What is today really?

Well today is just another Friday in the early, to be exact, it’s the first one of August, and it’s also the 219th day of the year unless it’s a leap year. Day is also another magical day, it’s my birthday. Yes Yes, I am getting old.

So really, what is a birthday? When you are young, it’s all about what your parents do for you. The party, the presents, and having your friends come over and celebrate with you. When you get into your teens, its all about not wanting your parents to help you, and just kind of hanging out with friends. When your in your twenties, it’s all about you, what you finally want to do. And when you hit over 30, it because all about the family and what they want to do for you.

Really to me my birthday is about celebrating my life, and the things I have done, and the things that are yet to come. I want to look back and be happy and remember that each day, no matter birthday or holiday, is truly a celebration of yourself. And personally I have started to love myself more now than I have ever. So yay me and my birth *all those years ago*

So some interesting facts about August 7th are:

That in1782 George Washington orders the creating of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is now known as the poetic purple heart.

In 1927 the Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario, and Buffalo.

In 1959 the Lincoln Memorial design on the United States penny goes into circulation. It replaced the “sheaves of wheat” design and is still in use today.

In 2007 Barry Bonds broke the baseballs great Hank Aaron’s record by hitting his 756th home run.

And amazingly Charlize Theron was born on August 7th of 1975. So Happy Birthday to you Charlize, and everyone else born, or being born today. It’s a good day to be born.

Ellie-Phants

Anyways … todays topic is “Elephants, or why they are being killed just for their tusks”. I asked my hubby to give me a topic, and that is what he choose, so here I am to write about it. EnjoY!

All I know about elephants, are that they are this HUGE animal at Zoo’s and in the African safari area. They seem to be gentle giants. I know their tusks are ivory, so I can see why they could be worth some money. So I did some research, and this is what I came up with.

Both African and Asian elephants are under threat from poachers who kill them for their ivory tusks.

Although early poachers would only kill one or two elephants at a time this would still have had a big impact on the population, mainly because the poachers would kill the older male elephants for their larger tusks. Killing older elephants means that immature elephants are left to grow up without any parents to help them (young orphans may even die). Killing mostly male elephants means that there is a dangerous imbalance between the ratio of male to female elephants. Things are much worse now as modern poachers are more organized and have better weapons so that they can – and do – kill whole families at a time.

Personally I think it’s stupid to kill these animals just to get their tusks. After the poachers get the tusks, they basically just leave the animal to die. Is an ivory tusk really worth that much to someone? It’s like killing a person just because you want their shoes. Could you imagine what the world would be like if we would just go around killing people and things because we wanted an object of theirs? I doubt I would be writing this if that is they way life was, so why are we letting it happen to them?

Now I am going to leave you with some interesting facts about these awesome creatures.

The elephant is the world’s largest land animal.

The elephant can use its nose (trunk) as an extra limb for eating, lifting things and squirting itself with water.

An elephant’s trunk is double-pointed, helping it do delicate jobs like picking berries.

An elephant uses its ears to keep cool; each ear carries many fine blood vessels close to the surface which help disperse heat, especially when they are flapped.

An elephant also uses its ears to express emotion, for example anger.

African elephants have larger ears than Asian elephants.

The patterns on an elephant’s ear are unique – just like our fingerprints.

Elephant feet have soft cushioned soles which help them move around quietly.

…. zzzzz……

I am so exhausted right now. I didn’t even do much today, and I feel like it should be 11pm, and my butt should be in bed.

I had lunch with the lunch ladies today, and then went and gave blood for a girl whose mom works in the lunchroom. I was fine during the whole process. I have my blood, the lady laughed and said I had amazing veins, and was all good. I got outside and was standing under a covering talking to some people, and all of a sudden it hit me. I feel really dizzy and knew that wasn’t a good thing.

I went and sat down in one of the chairs, and just grabbed my moms hand and said “I am going to pass out”. Next thing I know I have bags of ice on my necks, on my chest, and some lady is yelling at me to keep my eyes open and to talk to her. I am like hey lady, I am just worried about breathing. I know I kept telling her, just help me, I don’t like this feeling, just help me. I think she was laughing at me. I know I would have been.

So once they got me half way awake again, they made me go sit into the blood bus again with bags of ice on my legs, and on my neck, and I had to drink two bottles of water while my feet were above my head. Do you know how hard that is to do normally, let alone when your still feeling like crap and can barley hold the bottle?

Anyways, after about 10 minutes or so, I felt good again and they sat me up normally. I was on my second bottle of water when my mom comes back on the bus and tells me another lady (a lunch lady she is good friends with) has passed out too, except she was worse than me. So I was just sitting there breathing and trying to get better, because it sucks knowing that your sitting in a viable seat that could be used for giving blood to this sick little girl.

So as I am sitting there, I look over and see a very familar face. I asked the nurse her name, and come to find out, it’s my ex-boyfriends sister. How weird is that. Oh well, she was an incredible nurse, and very understanding. Well due to my passing out, and the other lady, they were making blood donors sit in the air conditioned bus and drink something and eat something before they would let them get off the bus.

Anyways, my question for you is … has this even happened to you? Could there be another reason besides the heat I passed out? The lady took my blood pressure again, and iron, and I was fine. The only other thing she said was I could be within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy, and that I just threw off my blood balance, and resulted in me passing out. Who knows why it happened, but it did, and I will still continue to give blood.

Money Tree??

So yesterday my hubby had to go to the dentist because he has been having severe tooth pain and he finally couldn’t take it anymore. So we went to the dentist, and learned that he needs two more root canals, and a tooth extraction … oh YAY!!!

When we were driving home, he made a comment to me, that kind of made me laugh, and kind of made me want to cry. He said ever so sweetly, how can we afford a baby, when I can’t even afford to take care of my teeth. It made me laugh because it’s just life, and sometimes you have bad teeth and need to get them fixed. It made me want to cry because he does have a point. We are still newbies when it comes to life. We have been together for 5 years, been married for year and a half, and homeowners for just a few months. We know what our limits are every month for our bills and such, but it still seems like every month we have more and more expenses. I guess that is part of being an adult and homeowner.

I know that we will be able to afford a kid, and everything will be fine. But trust me, there are still times when I am scares shitless. The kids we have are going to be so loved, and so awesome, but kids need more than just love, and I guess in time, we will be able to give them that. I guess we will just have to see where life takes us.

A baby here, a baby there, there be babies everywhere

So my hubby and I have been talking about babies. A lot of our friends are getting married, and having babies, and so we have been discussing our own idea of when we would like this to happen.

Personally I think the sooner the better, but he thinks we should wait another year or so. I mean if I get knocked up tomorrow, the baby doesn’t come out for 9 months, so it isn’t like we won’t have any us time from now til then. Plus he likes to read the internet a lot, and all he ever reads are the horror stories about babies, and what they can do to a relationship.

Well since my brother and his fiancee are getting married in October, I am thinking we should start trying now since I am the Matron of Honor, and do not want to be 8 months along in the wedding. I always think being that big in a wedding looks goofy, and I am not one to drop out of the wedding because I was pregnant. So we actually really talked about it, and we start now, I could have the baby, and still have 6 months to get my ass in shape to be in their wedding. So see ya later, got to go look sexy for the hubby :p

Way Over Due

Hey Bitches :p

Okay, so I haven’t updated in a LONG while, and that is because either I have been lazy, or I had forgotten my password. Well I just reset my password, and I plan on updating more now that I might actually remember it.

So last night my brother asked his girlfriend to marry him. woot. They had been speaking about it for some time now, and it is just really nice to see it being real now. They are thinking about an October of 2010 wedding, which works out for everyone, I guess. It gives them time to save up, and it gives everyone time to trim down. I know I need to do this, especially since I was asked to be in their wedding.

I am really happy and excited for them. My biggest fear is looking like a house at their wedding. All the other bridesmaids are sticks, where I am a curvy girl. Oh well, to each their own I guess. I will be the boobs of the operation :p

What an awesome site!!!

So here I am, a few days before mothers day, and not sure what to get my mom, my mom-in-law, or step-mom-in-law (yeah I know, lovely messed up family).

So I was searching on-line sites that sell little gifts for decent prices, and I came across one that looked awesome. http://www.jacarandarosegifts.com I honestly was surprised at how nice the merchandise was, and that it wasn’t an arm or leg to buy.

Plus while I was looking on there, I seen a very nice ad from the owner stating that if you register on the site, you would receive a $10 gift code that you can redeem on your first order *YAY*, plus if you spent over $30 dollars, you got a free gift with your order. Well duh, you know I went shopping and loved it.
YAY!!! I now have a mother’s day gift for my mom and I got a $10 bucks off for it and a free gift. I wonder what it is.

This is an item I order from the site. I think it was $10 (so basically got it free for myself for registering, lol)

Tags: On-line stores

misunderstood?!?

Sometimes I feel like I am truly misunderstood, or that the people who I need to listen to me, just don’t get it, or don’t want to (maybe).

I ask a very very simple question, and I get back the most rude/ aggressive tone, and get accused of something, when it was just a simple question. How is that fair?

All I wanted to know (which I ask every week) is if you spoke to someone. It isn’t because I don’t trust you, or because I don’t believe you, it is merely a very simple question. I know it is hard to just not talk to people, and trust me, I so understand that.

There is no reason to get upset with me, or accuse me of anything. I am sorry that I upset you, but this isn’t fair.

Happy Uno

Today is one year that my hubby and I have been married, and honestly I couldn’t be happier.

I love you babe!!

This is so hard. To hear the one person who you love more than life, the one person you would take a bullet for, that you wish the bad things would happen to you so they wouldn’t have to deal with any pain or hurt say horrible things. It hurts so bad.

For the last month or so, I have been so happy. So content, and it has been so wonderful. For the last month I have no had any doubts and I have truly fallen harder for my man. I truly love him with everything I have, and I know the days I am feeling bad about myself, that his love is the reason I pull through and am so happy. He is the reason I want to live, and want to get a house, and do all these amazing things. He is my world.

I know all people, all couples, everyone has problems, but this isn’t fair. The issues we have always seem to hurt me and it sucks. I am sorry that I was getting you fruit this morning. I didn’t know that would upset you.

I just wish you could understand what I am feeling. I need you to be here with me. I understand that your frustrated, but there is no reason to be take everything out of me, when most of it isn’t my fault. I want you to be happy, and be healthy and be here when we are 80. I don’t want you to ever leave me babe.

What is so hard to understand. You are the only one for me. You are the only one I want to be with you. Your the only one I want to share EVERYTHING with. Your the only one for me babe.

I love you!