The Gene I did not inherit…the GREEN THUMB

How about some garden pictures…

One of my daily blog reads is Miss Jen. I love reading her adventures with Pete, Elegant, and Graceful. My favorite part of the blog is the adventures in gardening. I love living vicariously through her incredible gardening skills. Like Jenn, my mom has an incredible green thumb. I do not, my flowers die! I kill everything plant, vegetable related. Even plants that are impossible to kill. Hello, Bamboo, yes I have killed Bamboo, not once, not twice, but four times!

So I give you a few pictures of her Peonies, because she wanted me to make her some Thank You cards out of the picture for all the wonderful things people have done for her recently.

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Anyone Read These Posts?

Anyone actually read these posts?  You don’t have to say much but it would be great to hear from you.  I would love to see who is reading and maybe read in return as well.

I was going to write about how wonderful it is to have Babylicious in town and it is. Oh it is wonderful.

Today we went to see a new doctor and the news just keeps getting worse for my mom. She has an MRI scheduled for Sunday, Mothers Day. Things are moving fast, really fast. That is good, but scary at the same time.

The cancer she has, they have no idea where it started or what it is. They are not sure if it is Breast Cancer, they have no idea if it is all over her body or contained to her breast. They just don’t know. That is the reason for the MRI, to find out where it originated and where it all is. Scary shit here, really scary shit!

So I give you a picture of my fabulous mom, if you pray, please pray for her. Pray that the cancer is curable, pray that it has not spread, just say a little prayer.

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Life…what a beautiful thing…

So it has been awhile. I am officially going to be a college graduate on Saturday. I can barely believe it myself. After 6 classes this semester and 3 jobs I am ready to walk across that stage and receive my diploma. I am so excited to move on to the next chapter of my life. This has been a long road and one that has been so worth it. Someday I might import my past archives, but for now know that I have done alot to get here and it has been so worth it. Alot of hard choices, alot of tears, and hard work. I did something my ex-husband told me I would never do and that was be successful. I am successful and not because I graduated college. I am successful because I have found that my happiness and well being solely depends on me. Depends on who I choose to surround myself with and how I choose to spend my life.

Internets I am back. I am back to share this adventure of my wonderful life I have worked so hard to achieve. And I am going to continue to embark on the beauty that is life. Take the good with the bad and find the positive in it all.

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Single in the world of the internets!

There is just so much to write about I don’t even know where to begin. So I have decided that I need to start posting and I am going to write about my life. I figure that is what this blog is about a Bossy Yankee up in the Keystone State! So here goes I live with one of my best friends. She is awesome and newly single as well. We live in a neighborhood that is very similar to Melrose place minus the pool. Okay not just lacking the pool, we don’t have any murders that I know of yet.

So there is myself (The Bossy Yankee), my roommate (Rock Star), and our single neighbor(M-Cat) Well we are all three in the dating world and we all three belong to the same dating sites. OH MY GOODNESS the stories I am going to share with you over time. The men we have met, the men that have contacted us, the men that are out there. I swear joining these sites has provided us with some fun dates but most of all great humor. Loads of humor.

For example..some of the screen names we have been so blessed to have been contacted by.

T*akefromme77 whose profile reads:

Likes to be subordinate to women because they are superior. They are smarter than men. I like to buy women shoes, high heels preferably. I also like to give them cash. I do not want to receive sex in return. It makes me happy to buy beautiful women things.

He is looking to hang out says his profile. I say he is a complete nut case that one can only imagine what he would do to you if you met him in real life.

Then we have Who*letmeoutofmycage:

He has emailed me three times. The first to say he liked my profile. I never responded. I do not think I need to tell you internets why, but I will. The screen name is the first thing. Are you an animal or were you just let out of prison. Because I never responded he emailed me a few days later to say that “funny, I am a great guy, but I guess you will never find out”. Oh and then the kicker an hour later another email “thanks for proving my point” I still have not blocked him for the sheer humor of the entire situation.

So those are just two examples from one site in the past week. Then we have another site that keeps matching me with people I know in real life. Like my best friends ex husband, my ex boyfriends best friend, etc. You get the point. Then there is the case of the Rock Star we were at a bonfire one night and she hooked up with a guy at a party (and by hook up I mean kissed, nothing more, well she did kiss his dad in the same night)  and a week later M-Cat being matched with him on a dating site. He closed the match with M-Cat and repeatedly texted Rock Star to proclaim his love for her. She hooked up with him at a bonfire. ARE YOU KIDDING ME DUDE? LOVE?

So yes my life is different than it was 5 years ago, hell it is different than it was 2 years ago. I would not trade it for the world. As bad as the dating world is I know that the right guy is out there for me and the more wacka-dos I come across the more I am going to appreciate him when he comes along.

So I end this with one of my profile pictures on the dating site. Now who would not want to go out with this smile!

I know it is blurry but I love it and that is why I post it. I got a lot of slack for its blurryness since I am a photographer and all. I had to say it is not about the perfection of the picture but of capturing the moment. The day I took this picture was wonderful and I was happy. I caught my happiness and that is why it is one of my favorites.

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Hands Free Driving…

OMG this is hysterical. Dooce posted this on her site and I could not stop laughing so I knew i just had to post it. I know that it is still legal to talk on your cell phone in my state but some states have changed the laws. I think they should definitly change the law to eliminate cell phone use but I also don’t think they should allow blue tooth’s either. I know I am guilty of talking on my cell phone but I also know it is extremely distracting and I am very lucky to have avoided accidents.

So I leave you with this You Tube Video by Skylar Stone:

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Blog Her 2009

Created a page for Blog Her 2009, I really think I am going to go this year. Check out the page and let me know what you think.

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Blogging and Me

As most of you know I have blogged for years. This new place I have to get used to blogging at again. I took a break for a bit and now I find myself blogging about 2 times a week if that. So my goal is to post at least 5 days a week and if I don’t write I will at least share some of my photographs with you.

For those of you that don’t know me, I have my own photography business and I love it. I posted my photography blog over in the sidebar. I also added a section of where you can find me on the web.

I also had a new reader Pete and he asked if he could add me to his blog roll and I am totally honored. He had mentioned I did not have one. I explained that I don’t use the blog roll anymore because I use Google Reader. Then I got to thinking about it and one of my favorite things when reading other blogs is finding new blogs in the side bar. So I have added a blog roll and divided it into different kinds of blogs. These are some of my favorite reads. If you don’t post alot I did not add you to my side bar mainly because these are the blogs I read every week. I also did not add the blogs that I read that are now marked private. I am almost embarrassed to say that these are not even “all” the blogs I read. As I said ALMOST but there are so many wonderful blogs out there it is hard to stop finding new wonderful ones to read.

Have a great weekend and I leave you with one of my favorite self portraits I have ever taken. I joined a group on flickr where you take a picture of your self for 365 days. I did this in 2007 into early 2008.

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Going Green and a little more…

This blog is going to be a little less personal and alot more informational. Don’t get me wrong it will still have a personal touch as I am writing from my own perspective. I will still talk about some events that occur in my life but it will not be the main focus like in previous blogs.

In the past couple of years I have changed so much. I have literally found myself and you know what I really like her. It has been a long road but a road that was so worth the travel.

I am alot more conscience about the environment and wanting to preserve what we have for future generations. I will probably spend alot of time talking about simple ways to help preserve the environment in every day life. I have spent lots of time finding ways to make changes in my own life and I have done a pretty good job of slowly doing so. I try and buy as much organic, local, and earth friendly as possible. I have slowly changed out my cleaning supplies, the food in my house, the trash bags I use, I recycle, I no longer buy bottled water, and so much more.

I am working on becoming more healthy. I have recently incorporated exercise into my daily life and I am eating healthy. Slowly taking the weight off that I have put on in the past couple of years. I did not put it on overnight so it will not come off overnight so I am sure I will share that as well.

Other things I am sure to talk about are the exciting happenings in my twenty something soon to be thirty something life. I have two semesters left of college, I have a great job, and a wonderful business I am slowly building from the ground up.

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy my new space.

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Hello Internets…

I took a little hiatus from the public blogging world. I needed some time away from the mundane chore of posting. I was down to posting less than once a week and was just not feeling it. I also needed to get away from the drama that was created by a select few in the blogging world and knew I had enough.

I then started a family blog for my sister who is now in Africa and my other siblings. I wanted somewhere to talk about what was going on in my day to day life without it being posted for all the world to see. Well I miss talking to the world so here she goes again.

So a lot has gone on in the past few months. I had a great summer and I am back in school. I have two semesters left which is awesome. I am so very excited about that.

I just received a promotion at work and well all is going awesome there. I love it. I could not ask for a better boss or a better environment to work in. It really is great to be back in the work force in a place that I love.

My sister had her third baby on July 21st! She is beautiful and wonderful and I can not wait to meet her at Christmas. We will be spending a month in Africa over the holidays and I am looking forward to it. I am able to talk to the kids quite a bit through Skype and I am able to keep up to date on their lives via their family blog but it is still not the same as seeing them.

How have you all been? I have been following some of your blogs but have lacked in the comments section. Have a great week and hopefully I will be back to posting a few times a week.

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