MzSerena’s Garden

Fall is coming, which means that Halloween is coming soon too. I used to love Halloween when I was young. I used to love to dress up. The last time I dressed up was in college. I tried to find a cool ‘adult’ (NON-RISQUE) costume, but all I could find that qualified as adult were school girl costumes and those are inappropriate really. It sucks to be an adult when you want to act like a little kid. It sucks.

Maybe they’ll start coming up with good costumes for adults that don’t make them look like sluts.

I’m still alive. Twitter has been posting for me again. Sorry for that, but it’s been a busy and interesting week in a few senses. Monday I had an eye appointment and was told that I didn’t really need it. My glasses haven’t changed enough to make it a big deal. I only even went because my Mom had one right afterward and if I didn’t go, she wouldn’t have gone.

I spent last weekend sitting on a decision that I finally made on Monday. I had to weigh a lot of pros and cons before making the decision, especially since it impacts more than just me. I was approached with the chance to write for the local paper. Mostly human interest stories, which is fine by me because it’s by my schedule to do interviews. The catch to this is – they are a startup paper, so there isn’t a lot of cash flow. This means that I won’t be getting paid. I had to decide if I was truly okay with this and honestly, I am.

I have completed my first article and submitted it. We’ll see how well received it is. Unfortunately, it will not be published online, as they do not have a website currently. I may publish them myself after the print copy comes out, but I want to speak with her first to make sure it’s alright. Next week is gonna be a bit busy as well, since I have a few things going on. So likely, Twitter will be posting for me all week again, but you never know.

Sept 5th starts HS Football season! I am excited by this, but I’m also thinking I won’t get to many games, since he’s working shitty shifts lately. We’ll see, I guess. Knowing my luck, we’d only be able to go to the away games and half the schools I have no idea how to get to. If I had a Garmin GPS, that’d be alright, but we don’t. I told him that he has to have the night off for one game in particular, since it’ll be the ‘major’ game of the season, in a sense. It’s the last home game, plus it’s rivalry game that I *always* went to when I was in school. I want to go to all the home games, but it’s too damn hard to get every Friday evening or Saturday afternoon off for the closer away games.

I should go to bed, I guess. I’m tired and a bit grumpy.

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It’s ALMOST time for High School Football to start. This summer, hell this YEAR, has flown by for the most part. I might even get to go to the first game of the season! I’m excited about that prospect. The first game is Sept. 5th at 1:30PM, about an hour away from home. Rob is done at 11AM that day, so we SHOULD be able to go if he gets straight home afterward and has no overtime.

It seems like just yesterday that it was the end of Football and we were freezing, dreaming about a Myrtle beach golf vacation. It doesn’t seem like it’s almost September. I’m glad though. My nephew starts college tomorrow, so does my bestie. She’s going back for the second time. I hope she does great and makes it through this time.

I wish I could go back to school. If I was, I’d buy me a new laptop. I’d like to have a Dell. I love my Acer, but it wasn’t nearly powerful enough for me after I bought it. I kind of thought about getting the Asus EEE netbook because it’s small enough that I can take anywhere, but I’m not sure. I worry about battery life more than anything. My Acer is a battery hog in a big way.

We’ll see what happens come tax time. Maybe then, I’ll buy one.

Everyone seems to want to lose weight and make themselves look better, but who is to say what makes a person better? I see commercials for beauty products all the time that promise things. They show before and after pictures that sometimes are hard to tell if it’s really the same person. Now, not all things are that way, I know that.

I’ve seen some things, like body wraps, that actually do work. It’s sometimes hard to tell what the right thing to use is. Personally, I’m all for doing things naturally, doing things the right way. I’m not saying that it’s a bad thing to have help, but what kind of help is necessary?

I wonder if an inch loss body wrap would work for someone my size. It probably would, but not enough to be noticeable. I just wish I could figure out how to be smaller without having to worry about getting sick or doing something drastic.

Sitting here staring at my full inbox from a 17 hour downtime. Don’t want to read the emails.
Reading LJ and trying to comment more than usual.
I feel slightly better than I did yesterday.
Randomly surfing on ebay – I want this

I have nothing else.

So, I don’t watch South Park. Like hardly ever. However, late at night, there is nothing else on to watch. I’ve noticed one thing about the show. There’s a teacher, a cop, a doctor, but there is no southpark dentist. Isn’t that kind of a bad thing? Especially if you want to portray a town of some sort.

I know that fictional shows are fictional, so yeah. I’m just completely random today.

My favorite part of the Spencer Picnic has always been the parade. When I was younger, they always had a lot of horse teams, but over the years, the parade has lost a lot of the teams. It made me sad yesterday because there were only two teams. On the bright side of that, they don’t need as many horse supplies to clean up afterward.

I do hope that next year is going to be better, since it will be the 100th anniversary. I would like to participate, but I’m not sure how well that would work out. I’d like to be a part of the alumni band, but I’m not sure I can play clarinet any more. I’ve been watching ebay for one, but they’re more money than I have. The other part of that, however, is that I don’t know if I remember any of the fingering, but if I got one in the spring, I’d have a few months to practice. I have no idea where to even begin re-learning all of it. Food for thought, I guess.

I have a few things going on this week, but I actually don’t plan on leaving the house. That’ll be a first for me, a week where I have nowhere I have to be. Watch me come up with something out of boredom. *laugh* Like, I could go see a movie since we have another Regal gift card. I don’t really see anything that I want to go see. We could see Harry Potter again, but I wasn’t all that impressed with it the first time. The only other thing is maybe Julie and Julia

Anyway, guess that’s all I’ve got for now.

I am completely exhausted. I always am after the Spencer Picnic. I’m not sure why, since we only go on Friday night and then Saturday morning for the parade. I wonder if it’s because I try hard to act like I don’t despise a lot of people. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I don’t despise a whole lot of people, but it seems like they all congregate in the same place at the same time. It’s hard for me because of the time of year it is. Next week is a weird week for me, but I’ll get through it like I always do.

I think that I’ve found a good natural acne treatment. Not stressing out! I’m serious. I stopped stressing over stuff and now I’m not breaking out as much. I have a few breakouts that I can’t control because of my skin being funky, but It’s not as bad. Anyway. I’m tired, drained and in need of sleep, so I’m done.

My husband goes to the doctor again in a little over a month. I had him check his blood sugar this morning and it was 141. It’s high, which no longer shocks me. His weight is up as well and he and I both knows what that means. He’s going to get his ass chewed. He was told to take off weight, but he’s gaining.

He was warned that if he doesn’t lose some weight, he was going to be put on a diet pill. I’m not a fan of this idea in the slightest, especially knowing how bad they can be for people. I can’t imagine him being on something like clinicallix, but it’s what the doctor is going to want to do.

It sucks because there is absolutely NO reason for this to be necessary.  None whatsoever.  He just is lazy.  Sure he works his ass off, but he comes home, eats dinner and flops into bed a lot of nights or when he’s off, he sits and reads a book all day.  Or at night, he’s on the computer.  He could be going out and working the garden, taking a walk, anything, really.  Meh.  Whatever.  It’s all him.

I have wide feet, so it’s hard for me to find decent shoes. I dread summer every year because I can never find cute sandals in the right width that fit my picky standards. No, I don’t wear open toes, nor will I wear anything that doesn’t have a heel strap at least. It may seem odd, but I’m not a fan of my feet, so I want something airy, but not too open. That’s why I check out Zappos.

What I really want before winter, though, is a pair of hiking shoes. Why? Because I don’t wear boots, I don’t like boots. Hiking shoes are sturdy, they hold up to snow and weather quite well. It may seem odd, especially since I live in Upstate NY and we get a ton of snow, but I don’t go out in the snow much and when I do go out, it’s packed enough that hiking shoes, with their traction, would be great for me. I wore my sneakers all last winter but nearly fell more than one time.

A lot of hiking shoes are waterproof or water resistant at the very least, plus they’re constructed heavier for the different terrains. They would have decent grip on wet, icy ground, so I don’t really feel the need to have boots if I can find a good pair of hiking shoes. Now, what do hiking shoes have to do with Zappos in particular? Easy, Zappos is the only place that I know of that I can buy wide width, womens hiking shoes. Especially for a decent price.

I’m really updating again this week. Scary isn’t it? Yesterday was interesting. We went to the eye doctor for Rob. I go later this month. Whoopie! We then went grocery shopping. On the way to Binghamton, I looked at the traffic going towards Elmira and saw the Nascar Sprint Cup haulers and motor homes on their way to Watkins Glen for the weekend. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen the equipment heading for the Glen, but it’s normally the show cars and display cars. We’ve never seen the actual tech garage stuff before. It was pretty cool.

Grocery shopping was uneventful, for the most part. We shopped for bulk items that will last at least 2 months. I picked up a pack of pork chops with my right hand and managed to twist my wrist wrong. I iced it last night for quite a while and it felt better this morning. Tonight, however, it was sore again, which sucked because I couldn’t take notes the way I wanted to. Speaking of tonight, it was this months’ installment of “Remembering Van Etten” and it was all about Railroading. It was really nice, especially since there were so many ‘new’ faces there. There were 23 people tonight, but there were a few missing faces from last time. It was fascinating, but what was better than the railroading was finding out that someone they talked about the first night was my great grandmother! I’ll have to get my notebook out of the car and write up what I have on her.

The best part of today? Calvin Harris was found guilty for the second time! It’s nice to see that justice is being served. Hopefully, this time, the ruling won’t be thrown out at the sentencing. He shouldn’t be allowed to walk free after 2 convictions. If 2 juries can find him guilty without a body, weapon or confession, then there’s enough to keep him sentenced. Period.

I’ve been watching Big Brother again this summer, as usual. One thing that cracked me up was that one of the house guests was making clothing out of trash bags, to protect them during a competition. She offered to make a tuxedo shirt for one of the guys. It cracked me up. Too bad they were told that they couldn’t wear the stuff that she made. It wouldn’t be ‘fair’ to others. Everyone was given the chance to share!

I should be posting more now, since it seems like life is settling into a really good place for me. I have some news to share, but I’m not ready to share yet.

I’ve been slacking again in updates. My bad. So lets play a game of catch up. First and foremost, I’ve been hugely sucked in by Sims 3. Much to my chagrin. I’ve always been vocal against the Sims and I got sucked in hardcore. I’ve also been hugely sucked in by Farm Town and other various farming game apps on Facebook. I really only use FB for those apps. It’s kind of funny, everyone else uses it for socializing, I like it for the games.

I still haven’t put together my thoughts on Harry Potter. I enjoyed the movie for the movie itself, but I didn’t care for a lot of things that were missing or changed. I addressed this on plurk, so I’ll copy it over here…

1) Bill/Fleur – the engagement is kind of important, because of the wedding in DH being where Harry, Ron and Hermione left from. Bill/Fleur also set up the scenes of the shell cottage as well, along with the attack on Bill by Grayback during the final fight that did not happen.
2) Horcruxes – Sure, Harry knows now what they are, knows that Dumbledore destroyed 2, but he doesn’t really know enough to strike out to find the others. He doesn’t see enough of the memories to be able to figure out the 4, especially since Ginny hid the book in the ROR, when it’s key to Harry knowing where the Diadem was at – He saw it when he hid his book.
3) Burning the Burrow – Where the HELL are the Weasley’s going to live? Much better, where is the wedding going to be? It was at the Burrow!
4) Where are the Dursleys? The scene with Dumbledore telling them that Harry needed to return one more time is also a key point they missed.
5) The fight scene – I understand that you have to cut a lot to make a movie, but why not cut the fire and put in the fight? It was pretty lame, imo. You have all the Death Eaters in the castle for what? Nothing, really. There was no fight, they just stood and watched
6) Dumbledore’s non-existent funeral – Uh, are they going to make that part of the first DH movie? Cuz burying the wand is a fairly key item, since it’s one of the Hallows and all.

Those are the major points that annoyed me. I mean, I did enjoy the movie, I laughed and even cried when Dumbledore died. That scene was probably the best scene in the movie, but I was left wanting more. I read on a board something that really struck me – It seems like they were trying to turn it into a Twilight-esque film.

So, they recently opened a Sonic in Binghamton. You have no idea how damn happy that made me. Honestly, I nearly cried from happiness. Sonic is one of the things that I’ve missed the most about living in Las Vegas. I had just said a little while ago that hell would probably freeze before we got one, so I had to eat my words. And rumor has it, they’re going to be building at least one more in the same area.

I had a Dr. Appointment on the 24th. It was pretty uneventful, other than I got yelled at because my blood sugar levels are bottoming out because I forget to eat or wait too long to eat. I also got in trouble for fasting for blood work without being told to. I always fast for morning appointments. So, after that was done, we had the rest of the day. I grabbed a muffin for breakfast, then we planned to go to a Farmer’s Market. We had never been to this particular one before, so we headed out right after my appointment, under the impression that it was open early, but no, it didn’t open until 2pm and we were there at 11am. So, we had to figure out something to do to waste time. We decided to drive around a bit and see if we could manage to not get lost and see if we could find where Sonic was at. Come to find out, it was a half a block from one of the stores we shop at. That’s absolutely awesome! The lines were INSANE. But I got my Sonic and I’m very happy about that.

I found out last week that RENT is in Ithaca this month. It’s NOT the broadway cast, it’s a touring group, but it sounds like a great show. I want to go, but the ticket prices are insane. So I was looking at the theater website and found the COOLEST thing ever. They have one showing of every show that is “Pay what you can” pricing. What?? I read more, found their twitter and it really is pay what you can. I can go see RENT for almost nothing?? Seriously?? Yeah, I desperately want to do that. The show time is August 12th at 7:30. Small problem, we need to be there early to get tickets. They recommend being there by 6:30 when the ticket window opens. Rob works until 5, gets home at 5:30, changes and we fly, we’ll barely make it at 6:30 and he NEVER gets out of work on time. Ever. I’m not sure if we’ll be going, but I’m sure going to try.

This Wednesday night is another night of learning about the history of my hometown. I know, it doesn’t sound interesting, but it is. Tomorrow night is going to be more about the railroads and it really excites me. It’s supposed to rain, but we’re under a gazebo and as long as it isn’t a monsoon, it shouldn’t be cancelled. I always look forward to these nights, which seems odd since I hate history with a burning, fiery passion.

We’ve been planning on picking blueberries, but the weather is against us. We’ve decided that we’re just not gonna go this year. It’s rained pretty much every other day for the last month. It’s made the fields all muddy, so I really don’t want to go try to pick in that kind of environment. One of Rob’s regular customers went to the same place we do and said it was hellishly muddy, so I’m glad we’ve decided not to go. I’ll just go to the Farmer’s Market and pick up a couple quarts or something.

I have to go get groceries Tuesday. We made our list yesterday and most of it is from Sam’s Club. Rob has an eye appointment at 11, then we’re going to go shopping. I dread it, in a lot of ways, since it’s still summer vacation, but it shouldn’t be so bad. It shouldn’t be too bad, as long as it isn’t boiling hot outside.

I think that’s all there is for now. I’m not going to promise to update again soon. I’ll post when I remember.