Day 6: Your Zodiac Sign and If You Think it Fits Your Personality.

Day 6: Your Zodiac Sign and If You Think it Fits Your Personality.

I'm a Scorpio and pretty sure I'm true to the sign.  I'm stubborn, and like things my way. I don't ever like to admit when I am wrong and will fight to the death when I believe I am right.  I am fiercely protective of my friends and family, and have little respect for those who aren't the same. I make friends or I make enemies.  There is rarely ever an in between. 

A True Scorpio is:
Scorpios are fiercely independent. They are able to accomplish anything they put their mind to and they won't give up. They like to be in control.
Relationships with Scorpio are always complicated, just like the person, their relationships are a series of extremes, they can even be downright moody for no apparent reason. Scorpios are known for their possessiveness and jealousy but on the other hand, they are extremely loyal. Scorpios have an excellent memory and combined with an inability to let things go, they can hold a grudge against someone who did them harm forever, in fact a Scorpio rarely if never forgives and forgets. They will even go as far as get vengeance on the person. On the other hand, they will always remember a kind gesture forever and repay it. Any kind selfless gesture done to a Scorpio will gain trust and respect which is extremely important to them in any relationship, either romantic or not. Their truthful and shocking sense of humor if different than that of any other zodiac sign and the Scorpio makes an amazing, powerful interesting friend that can be trusted.

Scorpios are all about control, they need to be in control at all times. To be out of control is very threatening, even dangerous to the Scorpio's psyche, when they control, they feel safe. Scorpios are very emotional, their emotions are intensified, both good emotions and bad. Scorpios are intense and passionate lovers. Negative emotions of jealousy and resentment are hallmarks of this turbulent astrology sign. On the other side, Scorpios are well known for their forceful and powerful drive to succeed and their amazing dedication. Scorpios are constantly trying to understand their emotions through finding a deeper purpose in life.

Scorpios have a fear of failure which they keep hidden extremely well, should their confrontation not be successful, or their career fail, they will simply use their adaptive skill to quickly move and and leave the bad experience behind. Do not ever expect them to fess up or share their tale with anyone however because this shows signs of weakness and Scorpio always wins, they are always the self-proclaimed best!
Scorpios are very weary about trusting anyone, a person needs to gain their trust and this gets built up over time and once all the 'trust tests' have been passed, Scorpio loves deeply and intensely. Underneath the cool exterior, energies and emotions are constantly flowing but the Scorpio deals with this by channeling this into useful activities, hobbies, relationships or a career.

So there are a lot of people in my family that are Scorpios.  My Dad, my Grandma, myself and Cody.  My Dad and I very much embody most of what is said about Scorpios.  As I was growing up we struggled quite a bit because neither one of us is ever willing to admit when we were wrong.  We are stubborn to a fault.  My Cody doesn't seem to fit any of these traits, he is pretty passive and mellow.  My Grandma is probably somewhere in between.

Jon is an Aquarius.  I found this about our astrological match: 

SCORPIO and AQUARIUS: - Why bother. This will never work due to the Aquarian's need for freedom and your need to possess. Your values, ethics and approach to life are just too different.

Kinda funny!  My parents are an Aquarius/Scorpio match as well.  And while I've know us all to have spectacular fights, we also seem to have what it takes to compromise with each other well enough to make our marriages last this long.  Maybe those born under an Aquarius sign just have a lot of patience!!

Day 5: Your Favorite Comfort Foods and Why.

Day 5: Your Favorite Comfort Foods and Why.

So I think most my comfort foods come from growing up.  I love things I can remember from my childhood. My #1 of all time is my Grandma's rolls.  I love homemade bread!  And I can eat a million of them.  I used to watch her make them every week growing up and they were always the best.  She adds a dash of this and something new every time and they always look and taste wonderful!!  We hosted the Elmen's this year for Thanksgiving and the first thing my Mother-in-Law asked was if I would have my Grandma's bread there..  They are that good!

I also love homemade chicken noodle soup.  With real noodles.  I don't care what else is in it so long as there are a million noodles in there. Whenever I'm sick I always call my Grandma and whine a bit until she offers to make me some.  Works every time!

I know it's not a comfort food but one thing that always makes me feel better is a Coke Slurpee.  They are so so bad for me with all the sugar they have. But, morning or night, even in the winter, there is nothing that improves my spirit more than a Slurpee does!

I love the traditional macaroni and cheese and especially mashed potatoes and baked potatoes.  Basically anything with a million carbs in it! I wonder why those are always typical comfort foods?

Mmmm...delicious!  I'm hungry now!

Day 4: Your Views on Religion

Day 4: Your Views on Religion

Wow.  Isn't this a touchy subject!  So the following are my opinions only.  Don't judge.

I'm a baptized Mormon.  I've also periodically tried to be an active, participating, tithe paying member of the LDS church and for right now at this point in my life I have decided it just isn't for me.  I'm a spiritual person, I believe in God, but I don't necessarily believe he/she is Mormon, or Catholic, or even Baptist or Buddhist.  I believe in a higher power, but I'm just not sure what that is yet.

I have my issues with the LDS church, not so much the religion itself but with some of the people.  I've never been someplace where I have felt more unwelcome in my life. Someplace where I felt worse when I left than I did when I got there.  And made to feel that way by people who try to pride themselves on their giving and welcoming nature.  These people welcomed Cody, and Jon too.  But the women?  Some of the most judgemental people I have ever met in my life.  I understand this to be a wide-spread not just a singular problem within the church.  On the other side of that I can't stand the mentality of some people in this state that all things related to the LDS church as bad or evil.  The church does so much for so many, and would help even those people that hate if they ever needed it. They create beautiful churches and amazing temples to provide their members with wonderful places to worship.  They do great things for their youth, especially for the boys, and I think they mean well, I just think things start to go wrong when your people, specifically your people in charge, start interpreting and enforcing things based on their own moral beliefs and feelings instead of by the nature in which they were intended.

My son has decided he wants to go on a Mission. He decided this on his own, no influence from us.  In actuality we probably have encouraged him against it..strongly.  But he won't be swayed.  Never before have I seen a child who willingly gets up and goes to church, alone.  He sits alone, sometimes a stray family will take him in, but for the most part in his new church he is a row of 1.  He lives what he believes and is very pure in what he wants.  And at the end of the day what I say to him, is the same I say to everyone else about him, we have supported Cody in everything he has ever wanted to do up until now, and we will continue to support him if he decides to go on a mission.  He has the kind of faith in his religion that I've rarely if ever seen before. While most people I talk to have to beg, drag or coerce their children his age into going to church, I have my guilt to face about sending him alone.

Are other religions any better??  Maybe.  In all honesty I've never really looked into any of them.  Never had much interest in religion other than my few previous bad experiences.  I believe in a God that is loving and kind, a God that never gives you more than you are strong enough to handle.  A God that would never keep me from my family or friends in any sort of an 'After Life' (if there is one) because I didn't pay enough money to his designated church while on Earth, or because I didn't jump through all the necessary hoops to go through his temple, hoops that, in my opinion, seem to change based on each person, and their ability to pay, and/or in most cases their ability to lie their way in. The God I believe in would welcome everyone, regardless of who they are and what they have done in life.

But that's just my opinion.

Day 3: Your Top 5 Pet Peeves

Day 3: Your Top 5 Pet Peeves

1.  I don't know why but the sound of someone clipping their fingernails sends me over the edge!!!  I hate the little clicking sound over and over again.  I don't seem to mind it when I do it but hearing Jon or the kids is really annoying.  So much so that Jon now avoids even doing it when I am around.  However, the people at work seem to have picked it up and have started doing it while sitting outside my office door.  You would think they have 45 fingers each hand for how long it takes them to get it done!

2. People who don't answer their phone or text you back when you know they carry their phone in their hands or their pockets like the world will end if they can't check it every second. Ok, I get it, you're busy.  I send you a text or call you while you are in the middle of something, you can't answer right away fine..oh but wait..did you just update your Facebook status from your phone?  Clearly I called you or text you for a reason..would a reply have killed you??

3. People who chew with their mouths open.  Ewww.

4. Selfish people. It doesnt kill you to go out of your way for people. And when someone goes out of their way for you..say thank you!!  Give back more than you take, one small gesture can mean the world to someone else. 

5. Traffic!  My commute makes me cranky.  45 minutes to work and easily an hour to get home.  And that is with minimal problems.  Add snow or rain or an accident and it could be 6:30pm before I get home.  I spend almost 2 hours a day in my car on the road.  Time away from my family.  Time I'd rather spend sleeping!  :)

Day 2: Where You'd Like to Be in 10 Years.

Day 2: Where You'd Like to Be in 10 Years.

The first thing that came to my mind for this topic was Healthy!  I don't want to be sitting around thinking I really need to do something to fix where I'm at.  I don't want to still be taking 8 pills a day.  I don't want to get really sick once a month and not be able to bounce back.  And I really don't want to worry about living to see my kids get married and have babies of their own!  So I'm hoping in 10 years I'm at a place that I can look back to today and say to myself.  "I'm so glad you turned things around."

In 10 years I hope to be financially secure.  I'd like to have our debt seriously under control.  I want to feel comfortable that we are on the right track to retirement and not worry about every dollar we spend.

I'd like to be happy in my job.  Whatever that job may be.  Even if it is the same job I am in now I want to enjoy my time at work more than I dread it.

I hope my kids are happy, healthy, secure, successful adults.  They will be 26 and 22 by then.  That's crazy!  I would like to hope that I have raised them and given them what they need to be all of these things. 

Since my kids will be adults, I would like to have some hobbies and projects of my own, things not directly related to what my kids are involved in.  Things just for me.

I want to be able to look back on my life to that point, in 10 years that will 44 years old to be exact, and have more fond memories than regrets.  Count more good times than bad.  And be surrounded with more friends made than lost.

Hope to meet you all there when I get there.

Day 1: Your Current Relationship

Having not blogged for over a year I was excited to find this challenge on a friends's blog and hope to use it as a way to get back into things.  So here goes..

Day 1:  Your Current Relationship



Homecoming 1992



Jon and I started "dating" in 9th grade.  He sat behind me in our journalism class all year and I'll be honest, I didn't really pay him very much attention, he was pretty quiet back then and I wasn't.. One day I was at the mall with my Mom, next to Mrs. Fields to be exact, when Jon walked past and said Hi.  I said Hi back and thought nothing of it until my Mom said, "Why can't you like a boy like that??"  I'm assuming she said that as up to that point I had always liked the boys no parents would ever want you to bring home.  I just rolled my eyes and thought nothing more of it, because at 14 who likes any boy your parents like?
But it must have stuck in my head, because after that I noticed him more and more, and talked to him a little more, and then called him a few times.  (No texting back then!)  We went to our 9th grade promotion together a few weeks later and after that I was hooked! To this day my Mom says she picked her own Son-In-Law.  I'm not sure if she considers that to be a good or a bad thing??

We were 17 and 18 in 1995, the year we graduated, got married and had Cody.  What a scary time that all was and while we were so young and so naive then, I think we have come a long way since. 

We have had some really bad years, and some pretty great ones.  And now I think we have finally settled in a pretty good place.  We respect our differences and capitalize on the things we have in common. And most days we end up on middle ground.  We definitely spend less time fighting and more time talking than we ever have in our lives.  I think we have finally grown up!




My two loves! 

We live in a beautiful home and the bills are paid, and we have good jobs and I think we have it a lot better than most do these days.  We are definitely blessed with two really great kids that keep us busy and going all the time.  Something we wouldn't have any other way.



My favorite Coach!



Cheering with Kelz!



So many couples that get married and have babies so young don't seem to make it, and to be honest there were years (and still times) that I wonder if we will.  But I count myself lucky to say that I am still married to the boy I met at 14.  And so lucky to still be in love with the man he is now 17 years later.  The kids will be gone soon enough, something we talk about more and more, and I don't know where we will be after that.  I always say that we had them when we were young and broke, so that when they are gone we will still be young and have the time and money to enjoy being just us! 



My other half.  Not necessarily my best!  :)



My favorite people on Earth!

So there you have it.  Not so bad for my first time back after quite the hiatus.

See ya soon for Day 2!

30 Day Blog Challenge

I think I might steal this from one of my favorite bloggers and start tomorrow.  We'll see what happens!  I'm ready to make an entrance back into the blogging world.