What make you angry, or just irks you the most?

For me, right now that is, it's the school district, and the local bus company that they have a contract with.

Here's why.

Today a group of the high school girls had the opportunity to visit a shop that gives away prom dresses. The school arranged for them to go, submitted the request for a bus, and told the girls they were leaving at 5:30am. With a group of around 25 girls, it's gonna take a whole entire day to try on and pick out the best dress.

So I drive my daughter and three of her friends to the school at 5:15am, and sit and wait for them to board the bus so I could go home...  5:30 comes and goes and no bus. One of the teacher chaperones started looking for the number of the bus barn to find out what was going on. Meanwhile, the group of girls are freezing. I mean, It's the butt crack of dawn and most of them are still waking up! It's COLD outside at that time of the morning. Anyway, the teacher can't get a hold of anyone at the bus barn. She finally get's a hold of the school secretary who in turn tried to get a hold of them as well. Nothing.

And this whole time span, of around an hour of back and forth phone calls, the girls are STILL outside, freezing.  The teacher that was there didn't have access to the school for them to go inside and stay warm or even use the bathroom. WTH?

FINALLY, an hour and half later, the school secretary and the teacher decided that the bus was never going to show up. So the alternative was to use the small district buses. One slight problem though. Only one certified driver was available and there were too many girls to fit legally onto that one small  bus. Thankfully a mom volunteered to drive a few girls in her van.

Little more than TWO HOURS later, they were finally off!

So, apparently this isn't the first school event this year the bus company has forgotten about. They've forgotten a couple sports teams as well this year. I say three times is three times too many!! I was also told that the company is going through major restructuring and has been going through new drivers like a box of kleenex. Not good.

And the teacher that didn't have access to the school to let the girls in this morning while they were waiting? She had been previously stripped of front door privileges a few months back for something that she wasn't responsible for. So, the school should have had another teacher available to let the kids in to stay warm. OR they could just have allowed this teacher full access again!

I'm definitely going to write a strongly worded letter to the school principal and superintendent, as well as the bus company.

What's been your beef lately?

Happy 2015!

We made it.

2014 is over,  let the past stay in the past.

It's now 2015. We now have 364 days to make mistakes, tumble, fall flat on our faces, and then pull ourselves up and rise like the phoenix. Or the opposite.

The point is,  we have 364 days to make memories that will imact ourselves and others around us for the rest of our lives.

There are some things I want to accomplish in 2015. I'm not talking what my resolutions are,  because we ALL know that NO ONE  ever keeps them. Just some goals that can carry me on past just one year.

This year I want to make better food choices for not only myself,  but for my entire family.  Cook more,  less eating out, less processed sugar, no more soda... I'll give us the first three months of this year to figure out how we are going to accomplish this together. It's not something you can start suddenly one day and that's it.

I also want to get a handle on my severe depression. I let it get the better of me in 2014, and that resulted in many heart breaking moments between myself and my kids, as well as my few friends I have here. Other things will fall into place once I can get my depression calmed down.

The last thing I want to accomplish this year is to build my Mia Bella candle business up enough that I don't have to work two jobs outside the house. I'm a single mom of three, two of whom are teenagers. I want to get to the level I was a few years ago while living in CA. Just a couple hundred extra a month.

We shall see. It all depends on how firmly I apply myself towards these goals.

What are some things YOU want to accomplish in 2015?

What's YOUR dreams about anyway?

Do you have dreams that linger with you for days afterwards?

I have had a few of those recently. In one, I woke up scared and shaking and crying. In the other I woke up feeling warm and happy, yet confused at the same time.

I chatted with a few friends about one of the dreams, and one friend said my dream was a message to myself to remember to get a certain problem taken care of. That was the one in which I woke up scared, shaking, and crying. I still can remember a few important parts of that dream, and it still makes me upset. :(

I recently found a website called Dream Moods. I have only just started to look through the information, but there is a particular section that I'm looking at right now: the TYPES of dreams. There are 11 different types of dreams that everyone has. After reading a little, this most recent dream falls under the category of Nightmares. Now, most people would think a nightmare is something extremely scary; such as a monster, zombie, etc... and something extremely bad is happening in the nightmare; getting murdered, seeing someone get killed, getting into a car accident, etc.  This one was scary to me as it involved someone I no longer want to have in my life anymore, and this particular person suddenly shows up in my dream and tries to pretend everything is normal, which it's not! The definition of Nightmare, according to what Dream Moods says is this:

 A nightmare is a disturbing dream that causes you to wake up feeling anxious and frightened. Nightmares may be a response to real life trauma and situations. These type of nightmares fall under a special category called Post-traumatic Stress Nightmare (PSN). Nightmares may also occur because you have ignored or refused to accept a particular life situation. Research shows that most people who have regular nightmares have a family history of psychiatric problems, are involved in a rocky relationship or have had bad drug experiences. These people may have also contemplated suicide.  Nightmares are an indication of a fear that needs to be acknowledged and confronted. It is a way for the subconscious to wake up and take notice. "Pay attention!"

 Take note of the highlighted phrases. This is what is happening with my nightmare.

Apparently I need to finish something I started, that I haven't been able to because of financial issues, and just plain procrastination. However, I wonder if it has anything to do with the other dreams, and this next one.

The next day I had another dream involving someone else completely, and I was sent a message in my dream. I cannot remember the exact wording to the message anymore, but who it was from was the surprise, and how it came to me. I thought it was so real, that I actually checked all my email messages, Facebook messages, and other social media sites messages, just to make sure it was just a dream! I was happy by the dream, it made me all warm and fuzzy feeling, yet confused. The nature of the message and the person behind the message was what confused me, because I wouldn't ever think it possible this person to actually say what they said. Ha, only in my dreams, lol... Wait, it WAS said in my dream! But hold on again... The whole thing about this was that it was TOO real of a dream. Like I said, I woke up and went through all the places I get messages to see if I really got that message or not; THATS HOW REAL IT FELT!! So what type of dream was THAT???? Could it also have something to do with the fact  that I constantly dream about this person, whether I want to or not? I don't purposely dream about this person, nor do I purposely daydream about this person. There has been MONTHS where I don't dream about this person at all, and then suddenly, a dream and then I actually physically run into that person. And then here we go again, dream after dream after dream. *sigh*  It's hard to talk about the details though because of my current life situation. I can't even say anything remotely close to what I say in my dreams, in real life to this person.

I think, after rambling on so like this, I need to take care of the whole reason I had my nightmare in the first dream, so I can do something about the second dream.

Writing everything down does have it's merits, even if no one else understands any of my ramblings! ;)

Think about your own dreams. Use that website I mentioned above to help you solve some of those stranger ones, difficult ones, and scary ones! Your welcome!

I'm such a proud geek!!! LMAO!

OOOOOH!  Today is May 1st!

Guess what THAT means???


It's almost THE day!


What day you ask???

Wait for Sunday and you'll find out!!! Teeeheeee!!! ;)

Well, hello there!

Seriously... go check out my business blog: http://mmobwahm.blogspot.com/2014/04/summer-sale.html
I'm in need of a boost!

 I've not been rambling much lately- I apologize... life has given me way too many twists and turns, but I'm ready to ramble and grumble and just shoot the breeze once again!!!

Hey, I'm only 5 months late to start my new year's blogging resolution. Wait. I don't make resolutions! LMAO!

But on a serious note- I WILL do my best to ramble on and start making my ideas actually flow from my brain to my fingers to my blogs!

Help Me to Unclutter My Life

This was taken from a Woman's Day article... Copyright 1972 by Marjorie Holmes Mighell, and published by Doubleday & Co...  I just thought it a good fit for many mothers (including me on a majority of it), and as a belated celebration of Mother's Day! ;o)

A Woman's Conversations with God
By Marjorie Holmes

Help me to unclutter my life, Lord.

Rescue me from this eternal confusion of belongings (mine and other peoples) that just won't stay orderly. This suffocation of phone calls, clubs and committees. ("No man can serve two masters," you said. A woman is lucky if she has only two!) This choke of bills and papers and magazines and junk mail. I buy too many things, subscribe to too many things, belong to too many things. The result is such confusion I can't really enjoy or do justice to anything!

Deliver me from some of this, Lord. Help me to stop bewailing the clutter and work out some plan for cutting down. Give me the willpower to stop buying things we don't need that only become a chore to take care of. Give me more sales resistance at antique stores and white elephant sales. And give, oh give me the will power to get rid of a lot we already have- to unclutter my cupboards and closets and attic of things hung onto too long.

Oh, Lord, help me to unclutter my life of too many activites. Give me the self-discipline to stop joining things and to weed out the organizations I don't really care about. (They'll be better off without me.) Give me the strength to say "No" more often when the telephone rings.

Lord, show me a way of uncluttering my life even of too many people without being unkind; a way to love and help people without letting them gobble me alive. There are so many dear, wonderful friends I long to see and need to be with for my own soul's growth. Yet we are lost to each other because of this profligate squandring of energy and time. Give me the determination to reclaim these truly life-strengthing friends, at whatever cost to other idle meaningless relationships.

And while I'm at it, Lord, help me to unclutter my mind- of regrets and resentments and anxieties, of idiotic dialogues and foolish broodings. Sweep it clean and free. Make it calm and quiet. Make it orderly. Put me in control of my mind as well as my house... and my calendar... and my harried spirit. Thank you. With your help I know I can triumph. I can unclutter my life.

Sharing a bit of wisdom (in between story posts! )

Seven Life Lessons I Learned from an Evergreen
By Eden E. Hopper
EvergreenEden.com

1. The evergreen tree lives up to its name every day of its life, staying true to its colors, even when the world is grey.

2. It shares its peace and beauty with all who come near it, no matter what they look like or what they believe.

3. It sways and dances, whispering strength to all its neighbors and its fuzzy little tenants, when the harsh Santa Ana winds come whipping up the face of the mountain.

4. It makes a safe, warm haven for those it harbors in its care, giving them shelter and comfort from the cold.

5. It bows gracefully when the heavy snows come down.

6. It stays firmly rooted to the ground through it all.

7. And last but not least, it grows just a little bit everyday as it strives to reach towards heaven!



Those are 7 things I need to remember myself!
Kira sandoval :o)