Imaginary Friends

I don't know what got my mom and I on the subject of imaginary friends, but she was telling me that she always had imaginary brothers and sisters. I thought it strange that she'd imagine having sisters, since as we know, she had 3 She said her "sisters" were usually a twin, and would agree with her on EVERYTHING....

I know all four of us kids had/have very active imaginations, and I got to thinking.

I NEVER had imaginary friends... I had imaginary PETS...... I had a pet grizzly bear, polar bear, lion, elephant, killer whale, horses, LARGE dogs (Great Danes, Mastiffs, St. Benards-which are still my dog of choice. Please forgive my spelling.) and dolphins.

I remember all of those EXCEPT the elephant. My mom told me I came home from school (1st grade?) and told her that I rode an elephant to school and at recess gave all the kids rides on it. I told her that everyone liked me. So, I was SUPPOSEDLY "popular" for the day.....

If you haven't noticed, most of my "pets" are wild and dangerous animals. The bears would "sleep" at the foot of my bed, and if anyone came into my room during the night, it would stand with me between it's front and back legs. In a "protective" stance. I am thinking that perhaps I felt I "needed" protection from something or someone. Then again, it could be that these are animals that wouldn't make good pets and I really wanted them as pets.

Then again, I could've been just a weird kid... After all, I was a kid that actually believed my dolls came to life when I wasn't in the room.

They paid me how much to play with Legos??????

I have tried to update this SEVERAL times, but for some reason the site won't let me. I will be amazed if this goes through, but I thought I'd try it again....

This week I had to go to WOM training....

I was PAID my regular 40 hour shift (3PM - 11) to..........

1 Go to a class everyday and make paper boats, help my "team" to get across an alligator "Invested" river, use our bodies to make rope shapes with my team members with our eyes CLOSED, assemble and reassemble ink pens (over 500 all together), and make 298 Lego robots.

2. Listen to lectures off and on during the week, between "fun" activities.

3. Had 2, 15 min breaks and 1 hour lunch on Mon, Tues, & Fri. Left at 11 on Mon & Tues. Had 2 half hour breaks with 1 hour, 20 min lunch breaks and left at 9:40 on Wens & Thursday, and on Friday we left at 8:30.

4. spent my hour/ hour 20 min. dinner breaks roaming the mall,Browsing in Books-A-Million, Target, and Best Buy, reading in my Jeep, and drinking Starbucks (The Spiced Pumpkin Lattes are EXCELLENT by the way.)

All of that just to learn to work together as a team.... I walked into that classroom not knowing ANYONE walked out with friends. Everyone else was from Aaron's plant, and they all knew each other. I was the "outsider", but that changed VERY quickly.

Now,to keep in mind that next week, I go back to the factory and get back to the rut of only 18 min. dinner breaks. (Boo boo, hiss hiss)

Joke.......

My best friend, Lois, told me this joke tonight. I found it so funny tears were ROLLING down my cheeks.... Whether it was from the Starbucks at 2 AM,lack of sleep, or the joke is really that funny, I'll leave it up to you to decide..........

A young man joined the army. Well, they ran out of weapons, so they gave this young man a stick and told him to hold it like a gun and shout "Bang, Bang" whenever he fired it......

The young man asked, "okay so what if the enemy is close enough for hand to hand combat?" He was told to tie leaves at the end, and yell "Stab, Stab."

So this young man goes to war.. He picks up his stick, points, and yells "Bang, Bang." A guy falls down. The man thought "Wow, this really works."
So he was shouting "Bang, Bang, stab, stab." And the enemy was falling left and right. Well, he saw a guy, yelled Bang, Bang, stab stab, but the guy kept coming closer. He yelled a little louder "Bang Bang, Stab Stab." The guy walked a little closer. So, he yelled again "Bang, Bang, Stab, Stab." The enemy was now right in front of him..... The enemy then yelled "TANK, TANK"

Scary situation.........

I had a scary thing happen last Sat, and I just wanted to know if anyone's ever experienced this........

I wasn't feeling well, so I went to bed and took a 2 hour nap. Which is quite normal for me.... However when I woke up. I put my glasses on, and my vision was just as blurry with my glasses on than it was off. In other words there was no difference. I managed to get up, make it to the living room, and crashed on the couch. I just figured that I wasn't awake yet. So, I sat down and my nose started bleeding. Not "gushing" but a light nose bleed. When I got up to get some tissues, I was dizzy and almost fell. I was also burning up hot. The vision, nosebleed, and "hot" spell wore off within 2 hours, and the dizziness was gone the next morning. However, on Sunday I felt wore out and weak. It was weird.

And I did it my way!!!!!

As I have mentioned in my last post, my phone line wasn't working. So, last night after work, I went to Walmart (I'm still timid when it comes to Meijer) and I bought a new phone line and jack. My dad offered to help me (AKA do it for me) but I wanted to prove to myself that I can do it without help. I helped my dad install this line to begin with, so I knew HOW to do it. This is the first time I've been able to do a home repair/improvement without my dad doing it for me. Ok, so it would've been faster letting my dad do it, but that would've defeated the purpose. Oh, and it took me 4 hours and 3 additional feet of wire to complete. I kept cutting the little inside wires off when I was trying to strip the coating off them. I can now say that I have the hang of stripping the wires. Let's just say it's a good thing I bought the 100 feet roll. Ha ha Well, with all that said I now have a WORKING phone line which I installed MYSELF.

Psycho boy was arrested!!!!!!!!!!!

My parents left to get a part for Austin's car, I have time to post this bit of news.

Almost 2 years ago, this guy that worked at Meijer took my phone number off my check and was calling me every morning around 3AM, and again at around 7. I haven't stepped foot into that store since then.

Last night my coworker, Lois, text'd me "You won't believe who was arrested and why."

She told me that my Meijer "stalker" was arrested in another county close to the Ohio border. I remember seeing it in the paper, but I didn't put 2 and 2 together. He tried to meet a 13 year old girl he met online, but instead met some Federal people posing as 13 year old girls. 24 men were arrested in 3 counties that day. Oh, and his name and picture is going to be posted at the watchdog site since he's now a predator. Let's just say, it's now safe to shop at Meijer again..

My phone lines are still down

My phone lines have been messed up for about 3 weeks now, which isn't too bad except the fact that I'm having "computer withdraws." I use my parents computer every 4 or 5 days for only a couple mins. Just long enough to check emails, so I haven't had time to sit down and read people's blogs.

The problem is the inside phone line, but since I'm working 12 hour days every other day(I'm getting my Christmas shopping finished!!!) I just haven't had the time to replace my lines. I'm off work tomorrow, so I plan to rewire my phone lines, YES, I can do that myself. I know how!!!!! I'm hoping to have my phone up and running tomorrow morning.