It is crazy but I had a huge post made up yeasterday and it disappered. Hmm

Anyway Happy Valentines day!

We are not celebrating too much since both hubby and I have colds. I am getting over it but he is coming down with one. I share so nicely.

Making some of his favorite cookies and cooking a nice spagetti dinner for the boys and us. We are going out this weekend instead of tonight.  

Do you have any plans?                   

I am tired of fake posts by celebrities. Have you seen the latest about Bill Cosby? I wish people would check their info before forwarding a message along they think to be a quote from anyone. 

We have a house on the end of our street we called the Lord Of the Flies house. The neglect that went on for those teen boys was horrific to many tales to tell but no state or local authority seemed to care for years.  The family had taken in at least 4 other teen boy cousins to get money from the state. Yes even I reported them in but yesterday was a different kind of day. Apparently the oldest son was a drug dealer and was involved in a sting operation. They arrested not only the boy but the mother as well. The Police raided the home, sheds and woods outside their house. I don't know what happened but my friend who lived beside them said that they told the mother she is guilty just because she did nothing to help those kids.

I really felt sad to see that. I don't know why but I prayed for her and her son. The boy teen was a kid I have known since he was 7. He played at our house with his cousins and we had them over quite a few times for birthday parties and fun stuff. Hubby played street hockey with them and tried to be a good example. I knew they had been getting beatings at home when they let things slip and it hurt me to know. I tried to talk to them about it when I had a chance but they just shrugged it off. The younger cousin I comforted a lot but he wouldn't talk to me about it. He just would cry. They came over to play until they started to steal from us. It got pretty bad with them too because they saw it as rejection from a mother figure and acted angry with me for not letting them in anymore. I confronted them on their stealing but they just denied. I was told by them how they wished I was their mom so many times it grieved me not to let them in but I had to protect my own children. I told them if they ever need help I am here for them. They just stopped coming over.

A few years ago I complained about kids harassing our house at night to deal drugs in the alley, it was them. My Husband tried to talk to the parents but they just said "kids will be kids."  Eventually we had to call police since they stood outside my house and threatened me. I had told them to leave off my yard when they had started a fight. We stopped talking to them at that point. A very defensive wall came up between our family and theirs as they stopped even saying hello on the street when we saw them. They knew we had called the police. I think it was the start of worse things to come.

I am praying for them because I know those boys were good kids at one time. They cared about animals and liked innocent fun but we really saw a change in them over the years and I could not tell you why other than the Parents didn't care what they did. OH and they were abused so badly. I don't think anyone cared in the state agency since it seemed they had social workers visit. People learn to lie and cover up easily. That is why abuse is so hard to deal with in families. If no outside help comes in nothing can be done unless they change. I am hoping this might be a change for the better for those kids but I wonder.

 Pray for them. I know change is really a hard thing for people who are abused who become Abusive. Yes there is no excuse but I have such pity for them. Why I don't know call it a mothers heart. It looks like life is only going to get worse for the oldest son. It breaks my heart. I so had hoped and prayed he was doing Ok. I hope he would get good help and possibly change his ways. It just seemed like he never had a chance to start with.

The Weekly Question: my answer; Sims 3.

I am undoubtedly addicted to this game.

Here is a wedding picture I took. HA I love setting them up.

I am not the most obsessed person to this game by any means. I love watching how to build homes on youtube like this one. 

You would think watching this video building houses for the game is easy. NOPE! It is defiantly a video that has been fast forwarded but a pro. He also uses cheats to play that do not work for me. It takes me hours to build a house to my liking and they are hard to get perfect like his in the video.

I want more expansion packs but they cost so much and I do not expect to get them anytime soon. I cannot imagine the cost to that to buy all of them since many are 20 dollars a pop. I got the original game Sims 3 in Christmas 2010 (I think) that is how long the game has been out. Husband got me 2 expansion packs this past Christmas  I am at least 10 expansion packs behind or more.  Sims 3 never gets old to me. I can play goddess and control people lives as far as Artificial life simulation goes. But I love my simming and I am happy having a silly hobby top play house to my hearts content. HE HE!

Here is the website The Sims 3 Community  and you can download a ton of things but unless you have the right mega gaming computer I do not suggest it. The Game has so many bugs. It will not run on a laptop. I am lucky my husband is such a Geek. He has to fix my game ever so often since I tried to once and erased my whole files. Nothing like cleaning out hours of game time to make a person feel sick. <---- Unless you are a gamer you will not understand this.

I often do laundry while I game or do some hand sewing while it runs in the background. SO it works into my schedule. I only have a few hours a day to waste so I have to make them count before i get kicked off the computer by a preteen and teenager who have much more important things to do that I do playing games. LOL YEAH RIGHT!

Anywho... I am showing you the Lazy Slacker Gamer side to me. This is a definite gamer house hold.

Do you like any video games? 

My first born baby is 16 today. I am so proud to be Leif's momma.

Long hair and all, this boys has always been an unique individual. I could not tell him what to think, wear, do, or anything like that since he was 2. He is smart and savvy but really doesn't care what others think. I accept him with all his likes and dislikes. He is my son and I never wanted to raise a mainstream kid anyway.

He loves this show called My Little Pony. I have talked about this in the past, they call guys who like this show Bronys. He really doesn't care if I tease him about it. He loves his MLP so I caved for his birthday and made him a Plush pony Named Derpy Hooves.

It took me a week of sewing and much had to be sewn by hand. I think He is going to love it.

We plan to take him out to a Korean resturant this evening since that is his request. Leif wants some Kailbi (a beef dish) and Gochu Pajon ( onion rice pancake.)

I am baking him a marble cake today so I need to get off this computer.

I hope he has a great birthday.

I made a video of me playing fetch with my cat yesterday. Youtube made it really clear compared to my version on my laptop.

Memow is pretty good at fetch but when I tried to record him on a video, he would stop playing to play with my camera or just stare at me. After about of month or so he decided the camera posed no threat and started to play again.

Excuse my silly voice. I sound like a moron talking to a cat LOL.

Enjoy!

 Or have a good laugh at me... 

I have footprints from around the world. It's kind off weird to think someone out there is reading this with no idea who I am, or what i am, LOL But It is what it is here on Xanga.

I have been thinking about this a lot. I have no Friends offline that live in my area. It is because they either moved and I am unmotivated to open up to a new relationship. My current relationship with my close familial is taking all my time. If I have time for friends they are in my trusty page on facebook Or here on Xanga, with words and thoughts waiting for me to share, on my own time. It sounds lonely when you think of it but really i don't feel alone. So I guess there cannot be a problem, RIGHT?

I am a bit of a recluse physically. I rather not see people face to face. LOL Example. I have a facebook friend through my Korean drama club who owns a chain of restaurants. We chat online and on each others walls from time to time. He has a lovely family. Once awhile back I took my family to see his restaurant. He was there and I totally froze then got strangely shy. Well he didn't recognize me and was really busy so I sat and ate my dinner all quiet like and we left. I am so embarrassed I didn't talk to him but I am weird like that. LOL SEE!

I would like to meet people on Xanga too but am afraid my people paranoia would set in and I would just act so dumb. Maybe someday I will get some braveness. Forgive me if I act weird. Its not you it's me.

I do have some very close friends online who I have known since my childhood and I know i we saw each other it would be one of those things like you just pick up where you left off last. I just have not seen them in years due to money and time.

How about you? Do you have a vibrant social life outside of the computer? Or are you like me, waiting to see who posted what next? LOL

Yep What I think about super bowl.

I am making a super bowl of homemade baked beans and wings for the guys though.

I think it was nostalgia but I had to buy some smelts today to fry up for my family. They had never had them but didn't like them one bit. I wasn't hurt since I really do not like them either. It was more for a story telling for them to remember their grandparents. I told them all about how I had to eat them growing up.

When I was little my mom and dad took us children smelting. Smelts would rush the rivers in Canada in the spring and all you had to do was dip your nets into the water and it would come up with a plentiful supply of these little silvery wiggly fish. They call it Smelt dipping. It was fun to watch them fill big bags full but what was not fun was coming home to clean them. After cleaning mom froze them in batches. YUCK I hated their smell. After which my mom would fry them up for us and my dad. I disliked eating them so much but I had to eat them. Mom made sure to make them once a week since we had plenty of them. She had good intention and it was free food. I gulped them down in big bites with glasses of water.

Smelts have a very fishy taste. I think the smell of them frying is all I was going for since I miss my parents.

Aaron was the only brave one who ate 2 down. He said it is not my favorite but they are OK. His Grandparents would have been proud.

that is what I am doing today. How about you?