It’s My Imagination

Frustration and Venting

I’m sorry, I just have to vent.  If you prefer to not hear about what I’m thinking and feeling right now, you may wish to move along.

My nephew is getting married on July 11 and it’s a wedding that has been in the planning stages for about a year and a half.  We are all very happy for him and, because we’ve known for so long when the wedding date was, we of course have planned to attend.  Unfortunately, things are more complicated for us because we relocated to Texas which means we have farther to travel to get to the wedding.  It used to be a simple 2 1/2 hour drive, now it’s about 15 hours.  Yes, we could fly, but, for a family of 3, that becomes very expensive.  Plus, my daughter has seriously been missing her friends back in the Chicago area since we moved and we promised her that she would get to visit them.

So, the plan has been in place for a long time that we would drive from Texas to my mom’s house in Indiana.  That is roughly 15 hours and my husband wants to do it in one day.  The wedding is on Saturday in Indianapolis and my husband doesn’t understand why we are driving to my mom’s which is an hour and a half north of Indy, only to turn around the next day to drive back to Indy.  I guess I don’t know why I have to have a reason, it’s my mom and I want to go there.  Plus, I don’t want to arrive the same day of the wedding and risk being late.  We do have to have time to get dressed and cleaned up, I don’t want to show up in clothes I’ve been wearing all day in the car.

So, he’s all pissy.

To continue our trip, we will be spending Saturday night after the wedding reception, at a hotel along with many other guests of the wedding including both of my sisters and my mom.   Then, on Sunday, we will drive back to my mom’s and stay there for 2 nights.  On Tuesday, we will drive the 2 1/2 hours over to the Chicago area where I have hotel reservations for us for 2 nights.  The purpose of this portion of the trip was to allow my daughter to spend time with her friends.  Unfortunately, my husband has decided that we also need to add in visiting his sisters who live 45 minutes north of where we are going.  I don’t really have a problem with that, but, he screwing up my daughter’s plans.  Plus, he wants to get up at the crack of dawn on Thursday to drive all the way back home, another 15 hour drive.

So, he’s all pissy.

My daughter finally asked me why he has to make it all so complicated and I too would like to know why he always has to be so crabby when we try to do something family related.  I have not been to my mom’s house in at least 4 years.  I have seen my mom in other places, including her visiting us here in Texas, but I haven’t been to Indiana at all.  I get frustrated because I don’t know why he can’t just go with the flow.

I didn’t surprise him with this trip, it’s been planned for nearly 6 months and he’s known for a year and a half that we would be attending the wedding.  I’m finding it difficult to be excited about the trip because the only thing he does is wine and complain about it, he’s so inconvenienced… and pissy.

I apoligize to my readers, I’m just frustrated.  Something so easy has become so tension filled and frustrating.  I wish I knew how to please him or, I wish he’d just stay home.

Grandma Tasered in Texas

Just saw this on the news. This 72 year old woman was tasered by a constable for not obeying instructions. I feel bad for the constable because the woman was non-compliant and ticked off. He asked her many, many times to step away from the road and she refuses. She seems to think she should be treated differently because she’s 72 years old. She even shoved the deputy at one point.

Did she deserve to be tasered? No, I don’t think so, but he warned her 5 times before he did it and she even said “I dare you!”.

Watch this video and make your own decision.

Wordless Wednesday - Spoiled Puggle

Dancing With the Stars Has a Winner!

Well, I have to admit, I got hooked on watching Dancing With the Stars. I started mid season, mainly because my husband & daughter would be at softball batting practice and there was really nothing else to watch on t.v. I became enthralled with watching Shawn Johnson, the Olympic gymnast, perform. She is so very talented, but she’s also very shy and she seemed to struggle with the showiness of the dance floor. She really developed as a true competitor over the season and it was fun watching her come out of her shell.

Wordless Wednesday - My Sewing Helper

What I Wouldn’t Give For a Day at the Spa

I got myself dressed and got a pot of coffee brewing and then downed some sinus tabs. Before I knew it, it was time to start work. I put on my telephone headset and began taking calls with my head pounding. The entire time I sat there making hotel reservations for people, I just kept wishing I could have someone massaging my head. Seriously, the thought of heading directly to the Downtown Chicago Spa was so appealing, I would have given anything to get myself over there for a nice relaxing spa treatment.

The best I could do this morning was to massage my head with tree tea oil shampoo which can actually help my headaches a little bit, but I would much rather have had some spa time with someone else rubbing my head and temples, in fact, a scalp and neck treatment would be just the cure.

I have taken 2 doses of sinus tabs since this morning, but I do have my daughter’s band concert to attend this evening. Anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of sinus pressure and a pounding headache? My doctor hasn’t been able to come up with any resolution.

Wordless Wednesday - A Doll Named Turtle

Doll, named Turtle, created by my daughter to reflect the image of the main character in the novel, “The Westing Game”.

Wordless Wednesday - Turkey

Verizon and the IPhone

I just saw on the news that ATT’s exclusive contract with Apple is expiring within the next year and Verizon is all ready in negotiations with Apple to get their own I-Phone that would be compatible with Verizon’s network system.

I don’t know about you, but this is good news for us!  We are Verizon subscribers and I never have contemplated switching to ATT, no matter how cool I thought the i-Phone was.  My husband used to have ATT service and it was horrible.  There were tons of dead zones and he travels so much that it drove us nuts.  So, no, I have no desire to switch us to ATT.  I am going to be very happy though if Verizon works a deal with Apple so that its customers also have access to such a great phone!

Super Target is Energy Efficient

I went shopping at our new Super Target this afternoon and I learned something very interesting.  To some, this may be not worth noting, but I found it very surprising and was very impressed.  So, you’re wondering, what is it that Target is doing to impress me?  Well, they are using energy efficient lighting in their frozen foods section!

You see, although the store is new, only open a couple of weeks, the store wasn’t very busy this afternoon and I was having a nice shopping experience.  I wheeled my cart around the end of the aisle and entered the frozen food section.  I just happened to notice a light in one of the glass front freezers going on.  I was thinking how it was surprising to all ready have faulty lighting in a brand new store, when I noticed something else.  As I was making my way down the aisle, both sides lined with glass front freezers, the lights were turning on inside the cases.  Then I noticed it.  Each case had a motion sensor attached so it knew I was coming and lit up so I could see what was inside!  Energy efficient lighting in the freezer section, now that’s going green in a very smart way!

So, here’s to you Target!  You scored big points today with me and I will be coming back!