an interesting meme

Got this from ez

My “been there, done that” answers are in bold.

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said “I love you” and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game (and survived the crush afterwards) (Bristol Motor Speedway – 100k people, people!)
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight (give me a break)
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days (does an IV count?)
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad – and the Odyssey
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions (does it count that they never had any??? LOL
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life

plenty of thanks

Every year, I search for the words to describe how thankful I am for the many blessings I have in my life. Every year, I feel like I fail. At last year’s Thanksgiving dinner, I thanked my family for giving me so much, I thanked hubby for the incredible turnaround he’d made and how he’d changed all of our lives. I fought back tears as my son described how much he missed my grandparents and wished they could be with us, but I told him how grateful *I* was for having had them for so many years – So many people don’t have that opportunity to spend 35 years with their grandparents. I was so grateful to have to healthy, happy children, and to have my health, and hubby’s health. I was so grateful to have my parents, siblings and their children, even though they’re 200 miles away – they’re all healthy & basically happy.

This year began with me not knowing how things could be even better. I had no idea, at the beginning of the year, that things would change forever, yet again! I had no warning, no clue, that by the end of the year, we’d be readying for another baby – another whole person! My children, blessed again with good health – are my life. Who knew I could have room in my heart to include a third!

My young neighbor, a 23 yr old mom of 3, has had such a difficult year. I’m betting that her thanksgiving thoughts last year didn’t include the fact that her 5 yr old would be diagnosed with leukemia this year. That her youngest son’s first year would be spent on the road, constantly driving the oldest to and from treatments, doctor appointments, emergency rooms. How this 23 yr old kid handles that, I don’t know – will hopefully never know. Her plight makes me even MORE grateful that I’ve never had to face what she does – and it’s a daily struggle, I’m sure.

So, this year, again, I am thankful for my healthy kids, my soon to be 3rd child who seemingly is healthy as well, and for my extended family’s health. After that, it’s all gravy, isn’t it?

mmmmmm… graaaavy

Happy Thanksgiving to all that celebrate it… and try to give those that need it something to be grateful for, too.

validation lol

Goddess You scored 85% Dominance and 77% Technique!

You are, quite simply, mind-blowingly and unbearably hot.You would not just be a “good” dominatrix. You would be – hell, you *are* – a stunning and breathtaking sexual experience for whatever man is lucky enough to be captured by you. Whatever you do, don’t let your talents go to waste. Use them. Nurture them. Impart them to others. And, if all else fails, call me Thank you for taking my test, Ma’am – I hope we can meet someday.

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on Dominance You scored higher than 99% on Technique You scored higher than 99% on Intangibles

Link: The Could You Be A Good Dominatrix Test written by powerstruggle on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test

kind of?

So, I’m the owner/mod of a google group for women of bdsm.  I have the membership moderated, so that I have control of who joins, to make sure that the list remains what it’s supposed to.  People are asked to give their gender and age… and here’s one of the newest “requests”…

11-18-2006 12:16 am	from mxxxxx@hotmail.com
i’m 24 years old, 170cm hight, 70kg wight, kind of white.

I can understand the typos/spelling errors… but what the hell is “kind of white”? LOL

#3

For some, it’s no big secret that I was a BIG Dale Earnhardt Sr. fan. The day he died just about crushed me. His presence is still sorely obvious whenever I watch a race, and no, his son just doesn’t fit the bill.

So this morning, I was telling hubby, via IM, that we have 98 days until #3 comes. That got me to thinking hmmm… maybe we should just name him/her #3. I wondered, then, how many people, if any, had named their child #3. Hubby suggested “Tre” but no, Trey Parker of South Park, has forever soured me on that name. But the #3… it’s got pastabilities.

My daughter was born on 4/29/03, which was also Dale’s birthday. She weighed 7 lbs. 7 oz (he won 7 championships). No, her name isn’t Dale

The date of Dale’s last win (at Talladega)  is 10/15/00, came on my son’s birthday.
So maybe our 3rd child could also be a tribute to the man that I miss so maybe that’s what we’ll do… #3 will be #3.

hahahahahahahahaaaaa

yeah, I was bored today – can you tell?

Hi :)

I know, I know – I’ve been absent. I notice that my blog stats drop whenever I drop out, but sometimes, there’s just not a lot to say that isn’t a rant about the latest fucked up example of humanity. There’s so many to choose from.

But Ok, I will catch you up on me.

I’m still not on needles for the gest. diabetes, so this is good. I hit the 6 month mark last week, and am gratefully on the downward slide towards February and meeting the newest soccer player to grace my uterus.

I’m not having much sex, at least satisfying sex. That sucks in lots of ways, trust me on this. Our 3 yr old daughter has decided that sleeping in mommy & daddy’s bed is INFINITELY better than sleeping where she’s been designated TO SLEEP. So about 3-4 nights a week, she finds her way in around 2-3am. This is generally followed by me stumbling downstairs, hungry and looking for food because when I had to get up to pee for the nth time, it woke the baby up and his/her movings around woke up my stomach, which, in turn, said ‘FEEED MEEEEEE’. Yes, I know I know…. “it’s just getting you ready for after the baby gets there”. to that, I respond..

BITE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So there I sit on the couch, playing this damned game Runescape that I’m addicted to now and eating some damned thing that’s most likely unhealthy for me (fritos & Cabot veggie dip) but tastes good at 3:30am.

So by the time that hubby stumbles down the stairs at 6:45 to get ready for work, sex is out of the question.

What’s that you say? Why don’t you do it at night??? WELL, because that same 3 yr old has ALSO decided that it’s MUCH BETTERERER to fall asleep WITH MOMMY.

Sigh.

And by the time hubby comes to bed, I’m already asleep.

So that leaves the weekend. This past weekend, to be specific. Because of the growing belly AND hernia, the only plausible position for sex is me on my back, legs thrown over hubby’s hips while he lays on his side. This works, well… OK. I typically have to use another ummm… source and even that’s not working recently. So anyways, there we were… hubby gets to that point of no return, reaches up and grabs hold of the mattress for that extra thrusting edge and …………………………………………………………………..

RIPS SOMETHING LOOSE in his shoulder.

So at the moment he climaxes, he also goes into this sort of major body cramp… was a bit unsettling, because at this point, I had no idea he’d hurt himself. I just thought he had REALLY enjoyed himself.

He was useless for the rest of the weekend LOL He could barely move – couldn’t turn his head, nothing. Was sad. and kinda funny LOL

Ummm… in other news, not much. The classes I teach haven’t been going all that well … which means that the place I teach at hasn’t been doing their homework to find out what people want.

I’ve been enthralled with the brutal and painful honesty that is Melinda’s first couple of months of mommyhood. It’s so hard to watch someone go through it the hard way – and not be able to really convince her that it WILL get better. I remember thinking, with both of my kids, that they hated me. They were these little, tiny humans who had, for reasons unknown to me, decided to hate me and punish me. I was a complete failure as a mother – not once, but TWICE. My son would hate me for having a 2nd child. He would resent me. And his father. These were the feelings I had those first few weeks and I know (now) that I’m not the only one who feels that way. We just don’t talk about it.

She is. and I’m so glad!

I wish I had a blog back in 2003 when I had my daughter and went through the struggles I did with her. You can bet that this time around, I will talk about it. If you read it, fine. If you don’t, that’s fine too

In the meantime, I will continue to offer my unjudging support to my net.friend, Melinda, and hope that I can get through the next 15 weeks without losing what’s left of MY mind