BIG RED PEN AND OTHER THOUGHTS

     This drawing is for the ladies who read and comment for me, especially lately.  I have been soooo, omg, so out of sorts lately. 

 IDK. But I’m so glad to have all of you girls to laugh with, to comiserate with, to just know that someone is there.    T-H-A-N-K  Y-O-U

 Today it rained.  All day again.  Nevertheless.  The day went fast.  I didn’t think we would get a lot done but we did.  Having the third employee now learning to do some of the work, is more than kewl.  I can breathe.

  When we are typing certain things now, we have a big old laugh at one of our “big” bosses. (we have so darn many)  He is someone who paperwork has to go through to get approved for awards and such, and often, we will type up a very very nice award or medal for a soldier only for him to take his big red pen

(yes.  like a teacher)

and line through in red what he doesn’t like, and often it is some what of an insignificant of a change like a substituted word, a word he likes better. 

  Today, he kicked back i think about a dozen of these certificates to one of my co-workers and boy she was MAD.  cuss words were flying.   We have decided what this person is getting for Christmas. 

 A red pen with his name on it!  grrr… it wouldn’t be so bad, but the paper used for all these certificates is sooo expensive.   

  ”the man” was in a mood.  we actually argued at work today…yes, in front of people.  I felt sick afterward, not literally, but kind of like we’d reached a new low.  A WTF moment if you will.

 He remained in a bad mood for all evening while I downloaded some new tunes for my MP3 player for future gym workouts.   I finally got to talk  to him, but we didnt get far.   Butting heads.  then my grown daughter called.    somewhat of a relief. 

 

I think my life is a little bit like the recent weather in Kansas.  There is a low pressure system, swirling about overhead causing prolonged periods of rain and or wintry mix.  

   

The good thing about tonight is that the girls were in a great mood and in a mood to cooperate fully with bedtime and cleaning up and such. 

 I did cook tonight because it was my turn.

  It’s late now and I do have to sleep but….DON’T FEEL LIKE IT.  lol. 

 Tommorrow is training day, but if it rains I will be late because I will be taking the girlz to school.  Lucky me.  Bring on da’ rain….no.  scratch that. 

 make it stop.

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“Got no feel, I got no rhythm
I just keep losing my beat
I’m ok, I’m alright
Ain’t gonna face no defeat
I just gotta get out of this prison cell
Someday I’m gonna be free, Lord!Find me somebody to love
Can anybody find me somebody to love? “~QUEEN/SOMEBODY TO LOVE

A very bloggy day

  Is blogging like high school?

 

That went thru my mind today as I looked at how some people get literally dozens and dozens of comments on the daily, and some people only a few. 

 

 The bloggy content isn’t really different from blog to blog, at least from the ones I have seen.  

 Well, a lot of people don’t post negative blogs, I know that.  Maybe that is the equalizer?  i have quite a few negative blogs.  because I’m such a positve person don’tcha know?  *wink wink*

 

  and how about commenting?  If people comment, do you then feel obligated to reply? 

 

and  then if people reply a LOT or vice versa, do you then feel obligated to blogroll them?

 How about if the person is new to your page?  do you then feel wrong if you don’t go visit theirs and leave a comment? 

 

 cuz if blogging was like high school, friends,  I’d be like a whisper in the hallways.  No one even NOTICED me in high school, but I will tell you this. 

 Those who got to know me were pretty close. 

 

     Anyhoo.  I’m still journaling.  I’m occasionally *chick ranting*. 

I’m still doing once a week photo essays.  I still try the occasional humor (is this thing on?) 

 and sometimes I post about an interesting news or event.  that’s it. 

 I’m not trying to win ratings, or stats or whatever.

 

 I just happen to like company.

 

 

   So Thursday morning.  My last day at home with little A.  Her dad will stay with her tommorrow.  I don’t as yet know if it was good for me to be off all week.  I’m sooo lazy now even though I for sure did more work than if I went to work. 

 

 

  This morning brought a wonderful downpour and it was definitely pillow weather.  Until I heard…

“Mom,  can you drive me to school?”

what?  nooooo!!!! agh. 

 

Me:  what time?

Her: NOW.

(apparently she hadn’t noticed I was wearing only ___________)

 

Yes, and the weather outside was really nasty.  especially since I drove her to school in pitch dark, pouring rain and then discovered I was driving with daytime running lights on the whole time.  How I did not get a ticket is beyond me.

 

 

     So yes, I’m sad today.  I’m a tad angry. 

I had an intrusion on my computer which then in turn forced me to reinstall everything…

EVERY thing. 

 

 

 Some childhood pictures were lost that I hadn’t uploaded to WordPress yet.  I’m really upset about that.

 

I had to go thru the whole thing with getting on the phone with some guy in India (thankyou DEEPAK) and I was on 2 HOURS with this person, reinstalling virus prot. and yada yada and nothing would work, so I had to start from scratch and aggghhh, it’s such a pain in the ass! 

 

Any way,  the rain, yeah.  it made it all just a little better.  because little A and I slept like til lunchtime.  and just falling asleep with that rain pounding on the roof, made me unconscious lickety split, to all of the  potential azzzzwipes in the world.

 

 

  I have work tommorrow (yay Friday)  I will not be saying yay when I get my lightweight paycheck tho.    

 

So the man came home brooding again.  His eyebrows were bunched up and he was frowning, legs tucked under him on the couch.

 He stayed late at work again. 

 kept his hugs to himself again.

  “what’s for dinner?” again.  

 once I brought it to his attention that being alone all day sucked and that now that he was home,  I still felt alone, he apologized and hugged me.

   then went upstairs to watch WRESTLING.   

okay then.    At some point I went up too,  little huggy kissy thing going on. I figured i would kickstart him a little.

 

  “Renee, I am trying to watch this”   Okay then. strike two.

 

  At another point I went upstairs again….you guessed it.  He’s snoring to beat the band.  

 

 

Blogging is this “Girlz” best friend! Believe it!

Sweetiegirlz Weblog is about more than just pictures of flowers and tall buildings;  history and stranger’s faces that smile.  It’s also about me.

A quirky, backwards growing, child at heart,  who’s name means of all things:

REBORN  

That is so very telling right there. 

  In fact, I didn’t start doing photo essays and other things until well into the blog.   My blog wasn’t photography in the beginning, I just kind of fell into doing the photos also.

 

 

In the process of doing photography as a hobby, I’ve created photo galleries that strangers have said I can actually turn into something real, something solid, as in… ?  Well, we’ll see.

 

 

  In the beginning, my blog was about me, and my personal journey.  I’m not alone. 

 

 

 On any given day, thousands are writing about their personal experiences in life, their everyday struggles, their hopes, their dreams and their lives. 

  WHY??  Why personal?  Why Online?  

 

 

Why make your home life a type of open book? you might ask.

 

 

Well, for me, I was a divorcing (back then)mother of 4 (2 at home) kids, with all of my aloneness circling me like a suffocating blanket, and  nothing but my job holding me back from total obscurity. 

 Blogging helped me thru some of the toughest times in my life, and it still is helping today. I truly believe that if people didnt have the power of the WWW to get through some of the things in their lives,  life would be a wholllle lot bleaker, a whole lot sadder,  a whole lot more lonely than it is right now…

  I started making online “friends”. 

 Friends like Sly and Alex, who have been through anxiety attacks and other gripping novel-like situations and I can really really get them like they “get” me.

 

 

  Friends like like Prometheus and Tony, and Planetross,and his buddy Kelly Pettit,  Gary,  who make me smile and laugh, 

 

 Friends like Deb , who I’ve ACTUALLY MET in person from across the miles,  who are understanding and sweet, and have been there from day one. 

 

Later came photography friends like Chris on another blogging site,Pat,  Jean Claude,  Raven and some others   Recently Online buds are commenting from everywhere, and whom I can really identify with, like Jean (has been shopping) and Terri Terri.  .  

 There are also people

 like Rich,

 who don’t have a blog but are old, true friends and come by and visit often with uplifting advice, and  information for me that I didn’t know.

 

  and Viv,  who reads in the shadows  but like your favorite pair of jeans is always there… 

 

People who stay back in the shadows and read and have also recently virtually “MET” me, like XioMarie who I see at work most days, and  a small town dad(sorry I don’t have your link)

 I gotta tell you people, I’m loving interacting with everyone..

Without You,  I couldn’t have gotten by some of the roughest bumps in my life… 

I’m not really ashamed of what I do.  

 In fact, my blog is my blog BECAUSE it is so personal. 

 

 

 I can look back on my life over the last ONE year and Eight MONTHS and really see how I’ve grown…how I messed up, how I have potential in places, and how my family has survived inspite of ourselves.

   

Only recently have people from WORK been reading my blog.  like in the past couple months…

  You see, there’s something about work that brings about gossip and misunderstanding. 

 

 

 It never was my intention to have people from work

 reading my blog, because recently,  someone who’d been at work, made a stupid comment (that I deleted)  

 

Congratulations YOU:

  In my wholllllle time of blogging for a whole year and eight months, I’ve only had 3 stupid comments,

 and this was one of them.  

  You

 who mixed up my blog with a “forum”

  a place where people discuss topics and debate topics etc… that’s where you need to comment… not here. 

 

 

 This is my blog, with my photos, and my personal life because I choose to post here, whether you like me or not, or agree with anything or not.

 

Not many people “get” me, especially when I am trying to be funny and fail.

 

   If you need a place to put your opinion, I hear WordPress has this great blogging site… Get your own blog!

*now if you’ll excuse me it’s 2:46 in the morning  and I have to work tommorrow.

Sunday Photo Essay~Art Weekend~Part 2 Chalk Walk & a big surprise!

 

 

From across the country, a fellow wordpress blogger has brought me emotional support for over a year now. 

 MORE THAN A YEAR people!

  we’ve written back and forth, read each other’s blogs prayed for each other, and you know what?

  When I met her and part of her family today,  I felt like I had known her my whole life.   It’s amazing. 

 She allowed Doug and I to join her and her son’s family for lunch downtown Kansas City, and we talked as if we just happened to be part of their lives for a while already.  It was awesome. 

 And if you have a chance to read:  You did what?  http://dobegil.wordpress.com/

you will find Dobegil becoming a friend to you too!  Her and her beautiful family sure made our day, and all I can say is:  Thanks Deb and thank YOU  WordPress! 

 

 

 

This event was a  pleasant surprise to stumble upon for  us, and provides the 2nd part of this photo essay for you. 

The  awesome detail of a mermaid on a sidewalk drawing

 

 

Ya’ll know Sweetiegirlz by now.  I just LOVE talking to strangers. 

 Art has long been a fascination for me, so I began to talk with Annette and Suzi,

 (Annette Funicello and Suzanne Pleshette she reminds me with a trick to remember their names later lol!) 

 Annette is calmly sorting colors while Suzi is concentrating hard on finishing the mermaid.  They wear knee pads and their clothing is already  colorful from the early morning work.  

  Both are artists, I believe she also said  both are art teachers.  

 ”[art] It’s in everyone” Annette explains, to Doug, who has asked how they do it.

 I stand fascinated for awhile watching Suzi study a small rendering of what she’s doing on the sidewalk and then painstakingly detailing it out.   I ask if they mind if I photograph them.  “No we don’t mind, and  no one else out here will mind either!” 

   So I did.  Big thanks to you ladies!  For the interview.  and if I got any part of it wrong, please correct me!  :0)  (((hugs))) 

 

 

 

 

*some of the other artist’s renderings. 

 

 

 

 

 

It says cloudy with a chance of MEATBalls! lol.

 

 

I just had to add my own rendering signed but not numbered haha!

Extreme Meme

You’ve been tagged.  Answer these EXTREME questions.

1. What is one of the most courageous things you have ever done?

Laugh all you want.  I crawled under a mobile home at 3 in the morning with a friggin’ candle to rescue an abandoned kitten.  It had been crying for two days straight.  It was still too small to eat regular food on it’’s own. 

 

2.  Write something you wouldn’t dare to tell someone to their face!  (no names please)

You look like a straight up creepo molester but I can’t be sure.

 

 

3.  Wildest place you ever….

There’s this field, in the summer in the full moon that whispers my name.

 

 

4.  What law would you have banished immediately?

I’d be more likely to make new ones than banish any.

 

 

5.  If someone gave you a dare that you WOULD do or have done, what would it be/what was it?

I would dare to crash a party/wedding reception just for the food and fun.

 

I tag the following people. Link back to me.  Keep it clean.

The dudes:

Michael, Ross,Chris, Russ,

The divas:

Dobegil, Sly, Conni, L

AND ANYONE ELSE WHO WANTS TO PLAY!!!!

Something For The Cheese

This weekend.  During photo shooting.  I saw something at a children’s art exhibit from a school in Kansas City.  A light bulb went on.  I immediately thought:  ‘The Cheese’ would lurrrrrrvvvvve this.  and you can visit The cheese’s blog here.  You really must if you like funny word play.  All hail The Cheese! 

 

I wuv you…I so do.

Hi peeps, how was your (collective) day? 

 I thought about you all when I was reading your blogs today… 

 

 

 I thought about if you guys were well, or happy, or frustrated or amused.

 

 

  I thought about how Single for a Reason (Pat) got the perfect shot of the sun on that tree, the joy of which only a fellow photography freak like me can appreciate. 

 

 

 I thought about how I am the Cheese (Ross) muses about a lot of ordinary junk but turns a lot of his thoughts into prose, or hilarity, and how the world needs a few more Rosses to muse on our ordinary junk. 

 

 

 I thought about how Headslammer (sorry your first name eludes me) blogs about some very deep thoughts and life experiences that many men find it hard to get into, and that is why reading his blog is so intriguing to me.

 

 

 I thought about how Just Humor Me’s blog keeps me cracking up continuously and sometimes it’s surreal when I am sad to be laughing too, but then laughter has always been the best medicine.

 

 

  I thought about You did what? (dobegil) who is faithful and constant and down to earth, and about how much our lives have actually mirrored each other, and how God brings people together.

 

 

  I thought about The World’s gaze (some french guy (girl?) ,hee hee) who posts the most beautiful images (or ugly) from far off places that normally would’ve stayed hidden and unappreciated for much much longer than the photo artist’s had ever intended. 

 

 

 I thought about Turkish Prawn today, and how his posts are always fresh and riveting due to the true talent of applying that special author/writer’s descriptive passage to every blog he does.

 

 

Turning My life upside Down Under(AlexBettyLou)~I’m still thinking of you too and how we have both wrestled with anxiety and how you are starting off to a new land soon, new EVERY thing!  All I can say is:  Take one day at a time.  I know it’s a cliche, but it’s ever so true. 

 

 

  I have forgotten some…NO  it’s not true.  I don’t forget. 

 Those of you not on blogroll, and most that are… are on my blog surfer, where you may or may not notice Sweetiegirlz lurking. 

 

 

I’m here, reading.  I’m here enjoying, and absorbing and constant in my search for your wisdom, laughter, and sincerity. 

 

 

 Some on Blogspot like Post Secrets keep me in awe of the human race.

  Y-not (Tony),  I’m grateful for your sweet Dixie posts and your posts on funny things like Flat Tony whom so many of us have enjoyed over the past week. 

 Those who drop in with no blogs in tow, but comment anyway.  I love you too.  Rich, Viv, Cuz I’m the Mom… others. 

Guess Who’s Blogging??

It took me FOR and EVER to get this person to blog! 

  For months he’s read mine and for months I’ve tried to show him how beneficial it is for the soul. 

 So please< (I’m begging)  Leave him a comment to show your love.  Tell him Sweetiegirlz sent you and welcome him and his blog(link) 

 to the blogosphere. 

Especially if you like these:

 

 

 

The Depths Of Me~Survey

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Get to know me a little better. The questions that really help you to know me. Have fun.
If you could live in any other place, where & why?          ***     Hawaii!!  Ocean, snorkeling, paradise, surfing
1)  What animal best represents you & why?                      ***   A bird who loves to escape
2)  What is the craziest thing you ever did?                       ***  swam in a nudist pool in Germany
3)   If you could meet anyone, who would it be & why?         ***  God/Jesus Christ
4)    If you could go back in time & live in any decade, which would it be & why?    *** I wouldn’t.
5)    If you could have any superpower what would it be?                           ***     Mind Reading
6)    Whos is your ultimate celebrity crush?                            ***     Duane Johnson
7)     What color best represents you?                                   ***     BLUE
8)      What would your life’s theme song be?                  ***      I’m like a bird/NELLY FURTADO
9)      Who would you cast to play you in a movie?           ***      Jennifer Garner
10)    What celebrity best represents your vision of fashion?    ***      Halle Berry
11)     What would your life movie be called?                      ***    Swimming Against the Tide
12)     What is the greatest music video of all time?                ***    I cannot pick just one!
13)      If you could star in any t.v. show, which one would it be?       ***   cold case
14)      What vehicle best represents you?                                      ***    a small truck with a short bed
15)      If you could bring back 1 famous person from the dead for a day,     *** Leave the dead alone
16)      If you became president, what would you do first?                          *** Secure U.S. Border
17)      If you got one tattoo, what would it be?        *** I’m actually thinking about doing that soon!
18)      If you were on MTV’s Made, what would you ask to be?                      *** Girl fighter!
19)      Who do you think is the hottest athlete?                            *** Derek Jeter
20)      Who do you think is the hottest actor/actress?                   *** Duane Johnson/ Halle Berry
21)      Who do you think is the hottest musician/singer/rapper?    *** Adam Levine of MAROON 5
22)       Who do you think is the hottest t.v. reality star?        *** Steve from the show TAPS
23)       What sport best represents you & why?             ***  Track and field~I get to run away alot
24)      What is your most missed memory of childhood?      *** going to Grandma’s cabin in MICHIGAN
25)       What is your greatest accomplishment?                          *** Having and raising 4 children
Take this survey or other MySpace Surveys at PimpSurveys.com

Not One For Celebrating…But….

 

And These Stick men know how to PAR—TAY!  Even they cannot believe Sweetiegirlz has pretty much written a book on wordpress by now.  If only I was that dilligent about actually working on a book! 

 

  It’s just that I started out this blog as an online diary, for venting Sweetiegirlz’ feelings.  I didn’t care about who read what or how personal it was because, yes, while knowing you all were there, i was doing this for myself.

 

  Going through hard times in life, and putting everything on the back burners of my mind only got me a slew of big fat anxiety attacks.

  Through the blogs, I discovered, wow!  Not only is life really really a great thing when viewed through the eyes of the other many many many bloggers out there, (40,396 hits!)  I have learned many things along  the way.

 

   I’ve been comforted by people, comiserated with people, (crushed on one of you, naughty me),  and co-mingled with a LOT of you from all over the world–through the wonderful, POWERFUL, and very useful means of the internet! 

 

Here’s to another 500~thankyou WordPress!

Love and Stuff with ((((hugs)))) and smoochesxxxx,

SG