Zentangle

(Picture Note: Mine is bottom right in the middle) 

My aunt signed herself, my sissy and myself up for a Zentangle class this past weekend. I didn’t know what to expect, she said it was a way of art through doodling, which I do all the time. Well I use to all the time like in class, but now I do it when I’m on the phone.

After the class we had my uncle, my cousin, my sister in law, grandmother, mother, grandfather, brother and father guess who’s was whose. My uncle, my grandfather and grandmother were the only ones who got it right *side eye*

The class was lots of fun and if I do say so myself my zentangle was pretty damn good. My plan is to try zentangle for peeps as gifts. A co-worker said she wanted one. It’s apparently a good way to “meditate” or just take time and get out of your head. I think we all need that time.

Work Problems

This newish guy that works next to me has the worst banter on the phone. It’s like listening to nails on a chalkboard. That being said I’ve been listening to my ipod during work, as loud as possible NOT to hear his annoying voice over my music, and still sometimes I can. That’s problem number 1.

Problem number 2, I have a hard time listening to music and NOT singing out loud. I really have to stop myself from belting out lyrics. I’m pretty sure that if you listen close enough you can hear me lip singing lyrics O_o

With that comes problem number 3, listening to my ipod at work I can’t hear people walking by or behind me. This results in me constantly checking around hearing things. AND when the phone rings it interrupts my jam. I know my stomach growls, but I don’t know how loud because I can’t hear it.

Finally a problem number 4, my headphones hurt my ears sads

CO Shooting Part II

What is all this “alleged” killer stuff I keep reading about the CO shooting? He did it! I read yesterday that CO will most likely drag this whole thing out for a long time. Can we just call him what he is? I know the whole innocent before proven guilty thing, but there is NO alleged about it. He was caught RED HANDED! His home was even booby trapped as a Plan B. The “alleged” thing is offensive to the victim’s families and survivors in my opinion. 

The Dark Knight Rises Shooting in CO

Shooting in CO Theater at Premier of The Dark Knight Rises

This is absolutely disgusting news! A gunman walks into a movie theater and opens fire killing 12 people at The Dark Knight Rises premier in CO. Injuring 50 one being a 6-year-old girl. Just another example of how we suck as a society.

No doubt those 12 people walked into the movie theater just as excited as I was with my family. My brother was like a little kid on Christmas morning. Just to be shot and/or killed dead…WHY? 

My sister kept saying they had that theater “locked down” when we went. They were checking to make sure we didn’t have our cell phones, because you know we might try to record the movie with our cell phones. As if a cell phone has the capability to record a 3-hour movie, let alone be of any good quality.  I’m seriously saddened and disgusted. 

50 Way's to Bite One's Lip

I’ve been reading the recaps of 50 Shades of Gray via the Snark Squad. I don’t feel like I have to read these books, because everyone and their mother have read them. Literally, my mother, my mother’s mother, my aunt, my sister in law and some friends. They’ve all pretty much agreed that the writing is terrible.

Just reading the recaps I keep getting Twilight flashbacks. I think we’ll see a “biting her bottom lip” epidemic. It started with Bella Swan and now Ana (with one “n”) Steele (because Steele and Grey go together like peas and carrots). Seriously these girls are constantly biting their bottom lips and writers are making it out to be something men go crazy over. I’m single; maybe I should start biting my bottom lip.

I guess there’s talk of a movie. Everyone is saying Kristin Stewart and Robert Pattenson. I say we already have Twilight. Give some other actors a chance! After seeing Batman the Dark Knight Rises last night (yeah that’s right I saw it before it officially came out, thanks to my sissy and her “bar” contacts) I see Christian Bale as Christian Grey. It works! I think this is mostly because Ana (with one “n”) Steele (because Steele and Grey go together like carnivals and cotton candy) is always saying “his pants hanging off his hips like they do” and Bale’s pants hang off his hips nicely in The Dark Knight Rises. I now have a clear picture of what that actually means in my head. 

Vs. Bella

I’m kind of sick of seeing things like this. At first I thought it was funny, but now I’ve grown tired of it. Speaking as a fan of all tween pop movies, I can discuss the differences in characters and their overall importance.

First off, there are reasons we love the Twilight series. Edward’s overwhelming since to protect Bella, the woman he loves, vs. his need to eat her, as vampires do, because her scent is so powerful to his nose holes. Edward literally has to stop breathing just to be around Bella. I think Edward gives all women something to want or wish for. Second, if you ask me Bella’s character is more realist of a teenage love. It’s unfortunate, but it’s true.  Maybe a little bit far fetched with the nightmares and screaming and sitting in front of your window for months, but honestly I think we’ve all be there in some shape of form.

Hermione is the smartest wizard of her time. She’s a muggle and she’s the shit!  Hermione was important because without her the others wouldn't of figured anything out. That being said, she literally crushed on Ron for 8 straight long movies. I love the Harry Potter series, but we all knew it was going to happen and they waited till the middle of the final movie. She was always mad at Ron, yelling at Ron and crying over Ron. Yeah when he left she stuck around with Harry and helped save the wizard world, but beyond that she still had her fair share of “girl” moments. 

Ginny, unfortunately she didn't get enough airtime, in my opinion. She proved to be one of the strongest wizards of her time. She also fell in love with her brother's best friend, the "chosen one" Harry. From the very beginning Ginny had a crush on our Harry. That being said, she knew who Harry was and what he had to do. She also knew that he loved her. If he was coming back, he was coming back to her. So yeah, she kept truckin fightin off the death eaters and the dark lord’s army. Lots of wizards ran off scared, but lots stuck around and fought, because there was nothing else to lose.

I never thought I'd say this, but it's true, read the books. It gives you a better understanding of the characters and they're struggles and why they act the way they do. If you have and you still feel the same, well give em a break, they're fictional characters, made up of someone's life experiences. 

All scratched up and Bruised, Could of Died, but if I’d lost My Ducati’s I Would have been Pissed!

(Picture Note: The scratches have got worse by the night and there are a couple others but my app only allowed for 5 pics). 

Our manager wanted to do something nice and fun for us “Technical” team while some of our out of town employees were visiting this week. He threw some ideas out there and we all agreed to shoot the hooch was our choice for a workday outing. Nothing beats a day not in front of a computer screen, answering dumb questions all day, dealing with stupid work bitching, griping and banter and pushing busy work. 

All started out swimmingly. We had lunch, caught up and it was a beautiful day.  We get on the river and I’m soakin in the sun, relaxing and enjoying the gorgeous scenery on this peaceful river. Thinking why don’t I do this more often, the water felt great and this is my city. We have this in my city and why am I not taking advantage of this!?

There were about 11 of us on the trip and we were all linked up together. More than half way through our course we hit a rock…this wasn’t abnormal for there’s a lot of rocks in the Chattahoochee River and we went over many of them. This one however was different. I got stuck on the rock when everyone else kept moving forward making my tube to go up in the air dunking me in the water. This whole time I’m thinking, “oh shit where are my sunglasses”. I’m thinking I lost my sunglasses not worrying about how embarrassing this was and how I lost one of my flip-flops. The left side of my team immediately broke off from my tube where the right side stayed with me, one of them grabbing my shoe and making sure I was all right. “Yeah I’m alright, but where are my glasses!?”. Thank God they got caught it between two rocks and I found them. Close call. As well I was soaking wet for the entire drive home. Fun none the less and I’m not sorry any of it happened. Had I lost my oakleys I’d be singing a different tune TRUST in THAT!

I didn't realize it until I got home my back was in some pain. Come to look at it, I've got some gashes back there. The day has provided more of these wounds, on my legs and elbows. After thought, I could of seriously gotten injured! The river doesn’t seem so peaceful and calm anymore.