PSERENDIPITY

Since everybody on Facebook has already clowned me, I guess I’ll give you guys a chance, too. 

I used to wonder why it was that when I posted a status update of Facebook, no one would ever respond.  Not a “like” or a comment whatsoever.  So much so that it started to bother me.  I felt that there must be some conspiracy and everyone was Facebook snubbing me.  For months and months, no comment.  I’m just saying, it does something to a girl’s self esteem.

So…I was looking at my privacy settings thinking that surely something must be wrong because no way would everyone just ignore me.  I found a glitch, and thought “Surely I can’t have done that??”

I update my status with “Can anybody see this??” and out of the blue come responses from everywhere.  I ask “Have you been seeing any status updates?” 

No.

I had hidden my status updates from everybody.  And, ya’ll, I had about a gazillion status updates.  Picture somebody blogging everyday twice a day and no one is reading. And you can figure out why but you just keep blogging hoping that someday somebody will throw you a bone. 

Instead, complete radio silence.   I had snubbed my dang self.

Remember a while ago — in JULY — I completed training for another online school?  Well, everyone that I completed training with was assigned some classes.  I wasn’t.

So, I emailed the lady that they told me to email in JULY and got nothing. I recently talked to someone else that completed the training and taught a class and hated it.  She’s no longer there. 

It’s November, I still haven’t heard anything.  Here’s the thing:  it just pisses me off that they never said anything to me or responded in any manner.  I sent another email yesterday, still nothing.  I think that I’m going to start an email campaign and email everyone I can possibly come up with every day until someone responds to me.  Just because I’m mad, son.  What would you do?

This is a new web series that is now on YouTube.  I started watching because I watched the two main characters on Guiding Light, and they were a good couple.  So, I thought I’d share an episode of their new venture here on The Dip. This is the second episode, you can catch the first one on YouTube.

After you watch it, answer this:  who does that?  Babytalk?  Really?

I never told ya’ll about Aidan’s love of tomatoes?  I must keep grape tomatoes in the fridge.  He eats them like they are grapes.  Along with sliced tomatoes, baked tomatoes, any kind of tomatoes….

Nadia didn’t get off the train because the train arrives on a platform that’s like a bridge.  She was sitting on the side of the train where if you look down, you don’t see anything but the ground wayyyy below.  So she thought that the train was going to move again for her to get off at a place where she could actually see the ground.  So she was waiting. 

I wish that I could put Sarah Palin and Rihanna on a boat, then blast the boat to Timbuktu.

There is this one online student that I have that makes me want to stick my hand through the computer, grab her neck, and slam her head from side to side until her ears bleed. 

I started taking tennis lessons again.  There is the guy in the class that is straight outta 1970.  Even his racket is funkadelic.

I was really excited about taking Nadia to a SWAC game this Saturday, but she wants to stay home and go to a party.  Boo hiss Nadia!!!

I think that my brother, sister-in-law, and nephew are coming this weekend.  SCORE!!  Love them!!  

Aidan is singing in the choir this Sunday.  I don’t know how, but he always knows when its the 4th Sunday.  He absolutely positively loves singing in the choir.  He thinks they should sing all the songs they know every Sunday.  I don’t.  

Our first night of no TV was a success.  Aidan was in bed before 9, and sleep at about 9:15.  He woke up this morning with little incident. 

We ate dinner at NerdGirl’s house last night.  First time ever I’ve had cous cous.  Loved it!

One last thing.  The movie Law Abiding Citizen?  No.Joke.  It isn’t for the faint of heart.

What’s up random with you?

And in April, we will become residents of San Diego, California.

Wow.

Hi everyone!  If you want to get in on this, let me know by tomorrow please!  Right now, we have 11 participants, and as promised, here are the links.  Read all about them!!

Mz Inspired Mind

Nerd Girl

Kelly In A Day

Serenity 3-0

Therapeutic Musings

Tiffany in Houston

She Needs

Jurista

Travel Diva

Fergie

I”ll be getting with you guys on Monday so you can get your name pull on.  This is gonna be so fun!!

Dear Commenter “M” — you gotsta do better girl!  Speak on some stuff!

I was watching this show with the people with 18 kids and they said that they don’t believe in dancing.  Um…dancing is not a spirit or a god, how could you not believe in it?  The mom said that she has better things to do with her time than dance.  Ya think? 

I’ve been noticing on Facebook that people post a lot about food in their status updates.  Really, you’re about to cook a pot roast, mashed potatoes, fried okra and cornbread.  Then later on you’re going to get some pound cake.  Then at midnight you’re eating fried bologna.  How ’bout one that says “Going to the gym?”  

Is it wrong for me to want to shun my child’s fascination with gospel music?  Particularly the church choir?  On Sundays, I record them on my phone and I swear he listens to them round.the.clock.  I put all the songs on his MP3, and now I really want to hide that sommo ma……

Did ya’ll get that?

Another thing about Aidan — he hates sleep.  It’s his mortal enemy.

Another thing about Aidan.  He’s going to be a fireman for Halloween.  The thing he has done the most?  See how fast he can get into the costume.  I ring a bell, he jumps into the costume.  Hey…it’s just how we entertain ourselves here.  You never know when there might be an emergency and we need to get dressed quickly.  We’ll be ready.

Aidan is officially going to spend next weekend with Tim.  Alone.  For the first time.  Are you like me? Can you not wait on the blog post when Aidan comes home?  

Why is it that everytime I log into Facebook, a certain person pops up to chat with me.  Seriously, every.single.time.  Oh, how I hate that.  Isn’t there some chat etiquette, or some rule against chat-stalking?  There should be. 

Another thing about Aidan.  He wants a brother.  From the brother shelter. Poor kid, he just doesn’t get it.

Go ahead, air your incidentals in the comments.  And have a spooky weekend!

Yay!  I heart Christmas, and I’m getting ready already.  Lately, I’ve been in the spririt of giving — but I’ll tell you all about that later.  For now, I have an idea!!

I was thinking that I would love to do a giveaway at Christmas.  Then it hit me that I’d like to send my blog friends in my head a little happy.  Then THIS hit me!  We should totally do a blog Christmas.  A virtual Secret Santa!  Who’s down?

Here’s what you do:

1.  Put your name in the hat.  (That means let me know if you want to participate, either in the comments or via email.)

2.  I’ll give you a number.  Only you and I will know your number.  And I’ll let you know when to give me your address — privately.

3.  I’ll email you and ask you to pick a number that is NOT yours, you’ll pick the number, and I’ll tell you which blogger you’ve chosen.

4.  If you don’t read their blog already (you probably do), go check them out!  I’ll post a link to everyone who is participating.  I’m sorry, but to participate, you either need to be a blogger or a well-known commenter *coughTIHcough*.  We need some sort of body of work to go on.  Plus there are some trust issues…ya’ll know what I mean. 

5.  On December 14, you’ll mail them your Secret Blog Santa gift along with a clue about who you are.  Make sure that you read the blog to know who they are and what they like. 

6.  On December 22, we’ll all blog about what we got and who we think sent it, and I’ll do the big reveal here at The Dip. 

Make sense?  Sound good?  Who’s in?

Tim’s text: Baby, you’re my 5 star chic, except for some of your outfits. Guess that makes you my 4 1/2 star chic.
Me: Gee, thanks baby.
Tim: What? 4 1/2 stars is pretty good!
Me: Whatever.
Tim: Okay, 5 stars. I was just playing.
Me: You.are.so.lame.

Me: I know you did a lot of things with Paw Paw, but what did you do with Granny?
Aidan: Well…um….we did lots of things together!
Me: Like what? Take a bath, eat dinner, go to church?
Aidan: No, like take over the world. Me and Granny are some bad mamma jammas!

Tim’s text: I sold all but 5 candy bars on the first day. Who the man?
Me: The man would’ve sold all the candy bars on the first day.
Tim: Man, you’re a hater.
…later that week
Tim: Somebody cheated me out of money for my son. I’m supposed to have $55 from this candy, but I only have $50.
Me: Who the man?

Me:  Aidan, you have really been doing well on obeying lately!
Aidan: Thank you, Mama!
Me: Why have you been doing so good at your obeying!?  What is making you act so good?
Aidan: Daddy. That guy is a real problem.

I don’t know if many of you watch The Amazing Race, but I happen to like it.  As you may have gathered if you’ve ever watched an episode, teams travel around the world, and you have to complete these tasks and arrive at the finish line in order to stay in that leg of the race.  The last team there is out.

So, last night one of the challenges was going down a 6 story high waterslide.  To be sure, 6 stories would have definitely given me pause.  But did I mention that the prize for winning the race is a million dollars?  Yeah, press play now.  Imagine this:  you’re on the waterslide scared to death to go down.  Your partner tries to do everything within his power to get you to slide.  You’re the next to last team.  All you have to do is slide down this water slide, and you stay in the race.  But, you’re scared.

Then (cue the Harlem Globetrotter’s music here), here comes the last team.  The one you HAVE to beat to stay in the race.  The team was composed of Flight Time and Big Easy, two of the famous Harlem Globetrotters, and easily one of the most entertaining teams ever on The Amazing Race.  When the Globetrotter’s get there, you have two minutes to decide:  either slide, or move over and let them slide.  But if you move over, they will surely beat you.  But you’re scared.  Surely the Globetrotters wait on you to make your decision, and even maybe will give you a lilttle pep talk.

But one of them says…”If you’re scared, don’t go.  It’s a long way down!  Don’t hurt yourself.”  My thoughts:  BWAAAHAHAHAHA, this chic is getting trash talked on a waterslide.  Then I thought surely she would just throw caution to the wind and slide.  But she moved over, and ended any chance she had of winning a million dollars.  One.million.dollars.  Gone.  Over a water slide.

Here are the two things that I took away from that:  1.  Fear can ruin your dreams, and 2.  Do what you gotta do to win.  The Globetrotters did, and they won.  As soon as she moved from that waterslide, they were gone.  In less than 5 seconds they did what it had taken her probably about 30 minutes to even think about doing.  They knew what they had to do to win, they did it, they won.  And such is life.

I’ve heard people say that the fear of failure keeps them from doing things.  I really don’t understand that.  I can honestly say that there is nothing that I attempt to do that I start doing believing that I might fail.  And, I can’t think of many things that I’ve failed at doing.  honestly, I can’t even think of one thing I’ve failed at doing.  I truly believe that I can do anything.  And I’ll try most things because I believe that.  There will never be a time when somebody comes along, tells me that if I’m scared I shouldn’t try, and then I don’t.  I look them dead in the eye.  And I slide.