So... after my post about how Rusty was going to Vegas and leaving me behind... he made me eat my words when he surprised me with tickets to go too.
Hate it when that happens.
Nothing says, "stop being a bit**" quite like being forced to eat your words... especially when they appear on a blog!
Of course, he is still going to be there 2 nights without me, so I wasn't entirely out of line... but I am going with him for the weekend. He is making an attempt at keeping crazy from being crazy. Im touched.
I am also, VERY excited! I have always wanted to experience the enigma. We are going to Le Rev and plan to eat our way through the restaurants. ::white girl is so excited she is doing the cabbage patch::
SO! Back to my origional post... I am going to be all alone Monday and Tuesday night! I need to be played with!! Any volunteers?!! Not this Monday and Tuesday but next Monday and Tuesday. ANYONE?!!
I bore easily and 2 nights alone is 2 too long! Help!!
In other, unrelated news, we are in play-off season. Tabor's first playoff game is this weekend!! Soooo excited. He ended the season in a three-way tie for first place. Tabor has done so well this season. I am a proud mama. Last night, he got hit in the nose. Blood was going everywhere... and he wiped it off, rinsed his mouth out, and went right back in! He is a tough little guy. Last week, after a day with a 102 fever... we told him we would let him stay home from school on friday if he would go to football practice sick, and play tough. Worked like a charm. We may have our priorities out of whack, lol. Of course, football is very important! He really has done so well!! I love watching my little boy play!!! Makes my heart swell!!
Friday, October 28, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
Foxie Knoxie is free! And a message to my children...
I am surprisingly relieved! Slut? Oh yeah. Stupid? Definitely. Murderer? I don't think so.
It has greatly bothered me seeing her in jail years later for a crime that most Italians don't even think she committed. Very scary... isn't it?! Behave badly in another country and spend your life in jail? Uh yeah!
Kinda makes you thankful that we live in the United States where it takes actual, convincing, proven evidence to keep one behind bars. Doesn't it?
How many of us did things in our college years that we probably shouldn't have??? (Mom & Dad... I am so talking about eating too much candy! Really!! I promise!!!) It is hard to fathom a lifetime of imprisonment because brain cells may have absorbed a little too much tequila and TEMPORARILY malfunctioned while finding oneself in a very unfortunate situation.
To my babies: This, one day, should stand as a definite reminder. When on foreign soil, our justice system does not apply to you. Innocent until proven guilty is not the path every country chooses to go down! One, probably, should learn the culture before traveling abroad. (HINT HINT) Sometimes being drunken... and um.... over-friendly(??!) is enough to keep you behind bars for the rest of your life. A few stupid months and finding yourself in a terrible situation (like the death of a roommate?!!) could ruin the rest of your life. In many countries a simple accusation and association can be enough to take years from you. In other countries (say... of the middle eastern variety), it can be enough to take your head from you (bleah!). Know where you are traveling! Know what is appropriate in their culture! Know that when you go to someone else's country that you have to show respect for their culture. It isn't wrong because it is different... but you have to understand it to live in it. (End of message)
This story scares me to death for them. An American, upper middle class, college student decided to study abroad and have fun with her friends. I am sure in a million years, she never thought what resulted was even possible. I have 2 very adventurous children who I can see being the kind of kids that would want the freedom and the experience of studying abroad. I can also see them to be the type that may or may not fully understand what they are walking into in order to do it. Scary stuff. Very scary stuff. I lived in the Middle East for a number of years growing up, and have since, visited. I love the culture. I love the people. AMAZING people. You just have to know that the thought processes are different. lol. They are. Not wrong... different. Too many of us seem to think that OUR way is the best way and the only way that is acceptable. It is here. Once you leave Laguardia... be prepared.
I have watched this one from beginning to end. I can so see 1 of our children being Amanda (that child will remain nameless... until on the news herself). It tears at your heart. I am sure Amanda will be coming back a very different girl. In fact it may have been good for her. However, I would, as her parent... have absolutely lost my mind. Her parents handled this remarkably well. She likely owes her freedom to them. I would not be capable of their composure.
Why can't I just keep all 3 of them inside my home for the rest of my life?? Why do they have to go out into the world?? Anyone???
It has greatly bothered me seeing her in jail years later for a crime that most Italians don't even think she committed. Very scary... isn't it?! Behave badly in another country and spend your life in jail? Uh yeah!
Kinda makes you thankful that we live in the United States where it takes actual, convincing, proven evidence to keep one behind bars. Doesn't it?
How many of us did things in our college years that we probably shouldn't have??? (Mom & Dad... I am so talking about eating too much candy! Really!! I promise!!!) It is hard to fathom a lifetime of imprisonment because brain cells may have absorbed a little too much tequila and TEMPORARILY malfunctioned while finding oneself in a very unfortunate situation.
To my babies: This, one day, should stand as a definite reminder. When on foreign soil, our justice system does not apply to you. Innocent until proven guilty is not the path every country chooses to go down! One, probably, should learn the culture before traveling abroad. (HINT HINT) Sometimes being drunken... and um.... over-friendly(??!) is enough to keep you behind bars for the rest of your life. A few stupid months and finding yourself in a terrible situation (like the death of a roommate?!!) could ruin the rest of your life. In many countries a simple accusation and association can be enough to take years from you. In other countries (say... of the middle eastern variety), it can be enough to take your head from you (bleah!). Know where you are traveling! Know what is appropriate in their culture! Know that when you go to someone else's country that you have to show respect for their culture. It isn't wrong because it is different... but you have to understand it to live in it. (End of message)
This story scares me to death for them. An American, upper middle class, college student decided to study abroad and have fun with her friends. I am sure in a million years, she never thought what resulted was even possible. I have 2 very adventurous children who I can see being the kind of kids that would want the freedom and the experience of studying abroad. I can also see them to be the type that may or may not fully understand what they are walking into in order to do it. Scary stuff. Very scary stuff. I lived in the Middle East for a number of years growing up, and have since, visited. I love the culture. I love the people. AMAZING people. You just have to know that the thought processes are different. lol. They are. Not wrong... different. Too many of us seem to think that OUR way is the best way and the only way that is acceptable. It is here. Once you leave Laguardia... be prepared.
I have watched this one from beginning to end. I can so see 1 of our children being Amanda (that child will remain nameless... until on the news herself). It tears at your heart. I am sure Amanda will be coming back a very different girl. In fact it may have been good for her. However, I would, as her parent... have absolutely lost my mind. Her parents handled this remarkably well. She likely owes her freedom to them. I would not be capable of their composure.
Why can't I just keep all 3 of them inside my home for the rest of my life?? Why do they have to go out into the world?? Anyone???
Thursday, September 22, 2011
My Husband is Going to Vegas... Ah hum.
So my husband is going to Vegas for 3 days... and doing it in the name of A CONVENTION. Oh yes. He is. A convention of lawyers... NO FEAR THERE?!!! O.O Errr???
He said, and I quote, "<-- See the quotation mark?? QUOTING HERE, These are 40 and 50 year old business men! You have nothing to be worried about!"
????????!!!!!
Are you still sitting upright? Im not!
The ONLY difference in 20 year old men and 40 year old men is that they are power crazed and have money to spend!!
I am not happy! Let me repeat... I AM NOT HAPPY!
Not one little ounce of me is smiling at this prospect. I may actually hate this idea more then I hated the insuring me idea... though they do kind of go together when I think about it.
TO THE WORLD: I am renting a rabid pit bull while he is gone. Knock me off at your own risk!!
I see a week long hedo vacation with the girls in my future! Sound wrong? Uh, yes! That would be the point!!
A business meeting in sin city while leaving me with the kids. Nice.
What's next?? Reclaiming one's virginity at a brothel?? I am SURE it has been done!! Wink wink... smile... wink.
I am hunting trouble to get into. I am rusty (ha ha... rusty, get it?!!) at this. Work with me! (Lora? Andria? Anyone? Plaaaaaay with me!)
:o))
He said, and I quote, "<-- See the quotation mark?? QUOTING HERE, These are 40 and 50 year old business men! You have nothing to be worried about!"
????????!!!!!
Are you still sitting upright? Im not!
The ONLY difference in 20 year old men and 40 year old men is that they are power crazed and have money to spend!!
I am not happy! Let me repeat... I AM NOT HAPPY!
Not one little ounce of me is smiling at this prospect. I may actually hate this idea more then I hated the insuring me idea... though they do kind of go together when I think about it.
TO THE WORLD: I am renting a rabid pit bull while he is gone. Knock me off at your own risk!!
I see a week long hedo vacation with the girls in my future! Sound wrong? Uh, yes! That would be the point!!
A business meeting in sin city while leaving me with the kids. Nice.
What's next?? Reclaiming one's virginity at a brothel?? I am SURE it has been done!! Wink wink... smile... wink.
I am hunting trouble to get into. I am rusty (ha ha... rusty, get it?!!) at this. Work with me! (Lora? Andria? Anyone? Plaaaaaay with me!)
:o))
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