Watch Me Being Slowly Driven Insane...

The Walking Dead...

2005-06-28T00:43:21Z

Went to see Land of the Dead Friday night with Jen, my best friend. It was okay...I liked the super-fast predatory zombies of the Dawn of the Dead remake better than the shambling, slow zombies Romero had in mind. I don't know...they just seem more dangerous when they can sprint to get to you LOL.

We will be moving into our house this week, and I've been spending most of my time trying to consolidate our belongings into two or three places rather than ten places. Seriously. A lot of stuff is at both grandmothers' houses, both parents' houses, A.J.'s old apartment, ex-hubby's mom's house, ex-hubby's sister's house, ex-hubby's excuse for a house...you name it. It's going to be nice to have a place to call home base for once. :D

Lately I've been taken with the Harry Potter corner of fanfiction, so I may write a few stories based on the plot bunnies I've got running around in my head just now. IF and when I get time, that is. :P Right now, I'm extremely irritated with the condition that the kids came home in from their dad's house this weekend. I swear, I don't think the guy knows how to use a bar of soap...but from what I remember about living with him, it doesn't surprise me. @@

Chapter 12: FOOL OF A TOOK

2005-05-31T17:08:11Z

Chapter 12 to my story FOOL OF A TOOK has been posted at fanfiction.net. Chapter 13 is almost ready, just needs to be sent to my beta for check-up, then it will be posted. Thanks for reading and reviewing! :D

Darth Obsidian.....insert mechanical huffs & puffs here

2005-05-31T03:46:59Z

Got to see Star Wars Saturday night, was extremely impressed LOL. I think it's hella awesome that Ian McDiarmid, who played Palpatine/Emperor, is the same guy who played the Emperor in episode VI, 20 years ago. :D Is that not cool? Apparently he used aging makeup back then to achieve the look he has now. Just thought that kicked some ass.

I took a Star Wars quiz too...here's the link to it along with my results:

:: how jedi are you? ::

Hehehehe! Jedi Master, BEEYATCH!!! ;) Yeah, I'm semi-obsessed for now. It's a family thing. Ask my brother LOL.

obsidian_wytch @ 2005-05-25T22:21:00

2005-05-26T03:23:35Z

Hehe...ok I'm in a quiz mood. :D

I'm the "Kiss My Ass" bunny. LOL. Sounds about right.

congratulations. you are the kiss my ass happy
bunny. You don't care about anyone or anything.
You must be so proud

which happy bunny are you?
brought to you by Quizilla

The New American Idol?

2005-05-25T22:44:19Z

Tonight's the night...it's gonna be all right...

No really, tonight's the night we get to see who'll be the next American Idol. Being an Alabamian, I'm excited that one of our own has made it to the top two...dirty past and all. I visited the message boards a couple of times, and it irritated me to no end how people were bashing Bo and his life mistakes! As if they were all squeaky clean and righteous!! :P Pfffft! Right... I'd rather have an American Idol who's not afraid to admit to his mistakes and learn from them, than have someone who we can't even identify with. There's no way we can all be prissy and perfect, and it's nice to see someone up there who embodies the rawness of America and the South. So all you Bo-bashers...STUFF IT!!! 'Cuz I'm not listening. :D

In other news, we got our house FINALLY LOL. We'll be able to move in on June 22, and we're all excited. This is a big step for us. Time to find out whether we're ready to take this relationship to the next level, and whether we can all survive in the same house together. I think this is such a good idea instead of panicking and trying to get married just b/c we have a child on the way. That's what I did the first time, and you see how miserable that was...yeah...ok LOL. Enough dwelling on the painful past. Time to look to the future and the possibility of having an actual family this time around. I love him, my kids love him, he loves me, he loves my kids...what else do we need? :)

I'm still alive...lol

2005-05-10T05:43:20Z

Haven't written in ages, just been soooo busy. My grandmother passed away April 6, and there was a lot of stuff in her house that had my name on it in her writing. I guess when you're 92 you realize you're living on borrowed time, and you decide to go ahead and divy up your stuff while you have a say in who gets it. That's so morbid to me, but I ended up with an almost new washer, dryer and refrigerator, LOL. Interesting how that worked out, since we're moving to a new house and those are all things we would've needed. Maybe it's my grandmother just continuing to take care of us from the great beyond. That's actually a comforting thought. :)

The house. Well, it's haunted, first and foremost, LOL. It's really creepy, because it's an older house, in an older part of town, and it has an attic and a cellar. The cellar door has been carpeted over, which sends up paranormal red flags automatically (i.e., what were they hiding?), and if you've ever seen the movie "The Grudge", you won't want to go into the closet off the laundry room. It has the trapdoor to the attic in the ceiling...just a small square upward entrance, hidden inside a closet. Very creepy. The previous owners told us a story about how the woman's niece came over to play, and was shouting. The woman came in to see what was wrong, and the girl said "Aunt Lisa, who's Anna?" (might have been Anne...the woman wasn't sure). After she told the child she didn't know, the girl said "Well, she was calling me." Woooo...sends shivers up the spine! :D Also they said they used to hear strange noises in the house before they had kids, but didn't elaborate. I figure it's not too dangerous, since their oldest child is 7 and they lived there even before they had him. Still kind of creepy and cool. :)

The baby. I'm now over 4 months along, well into my 2nd trimester. I'm feeling a lot of movement, and the doctor should have been able to determine the sex of the baby by the ultrasound we just had done...only the little tyke was uncooperative and would not spread them for the camera. :P Ah well, haven't settled on a boy or girl's name yet; we like everything from Ashleigh to Jayden to Caitlyn. Jayda Caitlyn? Hmmm, possibilities.

The relationship. It seems to get better and better between my boyfriend and me. :) It seems like each moment we spend together doesn't last long enough. We're close enough now to finish each other's sentences half the time, which is pretty cool. I don't want to get over-sentimental on my first day back, so I'll shut up and sign off, LOL.

I do want to say that I'm working on some more chapters to my stories on fanfiction.net. I have a chappie to "Fool of a Took" that I'm almost ready to post, it just needs to be sent to my beta first. :P

Later!

For Whom the Bell Tolls

2005-04-08T04:10:24Z

My grandmother passed away Wednesday morning. We're handling it well, and me and the kids are staying with my Mom for a few days, until after the funeral, so that she won't have to be alone at night until this is all over with. Safety in numbers, that sort of thing.

My Mom also wants me to live in my grandmother's house. This will never work, with 2 adults and 4 children, in a two-bedroom house, which is way too small. LOL, keep dreaming Mom...maybe you and my stepdad can take that one, and give US the 3 bedroom house, while we're getting it all together. It'll be awhile before we can move into that house we're buying. It needs to be remodeled a bit before we can get in it. :)

But on a serious note, I'm really glad that my grandmother is at peace finally. She suffered so much in the past 3 months, and i saw her so many times gasping for breath with her mouth wide open, and in a coma, and it'll be good to see her face with a peaceful expression on it.

I'll miss her so much, but she was a great mother and grandmother and great-grandmother, and we all loved her so much. She deserves her rest after 92 years of putting up with people. ;)

WHEEEEE!!!!!!!!

2005-04-06T03:43:51Z

I had a REALLY good day today! :) And it's about damn time I did too, lol, I seem to only write about the sucky ones lately. :P Sorry.

First off, AJ and I applied for a loan to buy our house, and got it! YAY! So that started out the day on a good note. Then we took the kids to the park since it was absolutely GAWJUSS (gorgeous) today, and all three enjoyed themselves immensely and were very good. Then we met his sister and her family for supper and our kids didn't fight with each other. Now we're back at my apartment, and the kids are all asleep (just about as soon as we got in the door lol), so we had our...um..."quality time" together, and now he's snoring lightly on the couch. :) He's too cute.

I didn't even have morning sickness today, that's how good of a day this was. :D

I have not been truly happy in a long time. This is a big deal for me. :)

Yippee...

2005-04-03T05:06:08Z

Well, I spent most of my day picking out a dress for my grandmother to be buried in. She's 92 years old. She had a stroke the day after Christmas 2004, and was in the hospital for a month before my aunt took her to her house and set her up in her own room, hospital bed and IV and all. She's been on a feeding tube, to keep her comfortable since she was asking for food, but now she's winding down. The hospice nurse says she probably won't make it the rest of the weekend. :(

I decided she should be buried in her wedding dress.

How long until baby is due? Keep track!

2005-04-02T03:56:19Z

I found a cool website http://lilypie.com where there are free baby-tickers available. I'm going to attempt to use the html for every entry, so if there's a weird gibberish at the bottom of each post, that's what it was supposed to be, lol. :P I still haven't fully gotten the hang of html yet.

Woo and hoo!

2005-04-02T03:07:23Z

Found a house!!!! YAY!!!! I guess I've warmed up to the idea of living with my boyfriend, at least I won't have to take care of the kids by myself. That's pretty much what I was doing anyway, when I was married, but at least living alone there's more of an excuse for it. @@ *rolls eyes* At any rate, we have found a house we like and are in the process of obtaining said house. :D YAY AGAIN!!!! This is extra-super-nifty. I've never actually had my own place before. I've always lived with family, even when I was married. It sucked donkey balls, and I'm sure not just for us. I'm sure my family was tired of us being underfoot, and so was his. But no more! YAY THE THIRD TIME!!!!

My son's party went off rather well last weekend. Our families seem to have meshed well. My mom is constantly talking to his mom, and always telling me how nice she is, lol. More than I can say for my ex-mother-in-law..hoo boy. ;) I'm sure we ALL know how that one goes. My mom always has called A.J. "my second son", and his mom calls my brother "my second son". It's weird, but kinda cool...in a quirky twilight-zonish kind of way.

YAY FOR THE LAST TIME, I PROMISE!!!!

I lied. ;)

YAY!!!!

Story Updates!! :-D

2005-03-24T10:39:21Z

OK, here's a list of projected updates and story information for my account at http://www.fanfiction.net USERNAME: ScarlettMoonchild, if anyone's following that. I've gotten a lot of emails recently, from folks wondering when I'm going to update some of my stories...especially the Pippin story (Fool of a Took) and Arabella. The answers are below, my friends, so read on. Please do keep in mind that I am pregnant, and I have 3 very small children (3 yrs, 2 yrs, 1 yr), so I don't have as much time to write as I once did. :(

*ONE SHREK TO BRING THEM ALL*
This one is newly updated, and I've got another update planned for next Monday (I would update sooner, but I have my son's party this weekend and it's taking up a lot of attention). I hope you all still like it, because it seems to me to be faltering a little in plotline. More Puss in Boots in the next chapter, and it's mostly written, just needs something in the middle and needs to be beta'd before posting :)

*ARABELLA*
Currently undergoing a massive revamp. I've been trying to make the chapters longer and it's taking awhile. I've gotten the first three chapters remodeled, lol, and I may post them soon while I'm working on the others. But I haven't given up on it, never fear!

*FOOL OF A TOOK*
I've hit a major snag in this one...right at the end of the chapter too. If I updated it with what I do have now, it'd be the shortest chapter I've ever posted (and if you've read ONE SHREK or ARABELLA, you know I can post some major shorties lol). I'm trying to make it worth the effort of clicking on the link to read it. It is also archived at http://www.maikafuiniel.com/ which is a very good site to read fanfics. :)

*COLD*
I do have a partial third chapter written for this story, but it's been put on hold somewhat while I chase the other plot bunnies from my head. :P I promise, this story has not been abandoned...merely on hiatus.

*CRAIG'S THANKSGIVING FIASCO*
I'm going to wait until later in the year to post the rest of this one. A lot of...family events took place last year and I didn't get to post as quickly as I'd like to have, in order to get the story completed on Thanksgiving.

I hate people @@

2005-03-24T06:40:07Z

Goddess. I hate people sometimes. I don't know what has been wrong in my litle circle of influence the past few days, but I'm about to put a stop to it permanently.

First off, my possible future in-laws have decided that my son's 1st birthday party is not as important as taking the family out to eat buffet pizza, so they have invited some of my party guests to go along with them, at the time I was planning the party! Granted, the kid is only going to be turning 1 on Friday (party is on Saturday), so he won't even remember it, but that's no excuse for being Helens (my word for annoying people, no offense to people named Helen or otherwise being actually annoying). I was invited to go eat pizza, along with my kids, and it was suggested that "I" move the time for my party, in order to accomodate their plans. Oh H*LL no, lol! First of all, I'm the possessor of a VERY short fuse to my temper. It's reallllllly easy to set me off over nothing. Second of all, I'm pregnant, so with those hormones running through my veins, I'm even MORE irritable and likely to get pissed over tiny things. So my decision is to just keep the party as scheduled, and just have my family over, if they're the only ones who want to show up. :) That's the way it should be anyway.

Secondly, a friend of my friend, who has always specialized in making my life as miserable as he can, decided to piss me off for no apparent reason last night via AIM. Out of NOWHERE, he pops up with "Who wants to listen to your annoying babbling?" I wasn't even talking to him, lol. Last Friday night, while the kids were gone to their dad's, I met up with my friend and him at a local restaurant for awhile, and he got all b*tchy because he couldn't sit in the smoking section. (HELLO! I'm pregnant first off, and allergic to cigarette smoke secondly) Other than that, we haven't had any clashes whatsoever in over a month, so he decides he want to start something up out of the blue. My friend says he told her "I'm gonna go start something." and she claims that she tried to stop him but he just wouldn't listen...or didn't heed her if he did. The main thing that made me mad is that he questioned my discipline tactics with my children. In other words, he said "Go yell at someone, your children for instance". Implying that I yell at my children in another sentence as well. First off, I do NOT yell at my children...I spank them, yes, for biting each other or for deliberately disobeying in a dangerous way after I've told them repeatedly to stop, with no response. Other than that I either try to talk to them in an adult manner or give them a time out. I don't just stand there and yell at my children. Second off, he has never even SEEN me with my children to know anything about me one way or another. So either he was making it all up, or my friend has been running her mouth a bit too much for her own good. I'm tempted to think it's the latter, since she's always trying to stay on everyone's good side. The only thing is, if she wants to be on his good side, she's got to diss me, since he doesn't like me. I think he's a controlling b*stard, and the fact that she actually has a friend other than him is a situation he can't control drives him nuts, IMO. I think it's all jealousy. @@ Whatevah...at least I got to call him a gay internet ho, and to tell him that him announcing he's gay after every sentence is not only old, but becoming cliched quickly. It's no longer cutting edge to be gay, and he doesn't seem to realize this. I think he considers his gayosity (yeah i know it's not a word lol) as a ticket to instant cool...but he makes up for it by offering himself to every Tom, Dick & Harry on the internet if they'll meet him...and he thinks I'M a ho!! ;) HA!!! Makes me laugh. *wipes tear away* that's so precious.

Third thing that's going wrong lately...my 1 year old (same one who's having the aforementioned party) is having night terrors, I think. He wakes up screaming, and he doesn't even look like he's fully awake. He seems to just lay there with his eyes closed, screaming and crying, no tears, just noise. And after a few minutes of cuddling, he goes right back to sleep like it never happened. Earlier this evening, I put him down to bed around 8pm, and he woke up every 15 minutes or so, crying like this. He's been asleep nearly two hours now, so (knock on wood) we're prolly past it for the night. Doesn't help my mood though, to know that my child has troubles and I can't help him with it. :(

The Grudge

2005-02-28T07:24:34Z

Goddess that movie is so scary lol...

Now for my personal grudge...my parents wanted to take the kids to spend the night with them, and go to their church in the morning. I'm having a crisis over this...first of all, I don't like their church. It's a Baptist church, and I'm Wiccan. I'd like to raise my children tolerant of all religion, yet knowledgeable about each, so that in time they can make an educated choice of which they prefer to follow, if they don't prefer to remain agnostic. I realize that my parents want what they feel is best for my children, and although they have finally stopped asking me to join them on Sunday mornings, understanding that I am not going to EVER set foot in that hypocrisy-filled building again, but I feel that somehow I ought to step in and take more of a stand against them going to this church.

I do not hate anyone of another religion, nor do I try to force my choices on others, particularly my children (this was done to us while we were growing up). But I'm afraid that, given the nature of the Baptist religion, they will be taught that there is only ONE way to live, and that's THEIR way. I don't want my children learning that there is no grey area, only black and white. I simply don't believe that it's that cut and dry, when you're talking about God and His/Her existence.

I live by the credo "Harm none", and I realize that to call my parents out on this and prevent them from taking my children to church with them would be violating that creed, because that would make my mother cry. I don't like doing that, but I don't like thinking that my children will grow up to be mindless zombies, doing whatever the church has brainwashed them to do.

Perhaps they will be more like me, and be open-minded to other religions while attending a church with their grandparents.

Here's hoping they don't ask their Sunday School teachers questions about Wicca...;)

Lordy...

2005-02-26T19:37:19Z

Hmm...well it seems as though my extremely hot boyfriend has an admirer! lol. It's cute, really. He's so nice to everyone, and he at least attempts to make himself look interested in what someone has to say, even if he really doesn't care whatsoever. Some girls might interpret this niceness as flirting, especially if they usually don't get attention.

There's a girl who works at the local Books-A-Million we go to, and she's a little overweight, and probably doesn't get many looks from guys. Well...usually it's just AJ and my brother (since they're roommates at this point in time..yeah, the plot thickens lol) who go every Friday, and this girl has started coming up to them and talking to them. I'm not sure how it started...whether they asked for help with a book or what...but it seems to have progressed to the point where she had to give them a hug on the way out of the store. Yeah, I know...annoying, but harmless.

Anywho, now my brother is hopelessly crushing on her, since she gave him a hug. BUT I happen to disagree with him when he says she's interested in him. My opinion is that she really likes AJ, but is just being nice to Jay, my brother, and didn't want him to feel left out or anything, lol. So I tried a test. I went in there with AJ, holding hands, and we were basically your average PDA couple. She didn't even look at us. Now, if she liked JAY, she could have come over and spoken to him, since he was apparently free. But nothing. AJ even thought this was strange, since she seems to hate working there, and tries to time her breaks so that she takes them while the guys are at the store.

They went back yesterday (Friday night), without me, and sure enough, she was all smiles and hugs and conversation.

I know this is really stupid, but I'm enjoying this lol. I will be very obviously pregnant soon (I'm about a month and a half along, maybe), and all this will end soon as she realizes that there will be no change in personnel anytime soon. I think this secret meanness comes from me not being able to express myself to guys in high school, and always having to sit back, watching, while other girls went out with the guys I liked. I guess now the tables have turned, and it's me enjoying pissing off girls that want to go out with my guy.

What can I say? I have a hot boyfriend! :D

Well, finally...

2005-02-25T17:51:59Z

I haven't been able to access this site to update things since I signed up, lol...

GOD so much has happened...

Where do I begin? Well...first off, I'm pregnant with my fourth child, and this one has a different father than the rest of them. I'm divorced, and all three of my living children are from my ex-husband. This one is from my boyfriend, whom I shall call AJ here, and whom I was not seeing until after my divorce, just to clarify things lol. All perfectly legal and above-board, as they say. :)

Anywho...we're considering moving in together, which is a big step for me, as I have never lived with anyone of the opposite sex, unless I was married or related to him. (NEVER both, lol) And I'm wondering how this will affect our relationship. Right now, things are going well, mostly, and it's at the point where if we argue, we can both go to our separate homes and cool off. When you're living together, you can't do that. @@ I just hope we can make it work, we're both really wanting to try. He wants to be with me during my pregnancy, and be there to help with the other kids while all this is going on.

Problem time: his ex-girlfriend appears out of nowhere and offers him a job. Not only is that in close quarters with her, which I am not comfortable with, it is over an hour's drive away. I suppose I should just suck it up and learn to trust people again, which is difficult, since that's mainly what the divorce was about. I couldn't stay with someone I couldn't trust. As far as I know, AJ hasn't done anything to hurt this relationship, and I don't think he would. I know he loves me. But that damn insecurity is still there, ingrained in me from that awful marriage. :(

On the plus side, if we could find us a place closer to his prospective job, he would actually be making more money than he is now, and at something he enjoys doing, video games. Then at least he wouldn't be burning up the extra money during the commute.

I have a lot to work through, lol...boy.