Gordon and Woody Be Blogged

Earlier today I received a phone call that my Uncle Dick had passed away. My Aunt Bonnie & he have been divorced for over 20 years now but they still loved each other very much & were best of friends. My Uncle would call her every morning before he left to work in the morning & this morning there was no phone call. His work ended up calling my Aunt & said that Dick had not shown up to work this morning & they were unable to reach him by phone. My Aunt new something was wrong because he hadn't called so she sent my cousin Billy over to check up on him. My Uncle Dick had died in his sleep peacefully hugging his pillow as he always did when he slept.

My Uncle Dick is the second of the three of my Uncles I am really close to & I love dearly that has passed away. I always described him as the big, bald redneck, with his abrasive personality and his smart-ass comments. You either loved the guy or were offended by him & loved him at the same time. I have so many cool memories of the guy, I remember being a little kid & my Aunt Bonnie would baby sit me once in awhile and he would always have me cuddle up with him on the couch & watch TV just so I would calm down. His sense of humor was sometimes offensive but was funny as hell all at the same time. I remember the day he made my mom cry because of a bad haircut she got, he told her she looked like a French poodle, and it was hilarious! My mom later on thinks of this and laughs when she thinks of it. I remember having my ears pierced at one time with 5 on each ear & he told me I looked like a jewelry store. Stuff like this was classic Uncle Dick comments that were shocking & so one of a kind.

I know my Uncle Dick had some tough times knowing how to be a dad but he really new how to do it all over again by being the best Grandpa he could. He really lived for those grandkids of his and I just really admired how life had given him a second chance to do some of those things he had neglected to do over again.

I will really miss the guy & I know that everyone that he touched in his life will really miss him too. It will be so strange not to have him around at the next family gathering and I'm really not in a hurry for that to happen. Please keep my Uncle's family in your prayers, we are all really torn up by it and this is hitting me more than I expected.

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I have been so proud of both Gordon & I these past two weeks. We have been working together on home improvements and spring cleaning and I have to admit that we make a fantastic team! Last weekend we worked together on our bedroom that had been long neglected, we got rid of the standing dust & spiders and rearranged the furniture to be more functional and now we feel like we are in a new room with new stuff. It's amazing how some rearranging just works everything out.

This weekend we put our dual action together & did a major overhaul on the kitchen. We got down on our hands and knees and scrubbed floors, shelves, drawers and rearranged everything to a more practical use. I am so proud of what we have accomplished. I have been looking on Craigs List almost every day for a kitchen cart for our kitchen because it is so small in there and we have just really needed some more counter space… well on Friday I went down to a couples place that were moving out of state & they had a kitchen cart for $5.00 and then a little kitchen microwave stand with a drawer & a bottom that opened up for storage for $15.00… I jumped at the chance to buy it and it has made a world of difference in our little kitchen… I finally have a place to put the toaster oven!!!

It is so strange at what my life has become… I am now excited about kitchen carts?! What in the world happened to me?!

Anyhow, not only am I proud about our dual work ethic in the cleaning department but I am very proud of my husband tonight… when I met Gordon over 4 years ago he was a strange strange man… not that he is not strange now, but when I met him he had this phobia of food… I swear to gosh he did… those of you who know him know what I am talking about. He would order salads with no dressing & just eat it with salt sprinkled on top & he had just for the first time in his life eaten Chinese food… the list goes on & on… but when I met him I started introducing him to everything. He ate Sushi for the first time and then it just went from there and now we have that cool food blog which we are so proud of. Well, there are still some mountains to climb with that man & one of them was getting him to eat artichokes. He was so opposed to them and I couldn't make anything for a long time now that had them in a recipe. Well today I went shopping & I gave him no choice in the matter… he was going to try artichokes!

I got a simples boiling recipe on foodnetwork.com and I made them with some dipping sauces. Gordon actually likes them and he ate everything and he especially loved the hearts! So I am so proud of my stubborn man! He has taken a huge step tonight and with that I congratulate him and admire him for conquering another food phobia! Go Gordon!!!

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I know what your thinking... two posts in a week! Yep, sure is... I was just surfing the net trying to get ideas for new backgrounds for my myspace page and I came across this adorable pic... I just had to share... this is me & Gordon's future baby... PUNK ROCK all the way baby!

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So, as you all know I am unemployed. I am not complaining though, I am so very happy with just being home and being a housewife. I am trying to discipline myself more with the chores around the house and I feel like I am developing into a more responsible person because of this.


I have lived in & out of my parent's house since I was a teenager but never actually had my "own" place. When Gordon & I moved in together I was on this power trip of "I can do what I want, when I want" and that also meant cleaning and keeping up with the house. I have learned over the last couple of years that the house doesn't clean itself. I must say though, I never realized this before, but I had a real bad example on how to clean your house. I mean my mother was always picking up the house but to really get down on your hands and knees and scrub & vacuum, I never had the example of. So I have really been teaching myself how to get down & dirty on my hands & knees and clean those little spots that you just walk past & ignore. It's hard and a lot of sweat but I am proud of the aftermath & to see what I have done afterwards.

I am starting one room at a time, you can say that it is somewhat of a Spring Cleaning & I feel damn good about it. As for our computer room… I told Gordon that he could decorate this room anyway he wanted… well… there are boxes among boxes in this room and nothing has ever been done to it. So I believe that will be the last time I will feel sorry for him not having a room to decorate on his own. The same goes for the garage & the yard… he had all these plans for it & absolutely nothing has been done.

On another great note… my hormone levels were back down to 0. I have called fertility and we will be meeting in mid June for an appointment. That will give my body time to recuperate itself and get back to normal before we try again. Hopefully the 3rd time will be a charm and we will have little Gordon or Woody on the way this year.

Other than that, I cannot help but to just sit here and daydream about the days ahead of me. I cannot wait to see what the future holds in store for me & my little family. I have dreams of the old yellow & white house, with the red door and picket fence and kids playing in the yard, I cannot wait for that to happen. I know a lot of people trip out on me when they find out how traditional I am, after all there are so many unconventional views that I have in my life like on government, politics and morality that people trip out that I am this traditional little homemaker. Yeah, maybe some of my beliefs contradict each other but this is a contradicting world we live in. There are so many people that believe in abortion and the so called "right to choose" but yet they are appalled of the death penalty… well, isn't murder… murder? I am against the death penalty also, for a grown man that has to die over his convictions to a baby that has not yet had the chance to have any… it's all the same to me.

I am also against the war, & some people might find it odd but as I remember it wasn't Iraq that bombed us right? You have to be a completely stupid & ignorant, uneducated person to buy that lie… last time I checked it was some dude that was in Afghanistan… the Iraqi war is just a war over oil that a bunch of greedy white haired asses are trying to convince you otherwise. I do not support the military… why in the world would you want to go into something where there is a 99% chance you might die; your ass is owned not by you but by someone else? I hear mothers & fathers say… "Well Johnny just came out a completely different person!" Well that's because they brainwashed the crap out of your son & there is no more Johnny thinking for himself anymore but Uncle Sam! Duh! Have you ever noticed that it is mostly the poor & uneducated that enter the service? Seriously most of my friends that went into the service in my day were because they were drop outs and didn't know what else to do with their life. Now I am not saying that all people in the military are uneducated and poor, its just that this is what appears to be what a lot of these military recruitment people prey on these days & I know many can agree with me. I have many friends that are in the military and they are very smart & wonderful people but I am sure if they had a choice to do anything they wanted with their life it would not be what they are doing with it right now in the military. I just simply believe that if you are going to enlist you better know what you are getting yourself into & be a strong person mentally & emotionally because I have seen it wear down my friends or my friends become completely numb to things around them just because they got so hardened & that is no way I would want to live my life.

And don't even get me started on the animal rights people that think killing a cow or chicken to eat is murder but yet they think its OK for abortion… they value an animals life with no soul more than a human babies life with one! I personally think that's sick! OK… sorry about the tangent I went on but it really pisses me off sometimes. Murder is just murder… simple as that… its murder to kill a man over his crimes… its murder to kill an unborn child & its murder to send our people out to war.

I am not sure how I went from cleaning to sex & then to murder? I guess that's a glimpse into how much my brain has been on overdrive lately. But I put it out there and it's not for everyone to agree with, it's my own personal issues. I guess that just shows you also that I am a Christian that is anti-government, anti-war, anti-death penalty, anti-abortion & pro 420. I believe that mans downfall was when they wanted to quit being ruled by the one & only true God & wanted a King over them instead… that was the great downfall of man.

OK… I guess I said this before… but I will now quit while I am ahead.

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