You ever noticed that when you walk your dog they always seem to wait until a car passes to make their business? However, Today Anabelle picked nice, secluded, grassy patch that had it not been a church yard I would have apporoved..It was out of eyesite of passing cars and I had to agree with her that the grass was nice and plush. But there is just something wrong with letting your dog doo on holy grounds...so when she started circling I was like, "NOOOOO!!!!!" and did what felt like a slow motion run to stop her. It seemed "Marley & Me" esque (the part where marley poos in the ocean). I got her to another grassy knoll, and of course I got to wave as the cars seemed to stream by while she read the newspaper.
As we continued on it was kind of nice. The light breeze seemed to take the burn out of the 100 degree sun bearing down on me. I could see the park just ahead and I could tell Ann could too because she got a little extra hitch in her giddyup...she started kinda running and looking back like " Really mom, I am running faster you?" So I trotted a bit and our feet finally sunk into the soft grass. As I sat there for a minute I was like wow, this is nice, I should do this more often. It was nice just siting in the cool grass with my dog and not worrying about anything...and then the yelling..... Apparently these were the only tweens in Artesia without cell phones. All the way across the park they carried on a conversation about why one was leaving..."Where ya going?" "I'm leaving." "Why?" I stopped listening at this point because I was perplexed by the person I was seeing yelling across the park. Very long Bieber hair(almost girl length but shaped for a guy), black wardrobe from head to toe aside from the chains, pants so baggy and so low I honestly have NO IDEA how he kept them on. It was a magic trick of some sort is all I can gather. He was kindaa ambling back toward his bellowing companions and it took all I had to not yell, "Hey boy, if you put your drawers on you'll get there faster!" I decided heading back might be the better idea.
On the way back, I stopped and talked to a friend from church who I realized lives along the way (at which time I also realized Anabelle is not as comfortable with other dogs as I have always thought.) Moving along after small talk about the weather, my walk was almost complete. Anabelle rounded the next two corners as if we had taken this route a hundred times before, I think she is a lot smarter than I giver her credit for...and I KNOW she is a lot smarter than Drew gives her credit for, but that is a-whole-nother blog.
So a few more walks under her belt and maybe I can get her and Guinness out at the same time...That should be lots of fun, and lots of embarrassing potty breaks to endure!
Have a GOODloe Day!
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Make you cringe...and maybe giggle
OK…so, here is a little light reading brought to you only by the great Land of Enchantment…I was sent the story in a forward so I had to look it up because I couldn’t believe it. But sure enough it happened just as it was sent to me, only the account by this reporter was more thorough and has a couple details that were a little funny (you’ll see if you read all the way through)… If your jaw doesn’t drop you don’t have an empathetic grain in your body or a sense of humor. This is one of those stories that hails a, “You might be a redneck if…” “Twisted it off, O-F-F, OFF!”
LAS CRUCES - The woman who twisted off her daughter-in-law's nipple in a drunken brawl has pleaded guilty to the crime just days before she was set to go to trial.
Amelia Love Oveide, 46, entered the last-minute guilty plea to aggravated battery against a household member with great bodily harm on Friday afternoon, said Deputy District Attorney Michael Heitz.
A one-day trial had been scheduled for Thursday before state District Judge Douglas Driggers.
Although the attack left Oveide's daughter-in-law unable to breast feed on one side, the victim supported Oveide receiving a sentence of supervised probation, Heitz said.
"It's her mother-in-law, and everybody had been drinking," Heitz said. "Although she is upset about having her nipple ripped off ... It's still family. (Oveide) helps with child care and everything. She didn't want her to go to prison."
Oveide grabbed the 30-year-old victim's breast when the younger woman tried to intervene in a drunken argument between Oveide and her 27-year-old son early the morning of Dec. 12, 2010, according to a police report. Oveide could only be stopped when the younger woman allegedly started punching her in the face, the report stated.
After Oveide was removed from the apartment in the 1000 block of Idaho Avenue, the victim realized the struggle had left her bleeding. When she untucked her tank top, her nipple fell on the ground, according to the police report.
Instead of calling 911, the victim put the nipple in a bag.
After several hours, she decided she should go to the emergency room at Memorial Medical Center, where the Las Cruces Police Department was called as doctors were attempting to reattach the right nipple to the victim's breast.
A felon whose criminal record includes two convictions for drug possession and one each for firearm possession and concealing a weapon, Oveide was ordered Friday to pay for the victim's medical bills, which totaled around $10,000, Heitz said.
It gets better... wait for it….
The attack was one of the most bizarre the district attorney's office had ever seen, said Heitz, who prosecuted last year's case in which a teenager defecated in a stranger's car - mistakenly thinking it was his girlfriend's.
"This was one of the odder cases," Heitz said. "I can't even imagine what kind of force would be required to tear a nipple off through clothing." –(Las Cruces Sun News, Ashley Meeks)
Gotta love New Mexico and our “odder cases.” On the second mentioned case, first, who would defecate in another’s car? And second, who wouldn’t check that it was at least the right car before said defecation?! I love this reporter for sharing not one, but two redneck stories with us in one piece of journalism.
Have a GOODloe Day!
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Living in the now
Each day that passes we are not only one day closer to our future, but we are also putting one more day between us and our pasts...
I, like most teens-early twenties-mid-twenties girls, was one of those who every time I let myself "fall" for a guy started letting myself think about where it would go and started "making plans"....but life has happened my dears, and I have learned some things. One of those things is that tomorrow is a new day, and another is that you can't dwell on the past if you want to move forward.
Today I saw who I believed at one time was the love of my life, pushing a baby in a stroller up the street. I did the genial thing and waved to him and his fiance and went about my business. As I drove away I started thinking about all the plans I had once made...the house, the wedding, the family...all of that gone, eh'hem...with him.
There are so many songs about it...Garth Brooks' "Unanswered Prayers", "Bless the Broken Road" by Rascal Flatts is along the same line, and I had one in my head earlier today and I have lost it momentarily, but anyway. The point is we will fall in love and we will get our hearts broken....Oh, that was it, "I wanna do it all" by Terri Clark (I love that song)... But with every relationship we will learn something about who we are and who want to be. I won't tell you everything I have learned about myself through my break ups but I will tell you I feel like I owe apologies to some of my exes for blaming everything that happened on them, when now looking back, I was to blame for some stuff too, it just took some time to see it.
But now I have learned to live in the present and know that the future will get here when it gets here. I don't let myself start even considering what might happen in the future bc when you start doing that, you start living in the future and you forget to enjoy the present. I know that oneday I will be married and get my house and family that I am wanting, I just have to wait and see who will be the lucky guy that gets to build it all with me. But in the mean time I am going to try to just enjoy spending time with the man who is making me wanna write my own country songs.
Have A GOODloe Day!
I, like most teens-early twenties-mid-twenties girls, was one of those who every time I let myself "fall" for a guy started letting myself think about where it would go and started "making plans"....but life has happened my dears, and I have learned some things. One of those things is that tomorrow is a new day, and another is that you can't dwell on the past if you want to move forward.
Today I saw who I believed at one time was the love of my life, pushing a baby in a stroller up the street. I did the genial thing and waved to him and his fiance and went about my business. As I drove away I started thinking about all the plans I had once made...the house, the wedding, the family...all of that gone, eh'hem...with him.
There are so many songs about it...Garth Brooks' "Unanswered Prayers", "Bless the Broken Road" by Rascal Flatts is along the same line, and I had one in my head earlier today and I have lost it momentarily, but anyway. The point is we will fall in love and we will get our hearts broken....Oh, that was it, "I wanna do it all" by Terri Clark (I love that song)... But with every relationship we will learn something about who we are and who want to be. I won't tell you everything I have learned about myself through my break ups but I will tell you I feel like I owe apologies to some of my exes for blaming everything that happened on them, when now looking back, I was to blame for some stuff too, it just took some time to see it.
But now I have learned to live in the present and know that the future will get here when it gets here. I don't let myself start even considering what might happen in the future bc when you start doing that, you start living in the future and you forget to enjoy the present. I know that oneday I will be married and get my house and family that I am wanting, I just have to wait and see who will be the lucky guy that gets to build it all with me. But in the mean time I am going to try to just enjoy spending time with the man who is making me wanna write my own country songs.
Have A GOODloe Day!
Monday, June 13, 2011
Steps...
How does a stranger become a crush and a crush become a “like” and a “like” become your love? Well I think it goes something like this…
When you meet someone there is either an initial attraction or there isn’t…I think it’s pretty rare that if you aren’t attracted to someone in the beginning that you later build an attraction…it’s pretty much there in the beginning or it’s not. You know nothing about this other person but you think you might like to get to know them better. There is something in their appearance or in your first snap shot of the personality that makes you think they might have something going for them. They have a spark about them that draws you.
So…a little time goes on, maybe only minutes, maybe days, or weeks, sometimes you don’t see it for much longer but the spark in this person becomes something that just drives it home for you. You start getting little school girl giggles when the person around, and while you could have a couple crushes at one time, there is generally one that sticks out in your head as the front runner…the one that if you had your way, you’d have that one…
When you are crushing on someone you are pretty giddy generally, but unless you are around them a lot for them to see it, they might not know you are THAT into them…but by the time you really like them, they probably get the picture (and so do people around you). When you like someone you start doing stuff for them and with them. You start dropping their name a lot more. You find yourself laughing a lot more and others find you smiling a lot more. You are generally going to be a happier person and people will see it.
When you realize you’re in love with them, it’s probably something that has crept in and spread over the relationship over time… It’s pretty rare that it was a singular moment in time that just snapped someone into love and they were just "in love all of a sudden"…but more often, just days and nights of the other person just being them…that spark continually twinkling while the rest of the world raged on around the two of you. You find yourself thinking of them as you nod off to sleep and they fill your dreams, and there they are again when your eyes open…and all through the day they tip toe in your thoughts as you work and play. The time spent and things done are now solely to make them happy. Their happiness is your happiness. Yea…that about covers it…His happiness is my happiness.
Have GOODloe Day!
When you meet someone there is either an initial attraction or there isn’t…I think it’s pretty rare that if you aren’t attracted to someone in the beginning that you later build an attraction…it’s pretty much there in the beginning or it’s not. You know nothing about this other person but you think you might like to get to know them better. There is something in their appearance or in your first snap shot of the personality that makes you think they might have something going for them. They have a spark about them that draws you.
So…a little time goes on, maybe only minutes, maybe days, or weeks, sometimes you don’t see it for much longer but the spark in this person becomes something that just drives it home for you. You start getting little school girl giggles when the person around, and while you could have a couple crushes at one time, there is generally one that sticks out in your head as the front runner…the one that if you had your way, you’d have that one…
When you are crushing on someone you are pretty giddy generally, but unless you are around them a lot for them to see it, they might not know you are THAT into them…but by the time you really like them, they probably get the picture (and so do people around you). When you like someone you start doing stuff for them and with them. You start dropping their name a lot more. You find yourself laughing a lot more and others find you smiling a lot more. You are generally going to be a happier person and people will see it.
When you realize you’re in love with them, it’s probably something that has crept in and spread over the relationship over time… It’s pretty rare that it was a singular moment in time that just snapped someone into love and they were just "in love all of a sudden"…but more often, just days and nights of the other person just being them…that spark continually twinkling while the rest of the world raged on around the two of you. You find yourself thinking of them as you nod off to sleep and they fill your dreams, and there they are again when your eyes open…and all through the day they tip toe in your thoughts as you work and play. The time spent and things done are now solely to make them happy. Their happiness is your happiness. Yea…that about covers it…His happiness is my happiness.
Have GOODloe Day!
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
NFL..you used to hang the moon!
Any of you who really KNOW me, know that I am huge Broncos fan. But during football season on any given Sunday from 11am-9pm you can probably catch me watching a game whether the Broncos are playing are not.. Long story short, I LOVE FOOTBALL. And particularly I like watching the NFL, mostly because it is on Sunday so I can have a leisurely day after church and snooze in and out during games all day..pretty much amazing. Plus, it’s a great reason to get your friends or family together for a little while with a fairly set time of departure for them…can’t beat that. I like watching football because I can get into something without having any personal skin in the game, so yea I may be a little upset if the Broncos lose a game, but hey, I am not on the payroll so who gives a rip in the long haul, right?!
All of that said…as big a fan of football as I am…I am about sick and tired of this titty-baby, whiney lock out crap that is going on right now. You know they are actually talking about having an 8 game season now? Are you kidding me? If they do that, you know as well as I that the $140 seats that I bought last year will be twice that if not more. They are money hungry jerk-faces… “we are just out for the fans”—MY A**!! As I understand what is going on, the owners want more money and the players don’t want to give up their share or play more games to give them more money… if that’s the case, boohoo, the billionaires aren’t getting a raise. And shame on all of them, they could all afford to give up a little while the rest of the country is hurting the way we are.
Every month I sit down and realign my budget to make sure I am not living outside of my means, putting enough in savings, doing everything I can to live on a single income budget, while these guys all over the country are throwing a tantrum over their multi-million dollar budget not being enough to pay for the new toilets in the stadium. GIVE ME A BREAK! Sell your plane and buy new crappers! It’s a little thing called living within your means. If we as the American people can’t afford something we want, we sell something or drop our cable package, we don’t throw a tantrum that will affect the monetary flow into 32 American cities. Those cities count on the tourism that the NFL teams bring in from September to January. But like I said, it isn’t about the fans, it’s about their big ol’ fat check books.
So, until they stop their titty-baby tantrum, I think we should boycott NFL products and tickets. Why put any more money into the pockets of the filthy rich cry babies. Nothing worse than an “entitled” whiner…I won’t support it anymore. “Hey NFL, you aren’t the only sport out there!”
Have a GOODloe Day!.. Unless you are the NFL..Y'all can take a flying leap!
Monday, May 2, 2011
Certainties...
Ok, So there is really only one thing in life that I know for sure, without a doubt--The Bible is truth...so with that I can believe in God, have faith that I will go to Heaven when I die and other things detailed in the Bible.... But there is alot that is not specifically outlined in the Bible, or atleast that I have read so far, so there are things that are still unknowns to me...
There is the always lurking "chicken or the egg" question, which really, honestly who cares?..but I am pretty sure God put the chicken on the earth first just like he put Adam and Eve...its not like he put a baby Adam out there to fend for himself. Then you got other questions like why is the sky blue, or why do they put braille on drive through ATM's? Questions that you may ask yourself but they don't really affect your everyday life.
But then there are those really important ones....
Like how do I keep my children safe? Am I making the right career decsions? Do I buy or rent? Am I on the right path in life? When will I (insert life altering occurrence here)?, etc...
With so many uncertainties in life, lots of times it can be easy to make careless decisions or maybe worse in some cases, obsess over the decisions you need to make and make mountains out of mice. There is a difference in leading a carefree life and a careless life, and it is completely possible to over process your life and stress yourself out.
I am always over processing but that's just who I am. The unknown scares me and so I feel like sometimes if I can just try to pencil it out I can make it better...well it doesn't always work out that way, and more times than not, that can really mess things up more than it helps. So, I am trying to work on that. I am trying to just let my life happen. Life is certain to happen in its very own time whether I map it out or not and it won't probably happen the way I expect it to anyway so why let it bother me. Basically life is all about uncertainties and how you can react and change with them...So here is me putting a glass in the air to a more care free, yet careful life (if that makes since)...I am going to just try to enjoy it as it comes at me and stop over analyzing and processing and worrying over things I can't control...Cheers!
Have a GOODloe Day!
There is the always lurking "chicken or the egg" question, which really, honestly who cares?..but I am pretty sure God put the chicken on the earth first just like he put Adam and Eve...its not like he put a baby Adam out there to fend for himself. Then you got other questions like why is the sky blue, or why do they put braille on drive through ATM's? Questions that you may ask yourself but they don't really affect your everyday life.
But then there are those really important ones....
Like how do I keep my children safe? Am I making the right career decsions? Do I buy or rent? Am I on the right path in life? When will I (insert life altering occurrence here)?, etc...
With so many uncertainties in life, lots of times it can be easy to make careless decisions or maybe worse in some cases, obsess over the decisions you need to make and make mountains out of mice. There is a difference in leading a carefree life and a careless life, and it is completely possible to over process your life and stress yourself out.
I am always over processing but that's just who I am. The unknown scares me and so I feel like sometimes if I can just try to pencil it out I can make it better...well it doesn't always work out that way, and more times than not, that can really mess things up more than it helps. So, I am trying to work on that. I am trying to just let my life happen. Life is certain to happen in its very own time whether I map it out or not and it won't probably happen the way I expect it to anyway so why let it bother me. Basically life is all about uncertainties and how you can react and change with them...So here is me putting a glass in the air to a more care free, yet careful life (if that makes since)...I am going to just try to enjoy it as it comes at me and stop over analyzing and processing and worrying over things I can't control...Cheers!
Have a GOODloe Day!
Monday, April 11, 2011
Don't Mess With Us
Can you believe it...This time last year planets were almost in alignment, for the moment when I would start writing my blog...What a moment in history right?! haha..yea I am sure that's exactly what you are thinking.
Below is my letter to the Artesia Daily Press. I had a slightly dfferent version up before but this was the final version I sent to print. I am actually a little surprised they printed it! Was in Wednesday's paper.
So as most people probably know by now, we are dealing with a little bit of a lizard issue lately. Fish and Game wants to list an area lizard as an endangered species. I am an animal lover, but, and the but is big in this case, when the listing of an animal is going to cause an area financial hardship, you have to draw the line.
I wish I would have kept track of how many times in school the word "evolution" was used, or even the name "Darwin" was used. I was a Biology major for a year in school, so I took a couple college courses in the sciences, as well as the many required in high school. In all those classes the fight was always that evolution occurs, animals will adapt, and Darwin's "strong will survive"... So what is up with this lizard? It's the only one in the area that can't seem to move with the times and get his stuff together. He is going to fade away because he can't do the one thing that scientists have been saying for years that all animals should do.
So what's that mean to me? Here’s to trying. If he can't hack it in the wild then they need to move him to a shelter. It's not right to beat up on the economies of 9 counties across NM and TX because of a lizard. That's several thousand households that will be affected unnecessarily.
And I can already hear all the liberal "earth killer" comments but the thing is, unless you live here and will feel the brunt of this, back off, because frankly, our oil and gas pays to keep this state afloat and I will go toe to toe with whoever thinks the lizard can do it better. You may call me a "right-wing republitard nut job," and that’s your prerogative, but I know that it’s because of our oil and gas industry that our area didn't get hit as hard by the recession and bounced back quicker.
We aren’t going down without a fight; we never do. We are God fearing, oil pumping, cattle raising, gun owning, Conservatives...love us or hate us we don't care, JUST DON'T MESS WITH US!
Have A GOODloe Day!
Below is my letter to the Artesia Daily Press. I had a slightly dfferent version up before but this was the final version I sent to print. I am actually a little surprised they printed it! Was in Wednesday's paper.
So as most people probably know by now, we are dealing with a little bit of a lizard issue lately. Fish and Game wants to list an area lizard as an endangered species. I am an animal lover, but, and the but is big in this case, when the listing of an animal is going to cause an area financial hardship, you have to draw the line.
I wish I would have kept track of how many times in school the word "evolution" was used, or even the name "Darwin" was used. I was a Biology major for a year in school, so I took a couple college courses in the sciences, as well as the many required in high school. In all those classes the fight was always that evolution occurs, animals will adapt, and Darwin's "strong will survive"... So what is up with this lizard? It's the only one in the area that can't seem to move with the times and get his stuff together. He is going to fade away because he can't do the one thing that scientists have been saying for years that all animals should do.
So what's that mean to me? Here’s to trying. If he can't hack it in the wild then they need to move him to a shelter. It's not right to beat up on the economies of 9 counties across NM and TX because of a lizard. That's several thousand households that will be affected unnecessarily.
And I can already hear all the liberal "earth killer" comments but the thing is, unless you live here and will feel the brunt of this, back off, because frankly, our oil and gas pays to keep this state afloat and I will go toe to toe with whoever thinks the lizard can do it better. You may call me a "right-wing republitard nut job," and that’s your prerogative, but I know that it’s because of our oil and gas industry that our area didn't get hit as hard by the recession and bounced back quicker.
We aren’t going down without a fight; we never do. We are God fearing, oil pumping, cattle raising, gun owning, Conservatives...love us or hate us we don't care, JUST DON'T MESS WITH US!
Have A GOODloe Day!
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