May 28, 2010 by shishnit
After I had been kicked out by Mom….this was some time in “the lost years”. This was probably sometime in 1997-99. Before digital camera’s were decent. This looks like a pose for his “dating chicks from the Internet” phase. Man do I have stories….. Man do I miss him. Man do I wish that he and my husband Rick could have shot the shit….just once.
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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 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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February 11, 2010 by shishnit
She has the big giant console stereo turned up way high…the sun is streaming into the big picture window of our 1970′s ranch house.Â
“never gonna stop
give it up
such a dirty mind…… my my my woah….my ‘m’m'm’y Sharona!”
We are dancing. She is dusting the glass top tables. I am dancing around the room, sliding to and fro on my sock clad feet.
This one memory that remains for some odd reason…a happy one. I can still smell the furniture polish, remember the beam of sun through the big picture window in the living room glittering off the tall orange vase in the corner.Â
The only time I ever remember anything about my mother fondly..is when that song comes on. It’s brief…it’s fleeting…I’m a little girl in an instant, grinding my non-existent hips to the jive.Â
Ohhhh but maybe it’s just because I really had a thing for The Knack at age 9.
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January 12, 2010 by shishnit
BEGIN RANT I really want to spend a long long time bitching about my electricity bill. Last months bill? $98. This months bill $298.98!! That’s 3 times the amount. Fuck all those people telling me that I should be used to this cold weather because I’m from PA. Houses in FL are not built for freezing weather. Also, I would like to state that while my bill is 3 times the amount…Rick and I have been walking around our house with big heavy socks on, long pants etc. We cannot even get our house heated to 68 on any given day!! Gah!!! Fucking FREEZING WEATHER!! Don’t tell me about how cold it is in Denver, Ohio, PA, etc. etc. You choose to live in those states and are well prepared. I’m in Florida and I want tropical weather. Period. Also, don’t’ tell me I’m a PA native and should be “used to†this. That’s crap.  I’m used to 70 degrees in the wintertime. Something livable only!  I leave my house to get warm in my car or in some retail location etc. It’s warmer at work!! END RANT
Ok now onto more important things:
I asked for photos and permission. I met the girlfriend and I really like her. We had a rather long and extensive conversation over dinner last Friday. She asked me tons of questions and it was a pleasure to talk to her. She’s smart, bright, pretty, and respectful all at once. All the things a Mommy looks for. But more importantly I can see why Keith likes her. As with all things in life change happens…but for the time being they are together and are happy. And they are cute together. He’s nice to her, she’s nice to him. They seem to be having a good time. And they are open and honest with me. I won’t blog personal things but I will say that they talk to me on a level that I appreciate. They respect me and in turn that makes it so easy to respect them. Chelsea is also friendly and down to earth. I like her.  I’m happy about it all because I also like Keith. Strange to say that perhaps about one’s own kid because obviously I love him madly, but I also am grateful that I LIKE him too.Â
The entire time I was with them, I kept thinking about my first love…how new everything is etc. I felt old but I also felt proud of Keith and happy for him to be experiencing these things in his own life. I fully expect that Keith is now not going to crawl back into his crib, grab his bottle and take a nap ever again. I’ve accepted it now.   Almost. I asked Keith for pictures and asked for permission to blog ‘em. He said “Yes. You can.” So……look….totally sweet…
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