Friday...Fun

It's been a few weeks since I've done a fun Friday twitter post, must be time for another one. Actually, while I'm busy over the next few weeks, I may just pull funny conversations for my posts. I'll have to see if I have time to set them up.

So, I hit one of those landmark tweets this week....

Seriously....40,000 tweets. Really must mean I need to get a life or a job. And when someone else pointed out that this is on only one of my accounts and asked how many I was at with all of them....it kind of made me sick.

Anyways....can you believe that my TayTay drives a tractor? How cute is that? And guess what? I get to meet him....Oh my lord, you should all wish you were there when that happens...too bad. I think we will keep it a secret. No photos...Ha!!!!!

Alright, on with the funny....

He. Called. Me. A. Twat....damn I love him.

Keep Smiling, Keep Shining...

~ See You in the Morning ~

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A Greek God named Apollo

I pulled this definition of Apollo from Wikipedia ~ Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, music, poetry, and more.

This is the Apollo I know...

This was the day we realized he had something special. He is something special. He has helped with a lot of healing that was needed after the losses of Red and Captain in March. He is also a rescue horse, on the auction block...and the only other bidder for him was the meat buyer looking to bring him to the slaughter house.

He's a 17 year old Morgan gelding. He's gorgeous and he's huge...16'8 hands tall...

And let me tell you, these girls love him. He's fast, he's a little hyper so the older girls are the only riders he gets. I can't wait to watch him at the gaming competitions. He's going to be awesome.

I am having a hard time focusing on the other horses when he's around. He just draws your attention from his size to his flowing mane...He may be my new obsession. It took a while for him to get to the point to be able to give lessons. He needed to gain about 200lbs. He probably still needs to gain weight. He's very skinny and he just wants to keep working which makes keeping the weight on him tough.

I don't know too much more about him than that. I suspect he's going to be an awesome addition for years to come.

And that picture, with her face...is pretty much what they all look like when riding him. I would say his name fits him prefectly...light and healing. What more could you ask for?

Keep Smiling, Keep Shining...

~ See You in the Morning ~

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Worded Wordless Wednesday

I moved, I didn't know I did...but I'm positive that I moved to another city...Specifically Seattle...

And since I'm here and haven't had a Starbucks in over a month...I do believe a Venti Non-fat Caramel Latte is in order #cheers.

Keep Smiling, Keep Shining...

~ See You in the Morning ~

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Hatred

You ever just going along and something happens that stops that flow of good? It happened to me on Friday night. Here we all are, having a fun playful night on twitter...which when I think about it, is a little weird. I still haven't met one person on there other than my niece. Is this the future of friendships? Different topic to explore....

So we're having fun, joking around and I posted this...

I do love him. He makes me laugh hysterically. His reply?

Ha!! So we go on, people comment on our love affair. It was all sweet and fun. And then boom...late that night I see this...

Wow, how can one word put so much power into it depending on who says it and how? Even looking at it now scares the crap out of me. I can't imagine having that much hatred in myself to want to say something so mean and derogatory to someone. How do you get that much hate in you? And while usually, I fight back this kind of crap...I went along with TayTay on this one. We made no comment back, we just blocked and reported as spam with as many accounts as possible.

It made me think though, what it must be like to go through life as a minority whether that be your race, creed or lifestyle choice. I am kind of in that minority being a single mother but for the most part I think I've had it pretty easy. People in a gay relationship or maybe in a interracial relationship have a lot to bear when it comes to dealing with others attitude toward them. I've seen it first hand and dealt with it on so many occasions I cannot count.

I have dated well, crap...I don't want to go into my dating history too much but I have never limited myself from exploring or dating someone just because they aren't like myself...that's a good way to put it right? And yes, I've experienced the name calling and hatred from that. It wasn't fun but, I survived it. It wasn't my fault they had that prejudice, it was theirs.

I have a real life best friend and former roommate forever, GeeGee. We've been together more years than I can count. Experienced amazing times and sad times. We worked together, we were also both laid off at the same time. Just before I became pregnant with CeeCee we had even discussed having a child together. We even met with a fertility specialist. Went through all the testing, he had his boys tested...we were that serious about it. Then he went to the clinic that would actually do the collecting and saving of his specimen for use. He filled out the paperwork, he was honest and he was denied. Because he was gay. Seriously, that happened. I couldn't believe it. I wanted to seek legal action. I mean really, it was our choice right? I knew he was gay, I knew he would make an awesome father. Damn that pisses me off to no end. He didn't want to fight it, he was tired of fighting it. How sad is that?

We discussed our situation with one of the doctors we worked with at the time. She got us in touch with a lesbian couple that she knew who had gone through with a pregnancy with a gay male friend of theirs. We talked to them, they told us what to do and we started working towards our goal of a baby. Just an FYI drug stores have the perfect size of syringe for this task. No turkey basters.

Unfortunately, his partner at the time was not big on the idea of being a parent and we never followed through with that plan. I would have honestly loved to have his baby. But, no more babies for this girlie...nuh uh...you read my baby story here. Uggghhh...no more babies.

So these prejudices occur, I wish I could fix all of them but I can't. But I certainly don't have to agree with them. How can we change them?

Oh and my last tweet Friday night....

Yeah...that pretty much sums it up.

Keep Smiling, Keep Shining....

~ See You in the Morning ~

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Sunday Funday #9 - Fun

Interesting week this week was. It was nice, I got a lot done and just really had an overall awesome week. I have another follow-up to the bullying post from last week. I'm ever amazed at the pure hatred and stupidity that I see in the world...that's all I will say today on this. Look for tomorrow's post on that subject.

Finally took my MacBook in to the Geek Squad...wow, he really was a geek. Who knew? Anyways, I needed Photoshop loaded on it so I could start using my Mac for more and using my old dying laptop less. Every time I tried to load the program on the Mac it prompted me for a password. I swear, I looked through all my paperwork and just couldn't figure out what it was. Geekman listens to my problem, then says "did you just try hitting enter? that's likely what it is"...are you effing kidding me? Sure enough, that was what it was. He said that is the one bad thing about Apple products...built in request for that password prompt though there likely isn't one.

We got an overabundance of rain this week. Luckily most of the storms occurred at night but it was soooo dang much rain. On Saturday we had a bake sale fundraiser for the DI teams...it rained. It was a bad turn out. Really pretty disappointing.

I got to pretend to be semi-famous for a night and got to cuss on National TV show....how much does that ROCK?

And I played with my boys outside a lot this week....man did we have fun.

We have a whole yard and really? He has to lay on top of me???? Silly boy

This week will be busy. Monday the teams are getting together to make duct tape costumes to go to Tennessee with us for a mascarade dance. That should be interesting. Tuesday and Wednesday nothing planned so far, Thursday make-up riding lesson. Friday we have a Spaghetti dinner and silent auction at the VFW, wonder what I will eat. I don't eat pasta. Saturday is CeeCee's first riding competition, a bridal shower for my soon-to-be niece-in-law and a possible adult's night out.....Sunday, I have no idea....probably something but I can't remember.

Shoot, I'm tired just thinking about it all.  I better go rest up right now.

Keep Smiling, Keep Shining...

~ See You in the Morning ~

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Worded Wordless Wednesday

I don't have too many words today. Just a few...

How freakin' cute is he? Only a few hours old and already perfected the duck face....he's going to be a lady killer. Almost makes me want another one...

Keep Smiling, Keep Shining...

~ See You in the Morning ~

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Bullying adult style

I've had this saved up for a while now waiting to be written and it is time to talk about it.

I have a strong personality on social media. I know that. I come off as a confident strong woman not willing to back down on anything. I will and have defended my friends against all forms of bullying on twitter from random guys trying to intimidate girls to hell, transvestites that are just mean (@iamhereformary - still one of the best confrontations ever).

So when it happens to me...I always hope that my friends have got my back as well. But I'm not always going to rely on that. I cringe every time I see a Direct Message on twitter or a Message on Facebook. I jokingly talk about my Facebook stalker but truthfully, he does scare me a little. No, he scares me a lot. I don't feel like I can unfriend him because he was family through marriage at one time and well, I know his mental health history...it's scary anddddd.... shit, I don't want to think about it any more.

I got this tweet sent to me a few months ago and saved it for this post specifically because no one was around when I got it. I had one friend there at the time to support me... Now, obviously I don't take these things sitting down. I like a good battle, I really like a word battle. This one wasn't really worth my time so that was probably the only thing I said to him before I blocked him.

My concern is, what if he had sent this to a young girl, a kid really. Some of the adult women on social media don't know how to react to something like this....I can't imagine what it would do for a teenage girl. That's what pisses me off most.

Then last week we were joking about Blake Shelton and all his body parts and other various accounts that have been popping up for him. I said something about why does he get them all, that I want a parody account too....and huh...go figure, I get this

Along with my response....really, someone took the time to create this account.

ChristinesClit...who does that shit? And the disappointing thing is, it's probably someone I had considered a friend. Damn, that makes me sad just thinking about it right now. Those 8 tweets that it shows he/she did, yeah...they were all to me and maybe one to TayTay because, he followed it back to see what the hell was up and to question the account. I on the other hand just went at it, asking it why they had chosen that particular body part, why they had done it, if they thought it was funny because really....it wasn't funny at all. It was hurtful to me, it was mean to me, it was a form of bullying in my opinion.

I'm not sure how many people reported it as spam and or replied back to me as I was tweeting to the account. I'm also not sure how it got pulled, whether twitter did it or it shut itself down. All the tweets it did are no longer out there which leads me to believe that twitter pulled it....whatever the case, the account was gone within a half hour.

Again, I fought back, I had a lot of support on this one but I think of someone that doesn't have that support, it would be a nightmare. What I want to know is what makes a person think that this behavior is right? Do they get off on trying to bring others down? I guess I just never had that in me.

And it's not just in us everyday people either. I'm not sure that you would classify what Eric Church said in Rolling Stone this week as bullying or more of a jealousy/hater attitude. His critique of Blake Shelton, Ceelo Green and all reality talent shows and the contestants in them went beyond what I would consider proper behavior of a high profile "Star". In the article he said that the contestants aren't real artists and that artists like Blake that do the shows aren't real artists either. 

Here is what I love though...Blake is clearly the king of social media right now, really, he's on top of the world in everything. And his response to this in my opinion was sheer perfection. Dignified, subdued, questioning....

Man...if you are his PR person...you should love this. He didn't attack back, he let his fans do that. I'm sorry Eric but I have a hard time believing that you would not take a hosting job if it was offered to you. As I said to one of my friends, Blake is like your friendly neighbor, the life of the party. If you walked into a room and both Blake and Eric were in there....who's personality is going to draw you in? I know my answer immediately.

His saying that these contestants are not artists for choosing to go this route...that's the pisser. Sure a lot of them haven't made it...a lot of every day working artists that are hitting the pavement don't make it either. Either way, it's a hard life to try and get to the top in. Blake's been doing it forever and just over the past year has he became a household name. Now is his time to give back, help some of these kids. And I'm sorry, I just don't see these reality talent shows going away anytime in the future. It's how it's going to be.

Think of it, it's hard to know if Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson, Chris Daughtry and a few others would have made it without American Idol or one of the other "Talent Shows". But in this context, Mr. Church did a huge disservice to Miranda Lambert, who was a contestant on Nashville Star. Her reply to the Rolling Stone article was also perfection...

What more can you say? She headlined a tour, chose to take Eric as an opening act...and he turns around two years later and says this. Nice...

Later yesterday Mr. Church did offer an explanation and apology to Miranda and the others which still left me questioning. He said he didn't mean it to offend the artists themselves but more the shows themselves. Which may be true but then why say Blake Shelton and Ceelo Green in your original statement? Why not just name the shows or not even that, just the general concern you have about the follow-up that is needed after the cameras are off that these new artists need to do in order to make it...that is a great and valid point.

Uggghhhh...anyways, I could go on with this but it's making me crabby so I just want to say quit fucking bullying or hating or whatever you want to call it.

Now I want to get out and enjoy something today. Y'all have yourselves a great one.

Keep Smiling, Keep Shining...

~ See You in the Morning ~

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