Month: January 2014

Apparently this is the week for pondering thoughts out of yours truly.  Here recently Kenzie and I were discussing if you could change things about your past would you.  Then yesterday I was getting caught up on Rachael Ray’s daytime tv show and The Chew and at the end of one of RR’s segments she did a speed round of audience questions.  A couple different questions came up on if she’d change her past or not.  She said she wouldn’t because even the 2 muggings helped get her to where she is today.

I would like to be confident in the fact that I could say, “No I wouldn’t change anything,” but the fact of the matter is sometimes I wish life could be like a tv show.  The one that comes to mind is the Friends episode where they did the what if episode.  You know what if Chandler would have gone into the comic book industry, what if Monica hadn’t lost all the weight, what if Rachael would have actually married Barry, what if Pheobe would have taken that job on wall street, what if Ross’s marriage hadn’t ended in divorce/his wife hadn’t been a lesbian, and what if Joey hadn’t been fired from Days of Our Lives.  If you don’t watch Friends or know it by heart, there’s the big jest of the episode.

Obviously that’s easy to do with a tv show because first off, {newsflash, lol} these aren’t real people leading real lives.  They go to work every day, read the script, act it out and then go home and lead their lives which sometimes are all over the tabloids, but that’s another story for another time, right?

The fact of the matter is I know that everything that has happened in my life has lead me to where I am today.  And with a few minor details of things that I wish could be changed, it’s a pretty darn good life.  Yes, I’ve hit curve balls and yes, I’ve been thrown for loops.  Yes, I’ve looked back at things I’ve done and called myself an idiot but still, it made me who I am.  I guess for the most part I’m a pretty okay person, right?  (validation please… lol)

So in truth of the matter I guess I wouldn’t change things but I do sometimes wish I could sit down, put my episode of my life on, you know the what if episode and see that I’m sooooooooo totally glad I’m where I am today vs things that could have gone differently.

I can tell you there is a HUGE list of things that better come out the same way if I were to see that episode play out though!!!!  The number one thing would be my husband better be my husband because he is my rock.  He steadies my ship when it starts to rock.  He picks me up and brushes me off when I feel like I’ve hit rock bottom.  I can’t say enough good things about him and yes while it may sound all mushy, he is there for me.  He was that missing link I was looking for in all my struggling years until we met back up!

Okay I’ll stop now, I feel like this is either going mushy or depressing, neither of which I really meant to happen, more just a pondering question.  Would you change anything about your life, all of your life or would you keep every bit of it the exact same way?

This just must be the week of pondering thoughts.  I swear, this week my brain has been on overload.  I’m not sure if it is due to the fact that school started or pregnancy or what the heck is going on but dang!

++So last night at a Try it Tuesday I said that they wouldn’t allow me to dive.  When asked why I said I had a kid in the oven. ha!  I corrected myself but I have a hard time saying I’m pregnant.  I’m not sure what my deal is with that particular phrase but I have a hard time saying it.  I have a bun in the oven, I have a kid brewing, I’m due in June, none of those bother me but that word pregnant.  I know I’m weird!

++So am I having this kid or is this kid having me?

++Did you hear about the shooting in Roswell, New Mexico yesterday?  Why are these kids turning to that kind of violence?  Things at that age can’t be that bad.  I’ve been through that age.  I never wanted to kill anyone.  How do I know my kid won’t end up either the victim of something like that or worse yet the attacker type person.  Oy things a pregnant lady shouldn’t think about I think.

++I really like going to the movies but seriously you almost have to take out a loan just to go to a movie for a couple hours these days!  Prices are unreal!  But after the incident that happened in Colorado and then sadly here while back in a town VERY close to us another shooting happened.  Yikes.  But better yet, did you hear about the guy who shot a guy in Florida for texting during a movie?  Seriously, killing people isn’t going to solve anything!

++On to something different before I just panic and freak out!

++So it cracks me up all the college students that I hear complaining about classes starting at 8am.  Now granted I remember being a first time through college student thinking ugh but I usually scheduled all my classes I could before noon so I had afternoons free.  Yeah getting up at 8am after going to bed at 3 because I was finishing up a paper sucked, but I sometimes brought that on myself.  I think I might croak now… just saying.  But anyway the real word starts at 8am, sometimes before so it cracks me up when they complain.  My last job I had to be there 8-5 Monday through Friday!

++These last few weeks I keep waking up between 5 and 6am.  I’m soooo not digging it because I’m not a morning person.  I’d rather sleep in… lol.  Maybe I’m still a college student.  Oh wait I am… lol.

++My classes this semester are morning (one afternoon).  All last semester were mainly late morning to all afternoon so this is a change.  I’m having to get to the school earlier.  But so far it has made finding a parking spot earlier.  Plus the library is almost dead silent.  But I guess it is still the first week of the semester so people don’t have craptons of homework yet.  btw, my homework (looking at syllabus) is freaking me out!

++I’m sorry for all the random thoughts.  My brain has been on overload today for some reason.  My first time through college I watched the Today show a lot.  Then came the first election for President Obama when he ran against McCain and I got sick of listening to all the one sided stuff.  Seriously so I quit watching all together.  Here lately I’ve caught myself watching a bit more.  Today I turned on because someone posted about the shooting in NM and I wanted to know what the deal was and figured they’d talk about it.  Yup, they did.

++Here it is 9am, I ate Honey Nut Cheerio’s for breakfast and I’m hungry.  Oh well lunch is only 3ish or so hours away, right?

++Oh and then they were talking about something about watching your every move and putting spy pieces on USB drives and stuff like that.  Wait, what?!?!  So nothing is safe these days.  GREAT.  If you’re reading my blog post today, hope you enjoy… I swear I was only googling those incidents to include for people who didn’t know what I was referring to… lol 🙂

++And finally they were talking about the affair that the President of France is having?  Comparing it to Clinton’s fiasco.  They interviewed a British lady who said that in Britain and the US, lying is considered really bad.  In France it’s bad but not nearly as bad as it is here.  I’m not sure what she meant by that.  Heck I didn’t even know he was having an affair.  Guess that shows you how much I pay attention.  Really all I’ve heard them rant and rave about lately is the Christie scandal that they’re calling Bridgegate?  Interesting.

Saturday hubby, Tbug and I were headed to Springfield for an orientation.  As we were driving of course the radio was playing songs {I know, right… lol}.  The Cricket Song by Rich O’Toole came on the radio and everyone in the car decided to start singing along.  The lyrics in the song came on that said, “me and the crickets sang the same damn song…”

Now first off, a few years ago Tbug was singing Zac Brown Band song Toes. We came upon the part of the song that said, “I got my toes in the water, ass in the sand,” and we heard her actually sing the word ass.  We both immediately turned around with a did you seriously say that look on our face and asked her what the heck she said.  She was like my mom said I can sing the word as long as it’s in a song.  We told her that wasn’t allowed and hubby even talked to her mom about that. She said she didn’t actually tell her that.  So from then on she has been told she needs to change the words she’s not allowed to say.

So back to Saturday while we were all singing The Cricket Song which got me to thinking back to my childhood.  After the song was over I asked hubby if he remembered the song Rodeo by Garth Brooks.  He said yes, with a quizzical look on his face.

We were like in 4th grade maybe when that song came out or at least when it was sang at some music award show like the AMA or the CMA’s or whatever.  The night after that song was played on the award show, that was the first song I can remember when a 4-letter word was said, “It’s that damned old rodeo.”

All the kids at school were discussing how they used a word like that in a song.  There may have been other songs out there but that one had my whole class up in arms.  Now here we are some 20 years later roughly and there are words like that in all kinds of songs.  It’s just mainstream media basically.

You really could say that about a lot of different things truthfully, that’s just what got my mind to thinking.  I feel bad for all the kids who are growing up in this day in age who are getting exposed to things like that/this at such an early age.  Maybe it doesn’t upset a lot of people but it does make me feel sorry for kids these days.

And yes, sadly I cuss.  I’d like to give it up and I do good but then something just really sets me off and I may go off, but I do my best to watch my language when kids are around. So anyway, weird post I’m sure but it was just things that got me to thinking this weekend.

Maybe because I have a little one on the way that I know will be affected by all of this… I’m not really sure and there isn’t anything I can do about it, but just thoughts for a Monday morning.

btw, here are all the songs I was referring to just so you know what I’m talking about if you’ve never heard them 🙂
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqnJbF9Bypo] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB8Nkn3Xjes]

Sadly I can’t find Garth Brooks actually singing Rodeo but this is the song.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YadOEY8k1zM]