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December, 2009

  1. hello, goodbye, and dreaming

    December 16, 2009 by shishnit

    There are a lot of things I’d like to say goodbye to.  Here’s a brief list

    Debt

    Same old same

    A few people that urk me (THE EX THE EX THE EX!)

    My Dentist

    There are some things I wish I could say hello to

    A device that lets me blog from the shower, I seem to write a lot of blog posts in there!
    A universal ebook format

    There are some things I don’t want to say goodbye to

    Borders

    Coffee

    Sex

    Books, real books with paper pages and everything!

    And some things I don’t want to say hello to

    Taxes

    A new year (is it right around the corner?)

    My next birthday

    More stress

    Failure

     
    And if I’m dreaming big, I want to dream about owning a lovely cottage like this one


  2. My Review of Claire Criss Cross Mary Jane (Wide Width)

    December 9, 2009 by shishnit

    Originally submitted at Avenue.com

    A criss cross front and stitching details gives these mary janes a vintage inspired look.

    • Man made upper. Adjustable buckle closure. Elastic inset on criss cross front. Imported.
    • Cloudwalkers by Avenue. Cloud Heel Strike Pad® Flexible non-slip sole.

    Claire Criss Cross Mary Jane (Wide Width)


    Fantastic in every way!!

    By Kristy from St Petersburg, FL on 12/9/2009

     

    5out of 5

    Sizing: Feels true to size

    Width: Feels true to width

    Pros: Stylish, Comfortable, Versatile, Attractive Design

    Best Uses: Dress Up or Down, Office, Going Out

    Describe Yourself: Trendy, Comfort-oriented, Stylish

    These shoes are awesome! First time husband saw them he gushed the compliments. They make my wide foot look narrow and pretty and like all Cloudwalker shoes they are comfortable, fit like a glove and are a pleasure to wear. These are both trendy and enough conservative to wear to the office on Monday and out to dinner on Friday night. Buy these with confidence ladies. These are not leather but they sure look and feel like leather!! Thanks Avenue!

    (legalese)


  3. immature laughter

    December 3, 2009 by shishnit

    My girlfriend Theresa and I were talking about how her ex-husband hasn’t had a new gf since they split up.  She said there’s a reason…because his personal ad would read like this:

    I like to watch TV.  I enjoy sitcoms, movies and watching the daily news.  I can answer any question about TV shows or movies.   I would like a woman with her own house and a large screen HD TV.  We can watch TV together, as long as I hold the remote.  I don’t like mowing the grass, taking out the trash, washing dishes or anything that doesn’t involve watching TV.  I have a stable job, I ensure I keep it by doing just enough to not get fired each day.   I rent a nice duplex.  My neighbor has a nice cat that will greet you on my doorstep.  If you like to cook, I like to eat.  I like to be clean, I take 3, 30 minute long, showers a day and change into new clothes after each shower.  I like a new fresh towel each day too, so I hope that you enjoy doing laundry.  I love the smell of air freshener and I use it to the point of choking most people but, if you are like me, you will love the smell of cinnamon apples mixed with flowers, mountain fresh scent and coconut as you can never get enough air freshener.  It also covers up my nasty farts as I tend to like beans and they don’t like me.  I love to pick my nose and flick it onto the carpet so vacuuming is probably a good thing.  If you like all of these things, then I am your man. 

    My ex-husbands personal ad…because I had to be a smart ass and write one.

    I am attractive and charming. In fact most of your friends will wish that I were there’s.  Tell them not to despair, I am not a one woman man.  But if you are beautiful, and have a large bank account I can do my best to be faithful for at least 5 years, after that there are no guarantees. But those five years will be our best years together, so don’t discount the beauty of time with me. 

    I enjoy spending my time starting new businesses and have had several successful one’s…go down the drain.  I enjoy being the CEO of my own life and love to steal control from anyone that will allow me.  This is a good thing because I will steal you lovely gifts on all the right occasions. I will write you poetry on napkins at the most expensive restaurants but the credit card will be declined when I go to pay, pleae bring cash.  I will enjoy test driving vehicles with you and informing you of how wonderful it will be one day (next year..because that’s our year baby) to have a nice sports car.  I will dress nicely and I do do housework, but mostly when your friends are visiting so they admire me and want me later when you’re out working to pay our bills.  Looking the business man is part of being the successful business man so I always wear a nice suit, but I do not always have electricity in my house.  I am a business man first and foremost though.  You know, the kind with business cards to hand out.  That’s me baby.

    I love to cook, but I love simple meals.  Kraft macaroni and cheese and a slice of ham, now that’s what I call a luxury meal. I do clean up after myself but only in departments that have nothing to do with finances. (I will clean the neighbors driveway, but that’s so she looks out at me from inside.) I do not like bean counters and I refuse to count my own.  Let’s live for today. I will make you feel special at any cost…so long as it doesn’t require real money.  I am short, light and handsome.  Ask the neighbors, they’ll all agree!

    My part time hobby is writing fairy tales for adults, I’m very good at this and spend every non-working moment doing this, so please be looking for a happily ever after.  I’m your prince charming, call me today.  1-800-LetMeMakeYouThinkYouNeedMe.  God Bless.

    And writing it made me laugh.  A lot.  I have to laugh or the entire mess would still be breaking my heart sometimes.  I shared with my friend Theresa telling her I was laughing while writing it and she wrote back:

    “I’ll bet you were cracking up while writing it, lol.   I’ll also bet that the mule isn’t laughing so much this week.  Her smug face as she looked at you and put her arms around Barry and thought (yeah, I got your man), isn’t so smug now, lol.   Yeah, she got him and she can have him.  Barry is like dog poop, once you step in it, it is hard to get it off of your shoe and even after you rub it in the grass and spray it off with the hose, it still stinks and you can’t bring your shoes in the house.  Yes, Leigh, enjoy the smell of success.

    I just bought a lovely locket, it says “to Leigh, the woman I will love forever.”   The guy in the pawn shop gave me a great deal. 

    And shoot me….for laughing. It’s funny now. Who’s laughing now?  My life…is sooo good….her’s is sooo not.  Yes I’m laughing and yes it may be juvenile..but I deserve laughter. I’m always conflicted…laughing at my ex-husband’s bad karma come back to kick his ass….it means I’m a bad mom somehow to me…but honestly….there’s still a side of me that laughs. And now that Keith is 17….trust me Keith gets who and what he is more than I can ever explain it to him.


  4. what was I thinking? whew….crisis averted!

    December 2, 2009 by shishnit

     

    I almost bought this HOLIDAY sweater today at Target.  I had it in my hands….and then it dawned on me. 

     

    OLD LADIES WEAR SWEATERS WITH CUTSY PICTURES ON THEM LIKE THIS FOR THE HOLIDAYS 

     

    I threw the sweater down on the nearest display and bee-lined it to the lingerie department and bought my chubby behind some thongs. 

     

    I AM NOT OLD!!! 


  5. Cleaving: A Story of a Marital Affair that’s funny?

    December 1, 2009 by shishnit

    Someone recently asked me about reviewing books.  Do I review the ones I don’t like? I don’t officially do that. I don’t write about books I can’t promote because just putting the book cover up there is publicity.  And I hardly feel that bashing an artist’s work is my objective.  However, from time to time I must speak up and THIS is still my personal blog.  I cannot promote a book when I can’t find anything worthwhile within. Nor can I when my stomach turns and I cannot even finish it!

    “Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery”.


    Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession by Julie Powell


    Ok that’s the blurb for the new book by Julia Powell called Cleaving.  I picked it up because I rather enjoyed Julie and Julia and this is NOT a full on review because guess what? I couldn’t read it.  Why? Because guess what? She’s a major trainwreck in this book.  The affair is her…she’s banging the hell out of someone else and her husband knows about it and she tells him and oh…”that’s just the way it is” is her attitude.  I didn’t buy the book, I read 40 plus pages of it and then skim read through the rest.

    Insane irresistable love affair?  Now, I have a tainted past when it comes to marital problems. My ex-husband cheated on me with his first girlfriend swooping my then 8 year old son off to New York State from Florida after advising me that he was going down the street two blocks to get some dinner. In actuality my son dissapeared for 2 days with his father before I knew where either of them was.  21 days later my ex called asking me for money to feed same said child and returned home, kicked to the curb by his “insane irresistable love affair”.  So the topic of extramarital love affairs is something I don’t take lightly and the way this publisher is providing that above blurb peevs me and makes my skin crawl a bit. 

    Now, let me admit this as I always have. I cheated on my first husband. A lot.  Both emotinally and physically (the a lot mostly emotionally with an online boy I called “him”) but it was after that 21 day debaucle and in my mind we were never a marital unit again. I could not trust him and I did not feel any bond with him, aside from our beautiful child.  I was a mess for a long long time over his and my “insane, irresistable love affairs” and it’s sad to me that we now live in a world where this stuff is exploited and used to sell books.  I love books but this issue saddens me.  The pages I read spoke about Julie getting text messages from her boyfriend (affair partner…not sure what she called him in the book) while sitting with her husband and how she felt them buzzing while husband was sitting there with her.  Disturbing at best.

    Shame on you Hatchette Book Group for promoting this as lighthearted!  Marrital affairs are lighthearted?  Really?  And described as “hilarious and ferociously articulate” by Entertainment Weekly.  Again, really?  Marriages falling prey to cheating is hilarious?


    I will never forget the pain caused by affairs.  If you’re the other woman, the woman, his woman, the one he won’t tell about, the online affair, the real affair, the emotional affair…AFFAIRS ARE NOT merely challenging, nor are they hilarious. If you’re the wife and he’s cheating chances are you’ll end up cheating back, becoming suicidal or at the very least be a train wreck for quite some time.  Nothing funny about any of those outcomes.  But hey I could be wrong, if you had someone cheat on you and you feel it’s hilarious or merely a challenge to your marriage feel free to contact me and set me straight.

    disclaimer: I only read 40+ pages and skimmed this book but geesh….hated the entire premise because I couldn’t get past feeling for the “husband” being cheated on. 

    p.s. personal disclaimer…”him” and I don’t speak any longer. I’m happily married these days, immensely happily married and to talk to “him” would be cheating….emotionally…but I still won’t do that to a husband who’s faithful to me.

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