May 25, 2010 by shishnit
My mom never worked when i was growing up. My childhood was riddled with her being on the phone drinking glass after glass of pepsi while smoking cigarettes talking to her friends all day on the phone yelling at us kids to go outside and play.
She did one thing every day. She always had supper on the table for my dad without fail but i don’t remember her in the kitchen weird eh?
I do know she had a pressure cooker because to this day when I hear a pressure cooker…that little thing clanking on top….that bursting forth of steam…it makes me sick to my stomach.
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May 17, 2010 by shishnit
Today I am 40. Technically I am not 40 until 11:59 p.m. That’s when I was born. I royally pissed my mother off by not being born on May 18.Â
Mostly all day today I thought about just how many wonderful people are in my life. I got a msg from my first boyfriend from when I was 14, a note from my first best friend who sat behind me in Accounting in highschool and both a phone call and an email from my “wish he was” my brother Greg. I got countless messages from co-workers, faculty and students. I think the first half of my 40 years kinda sucked…and the second half has progressively gotten better and better. Bring it on I say…it’s getting sweeter like wine.
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May 13, 2010 by shishnit
Would you believe the track ball on my Sidekick completely stopped working?
Do not let me hold your baby, pet your dog etc etc. I’m scared I’m jinxed. Everything I touch breaks.
Must stop typing this…as I am on my own laptop.
Someone lucky out there knock on some wood for me…make this stop!!!
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May 12, 2010 by shishnit
In early 2008 we began to seriously think about buying a house. The home we were living in was extremely overpriced and over-valued. I imagine a lot of people felt that same way about a lot of houses at the time. I wrote about our experiences with our previous landlord here who wanted to sell us the house but we could not afford the $315,000 that he was wanting at the time and tried to purchase his son’s home…which was also extremely overpriced (and is also still not sold today).
I blogged again about my viewpoint on our home purchase a few months later and my viewpoitns 9 months after purchasing it here. I was still feeling relatively good about our choices.
Then one day I googled my old leased house (the one that I really really loved and wanted to buy for the entire year I lived in it) here. The picture dissapeared from that blog post so here it is again.
That house really urked me because I loved it. It was perfect in a lot of ways. Today out of curiosity I looked up that house again…just to see what time has done since last September. I know everytime we’ve driven by it (and we have to make an effort to do so) it has had a for sale sign out front. Today I found out that the house was foreclosed on. I felt like Karma had finally had her say. That’s what you get landlord guy….that’s what you get for raising our rent on us when we were attempting to purchase your son’s house. (a house still not sold either!)
And then I found it….the for sale ad. 116,900!!
It’s now selling for less than we paid for our house. L They wanted 315k when we lived in it two years ago. Oh if only I had waited 2 entire fucking years…..lol as if. Someone got fucked on that house and it wasn’t us. Thank you Jesus. But I still wanted to barf right in that open toilet right there…the same one I peed in for an entire year of my life right before going to bed at night.
But then oddly….I started to think about our house. The one we did buy. The one that we’ve had to fix several things in. The one that needs new air conditioning duct work as I type. The one that has had termites!! The one that needs a trench dug out around the addition. The one that’s driving me nuts right now. And I’m still happy because I’ve had some fantastic moments in that house with the big huge library. The one that isn’t a real estate transaction or a memory captured by google maps but the one that is our  HOME sweet HOME.
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May 11, 2010 by shishnit
They had broken up…they are now back together or at least…well they appear (according to his myspace) to be back on or ah…friendly again. I don’t know how I feel about it, but I do know it doesn’t really matter because love is one of those things….no one else can stop if it’s a real thing. Stopping it leads to Romeo and Juliet behavior. I can of course state that they do look great together….almost like a book cover if you will.
Everytime I want to jump into “Mommy” speech mode I see my son’s face and realize that he’s happy…I don’t want to be his best friend and he’s nearly an adult and I can’t dictate his life choices forever. That would make me unable to “let go”. Hmm wait…I really can’t let go. On Mother’s Day he gave me a framed photo of himself and a bracelet he made for me. I love this kid….his goofy “I’m so happy” faces and all.
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