Em and the Possibilities There are no guarantees in life…only the possibilities

Can you explain to me why I want to lose weight?

I won’t be able to wear my clothes anymore, and don’t have the $$$ to buy new. Hell, I don’t even have the $$$ to “buy” the stuff I’ve got now – one of Mom’s friends cleaned out her closet.

I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance departmentBANK OF AFRICA . In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of U.S$14.5 US dollars in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in November 2000 in a plane crash.

Anyone wanna help me spend that whopping $14.5 US dollars?

LunaNina.om | Unconscious Mutterings

1. Diminishing:: returns
2. Fed up:: irritated
3. 3:00 AM:: zzzZZZzzz
4. Interfere:: masturbate
5. Often:: right
6. Hay:: stack
7. Prediction:: future
8. Homophobia:: wrong
9. Booty call:: old and tired
10. Enunciate:: properly

This guy answered an online personal I put up a few months ago. He recently popped back up, and we’ve been talking on IM and emailing. Today’s email said this:

yup, it’s the one good thing about being single. plenty of time to build the bank account. but of course as you know single isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, i used to never work any overtime, would rather spend it at home. but i’m not gonna whine about it, it’ll happen when it happens, probably take another 10 years but what the hell, i’m getting tired of looking. i asked the group leader about doing 12′s the rest of the week, he said he’d let me know but tonight is a sure thing, yahoo (sarcasticly)…
i was going to throw a party soon, but i don’t have a clue when that could be now, next saturday is scheduled and sunday is when i’ll celebrate my daughters birthday. i need to check the schedule and see when the next open saturday is, i kinda miss throwing some good old bashes

Outside of the obvious grammar errors, this missive leaves me frustrated and confused. I thought the whole point of talking to someone online was to increase the chances of “it happening when it happens”.

I want to email him back and say “So do I ASSume that you’re just not interested in me?”

I want to chalk it up to the fact that he’s been working a lot of OT here lately and spoke without thinking.
No, check that. I’m not gonna make excuses for him.

*sigh*

It’s the end of the summer. Time to reminisce a bit, and see what worked and what didn’t for kid entertainment.

First up, we have the 3-lane Slip-n-slide. It has nice wide lanes so more than one kid can play at a time. The center lane doesn’t get sprinkled all that much, making it a good spot for Joe to play and still get splashed. A good alternative to playing in a pool.

Dan didn’t like the “slipping” part all that much, until he realized you’re SUPPOSED to. The anchor spikes kept coming up out of the ground as it got wet. Alannah got cranky with it (Yeah, she’s got my temper too. Shup.) and ended up ripping a hole in it. The colors faded REAL bad in the sun – we started out with red, blue, and yellow lanes….and ended up with pink, whitish-gray, and yellow/white spotted.
We’ll be buying another one next year, and I’ll dedicate a few brain cells to the anchoring problem.

8′ round Snap set pool. What’s not to love about a pool? We all had a blast with this one, although I don’t think I’m going to let the girls play in it next year. Their favorite “game” involved splashing all the water out (not a good idea since we’re on well water). I *do* wish these things lasted longer than one season, but what d’ya expect for $20?

Pop-up tent/tunnel playset. We won’t be buying one of these again. The novelty wore of REALLY quickly, and they take up a ton of room.

4-person tent and queen airbed. These were bought in anticipation of going camping at the beach for a few days. Unfortunately, we ended up spending a month in TN instead. The tent was raised as a “clubhouse” for the girls. The airbed wins hands down as the best toy I’ve bought yet. It stays in the livingroom, and is perfect for the kids to flip, jump on, and snuggle to watch TV.

The Jail Cell. Made of our (previously in storage) Pack-N-Play and a box of plastic balls in an effort to give the kids some variety outside of the two laundry baskets full of little toys that they assiduously ignore anyway. Oh, and we can’t forget making “time in the pen” more entertaining. Although a big hit to start with, it’s mostly ho-hum now.

That’s all the big stuff that I can think of right now.

Thanks to a nifty WordPress plugin called LivePress, I’m pleased to announce I now have LiveJournal Syndication.

To my LiveJournal readers: If you’re interested in catching up on the story thus far, click on the link at the bottom of this post. It will take you to my WordPress blog, where I have archives going back to October 2003.

Enjoy reading!