optimistic4ever

What can I say?  I haven't updated for a little while just because things have been slightly crazy in my life.  My husband and I took our daughter on a vacation to Michigan not long ago, and we had such an amazing time.  We went to Mackinaw City and did a lot of tourist attractions around the area.  One of my favorite places that we visited was the Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point.  I found it to be interesting, and learning about the different shipwrecks on the Great Lakes was eye opening to say the least.  The most famous one was the Edmund Fitzgerald,  and they actually have the bell from that ship in the museum. 

Shortly after getting home from Michigan, we headed off to Kentucky to Shriners Hospital for Children where my daughter had to have her feet checked out by specialists.  Thank goodness the problem is minor and surgery isn't required at this time.  It will have to be done at some point, but not in the near future.  We have to go back in a year and have her checked again. 

Now it is just a matter of days before school begins once again for the year, and I have been getting my daughter ready.  She isn't very excited about going back right now, but all will be fine once she gets back into the swing of things.  School shopping is almost finished, and things will get back to normal once again.  The beginning of school also marks the beginning of her sports outside of school.  Bowling and Swimming both begin at the end of this month, so things will get crazy with those things again.

I have also been reading the LJ's of my friends on my friends list, and  I have enjoyed so many of the stories that you have all come up with.  You are all amazing writers in your own right, and I am glad that you are my friends.  I will continue to read and respond when time allows it, and I will do my best to keep in touch on here and FF as well.   I am on each of them every day, but time doesn't always allow me to write.   I hope to come up with an original story of my own to write in here at some point as well, but I haven't yet been inspired.  Hopefully soon I will have an idea!

I hope that all of my friends on my friends list are doing well!  Take care everyone!  *HUGS*

I just wanted to be one of the first people to wish you a very happy birthday, so I posted it a day early.  I think that you are an amazing person, and I am happy and honored to call you my friend.  I know that we haven't known eachother long, but we have talked quite often on FF.  You know so much about what I have been going though, and I know some of the things that you have been through as well.  I just wanted to let you know that I am here for you too.  If you ever need a friend to talk to, listen to problems, or just need a shoulder to cry on, you know where to find me.  I hope that you have the most amazing birthday ever, and I know that your little one's is coming up soon too.  Here is a big birthday hug from me to the both of you!  *HUG*  Thanks for everything Carrie!  Love you girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why does life have to be so unfair?  I just got a call from my dad late last night, and he told me that my cousin died in a crash over the holiday weekend.  We were never that close because she was more than just a few years older than me, but we both had daughters and they were only 6 months apart in age.  When her daughter was little, her husband, the father of her daughter, was killed in a tragic accident.  She raised her daughter as single mother that always put her daughter first in everything.  She had finally started dating once again, and now she is gone, and a very impressionable teenager is left without either one of her parents.  I am so extremely sad for her little girl.  I know that I am the only one in the family that can somewhat relate to her pain, but even my experience isn't exactly the same.   I am hoping that if she ever needs to talk and just vent, that she will at least get in touch with me.   

This is just my way of wishing one of my newest friends a very Happy Birthday!  Becky, I hope that your day was absolutely amazing because after all,  you do only turn 21 once in your life.  I hope that you spent your day doing exactly everything that you wanted to do, and I hope that you spent it with good friends and family!    Happy Birthday Becky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love you girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have you ever been so extremely pissed off that you just don't know what to do?  I am at that point right now, and there is nothing that I can do to change things.  Part of me wants to scream while the other part of me just wants to cry.  I always seem to feel better after a good cry, but I am afraid that this won't even help me at this point.

Let's just say that when anyone in my family is messed with in any way, or I feel that they have been wronged in any way, then I just can't handle it.  I am not going to say who or what it is all about, but just know that I am pissed off as hell.  My family means the world to me, and even though we are not perfect, and that we do make mistakes, nobody should be able to do what has been done to my family member.

Maybe in a while, down the road, I will be able to express myself better and make things more clear, but now is not the time.  I just have to find a way to work through this mess and pray to God that it all works out in the end.  Right now, I am praying for jail time for all of those involved.   Is that wrong of me?  Does this make me a bad person?  Comment if you wish, and if not that is okay.  Just know that I hope none of you ever have to go through a time like this.  EVER!