Category: General

Sometimes I believe I have too much time to think. I was thinking that it would be a lovely idea to dress in Elizabethan Era clothing. How much fun would it be to wear silks and satins every day, to wear jewels and walk around with a tiny waist due to the corset. Oh, it would be sheer heaven; of course I would still wear makeup. Cannot go without that, and contacts. A modified Elizabethan look if you will. It does beg the question; would sumptuary laws come back into effect? Maybe they should anyway, however, it would not be based on income and title as it was then, it should be based on appropriateness. Is it really appropriate for a man to wear a Speedo swimsuit for any other purposes than a swim competition? Fine him heavily! Also to the woman who wears a leather vest with no shirt under it to work, unless you are a bartender or waitress, consider yourself fined. Please pay the coffers and promise not to do it again.
A fun Elizabethan Era Royalty fact, they rarely if ever wore the color blue, the working class apprentices wore that color which made it undesirable for the upper classes. Oh, that could explain my aversion to the color blue. Since I am royalty in my head, don’t judge, it’s not pretty.
Ok, huge wedding decision has been made, we had thought about getting married in the Catholic church, since fiancé is very Catholic and his family is Catholic, I thought it would be a nice gesture. So, off we go to find out what is involved in that. We met with a very nice woman, who gave us a list of the documentation we would both need to invalidate our former marriages. Invalidate. The word gave me great pause. My marriage was valid, I stood up in front of a man of God, with my family and friends in attendance, and I married in good faith. I had children with him; I lived with him, all in good faith that the marriage would be forever. So I told fiancé that I could not do that, he understands, he said that he had his misgivings as well. So, now the search is on to find a minister to marry us.

I am not a romantic person, which is odd because I love romance novels. Well, really only two authors, Johanna Lindsey and Jude Deveraux, I buy whatever they write. I have a favorite book from each writer that I read over and over. With Johanna Lindsey it is Captive Bride and with Jude Deveraux it is Knight in Shining Armor. Both books totally rock.
I try to be more romantic as I have a romantic fiancé; he is always doing little things for me, nothing huge, just thoughtful and romantic. He tells me every day that I am beautiful; he is the first man besides my dad and grandfather that have ever told me that. I know what you are thinking, weren’t you married before? Well yes, I was, and no he never told me that, in fact he would say the exact opposite.
I don’t know if I was ever a romantic person, I can’t remember, I got married so young, and then there was no romance. So I honestly can’t remember. I remember wanting romance in my life, I started reading romance novels at 15 (I blame Teri Hudson); in fact my first romance novel was Captive Bride.
I have tried other romance authors, but I kept coming back to the same two, these two authors write strong, independent heroines and flawed heroes. I want human qualities in the characters in the books and Jude and Johanna provide in a big way.
So in the meantime, I try to be more thoughtful and romantic towards a person who is that way toward me. He is showing me how to be that person by his actions.

Is there anything worse than a blank mind? Yes, there is, a blank mind that is willing to be filled with whatever comes along, that is worse. I know people like that, whoever gets to them first, that is the opinion they will go with, they totally cannot think for themselves. Sad, really, to think of the potential for creative, original thought, just not there. People who spout misinformation without ever thinking of the consequences. People who don’t bother to gather all of the facts before inciting the masses.
Well, I can think of something worse, the destructive mind, someone who only thinks of horrible things to do to the people around them. Take Danielle Staub for instance. She is on the Real Housewives of New Jersey, and a more destructive woman just does not exist on the face of the planet. Last night she took a known convict to a charity function, he made threats and she threw around accusations that were so untrue, she also took this woman, Kim G, who was just as bad. They fed off of each other, and made everyone around them feel uncomfortable and a little scared.
The man she had with her, was a total nut job, if he really is connected like he bragged about being, on national television no less, then I have to tell you, his boss is not going to be happy with him. Can anyone say fish food?
There is a saying if someone shows you who they are believe them. Danielle has shown all of America who she is, frightening in a way that makes me never ever want to go to New Jersey!

Today is a special edition of Angie World, instead of Does That Make My Dog Crazy; this is an installment of Does That Make My Dog Clever.
Chewie is getting older; please do not tell him, he cannot stay alone in the house for long periods of time without having to relieve himself. So I bought the puppy pads for him so he would have no embarrassment and it would be easy clean up for me.
There are two spots he does this in; they are about three feet from each other. A week ago, I knew I was going to be very late coming home, so, down go the pads. Now usually he only goes on one or the other, but that day, I was gone a lot longer than usual and he had to make use of both pads.
When I walked in the door and went over to check the pads I discovered something unusual. He had dragged both pads together. Now he had to drag it about three feet, not an inordinate distance, but he had never done this before. Granted he had not needed to use both pads before, so this begs the question, was he being clever or thoughtful? Or both?
You decide.

Tomorrow is Memorial Day here in the United States of America. This day is particularly meaningful to me as my family has sacrificed many members to insure the safety and freedom of this great nation. We have had someone in the United States military from the Revolutionary War and up to and including the current conflicts overseas.
As we take a moment to remember our fallen heroes, the heroes who came home and the heroes who are still over there, let’s not forget what they fought for.
We have freedom of speech, we have the right to lawful assembly, we have to right to worship God the way we want, not the way the nation dictates, women have the right to dress how they see fit, not how someone dictates to them, we can say what we want, when we want to whom we want. This is all thanks to our amazing men and women who give their lives serving us.
I am in awe of anyone who makes this sacrifice, it is not only the selflessness of the individual, it involves their family as well. Let’s not forget the mothers and fathers who send their children, the wives and husbands who send their spouses off with assurance all will be taken care of at home until their safe return, the children who say goodbye to parents, they all make sacrifices so our country can continue to be the best in the world.
So, to the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard privates to the officers, I salute you, thank you, pray for you and am in awe of you.

I am having the best morning; I have found a new coffee, Rita Monti, dark Italian roast. I found it on a website I go to, http://www.sampleaday.com, it was a free sample. However, they sent me a full size 1 lb can to try. I was shocked to find such a pleasant surprise in my mailbox. I decided to try the coffee today, wow; the flavor was rich, the texture smooth, and no bitterness whatsoever. Amazing coffee, the website for that brand is http://www.ritamonti.com; you cannot find this in the stores.
Ok, enough advertising for today. I have a very busy weekend planned. I am not leaving my apartment today. I have so much cleaning to do, plus, I signed up for Netflix and you can do the streaming movie thing on your television if you have an Xbox 360 and well Alex has one, so I am hoping I can get him to set it up. There are a lot of things I could watch!
Tomorrow, I will go and get Freddy a birthday present, his birthday is Monday. Then Monday I can be lazy.
So I am trying to figure out how to order contact lenses online and use my insurance benefits at the same time, I even went to my vision insurance website and it was not helpful, I suppose I am going to have to wait until Tuesday and call them to figure it out. All I know is I am not paying a horrendous price for recreational contact lenses. If anyone who works for the same large telecommunications company as I have figured it out, could you please educate me!
I have it on good authority that crazy eye may be coming home next week, that will make Chewie very happy, he misses her. I am poor company compared to the excitement crazy eye brings to the household.
Well folks that is all of the new I have for now. Oh wait! No, I do have something, yesterday Alex tells me of a strange happening that occurred Thursday morning.
He said that at around 6:30 A.M. someone began banging on the door, when he went to look out the peephole someone was shining a bright light in it so he could not see out. So of course he did not open the door, he said they banged on the door for about 15 minutes then left, they did not go around back so he never saw who they were. Has anyone else heard of this happening? Very disconcerting to say the least!

Lately I have been thinking about the television show Earth: Final Conflict, this show was amazing, it only ran four seasons and was never on network television, always in syndication. It was the brain child of Gene Rodenberry, so we all know it was brilliance personified.
The premise is aliens come to earth to help us all be better humans. Of course it is a ruse, they really want to dominate and destroy, not all of them, there are a few rogue ones. However, for the most part they want to dominate and destroy.
I have been giving this a lot of thought, and I want to nominate myself to meet the aliens if they should arrive during my lifetime. It makes perfect sense if you think about it.
First of all, I am a perfectly normal, average, woman who would represent the rest of woman kind wonderfully. I would wear 4 to 5 inch heels to the meet and greet, that way if they are tall and willowy like in Earth: Final Conflict I would be elevated to almost their height, if they were short, like the Asgard in Stargate SG-1, I would tower over them menacingly, to let them know that we are not soilent green. I would wear a fabulous outfit, letting them know that we are a fashion forward people and lastly, since I have seen almost every Sci-Fi television show, EVER, I am uniquely qualified to adapt to any alien life form since I have been studying them for so long. Vulcan’s, got ya covered, Live Long and Prosper, lizards masquerading as humans, not an issue, poison the water, gray and green ones that like to experiment on humans, I will send them to the delta quadrant, Janeway will make short work of them. I can adapt to any situation and will undoubtedly make them comfortable.
So you can see, I am qualified, I am willing and I promise to dress the part. In short, vote for me to meet the visitors!

So yesterday I went back to the optometrist and am now a recreational contact lenses user. I wonder if there is a twelve step program for that. I hope not.
I am still not feeling all that great, I woke up nauseated today and still feverish, if I still feel this way tomorrow I am going to call the regular doctor and see what is wrong with me. Probably the Asian Bird Flu. If I am going to be ill I want it to be exotic not a common cold.
Well today is my Friday in the office and thanks to Elizabeth and Freddy I have continued my Starbucks addiction. I am very happy, full of coffee and love; yes I equate caffeine to love. It is that euphoric feeling that just envelopes me when I take that first sip that assures me that God is in charge, He loves me, and that all will be right with the day. I have reached level 30 on my registered gift card at Starbucks that makes me ultra special, they will be sending me a personalized gold card. Very excited about this! I believe this achievement can only validate my addiction.
I have a long weekend ahead of me, Sex and the City 2 comes out today, however, the reviews are bad, bad, bad. So I am conflicted about spending money to see it, however, if fiancée has been bad, this movie will be his punishment. But I don’t want the movie to be my punishment as well, a quandary my friends.
There is a man who sits in the cubical next to mine, when he drinks he slurps, every time, he has horrible manners and screams at people. Just had to get that out.
I don’t know what to do with myself, all of my shows are done, well almost all of them, Friday Night Lights, Stargate Universe and Merlin are still new, Leverage starts soon, oh Christian Kane! Ok, my day just got better, that man is just hot, hot, hot, he can sing and act! I wonder if he can dance? That would be a triple threat! Oh my.

I haven’t posted anything for a few days due to I have not been feeling well. Physically I am about 50% better; mental sharpness appears to be much less.
Yesterday I had my yearly physical, the last one I had was three years ago, but better late than never. As I am sitting in the waiting room I realize I have forgotten to shave under my arms. I am mortified; I have been going to this doctor for 22 years. He delivered Elizabeth and Alex; I want to ask if they can hold my appointment for about an hour while I run home and shave! But no, at that moment, they call my name. Fortunately, he does not see the offensive arm pits, however the mammogram technician does. She was a lot of fun, made the process seem fast, however, I could tell she would gossip at the water cooler about my grooming issues.
I have become “that” patient. Anyway, I told my doctor about my chronic tiredness. I wake up tired, I stay tired all day at work, I go home and take a nap, wake up tired from that, then go to bed tired, then start the whole thing over again the next day. He went over what it could be, ordered blood work done to rule out certain things and then we will go from there. This has been going on for about a month now. I think I have west Nile, or maybe the Asian bird flu, or something exotic.