Everything Back to Normal

Michael finally came home and things are settling in again. It is very different when your spouse comes back from a deployment. You have this long period of independence that you have to get used to and then all of a sudden you have to change again and adjust back to the way things were before. Except with every deployment you realize how much more or less you need your other half.

I hear many stories of how husbands come back and they come home to an empty house because their wives packed up and left and took everything. Am I a minority? Am I the only one who was very happy to see him? It sure looked like it at the airport. I got all dressed up and decked out to surprise Michael at the airport. I didn't see many other wives. The few that I saw didn't look too thrilled.

I am very happy to have him back home. Now to go back to work or finding a new job...that is a whole different story!

I'm Not Holding My Breath..

I'm not suprised, I'm just disappointed. The bad news is Michael won't be coming home when he is supposed to. He was supposed to be here within the next couple weeks. I will just have to wait longer to see him. Unfortunately, he will be missing Ember's birthday. That is the military for you. The good news is he is alive and I would wait for him forever!

Need a Job

Michael comes home withing the next month and we have decided to buy a new home. I've just come to the realizatioin that I need a job. I can't stay home all day and play World of Warcraft. I still work at Hot Topic, but it is only one day a week right now. I was told that I could get my old management position back, unfortunately, the District Manager that told me this is no longer with the company. I'm sure I could probably get the position back, but there is this problem with my daughter going to 1/2 day kindergarten. I'll tell you it is fucked up. It inconveniences so many parents that want to work. But enough bitching.

I need a job. Part-time or full-time, it doesn't matter. I would love to do an office job that requires no dress code. Any job that requires no dress code. That's one of the reasons I love working at HT. Of course, this is not always practical because society still has its head up its ass. Either way I need to find a job.

Life..It Hits You Like A Truck!

Ah, back from Hawaii! Wow, where do I begin? So many things to take care of since I've been gone. House, bills, school, work, MMO's...back to my real life again.

Not even an hour outside trimming the bushes and I can't take it anymore. I'll finish the other two bushes later. Just from cutting those two shrubs, I have become more tanned, I'm on the verge of being toasted crispy from all that sun in Hawaii and now lets add another layer of burned skin. I hate this tan!

My landlord called me the other morning. He wants to put this house on the market again. You know what that means? It means random people will be dropping by to look at your personal belongings in the house that they might buy. I hate that! OK, we're moving. Not sure if we're renting or if we're buying, but we need to get out of this house. To this very day, we still do not have a lease or rental agreement. Are we even supposed to be living here? So I've been looking at houses. Nice houses, really cheap right now, good first time home buyer programs. Now to wait for Michael to come home to us.

My bills have been piling up while I was on vacation. My credit card conveniently expired while I was in Hawaii. No I'm not that incompetent. I did call before I left Hawaii to see if they could send it to me earlier or send it to me there. Of course not! I figure I can afford to wait til I come back to pay my bills. I have that taken care of.

The girls need to be registered for school. Uggh, maybe next week, they don't start til the end of this month anyway. They need school clothes and school supplies. Again, next week.

I go back to work tomorrow at 11. Notice it is 5 o'clock in the morning and I still haven't gone to bed yet. Yep I'm good on that one. Maybe I'll just stay up and play WoW til I have to get ready for work. Good idea!

Almost done!

I haven't really been posting anything in my blogs, except for my mobile blog. I am still on vacation in Hawaii. Sadly, all good things must come to an end. I have less than a week left here. I think we've been here long enough. I got to see my oldest daughter that I miss very much, she's grown up so much. I have seen my family and had nice long conversations with them. I met up with a few of my very good friends and hope to meet a few more, although I know I won't.

The first thing I noticed when I stepped off of the plane and out of the airport terminal is the smell. Hawaii has the nicest smell. Definitely a good change from smelling the air in Las Vegas, which is very comparable to dirt. There are so many things that amazes me when I see it. The beaches are so nice here. The weather is hot and humid, but bearable and it is a nice change. There is always a cool breeze blowing and of course that sweet smell. I remember why I never really used lotion here, my skin is so soft because of the moisture in the air. Oh the rain, I miss Hawaii rain. You can run around and play in the rain without worrying about getting struck by lightning. I even miss the water here. Not just the beach water, I miss the tap water. Never too cold and always good to drink straight out of the pipes.

There's always the bad things about a place, but I really don't mind most of it since I have lived with them for over 20 years. I never fail to pick up that pigeon english accent whenever I talk to my grandma on the phone. Can you imagine me here? I was never very fond of the pigeon accent, no offense to everyone here but, I think it sounds stupid. But of course, I catch myself talking like that too.

Then there is all the critters that run around. I am so used to not having them around. Definitely had to adjust the girls to them. Lizards, geckos, roaches and ants mostly, I still don't mind.

Sweat! So much sweating here! The weather is nice but I could do without sweating like a pig.

I'm glad I got to bring the girls to Hawaii to see what it's all about. My girls don't want to leave. They want to live here. It probably won't happen. We'll be back though. We did get those free tickets, so when Michael gets back from his "vacation" in Iraq, we'll be thinking of taking another trip to Hawaii.

Airports...bleh!

I fully expected to be landing in Hawaii right now, but unfortunately I am sitting at home instead. When things go the wrong way at an airport, it usually means a very long day. I was supposed to be on the plane at 5:30pm and taking off at 6:10pm. We boarded a little late because the mechanics needed to fix a light bulb. Yes, a light bulb. No problem! We then board the plane and proceed to sit for about an hour and a half because a computer in the cockpit is having trouble resetting.

After waiting for a long time, Ember casually mentions that her butt doesn't feel good. They show an episode of the Simpsons on the plane to tide the kids over. Of course, it does nothing for the two crying babies sitting immediately behind me. But, I'm not going to complain, I know how it feels and I feel for the parents doing everything they can to calm them down, especially when you have people giving you evil eye looks because we have all been sitting in a plane for an hour or so and baby is cranky. I can remedy it with some aspirin and a pair of headphones and some music.

We are finally deplaned and sent back to gate C7. We go directly to Burger King which is across from the seating area and stand in a long line for a $9 combo meal. You airport bastards! Of course, after I buy the meal we are then directed to come to the podium to pick up some complimentary $10 vouchers for each of us and $150 worth of discounts for the next time we travel. Nice!

We wait for another hour in the seating area after some struggling with the bathroom and carry-ons. Countless announcements of "We are so very sorry, but we don't know what is going on or when you are leaving."

Raven and Ember make conversation with a family sitting next to us at the airport. The man of the family, a middle aged man from Utah, speaks to them in their own language. Fascinating. Of course, he is a pediatrician in St. George on a vacation to Hawaii with his family. I feel bad for them because 1/4 of their vacation is being cut short because of a plane problem.

But after the concluding announcements, everyone is happy. The bad news is the flight is delayed til tomorrow morning. The good news is the airlines is providing free transportation and accommodations at a hotel. They are also giving everyone on the flight a free round-trip ticket. I can live with that.

I bypass the line for the shuttle and hotel vouchers, since I can call my friend, James, to come pick us up and take us back home. Besides, all our clothes is still in the undercarriage of the plane, and I really don't feel like waiting another 3 hours in a very long line. As I leave, I hear the stewardess call for a new line to form with the disabled and families with children...nice timing. Oh well, I do end up waiting outside in humid 100+ degree weather for about 1/2 hour since James gets stuck in traffic. Ember is in tears and I'm sweating like a pig. But that's OK, I can shower, change my clothes, write some blogs, play some Xbox and then sleep in my big comfy bed so I can do it all again tomorrow morning!

Off to Hawaii I go

It's been so long since I've been home. I am so bad at recounting dates and times, I'm thinking maybe 3 to 4 years. It's about time I go back home and see how my family is doing, and show my daughters what Hawaii really is.

I'll be gone for a month. I think that's enough time to catch up on things and develop that very bad sunburn. I'm just getting over that tan line from the last time I was there, time to permanently etch it onto myself.

I leave in a couple days and I still haven't packed. I probably should be doing that right now, but I am a procrastinator. I'll end up stressing out before I go. The house needs cleaning and bills need to be paid, like always. At least I'll have someone here to watch over my house.

Other then that, I should have a good time in Hawaii. I'm going to be a mooch and house hop while I'm there. Anyone have an extra car for me to drive myself around? I'm thinking we should be at the beach every day!

The Crappy Things About Life

There's only once or twice in the year when my life is truly crappy. It is when I'm sick. I'm not talking runny nose sick. More like a fever type of sick. This is one of those times of the year.

I haven't been blogging or doing my scrapbooking at all for the past week. I've been around, just couldn't think, couldn't do things. Sore throat, fever, headache, aches, chills, swollen glands, everything except the whole runny nose cough thing. What makes things even worse is it wasn't just me. My daughter, Raven, was sick too. Poor girl. I try to avoid going to the doctor at all costs. Most of the time, when I am sick, I end up getting better on my own. Yes, after this past weekend, I caved in and went to the doctor cause I really felt like if I didn't I was going to die.

So, this is the reason for no blogs. I'm on meds now. Hopefully, next time this happens I will have Michael here to help me. Let me tell you, my house is a mess! Dishes have piled up. Now I need to do some making up for the time I was sleeping all day sweating my ass off. My sleep schedule is even worse then it was before. Things are just going to get busier. I have to start packing for Hawaii soon.

<3 jonette

My Creative Brain Fart..

It was a combination of Douchebag Larry's baby shower and reading over old blogs that I have finally found something to do with my time that is creative and edgy and doesn't require making a huge mess. I saw Dre, my "girlfriend", and every time we get together we talk about starting a Gothic Scrapbooking circle. Of course, it would be more of an alternative type of scrapbooking, we just like to call it gothic cause it sounds way cooler.

If you go back and read over my "what I want to be when I grow up" blog, you'll see that I do have a crafty type of personality, even if I am all about vaginas and dead things. So, I have been doing some web browsing with keywords like "gothic scrapbooking" and "alternative scrapbooking." It doesn't pull up lots of pages, maybe just a few, including my own blogs and myspace postings.

I came across many websites for digital scrapbooking and read up on how these dedicated scrapbookers were turning to their digital cameras and a fancy photo editing program to create their own cyber scrapbooks. If you browse through some of these pages that people have created, some of them look pretty good, even if they are all daisies and buttercups and countless pictures of their teething babies.

What the hell, I tried it out. I downloaded a few free digital kits that most websites have and a trial edition of a fancy graphics program. It was a little complicating at first. I did quite a bit of researching and tutorial watching before I made my first page. No blood, no gore, but its not pink and pastel either.
It was a little time consuming, but I think it turned out alright. It is relatively easy if you know what you're doing I guess. I think the hardest part is crediting all the sources of where you got all the fancy crap you put into it.

And on that note, I think I'll just create a new blog for my "Gothic Scrapbooking."

The Dresden Dolls

So, I decided to take my girls to the MGM Grand tonight to see if we could catch a glimpse of Amanda and Brian of the Dresden Dolls who were playing there for the True Colors Tour that started tonight. The time was getting near and no luck, so I go to the box office and ask if its an all ages show, its....so ok I give in and buy us tickets. I'm glad I did. It was awesome seeing them live. Even if we were sitting far away, it was worth it. The girls were excited, it was their first concert. They had lots of fun. Too bad, it was a pretty short set. They could only play about 5 songs. Hopefully, they will be back in Vegas for a longer and more intimate show for the fans. At the end, they mentioned they were going to meet people outside by the vendors, so me and the girls stood in line to see them. There was a lady wearing a red polo dress thingy walking around with a clipboard asking if people wanted to sign up for the DD email list. I added my email and she asked the girls a few questions. They were offering CDs for sale and since we already have it we didnt need one. But, when we got up to the front of the line, the lady gave us a CD for free for Amanda and Brian to sign for the girls...sweet!! Thank you lady :) We took some pictures (damn my crappy blurry camera) and then went back into the concert for a little while.

We stayed for a couple of Debby Harry songs, while Ember danced around. Raven said she wanted to go home, so we got ready to leave and saw that Amanda and Brian were finished signing autographs and most of their fans were gone, so Raven and Ember went up to them and gave them hugs...too bad I'm slow, I couldn't take pictures. The lady with the red dress was there so I asked if she could take a picture of all of us....

I'm glad the girls were able to go, every kid remembers their first concert. What a better concert to remember then this one?

Make it Stop!

What is going on here? Why am I so busy? I feel like I can't get anything done anymore. I have to work, I have so much crap to do...I really shouldn't. I feel bombarded with things. I don't even have time to write blogs anymore.

I'm supposed to be going to bed, I slept for 3 hours last night. It's almost 1 in the morning. I just said my goodbyes to Michael and am supposed to be off to bed. I pick up my grandma and grandpa up from the airport tomorrow morning and then I have to go to work.

I didn't get anything ready for tomorrow. I have bills to pay. I need to go grocery shopping. I am exhausted. Oh well, at least I'm keeping myself busy. But is it worth it?

Busy, busy, busy

Everyone loves to visit Las Vegas. Living here I've noticed that when people come to visit, they really come to visit. They come in packs! Usually a whole bunch at the same time, certain times of the year.

This is that time of year. I have so many people coming to visit, all at once, or one after the other. It's good. I like seeing my family, new friends and old friends. It's really keeping me busy for now.

Today I went onto the base. Aunty Rose and Carol wanted to go to the BX. Uncle Vill and Jose went to the Ticket & Travel office and got me some free Bon Jovi tickets for tomorrow night. I went back there a couple hours later to stand in line to get me another pair. So, I have plans tomorrow night, and will be busy for the next few days.

But right now, here I am, sitting and thinking about everything. It's still not enough to get my mind off of things. The time I spent today doing all kinds of things, shopping, standing in line, grocery shopping, sitting in traffic, picking up Raven from school, watching kids, sitting on the computer...all I could think about was if he was alright.

Dead Bodies

So I went over one of my last blogs in my If.. blog. How would I get rid of a dead body? When I answered this question I was running around with my friend John in Stranglethorn Vale and asked him how he would dispose of a body. Strange subject, but he brought up Sulfuric Acid, something about throwing pigeons in it when they were kids. Damn, did you guys not have toys when you were young? Anyway, being the curiously strange kind of person I am, I looked up all I could look up on Sulfuric Acid. Yeah, not a good idea! I found this article from BBC News:

"In the 1940s the "acid bath murderer" John Haigh attempted to dissolve the bodies of six victims in sulphuric acid. This destroys bones and tissue but it can't digest fats - or plastic. This is how John Haigh was caught. A pair of dentures, a red plastic handbag, and three human gallstones - covered in a layer of fat - were retrieved from the acid sludge found at his workshop."

So I did a little more research and found this page with a very interesting response from one of the posters there.

"First, be smart from the very beginning. Pulverize all teeth, burn off fingerprints, and disfigure the face. Forcing a DNA test to establish identity (if it ever comes to that) might introduce the legal/forensic hurdle that saves your ass down the line. An unidentifiable body can, in a pinch, be dressed in thrift store clothes and dropped in a bad part of town where the police are less likely to question it. I don't reommend that disposal method, I'm just saying an easily identifiable body is an even bigger threat than the opposite.

Assuming you have it inside a house where you can work on it a bit, the first thing you want to do is drain it of fluids. This will make it easier to cut up, and slow decomposition a little bit. The best way to do this quick and dirty is to perforate the body with a pointed knife, and then perform CPR on it. Cut the fronts of the thighs deep, diagonally, to slit the femoral arteries. Then pump the chest. The valves in the heart will still work when dead, and the springback of the ribcage can put apply a fair amount of suction to the artria. Do this in a tub. Plug the drain, and mingle lots of bleach with the bodily fluids before unplugging the drain to empty the tub. This should help control the stench of death, which would otherwise reek from your gutter gratings. Do everything you can to control odors. Plug in an ionizer, burn candles, leave bowls of baking soda everywhere. Ventilate the room in the middle of the night, but otherwise keep it closed. Keep the body under a plastic sheet while it's in the tub.

If you want to bury, I recommend seperating the body into several parts, and burying them seperately. For one thing, it's easier to dig a deep enough hole for a head than for an entire body. this reduces your chances of being discovered while you are actually outside and digging the grave. That is the one thing you can't do inside the doors of your house, and represents a vulnerable moment you want to keep brief, under 2 hours. Do it between 3 and 5 am. It's also less likely for someone to call the police if their dog digs up some chunk of meat, than if they dig up an enitre body. They may assume it's an animal carcass disfigured by decomposition, and leave it alone or dispose of it. It's also more likely that the dog will consume all of it before anyone knows the difference. A whole skeleton is another story. You can cut a body into 6 pieces faster than you think. It's not much different than boning a chicken, but it takes more work, a big knife, and time. A hammer will be useful for pulverizing joints or driving the knife deep where it doesn't want to go. Anyway it's wise to crush as much of the skeleton as you can along the way. It will aid in making the body less identifiable for what it is as it decomposes.

Don't return to the same site 6 times for 6 burials.You'll attract suspicion from anyone nearby, and you'll wind up placing the body parts close enough together to be found by any serious investigation. Put them in plastic bags with lots of bleach, and store in a freezer until you have enough time to bury them all.

Depending on what tools you have available, you may find that you're get really good at deconstructing the body. You might prefer to slowly sprinkle it down a drain without leaving your house. This avoids the long-term risk of discovery associated with burial, and the overwhelming supply of bacteria in a sewer accellerates deconomposition, whil e providing a convenient cover smell.

Truly grinding down a body takes a lot more work, and you run the risk of fouling your plumbing and calling in a plumber. So don't try it unless you know how to clear bones and meat out of a drainpipe. A good food processor can be useful. But don't over-use it, or power drills or saws. They're noisy and they attract attention. And forget the kitchen sink. It's better if you actually remove one of the toilets in your house from its base, which will give you direct access to one of the largest sewer pipes that enters your house. Follow any disposals with lots of bleach and then run the water for 5 or 10 minutes on top of that. And plug that pipe when you're not using it, to prevent any sewer gasses from backing up into your house. Usually, a U-trap inside the toilet does that for you."

Actually, there were quite a few interesting responses, from helium balloons to an ooze like form of Jimmy Hoffa in a cement filled barrel. Now, I have no idea how this person knows this kind of stuff but it's definitely a winner. Although I must say the whole idea of being in the middle of a very large desert is convenient for your daily dead body needs. I could always go with what my Uncle Donald told me once, if you are going to kill someone, make sure you bury them about 10 feet underground, they never dig deeper then 6 feet. Good point Uncle, remind me not to piss you off.

My WoW friends

After playing World of Warcraft for over two years, it's very interesting meeting people that you play with online everyday for the first time. You know them, you hear their voices on Teamspeak or Vent, but you really don't know them.

Since I live in Las Vegas, and everyone likes to congregate here once in a while, I've met a few of my WoW friends. So far, out of everyone I've met in person that I play with online with, their personality online is the same as when you meet them IRL. Today, I got to meet another one of my friends. He's not just some random person you meet online that you fight those demons and dragons with. He is also the guild leader and I would consider him a very close friend to me and Michael, even though, technically, we've never met. Until today.

He is a genuine person, great guy, and probably one of the very few people who actually reads my blogs! Like Ember would say, "You are cool! But, I'm cooler dude.."

Ember and Ryan at The Cheesecake Factory

Thank you Ryan, for entertaining my girls, for my birthday present, for lunch, for the company, for your "morning" every afternoon, for talking with me, and most of all for being my friend.

What I want to be when I grow up

I can never make up my mind on things. I do so many things I enjoy that many people don't know about. I would like to say I'm an artistic kind of person, at least I think I am. But I can never just stay with one thing. I play music, I can sing, I like photography, scrapbooking, I sew, I like gardening (not in the desert), drawing, I even quilt. I'm not necessarily good at all of these things, but I do enjoy it.

For the last two years I've been playing World of Warcraft. I am also a gamer. Taking a break from it has opened up so many possibilities for me. I've found I don't have to sit on the game every waking hour of the day. There are so much other things to do. So I limit myself, maybe one day a week dedicated to playing MMO's. Or maybe one or two hours late at night. The rest of the time I have to do things I didn't have the time to do before.

I would probably do well as a craft instructor or some sort of music teacher, maybe working at a fabric/craft store. I could see myself doing stuff like that, not that I want to do that. Only thing is, I focus on more alternative styles, or the darker side of life. Conservative people beware!

P H O T O G R A P H Y
I have always had the idea of becoming a photographer since i was just a kid. I took photography in high school and learned basic techniques. I wanted to take the next classes but since you could only have one elective, I was forced to take the Pregnant Teen Mother class instead.

When my husband deployed for the military one year, I really got into the idea that I should take pictures of myself and send them to him. I'm not talking about everyday pictures, and I'm not talking hardcore porn either. Boudoir pictures, pinup style, semi-nude, but tasteful pictures. Unfortunately, it's very hard to take pictures of yourself without proper equipment. There are lots of people that want to have pictures of themselves like this to keep for themselves, or send to their loved ones. I also like to take those other types of mysterious, dark, spooky pictures. Graveyard types of pictures, renaissance, ethereal, fantasy maybe. I wish there was some sort of class or lecture or lesson for this kind of stuff.

Since I am in Las Vegas now and there are more people here then there was in Wyoming, I don't think it will be too difficult to find people that want to have pictures of themselves taken. Maybe other military spouses whose husbands have deployed, or getting ready to deploy, or maybe just that special occasion. I would do it all for free, since it is a hobby and I'm not a pro. I just need a new camera and I'm good. I have an old digital SLR but it only has 2 mega pixels. Not good! What if I want to posterize something? It will just be a blurry thing.

S C R A P B O O K I N G
I've always wanted to try the scrapbooking thing as something I do often. But what is up with all this pastel, paisley crap? My mind is not butterflies and rainbows here. I made my husband a beautiful scrap book that he took with him to Honduras for a year. It's ok for a beginner type. Not too extreme like what I want to do. My girls each made a page for him and it is really nice.

But I was thinking I'm going to start doing some "Gothic Scrapbooking." I talked about it before with one of the girls I work with. She likes scrapbooking too, but we are not rays of sunshine. We work at Hot Topic. Black is a nice color, skulls and bats are cute. So are fluffy cats, but that's not the point. I want to do alternative scrapbooking. Too bad scrapping stores don't carry blood and gore.

I should post on some Vegas forums or bulletin boards at craft places to see if there are other people that are interested in having some sort of get together, maybe we can have tea and crumpets. Maybe right after that risque photo shoot! We could throw all those naughty pictures together and make a scrapbook.

I need more like minded individuals...

..

bring two prix fixe dinners up
I’ll unwrap the plastic cups
it’s just us my love
it’s just us my love

I will clean the room up nice
put your insides all on ice
it was real true love
it was real true love

close all the windows
put signs on the handles
and strip down to my dun-dun-duns
you have gone so far
you have gone so far

and tonight
its just me and the minibar

candles from the walmart that
every city has to have
that I bought last night
that I bought last night

I was so excited to
do such normal things with you
when you left last night
with your toothbrush dry

no such details will spoil my plan
that is the kind of girl I am

can you hear room 318...?
man they’re really happening...
they’re a wild bunch
they’re a wild bunch

but if they just knew
what my night was coming too
god would they vomit and run
you have gone so far
you have gone too far
So tonight
it’s just me and the minibar
nobody else
and I sing at the top of my lungs
happy birthday us
happy birthday us

-Dresden Dolls

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers in the world. Unfortunately for
me, today is like any other normal day. On a positive note, Michael
finally called me to let me know he got to Iraq safely...I don't know if
the words Iraq and safe are words that could be put in a sentence
together. But it was enough for me to be happy today.

Michael will be able to message me from Iraq. But, he won't be able to
use AIM. It will have to be MSN. Still good for me since I use both.
So, if you want to keep in touch with him, sign up for MSN, and I will
let you know when he gets it set up. He is about 11 hours ahead of
Pacific Standard Time, so, he should be sleeping right now.

Well, I better get back to cleaning. I have to go to the store to get a
few things. I'm tired of eating PBJ's everyday.
<3 jonette

Caffeine headache, ouch!

This morning I woke up and took my kids to my friend's house so that I could go to work, which I only do once a week. It's only a five hour shift, but by the end of it, the base of my head was throbbing and getting worse. I realize I didn't have that daily dose of Diet Coke in the morning. Caffeine headache!

The discussion of healthy living has been brought up to me a few times within the past week. Discussions on eating, exercising, dieting, vitamins and supplements included. I have definitely decided that I should try to quit eating sugar, and possibly things made of white flour. I've also decided to start walking again.

About 5 years ago, my husband went to Saudi Arabia for a deployment in the military. I used to go to the 24 hour gym on base at about midnight and walk for an hour 3-5 days a week. I also quit drinking soda and only drank water. I lost 60 lbs doing this.

Well now that he is deployed again, I think it may be time to try it out again. This time I am debating on sticking with caffeine. I have read all about caffeine through many sources online. It has both negative and positive factors, but there isn't enough negative information to fully convince me that caffeine is bad. I don't think I will quit caffeine, but I think maybe I'll slow down on it instead. I love my diet coke! I love drinking hot tea. I'm not quitting.

Bask in the Glory of Awesomeness!

Living Single, Seeing Double, Sleeping Triple says:
write a blog about me
Jonette says:
ok
Jonette says:
uh what do you want me to write about
Living Single, Seeing Double, Sleeping Triple says:
anything!
Jonette says:
hah I don't know
Living Single, Seeing Double, Sleeping Triple says:
about how awesome i am!
Jonette says:
I'll name it "A Day in the Life of The Office Bitch
Living Single, Seeing Double, Sleeping Triple says:
haha
Living Single, Seeing Double, Sleeping Triple says:
john watches tv
Living Single, Seeing Double, Sleeping Triple says:
john sits on his computer
Living Single, Seeing Double, Sleeping Triple says:
john goes home
Jonette says:
rinse and repeat?
Living Single, Seeing Double, Sleeping Triple says:
pretty much
Living Single, Seeing Double, Sleeping Triple says:
some times i get random stuff
Living Single, Seeing Double, Sleeping Triple says:
like finding a tmobile store in vegas haha
Jonette says:
lol
Jonette says:
in between all that shrimping and boating
Living Single, Seeing Double, Sleeping Triple says:
yeah when im all by myself at the office
Living Single, Seeing Double, Sleeping Triple says:
shrimping is all i do
Jonette says:
hehe, and all this is going in my blog right now
Living Single, Seeing Double, Sleeping Triple says:
wtf if you put that in there ill never talk to you again!

Gothic Poetry Generator!

I thought this kind of funny yet fascinating. In the 7th grade, I believe it was my English class, we had this guest poet come in and teach us this method of poetry. This guy was the coolest hippie I've ever met. He somehow convinced all of us it was ok to smoke pot by telling us that marijuana kills brain cells....but of course in our lifetime we don't even use half of our brain so it's ok. The teachers face was priceless, some sort of shock with a smirk and a giggle added in.

It was very interesting and a few of us made some very deep, meaningful stuff. I wish I could dig it up, and I will someday and share it with you all. I know it's here somewhere in my mounds of papers.

Well I found this Blog (Goth-O-Matic Poetry Generator) and it reminds me so much of this method so I made my little version of my gothic poetry




death deserved

what have you ruined?
a shadow of agony as sentiments crawl.
once we drank of heaven,
glad-hearted and wide-eyed,
but your thirst paled.
a furious throng of pain -
thoughts follow night, follow rain,
love consumed.
in a torrent of bitterness,
i reject you.

Awesome, isn't it? Try it out, there's also a link to some sort of Gothic Lyric Generator. Here is the link to the actual generator http://www.deadlounge.com/poetry/poems.html

How to watch Bleach when you can't get enough of it

I really don't remember how I started watching Bleach. Maybe if I keep typing I'll remember.

I have watched all the Bleach episodes I possibly could on YouTube. I hear they are starting to pull them down. I watched a few episodes to find out where to go to download episodes since I can't do it on YouTube anymore. I see that Dattebayo subs most of the Bleach episodes I have been watching and somehow I end up at this website, so I register at www.bleachportal.net Yes! Finally, I can download the episodes, but look at this, I need to download some sort of Bittorent reader. It starts to get complicating! But I figure it out and watch the last episode that was released in Japan (subbed in English of course)

Awesomeness! But damn I want to know what happens next.

It's all coming back to me. Besides being a geek and watching Bleach, I am also a gamer. For the past 2 1/2 years I have been playing World of Warcraft (That's a whole different blog right there) My guildmates first pointed me to Bleach, and in turn I have pointed Bleach to some guildies. Now we are a bunch of gaming, Bleach watching nerds. But that is beside the point.

One of my guildies watched every episode of Bleach and in turn started reading the Manga. Yes, that's a good idea! My oldest daughter told me about Manga a while ago. Her friend lets her borrow them. They are like comics, Japanese anime comics.

I searched bleachportal for the Manga, and the process wasn't that great for me. I had to download each "scanlated" (scanned and translated into english) page. Then open each file to read one page. If you use Windows, you can open the folder that contain these pages and change the view to thumbnails and just use your arrow keys to switch between them, of course maximize your window for a better view.

I downloaded a few chapters. I had to randomly download episodes, because the manga and the episodes don't exactly sync together. The episodes are compiled of a few manga chapters, so in turn there are not as many episodes as there is manga. The titles of the chapters do not help either, they are random titles with very deep mysterious hidden messages like "Strawberries of Death", or "Death of Strawberries", or "Of Strawberries and Death", or "Deathly Strawberries?", or "Rainbow Sunshine Ponies".

I find the corresponding episode and chapters, thanks to the help of a guildie, (thanks Dalimur) who tells me that it should be 100 more then the last episode. So if the episode is 113, look near chapter 213. And there I find some familiar looking chapters. After a few I get lazy and quit downloading.

Yesterday, I was playing with my sidekick and for the heck of it I Google bleach manga and I find a blogger (http://shc221b.blogspot.com) that actually translates and posts each manga chapter online, no downloading required! I could actually read it on the sidekick which was pretty cool. Unfortunately, you can't read everything, especially if they use the super tiny minuscule sized text. Which brings me to the conclusion that Danger, the makers of the sidekick, should put in some feature where you can zoom in on web pages, that would be sweet!

I had a few problems with the blog reading. Sometimes some of the images wouldn't load, or the images bandwith has exceeded its limit. Nothing YouTube can't fix. I found you can go to YouTube and watch the Manga! Scanlated pages made on a video. The quality is not the best, but its good enough. The background music is a plus.

So far I have read all the manga I could read. 120 episodes and 273 chapters later, I still need to find out what happens next. I guess all I can do now is wait.

Cheese

The search for cereal is on!

...in case you're wondering, Ryan, this is Ember in the pantry digging for food
<3 jonette

The day before

It's always hard, the drive to the airport. Mixed emotions, especially from someone like me who seems to have no emotions at all. That is what I am dreading the most, the ride, the few last turns, the lines in the garage where you have to park to tell your loved one goodbye. It's all a reminder that the time has come.

And then watching someone walk away... It's always hard to see them walk away.

Tomorrow I am making that trip. I've made this trip a few times. But this time it is much harder. He's only going to be gone for 4 months. But this time it's different. The last time he left, it was for a year. It's not the amount of time that matters to me...and there's nothing I can do about it.

You see, tomorrow he is leaving because it is his job. Tomorrow he leaves for Iraq.

Smoking in the garage

So here we are in the hot steamy smoke filled garage...

Here's my thought....we should quit...

btw, dont' tell me how to die!

From the anals of the sidekick!

Ok, I think I figured out how to do this....
or did I?

1st time blogger

This blogging thing is confusing!