Well, about 4 hours later, here I am… just got home. I took down my other post, I just posted it in case I had to spend all weekend there, so you would all know where I am :-) In case you didn’t read it, this morning I got myself arrested. For what you ask? Ah, well there’s the fun part… I bounced a check a few years ago and totally forgot about. Turns out someone had put out a warrant out for my arrest and they decided that on a beginning of a holiday weekend they were going to come and get me.

So, I got in the back of the squad car, which by the way is VERY small, and took my trip “downtown”…. and in this case it is literal, the jail is all the way downtown. A few “stand here, sit here, thumbprint here” and I was put into an equally small cell – with 2 other women that can only be described as ‘different’ from me, lol. Both heavily tattooed, both brought in on assault charges, and both scary as hell. So, the lone white girl (me!) sat there on a tiny bench in a tiny room that was no bigger than a half bathroom discussing how I came here on a bounced check.

Then the fun really began…

Turns out Joy, the 38 year old mother of 7 grown children and 6 grandbabies as she put it, got her “monthly friend” so she went on and on and ON about how they wouldn’t give her a pad to wear. Um, yeah, I think I noticed that when she stood up and I looked at her too tight shorts up to “here” with her tiny tank top. Apparently she never got to put on anything and it showed :-) The other one who had been there since 5am didn’t have any water to drink… .so to say they were a little pissed off was an understatement. I just kept my mouth shut and tried to look as mean as I could, lol.

Then it was lunchtime (at 11am mind you) and I was served the wonderful macaroni and beef, corn bread left over from 1982 and a carton of milk that expired last week. Fun times…

Finally Mike came and bonded me out at a whopping $453 and 3 hours after I started the processing I was out.

Now, I’m going to take some highly needed pills to knock me out and I’m going to take a much needed nap to get this adrenaline rush out of my system.

I am so pissed today… I’m in a cranky mood, and I can’t talk about it :( It just makes me mad to be in a bad mood… I’m trying to get over it, but I just can’t. So, I’ll be back tomorrow with a good and happy post. I promise.

And don’t worry, it’s nothing life threatening, nothing with my son, nothing with my friends… in fact, it is almost nothing at all. That is what ticks me off – if it’s nothing, why does it bother me so much?

I am more than bummed right now…

I walked/worked out 5 days this week, in which 4 of those days I was drenched with sweat, walking/working out for an hour to an hour and a half… The 5th day I day I did a 30 minute walk. And you know what happened?

I gained 9 pounds. N.I.N.E.

How in the world does that happen? I’m a huge water drinker to begin with so it isn’t even water weight. I have been eating so healthy it is literally driving me insane. The night I went out, I saved up my calories for beer, and I never went above 1600 calories – not one day.

So, how do I gain the most weight in one week that I have probably gained in years and years? There has got to be a logical explanation for it… there really does. I swear I’m going to hunt this internet down until I find it too.

It seems like May and June.. in fact, the entire beginning of summer, is a tough time for everyone. There are tons of stuff to attend… weddings, graduations, cookouts and so forth. As for me, it is the start of birthday party season for my friends and their children, along with everything else like getting ready for camp, baseball season coming up for my son, swim classes, and a ton of other stuff I have yet to even think about. There are times that it truly gets overwhelming to say the least. Not to mention that for this year in particular we are heavy on the professional sports as well. Celtics of course are in it (triple overtime last night!! But they lost… boohooo), and then the Bruins start their second series tonight which normally wouldn’t be THAT important but they are playing against the Carolina Hurricanes which just happens to run their organization from right down the street, so it is more of home team vs. home team kind of thing so it makes it more interesting.

When you add all the stuff *I* want to do with the stuff that everyone else wants me to do, it gets to be a little tedious. Don’t get me wrong, it is fun as well, but still tedious. Like next weekend one of my friends has her sons 8th birthday party, which in itself is a great time! After that though we have a family get together with all my friends, and then the following day (Mother’s Day mind you) we are all throwing a surprise birthday party for my friend Millie who is turning 30.

Don’t get me started on that – I’m ticked off that it is on Mother’s Day but everyone else seems to be perfectly fine with it. For me, Mother’s Day is a special day… it is a day that I spend with my son, sometimes my mother, and it is a day that we look forward to, me especially, because I have taken on that day to be something just for me… whatever I want to do.. no questions asked. Even my son knows it as “my day”… we eat what I want to eat, we go where I want to go, we do everything that I want with no arguments from him :-) So, okay, I’m giving up my day to help with the party (which by the way, is a huge thing as well, so I know I’m being rather selfish)… I’m just going to tell my son that it is the following weekend!!

But then my other friend is having an impromtu party for her son this weekend, and I feel like I should go, but I really don’t have the energy. That would make 3 birthday parties in a 7 day period of time. And she lives the furthest away – next to my mom – so it’s like an hour drive each way, and to boot, it is the same area that I’m going next weekend for the 1st birthday party. I don’t know, I know I should go, but sometimes it is hard to get up the energy to just do it.

So, just to spell this out.. next weekend I have to drive 40 miles for birthday party 1, drive 40 miles home, wake up the next day and drive 38 miles the OTHER way, and then drive 38 miles home. It takes about an hour to the first one because it’s stop lights and back roads, and then about 45 minutes to the 2nd one. So, that in total is 3 1/2 of driving, which I guess doesn’t sound bad, but when you add in this weekend of 2 hours of driving I feel like I’m just driving… gosh, could I complain any more than I am????

I’m just a little worn down without even doing anything yet!! So tonight I’m going to my friend Amy’s house to watch the Bruins game and just chill out and then decide whether I want to go tomorrow… for today, I’m just going to enjoy myself :-)

It seems like you spend more time plucking hair from your chin and mustache area then you do your eyebrows. It’s true… Me, EC, has a HUGE hair growth problem on my chin and upper lip. And we’re not talking those lightly colored annoying hairs – we’re talking full fledged dark black man-like chin hairs. Right now as I type this I reach up and feel about 5 of them sticking out of my chin… which by the way I plucked just yesterday morning. I have to pluck daily so that “you” can never see them, and by you I mean everyone who talks to me within a few feet distance. After 3 days I can start to see people looking at my mustache and chin and I just KNOW that they are thinking… DAMN! That girl has way too much hair on her face!

I have waxed, I have used the creams, I have plucked… the list goes on. If there is a product out there that costs less than $10 and I can pick up at Walmart then I have used it. I need me some laser removal or whatever they call it. Heck, I would even buy that zapper that you see on infomercials if I could figure out what the name is! I found out via Dr. Oz on Oprah that excess hair in this area means that I have a high amount of testosterone… which I can totally buy. I mean I am a bit manly at some times during my day ;) Seriously though, I need help! Anyone else have this issue???

You know how I love to start the week on a positive tone right? (Insert sarcasm here) Well I just had so many things that sucked royally that I felt I must share. So, if you have anything that sucks in your life, feel free and add them and get it off your chest so we can all have a much better week :)

It sucks when you are pulling into the parking lot where the bus picks up your son for school, only to see it drive away (yes, that happened to me this morning.)

It sucks when a racoon or possom tipped over the garbage can in the backyard so that when you wake up you see garbage strewn all over your yard like a dumping ground.

It sucks when you sit down and try to write a set of articles and absolutely nothing comes to you, leaving you staring at a blank screen for hours.

It sucks when you wait all day for The Amazing Race since it is your favorite show, and you fall asleep promptly at 7:55pm (or for West Coasters) 5 minutes before the show starts.

It sucks when you want to go to the bar on Monday because it is “your” day to go, and you only have $35.00 for the entire week and have barely any food in the fridge, eliminating the possibility of going.

It sucks when you wake up in the middle of the night to a cat yakking all over the rug and you can’t quite seem to get there in time.

It sucks when you decide to take a hike with your son for 1.25 miles and end up on the wrong trail so that before you know it you are on the 5.8 mile trail realizing that turning around might be worse than if you keep going, so 2 hours and 29 minutes later in 80 degree heat you are done.

Speaking of which… It sucks when on one day it is a high of 34 degrees and then 4 days later it is a high of 84, only to find out that by the end of the week it’ll be a high of 42 again.

Whew, I sure feel better now that I wrote out everything that really sucked for me this weekend… anyone else?

I totally missed the last 30 minutes of part 2 of the Bachelor After the Rose… Does anyone know what happened? I am dying to know how Molly and Jason are doing at this point… they kept saying there was going to be another shocker, but I didn’t see anything before then so it must have happened afterwards I’m guessing?

I also missed American Idol – what are your thoughts on who was up? Who actually was up last night?

I was looking around for a new place to live last night and I found this very interesting option. It is at a Lotus Community House where there are 9 people living. They have a 2 bedroom for almost nothing, in the middle of the mountains, and they are looking for creative people. It would be my own place but I would have the option of shared meals, spontaneous writing sessions, community activities and so forth. Is this just a Buddhist community or a cult? It honestly sounds very intriguing to say the least. Someplace completely near a city but away from it all in the woods, where peace and quiet reign supreme but there is a chance of making good friends and living with others who may inspire me.

It is 27 degrees right now, Sunday it will be a high of 79. What?

Freedom is definitely a state of mind… a state of mind that I really need right now.

I have in the process of trying to lose weight, gained 18 pounds… I’m at my highest weight ever and I feel like absolute crap.

My car has decided that it is going to start making really really really bad noises… it has been loudish for some time now, but this morning it actually sounded as if the rear end was going to fall off. I am assuming it is the muffler and I don’t have a chance in hell of coming up with enough money to fix it. That kind of really sucks.

FUNNY TRUE STORY ALERT!

Woman arrested after calling 911 to report McDonalds out of Chicken McNuggets

You could say she flew into a “McFury”

Latreasa Goodman, 27, was arrested and charged with misusing 911 after calling the emergency line three times to report that McDonalds was out of Chicken McNuggets and…to make matters worse…..they wanted to give her a McDouble. (According to my sister who sent me the story, a McDouble is a double cheeseburger with just one piece of cheese instead of two)

According to the Fort Pierce Police Department, Goodman said to the 911 operator, “This is an emergency, if I would have known they didn’t have McNuggets, I wouldn’t have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don’t want one, this is an emergency!”

The out-of-Chicken-McNuggets store in question is the McDonalds located at 615 North US 1 in Fort Pierce, CO.

Listen to the 911 call HERE – OMG – it really is funny!!

Alright, end of random thoughts… continue on about your day