This girl is so funny she always makes me laugh. Tessa is a professional model in New York. Her video blogs (vlogs) show what it’s like to travel and do photo shoots from all around the world.
Tessa doesn’t take herself too seriously, she goofs off with her video camera at home and will have your rolling over laughing with her wit and charm. Whether she’s lip sincing, dancing or talking about her day, she’s a hoot! LOL! You can watch more by clicking on them or go to her channel and subscribe if you are a true (meaning you have a channel on YT) YouTuber like me. =)
What I love about her the most is that she seems genuine. She’s not trying to be sexy. She doesn’t need to try. She just is, and not in a slutty way. Sometimes she wears these big glasses that are really dorky though she pulls it off with supreme style in her own funky way. She’s adorable!
Here’s one of my favorites, or maybe a favorite favorite would be a better term. They’re all entertaining. Aw…. I can’t really say which is my fave. You’ll have to watch them yourself. You can watch all of them by subscribing to her you tube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/meekakitty.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! I got lots of email cards from things I’m signed up for. My mom sent her wishes days ago in case she forgot. LOL! I told her not to worry, I might forget too. But, alas, that won’t happen with all the e-cards and my space stuff. =)
My husband asked me what my favorite cake was. I told him carrot cake. Now he has this thing about when he asks me a question and if I don’t give him an answer he likes he keeps asking the the question as if he never heard my answer. This goes on when we talk about where we want to grab something to eat, what TV show we want to watch, what KIND of pizza to order. I know he doesn’t like carrot cake, well he doesn’t like the nuts and raisins. So he keeps saying how much he loves german chocolate cake then proceeds to ask me again, what IS my favorite cake. I say again, carrot cake. This could go on forever. =)
What a nice surprise this morning when I was having my coffee and I heard a commotion of the birds. Usually the finches are in the trees and sometimes they fight over the food that we put out for the birds. So at first I paid no attention to it. Then I heard this “caw caw caw” sound and I my cat was crouched down at the patio door like he was scared. I looked out and saw this big figure perched on the fence. Like a shadow that stood about a foot tall. I thought it was an owl at first but when I got a good look it was a cockatoo. Grey with salmon color around his head. As soon as he saw me he flew away.
I hope he made his way back home. I didn’t get to take a picture but I found one on flickr.com that is close.
Gawd! Will this ever end? I feel like my head is going to pop right off!
I’m sick! I hate being sick!
I did manage to spend some time on my patio watering my plants and enjoying the beautiful day. It’s sunny and just the right temperature. I love days like this. Now if I could get over this cold, it would be perfection. =)
The office, the club, family, friends. Any organization has politics.
You can’t escape it.
There’s always a pecking order. It’s nice to be at the top but we all experience different levels. Often finding ourselves knocked on our ass.
I asked a friend of mine the other day how she deals with the politics of an organization we both belong to. Helen (not her real name) is always confident and carries on with her volunteer work unscathed by anything that’s going on with the political powers that be.
I am a *Life Member and have been with this organization for years. Some years we have officers who are wonderful, intelligent, thoughtful and gracious human beings who bring value and some years we have officers who are small minded people who do nothing but turn the place upside down. These are the times when I just want to throw my hands up in the air and say, “I quit!” “Who voted for these people?!!!!!”
It feels like they are working against me instead of with me.
Why?
Because if you do something and you do it well, there are always going to be some folks who want to see you fail. They’ll help you do it too!
I get fed up with that mentality sometimes and it eats away at me.
You may have noticed that I have to work REALLY HARD to stay positive. It doesn’t come naturally. It’s easier to be lazy and let the negative stuff occupy my head than to make an effort to think about the good things, to ground myself and force the negative stuff to leave my mind.
So I asked Helen how she does it. She told me that if she allowed what people say about her to affect her, she’d go crazy. LOL! She keeps in mind the people who need our services and why we do this. Our work is important outside of ourselves. She says to hell with the rest. She does what she does.
Good advice.
Well obviously, I’m allowing it to affect me and I’m going crazy. =) I think I go through this cycle every few years with this organization. I am the editor of their quarterly newsletter and the web site administrator so I am very much involved and I do my job well. There is a very small handful of people who are not happy about it and do not wish me success but if I worry about what they think then it’s making me hate what I do and I LOVE what I do. I should do what I do and to hell with the rest. Right?
My work is important to those who are in need of our services. I know that. (But still need to be reminded) It’s outside of my ego. But I still allowed other peoples’ insecurity to stimulate MY desire to be accepted and appreciated. I’m NOT the important one here, my work IS. I can be such an idiot when I let people get to me.
Helen is right. She’s the person I always go to when I need to whine. She always sets me straight and gets me back on my path. It’s important to have someone like Helen in our lives to pull us back or slap us silly when we begin to blubber. (I don’t mean that literally.) <grin>
I watched Sarah Palin on SNL and was thinking about how I even ranted about her. I gotta hand my respect to that woman for facing up to all of the crap everyone has thrown her way.
Politics are just plain nasty. It doesn’t matter if it’s at home, your workplace, organizations you belong to or your group of friends. It can get ugly and it takes a real strong, confident person to take it all with a grain of salt and let it roll right off their backs. I admire that in a person and I am going to work towards being that kind of person.
I’m still a supporter of Obama for President but I have to admit, I’m likin’ Sarah a lot more as a person. I thought she did well on Saturday Night Live. Yay! Sarah! You go girl!
* Life membership was gifted to me for all of my work for this organization. I am honored to have received this and the last thing I should do is second guess myself, but it happens. =)
I’m so proud of you and for the initiative you have taken in riding your bike everywhere. Please remember to wear you helmet. There’s a reason you should wear your helmet (ALWAYS). Though this is humorous, turn up your volume and watch her run into the pole.
This is a difficult subject for me to talk about because I have this fear that using the “P” word will bring one on but I have been feeling significantly better and feel that it’s okay. PANIC…. there I said it. On occasion I suffer from extreme anxiety and panic attacks.
They can come out of the blue for no apparent reason. The heart palpitations, shortness of breath, fear. It’s as if I could jump out of my own skin. It’s scary. I could give a more detailed explanation but I don’t want to. It’s enough to even talk about it here and I don’t want to bring one on. The fear of having a panic attack is almost as bad as having one. If you get my drift.
I do know that the reason that I started having panic attacks about 9 months ago was due to my husband getting laid off from his job and the length of time it took for him to become employed again. The economy being in the toilet has had a tremendous effect on our lives as I’m sure it has for many. It seems that since he started back to work and our lives are getting back to normal, so am I.
I was no longer able to enjoy a hot relaxing bath because I could not sit in the bathroom with the door closed and any kind of closed in space would bring on the anxiety. I would have to take quick showers and be in and out before I felt closed in. I also could not sleep my usual way, on my stomach but instead had to sleep propped up with pillows on my back so going to bed each night became something I dreaded instead of being able to relax. If I even tried to lay on my tummy, I would go into full panic mode.
During a panic attack, my sinuses would become so stuffy that I could not even breath through my nose. I asked my doctor about this and she said that during an anxiety attack the histamine raises along with the adrenaline. I noticed that I would also become very itchy on my face and ear lobes. I would get a dry mouth and no matter how much water I would drink, it would not satisfy the thirst.
I stopped drinking caffinated beverages, went for walks and did everything I could to help but I was still suffering. Finally my doctor prescribed xanex but I was afraid to take it. Afraid of becoming hooked. Eventually I started to take a .5 mg pill when the panic was unbearable and it was pretty much immediate relief. I didn’t want to take a pill every day so I would only take one if needed and then I could go a week without taking a pill or having a panic attack. Occasionally, if I felt one coming on I would take a pill but now it’s been getting less and less that I need one and I have been able to enjoy my long relaxing baths again. I don’t need the pills but knowing that I have them in case comforts me.
I was still sleeping propped up but trying to get back to sleeping on my stomach like usual. I would be able to sleep on my stomach for a little bit but during the night would end up returning to my back. I’d wake up achy and sore from not sleeping comfortably. And finally….two nights in a row I have been able to sleep on my stomach and get a good nights rest.
I still get the itchiness on my eyebrows, cheeks and ear lobes a little bit. I can live with that. A little hydro-cortisone cream helps. I’d rather have hives than feel the panic. I’m sure the itching will go away as well and it’s wonderful to feel somewhat normal again.
I have a friend who keeps commenting to me on how much happier I seem to be now than I was a few months ago. Yes, I am much happier and well rested.
I was suffering in silence months ago. I was a walking raw nerve and it was horrible.
Zip Lock-seal bags or any container with a lid you can seal (glass or plastic)
A few drops of Eucalyptus essential oil of you can use Lavender or whatever your choice.
I like Eucalyptus when it’s cold and flu season. It seems to clear my sinuses and makes me feel better. I like Lavender when I just want to relax and unwind.
Light some candles and listen to some soothing music….. ah
My favorite relaxing music is on the Celtic channel on Rhasopdy.
Lately I’ve noticed that I have been more and more frustrated. I do tend to pick up on the energy from the people I am around and often, when mixed with my own feelings of uncertainty and/or depression I become spiritually drained.
The latest posts on my blog have been “rants” and I don’t apologize for them. I was feeling it when I wrote it so it stays. That’s why my blog is about rants, raves and redemption. If I felt the need to filter what I write, then there would be no purpose in having a blog for me. I’m not always sunshine and roses. Neither is life. It has it’s ups and downs. There are people who are a delight to be around and there are a** holes lurking about as well. If I could filter my life so that nothing bad happened, then I suppose all I would write about would be fluffy stuff. But that ain’t about to happen is it? =)
So, yes I do get murky and blue.
Could it be the weather? Could it be the economy? Have I been going through a rough time? Am I just being a bitch? Probably.
I wrote this awhile back and was afraid to publish it. Damn! This is MY blog and I can do what I want! LOL! So here it is:
Looking fresh out of the vault from the Stepford Wives.
OMG!!! LOL! I just saw a reference to the SW when I did a google search. I swear, I never heard it before I wrote the above. She IS like a STEPFORD WIFE, huh?
Where does she get that accent from? Honestly. I want to know. Why have I never heard anyone talk like that before?
During the VP debate with Joe Biden I thought both of them did well. They were civil to one another. Mainly what I got from her was energy, energy….Ahhhhh, energy….she couldn’t stop talking about “energy” every time she couldn’t answer a question. And the word “Maverick” was getting sickening to hear.
Think Sara Palin, think cliches and stereotypes. “Joe Six-Pack” and the “Soccer Mom”. Gosh darn it! Say it ain’t so, Sara. Say it ain’t so!
Are ya, goin ta wink an click yer jaw real cute for the world leaders when ya have a meetin with em to discuss nucular energy?
I was getting tired of the “Cutline” theme I was using for my blog. The fonts were not pretty. Plus I wanted to have three columns. So went in search of a new theme and found this one.
I had to do some tweaking as I host my blog on my own server. I tried and tried to get my image to take the place of that green header but no luck. So I finally gave up. If I can figure it out, I’ll get the image back. Still, I think the blog looks spiffy. =) I’m having issues with the header. Grrrrr…
October 8, 2008 UPDATE: A special thank you to Brandon Cox, the designer of this theme who came to my rescue and helped me troubleshoot the codes so that my custom header came back up. I would never have expected him to go to the trouble but it was important to him that I got what I wanted. Thank you Brandon! I appreciate that you didn’t give up when I was ready to settle for the grey banner just to have my three columns and the font that I liked.
While I was at it I also changed the look and name of one of my web sites. It is now called California Party Connection and can be found at http://CaliforniaPartyConnection.com.
This is still a work in progress. I’ll probably make more changes.
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes. I am out of control at times and hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." -- Marilyn Monroe
If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal." -- John F. Kennedy
