For the New Year

I wasn't sure when i was going to unvail the new home...but now is as good as time as any. I have a few changes for the New Year...

I am going to start going by my real name Jessica. Dragon doesn’t fit, and hasn’t for a while. Jessica is who I am in life and who I want to be online.

I have a new website: jessicamazie.com I want my new site to be a bit more me.

She's Not Kidding

A woman once told me how when she and her husband had their first child, he walked around in a daze for about a month. It was like he kept realizing that he was an adult with a wife and a house…and now a kid. He kept telling her that he had to grow up because he was now a father. When the second child came, same thing happened. He kept telling her “We aren’t kidding around with this parent stuff we now have TWO KIDS!”

I had a similar experience. I found out that one of my best friends is having her SECOND KID! She isn’t kidding around with this parenting stuff! I being SO FAR WAY from the marriage and child stage of my life I have a hard time thinking that anyone my age is ready to be in that stage.

I went over to her love nest yesterday. She is so beautiful with her belly! Her husband is so supportive he is working so she can stay home. He is so gentle, just what she needs. And her almost two year old son is a pure delight. He is starting to talk, if forget how smart a two year old can be. I was so glad to see her and the wonderfulness of the family…I may not be ready for the next step and a family, but I’m glad that some one is.

No Offence...

I hate when people use the phrase “No offence…” To clarify I know that I have used it before. I think that when I use the phrase I mean it in a I don’t want to offend you, please let me know if I do so I can clarify my thoughts better kind of way. I believe that when use to account for that the next thoughts coming out of your mouth are raw and may not be as polished as you would like the phrase is fine. But when the phrase “No offence…” is used to distract form the blow that is about to be issued, I think in that case you need to stand up make the blow above the waist.

By starting the sentence with “No offence…” you set up the person that you are conversating with to be on guard and defensive. It is code for “Watch out the next thing I’m going to say will hurt you, but I don’t want to be rude…” I think that the phrase should be replaced with what you really want to say or nothing. Here are some, let me know if you have more suggestions…

“I think that you are a bitch and…”

“Man you are ugly and…”

“If you are offended by this don’t let me know, I don’t care enough to see your reaction…”

“Did I ever tell you that your kids were ugly?...and…”

“You are probably too stupid to get that this is an insult, but…”

Knitters Anonymous

Hello my name is Dragon and I’m an addict. I just noticed that I have a problem. Knitting is consuming my life. I have been staying up all hours to knit. I keep telling myself that this is the last row, and then I will stop…and it is never the last row. I knit the next row and the next row. I have been going to the store (without The Man’s knowledge) about every other day to get new yarn. I have been choosing to knit over spending time with friends and family. I have gotten dark circles under my eyes from lack of sleep. I keep telling myself that I’m in control and that I can stop any time I choose. But I have recognized that this problem is bigger then me, I’m no longer in control of my life. I live thinking when and how will I get my next fix. The needles are controlling me.

I love the high I get when the needle are in my hand. I know that I can’t knit like this forever. I need to get my knitting under control. I have been spending HOURS knitting, looking at patterns and reading about knitting. I have completed 4 scarves for Christmas in the past two weeks. I have a list of projects that I want to work on after I finish all of my holiday knitting. I want to continue to knit, but I want my life back. The Man deserves to have me back.

**I need to borrow my mom’s camera so I can post pictures of all my holiday knitting projects.

The Perverted Old Man

The Man: “My mom is ruining my life; I think that she is voting YES on Prop 73”

(Prop 73 would make a under age girl have to tell her parents about an abortion if she where to have one.)

Dragon: “Why you plan on impregnating underage girls? I hate to break it to you but I’m a LEAGAL ADULT.”

The Man: “No!”

Dragon: “Then how is your mom RUINING your life?”

The Man: “No they were separate thoughts.”

Dragon: “Oh, my mistake.”

Bounce

The Man came and had lunch with me. It was wonderful…until, he started zoning out of the conversation. The conversation being on a LIFE CHANGING topic.

Dragon: “I hate not having a set major. I feel so lost. Sometimes I think that I want to go back to being a math major, because at least I would have direction.”

The Man: “Yeah, I know what you mean.”

D: “I have been doing some soul searching and thinking that I should just focus on topics that interest me and not decide a major till I need to declare one.”

TM: “Yeah, wait till you declare one.”

D: “So I’m just going to take fun classes. This spring I plan on taking Accounting, Philosophy…

TM interrupts: “You know philosophy is hard!”

D: “Yeah, I know. What you don’t think I can handle it?”

TM: “That isn’t what I said.”

D: “Anyways, Accounting, Philosophy and Ceramics. I think that it will be a good semester. I plan on focusing on administration, politics, and philosophy. I think that administration will be a good foundation to understand policies and that politics is the best way to go about changing them. I also think that philos…”

TM interrupts and doesn’t even let me finish my sentence or word for that matter: “Yeah, yeah, I think that is wonderful and all. Did I tell you what I did after my Chemistry test? Well, I went to the library and started reading this book on Columbus…”

D I’m sure I interrupted him, but I wasn’t listening to him go on and on and on and on about the stupid Columbus book: “So I take it that you don’t care what I major in, or what I do with my life.”

TM: “No, I care. I just don’t want to talk about it, so I changed the subject.”

Second Chances

Some days just don’t go as planned and even when they start on a bad note and end on a bad not you have little pick me up to help you remember “this too shall pass.” Here is the email that The Man sent me, and I must say he has perfect timing…today I needed the pick me up.

“Just wanted to say that I love you, and I think you are so amazing, astonishing, astounding, fabouls, fantastic, incredible, marvelous, miraculous, phenomenal, prodigious, stupendous, unbelievable, wondrous, divine, dandy, dreamy( what any guy would want), super, cool, groovy, and especially hot.

Hope you are having a wonderful day and that everything is going perfect.

-The Man”

I love that even some of the worst days give you a second chance to make it a good day. I have decided that today will be a good day!!

Bizarre

Random things today that I heard people say:

“It October, not Burger King. You can’t have it your way, you’ll have it MY WAY!”

“HOW DO I UNLOCK IT???”-I could hear the woman yelling from inside the car next to me at her husband who was outside of the car. Man car locks these days can be tricky

Woman: “I don’t think that the caffeine is working anymore.” Man: “Maybe you should get some sleep.” Woman: “Huh, I hadn’t thought of that.”

Woman: “I don’t remember who I called, can you help me out?” I repeated who I was and the name of the company that I work for. Woman: “Shit! No only am I lost, but I don’t know how to dial!” CKICK

Yep it has been one of “those” days, nothing has quite made since.

First Day Of My Life

I love this song so much. I think you should find it, download it, and sing it to loved ones.

BRIGHT EYES LYRICS

"First Day Of My Life"

This is the first day of my life
I swear I was born right in the doorway
I went out in the rain suddenly everything changed
They're spreading blankets on the beach

Yours is the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
Now I don’t know where I am
I don’t know where I’ve been
But I know where I want to go

And so I thought I’d let you know
That these things take forever
I especially am slow
But I realize that I need you
And I wondered if I could come home

Remember the time you drove all night
Just to meet me in the morning
And I thought it was strange you said everything changed
You felt as if you had just woke up
And you said “this is the first day of my life
I’m glad I didn’t die before I met you
But now I don’t care I could go anywhere with you
And I’d probably be happy”

So if you want to be with me
With these things there’s no telling
We just have to wait and see
But I’d rather be working for a paycheck
Than waiting to win the lottery
Besides maybe this time is different
I mean I really think you like me

I'd shove him back into the oven until he is done cookin'

I wonder if I ever want kids, after last night. I like kids in the same way I like animals. I don’t like having to clean up after them or be around them when they are annoying. But when they are being cute, or sleeping who can resist them?

Last night The Man and I made some mistakes on our date:

ONE: We went to see a move on the opening weekend. This is a HUGE mistake when you don’t like to hear people talking during the movie.

TWO: We went to see a PG movie before 10pm, there for our theater was full of kids.

THREE: We sat by one of the families that had kids.

We went to see the greatest game ever played. Good flick, I think, I didn’t get to hear or see all of it. Now I know that normally when people say that they didn’t see all of the movie it is because they A) were making out during the movie B) you had to go to the bathroom and miss the most important part, and therefore the movie doesn’t make sense or C) you are 14 and told your parents that you are going to the movie, but then go and do something else. I didn’t realize that there were so many more options.

In my case it was D) you are sitting next a bratty kid who is slurping his soda for half of the movie. I couldn’t hear the dialog, because I as bombarded with SSSSS-LLLLL-UUUU-RRRR-PPPPPP. And I assume that the kid had been no manors because in between SSSSS-LLLLL-UUUU-RRRR-PPPPPPs he would gargle. This kid, who I also assume has ADHD, would get up every five or ten minutes to discuss the movie with is dad. His dad was sitting one seat way, so Mr. Elephant Foot Kid would STOMP AS LOUD as he could walking the yard to his dad, and then the dad would have a conversation with the boy. “DAD, WHO IS THAT. IS HE THE BAD GUY?” “I don’t know, I’m just your inconsiderate father, now drink your soda, son.” “SSSSS-LLLLL-UUUU-RRRR-PPPPPP” STOMP STOMP STOMP back to his original seat. E) You are trying to shoot lasers out of your eyes as the bratty kid and his father. I kept thinking aht my look of death would stop them. D) Father of bratty kid’s cell phone rang. He had one of those LOUD rings BEEP- BEEP BEEP- BEEP BEEP BEEP- BEEP- BEEP BEEP- BEEP BEEP BEEP. And the worse part was he couldn’t find the damn thing, he was franticlly looking for it was Bratty Kid was yelling, “HEY DAD YOUR PHONE IS RINGING. WHERE IS THE PHONE? WHO IS IT?…” and E)This is were I switch from lasers to NUCULAR BOMB LOOKS.

Are people so out of it that they have no idea that they are being rude?