Love Stinks. Yeah, Yeah.

My Facebook feed is being overrun by engagement and baby announcements. It really makes my blood boil in rage and jealousy. It especially sucks when the announcement is posted by an ex or someone you once had feelings for because that fine line between friends and friends with benefits was once broken. It would be ok if I was posting that I was engaged before them, but because they found love and not with me and posted it first, it stinks.

Don't get me wrong, it's not that I am jealous of the girl marrying the ex or the ex friend with benefits. I love my boyfriend that I have now and wouldn't trade him for anyone in my past. But honestly, what girl wouldn't like her old loser boyfriends to think for a second, "Wow I screwed that up, I had the chance to marry her and I blew it". What girl wouldn't like to be the first at the altar instead of the last? Especially when she is beat out by an ex.

ANYWAYS...I find myself either deleting these FB friends with their announcements, hiding them from my news feed or leaving extremely catty, sarcastic comments. Well, thinking about leaving extremely catty, sarcastic comments. Sometimes I type them out but am not able to actually hit post.

It ESPECIALLY makes my blood boil when someone has already been a bride once and is getting a second chance. I haven't even had a first chance! One bride to be announced her engagement by writing "I said YES!" as her FB status. A friend commented saying what a "beautiful bride" she was going to be and I so wanted to comment on her comment by saying, "hasn't she already BEEN a beautiful bride?!" "and we all know how THAT ended"...I couldn't bring myself to do it though. I mean, sometimes you have to draw the line somewhere.

LOVE blows. I mean, I love my boyfriend (and I know he loves me) but sometimes when I see a couple REALLY in "love"...like head over heels annoyingly in love it makes me second guess my own relationship. A friend of mine recently uploaded a picture of the food he was cooking on the grill for "his lady". I mean really? REALLY? Unfortunately I can't remember if I actually posted the comment that came so quickly to my head. I was on FB really late and was a bottle of white, a dirty martini and a vodka tonic deep from dinner with MY love. When I went to check the next AM to see if I had actually posted what I thought I posted, the post wasn't there. I am so hoping that was when my laptop had "mysteriously" died on me...a sign from the gods (LOL) to leave it alone! I don't think I was that lucky though, I think that my friend got to it first and deleted out of pissed off-ness. OOPS! Bad Enonymous! If only you could post on FB Enonymously!!!


So I ask you...what does LOVE mean to you? What does it REALLY mean when you say you LOVE someone??? Does it mean uploading pics of the food on the grill? If so I am screwed. MY boyfriend doesn't even have a FB account!

Cancers

Cancers are...and I quote, Quite a creative sign. This is both an extraordinary blessing and a curse. We let our wonderful imagination go too far and worry about things needlessly and endlessly. We should let go of what we cannot control today, and stop envisioning every possible disaster that could occur. Instead of directing our energies in a negative way we should try thinking about everything that could go right for a change and fantasize about all the little miracles that could occur and imagine how wonderful things could be. End Quote.

A Camping We Will Go...in a Double Wide

OK - so, while most people book a vacation to someplace sexy and tropical, my boyfriend and I just booked our tickets to attend a family reunion at Leech Lake, Minnesota.

Believe it or not, the both of us have family in Minnesota...of all places.
Sooo we will be flying in on a Saturday and spending Sunday with his Grammy, Aunt, Uncle, Cousins and their significant others then renting a car and driving up to Leech Lake where we will be spending 4 days with my dads side of the family (sans my dad who bailed on the trip himself) and then driving about an hour to where my mother lives with her husband and 2 year old (also on a lake).

I have to admit I feel tricked. Of course like always, my sisters got everyone hyped up on how fun and hilarious it would be to all fly to MN and just hang by the lake and drink and lay out and make fun of our weird family whom we have managed to avoid for roughly the last ten years.

Once a trip to see my mom and my boyfriends Grammy was coordinated into our stay we decided that we would have to follow through with the trip as originally planned, with or without my siblings - or dad for that matter.

So, here we are, 22 days and counting until I get on a plane to MN to spend my much awaited summer vacation. Oh sure, we will do other long weekend getaways and day trips over the course of the summer and its not even a matter of vacation time as we have a fairly unlimited amount of time we are able to take off from work, but to kick off the summer, "A Camping We Will Go"...

The funny thing is, because my family bailed on this trip, my boyfriend and I gave up our cabin to avoid paying for the cabin for 10 all on our own. Instead, we were told we could stay with my cousin and her husband who "own a cabin" on the lake as they "spend May through October" in this "second home away from home". Come to learn this "cabin by the lake" is a double wide. COOL. Sleeping arrangements include a bedroom with two single beds or a futon. Not exactly what you have in mind when you a vacation comes to mind.

Not sure what to pack for a vacation on a lake. I was thinking some swimsuits and cover ups but after watching River Monsters for the last couple of weeks I am pretty convinced that if I step foot in this body of water I will come home without a toe or leg, if at all.

One thing is for sure, this trip will make for plenty of interesting blog postings so stay tuned!