The First Autocross

So this weekend is the first Autocross of the season! Now I don't go to race cars because I just don't think that it is great fun for me. What I go to do is help out in timing and just to see people. Our group is so small that a few of us have become really close. It is more of a social gathering to me then a car race. However since it is going to be close to my friends house I'm not sure if I am going to actually make it to the autocross. Bill tends to leave me to do other things so I can't really hang out with him and there is a person there that will probably be in timing to make my life miserable because we are trying out a new timing system which I should be there to use it but I'm not sure I can handle being around that person in timing. She'll probably tell me what to do and how to use the system which I'm not dumb I can probably figure it out myself but you know I might just have to deal with it. However I just haven't made up my mind to go or not. The thrill for me is the staying with our friends. I am very excited to stay with them and enjoy a weekend together.

First Time Mothers

First time mothers are an interesting phenomenon. Overprotective, over exhausted, afraid to do anything wrong with their children, afraid to drop them, etcetera. Now what I have noticed and heard is with the first baby the mother's tend to freak out. Now I'm not saying that I wouldn't because I'm sure I would do the same faux pas but some are just hilarious. First time mothers tend to wrap their newborns in too many blankets or clothes to where they sweat and the mother freaks out because they are sweating and why. Others are overly cautious with everything baby, you can't hold my baby until you have washed your hands at least twice.

They don't want to take their baby anywhere afraid that something will happen to them and then freak out that their newborn is going to get sick and catch a cold, getting some sort of disease from the outside world. It's funny to watch new mothers with their children. Being on the outside you notice things that mothers don't know that they are doing. Of course I can say that now not being a mother myself besides to my 3 animal children (2 dogs and a cat). I'm sure though when I do have a child I'll do the same faux pas things. I think that my faults are going to be horribly overprotective and concerned to make sure that they don't hurt themselves so who am I to judge what any mother has done with their child.

Saturday.

I know that this is a tad late and that's a travesty but it's now or never. Saturday. The only saving grace to what happened on Saturday that slightly saved it was the fact that I at least got to hang out with Mama Griffith all day long. In hopes of going to the Seattle zoo (which I have never been to), getting her car back that only took 3 weeks to finish, and going to a lot of Starbucks only two out of the three happened. The beginning of the day started out good. On the way up to Mama Griffith's mother-in-laws to meet her sister-in-law to get her Volvo back we stopped at Starbucks and Walmart those 2 stops was going to have us be late, to our appointment time of 11, by only 30 minutes. Which was all fine because Mama Griffiths sister-in-law, I will give her the name of Molly that way I can stop writing sister-in-law, is usually late herself all the time. We got up to the house of mama griffiths mother-in-law, Mona, with Molly not there yet so we were thinking great at least we didn't make her wait around or have to sit there a long time. A big dark cloud was a foot. We walked in the door and Mona said Hi how about making some cookies. Both Mama Griffith and I were like we don't have time to make cookies if we are going to go to the zoo in a couple of minutes to a half an hour. Well it turned out to be 4 hours later that Molly showed up!!! 4 hours late!!!! That would have been a curtesy call to say that yes indeed I left an hour late and you should go to the zoo and I will meet you there. I almost died. If the 4 hours late wasn't bad enough there was a weird vibe that came from staying with Mona. There weird vibe between Mona and Mama Griffith was almost hard to take. It's like when there needs to be something said but no one is going to say it but they should to clear the air. It was that feeling. Now back to the 4 hours being late by Molly. Now granted that Molly also has 3 kids but to be 4 hours late I don't think so. She said that she took 4 breaks between her home and Monas to go to the bathroom. Now I asked Mama Griffith how long it usually takes a regular person to drive, 2 and a half hours. Now considering she left at 9:30 she should have been an hour late as it was to be there by 12. However she didn't get there until 3:30!! Each break we figured out that she took was 45 minutes long. Now I don't have kids and even though I don't I have my own ideas of how long a break should be maybe at the most 5 minutes if her son pied on the side of the road maybe 20 minutes if she had to take all of her sons into the bathroom at a place. I think that I would be a mean mother and make then pee on the side of the road if I had that many children and only one had to go to the bathroom. I have also talked to other mothers and they couldn't believe the 45 minute bathroom breaks either. So now the question comes up whether or not something else was a foot. Needless to say we switched cars loaded up the kids and took off back home. We made it about a quater of the way or less when the one kid who had his heart set on the zoo began to cry. We felt really horrible for him. The entire way up to Monas house was a constant question of are we going to the zoo and are we at the zoo yet which made having to tell him no we aren't going to the zoo today that much harder to bear. We ended up getting home at 8 as aposed to probably 6 or 7 or maybe even 8 depending on how long we stayed at the zoo. There was my tale. Like I said the only saving grace that was there was spending time with Mama Griffith.

Hans Solo VS Luke Skywalker

I think that Luke is the best compared to Hans Solo. Although I have always had a thing for the main character and hero of any movie. There is always so much bravado and courage that comes with being the main character. I think the real reason I really like Luke Skywalker and any other hero that comes out of a movie is because I wish that I had the strengths especially when someone evil like the emperor comes knocking at my door I could beat the cramp out of him and live to tell the tale. Luke Skywalker sure might in the first 2 movies be a little unsure of himself ask for a lot from people or in the case of mama griffiths blog be a whiner but all in all he was trying to find himself. For the most part when you are trying to find yourself and find power within yourself to go and beat the Emperor and Darth Vader wouldn't you whine a little bit. I'm sure I would. Hans Solo sure he has chewbacca but that is all he has in my book and the cool ship. Therefore Hans Solo vs Luke, Luke would definately win.

Smile and Laugh Always!

This is my last post for today so.....it will be short and sweet!!

Be kind to neighbors and friends.
Drink when absolutely necessary to take the edge off really bad days.
Smile often to make any day better.
Laugh even more often to live a long and enjoyable life.
Learn new things every day.
Take time to appreciate the small things in life.
Don't get angry easily.
Take your time on anything you are doing.
Realize a dream and fulfill it.
Go on a least one road trip every year.

Have a wonderful day and make the most of everything you have.

Cars!!!!

So right now my husband and I have 2 trucks, 1 jeep, 5 cars. Sound extreme to you. Yes I think so. 2 of the vehicles aren't ours however. We are storing them for almost a year and I have been the patient nice wife for that long for not telling Bill to get them out of our garage or else. However I think that I have reached my breaking point and I'm going to blow up at him either that or I will be devious and vicious to my husband and get rid of the cars without is knowledge. That would be a little harder to swallow though. I really don't think that I could do it though. I talk tough but I have no uphm behind my words. I will just tell Bill to get rid of the cars or he will have a very unpleasant wife to deal with until he gets rid of them (really takes them back to their original owners). It would be different if they paid us to store them but they aren't therefore I have been patient enough. Now you may be thinking 8 vehicles pushed down to 6 vehicles is still to much but the other ones I can deal with. One we just have to drag to the dump which won't take to long the others are all mine. The Jeep is really cool. One truck we are going to part out so we will eventually get rid of the whole thing. The other we have to have. The cars one is a 1966 mustang which is my dream car and the other is my daily driver subaru. However I will let you know if I pass my breaking point and tow 3 cars away without Bill's knowledge.

Pictures

Being good at taking pictures would be such a great thing to do. I really want to take a class on how to take a correct picture. I have some really good pictures in my house and on my camera right now but to actually take a class on it would be pretty awesome. I really would like to aspire to being a great photographer maybe not for a living but just for fun. At least having the knowledge to take pictures would come in handy in everyday life. I never knew what I wanted to do for a living only knowing that I liked to do specific things. I love flying, taking pictures, crime investigation, the human mind (psychology) and being a spy. Flying would be pretty cool. I really enjoyed flying a plane which I was very fortunate to have been able to do. Crime investigations would be pretty cool to do trying to find out who did it and why. If it was on purpose or not. The human mind has always interested me in the way that it works and in the strange ways that that diseases come about. I really thought about doing a double major in criminology and psychology. Then lastly but not least taking pictures for a living. Although I would really have to get better that way I could to weddings and senior pictures. I would have to become extremely good for taking pictures of weddings. It's a couples best day of their life so far and to take pictures of that moment would be very hard and indescribable to take the perfect pictures so they remember what went on on that special day of theirs. I think that I will look into classes in the future for picture taking. It sounds like so much fun to me. What is there that you have wanted to do that you haven't yet?

Saturday

Walmart is so much fun to go to because of all the great cheap things that you can buy. Usually I only buy movies from Walmart but today I bought some cars. Yes, yes cars in fact!! Really they were toy cars that were for some great little kids that I adore.

That was the middle of my day. I started out waking up at 5 to go to Seattle with a friend to trade cars then to go to the zoo. So therefore, I woke up at 5 left by 7 and then started the arduous task of driving in the passenger seat of the Subaru up the coast to eventually hit I-5 to go up to Seattle. We stopped at my friends mother in laws to meet her sister in law to trade cars and that is where we are now. I am killing time writing this blog because the sister in law is running a little late. Unfortunately since she is running late we won't be going to the zoo but that is ok. It is always fun going on a slight road trip up into Washington.

So what is in store for you this wonderful day? Anything exciting or wonderful? Tell me about it....Yes the 3 people that actually read my blog!! Answer!!!!!!!!

Weekends

These pictures are from finish to start because I have never uploaded pictures before so it is a learning expierence that is why it goes from finish to start instead of start to finish.

So some weekends are funner then others obviously but this weekend was a lot of fun. I got to watch a friend get a perm (which the hairstyliest just wasn't listening very well). I think that it turned out well except when she blow dried it. It really stated to poof out. Then we went to go get her a tattoo so that she could catch up with me. Since you know I have three and right now she only has one. The woman that was going to do the tattoo thought that it could be cooler if she had some time to work on it and make it better. Once she gets it on tuesday she will be closer to me having 2 instead of just 1. This weekend was great so far. It was a learning expierence when it comes to perms. I makes me want to grow out my hair to go have it permed in loose waves.

Shortness

Short posts are my calling today this evening. I need to blog about Bills work and vent slightly. I'm tired of Bills boss!!!! Bill is getting so worn out and working so much that he is working consistently 50 to 60 hours every single week with being on call every other week. I'm getting tired of him working so much the only good thing that is coming out of it is the paycheck that comes from all of his hard work. I think that his boss is a moron and doesn't know how to put together a route and doesn't realize that he has the best worker ever for him. So with that in mind wh0ever reads this can you please pray that God will help him find a new job or if his boss will quit or just to make things better at the job or even transfering up to Longview. I just don't know what to do and only God knows. So please keep him in mind for awhile. He is just so worn out that it is just depressing t0 see him and talk to him because I hear the wornoutness in his voice and the sadness in him. It is just hard for me to take.

The gross day...

Womanly exams are extremely ackward and totally out of anyones comfort zones. The reason for this blog is because I had one today. I have been having problems with my periods and since I haven't had a womanly exam for at least a year so duh duh dun. Today was the day. So it wasn't as bad as I was thinking it was going to be n0w don't get me wrong it was ackward but I actually laughed a lot and had as much fun as someone could have with those things happening to me. I found out that my doctor is going on a cruise to Alaska the week after me which was really interesting and slightly funny and ironic. Since I had a papsmear done and some bloodwork today she is going to test everything today and get back to me on Friday of this week or the early part of next week. Hopefully she will shed some light on what is happening to my body and if she can't then she is going to refer me a gynocologist. So pray for some answers for what is happening to me and why I am not ovulating and my period problem.

Australia

Going to a friends house to watch Australia. Now if you saw any of the previews for it but all the previews showed was all action. It so wasn't what I was expecting even Mama Griffith said the same thing. We couldn't even watch the whole movie I want to say that we only watched about a half an hour or even that. It turned out to be more a comedy then anything. It had a child narrator which was just more odd then anything.

If you haven't watched it yet just go into it knowing that it is more comedy then anything. It was a little to painful for me to watch the whole way through.