Well-Mannered Frivolity

In which she explains why she dropped out of NaBloWriMo

"I'm a Nut, I'm a Nut,
My life don't ever get in a rut
Woop Woop Woop Woop"
              -Leroy Pullins

or, alternatively......

"Crazy, I'm crazy for feeling so lonely
I'm crazy, crazy for feeling so blue"
                 -Willie Nelson

That's right.  I dropped out with 5 days left to go.  Why would I do such a crazy thing?  Well, as it turns out, I am actually crazy.  Or rather, crazier than I originally thought I was.  I just spent the last 4 days whiling the days away at the a "mental health facility."  The long and short of it is I got seriously depressed and was thought to be a harm to myself.  Turns out I was being treated for depression, but I'm actually bipolar!  Wacky me.  I was stabilized and given a med change.  I'm being weaned off Paxil.  Now I taking a "mood stabilizer" (or as the label helpfully calls it "an atypical anti psychotic") and an anti seizure medicine.  Yeah.  I really debated whether or not to blog about this.  In the end I decided to because a) I'm a total drama queen (just ask my husband, or my parents, or the Pretzel Girl, or Sister Christian, or....well, you get the idea) and b) some totally funny things happened that I just have to blog about.  Of course names will be changed to protect the insane innocent.

Coming up next...funny things that happened at the funny farm.

Nighty-night,
Wendy

Since everyone else is doing it.......

You Are An INFP

The Idealist You are creative with a great imagination, living in your own inner world. Open minded and accepting, you strive for harmony in your important relationships. It takes a long time for people to get to know you. You are hesitant to let people get close. But once you care for someone, you do everything you can to help them grow and develop. In love, you tend to have high (and often unrealistic) standards. You are very sensitive. You tend to have intense feelings. At work, you need to do something that expresses your personal values. You would make an excellent writer, psychologist, or artist. How you see yourself: Unselfish, empathetic, and spiritual When other people don't get you, they see you as: Unrealistic, naive, and weak

What's Your Personality Type?

Wendy

I'm a nerdy non girly-girl

You Are 12% Girly

Um... you're a guy, right? If not, you're the most boyish girl in the world. And for you, that's probably the ultimate compliment.

How Girly Are You?

Wendy

Don't know much about history

Overheard in the Well Mannered family room

Mary Jane: "Thomas Efferson invented the car."
Katherine: "No he didn't.  Jerry Ford invented the car.  Thomas Efferson invented the light bulb."

And to think, there are actually people out there who think homeschooling doesn't work!

Wendy

I'm part of another movement

As you may remember, a week or so ago I discovered I wasn't just a dull non-smoking, non-drinking, non-drug taking housewife.  I'm actually Str8 Edge.  Well, it turns out I'm part of another movement.  I have always avoided leaving my home on Black Friday.  I hate the crowds, the blatant consumerism, and the general grumpiness of the shoppers.  Black Friday shoppers can make those curmudgeons I encountered at Publix last Wednesday seem downright friendly.  Apparently I'm not just broke and agoraphobic.  I'm part of a larger movement called Buy Nothing Day! So instead of being poor, hating to shop and not drinking/taking drugs, I am a Str8 Edge Social Activist.  Wow! I didn't realize I was so interesting.

Wendy

Happy Thanksgiving.....

from our little turkeys to yours

Don't grocery shop the day before Thanksgiving

I walked (drove) down the street to the grocery store
It was crowded with people both rich and both poor
I asked the man how his butter was sold
He said one pound of butter for two pounds of gold
                             -Ernest Tubb and Red Foley

Yeah, I went to Publix today.  And not because I needed some essential ingredient for Thanksgiving dinner.  Oh no, I went to do my weekly grocery shopping.  On the day before Thanksgiving.  Not one of my wiser moves.

The store was jam packed full of clueless shoppers.  1/2 the shoppers were men with small, wild children.  No doubt the wife, in a Major Holiday Induced fit of insanity, kicked them out of the house to run errands.  The other 1/2 were non cooks looking for some obscure ingredient that Emeril or The Barefoot Contessa used in their truffle oil infused free range turkey wild rice stuffing on their respective Thanksgiving specials.  These are your people that only cook once or twice a year.  These people are generally baffled by the sheer volume of groceries to chose from.  Roma tomatoes or vine ripened? Low sodium broth or organic? Ten million different white zinfindels?  Fresh or frozen? And where the heck are the French's Onion Rings for the love of pete?  Are they with the canned vegetables or the fried snacks? (They are on the canned veg aisle, right next to the canned green beans)

And can we talk mean?  Those were some cranky sonuvaguns wielding those carts.  One lady was blessing out the poor stock clerk because she needed Jell-O brand French Vanilla instant pudding, which Publix was out of.  And no the other brand won't work and no plain vanilla won't work BECAUSE MY RECIPE SPECIFICALLY CALLS FOR JELL-O BRAND FRENCH VANILLA PUDDING!!!!!  I thought she was going to have a stroke right there on the baking aisle!

Anyway, I made it home alive (barely), and lived to tell the tale.  I don't plan on leaving my house again until after Christmas.

Wendy

Seven and Seven

I've been tagged by Eipwek @ Making a Person.  I don't know why she tagged me.  I'm going to have a hard time coming up with seven weird facts about myself, because I'm so freakin' absolutely normal.  Abnormal, that's me.


Here are the rules:
1. Link to the person’s blog who tagged you.
2. Post these rules on your blog.
3. List seven random and/or weird facts about yourself
4. Tag seven random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
5. Let each person know that they have been tagged by posting a comment on their blog.

1.  Everybody already knows this one.  I'm a rabid professional wrestling fan.  I plan my social life around Raw, Smackdown and ECW.  We will do without food in order to pay for Wrestlemania on PPV. I have a subscription to WWE magazine,  I have a WWE poster hanging over my sewing machine table.    You get the idea.

2.  I still sleep with my Pooh bear.  He's 36 years old and totally grody.  If I tried to wash him he would fall apart.

3.  I have a picture of Bruce Lee hanging over my television in our family room.

4.  I have recently started collecting action figures.  So far I have Edge, Batista, John Cena, The Undertaker (all WWE stars),a vintage Mr Spock that T-Bone gave me, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Godzilla.  As a side note--the twins are always putting Batista in the refrigerator.

5.  I really hate penguins.

6.  Morrissey still owns my heart.  I listen to Morrissey/The Smiths everyday.  I've even made my children fans.  There are few things on this earth that Bill hates more than Morrissey.

7.  I'm terrified of clowns.

I'm tagging:
Katie @ No Assembly Required
Rachel @ Catholic Unschooler
Becca @ Forward Motion
Shawna Lee @ ShooFlyPieAndGrits
Annie @ Magner's Random Ramblings
The Joyful Mom
Robin @ Just Plain Blessed

Disclaimer- If you are an anti-meme person just ignore the tag and please accept my humble apologies. 

Edited to add-  I have tagged some of the same people as Robin and Making a Person.  If you were double or triple tagged just consider yourself extra loved.

Chuck and Huck

OK, I'm a Ron Paul man myself.  But now I have to vote for Mike Huckabee.  HT TBone

Wendy

I hope God has a sense of humor

when it comes to little boys.  Surely He does.  I think He was showing his silly side when He invented little boys. 
When the twins say their prayers at night they end it with a hearty "X-Men" instead of Amen.  I guess they are thinking that if God is busy maybe Wolverine can help them out.

Wendy