November 23, 2008
· Filed under Out and About, sisters
I just got back from the NKOTB concert. I have once again been reminded why SisterFriend is my favorite concert partner.
There were more men than I expected. Poor guys that had been dragged there by their female SOs from the looks on their faces.
Lady GaGa was the first opener and did a very short set. Oh and kept referring to us as being in Seattle. I’m not from here but but maybe this place is growing on me because at concerts I find myself very annoyed when artists call us seattle. WE ARE NOT SEATTLE.
Natasha Bedingfield also played a rather short set and although she did say Tacoma she added Seattle as well. Better than not saying Tacoma at all but really leave Seattle out of it.
Then the boys came on stage (btw they did not call us seattle once). They not only brought back the old tunes but they brought back the old dance moves as well. You remember them. The dorky, if they were a new group today they’d be laughed off stage dance moves complete with croch grabs. LOVED IT.
There was only one moment where I was annoyed by the new material, for the most part they mixed it nicely.
I’m going to bed now, we’ll see if I wake up in time to go to church tomorrow today.
February 6, 2008
· Filed under Out and About, Think on it
Obama will be in Seattle Friday. I want to be there. I have to work. I have a meeting. The work ethic my parents instilled i me says I must go to work. My heart says I must go to see the man speak. To see him speak in person. Wow I need to do that. I WANT to do that. But my meeting. A standard bi-monthly meeting, yet one I look forward to. A time for all the case managers from different programs to get together and a time to bond with the certain case managers from the program that I want to hire me.
If I don’t go I will regret it. If I dont go to the meeting and dont get the job I’ll always wonder if that decision reflected badly on me.
I just don’t know what to do. My brain says go to work. My heart says go see Obama speak.
October 26, 2007
· Filed under Out and About
well at least I hope not.
I am leaving in just a minute to have a first date with a friend. While I’m freaking out about many other things one of them is NOT what to say when he struggles for small talk and asks..”so got any kids”
more later.
June 22, 2007
· Filed under Adoption, Out and About, venting
My birthday is next week and the best birthday gift in the world arrived today. Pictures of my son, his brother and their parents as well as pictures he’d drawn and at the bottom of one of those pictures is happy birthday written in his 5-year old handwriting….okay actually it says “happy brhday” with both y’s backwards as well as the r and regardless of what anyone else give me for my birthday they cannot top that.
I had plans to meet up with my sister tonight so I took my envelope of treasures with me to share with her and when we arrived at our destination she saw some co-workers. Now I’m not shy about my birth mother status but I was a bit uncomfortable when my sister asked to see the pictures infront of her more than tipsy co-workers. I don’t know if it was them being in my business or the fear they’d spill on them or a combination of the two.
So then those questions (comments?) started. “It’s great they let you have pictures”, “Don’t you feel blessed to have these”, “Do they have to keep in touch with you” “It’s great you gave him a life instead of just getting rid of him.” “Don’t you think he has so many more opportunities now” Now I wanted to make the smart aleck come backs that are often seen on the forums. Something like yeah and it’s great I let them have my son. But these are my sisters co-workers and I didn’t want to be TOO rude. So instead I answered as respectfully as I could.
“It’s great they let you have pictures”
Well we all went in to this with open adoption in mind so everyone knew we’d be staying in contact.
“Do they have to keep in touch with you”
No only about 14 states have legally binding open adoption agreements and then I repeated but we all went into this with open adoption in mind.
“Don’t you feel blessed to have these”
*smile* (there just wasn’t a diplomatic –or short- answer for that one)
“It’s great you gave him a life instead of just getting rid of him.
That’s a common misconception, but most women who chose to place don’t even consider abortion. They are two very separate issues and not as linked as people want to make them.
“Don’t you think he has so many more opportunities now”
Well I can’t see what might have been so I know he has different opportunities, I wont say better or worse but I know they are different.
I owe a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who has discussed these questions on the forums, all your posts popped into my head throughout the conversation.
April 29, 2007
· Filed under Out and About, venting
but it sure feels like one.
I have a problem with money. More specifically I have a problem not spending money. Even money I dont have. I’d gotten better for awhile but recently got depressed and well started shopping. I got rid of most of my credit cards awhile back not all of them because “you never know when an emergency will come up.” Yeah that was my excuse then…
It’s easy to rack up the bills on a credit card and I never do it with one big purchase, it’s always a bunch of little things I can’t afford. Dinner out one night. More groceries than I should buy before pay day. An article of clothing thats on sale. But slowly the balance creeps up there. It’s especially hard now that I have friends at work.
It started out as a once in awhile thing but then every wednesday the three of us (sometimes 4) would go out for drinks. Now it’s Wednesday and Sunday. Today is sunday. I’m broke. Payday is this coming Friday which means that I have to make it through tonight and wednesday before payday.
I have money in my checking account but it’s for rent. I’ve tried to set a budget in the past for our nights out but when you’re out with friends meeting guys and making fun of some really bad karoke who can remember a budget? So to be responsible (on some level at least) I decided to check my balance before heading out. Well the website is down for matenience every monday from 12am till…wait it’s not MONDAY! OH but it is on the east coast. Damn left coasters (well right coasters if you’re looking north) they dont want me to know how much I’ve mangaged to spend in the last week or so on little bitty purchases that ADD UP QUICKLY.
So I have to leave in a minute and I’ll just have to remember to not spend too much…yeah like that ever works.
March 26, 2007
· Filed under Out and About
For those not in the know it’s a band. And I went to see them (for the second time actually) with my NON (a non-boyfriend is basically an ex-boyfriend but because the term ex has such negative conotations and since I dont think this particular former flame is a jerk he gets the title NON) The concert was great and I LOVED the first act which was a band called Subtle.
I highly recommend seeing subtle to anyone who ever gets the chance.
Then we went to Qube a fairly new spot in seattle that was between the venue and my car. Seems kinda trendy, the bartender was saying Mandy Moore had been in last week. Interesting Bar menu and there were others there for my non to tell his Tvotr stories to (since I’ve heard them repeatedly).
All was going well until the drive home when in his slightly drunken state he got annoyingly critical. So he got dropped off at home after which I’m sure he went to the bar around the corner and I drove straight to the West End where I knew my girls were. After some slightly drunken oversharing with a stranger I felt much better.
Well I’m off to listen to my new Subtle cd.
