Sunday, October 21, 2007

Why I am still single...

Ok ... I am going to take advantage of the opportunity to opening vent about a few things...

There are people who think that being single is a bad thing, because I guess it goes against what society expects of us all. Well .. I tell myself all the time that no wonder I'm still single. I refuse to compromise my personal happiness for a sub-par life.

So .. first of all, straight men are completely clueless when it comes to dealing with females. You'd think they would have learned by now, but no they have not a clue. If gay men would start liking women again, well I would have been married years ago. But, instead I have to deal with what I deal with all the time.

Here's the deal ... all females like male attention, in general. However, while we like the attention, if you let us know wrong, .. well you've just ruined it altogether. 9 times out of 10 when I get hit on it comes across so completely wrong that it just annoys the crap out of me. I'll give examples.

Did I write about the guy who asked me if I wanted to get dirty with him? I think so .. well that is example number 1. Example number 2 would be the guys in the elevator the other day. At first they're nice and we're talking as we're waiting for the elevator. Then the great conversation turns pig-headed when they ask me to marry them because I'm hot ... wow .. they're IQ just hit the floor in about 1.5 seconds. WTF?! Today was a guy who was hitting on me and using the analogy of me and a piece of candy .. OMG did that just come out of a grown man's mouth???

No point in mentioning more, but trust me I have more stories as of late than anything .. I think the lonely horny men have come out of hibernation now because I have been wearing oversized sweatshirts, hats, and baggy pants in a failed attempt to get the pervs to leave me alone. I thought it was bad when I was younger but I honestly think it happens more now than before .. is someone trying to torture me?!



So .. what's wrong with hitting on females? Well nothing if it's done right. In my case, while I like to be looked at, I HATE it when that's the only thing people notice about me, because I know there's more to me than that. Granted you can't find that out unless you talk to someone but these guys kill it before it even gets to that point. But it's insulting to me because I have worked so hard to be where I'm at, yet I still get looked at for face value.

Here's a good example. There's a guy who works at Starbucks that I always see. The first time I met him, when I pulled up to the window he was asking about my day, if anything fun was happening, etc. We then get into school, and sports, and so on from there. A 3 minute conversation, but at the end of it I felt great because this guy was actually interested, cared, and we actually had a conversation, which almost never happens.

Maybe that's the problem .. most people don't care to dig deeper, unless they have instant validation that it's worth it. It's always small talk, from the start and for an indefinite amount of time.

Why is it that we meet people and we either want all or nothing with them? Why don't we meet people and talk to them hoping for friendship at the least? What's wrong with getting personal?




Along the same lines, maybe that's my problem .. I want to see the 'more' and when I can tell it's not right there from the start, I immediately kill any chances of it going anywhere. Which may be on target sometimes, but maybe every once in a while a good guy comes along and they behave that way not because of who they are, but because we tend to follow suit with the stereotypes. So maybe I'll attempt to be more open, trying to give people more of the benefit of the doubt.







On a different topic, I am getting completely annoyed with myself. Like above, I tend to "think" too much. Not just about that, but about everything. I think so much that I have to wear myself out at night so I can go to bed. That, on top of that fact that I've been (and still am) sick, it's wearing me out.

I had a 20 minute conversation the other day about something I've been thinking of. Granted I think it's a pretty interesting perspective / topic and I think the person agreed. However afterwards I stopped and thought to myself .. I cannot believe that I've put so much thought and effort into something so minute and taken for granted. I must be mad!!

So .. I have no idea how to stop thinking so much, but I'd love to figure out a way to do so. I don't take sleeping pills because I personally think they are unsafe, however that would probably help me at night... although again they're not an option for me.

Anyway I don't know what I'm going to do, but I think or hope that calming myself down, as far as thinking, may help me get better from whatever the heck is wrong with me. Maybe not, but I figure it's worth a try ...

Ok .. it may seem as if I'm completely breaking this blog off mid-conversation, and that's because I am .. I gotta go!

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Been a Min...

So .. I've been having dizziness for months and months (and months) now. I have always assumed that it was just another 'side effect' from that damn wreck I was in. So, I go to the chiro a bit more often and just deal with the remaining aches and this dizziness.

Anyway, after almost passing out last week, it 'woke me up' to the fact that something is wrong, and I'm now trying to figure it out. So I went to my doctor last week and the other day I had an appointment with the cardiologist. My primary doctor ran a test on me that came out abnormal and so I'm going to the cardiologist first to make sure I'm ok in that department, and hopefully to rule that out as a possible cause.

Anyway, I guess I must have triggered a chain reaction with me, because ever since that day I have felt broken. My head is constantly hurting, I'm losing feeling in one arm or another leg. I feel all these problems now that were there before, but were something I could ignore. But .. I'm planning on staying on top of this until I finally find out what's wrong with me. In the meanwhile I feel like I've been sick for weeks and I'm still in that achy recovery stage .. it's really starting to take a toll on me... I can't fix my hair because my head is sore to the touch and it feels all achy and swollen (I use the crap excuse that my brain is outgrowing my head .. ha ha ha!). Again .. it's wearing me out ..

Enough of that ...

It is October 18th .. and I swear I need to turn my air back on. We had maybe a couple of cool days and now it's back to warm again .. it is soooooo old at this point. However, we have finally gotten more than a freak random rain. Well, ok so only 2 whopping days now of rain, but it may actually rain tomorrow too, but I'll admit that I am terrible at keeping up with the weather...

Here's something that i found in regards to the current drought in the local area:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/jkl/?n=drought_briefing

Current Drought in KY

DROUGHT STATEMENT - - - NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1218 AM EDT FRI OCT 12 2007

...EXTREME DROUGHT CONTINUES IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
...SEVERE DROUGHT CONTINUES IN SOUTHERN INDIANA...

FOR THIS CALENDAR YEAR MUCH OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY IS RUNNING AT LEAST A FOOT BEHIND NORMAL FOR RAINFALL.

IN THE OCTOBER 9 ISSUANCE OF THE UNITED STATES DROUGHT MONITOR...EXTREME DROUGHT CONDITIONS WERE FOUND ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE OHIO RIVER. SEVERE DROUGHT WAS PREVALENT ACROSS SOUTHERN INDIANA.

AN OPEN BURN BAN IS IN EFFECT THROUGHOUT THE HOOSIER NATIONAL FOREST. GOVERNOR FLETCHER HAS BANNED ALL OUTDOOR BURNING ACROSS THE ENTIRE STATE OF KENTUCKY.

LOW WATER LEVELS HAVE LED TO INCREASED ALGAE BLOOMS...ESPECIALLY IN THE KENTUCKY RIVER.
KENTUCKY RECEIVED A FEDERAL DISASTER DECLARATION FROM THE USDA...ALLOWING STRUGGLING FARMERS TO SEEK EMERGENCY LOANS.(WAVE TV)

LOUISVILLE REPORTED THE HOTTEST TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED IN OCTOBER IN THE CITY: 93 DEGREES.

AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS... AS OF OCTOBER 9...
82 PERCENT OF PASTURELAND IN KENTUCKY WAS POOR OR VERY POOR. 13 PERCENT OF THE TOBACCO CROP WAS RATED AS POOR OR VERY POOR AND WAS DRYING TOO FAST LOSING COLOR. ABOUT 90 PERCENT OF THE CORN HAD BEEN HARVESTED...COMPARED TO A NORMAL OF 73 PERCENT AT THIS TIME OF YEAR. 47 PERCENT OF THE SOYBEAN CROP WAS POOR OR VERY POOR...AND 34 PERCENT HAD BEEN HARVESTED. NORMAL IS 22 PERCENT. 95 PERCENT OF THE TOPSOIL MOISTURE WAS SHORT OR VERY SHORT...AND 94 PERCENT OF THE SUBSOIL MOISTURE WAS SHORT OR VERY SHORT ACROSS KENTUCKY.IN INDIANA 73 PERCENT OF THE TOPSOIL WAS SHORT OR VERY SHORT...AND 73 PERCENT OF THE SUBSOIL WAS SHORT OR VERY SHORT. THE DRIEST SOILS WERE CONFINED TO THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE.



Grrr ... second storm is about to come through .. needless to say I won't be able to watch Grey's until 1AM .. and my DSL is about to go out ...

.. to be continued ..

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Lessons Learned

Ok .. so lately I've learned a few lessons. Nothing major, but I'll name and describe a few...

1.) If I get out of bed early Saturday and Sunday morning the weekend feels amazingly long. Wow .. I had no idea, but not that I just 'willingly' get up, so that is now becoming the time that I'm visiting the gym over the weekend. Downfall .. the long days tend to get me bored halfway through it, and I've been going to the stores buying trivial stuff out of boredom .. BAD!!

2.) You know that I'm working too long because on the day that I actually leave before 6, I look at the clock thinking it's 9pm or so and it's only 7pm .. I need to stop working so much.

3.) Just because it's not raining doesn't mean it's an excuse to slack off on chores. I have been HORRIBLE about not doing anything outside, because it hasn't been an absolute necessity .. my yard .. sucks right about now and now I'm too lazy to mess with it, but I'm going to follow #1 and try and get up early this weekend and be done with it. Plus, downfall, I have a drain in the back yard that I keep free of debris. With the lack of rain this summer / fall I've not worried about it so much. Well it rained last week and the ground is so dry that it become nothing but runoff .. the runoff traveled to the clogged drain, and into my basement .. yep .. lesson learned.

3.) I apparently ALWAYS compliment people too soon. So, when my sister is doing a good job, I like to tell her, because she typically gets nothing but criticism from the rest of the family. So, I tell her this weekend. Then the next day she does something that, once again, makes me regret complimenting her, because that one single action did more damage than the milestones she's made over the past couple of years. So .. I try to be nice and apparently I need to not do that again...

4.)Listen to something funny at work .. all of a sudden work is not so bad. It's been stressful at work lately, well over the past month or two. Anyway, thank you Dane Cook for making it more tolerable during those icky moments. I have been cracking up sitting at my desk constantly listening to him. Sadly though, I work in Cube World and I have a big mouth, so as much as I try not to laugh very loud, sometimes it happens .. but I think they're immune to it by now..

5.) Never assume that you've 'heard it all,' because you haven't. So I'm driving down the road the other day and another 'smooth' guy hits on me. First of all, how annoying. Second of all he is driving an old, over-sized pick-up covered in mud. Thirdly, he looks at me and asks 'Do you wanna go get dirty?" .. WTF?!?! Yes, I was on Dixie Highway, which is one place I NEVER go to .. so I should know better .. but come the F on .. idiot? So, I give him the standard polite brush off and then guess what he says ... "yea you don't look like the type that gets your hands dirty anyway." ... OMG ... now I was MAD MAD MAD about that! Obviously this guy did not know a thing about me, because of all the things people have said to me, I've never been placed in that girly or whatever category that he just tossed me in. My baby sister, yea she's a bit of a priss and a bit high maintenance as far as clothes, getting ready and all of that. The middle one is like me, we're your normal every day chics, but I'm personally more of a t-shirt and jeans person who takes like 10 minutes to get ready, and she doesn't wear t-shirts that often and it takes her a bit longer because she gets ready, where I just go. Ok .. anyway, at that point I decided that I needed to figure out how to politely ignore this guy, because I, of course, wanted to bite his head off. I was completely insulted. So low and behold, don't think that you have heard it all .. because you haven't.

Ok .. that's enough for now .. :o)