Author: Angie World

There is a show on ABC Family Chanel that is called Melissa and Joey; it stars Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence. It looks cute, cute premise, modern day take on Who’s the Boss, I have seen a few episodes here and there. Well a line was said on there that struck a chord with me, the little boy said to Joey, what did you do before Twitter, Facebook and MySpace? Joey replied we didn’t feel the need to tell the world every mundane thought in our head.
Wow, Joey was right; we never felt the need to put out there every single thought in our head back in the day. Pre-internet access, I take that back some of us felt the need; however we did not have the format.
We all know that I get a lot of my topics for rants from inane things said on Facebook; I have to tell you if I chose all my topics from FB, well I would never have time to write about myself. Having said that, I have a topic from FB to discuss today.
A young mother who has been going through a rough time in the romance department finally said she is going to focus on her children instead of her love life. Halleluiah, seriously, I know she is young so I can cut a little slack there, but to just come to that conclusion? Here is the thing, if you are a single parent, especially a single mother, stop, take a moment and ask yourself if your actions benefit your children in any way. If you are dating man after man and bringing them home, stop it, immediately. My best advice for single parents everywhere is to plug into a church with a singles group, not for dating purposes, but for the purpose of building a support system. The important thing is not to focus on your love life, but to focus on your responsibilities. Getting into a good singles group in a church will put you with hopefully likeminded people. You will find a group to have fun outings that include the children and sometimes outings that do not include children. You will find parents willing to trade babysitting duties, you will find other moms and dads that are going through what you are, you will be able to vent to someone who truly understands. Someone when they say it will get better; you know it will because that person has been in your situation. Then if you are like some of my friends you might even meet your love match. Just please don’t go into it with that intention, that turns into a disaster.
So I tip my hat, lift my glass and pour some out for my homies for the single mom on Facebook who made the conscious decision to put her children first and herself after that. I lift up prayers for your continued courage and strength.

I am not going to apologize for anything I wrote yesterday, I meant every word. I am not sad that this man is gone from this earth. Just like I am not sad Hitler is gone from this earth, and yes I do equate him with Hitler. I stand by what I said, especially the words directed to a certain relative. I stand by what I said and if you ever want to have a real conversation with me I will expound on why exactly I am so very disappointed by the things you chose to say.
Moving on, I read this series of books known as Earth’s Children, they are written by Jean M. Auel, I love these books. They are few and far between, there are only six of them, the first one written in 1980, the last just came out. She says this is the last one of the series, if that is the case I am very saddened as I am not happy with how it ended. More questions than answers. I want to know what happens to Ayla and Jondalar, will they go on to have the son she dreams of? Will he be in conflict with her first son? Ugh, I hate having more questions than answers.
Reading these books makes me wish I could go back to cave man times, for about two days, after that I would really want a house again and safety from the elements and wild beasts. Plus I don’t think I could cook the way they did. Ok, any cooking escapes me, but seriously, no microwave? I don’t think I could go long without my popcorn. OMG, I just thought of something, they didn’t have coffee! Oh yeah switch that 2 days to maybe 2 hours. No way am I going back to a time before coffee was discovered.
It is cold here today, again, it has been cold since Sunday, I don’t understand, and yes I know, I love the cold, however this is May 3rd, not February 3rd, when the cold is supposed to happen. I love cold weather but in context, when we are supposed to have it and when it is accompanied by snow, not rain. This weather is crazy; I hope we are not in for another ice age. If we have an ice age would it freeze the coffee beans? Would it freeze the chocolate plants? I could not take that.

Last night the world learned the news that a madman no longer walks among us. I for one can sleep a little easier. The bible tells us “When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers” Proverbs 21:15 I fully believe the evildoers a little afraid today. Not just of the United States, but of the people who believe in good everywhere. Every news account that is being posted tells us that every nation is grateful this man is no longer walking the earth.
I have read a post of facebook today that just hit me the wrong way, someone said “thinks it is crappy the US must kill someone for people to gt patriotic!” He is wrong. We have all been patriotic for a long time, he must be hanging out with the wrong crowd. because I am here to tell this particular person, that his family line is beyond patriotic. I have said it before and I will say it again for his benefit this time, there has been a member of this family in the military in this country since 1774. there has not been a conflict or war that has gone without one of us sacrificing for this country. I would ask him, what do you do for your country? How do you show your patriotism?
I am infuriated by the people in this country that are sorry to see this man go, really? really? you wonder how we could be joyous due to this development? I suggest you go live with these people, perhaps get a true sense of what we have been fighting so valiantly for.
Perhaps you do not have the family history with this country that I and so many of us have. Perhaps you lost no one in the Oklahoma City bombing, or 9-1-1, perhaps you didn’t see the horrific news stories, the tales of final minutes. Or the tales of complete heroism that these people displayed.
Perhaps those of you who are confused by our joyful relief at this man’s demise should go back and watch the attacks again. Perhaps you will “get” it then. Perhaps not, I cannot answer for you. All I can tell you is that I am embarrassed you are an American at this point.

Soul food is my nemesis, cake pops are my enemy, I grew up with a steady stream of fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, cornbread, collard greens and fatback, meatloaf, mashed potatoes, fried catfish and yes my grandmother even made chittlins. I had uncles that lived on pickled pig’s feet, a more disgusting concoction I don’t know of. These things are not good for weight loss, weight control, cholesterol, sodium intake, or so they say. My grandfather had fried chicken every morning for breakfast, he lived to be 82. Maybe he would have lived longer if he had watched what he ate, however he was not overweight and was incredibly active.
Then comes me, I am short and squatty, can’t get anorexic to save my life, and I do not eat that food anymore! Maybe I should go back to it, that way I will have something to blame. Oh yeah I do, cake pops at Starbucks. Man those little things pack a lot of sin in them! I lament the fact I was not born tall and willowy, being born short and squatty is a horrendous affliction. I try and fight it, wearing 4 inch heels, things that make me taller and therefore look slimmer. I don’t know if it works. I refuse to look at pictures of myself and if I catch you taking a picture of me, I will ask you not to. I do not photograph well and it is embarrassing. The older I get the worse it is, I think I am getting squattier. Is that a word? Must be, it was not autocorrected. That tells me more people are afflicted with this condition.
We should fight back! Hold a telethon, raise funds for genetic testing, we need to find a cure for this horrible disease. Is it a disease or a syndrome? I really don’t know the difference. If someone can enlighten me that would be great; in the meantime, I shall continue to fight in my way. Laying off the cake pops, not eating my beloved country food and starving myself.
Happy Friday!

Well Today is Wednesday and I am wearing new shoes, Carlos Santana stiletto peep toe pumps. I love them; they were a birthday present from the Irishman. I love these shoes and it is the first time I have worn them. They totally rock.
Everything that happened yesterday made it seem like a Monday, what could go wrong did go wrong. It started with me getting ready to go to lunch and looking in my purse and seeing no pocket book. I left it at home on the desk. We all know what that means, no Starbucks, then I kept getting the most involved calls, the last one especially involved. I actually have to do a callback today to make sure the customer was updated on the status or the issue was corrected. After work, the dentist, which of course I have no pocket book with me to pay them, so I call Alex who thankfully was home, he brought it up there. So that was not Monday like. But last night was a restless sleep night, Chewie kept wanting out, so of course, no opposable thumbs for him, that leaves me to open the door for him. When that alarm went off at 3:00 am I so did not want to wake up! The really upside of the day is when I sent the Irishman a text telling him that I left my pocketbook at home, he surprised me with Starbucks! How awesome is that? I really wasn’t hinting, I really was wanting sympathy, instead I got greatness.
Have I mentioned how much I love going to the dentist? My dentist totally rocks, if you are looking for a new on in Plano, call Dr Stokes! He does exceptional work and his office staff is total greatness. They are always nice and I am always at ease going in. I have never been hurt by Dr Stokes; I have heard horror stories of people being traumatized by the dentist. I have never been traumatized by the dentist.
I really need to get to the gym; I have bought a membership, now I need to use it. The downside of having a brand new, amazingly high tech television is I never want to leave it! I watched Friends in HD, How you doin’? loved it! So addictive. However I am going to have to drag my behind out of that apartment and to the gym if I want to achieve my goal, being the most beautiful bride for my age group. That is my goal. Wish me luck!

Well as we all know I was having issues getting enough sleep, so I went to the doctor and he gave me a prescription for Ambien. Well here is the story of why I will no longer be taking the medication. I took it for a week, then one afternoon Elizabeth called me and we had a pleasant conversation, then she starts to tell me about the conversation we had the night before. I said we did not speak last night, she started laughing, yes we did mom, she says.
She then proceeds to tell me that I wanted to sing a song for her, she said I said, “Do you want me to sing you a song about ping and purple?” she says she said no. no one can be certain of that. She then goes on to tell me I was saying IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII looooooooooooooovvvvvveee you in a sing song voice. I tell her she is making all of this up, she is laughing harder saying no. so I said I will be checking my call log, sure enough there is a call from Elizabeth that I have no memory of. So needless to say I will not be taking things that wipe my memory from me. No matter how much I need the sleep, I will stick to Excedrin pm to catch up on sleep when I need to.
There is no telling what else I did in my sleep, I will never know, but now, no one else will either.

I had an interesting weekend, full of ups and some downs, mostly ups. I did get to spend some time with Tessa, which is always amazing. This time included a trip to Target, where we found a butterfly net, so of course we purchased it. Went home and began trying to find butterflies to catch, we really had no luck in that, however, we did spy some squirrels, which she decided was net worthy. So off we go, chasing squirrels, well on about the fifth one, she decides she better stand under the tree in case one falls, she will be there to catch it. So she hands me the net and stands there with her hands cupped together ready to catch whatever errant squirrel comes her way.
Once she tires of this she decides I will be easier to catch than the squirrels, so she starts chasing me, yelling run Gigi, run! So, off I go, running just fast enough to stay out of her reach, have to make it challenging, don’t you know. After she tires of that, it is back into the apartment we go to decorate Easter cookies, then it is bubble time. By the time I took her home I was exhausted! She kept telling me she was ready to go to sleep, however I managed to keep her awake until I got her home so she could go to sleep there for her parents.
I discovered Saturday that the Irishman bought us a new TV, an amazing TV, one that is 47 inches and has internet on it and is WIFI and comes loaded with Netflix, Facebook and Twitter, I think I have died and gone to heaven. I don’t even know how to react anymore! We picked it up yesterday and he put it together last night, I didn’t get to experiment with it, but he did, he did call me into the living room to examine the crystal clear picture and the depth, wow is all I can say. I cannot wait to get home today and play with it! I foresee a lot of movie nights in our future!

I was driving down the road this morning and decided that I wanted the whole day off. So, I called attendance and took the whole day. I feel quite decadent. I am catching up on my recorded shows, I have cleaned my Mary Kay area and desk, I even got all of the dog hair off of my new comforter. How, you ask. Well, it was a huge issue, how was I going to get all of that dog hair off of it, I looked at the bed, looked around me, saw the vacuum cleaner. Yes, folks, I vacuumed my bed. It now looks shiny and new again. I am having the best time playing 1950’s housewife. I love it, I would love to stay home again and take care of home and hearth. I know that is not very progressive of me, I come from a generation of women that was supposed to want it all. I never did, confession time here, I would love to stay home. I don’t not want to work, I just want to do something from home. If I could get paid for writing, I would do it in a heartbeat.
Next on my list to tackle is my bathroom, I have already done three loads of laundry, vacuumed and had a ton of coffee, of course.
I have also watched the first episode of Game of Thrones. Loved it! I will not ruin it for those who have not seen it, just know I will be watching from this point forward.
So I say goodbye for today, I have tons to do, which include a trip to the grocery store and making dinner!

I have become enamored with a new television show, on Showtime, The Borgia’s, highly entertaining. I love that time period, if everyone will remember their history, the Borgia’s were the original crime family. Never allowing anyone to stand in their way of advancement; politically, financially or socially. The head of the family, Rodrigo Borgia, later know as Pope Alexander VI, he used his children to solidify his power, using the position of religious leader as if he were a king, which in those days he was above kings. He crowned kings, the power went to his head, he married his daughter off no less than three times, each marriage more advantageous than the last.
This man would never have won father of the year, but for those of us looking back, it is highly fascinating. I think the next pet I get I am going to name after one of them.
I would love to go back to that time, it was an amazing time in human history, the renaissance, the enlightenment, the art, the literature, it was the beginning of free thinking. The Medici’s were in the mix during that time as well, I hope they are depicted on the show as I love, love, love them.
I would not want to go back to live during that time, however a brief visit would be total greatness, perhaps a week. If someone out there has a Delorean or knows Dr Sam Beckett I would appreciate a loan or a meeting. I would totally adhere to all time travel rules. Do not change the past that means I would only be observing, not engaging the locals. I could so do that! Can you imagine being there for Lorenzo De Medici’s coronation? The thought, well, just makes me happy.
If you could time travel, what time period would you visit?

Well it is another Monday, another week, another opportunity to get it right. Get what right you ask, well anything you want. I want to be well rested and alert, that is my goal this week. I woke up all congested and eyes swollen, I really hate the wind! I have never had this kind of reaction before. I keep putting eye drops in and it is not helping.
The weekend was good, celebrating baby Jackson’s first birthday was so much fun. Loved seeing old friends and their families, loved seeing my good friend Geneva so very obviously happy. The day was perfect, sunny, warm but not too warm; I swear Geneva placed an order! Then on Sunday seeing Jeffrey, Elisabeth and Tessa, so much fun, playing with lady bugs and shells and seeing the new fish named Snoopy. She is growing up too fast, she will soon be 4, the day she was born is still so fresh in my mind.
Well my nasal passages are swollen, so that means I have a headache, so I will be signing off for now. I promise to be more interesting tomorrow!