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"Jesus is the Answer... But what is the question??"
Ron, 2005 (haha) Life is Great
03/22/05
Well, I'm back with more of my infamous ramblings. I feel
as though I've lost some of my wit and humor the last few years, which is
why I don't write as much. But I realized that the last stuff I had
written was miserable and awful and that I need to update this in case
anyone thinks that is still the case.
Faith, the ex-wife, and I are getting along great now,
just famously. Hell, she and I get along better than she and Ron do! lol. After she got married, she stopped bothering us in the ways I mentioned
previously. We are actually friends now, or I like to think so anyway. I
think she's cool and funny too. And you know how I love funny people. Now
that she's not angry about the divorce anymore, she really is a pretty
nice person and I like visiting her and talking to her. I know that's
weird, for a new wife to be friendly with the ex-wife, but I was raised
right and had good examples to follow when my parents got divorced. It's
much better to be friendly with everyone, especially if you are going to
see them for the rest of your life. I think it's stupid for a person to
hate their spouse's ex simply because it the ex. If you can actually be
friends with her, your life will be much better and easier. :) I
don't think she's in our bank accounts anymore. The only reason that
pissed me off so much was because I was addicted to pills at the time, and
I didn't want anyone to have evidence of how much I was actually spending
on them. But I've been clean for a year this month, so that's all in the
past. Getting off drugs has helped me tremendously. I'm a lot happier now.
I'm really happy almost all the time, which is great. Well, it helps that
my websites finally started making BIG money and I am pulling my own
weight now. I don't feel like a helpless housewife anymore, a drain on
everyone around me. Now I'm pulling in several thousand dollars a month by
sitting on my ass doing nothing and that is the most terrific thing that
I've ever done. If you know a lot about web design and SEO and you want to
know how I'm making all this money, write me and I'll be happy to tell
you. Or just look around at the ads on this site (Google Adsense.) That's
the money-maker. But not all sites do this well and I don't want people
thinking they'll be making $4000 a month with their site. Most people, I
think, make a few hundred a month. Some people only make around $20 a
month. You must have a popular site with lots of traffic and good keywords
(like "psychic"). Haha, there are psychic ads all over the top
of this page just because I mentioned the word.
So yeah, we're getting a new house finally. We are
getting away from our loud, trashy neighbors in this apartment. (Thanks
Google!). Here is a picture of our new house:
That's Ron's BMW. Obviously, he sold the Mustang long ago.
Since that time, he has had a
91 Mustang 5.0 5-speed coupe, 66 Mustang 289 V-8, 928 Porsche V-8,
93 Camaro Z-28 LT1,
2000
X-treme low-rider S-10,
1992 Corvette LT1 6-speed, 1998 Ford F-250 Extendcab, and now the
BMW 740iL with of course 300 HP aluminum V-8 with heated seats for me.
Very nice! He goes through cars more often than I go through underwear!
(NOT!) lol. And the whole time, I still have had my
1996
Eclipse. I'm looking to get rid of it soon though and get something
nicer with power windows and stuff. (Those links help us in the search
engines - you don't need to click them unless you are into cars.)
We got a new digital camera last week. Super-cool! I
really like it. It's a compact one - Nikon E 4600 Coolpix. It's only $200
but it works great. Here are some new pictures of ME!
I LOVE this digital camera. I highly recommend it for
anyone looking for one. It was just released this February, so it's brand
new on the market. Do you like my attempt at a "witchy look" above? That's
the witchiest clothes I have. I don't dress like that normally. I wear
bright colors and pretty stuff like the other two pictures. I love talking
about myself and dressing up and taking pictures of myself, as you can
see. Trust me, there are MANY more than this, some with not as many
clothes on, lol. You should see the pictures of Ron! I wish I could post
them here, but I don't think it's appropriate. lol.
So anyway, I'm much happier now and life is going much
smoother. I should write a rant about gynecologists because I'm really
pissed about that right now. Maybe later..
My step-daughter is 8 years old now, so she's much more
tolerable than she was at five. You get a lot of whining from a five year
old. Eight year olds seem to have a better grip on reality, for sure. Do
you watch those Nanny shows? Nanny 911 and SuperNanny? I watch those
almost every week. It's a great reminder of why I don't want kids of my
own. It drives me crazy, seeing those families. They'll have like FOUR
kids and they can't control any of them and everything is falling apart.
Meanwhile, Dad is sitting around reading the paper and ignoring the chaos
while Mom runs around crazy, trying to help everyone and do everything.
It's insane! Don't you think they would realize after the first two kids
that they are losing their minds? Why would they go on to have two more? I
don't get it. And do they ever consider the fact that the world is WAY
overpopulated? (NO). Have a kid if you want. Have two even, if you really
really like kids. But please don't have FOUR! That is way too much of a
contribution to our world (that we don't need.) I was speaking to my
long-distance friend Lindsey, who has one child, and she asked me why I
thought the tsunami happened. I told her that I thought it was Mother
Earth's way of dealing with overpopulation. She freaked out (in a good
way), because she thought the same thing, but had never heard anyone else
say that about it. People are all like, "Why? Why would God allow this to
happen?" Duh.. why do you think? Keep popping out more and more babies and
you'll see what else she can do to help us with our overpopulation
problems. I'm sure she has lots of tricks up her sleeve. The sorry part
is, even people like me, who are doing their part and not contributing to
population growth will still die in the disasters that everyone else
caused. And just when my life started getting really good. I don't need
any hate mail from breeders who think I'm a child-hater. The issue isn't
about whether or not I personally like kids. But that is a lot more
interesting to talk about, isn't it? Little kids... cute little kids...
snot-faced little sprogs. It's funny, isn't it, how a little kid can have
snot running all down their face and into their mouth and they just don't
notice it. Don't they feel the cool, crisp breeze on their tiny,
snot-covered faces? Don't they taste the sweet deliciousness of the snot
as it oozes into their cute, tiny mouths? Apparently not. I find it
difficult to believe that they really don't know it's there. But if you
don't make them wipe it, they will go all day like that, just doing a
little "sniff-sniff sniiiiiiiiiiiffffff", trying to suck the snot back in
once in a while. Sweet. They are SO cute.
So there was a new school shooting yesterday. On an Indian
reservation - odd twist. I would have thought the Indians were somehow
better than the rest of us, more spiritual, more peaceful. But obviously
they suffer from the same problems - the problem of horrible children
picking on other children. Everyone thinks their child isn't a
bully, right? You are reading this right now thinking that it can't be
your child - it's those other kids that are doing it. The mean ones.
Well, guess what? Nearly all kids are mean, at least to each other. It's
the nakedness of human nature. Children haven't learned to be civilized
yet, and pretend like they aren't assholes like most adults have. So they
act out on their basic urges, which is to demean, humiliate, bully, hit,
and kill other people. This is most especially true of teenagers. You
would think that at their age, they would know how to act civilized, but
the hard truth is is that they do not know how. They act like morons in
public. I was at Fazoli's the other day (a restaurant) and had to decide
whether to sit near a huge family with about 6 kids, who were whining and
carrying on, or sit near three teenagers. I chose the teenagers -
two boys and one girl. Ron said as soon as the teenage girl saw him, she
started telling the boys to look at the bump on his head (a big bump where
I had accidentally whacked him with my keys a week ago.) They turned
around and looked and started laughing (loudly) about it. Then when that
joyful event was over, one of the boys started sticking objects in his
shirt to make him look like he had boobs. The girl laughed SO HARD that
she ended up literally on the floor of the restaurant, next to their
booth, just laughing and laughing, and generally making an ass of herself.
The funny thing is, I KNOW they think they're cool. They think they are
the shit - that they have some private joke that everyone else wishes they
were in on and that everyone is astounded by their coolness and the fact
that they have friends to laugh with. I know that's their attitude. I wish
they realized the truth though - that no one else cares and that we are
annoyed when ANYONE - teenagers, adults, or children, act up in public and
intentionally draw attention to themselves like that. It's not cool at
all. It's immature, foolish, and annoying to everyone around them. But
they don't care. Because that's their next big act - pretending that they
don't care about what anyone thinks, when in reality they care more about
what other people think than any other age group does. Then of course,
there's the fact that they treat their parents like shit, rolling their
eyes at everything, putting on the face that says, "I can't believe
I have to be here with these losers (my parents). I'm so
much cooler than this. How lame." They just conveniently forget that you
have spent the last 15 years paying their way, giving them everything they
want or need, and doing your best to raise them to be decent humans. Now
you are just an embarrassment to them at best, and at worst they hate you
and kill you or themselves (or the whole school) to prove how miserable
they are. Oh the drama of being a teenager. And the never ending JOY of
raising one. Yes, that's the life. Hmm... what can I do to totally turn my
life upside-down, make me miserable, be broke all the time, never get a
moment's peace, and in the end get no thanks for all my sacrifice? Oh
that's right, I could have children! Yay! It's such a great idea. Why
didn't I think of it sooner? Let's all think back and try to remember how
often we told our parents "Thank you" for giving up their entire life to
raise us, giving up buying any luxuries so they could buy us treats that
we wanted, giving up their sanity to be surrounded by screaming children
all day who always want attention and can't do anything for themselves?
Some of us may have realized at one point what we put our parents through,
but it's unlikely you really ever told them "thanks" for it. If you did, I
certainly commend you for it. Well, I intend to live my life peacefully.
No, I don't think I'm missing out. No, I don't worry about who will take
care of me when I'm old (a very selfish reason to have kids anyway.) No, I
won't regret it and NO I WON'T CHANGE MY MIND, as people so often love to
say to the Childfree people of the world. There are many reasons NOT to
bring more children into this world. There are very few reasons to have
kids that are valid reasons, not selfish reasons, but yet breeders call
Childfree people selfish. I do not think they have looked at their own
reasons for having children if they think people without children are
selfish. Mothers really get the raw end of the deal when it comes to
having kids, but they don't realize that until it's too late. Lucky for
me, I did my research and found out before it was too late. I know
what you're going through as mothers (I've seen you on shows like Nanny
911.) I'd rather keep my life just the way it is, thank you.
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