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Well...
I don't even know if anyone but me reads this.
It had been so long since I wrote or said anything in it. So I went in and deleted a bunch of entries and decided to start over again fresh.
Life in General
What can I say - Life in general has just really sucked ass in a big way lately.
My Dad passed away on June 3rd. He was only 58 years old.
It's been 3 weeks now, and it still doesn't feel real in a lot of ways. I miss him SO much.
My parents had been together since they were 15 and 17 years old. They would have celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary this September. They were one of those couples that beat the odds. They got married at 16 and 18 years old - moved from Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada to Stow, Massachusetts USA, 3 months later - and had me a few weeks after moving. They had NOTHING. My Dad worked his ass off. I remember him going to night school to get his degree and working 2 full times jobs.
My Mom got her drivers license when she was 20 - I remember her taking drivers ed... IMAGINE THAT... I remember my Mom taking drivers ed!! Once she got her license, she started working nights at a local department store, and I stayed home with Daddy.
I remember on Wednesday nights (I think it was Wednesdays...) Channel 56 would have the Creature Double Feature. And Dad would come up stairs and get me and let me stay up and watch TV with him. T-Rex gave me nightmares for a LONG TIME!! I was only 4 or 5 years old then...
My Dad used to have a 1957 VW Bug then too... it was this YUCKY green color - PUICE is what he called it... it was more like Puke! LOL!! He LOVED VW Bugs... and taught me to love them too. This bug had a sunroof - and old peal back kind. I remember this one night that Dad and I were out driving in it - Mom was at work and we had gone down there to see her... when ever we stopped at a red light, Dad would let me stand up on the seat and poke my head out the top... it was so cool!!
My brother was born when I was almost 6 years old. I remember the day they came home with him.
Even as adults, my Dad was the one that ran the show. He was a controller - that is for sure - but it was o.k. He might have aggravated the piss out of you... but he always just wanted what was best for us. If he thought we were making a mistake - he had no qualms about stepping in and letting you know about it. And for the most part - we listened.
He and I would be starting to plan out Christmas dinner right about now.
Yeah, I know, it's only June... but every year - he and I would plan out the theme for Christmas dinner. Thanksgiving is Mom's - and she goes all out with the whole traditional Thanksgiving Feast... but Christmas was Dad and Mine... and Shaun would just get stuck, going along with cooking what ever we said. We would start planning it out - what the Theme was going to be... Italian... Mexican... Chinese... Then we'd start talking about what dishes we would like to think about making. Then, through the rest of the year, we would add or subtract dishes from the list and try cooking them to see how they come out. By the week before Christmas - everything was planned and tested and the menu was created. 2 Christmas's, we decided to do Chinese. We had some AWESOME food that year! We had over 21 dishes to choose from... and Shaun, Dad and I had a blast cooking it all up!
I miss my Dad.
2 weeks ago we had to buy my daughter a car. We went out shopping, and we picked one out. All I could think of was that I wished my Dad was there to point out to me what was wrong with it... make me think about this deal... make sure I was making a good decision.
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Hey Peeps...
O.K... Friends...
O.K... Friend...
Mom...
Well... I finally finished my first Fic... I am so proud of me! And I even got a review on it already - and a good review at that!
Wow... I am coming up in the world... DIG ME!
Anyways... I hope anyone that is out there reading this will take a moment to go and check it out... go to:
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1237101
or you can go to my web site, to my "My Fics" in the Buff-n-Stuff section of the site and read it there. Then, shoot me an email and tell me whatcha think... o.k.??
Chow-Chow for now!!
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Been working almost all weekend on the website. Within' a few hours I should have the FavFics page up and running... *phew*
Lotta work going on here - hope people like it...
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Watch out World Wide Web - LOOney's at it again!
It's just a little bitty new born site - but it's there - up on the web - created my little ole me.
come on in and say HI!
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O.K... Here is like my first Rant for my journal...
I work at this place where they HATE smokers. We are not allowed to even smoke on the sidewalk in or around the building. I have to walk across the building to the elevators, then take the elevator down to the second floor... then walk the skywalk across the street to the parking garage elevator area on the 3rd floor, then take another elevator down to the first floor and walk across the parking garage to the lighted courtyard area - outside in the elements.
Now I have ALWAYS been one of those smokers that is very considerate of non-smokers. If I am at someone's house that doesn't smoke, I go outside to smoke - even if they do have ash trays scattered around - I don't want to contribute to making there home smell yucky, just because I want to smoke. I won't smoke in someone's car unless they specifically tell me that it's o.k.... I go out of my way for non-smokers just because I respect their rights not to have to breath in my lousy habit.
Why is it that non-smokers CAN'T or WON'T respect the rights of the smokers though? I know it's bad for me. I know I shouldn't do it. But I do. And I think at the age of 38 years, I have earned the right to decide if I want to do things to my body that are bad for it or not.
If restaurants and buildings can be equipped to handle and filter cigarette smoke - then use it!
You don't want me to get sick and need to take time off from work from the case of pneumonia that I got having to go outside in the dead of winter to smoke... then build a room where there are filters and such just for the smokers.
I know smoking is a bad habit. And to anyone that doesn't smoke out there, but is thinking about starting - and to anyone that quit, that is thinking about starting up again - PLEASE DON'T DO IT! It's not worth the hacking cough every night when you are trying to go to sleep and the cough that greets you every morning when you wake up. It's not worth the looks and lectures that you get every time you go to your doctors office for a check up. It's not worth the look on your children's faces when they go through the lesson at school that tells them that cigarette smoking shortens your life and they come home begging you to quit, because they don't want Mommy or Daddy to die.
I have to admit - I have a love/hate relationship with this habit of mine. I hate just about everything there is about smoking and the havoc that it is wreaking on my lungs... but I still love the taste as that smoke passes from my lips down into the depths of my lungs... and it is that taste - that feeling - that enables this nasty habit from releasing me. |
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Hey Peoples!
Don't know who all would be looking at this yet... haven't really told anyone that "Hey!! I'm out here!!"... so like, what ever.
Anyways... I am still working on my web site endevour... and realized why I gave it up to begin with... LOL!!! IT'S A LOT OF WORK. Plus - I always create my own graphics for my sites, and can never come up with something I REALLY like... especially in backgrounds.
So, there's where I am right now with this...
Had to go into work yesterday. That bites... having to go in on a Saturday - at my nap time even. But at least I am still considered "hourly" so I do get paid for it... that's a really good thing!!
O.K. so before I bore you anymore...
Feb. 2nd, 2003 @ 12:22 pm
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Oh aren't you so proud of me... My First Entry...what ever shall I write??
I started this LJ so that I could share updates to friends and family as to what all was going on with life - but I don't know... it may lead me somewhere else - who knows...
I am working on a new website for LOOney to express herself and hopefully I will have it up soon. I will include a link here.
In the meantime - part of my new website is going to be dedicated to my favorite TV Show - Buffy the Vampire Slayer... I just need to come up with a new name for my site.... any thoughts out there would be welcomed.
O.K... I think for a first entry, I've said enough... (I hope)...
Talk again soon!!
LOO
Jan. 27th, 2003 @ 11:18 am
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