Day 3: Snortin' and drinkin'

Your views on drugs and alcohol:

I'm guessing my views aren't really innovative or controversial.  Alcohol is fine in moderation.  Don't ever drink and drive.  I'm not really a drinker; I can probably count on one hand the number of drinks I have in a year, but I'd never tell anybody else not to do it as long as they're responsible.  As for drugs...well, drugs are bad, mmmmkay?  Seriously, I'm on the fence about marijuana and legalizing it.  Having never tried it (really, never!) I have no idea how it affects the body, and the arguments for and against legalizing it contain such conflicting facts it's really hard to say.  As far as everything else goes, it's illegal for a reason, right?  I can't really see how anybody could say meth or heroin or cocaine or whatever should be legalized.

So yeah.  Drink in moderation and don't do drugs.  There's your PSA for the day, courtesy of little ol' me.

*cue "The more you know" music and the shooting star*

Blog Challenge: Day 2

Where you'd like to be in 10 years...

Oooh, this one is a toughie.  I'm hoping that by that point I will no longer be a stay-at-home-mom, since my kids will be nearly sixteen, eighteen and twenty-three by that point.  (They won't need me here after school by then, will they?  Pleasesaynopleasesaynopleasesayno!)  If my primary dream of winning the lottery and becoming a lady of luxury hasn't come true by then (and since I don't actually play the lottery I'm guessing it won't), I'd like to have a career going.  I'm hoping to go to school in the next year or two--for what exactly, I still don't know.  I'd like to get into either the medical field or maybe go to beauty school.  (Two very different career paths, I know.)  My cousin and I have talked about going to the local community college together and taking some non-credit courses in floral arrangement and party planning.  (Another dream of mine is to open a floral boutique/party planning business.)  With Sam and Norah being so young still, it's going to be hard to do nursing school because you have to be available pretty much 24/7.  I've been thinking of taking a phlebotomy certification course as a way to get myself into the field and then adding to it with a laboratory assistant certification and then maybe become a medical assistant.  After caring for my mom while she was sick and giving Jake his weekly injections, I know that I'm less squeamish than I ever thought I was.  On the other hand, I also have a real interest in becoming a stylist and doing hair.  That would definitely be the more playful and fun job!  No blood or guts and the only crying is over a bad haircut.

Sometimes thinking about the future makes my head spin.  I have a LOT of planning to do.  Maybe tomorrow I'll buy a lottery ticket...

And the challenge begins!

*deep breath*

Okay, I'm ready.  30 Day Blog Challenge begins...NOW!

Day 1:  Your current relationship, if single, discuss how single life is.

My current relationship status is married.  I haven't been single in for what feels like 150 years.  In reality, it's nearly 18 together, 16 married.  Holy cow.  That's a looooong time to be with just one person and still both be alive.

Todd and I have been together since just after my 22nd birthday, and I'll be 40 in two weeks.  We met on December 31, 1993 at Rodeo, a country-western line dance saloon.  (Stop laughing!)  The next morning, when my mom asked me if I'd met anybody the night before, I told her I met the man I was going to marry.

  On August 27, 1994, Todd proposed during a dinner cruise aboard the Liberty Belle Clipper.  He was so nervous he dropped the ring and it almost went through the boards of the deck.  It was so cute!  I knew something was up, and everybody in my family was acting squirrelly and giving me sappy smiles and "awwww"ing a lot.  He even asked my dad for my hand in marriage.  Such a traditionalist, my guy is!  On September 9, 1995, we said "I do".

The past 16 years have been full of ups and downs.  Some of the ups have been amazing (the births of our 3 kids), and some of the downs have been devastating (the deaths of my grandmother, my niece and my father).    We've overcome the tough stuff and we're still together.  There are times where we want to absolutely KILL each other, but we work through it and get over it and move on.  He drives me nuts at times, and there have been moments where I haven't been sure we'd make it.  But despite those bad days, there isn't anyone else I can imagine growing old with.  Like he always tells me (in his best Forrest Gump voice) "We go together like peas and carrots, Jenny."

Todd and I have always said we wanted to follow in our respective parents' footsteps:  we both come from families where the parents have 40+ year marriages.  We're nearly halfway there...I think we might must make it!