One year later...

The Other Side
~David Gray

Meet me on the other side
Meet me on the other side
I'll see you on the other side
See you on the other side

Honey now if Im honest
I still dont know what love is
Another mirage folds into the haze of time recalled
And now the floodgates cannot hold
All my sorrow all my rage
A tear that falls on every page

Meet me on the other side
Meet me on the other side
Maybe I oughta mention
Was never my intention
To harm you or your kin
Are you so scared to look within
The ghosts are crawling on our skin
We may race and we may run
Well not undo what has been done
Or change the moment when its gone

Meet me on the other side
Meet me on the other side
I'll see you on the other side
I'll see you on the other side
I know it would be outrageous
To come on all courageous
And offer you my hand
To pull you up on to dry land
When all I got is sinking sand
The trick ain't worth the time it buys
I'm sick of hearing my own lies
And loves a raven when it flies

Meet me on the other side
Meet me on the other side
I'll see you on the other side
Honey now if Im honest
I still dont know what love is

The looooong and short of the past year...

Over You

Now that it's all said and done,
I can't believe you were the one
To build me up and tear me down,
Like an old abandoned house.
What you said when you left
Just left me cold and out of breath.
I fell too far, was in way too deep.
Guess I let you get the best of me.

Well, I never saw it coming.
I should've started running
A long, long time ago.
And I never thought I'd doubt you,
I'm better off without you
More than you, more than you know.
I'm slowly getting closure.
I guess it's really over.
I'm finally getting better.
And now I'm picking up the pieces.
I'm spending all of these years
Putting my heart back together.
'Cause the day I thought I'd never get through,
I got over you.

You took a hammer to these walls,
Dragged the memories down the hall,
Packed your bags and walked away.
There was nothing I could say.
And when you slammed the front door shut,
A lot of others opened up,
So did my eyes so I could see
That you never were the best for me.

Well, I never saw it coming.
I should've started running
A long, long time ago.
And I never thought I'd doubt you,
I'm better off without you
More than you, more than you know.
I'm slowly getting closure.
I guess it's really over.
I'm finally getting better.
And now I'm picking up the pieces.
I'm spending all of these years
Putting my heart back together.
'Cause the day I thought I'd never get through,
I got over you. X2

Well I'm putting my heart back together,
'Cause I got over you.
Well I got over you.
I got over you.
'Cause the day I thought I'd never get through,
I got over you.

-Daughtry

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated...

Just wanted to say I'm not dead...just haven't felt much like blogging lately. Still reading all your stuff...I'm around but quiet.
Can't believe the summer's over...
I'm coming up to the difficult 1 year anniversaries (not like they haven't all sucked) and I don't know what more to say about that so...I probably won't. But it is still on my mind...although I keep chastising myself that that shouldn't be so after all this time.
Bleah...

Anyway, to sum up:
Not dead.
Not gone.
Just not sayin' much.

*hugs*

My weekend and Half-Nekkid Thursday #24 (Corrected Edition)

First, I will speak yet again of my poker prowess...yes, I AM a superstar!

I finally won outright at the Saturday poker game!!!!! Seventeen people down and and no splits or anything...just $200 for me...woohoo! I'm getting better at this...and that makes me very happy!

Then we played in the Sunday game with the accusers and I came in third and third (we play two games)...this gives me another 3,000 chips for the big cash tournament, which is on Aug. 26th. My total is now 29, 500 by their count...I had the total at 5,000 chips lower so I am not going to argue (also, I might have missed a first place somewhere...maybe!)!

After Saturday poker, we played glow-in-the-dark miniputt. It was fun! S ended up 1 under par and I was *ahem* *mumble, mumble* over...oh fine 11, I was 11 over! I do indeed suck but we had fun anyway.

Finally, I need to correct my count for HNT...I am NOW at # 24. As of today. I went trekking through the old archives, looking at pics I've done and I realised that I skipped one when numbering my HNT submissions! So, without further delay...here it is...the much anticipated (and frankly already supposedly posted)...HNT #24:

*Polt...you MIGHT wanna go look at XTube for something more...appropriate...* ;o)

I warned ya...

Figured since I discovered my error, I should rectify it asap...this pic was taken quite a while back and I think I never used it not because I didn't like it but because I was shy. But since I do not have an effects tool at my disposal currently, you get unadulterated breastage!

Enjoy! ;o)

HHNT!

Click above to tell Os where he can come to see my boobie! hehe

Half-Nekkid Thursday #24 (The Birthday Suit Edition)

Well, this is as naked as I've been on here...no clothes, no effects, just ass...and lots of it! That's right kids, I'm not skinny and I'm not trying to hide it anymore! :oD

So, if you were popping by expecting Paris Hilton (snort!), you will be SORELY disappointed although if that IS what you were looking for, why in the name of all that is holy?!

That is a whole other discussion...moving on...

So, here's my bottom...again! (And my boy kitty, trying to escape photographic capture, in the background.)

Like it or kiss it...or both! Yer choice... ;o)

Happy HNT lovely people!

(Click the thingy above to go tell Os you've seen my ass...)

My weekend...and happy birthday to me!

I took an extended weekend, starting with Friday off so that I could spend a day with my oldest nephew. He chose to go to the Science Centre again (same as the last time we did a "Mitchie-Day" two years ago). We had a good time and he behaved very well...the only glitch in the day came when my sister called to say that his dad, her husband, had fallen out of a tree and was being taken by ambulance to the hospital! It was a few hours before we knew that he was okay except for a broken bone in his heel, which means he will be in a cast and on crutches pretty much until October (poor guy!).

Saturday was...you guessed it! Poker, where S and I shared first and second in a side game, earning us $100 (after the $80 it cost us to play both games).
Sunday was my birfday barbeque. I figured that it would be off considering it was being held at my sister's place but bro-in-law decided he was up to it so we went on with the show! My brother did the bbq'ing and there was much fun and food and kids running around and mayhem! It was nice to actually have a celebration for my birthday as that was not something the ex and I really did much of...hell, we only ever really bought each other Christmas presents twice in our whole time together...pathetic, right?

Speaking of prezzies, guess what I got for my birfday? :oD

Yes, that's right, I have finally joined this millenium and am the proud owner of an iPod Nano! Fun little gadgets they are...how come no one told me about them before?! ;o)

I went ahead and converted all my MP3's so they could be played on the iPod and then I proceeded to get down with my bad self while doing the dishes and getting ready for bed last night! Fun!
Less fun was Saturday night, after a winning day of poker and a fabulous crab leg buffet at the Mandarin, coming home to a flood in my apartment. :oO

Seems the stupid lady next door has the shut off valve for the water in her apartment and it further seems that she cannot follow simple instructions, such as, say, "DON'T turn the water back on!". So, S ended up shop-vaccing my closet yesterday (and setting up my mouse and keyboard!) while I took boy kitty to the vet for his 6 week check up. I am happy to report that the closet floor finally seems to be drying out, slowly but surely, and that kitty is up to 10 lbs., the vet says he seems to be doing well and she does not need to see him for another 3 months...woohoo!

So, today is my actual b-day...and S is coming back down to take me out for a nice dinner before turning around and heading right back home! He is very sweet to me... :ox

Hope you are all doing well and I should be around for HNT this week...might even have a pic of me in my birthday suit, ya never know! ;o)

*hugs*

Better... ;o)

This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:

• hell (4x)
• bitch (2x)
• kill (1x)

Heh, heh!
But no credit for those OTHER words?! Weird rating system...

Ah HELL no!

That's 'cause I always put the asterisks in my swear words...I'm SO gonna hafta try A LOT harder. Watch out kiddies...I'm on a mission:

Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits

P.S. Ain't much in THIS life that's rated PG-13... ;o)