The princess and the pickle; an adventure at Seaworld

So I am pretty sure Sara probably won't appreciate me posting this one but I couldn't resist. This woman loves pickles and because god smiles on me on this particular day, sea world just happen to have these huge pickles which she in turn wolfed down. That's not why god was smiling on me, he was smiling because she thought it would be fun to burp and blow in my face for the remainder of the day. To make it worse she decided to to put a piece of mint gum in her mouth. So then instead of funky pickle breath she had funky minty pickle breath. So this is payback for breathing on me all day. So now for the rest of the picture and more commentary on our day at sea world.


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So this is the stinky petting pool that you get to touch slimy sea creatures like star fish and sea urchins. Not really my cup of tea but the kids liked it.......I think!!! So the middle picture has our whole group, the only picture that I got of the whole group because I wasn't very good at taking pictures this time. So from left to right....Ethan, Breeanna, Gavin, Sara, Michael, Pat, Keith, Alex, and the elbow behind Keith would be Angie

Now this little guy is Gavin, he is sitting on a rock all by himself because he likes to be alone. All the other kids crammed themselves onto one rock so maybe he just didn't want to be squished

Sara believes because she is part Hispanic that she is immune to the sun. Well the sun decided that it was gonna show her who was boss and decided to fry her forehead and that is why she is wearing the latest in fashion, the shipwreck reef napkin. Now this beautiful accessory comes in one color.......brown, and comes in one fabric........paper, and cost next to nothing. You just have to sell your right arm to be able to afford the food that will get you the stylish head cover. Two thumbs up Sara.

So you would think that after a long day at sea world the kids would be worn out. Well if this picture tells you anything, they are not warn out but they are a bunch of goofballs. Now if I had only taken a picture of the adults to compare, you would of seen some worn out adults

School is for the young

WARNING!!!! Before you sit down and read this, get something to drink and maybe even a snack, this is a long one. ENJOY!!!!!!

Many of you may disagree with that statement but hear me out. Trying to start college after being out of school for 10 years and being an adult, not pretending to be an adult. But actually having to deal with life with out parents protecting you is frustrating. First I filled out an application online and on the application they give you an option to opt out of putting your social security number on the application, so I did. I don't just throw my social security number out there into cyber space on a whim. I figured if they offered that option then it wasn't a big deal. Well let me tell you......it was the worst thing I could of done, it damn near took an act of congress to get it added to my file. So then I because I opted out of that my scores for my placement test were not on the new file that they made for me so I had to somehow get my scores from one file to another. Sounds like it would be simple, well in the world of the admissions office nothing is simple. There is paperwork that has to be filled out and will take 6 weeks to process but to do that they need a copy of my social security card. I am not a organized person and so I don't have one at the moment because I know I would just lose it. So instead of following their long and drawn out process I have my very dear friend call the counseling office for me(because they are the ones who deal with the placement scores) and she proceeds to tell them that admissions messed up my file and that they said that my scores should be transferred from my old id number to my new one but that if it hadn't happened in a few days to call the counseling office and they could take care of it for me. Guess what. . . . with in 5 minutes it was all taken care of. Now it was just a waiting game to register for classes. Which by the way is the dumbest set up I have ever seen. Registration started on the 7th of July and I was able to register on the 18th. Can you guess the amount of choices I had. I ended up getting the math class that I have to take but really not looking forward to and had to wait list for the psychology class and sociology class I wanted. So now I am constantly checking to see if I have moved up on any of the wait list and after a few weeks I end up getting my Psych class, which I am stoked about but I probably won't get the sociology class so I decide to add political science. So I wait a few more weeks for the books to be posted. The list wasn't posted until the 9th of august and classes start on the 25th bu people using financial aid are not allowed to buy theirs until the 18th. For me that is cutting it kinda close. Well I decide to just buy mine at a online used bookstore because it was cheaper than buying them through the school. So i am able to buy my political science and my psychology book but I cant buy the math book anywhere but from the college because they actually write the math book. So i go online and look for it and it says it out of stock so Sara calls the school bookstore to find out when it will be in and how much it will cost. Well its only gonna cost 140 bucks, only are they crazy, 140 bucks for a book that I am dreading. They are high but anyway, then they tell her that its not due to come in until the 21st of august and they can't guarantee that it will actually get there on that day. So all I can say is " thank you San Diego Community college book store for being on top of it and making life that much easier.....NOT". So now I am just waiting to see if financial aid is gonna give me any money to help with school costs. So I call to check on my application and they tell me because I failed to mark 1 box on my application that they hadn't processed it yet. 1 box asking if I would have a diploma before I started the semester. Now they sent me reminders that I needed to bring in some form of verification of high school graduation, which I did 2 weeks prior to talking to them but never did I received anything saying I missed a box and I need to answer that one question. Its gotta be a common error because they ask like 300 questions. Irrelevant questions if you ask me like...... What is the highest level of education that my mother completed, personally I like to use this standard answer NOYDB (None Of Your Damn Business) but they for some reason didn't have that as a choice. I'm surprised they didn't ask my bra size and color of underwear. So I went online and fixed that one question and now I am back to playing the waiting game. But Sara's husband got his financial aid award letter today and they awarded him a nice piece of paper that told him that he made too much money. So in other words he made just enough not to qualify for there help because programs like this are not made to help most people and I am just gonna leave it at that because that is another rant that I could go on about and I don't want to offend anyone with my personal views. So because our family's have almost the same income I have no hope of getting financial aid unless I somehow slip through the cracks, which we can only hope for. So all in all this has been one nightmare after another and not just for me. Obviously my luck has rubbed off on Sara who made the Deans list last semester because she pulled a 4.0. But financial aid has put her on academic probation because last winter she had taken to classes and dropped them because winter term is only 4 or 6 weeks long, and a normal semester is 16 weeks long so its like taking a class in fast forward and with the husbands gone it was almost impossible for her to keep up with school work and her children. but she retook both classes and got an A in them both. So because of that she has lost her financial aid for a full year. She is attempting to appeal it but this school isn't very timely with anything. It just seems stupid that you can be put on academic probation and pull a 4.0. So now that is why I say school is for the young because the young are naive enough to put up with all this crap without putting up a fight and us older people don't put up with anyone's shit. The one thing I have learned over time is to hear someone out before you attempt to respond to them because sometimes when crabby old bitches that work in the admissions office don't take a minute to listen to what you have to say they can in turn make the problem much worse than it was. So instead of telling me that you know what you are doing because you have worked here a long time in the snottiest tone you could muster, you should just listen to a person and give them the respect that you want in return because I am 30 years old and my mama raised me to have manners and to treat people with respect and I follow that rule always............well that is until you piss me off and then only the lord can help you. So if you are a crotchety old hag that works in an admissions office for so long that you know everything including how to read peoples mind, then just maybe you should get a life and find a job that suits you better, like a grave digger or a you could work at the DMV where people expect that behavior. Ok I went off on a little rant there, I am done now. I just want to let everyone know that I kept my cool but still managed to finally get my point across to someone who would listen(not the wicked witch of the SDCCD admissions office) with the help of Sara. Thanks Sara!!!

A day having the lake beat us up

We went out on Angie's and Keiths boat this week end and like usual we had a great time. The lake seemed to be holding a grudge though because it was beating us up left and right but that could be because we are clueless when it comes to trying knee board, wake board or be pulled on a tube while a crazed maniac is at the wheel.

This is john on the wake board for one of the first few times. This is really entertaining watching him get sucker punched by the lake.

So when I mentioned a crazed maniac at the wheel, I bet you all thought I was talking about Keith. Ha Ha Ha, you were all wrong, I was talking about Angie. The above video is what happens to you when you piss her off (just kidding Angie). Did you see the air they got, it was almost like they grew wings and flew.

This is my daughter entertaining herself. She is such a interesting little girl. Turn your volume up so you can her her giggling under there. She is so funny sometimes.

Michael tried so hard to get up on the wake board and even though it was only for a few seconds, we were very proud of him.

These are just some random pictures I liked from that day. I'm not sure why Alex is in the splits position. Michael is extremely concentrated on not being eaten by the lake. John is just up to his old tricks and picking on the girls. I know there are no pictures of me but that's because I don't think John knows how to work my camera but Angie has a few very flattering ones of me so I will post them when I get her to send them to me. Until next time, keep smiling because it can always get worse.

The kiss

I have this love for art that portrays people kissing, the following pictures are just a few of my favorites. The first one is a fomous Time magazine cover. The last one is a painting called ......... you guessed it '' The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt. My friends all know that the salior one is my all time favorite.

Angie took me down to Seaport Village on saturday and I saw the coolest thing in the world. This is what I saw.

This is the coolest thing by far in San Diego. I have lived here for 4 years and had no idea that this existed just miles away from me. This statue along with the other pictures I have shown in this blog are to me the feeling of true feelings, love and longing and loss. A feeling of true and honest emotion. I look at these pictures and a flood of memory's hit me starting with the last kiss before deployment, the waiting and longing for another kiss, the fear that there won't be another, the feeling of that magical first kiss from when they return and then the fear that you will have to relive the process over and over again like most of us have to. A kiss is sometime better that saying I love you or I need you. But not just any kiss, its that kiss filled with urgency, by urgency I mean that feeling of if I don't get my lips on his I am going to explode but then when your lips connect you can all the sudden breath again and sometimes that's when the tears start to fall. You all the sudden feel whole again and you don't want to let go because you never want that feeling to end even though you know you have to. I may sound crazy to you all but I am sure there is at least one person out there who gets what I am saying. So that is what these images do for me.

Naturally boring museum

Ok so Angie and I took the kids to the natural history museum. Sara was suppose to go with us with her kids but luckly for her she got sick that morning. The kids had a good time but they don't know any better but it was not good. This museum's idea of natural history is water conservation. I'm not say that water conservation isn't important but I didn't go to a museum to have it displayed to me. THe shark was one of the coolest things they had. All I can say is don't waste your money.

Just for Gavin

This is for Gavin. I have a little friend who loves giraffe's so i took this picture for him. I hope you like it Gavin.

Ode to stinky pits

So I am sure most of us have heard of famous statues like the Thinker, the Venus De Milo,the Discus Thrower, David. Well I have found another....... To me it is called "Ode to stinky pits"

Now I didnt stop to read what this statue actually was suppose to represent because honestly I didnt care. I think it is self explanatory. Now I know art is suppose to be expressive and interpative but this one make me want to go put deoderant on. Does he think he is sexy in this pose or the smell of his funky armpit sooth his ever so fragile state of mind. What does this particular statue tell you. Art is suppose to make you feel something. So what does this make you feel.........SUPERSTAR.......