hands up, scream.

personally, i don't care for Rollercoasters. This may make me seem a little like a hypocryte, how can you not like something you don't have much experience in???, ok, i see that. Then, what i'll say is:

"personally i don't care much to KNOW about Rollercoasters." 

My relationship with Rollercoasters was... well, a one night stand. (an "ONS" in SpankySpeak)

i was nervous, but a little excited. i def wanted to make sure i had protection, it was a bit of a bumpy ride, i didn't really find my rhythm, it was shorter than i'd expected, (i whacked my head on the "head board") & i left feeling dizzy, nauseous & a bit grossed out. the last thing that i wanted to do, was go stand on line to have another.

(photo credit to taranoel on flikr.com)
Metaphoric Rollercoasters aren't much better, but lately, that's what my life has been. a god-damn, up & down, makes me get the spins just thinking about it, wild ride that has been both exhilarating & down right fuck'n awful. (wah, wah, wah...)

i've been trying to write this post for days... maybe weeks.
i basically wanted to catch everyone up on everything that has been happening, & (of course) other things keep jumping right in the way of being able to actually sit, tune out, and type.

in a true unavailable, Spanky manner, i'll give you a tid bit and make a promise (that i hope to keep) to fill in the holes later.

i'll say one thing first, my head has been fluttering with ideas. i have a notebook next to me, as i type, on my desk at work that has SO many awesome ideas for posts, give aways, surveys, guest spot ideas, etc. & all that i need to do now is figure out a master plan to attack it all.

superfast over view of my rollercoaster life's peaks and pits:

peak-Wedding in GA was awesome. i fell in luv with all the girls from the wedding party & was so happy to spend time with Michelle, it was like we hadn't spent 5 mins apart, let alone basically 13 years!

my pre-wedding roomies, they are so cute. ::tear::

pit- Thinking that i met a nice guy that could be a future contact/friend on the plane, who ended up texting me to see if i'd come visit him in Jacksonville... can't you just be friends/professional contacts with people? annoying
peak- NOT falling at the wedding, like at all!
pit- NOT meeting any hotties... garrr
peak- swimming in the hotel fountain after the rehersal dinner, night before the Wedding
pit- forgetting to hang up my dress, so it flew home in a wet lump in a plastic bag in my suitcase.
peak- getting over my fear of flying (at least i think)
pit- being so fucking tired & hungover that i had no energy to care that i was about to fly.

post GA:

peak- NOT gaining back all the weight that i lost by frequenting Sonic in GA (tots are irresistable!)
pit- not making the weight goal i set myself by my 5 year HS reunion
peak- snagging myself a gorg-tastic duck at the bar (whom i know from elementary school through now - not a random) and spending the night with him - the night before thanksgiving. waking up next to him was DEF something to be thankful for!!! (i think i'm still sweating from that one. nice)
pit- having my sister pick me up at his dads apartment at 9:30am & seeing that i look like a TOTAL lagoon creature... NOT cute.
peak- NOT getting reamed out by ma & pa when i strolled in at 10am on Thanksgiving morning in my outfit from the night before.
pit- realizing that they had more on their mind, when they sat me & the sis-piece down at 10am on Thanksgiving morning (pre-eggs and bacon breakfast) to tell us that they are splitting up after 26(?) years of marriage... awesome.

there's been a lot more, including

• a missing cat, a found cat, pulling the cat out of the CHIMNEY & sneezing for days with soot in my eyes & nose...
• a make out session with my ex boyfriend (surprisingly NOT weird. haha)
• partying with friends from way WAY back, people i've never really spoken to, and people who never really cared to talk to me until now.
• 5 year high school reunion (which led to the aforementioned two points)
• Dropped out of school (i know, this could be it's own post blog, but this is supposed to be a quick update...)
• Went to White Plains w/ JenBunny, Cheryl & (local) Michelle (& some boys) & partied at the same bar as on h.ween. found out the h.ween duck's phone number. texted him, he didn't answer. over it. 
• plus side, i borrowed a dress from C & (if i do say so) i looked awesome!

(mb - our buddy that met us there)

WELL: that's most of it. i know that there's a lot more, but i'm getting sick of writing this post!!! here are some photos of me, in all my glory, at the Wedding:
i was going to upload some, but now i'm a Picnik snob, so i need boarders, wordies & goodie on my photos. I just decided to Upgrade, so it's taking forever. I'll be sure to do them ASAP (i swear!!!)

This was the only one i got done before i opted to upgrade (finally)

do u luvs?

thank you all for sticking with me thru my peaks & pits. i luvs u all, more than you can know & even though i'm sad to have to have dropped out of school, i'll have a lot more time to dedicate to my true luv... my bloggie.
There are a lot of fun things on the way, so please don't give up on me!!! i've got one HELL of a give away coming up, more from *The Duck Pond* & some advice like cheep* from a real life chick!

luvs it*

advice like *quack* from a real life duck.

Hi Babers!

After my post "Guy Time Zones" and my gush over the h.ween duck (who never called - boo), i felt the need to dive in DEEPER! So... look what i got for all of you! a real live DUCK to tell us how it is!

Ryan, hilarious author of the witty, informative, intelligent blog ETC. ETC. ETC. went to High School with me in our little silly town in CT. (he was a year ahead of me though & we didn't talk until way after we'd both graduated). Had i known he was such a riot, i would have spoken up sooner!

To all my luvs: READ his blog. it's fantasmic, you'll luvs it. It's become a must read for me & i know it will for you too.

So, without further drooling from this chick, i present to you, the ducks take, on guy time!

To all those who "luvs it", I'm here to share some wisdom. Spanky asked me if I could do a little guest spot on her blog and I thought it was a great idea. For those who don't know, I'm Ryan and write the eclectic and addictive blog ETC. ETC. ETC. (I had to throw in a shameless plug, check it out....rcazalet.blogspot.com). As a fellow blogger, I like to check out other blogs that are doing big things, and Spanky Luvs It happens to be one of those. Yet I couldn't help but notice that one large demographic has been left out of the mix and that is the often unheard male voice. So I campaigned across the information highway to be the spokesperson of a forgotten breed. I hit the campaign trail hard and the voters across the country said on one voice "YES WE CAN". I had originally planned on writing about the 10 things guys LUV right now, but instead came across an interesting little diddy from spanky's latest blog post... Guy Time. In order to understand guy time, we must first understand "guy mind".

Here's a little mantra that I always use when trying to pick up a girl, "What would Clooney do?" It's simple and effective. Guys are always tying to look cool. Not cool like the popular kid in middle school, but cool like Clooney, or perhaps the right word is confident. In most Clooney movies (and based on what I've read, in real life too) George pulls off the perfect balance between uninterested and flirtatious. And if you notice, the guys that are always getting girls walk that line to perfection.

What's interesting though is that the same basic principles apply for both guys and girls; you don't want to seem too interested and we all want what we can't have. Or at least what we think we can't have. For instance, if your looking for a job and someone from ask.com tells you they want you to work for them starting immediately, but someone at Google tells you they like your work and should get together some time to talk about it, are you going to take the job with ask.com or wait and see with Google?

So now that we have more of an understanding of what a guy is thinking, we can now address guy time. We wait because we want to look uninterested. We wait because we want to look cool. And by trying to look cool that means, of course, we don't want to look stupid. We don't want to send a text message the next day that says something to the effect of "hey baby, lets hang out" (don't even get me started about how hard it is to send an effective text message in these situations). So we wait. We try and think of something to say. We sometimes type it into our phone, read it and delete it because it sounds stupid. So we wait. Because usually if we call or text the same day of getting your number, we just say something stupid that completely ruins any chance we had. So we wait.

We wait until the girl is so frustrated and mad that she is ready to delete your number out of her phone. We wait until the girl is on the brink of calling you up just say your an asshole...and then we make contact. Sometimes its too late, but that's a risk we're willing to take. Some guys are purists and wait two days, others wait a week. It's up to you realize when it's too soon and when its too late. Do I like the system, no I don't. Did I just pose a question and then answer it, yes I did. But there are some things that a girl can do to combat this frustrating system.

As I said earlier, the same basic principles apply for guys and girls. Girls don't want to call or text a guy too soon for the same reasons guys don't...they don't want to seem like a stalker or a desperate loser. So what can you do when a guy you want to call isnt? Be proactive. Send him a text, but choose your words carefully. Don't ask the guy why he is ignoring you and don't ask him out. Be flirty, but don't be pushy. Esentially you should apply the Clooney Mantra, except it would be more like the "Fox Mantra"; What would Megan Fox do. And at the end of the day just remember this....the guy doesn't look like George Clooney and you don't look like Megan Fox ( and if you do, call me)

So why do we wait.....because we don't have as much game as George Clooney

a huge thanks to Ryan for giving us the "what's up".

luvs it*

guy time zones...

at the risk of sounding like a DG (dumb girl), i'm going to talk about something that bugs the SHIT out of me...

So, as you all luvies know, i met a total *duck* on Halloween. I tried to play it kool. y'know, met a hot guy, we MO'd like crazy, NBD... but... fuck... it was a big deal.. bc now i keep thinking about him!

like... quaaack!

We closed out the night with him asking for my digits. (score!) but, as i stated in the other post, my damn phone was dead, so i didn't get to get his. (UGH!). So, i've been in this perpetual "don't be a weirdo girl. hopefully he'll call, but if he doesn't, whatever, nbd."

-easier said than done.

i can't help but think that i like this guy. Yes, i'm aware, it was a drunken make out in a bar.. on halloween... i'm not even sure that he'd look at me twice w/o my insanely slutty costume on.

So, now that i've ranted, my issue is...

Why the hell do guys feel like they have to wait so long to contact a chick?

(i really hope that any guy readers don't get offended by my questioning of a "rule" that's older than time, but it's awfully frustrating.)

-this is why we chicks think that we're cra-cra! We start thinking about it too much. It's not like we want you to call us as soon as you wake up the next morning & ask us to move in! PUH-lease! that's the LAST thing that i want, but, why do you feel you need to wait a week to send me a text message saying "what's up?"... i'm not going to think you're in luv with me if you ask me "what's up" 2 days later... y'know?

Girlies: What do YOU think about this? What's your take? Advice?  Stories? Personal Experience? Agrivations?

Doodes: A little help here. Educate me, i'm sure that all the chickies that read this would luv some insight. 

• What do guys think the reason is to not make contact within a few days of a hook up, date, meeting?
• Do guys think that chicks are nutso if they contact them first? What's over bearing, what's "hot" initiative?
• How do us girls let a guy know we've been thinking about them, without falling into that ridiculous "stalker" category? 
• How the F are we supposed to let a guy know we would like to see them again without feeling like he'll think we're pushy?
• Should i totally NOT be putting these thoughts out there in the world, in case he happens to read this post?!?! 
• (ps- H.ween "Street Fighter" Duckie, if you're reading this... you're hot, i had a blasty with you, call me, let's get a corn dog & play duck hunt or something. ya diggg?)

AN INTJ wrote about this subject on Personal Development. It basically restates the thoughts we've all had & the actions we've all performed with this issue... but it didn't really help me much. (sorry)... AN's advice... "don't think about it"... but... as we discussed... -easier said than done, AN!

have you found a blog post about this? Do you hve a story about this? Advice? Comment or e-mail to SpankyLuvsIt@gmail.com. I'll compile a collection of "what to do's".

c'mon luvies... i need input.

luvs it?*