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INSIDE THE FLAME


 This Ain't The Good Ship Lollipop!!!!
 

I have spent the last 2 months cleaning the emotional junk out of my life. I didn't realize how very much it was weighing me down or how much energy it zapped out of me on a regular basis. In November of last year, I felt so very old. It was a struggle to get through the day. But now I feel 10 years younger!

I have drawn a line in the sand that is my life and have a very clear picture of what I will and will not put up with. At the top of that list is abuse of ANY kind be it physical,mental or emotional. I am well aquainted with all 3. You know which one hurts the most and lingers the longest? Mental and emotional abuse. In plain ol' country folk talk: I ain't a havin' it anymore.

Long,gone are the days of being played for a fool! There is a new sheriff in town and she is armed with a hair dryer!

Gone is the roll over and play dead in my life mentality.My name isn't Fido!

Gone is the door mat. WELCOME is not stamped across my forehead. You wanna wipe your feet on someone, well tough toe nails! Take it somewhere else! Good luck.Goodbye.Good Riddance.!!!

I want people in my life who know the value of friendship.All losers,users and abusers exit to the right-------------> and keep on stepping!

People who don't play all these silly mind games! This is MY LIFE!

People who know what it means to care about someone and be there in bad times as well as good.

People who are loyal.

Travis Tritt has a great song called, Looking Out For Number One. I have listened to that song at least once a day since November. In part it says:

"EVERYONE AROUND ME,I'VE TRIED SO HARD TO PLEASE,'TIL THE ONLY ONE UNHAPPY,FEELING BROKEN DOWN IS ME, BUT THINGS ARE GONNA CHANGE,WITH EACH NEW SETTING SUN, STARTING NOW I'M LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE!"

I guess you may be wondering what brought on this hissy fit. Yesterday I received a call from a "friend"(believe me, I am playing fast and loose with that word). I only hear from her when she wants or needs something.

Once upon a time we were pretty close. For a brief period of time. I have since learned that she can't keep up a consistent relationship with anyone for more than 6 months at a time. So, after the honeymoon period in our friendship was over, she moved on. Oh, I would hear from her now and then.When she wanted something. And I would always allow her back inside my inner circle. Once she got what she wanted, she was gone. She didn't want my friendship. You don't treat people you value and care about like garbage. You treat people you DON'T value and care about like garbage. Took a while, but I finally got that one through my thick head.

I consider myself a fairly intelligent person (despite finding myself earlier this week on the side of the road with a hair dryer), but I don't get it...! I just flat out don't understand that kind of behavior. Can someone explain it to me once and for all?

Is an overly inflated ego the cause? Or maybe low self esteem? Or maybe the real truth is, those kind of people are so one dimensional that they can only see themselves and no one or nothing else? How do they live with themselves? I always....ALWAYS...try to treat people the way I want to be treated. Why can't other people do the same?

Perhaps that is the reason that after all this time she can dial my number and sound so very chipper on the phone. Acting as if I just talked to her days ago rather than months. On average it takes 5 -6 seconds to dial a number on the telephone. I know because me and a friend timed it the other day. I don't EVEN need to get started on that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whatever the reason, I can't and won't spend any more precious seconds of my life agonizing over it. I realize that I can't demand people respect me. You either do or you don't. If you do, wonderful. If you don't....well....all I have to say about that is:

THIS IS MY LIFE

BE ALL THE WAY IN IT

OR

ALL THE WAY OUT OF IT

THERE IS NO IN BETWEEN

I AIN'T SHIRLEY TEMPLE

AND

THIS AIN'T THE GOOD SHIP LOLLIPOP

Later Ya'll...^Belle^

Posted by ^BELLE^ at 2:46 AM - 27 Comments   Add a Comment  
 

 FRIDAY FIVE WITH A BigChris TWIST
 

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It's Friday and you know what that means. Time for the Friday Five. This week with a BigChris (BC) Twist. As always, answer any 5 or go collard green crazy and answer them all. Ready...Here we go...

1-Friends or Seinfeld?

Friends.

2-Law and Order or Boston Legal?

Boston Legal

3-Favorite American Idol Judge?

Simon. Paula gets more and more strange with each season.

4-Name a song with your home states name in the title?

Sweet Home Alabama (The unofficial state song)

Stars Fell On Alabama (The official state song)

My Home's In Alabama (By the group Alabama)

5-Was the last bill you paid, made on line,in person or by mail?

Online

6-Funniest thing you read on Blogstream this week?

PolarB's answers to last weeks Friday Five!

7-Last marathon you had at home?

Watched 3 movies based on the novels of best selling author, Janette Oke:Love Comes Softly,Love's Enduring Promise and Love's Long Journey.

8-If you could live 1 year of your life over,without changing a thing, what year would it be?

1978

9-Which should have the final say in decisions, logic or emotions?

I think a healthy mix of both would be ideal, but in the end, logic.

10- If someone wanted to give you a 50 dollar gift card, which store would you choose?

Bath And Body Works.

11- Place in the United States you have never been to, but would love to visit?

There are several: New York City, anywhere in Montana and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Missouri.

12-What kind of mood are you in right now?

A little tense. A little angry and wide awake.

13-Describe your perfect nap?

A rainy fall afternoon in a cabin up on Mount Cheaha with a fire going in the fire place snuggled up with the man I love.

14-The last time you took a nap were you alone?

No. Took a nap with Trooper Junior.

15-Something you CAN'T sleep in?

Anything flannel or socks. Flannel doesn't move with you. It stays put and everything gets all twisted.

BigChris TWIST:

16-I like BC because.....

He has a good heart. Plus he is darn sweet.

17-BC makes me.....

He makes me stop and think.

18-BC has.....

The Mad Yankee Ranting has some SERIOUS muscles!

19-BC is....

One of the good guys. And a total doll!

20-My personal message to BC is....

You rock! Don't ever change!

Later Ya'll...^Belle^

Almost forgot, today is the birthday of 2 of my favorite guys:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: To my son, "The Baby"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: TO Travis Tritt

Posted by ^BELLE^ at 5:05 PM - 42 Comments   Add a Comment  
 

 CRAZY BITCH AND THE HAIRDRYER
 

***WARNING; THIS POST MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN OR THOSE WHO HAVE GONE OFF THEIR MEDICATIONS. IF AT ANY TIME DURING THE READING OF THE POST,YOU FEEL THE URGE TO GO OUTSIDE WITH A HAIR DRYER AND PRETEND IT IS A RADAR GUN, PLEASE SEEK HELP RIGHT AWAY.

It all started with my post yesterday and a silly idea about using a hair dryer as a make believe radar gun aimed at motorist. The more I thought about it, the better I liked the idea and here is why.

I live on a ONE lane dirt road that winds deep into the woods. There are 2 houses on this road. Normally there is not much traffic, just the locals mainly, looking to cut through the back roads to near by Georgia. Or those up to no good looking for the pulp wood and logging roads to drink a few beers,ditch a stolen car or just looking for a nice deserted spot to "get it on".

For the past year, I have been tortured, TORTURED by this maniac in an old run down truck that comes flying down through here as if he were on the race track at Talladega. He doesn't slow down for ANYTHING. Not even if I am out walking, I have to jump into the ditch to avoid getting run over.

I live in fear that he is going to kill himself or another person one of these days and it won't be pretty. As I said, this is for all intents and purposes, a one lane road, and he rides right in the middle. There are hills, curves and turns where the visibility is little to none.

Not to mention the fact that each time I let the Rat Pack out for a little, Pee,Poop and Play time, I am a nervous wreck that he will come speeding by. Most cars that are driving at a reasonable speed you can hear long before they arrive. So that gives me time to round up the 2 youngest and wildest of the Rat Pack, Bonnie Blue and Bubba, because, they love to chase cars. You have to really be on your game. I scream at him to slow down, but he just sticks his hand out the window and waves.

The past 2 weeks he has sped by here at around the same time in the afternoon. Today, I was ready and waiting for him.....armed with my hair dryer. I stood in the driveway by the mail box, and waited. I only had to wait about 5 minutes and here he came, roaring down the road and slinging gravel. I put on my, "Don't Mess With Me Face", and stuck the hairdryer out, aiming it at his truck. He looked at me, did a double take and gunned it, going faster than ever. I stood out in the middle of the road, still aiming a hair dryer covered in a blanket of dust.

All things considered, I guess I can understand why you would want to get away from someone standing near the road pointing a hair dryer at you. Especially when you take into consideration that this is the same woman that not so long ago was flipping off an airplane and throwing rocks at it.

I did some checking around and the cashier at the local store was more than willing to give up his name. I then put in a call to my son in law Super Trooper and suggested he bring over his stop spikes and throw them out in the road when the Dale Junior wannabe comes zipping by. He nixed that idea but offered that his patrol car could just "happen" to be sitting in my driveway tomorrow afternoon. Sounds good to me and it will only cost me a Watermelon Pie.

I could have taken another approach and simply called his granddaddy, but his granddaddy drives like he does. Or, I could have placed a call to the Sheriff, explained the situation and asked him to have a little "talk" with him. And I might have had he not reacted the way he did. There must be consequences!!!!

And the moral to this story is: YOU CAN'T JUST BLOW OFF A CRAZY BITCH WITH A HAIRDRYER!

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Later Ya'll...^Belle^

UPDATE:

Super Trooper was dispatched to an accident in another county, but was kind enough to give me the heads up that he wouldn't be able to make it. So, I called to see what deputy's were on duty today. As luck would have it, a very good friend of mine was working. I explained the situation and he agreed to come over at the appointed time.

He got here about 15 mintues early and enjoyed not 1 but 2 slices of pie! With his patrol car at the end of the driveway facing the road he was armed with radar gun and ready.(He made me stay inside and I was reduced to peeking out the window.)

All of a sudden I see him aiming the gun,and hear the speedster. I see the speedster flying down the road. I see the speedster slam on his brakes....gravel is flying and dust covers the road. He slows down to a crawl and proceedes very carefully past the patrol car. Mr County Mounty pulls out behind him and blue lights him! I scream and cheer inside the house and scare the Rat Pack.

He kept him there for about 10 minutes. He issued him a verbal warning and gave him a "...good talking to..."

Posted by ^BELLE^ at 1:01 AM - 27 Comments   Add a Comment  
 

 MANIC MONDAY
 

Hello and welcome to the MENTAL HEALTH HOTLINE.

If you are suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, press 1, repeatedly.

If you are Co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you.

If you have Multiple Personalities, press 3, 4, 5 & 6.

If you are Paranoid, we know who you are and what you want. Stay on the line so we can trace your call.

If you are Delusional, press 7, and your call will be transferred to the Mother Ship.

If you are Schizophrenic, listen carefully and a small voice will tell you which number to press.

If you are a Manic-depressive, it doesn't matter which number you press ... no-one will answer.

If you are Dyslexic, press 96969696969696.

If you have a Nervous Disorder, please fidget with the hash key until a representative comes on the line.

If you have Amnesia, press 8 and state your name, address, phone number, date of birth, social security number and your mother's and grandmother's maiden names.

If you have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, slowly and carefully press 000.

If you have Bi-polar Disorder, please leave a message after the beep. Or before the beep. Or after the beep. Please wait for the beep.

If you have Short-Term Memory Loss, please try your call again later.

If you have Low Self Esteem, please hang up. All our operators are far too busy to talk to you. "

*********************

How to keep a healthy level of insanity...Do three of these per day.
( I can totally see myself doing some of these things. I bet you by the end of the week, Randy will have tried at least 2 or 3 of them!)

"Insanity is a tool, use it well." - Robert Clark

- At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.

- Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.

- Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.

- Develop an unnatural fear of staplers.

-Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.

- In the memo field of all your checks, write 'for sexual favors.'

- Finish all your sentences with "In accordance with the prophecy."

- As often as possible, skip rather than walk.

- Ask people what sex they are. Laugh hysterically after they answer.

- Call the psychic hotline and don't say anything.

- When the money comes out of the ATM, scream "I Won!", "I Won!""3rd time this week!!!"

- When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling "Run for your lives, they're loose!"

- Every time you see a broom, yell "Honey, your mother is here!"

-Follow delivery men around in pure James Bond style, but make it very obvious.

- Belch loudly over the intercom, then ask if anyone wants to hear a fart.

- When the boss starts talking to you, open and drink a bottle of ketchup.

- Wear socks on the outside of your shoes.

- In a meeting or crowded situation, slap your forehead repeatedly and mutter, "Shut up, damn it, all of you just shut up!".

-Poke holes in the bottoms of all the styraphome coffee cups in the break room.

FUNNY FARM

Larry & His Missus

Larry gets home late one night and his wife, Linda, says "Where in the hell have you been?
"He replies, "I was out getting a tattoo." "A tattoo?"
she frowned. "What kind of tattoo did you get?"
"I got a hundred dollar bill on my privates," he said proudly.
"What the hell were you thinking?" she said, shaking her head in disbelief. "Why on earth would an accountant get a hundred dollar bill tattooed on his privates?"
"Well, one, I like to watch my money grow, two, once in a while I like to play with my money, three, I like how money feels in my hand. Lastly instead of you going out shopping, you can stay right here at home. and blow a hundred bucks anytime you want."

Later Ya'll...^Belle^
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 SONG IN MY HEAD SUNDAY; Return Of The Ice Princess
 

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LISTEN TO THE BITCH IS BACK BY ELTON JOHN IN THE COMMENTS SECTION.

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I wanted Tina Turner's version of this song but couldn't find it. This just seems to speak to my mood at the moment.

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LATER YA'LL...^Belle^

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