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All too often people are under stress or dealing with a situation they’d rather not be in, that seems to fray their nerves and leave them open for completely having a meltdown once the smallest things happens. But then when someone does something that doesn’t strike their fancy, even if it’s the slightest little thing, they seem to go off the deep end.

They scream, shout, curse, say horribly hurtful things, and it is just plain ugly. Once the problem has passed, the offender usually is back to their perky selves, but the person who was verbally attacked, still has to deal with the pain they felt because of all the hurtful words being flung at them.

If you or someone you know is angry, just leave them alone until they can get over their little “hissy-fit” and then when they are back to their “normal” personality, you can ask them what was wrong and go from there.

My advice is to stay as far away from people who are extremely angry and seeing red, so that you spare yourself the grief and speak to them when their minds are back on the track to sanity not insanity.

Just my opinion, but think about it next time before you blow up on innocent bystanders, because you wouldn’t want the tables turned and someone to attack you for no good reason, now would you?

Woke up this morning to a son who was shouting at the top of his lungs.  I suppose he must have been having a nightmare or night terrors, as they call them.  I called him over to me, in my half dazed state and he ran over to our bed and I picked him up and put him in the bed with us. He quickly passed out from there, and we slept for a few more hours.

I struggled to stay asleep because the lighting and thunder were pounding so hard.  It’s been quite a while since I heard lightning and thunder to this degree. The West Coast doesn’t really have that much of it, but now that I’m in the Eastern Coast, the rain, thunder and lightning have kicked up again.

So,I sit here with the windows open, the breeze wofting in, with a little light on behind my computer, my husband sits next to me, on the bed, but on his laptop doing his own thing, and my son runs from his Dad’s side to my side. Playing with each of us a little bit and then moving to the other when boredom hits.

There is so much to stress over, the life that must be started over in this new place, but I try to keep positive in the face of challenges. That’s what keeps me going and keeps me from losing my mind, with all the constant changes that seem to keep going on around here.

Life is wonderful, if you think it is. It’s dotted with problems here and there, but there is much to be thankful for. If you choose to be a pessimist, everything will be horrible in your mind and you’ll see problem after problem, you’ll be quickly skimming over the good things that occur, and only focusing on the bad things.

I choose to see the good things in life as well as all the blessings in everything, and when times get tough, I tell myself that this is only a phase and that at some point, it’s going to have to change. That keeps me from losing hope for what’s up ahead in the future…

Since I’ve been in the moving process and away from this site, spammers took advantage and had a field day trying to post numerous bogus comments on this site.

I returned to this blog after my time away, and was shocked to see that I must have received at least 150 spam generated responses and comments to my posts. All comments have to be approved by me in order to be visible on my site, so none of them got past the screening, but still it angered me!

It frustrated and angered me to the point that I asked my husband to turn all comments off and at that point I wouldn’t be bothered by anymore spammers trying to make a fast buck off of this site.

So, for any of you spammers who are reading this, thinking that your scamming, ahem, I mean spamming, will get you somewhere on this site, you must realize that this site will not condone or allow you to spread your smut.

To those of you loyal readers looking forward to our daily posts, interested in learning and reading about interesting topics, I hope you continue to visit, spread the information about this site with your friends and family, and I hope that someday we’ll become very well known and loved by all.

Thanks for your continued support of this site, and of our fanpage on Facebook as well. It’s always MUCH appreciated!

For those of you who are avid readers of our articles, you know that the last few months we have preparing to move out of state.  We finally finished the packing, the donating of objects to those who needed them, the purchasing and loading of a trailer, and all the headaches that go along with it.

On 7/23/2009 (Thursday), we woke up, attempted to pack the last of the stuff in our trailer, clean up our apartment, leave the keys for the manager of our complex and hit the road.  For whatever reason, I wasn’t feeling very well, and fought “food poisoning” from the night before. I was invited to a small wedding party, and ate some chicken that had been COLD when I got it, but I was too hungry to complain, so I ate it anyway.  Big mistake! That night, I started to feel nauseous, and in the morning, when we were due to leave, I couldn’t go fast because I was dealing with full blown illness. Not fun, not fun at all.

I called a friend of mine over, and thank goodness she wasn’t busy, and was able to come over and keep the baby company as I dealt with my illness and then eventually got over it, and did all the things I mentioned above. I gave her a big hug, told her to keep in touch, thanked her ever so much for her help, and we started the drive.  We took off out of our complex driveway around 1 pm on Thursday, although we were late in leaving, we were determined to get out of there that day.

That same day, while we were on the road, we heard loud scraping sounds coming for the trailer on the left side, so when my husband pulled over to check it out, he realized that the nuts on the trailer tires hadn’t been tightened adequately by the previous owner, and it had actually damaged the tire rim some, as well as stripping down 2 screws, from the weight of the trailer, as well as the long miles driven.  It took him a while to be able to jimmy the screws in a good enough way to keep going and drive to an auto parts store.

We had started our journey in Tacoma, Washington then dealt with the tire problem and had already driven to Moses Lake, Washington at that point. He purchased the screws, and called the manufacturer of the trailer to put a hold on another tire (that comes with a new undamaged rim).  By that point, it was too late to go to the other place which was located in Spokane and was already about to close.  So, we decided to drive to Spokane and sleep there for the night, then in the morning we planned to purchase the new tire (with rim) and start up back on the road.

Everything went as planned.  That night, we slept in a crappy Motel in Spokane, Washington. It was a horrid little place, something that maybe a lady of the night or a down and out drunk might think was tasteful.  The only good thing about it was that they had a KING size bed, and we all slept like the dead.

Next day, we did as planned and started back on our road trip.  As we were driving, we realized there was a sound coming from the right rear side of the vehicle. My husband stopped and looked it over, but was unable to find the culprit.  He drove into a Les Shwab location and had one of the mechanics help him out. Turns out, when we took our vehicle to be serviced before the road trip, the mechanic must have been in a hurry because he hadn’t tightened 2 of the 5 lug nuts on our SUVs tire.  So, this mechanic tightened it, and we were on our way. Thankfully two huge catastrophes were averted.

We drove through: Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois and finally reached our destination, Indiana (on the 5th day of our journey, 7/28/2009 – Tuesday).  It took us that long because the problems with the rim and the type of tires on the trailer were only equipped to drive 50-55 mph and no more.  So, we drove at a snails pace, and made quite a few drivers angry, but we finally reached our destination, early in the morning on the 28th.

We’ve been here for a few days already, busy with unloading the SUV, as well as the trailer, trying to get our sleeping arrangements in order (at my relatives house), and get over the “Car lag” (in relation to “Jet lag”). As well as starting up bills and other things in this new location.

So far Indiana has been great, other than the humidity, and heat of the Summer. But, thankfully we are in an air-conditioned home and as much as we work, once we sit to take a rest, we can cool down appropriately, get somewhat recharged and continue with the work.

It was a long and exhausting journey, added to by the blaring heat of the summer, the on/off screams of my toddler (who had an ear infection), the mechanical problems on the road trip, and of coarse the worst part of it all was the cramped quarters in the packed car.  We still haven’t recovered from the feet swelling, the muscle aches, or the lack of sleep we received on the road trip.

But, all in all, we’re finally here, with family and it’s exactly where we wanted to be!

As our departure approaches, I’ve decided that it’s time to say our farewells, for now…

I didn’t want to just have my posts stop without letting you know in advance that I’m signing off for now. My internet is supposed to get shut off over the next few days, so I figured now is the perfect time to say our goodbyes.
The next time I log on, I’ll be in a new state and living in a new place.  Things may be somewhat chaotic, but that is to be expected.

I hope over the next few weeks that our lives improve. I hope the packing, cleaning, returning of the apartment keys, stocking up on goodies for the road trip and the drive go well. I have a little bit of trepidation due to never having gone on a road trip with a young child before, but we’re determined to try and have some fun, take tons of pictures, stop at any awesome sites, and enjoy this rare opportunity, while we’re making our journey from Western Washington to Southern Indiana.

Please feel free to sift through over 75 articles that I’ve written over the last few months, since starting up this website. I’m sure you’ll find something to your fancy.  And be sure to check up on our site at least once a week to see if I’ve started writing new articles, once we’ve reached our destination.

Until we meet again, bye 4 now.