favorite. And when I say I hate Doug, that’s something I only with an evil smirk tell him, not something that is at all the truth. I really do love him, but shhh don’t tell.
It bum’s me out that he’s moved to Daytona. It bums me out because I rather like sitting on the patio chatting it up while Rick and his brother smoke. I will miss those hours. They are/were much like having a fistful of brand new sparklers on the 4th of July. For me, having family drop by unannounced is like winning the lottery. It’s like buying a six-pack and finding out you have 7 bottles in the bag when you get home. I have lived the majority of my adult life without family just dropping in. I’ve had a lot of silence in the compartment in my heart where family is meant to reside. In fact my own sister was in a pretty brutal car accident and no one told me until I casually called my grandmother to say hello an entire week later and she tells me about it. My family pretty many bites…save for my grandmother and my Aunt DeDe. So, in short, Rick’s family bridges a huge gap I have lived with for my entire life.
On February 14th of this year, my sister in law Robin got married. It wasn’t a fancy wedding, it wasn’t perfect by any means, but in my heart I truly loved the hell out of just sitting there, completely feeling totally a part of something bigger than just little ole me. I am a part of that family and it feels so amazing it nearly makes me cry if I allow myself to think about it too long. His family is not perfect, no one’s is…but it is a family and my soul rejoices at knowing what it is to truly feel a part of one. Sometimes I want to jump up and yell to all of them when we’re in a group setting, “thank you…thank you for letting me in†because I feel like I won the family prize finally. I finally know and understand what it is to have an extended family.
Having said all of this….I get what she said about meeting him and how she felt different but how looking at Doug, he was motionless and rather quiet and she couldn’t quite figure it all out but knew it was earth shattering like a firecracker.
I get it because that’s exactly how it was when I met Rick. It was as if I was completely whiplashed but when I looked at him and knew he was the cause, he was the picture of calm. Calm like the day turns after a huge storm, silent like a brilliant blue sky on a summer day. Maybe it run’s in the family…I imagine if that is the case, Rick and Doug’s shared father must have been one amazing man and my curiosity about him will never wane for long. As she told her story about how they met and ended up living together, my brain flew through a thousand memories of how Rick and I came to be, I heard all of her words but when I think back to those day’s I am always amazed at the warmth that floods over me….that “our” story always feels so much better than anyone else’s. I always think “oh gee, that’s nothing”. Even when it might be the exact same story on so many levels. It occurs to me that when you truly love someone your story is your favorite one. The one about how real love arrives….stealth like…with an earth shattering calm silence forever rearranging the picture of your life into a perfect frame.
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