Life's Whirlwind Adventures

I am a crier.  Like I cry at so many things it's almost comical, but lately I've been crying more at things that I should cry at because I am feeling complete out of control in many areas of my life. So I cried last week on Tuesday! TWICE!!! IN FRONT OF TWO VPS!! Not one but TWO!!  So embarrassing, but I couldn't stop it and so the next day I wore no make up and I didn't cry. I will have truth blog come out next week as a reflection to what it happening in my world right now so I am going to keep this one short and to the point.  I am sure I will cry again, it's just how things are going right now.

A few days back I wrote about what I miss, and I let you all know it was my dad.  Man I miss him, more today than I feel I ave ever missed him, and it's been ten years since he passed away, or will be ten years in December. That whole year, in retrospect, was filled with difficulties with my dad, but also a lot of really weirdly positive things.  We will start with the good, I met my husband, got this new job that I found I was really good at, met some great people at work, I really felt like life was settling down and this was the first time Red Deer began to feel like a home and not just a stopping point. I also travelled a lot this year and that was phenomenal, being able to go on trips with my good friend and do something that I sort of missed in University because I was a mom and went to school in the summer all the time.  Some back story, my dad had been sick for a long time, he'd been in and out of the hospital, was on oxygen, and steroids and in the last ten y...

I try not to let other people's idiosyncrasies annoy me, but there are few things that just get my blood boiling.  I think it gets my blood boiling because it is so apparent that the person is either trying to be sneaky, or just too scared to come out and say something. 1. I dislike fake people or people being fake to me.  2. Offering up something so they can ask you for the favour they actually need. I mean this is nice but I prefer it to be the other way ask for a favour and say this is how I can repay it. 3. Saying 'i can't do that" and giving excuses for why they aren't going to try. 4. Not having the dishes done at the end of the night. 5. Fans being left on for extended periods of time when no one is in the bathroom.  The sound of bathroom fans actually irritates my ears so I hate them. Those are my big pet peeves, do you have any pet peeves? Thanks for reading!

I don't know if I should do of all time, of country, of pop, or for right now...... I think I'll do a list, but it will be random. 1) Carly Price Every Little Thing 2) Pink Blow Me (One Last Kiss) 3) Garth Brooks The Dance 4) Garth Brooks The River 5) Colbie Caillat Try 6) No doubt Just a Girl 7) TLC No Scrubs 8) Train Hey, Soul Sister 9) Sugarland Stuck Like Glue 10) Everclear Wonderful What are your 10 favourite songs? Thanks for reading!!

This one is easy. I miss my dad. I wasn't as close with my dad as I am with my mom, but we were close enough that I knew I could trust his advice, tell him things in confidence and argue with him empathically and he'd still love me.  This is going to be a two part blog post because in a few days I will talk about the difficult time in my life when I lost my dad. My dad was stubborn, set in his ways but he loved people.  As a child growing up I'd watch my dad make friends with everyone he met, he was always kind and considerate even when he wasn't getting along with the other person. He was definitely the person that introduced me to some very surprising terms in my youth, especially because he always had a wide range of people around him.  I know my dad was a bit racist, but I also know even with his beliefs he always gave everyone a chance to prove him wrong.  I'd say 9 times out of 10 the person did and my dad would let bygones be bygones. My dad had the wor...

Procrastination. Absolutely the worst habit, and in that, when I have something to do I will often find a million other things to do instead and then what I have to get done doesn't get done. This is going to be a short post because I totally have to get my kids to bed and I am avoiding that but I am hoping I can catch up with a friend after they are in bed so you know priorities!!

Most people claim spiders and snakes as their greatest fears or heights but none of these scare me.  I don't particularly like any of these and don't seek them out, but they aren't my greatest fear. They aren't a fear that takes my breath away and breaks me down.  That fear is for one inevitable, and no it's not taxes. Thanatophobia is my greatest fear! The fear of death is my greatest fear.  I'm not particular about it being my death though, I am terrified to lose people I love.  My grandmother will be 85 this year and if I even vaguely thinking about her dying, my breath quickens, my eyes water and I begin to feel very anxious.  I lost my dad at 30 and there are months after his passing where if the day didn't have something to do with my dad I don't remember it.  It's really probably the control freak in me, in regards to my own dying that terrifies me, because what would my children do? Could my family raise them without me so that they becom...

 Hi welcome to my life's commotion! Things are always busy and life is always happening!  I'm late, I'm late but not really, here is what a typical day in my house looks like. 5:50 Alarm goes off, reach for phone check out the social media  (this is something I am hoping to eliminate but it is still happening) 6:15 get out of bed and head to the bathroom. This is where I wash up, do my hair, do my make up and get dressed. 6:30 leave bathroom mid getting ready to wake up Lil Man so he can go have his breakfast and start getting ready. 6:35 return to bathroom to finish getting ready. 6:45 head downstairs to make my Arbonne Smoothie.  Right now it's a Vanilla Chia Smoothie and it's delicious! 6:50 wake up Prince T if he isn't already awake, get him some breakfast that he won't eat but at least I provide it. \/O\/ 7:15 say good bye to Husband as he leaves for work, finish getting boys ready to go. 7:30-7:45 head out the door to go drop off Prince T ...

A better question might be what's not in my handbag, because that is the one area of my life I can't, for the life of me, keep organized. Seriously, I have bought thousands, ok maybe only hundreds, of handbags, trying to find one that will keep my organized and not be a junk collector.  I've tried just a wallet sized purse, but then I can't fit my lip gloss and some other things in there.  Then I try a large messenger bag and well in a week it's over flowing with receipts and other pieces of paper I have collected along the way. Lately, I have been using my Lululemon festival bags.  I have found that these are the most useful and a pretty decent size.  The only thing they don't fit in them in my agenda, but for the most part I am ok with that.  The back pocket is where I keep my lip balm, extra charger thing for my phone, my phone when I am out and my floss.  The front flap has a zippered pocket that will sometimes find headphones, jewelry and...

This is going to be a picture blog, it's going to have some random pictures of me to illustrate not in words but images how I've changed or grown in my life! Leave me a comment below, and Share on Social Media!!! 

Why is it easier to point out the things we aren't so proud of, I could come up with a list of 10 characteristics about myself that could be improved.  Yet coming up with three that I am proud of.... a struggle. Well maybe not so much a struggle as there are ones I am proud of having, but I know that I can always improve them and they aren't perfect. So here are the three I feel are pretty much me without much need to a total overhaul. 1. I feel I am a good listener.  I am an active listener, I listen to listen not to respond.  I'm obviously not always perfect at this but I really try. 2. I am empathetic.  I feel for people when they are in a tough situation and even if I haven't been in that situation I can feel how they feel, this is obviously to a lesser degree than what they are feeling but I can definitely envision their trials and tribulations and how I would be in a similar situation. 3. I am imaginative.  I have a huge imagination and I can fin...

My guilty pleasures revolve around television! In the past year or so since we have cut our cable I have dramatically decreased my consumption and time spent watching television.  I used to have shows I would watch religiously, without fail the night they came on television.  And since we've cut our cable I would say I am down to around 7 shows that I like to watch consistently and within one to two days of their release.  So here are my guilty pleasure television shows! 1. Grey's Anatomy.  I've been watching this show since it's inception year and I used to buy all the DVD season sets.  I get many feels from watching this show so it's still a top on my list.  But if I don't watch it right when it comes out it's not that big of a deal. 2. Scandal.  I love the intensity of this show, but I am glad they are bringing it about to a close, I mean really, what they show started out as, is not what it is ending as.  Thankfully, this streams each we...

I have often told my mom things I remember from when I was kid, and my mom gets this weird look on her face and asks me how I could possibly remember that. I don't know but there must have been some huge feeling attached to it because though I can't recall every day of my life I can recall with details many events in my life from the time I was 2 and a half onwards. So my earliest memory, dates back to when I was two and a half. My parents had divorced and after my uncle passed away my mom decided to move back to Canada.  I am not really clear on the details but this is the information I have learned and pieced together in the past.  Mom and I moved to Prince Albert, I don't know where we stayed until we found a house, but I do remember going to look at place with Low Income housing in the Carlton Area of the city. I remember the brown and white town houses and looking at them, not knowing that there were multiple units in each, and thinking that was a huge house. ...

Alright here it is 20 Facts about me. 1. I was born in Fremont California and spent my first 2 and half years as an American Citizen.  I still retain my American Citizenship even thought I no longer live there. 2. I moved to Canada at 2 and half and got my Canadian Citizenship, I still have the Canadian Citizenship card. 3.  I have lived in Newark, Prince Albert, Wakaw, Saskatoon, and Red Deer.  There may be one other location but I don't where it was except it was an apartment in California. 4. I have two siblings, and two nephews from my sister and step nephew from my brother. 5. I was a teen mom, my oldest son was born when I was 19. 6. I have two more sons. 7. I have worked many different career paths in my life, as a bakery assistant, waitress, model, actress, customer service representative, teacher, social worker, program coordinator for people with disabilities. 8. I have dabbled in Home based businesses with Arbonne and Fifth Avenue Collection. ...

I am building new habits in 2018, one of those habits is to write a blog for every day of the week.  I know I haven't done this in the past at best I've been a Monday to Friday blogger, but I've had a change of heart, because casual blogging is not getting me the results I want so now I will start with 31 days of blogging.  Happy January 1, 2018!  I am going to spread this into February too, only because there are a few things happening in January and through the Christmas break that I want to share as well so I am going to leave 5 days in January free for me to blog about other things! Here is the blog list I will be following! I am excited to get these written and share them with you.  Also I am writing this a bit earlier than they are being posted so I can build in some self editing. This is me!! I'm actually in my PJs in this shot hahaha.  My next blog will be 20 basic facts about me, but for now I will let you know my name is Jennifer Louise.  ...