Textically Challenged- repost from 1/12/09

I orignally posted this 1/12/09


my bff and I have this conversations at least once a day about how inconsiderate people are when they text... I mean I know everyone has issues here and there with texting faux pas and I will include myself in this... but there are people that are chronically texticallychallenged and break every decency rule there is to texting.



The biggest pet peeve that I know of... Is when you are having aconversation with someone... you send them a text... (after like 5 or 6 messages back and forth) and they do no reply...
~ if you have to leave the conversation... say so.. a simple.. gotta go.. or even brb (be right back) would be nice... would you just hang up on someone with out saying good bye? same thing!

* exceptions to this... you are are work, driving (prob. shouldn't betexting anyway), loose service or phone dies



2- When you send someone a question... and they reply with something totally unrelated to the questions... completely avoiding it.
~ if you do not want to answer... don't... if you need time to think... take a min or too or at least send brb to the person so they know you got it... and will reply... don't just ignore them.



3-The infamous forwarded text messages... lol. where you open it and have to scroll down 3 lines just to get to the message... and to find out you and your mom is gonna die if you don't send to 300 people in 3 seconds. lol.
~ Ok.. i understand sometimes there are great forwarded messages... but if that is all you send out.. there is a problem there... learn to have a conversation too... it might do ya some good.
~ if the recipient might "die" because of this text message cuz theydont send it to 300 or so people in 3 sec... why send it?? do you want the death of a friend or bad luck of them for a year to be on your hands??
~ and IF you do send a forwarded text message delete the fwd. fwd. fwd. fwd. crap thats at the beginning! I get charged per text message and if the first message of a incredibly long message is just fwd... i m gonna be pissed. lol.

4- You send a long detailed text message to someone... and they reply back with one word.
~ if i take the time to type something out.. have enough courtesy to at least reply back with more than just a one word answer... if you were talking or emailing... would you just say/reply with one word? why should texting be any different?

5- If you are working with the public... don't text while or instead of helping a customer.
~ seriously? this is just plain rude. DO YOUR JOB!

6- If you are having a verbal conversation with a friend... don't have 5 different conversations going via text message with other people... (i am guilty of this one tho)
~ this is a hard one.. cuz if a text comes in.. you can't ignore it... (that would break one of these rules! lol) so just reply back... im with a friend.. text ya in a bit...

7- Don't have a textorsation (text conversation) while watch a movie in a theater...
~ turn the phone off for a lil bit... or at least on silent... you will survive with out the phone in your hand... you will not miss out on the world... and the messages will be there when you get done...

8- Don't keep resending the same fwd text message to the same person over and over again...
~ if they don't reply... obviously they don't give a crap about fwd messages. some people just delete when they see fwd.

9- Back with #1... when someone send you a text message... you reply... then you hear nothing from them for like an hour... or two... or three... or 24!
~ if you just sent me a message and i reply and start a conversation... don't just stop. say ok thanks, ttyl, busy atm, something! I know you are right by your phone- u just text me!!

10- Texting while talkin on the phone... like the person that your talking to... wont hear you click click clicking away! (i am so guilty of this)
~ you don't have to be "talking to more than one person at a time" we know you are popular... you don't have to prove it. it's kinda rude. if you want to "talk" to more than one person... text everyone.. don'tcall.. lol.

11- Texting while driving... (i am so totally guilty of this)
~this is more of a safety thing... especially if you have a qwerty keyboard.. hard to do with one finger... but i will say if you have an "old style" phone where you still have numbers and not a keyboard... you might be so good at texting that you know where the numbers/letters are... how many time you need to hit the 5 to get a L and 90% of the time... you don't even need to look at the phone to send a text message... of course you kinda have to look at it to read the reply- if you get one back! lol.

12- Sending the wrong person a text message. to me this one is justhilarious!
~ double check before you hit send on who you are sending a text too... you ex's mom doesn't need to know that the dude you banged last nite was more endowed than your ex. lol.

What are you opinions? What do you have the people or even your self do while texting?

Do you know anyone that is textically challenged? 

A New Work Out

I have decided to start doing sit ups every night (well about every night anyway) to try and get my tummy toned up a lil bit more. Now I am not trying to get super fit. I am not saying I need to lose weight. and I am not saying that I look bad. But I would like to try and improve my tummy. I have had 2 kids and have tons of stretch marks and sagging skin. I dont know if doing sit ups will help with the lower tummy area... but I figured I will give it a try and see what happens... and it cant hurt anyway! lol.

So I started this last Wed. 4/29
Heres the pics of my tummy:

Before these pics, I did 50 sit ups and 50 double leg lifts.  I slacked the rest of the weekend. Finally Monday night I had the motivation again to do 50 and 50 more.  But didnt get any pics  I plan on doing it again tonite and def. will get more pics.   

I didnt take any measurements or anything like that. I am just want to get toned up some.  

So we will see what happens. 

You can go here to find out about ab exersises : http://burnmybellyfat.com/lower-abs-exercises.html

my weekend in pics~ 1st one in may

baby boy doing his homework...

with grammys backery hair~net on.. lol.

PINT~ baby boy bday style

a depressed state of mind

i have been dealing with depression for most of my life... well at least since i was 15. 


I dont really know the cause of it all the time... cept i guess that i am unhappy. lol. imagine that.  
well i am in a depressed state of mind right now. 
i feel like crying over nothing... i have no energy.. no motivation.. nothing. i dont want to deal with anyone or anything...  and really i dont want to even be writing this right now.. but I am kinda hoping that maybe it will help me get out of this state.   


I think part of my issue right now... is this isnt how I expected my life to turn out...
By now in my life.. i wanted to be settled down.. married... working only part time if at all.. to be successful at some part of my life...  and i guess i am as a mom.. tho someday i really feel like i am just a failure in that area. i didnt go to college... i have a decent job.. that i am grateful to have.. tho i dread coming in half the time.   I didnt expect to be struggling.. or at least not struggling alone... i think thats another part of it... I want a husband.  I want someone there with me to fall back on.  And dont get me wrong.. my BF is great... but we've only been dating a few months... we dont live together... we aint married...  its not his responsibility to take care of me or my house or anything like that... tho he does more than he should or any man ever has. 


I feel like there is something that I am missing... I feel so strongly that God has this plan for me... something great that I am supposed to do... I am supposed to effect people... to help them in someway or another... but I dont know how... or what... or how to figure it out.  I need to pray on that...and pray hard.  
I feel like this isnt the life I am supposed to have...  like I am destined for so much more...  I dont know how to explain this feeling...  I think maybe that is part of the reason why I am always feeling like I need to change something... my decor... my furniture.. my hair... my clothes... etc... that maybe if I keep changing things... I will figure out "me"  and maybe that is also part of my depression... I am still trying to figure out "me" 


another thing that added on to this depressed state of mind... is the fact that my dad was in the hospital (supposed to come home today) he got worse on Thursday and Friday... was very lethargic, was out of it, didnt remember nothing, was slurring his words... just not my dad.  My step-mom being a great woman... got answers... got things done... and got tests done... his CO2 was high.  He coulda died if they had sent him home when they originally wanted and if my stepmom didnt step up and say something.  
The last time he was int he hospital I wasnt sure if he was going to make it or not either...  it makes me stop and think about if he wasnt in my life... or my mom... how it would effect me. I know I would survive.. I know my faith would get me thru it all... but what I dont know is how it would effect me emotionally... there would be a whole in my heart without my parents there...  I know this is something that is inevitable. They will not be here forever and it is something I will eventually have to deal with.  I guess I am just not ready yet... but then I am not sure you are ever really ready to lose someone that is close to you. 


See thats where my thoughts have been going lately... down a dark dreary hallway.   
Well now I have to go wipe my eyes so my coworkers dont see tears run down my face... and then its off to get my baby boy and go look at flooring!  


Happy Monday. 

Redid my baby boys room!!

So my baby boy is all about army and camo and all that... He told me when he growns up he wants to be a sniper in the army.. tho he doesnt want to kill anyone. So for his 8th bday I decided one of the gifts I was going to give him was to redo his room... Its been the same since we moved in 4yrs ago... 

Spiderman/Batman Theme:

I started by taping everything off. (tho I still got paint in places it wasnt supposed to be)

Then I painted all of the edges... and of course had to do my own little design :-)

The base coat. I think it covered pretty good. It was a primer and paint in one by Behr

The next coat I used was by Glidden (it was cheaper) it was Aztec Gold. I just used an old wash rag. Dipped it into the paint and "patted" the walls with it. 

Then I added the 3rd coat which again was Glidden in Truely Olive. I did the same technique with the old wash rag.

I had bought him a camo comforter from Walmart which he loves.. He said it was sooo soft! 

The curtains were actually an indoor tent set that he had got from his Grandma Barb for Christmas. We never could get the "tent" figured out... so I reused them for curtains! 

Over all I love the new look. It was all really simple to do. The paint dryed really quickly. I started painting about 1130/1200... took a break for a snack at 130.. then had to go to his baseball practice for an hour and half. But I had the whole room painted by 5pm.  and put back together and cleaned an hour later. 

He loved his suprise! (well he knew i was gonna do it.. just not when!)