This blog is about my life with my kids and our life in Thailand, Australia and Sweden. An uncoventional family dealing with the cards life has dealt us. Ups and downs, bliss and misery, trust and betrayal.
2014-03-22
Random pictures
Leave it behind??
Long live Etch a Sketch, the timeless wonder, and low tech gadget for wiping the slate clean. Think about Etch a Sketch from a personal perspective. Some things are easy to erase; like words in a document, or a piece of paper that you burn. But haunting memories and lingering regrets are much more stubborn.
There are things that happened in the past and no matter how hard you shake your head you can’t undo them and the memory remains. Horrible memories sometimes. There are regrets; things you knew you could do but didn’t, and things you wish you didn’t do but did. Maybe because you were left with no other choice. Regret is a stubborn stain, annoying like nails on a chalkboard, infiltrating your memory like a dripping tap.
It’s worthwhile to spend SOME time thinking about the past. That’s how we learn and understand why things happened the way they happened. How do you know when your regret has become a problem?
When you can’t shake it. When it begins to take over your waking and sleeping life. When you feel powerless to make different choices. This is no way to live, in fact it is barely even being alive at all.
2014-03-20
X-rated thoughs
You know that feeling when you’re having sex with someone for the first time in a long time? That weirdness?
Or maybe that’s just me....
Up and personal but hey...Im just saying what most of you are thinking.
This song came to mind. I know someone that went there cuz it was FAMILIAR. Yeah?!! Whoop whoop....
Tomorrow I am going to go shopping with my girl Malin. I need some new clothes, dresses to be exact. And tops. So checking out spring fashion is gonna be fun.
Note-to-self..Wear a good bra and hipsters. Preferably sneakers and button shirt. And light make up.
Dressing rooms are a selfesteem killer. A murderer with no intention of showing mercy.
It's gonna be an early night tonight. I am absolutly nackered and it's the last night the boys are here this week. So I will go and snuggle with them. That is the best feeling. To have your children cuddle you and offer to warm my ice cold feet. Now that is love!!
2014-03-17
Not long now....
My favorite job was when I worked at a school in Kamala. I loved doing that. The children gave me so much love and I enjoyed every moment of it. I had fantastic coworkers. All thai and I loved that too. It was never a drag going to work. Sometimes parents would call me to give me feedback and just tell me how happy they were to have their children in my class. One parent even said I could use them as references. WOW!!
Anyway that is one of my favorite times that I always will cherish. Thank you for giving me the opportunity.
Falling in love has been both the best and worst. But one of the very few things I’ve learned about men and relationships is that the words they say don’t really mean much. Not really. It’s what they DO that matters. So a man who treats you poorly but then says nice things… he’s probably not a good person to build a long term relationship with. Because when it comes right down to it, words don’t mean much.
Met some amazing people that I have become good friends with. Thank god for Viber and Skype :)
I’m a nostalgic person. I grow attached to things because of experiences. Never objects, really (besides music). When I say things, I usually mean physical locations or events or even people. I get very sentimental and emotional when I’m at a place that holds great memories in my past.
I feel a sense of contentment when I drive past the house I lived in with my boys or Angel. I even smile when I pass the exit that leads to the first house I lived in. I dredd how I will feel when I pass my unit I lived in last with the boys and Sir Fuckedintheface. I have such nice memories from that place.
2014-03-16
Wtf?!
Big green button, angering me for the last few
days when I pulled up the Facebook app on my phone, so today, I decided to gave in. Fine, Facebook, I'll update my app.
Normally, I don't read these things. I just click "Accept" and go on about my day. But today was different. Maybe it was because the nice bright green 'NEW' caught my attention. For whatever reason, I decided to actually see what this new Facebook update wanted from me and from my phone.
Huge WTF moment.
Item #1- Facebook wants to read my text messages. Why does Facebook need to read my text messages? What possible reason could these asshats come up with that would logically explain WHY facebook needs to know about my best friend's and my conversation about how much our cramps suck, or how we send each other pic that we just don't feel are appropriate for the entire world to see plastered all over our Facebook walls? If someone from Facebook comes across this post and could so graciously answer that question for me, I'd be forever grateful. Until that happens, I'm just going to have to assume that the people at Facebook are pervs who want to catch as many nudie pics that are sent from one consenting horny adult to another, so they have material for their pathetic spank banks.
Item #2- Facebook wants to read confidential information in my phone and contact card, as well as update everyone on my friend's list, without my consent, as to new things I put on my personal calendar. Anyone here watch the TV show "Parenthood"? In one episode, the couple with the special needs child syncs their phone calendars together, and the woman tentatively schedules "Funkytown" (sex) into their hectic week. I'm not a person who schedules sex, but if I did, in the privacy of my own phone, I really don't want Facebook accessing that private entry and then inviting all of my friends to it without my knowledge. I know my friends. They'd show up, with popcorn, because Facebook invited them. Not something I'd like happen, nor do I want 50,000 messages of "Is your vag okay?" after I schedule my gyno appointment for the year. Yes, my friends would do that, too.
The rest of the update seemed pretty harmless, but that didn't matter. The first two were all I needed to hit 'Cancel'. There was NO way in hell I was allowing Facebook to read my texts, no matter how insubstantial or trivial, and no way in hell they are accessing my calendar to change it (notice it said 'Add or modify calendar events,' too) or notify my friends of its contents without my knowledge. That's just..Wrong.
Read my text messages and email my friends the contents of my calender, with confidential information, without my knowledge. WTF?
And how many of you installed this most recent update, without even reading what you were allowing facebook to do to you? If I were you, I'd uninstall it immediately before you have friends showing up at your house for some scheduled Funkytown...
Or before Facebook Funkytowns you... with no lube... by invading your privacy by reading your texts... and sharing your confidential calendar info.
















