Nostalgia.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
This is where I grew up.  It's quite changed from the days when a 5 year old could go play outside with nothing but mom on the porch.

If you zoom in on Nichols rd, at the corner of Montauk Hyw, You'll see the apartments I grew up in.  Most of us knew each other, visited each other, sat outside and socialized.

I just did an entire page on how it was either our parents, or theirs, that forgot how to teach respect.  I'd have been terrified to send my kids out the way I did when I was a kid.  And that has entirely to do with the fact that somewhere along the way, too many people forgot to teach their kids to respect others, and themselves.

  Thankfully we moved out halfway to the back of beyond, and I feel a bit better.  They have nowhere to go unless they get a ride into town which gives me so much more control over what happens to them.

I wonder, if someone had told my mom, when I was out playing somewhere (in her sight) at 6 or 7 years old, that her grandchildren would never have the kinds of freedom I had at that moment, what she would have said to them.

Share your favorite childhood memory?

 And as usual,
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UPDATE;  Apparently the link takes you to your own personal google maps page.  *sigh*  It was supposed to take you to Bayport NY..........

Blog slacker

But I have an excuse!  I've actually been working on things!

A Glade, and bath tissue cover.  I wish the air freshener cover could have looked more alike, but with having to expand, it just wasn't cooperating.

 A lap blanket made of granny squares I made out of the left over yarn from the Christmas doll.
I also have piles of coasters, but I'm having difficulty matching one of the colors for the border, and I don't want to show just some of them.  I've discovered I *love* working with cotton!

I also had a bibliophile moment, and dove head-first into the Eve Duncan series, from beginning to end.  So at least half my time, I have my face in a book.

Aaaaand, the *DRAMA*.  All I can say, is #2 is durned lucky I don't have the contact info for any of my in-laws, because he nearly sent me over the edge this week.  I have never beaten my children, but I was having happy UFC fantasies!  (And there are no words for the depth of hatred I have for all things = televised fighting).  The drama continues, and the crimes keep-a-coming.  

Dear ADHD, 

*SUCKIT*!!!!!!!!!!!!

xoxoxo
 

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Huh.

My Booger baby

#1, 5th birthday

My bi-monthly pity party has arrived.   Every now and then, something triggers it, and all the little things that I've shrugged off since the last one, gang up on me, and I spend a half hour mopey, and weepy.  

These are my rotten, willful, never listen to me, teenagers.  *I WANT MY BABIES BACK!*  Scanning old pictures into the computer from my own childhood and on, for my dad, and I came across these.

 I was so excited because I ordered a new all in one scanner/ printer.  I wanted to print out some of the pictures to send to less tech minded family members, (less than me?!) and my old one, no matter how often I clean it, makes lines on pics, so... It came! and I put it on the table to unpack it, and thought, "Well, that's an odd sound...." only to open it and find that the entire scanning bed was nothing but glass shards.  Now I have to wait for the sender to get it back, credit my account, and order, and wait for delivery of a new one.  *sigh*

I have also discovered that I *hate* looking for, and applying for, a new job.  

Okay, I knew that one.

All that, and the daily aggravations, kids, cleaning, etc...
I've decided a small pity party every other month, is a good way to clean up, and get rid of all that stuff for a while to keep your mood up the rest of the time.  I know that I don't have a lot of problems, and the ones I have pale in comparison to others issues.  

But you feel what you feel, and it's okay to acknowledge it now and then.

Anyone up for a pity party?  The table is large, and misery loves company. (:

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I did it!

I found a new camera for a helluvalot less money than the one I *really* wanted, but it's just as good, and OMG! THE PICS!

My old baby 

This would normally be an evening picture,  No idea what got into them.

The ripple blanket I made for a friend, expecting a girl!

Have you ever seen a cat sleep like this?!

Todays stormy sky... Cloudy, bright sun, and snow. 

I look forward to using this camera a lot more often.  No more blur! 

I'm working on a few things, more coasters, and this skirt too...   http://www.bernat.com/pattern.php?PID=4914

 And what have you been up to?

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In like a lion...

We had *rockin'* thunder and lightning here last night!   Can that count as our "In like a lion" and just count the rest of the month as "lamb"?  Really, it's been so mild up here this winter, that I'm still waiting for the shoe to drop. I won't feel safe until June!

 I know it looks like a rock, but that's the back end of a muskrat. (:  It lives under the big stump next to our creek, and he's been out and about a lot the past few weeks.  Does that make it spring?

I've done it again.  I'm such a procrastinator!  I think I may need to simplify my life, but I don't really know where it could be any simpler.  Sometimes I think I may actually be the reason my kids have ADHD, because I think I might have it.... But it isn't genetic from me... I was tested. (:

I know there are things to do, but as soon as I remember it has to be done, I get lost in something else and forget all about the other.  The terribly important things get done, but things like cleaning the bathroom, or vacuuming my bedroom, get lost in the "I can do that in a little bit, let me just do this first." part of the ether.  Or "I need to have this first, before I can do that." and then I forget to get the needed thing for the wanted chore.

And I'm SO bad about pictures... I have a bunch I got off the card, and haven't done anything with, and a bunch back on the card that I haven't uploaded yet, and a bad track record for even finding things to photograph in the first place!  In my defense, I don't really go out unless I have to, and, I need a new camera. Mine is starting to be fuzzy, no matter how I try to focus.  But the one I want is several hundred dollars, and I can't justify paying that for a toy, I just *can't*!  I look at it in the store, and pick it up and play, and then sigh and put it back.

Got any favorite distractions?  Well, as usual,

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Why is there a title needed?

Sorry, I'm feeling silly.
With a winter that's felt like spring all season, who could blame me?

Now we are in the throes of winter break.  It's Wednesday, and the whines of "I'm bored" are at full volume.  I have decided to be a bad mommy.  Today, we'll be going to the movies to see the new Ghost Rider movie, in 3D no less, and tomorrow, we are having a movie marathon with all the junk food you could possibly want, and more, including breakfast for dinner. (:
Bad mommy, because there is no real outdoors stuff there, and with weather like this, I should really kick their butts out to run around.

And this is funny... I know it's dark, it was 1 am!

http://youtu.be/2OlVcwlCJ1g

My D-dead D-dasha!

Good luck with the kiddies, and as usual...

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St. Valentines' Day

As a cross between a hopeless romantic, and man hating, guy basher, I have mixed feelings about this holiday.  It was never one of my favorites, I don't much like the colors red or pink. And I never liked the idea that it's acceptable for us to ignore each other, or take each other for granted, just so long as we make sure to be good little consumerists at V'day, birthdays, and whatever other obligatory "you're my one and only" holiday you choose.

I want a handful of spring wildflowers, nasty, dirty and half in bloom, just because he thought it was pretty.  I want to have him look at me, out of the blue, and say, "You're pretty".  I want him to hold my hand in the store, just because.  I don't need diamonds, and I'm insulted by the commercials that brainwash men into thinking that's the only thing we want.

It's silly, but *this* is one of my top 3 favorite love songs. At this moment, it's #1, but that changes with my mood...

http://youtu.be/h1MeazrV2qk

*This* is what I want the man of my dreams to feel when he thinks of me.  This song makes me think of true love... not the theme to Kay Jewelers.

Sometimes I think you only get one soul mate in a lifetime.  One perfect person for you.  Sometimes I think you might get a choice of a few that come into your life.  Either way, I believe with everything I am, that you need to not compromise.  Never be with Mr. May-be.  Or Could- be, or Will-be.  Because they almost always aren't.

Whatever you do for the holiday, Have a great day!

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