Best of Blog Awards Finalists Are Up!

Go check it out! And while you are there, please please please vote for my friend Michele in the Best Overall Blog. If you haven't read her yet, you should, she always has something sweet to say, and more often than not a fun game to play. One of her latest posts proves that she not only has one nice something to say she has seventy nice something's to say. If you haven't already go place your vote and let's get her that award her "community" so richly deserves!

Best of Blog Awards Finalists Are Up!

Go check it out! And while you are there, please please please vote for my friend Michele in the Best Overall Blog. If you haven't read her yet, you should, she always has something sweet to say, and more often than not a fun game to play. One of her latest posts proves that she not only has one nice something to say she has seventy nice something's to say. If you haven't already go place your vote and let's get her that award her "community" so richly deserves!

On A Lighter Note

I don't mean to make light of the previous subject, but if ya'll don't mind I'd like to get *off* the subject, so....

See my pretty sparkly's! I got these in my stocking for Christmas from Hubby. Well the ones he got were the ones he thought I wanted but they weren't the ones I had seen, so I just exchanged them a few days ago and have been loving them ever since. The color is so light that they change colors depending on what I'm wearing. Yesterday they were pink : ) I've wanted chandelier like earrings for forever but have never really liked anything that I've seen, I wanted something unique. Normally I just wear studs, so anything too heavy was out. These are absolutely perfect.

As An Update

...to the previous story. My brother has already introduced his fiancee to his ex-wife and somehow in a love/hate relationship they all get along. In some way they spent New Year's together and went out to breakfast this morning! Okay, so I'm going to leave this story alone and just hope for the best for everybody involved. But I will answer Girl's questions first. I may remove these posts later... it's just too much drama for me and it's NOT me, just part of what goes on in this crazy town. Does this parellal your Dad's swinger style? Heeee you're not the only one with drama in your family!

Yes, from what I've heard, she's pregnant, and my SIL is glad it's not her. My brother is around 31 or 32. The fiancee just got here on Tuesday so I'm not really sure about how she feels about our relationship with SIL. As far as being genuinely in love?! I wonder what is love. I liked Amber's post, and my comment on there was that love to me is a commitment. The "in love" feeling is all too often confused with lust. And I'm pretty sure it's just that that I see there. But I hope not. I really do. Because once you end something you must start over somewhere. It was teasing, but not a "you're a goofball cut it out" kind of teasing, more like a "here let me do it".

The most important thing right now is an easy transition for them. I love them both and whatever they decide to do is their decision, I'll still love them. But I really hope that they both, now all three, find a peace for themselves so that they are comfortable and confident in their lives. Can men be Tall Poppy's too?

On A Lighter Note

I don't mean to make light of the previous subject, but if ya'll don't mind I'd like to get *off* the subject, so....

See my pretty sparkly's! I got these in my stocking for Christmas from Hubby. Well the ones he got were the ones he thought I wanted but they weren't the ones I had seen, so I just exchanged them a few days ago and have been loving them ever since. The color is so light that they change colors depending on what I'm wearing. Yesterday they were pink : ) I've wanted chandelier like earrings for forever but have never really liked anything that I've seen, I wanted something unique. Normally I just wear studs, so anything too heavy was out. These are absolutely perfect.

As An Update

...to the previous story. My brother has already introduced his fiancee to his ex-wife and somehow in a love/hate relationship they all get along. In some way they spent New Year's together and went out to breakfast this morning! Okay, so I'm going to leave this story alone and just hope for the best for everybody involved. But I will answer Girl's questions first. I may remove these posts later... it's just too much drama for me and it's NOT me, just part of what goes on in this crazy town. Does this parellal your Dad's swinger style? Heeee you're not the only one with drama in your family!

Yes, from what I've heard, she's pregnant, and my SIL is glad it's not her. My brother is around 31 or 32. The fiancee just got here on Tuesday so I'm not really sure about how she feels about our relationship with SIL. As far as being genuinely in love?! I wonder what is love. I liked Amber's post, and my comment on there was that love to me is a commitment. The "in love" feeling is all too often confused with lust. And I'm pretty sure it's just that that I see there. But I hope not. I really do. Because once you end something you must start over somewhere. It was teasing, but not a "you're a goofball cut it out" kind of teasing, more like a "here let me do it".

The most important thing right now is an easy transition for them. I love them both and whatever they decide to do is their decision, I'll still love them. But I really hope that they both, now all three, find a peace for themselves so that they are comfortable and confident in their lives. Can men be Tall Poppy's too?

It's Getting Weird Up In Here

Now I'm wishing I had posted this before the New Year. Oh well. It's a new year, not a new life.

Hubby and I just recently met my brother's fiancee. From Ireland. She has a beautiful thick accent, and a gorgeous ring - it's similar to the one in the link only in platinum and the band goes under it as well and makes it even more gorgeous. She's pretty, and kind, although she did call my brother a "twat" (with the w quite pronounced and the "a" as in "apple" not in "ah") and "ediot" in the same sentence during our 5 minute meeting. Is that a good sign?

The Irish have this tradition where when a girl is engaged any other women that sees her engagement ring, whether married or not, takes off her ring, puts on the engagement ring and turns it 3 times towards her heart, making a wish for the bride, the groom, and herself. I wished for happiness and a close relationship with God for each of us. To me a wish is a prayer, and it doesn't matter if you share it, it'll still happen if it's meant to happen - maybe even more so.

The strange part of it is, he's divorced with 3 kids. I guess that doesn't seem so strange, but the youngest is 3, and the whole transition happened very slowly and very strangely. First they bought a house out in Texas and my brother was supposed to stay here and work and then move out there when they'd saved up a good chunk of money. Then he found a girlfriend, a pretty serious one. Then my sister-in-law decided she at least wanted her kids around their Dad and moved back. Girlfriend and brother broke up. Now a year or so later he takes off to Ireland for a week or two to meet a girl I'm thinking he met online - the first pics he sent me of her were her by herself in Ireland. A few weeks later the girl from Ireland comes here, she's his fiancee and supposedly going to have his baby.

My sister-in-law is very close to our family - so close that my Mother has said she's adopted her as her fifth daughter. She works for my parents, lives nearby, and her other family is far, far away. In other words, she's around her for the long haul. But my brother, her ex-husband, isn't.

I'm not depressed over this, just a little sad in the effect of it all and mulling it over and wondering how in the heck things ended up this way. Strange how life turns out.

It's Getting Weird Up In Here

Now I'm wishing I had posted this before the New Year. Oh well. It's a new year, not a new life.

Hubby and I just recently met my brother's fiancee. From Ireland. She has a beautiful thick accent, and a gorgeous ring - it's similar to the one in the link only in platinum and the band goes under it as well and makes it even more gorgeous. She's pretty, and kind, although she did call my brother a "twat" (with the w quite pronounced and the "a" as in "apple" not in "ah") and "ediot" in the same sentence during our 5 minute meeting. Is that a good sign?

The Irish have this tradition where when a girl is engaged any other women that sees her engagement ring, whether married or not, takes off her ring, puts on the engagement ring and turns it 3 times towards her heart, making a wish for the bride, the groom, and herself. I wished for happiness and a close relationship with God for each of us. To me a wish is a prayer, and it doesn't matter if you share it, it'll still happen if it's meant to happen - maybe even more so.

The strange part of it is, he's divorced with 3 kids. I guess that doesn't seem so strange, but the youngest is 3, and the whole transition happened very slowly and very strangely. First they bought a house out in Texas and my brother was supposed to stay here and work and then move out there when they'd saved up a good chunk of money. Then he found a girlfriend, a pretty serious one. Then my sister-in-law decided she at least wanted her kids around their Dad and moved back. Girlfriend and brother broke up. Now a year or so later he takes off to Ireland for a week or two to meet a girl I'm thinking he met online - the first pics he sent me of her were her by herself in Ireland. A few weeks later the girl from Ireland comes here, she's his fiancee and supposedly going to have his baby.

My sister-in-law is very close to our family - so close that my Mother has said she's adopted her as her fifth daughter. She works for my parents, lives nearby, and her other family is far, far away. In other words, she's around her for the long haul. But my brother, her ex-husband, isn't.

I'm not depressed over this, just a little sad in the effect of it all and mulling it over and wondering how in the heck things ended up this way. Strange how life turns out.