My Must Have Product of the Moment.

Okay, so normally I'm not all about lip products. I kiss my kids too much, or the wind blows and gets my hair caught in my lipgloss...any excuse I can find to not wear it, even though I think it totally completes a look, and in my opinion is part of the simple "I'm running late no time for a full face of make-up" look. (In addition to mascara, bronzer and blush for me!)

So anyway...now that I am in Minnesota, and it is cold, I have no choice but to wear something on my lips. My husband happened to have a tube of regular Burt's Bees chapstick, and I actually really liked it. (Which is weird, because I havent found a chapstick I actually like.)

I decided to go to Target and pick some up and then found THIS:::

I absolutely love it. Its a Lip Shimmer but since it is Burt's Bees it has the protective and healing qualities of a chapstick...and way easier than putting chapstick on under lipstick or lipgloss if you're lazy like me :). My shade is Watermelon, although since it is winter, I am thinking of going a touch darker for the season.

At any rate, I love it so much that I want to tell everyone about it! So go try it and let me know how you like it! Or if you have it and love it...vouge for me people!!

That's all I have for now.

Love!!

-B

Eff you motherfather...I just need to vent

Ha. I couldn't live with myself swearing as my post title...I'll leave that for the body of the blog.

SO. I am friends with my ex (I know, I know...but it's not like it seems, my husband, son and I have all gone to dinner with him a couple of times.) and we were talking on the phone the other day about our relationship and why it didn't work out.

side note: I asked him questions to figure out if it was me, and stuff I did wrong, so that I can improve myself for my husband...I just feel like I am too hard on him and I figured my ex was a good enough friend that he would tell me what the fuck's up so that I can better myself for my husband. WRONG

So anyway...let me preface this venting by saying that when we dated I was 20 ish and he was 33 ish...so now more of this should make sense.

The talk we had was complete bullshit. All he did was basically tell me that it was my immaturity that was why it ended. When I say immaturity, I mean like not knowing what I want to do with my life, changing my life goals constantly, overdramatizing things ever-so-slightly, you know...standard stuff you do when you're TWENTY.

So after realizing that was a waste of time, I switched to bitch-mode and was like, "Look, you were the most draining, most condescending person I was ever around, I was constantly on egg shells around you because you are so judgmental...etc etc blah de blah...so that is why I ended things with you."

His response, "What? You didn't end things, I did."

Dude, don't flatter yourself...I was a 20 year old little hottie and you were 34 and balding. Please don't act like you ended things.

So I cracked up and replied, "uhhh...no you didn't."

Then he replies, "Well, I can see it still bothers you, you're obviously getting all upset with me."

::more laughter::

Really, dude? Is that why I am married to a gorgeous man who loves me more than you are capable of loving? And why we have two beautiful children and have been together happily (with our struggles of course) for almost 3 years and married for over 1 year? Because I am upset that our relationship ended? Please build a bridge and get over yourself, because last time I checked, youre the 30-something that still isn't married. Thanks.

Now, normally it is not in my veins to be this big of a bitch, but his arrogance totally called for "Bitchney" to unmask herself.

Not only that, when I told him of my aspirations to be an air traffic controller he said {I just dont see you doing that, I know a lot of controllers and you just don't have that personality} Thanks asshole.

Then he said "Well I am just trying to be a real friend, not one of your other friends that pushes you to do something you won't succeed in!...You don't think I want you to be successful? I do! But I want you to avoid wasting your time, so that's why I am telling you this."

I ended the phone call shortly after that. Don't think we'll be chatting much anytime soon.

So kids, the moral of the story is...don't surround yourself with anyone that is negative. Or retarded for that matter. Because I have many friends, guys and girls, that I have never have confrontations like this with...

Okay, thats all for my bitching for now...

LOVE!!!
-B

I don't get it.

I just have one question. One thought for the day.

Why do bad things happen to some of the greatest people?

Furthermore, why do amazing things happen

to those who surely don't deserve it?

I know everything happens for a reason,

but why must there be a dark tunnel and

the light at the very end of it?

And why does the light sometimes

take so long to reach?

I guess I will have to just stay positive!!

What else can I really do?

"Reality is the mirror of your thoughts. Choose well what you put in front of the mirror."

-Unknown

I wouldn't even take time to read this.

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return." Leonardo Da Vinci

(I just watched a plane like this take off..it was AMAZING. Thanks airliners.net)

So. Update from last post. I started a new job. It's not in aviation. Boo!

BUT I surprisingly like it a lot. It's an awesome company, they treat their employees well, have amazing benefits, and most employees there are lifers, which says a lot... :-)

My second job IS in aviation , and it is AMAZING. It sucks being away from the hubby and kiddos every other weekend, but I have to tell you - its almost therapeutic being here and getting to watch planes take off. Now, for the most part I don't see that many jets...but the ones that I do are amazing to watch take off. I even love listening to the controller talk to the planes on the ground and in the air! Ugh..I need to stop. It's making me sound like a loser!

People who arent in aviation don't understand how hard it is to get out of the industry ..so that fact that my job IS outside the industry, you would think I would be relieved that I was able to get out!! And I am...Monday through Friday. It is so nice not having to work 6-2 or 2-10, or 9-5, but then you have to be on call once a week and work holidays and weekends. But then I get here on weekends, and it makes me hate my first job all over again.

Here is what makes me a crazy person:

Regular job:

-No Crazy Hours

-No on Call

-No Shmoozing people

-No lying to passenger's wives about the women their husbands are flying with

-No weekends (for the most part)

-No holiday work

-Amazing benefits

-6k/year toward tuition

-They take care of and show constant appreciation for their people.

My Aviation Jobs:

-Crap hours, with overtime if a plane is leaving early or coming in late

-On calls

-Holidays

-Having to cover for shady, lying passengers

-I have only worked for one company that really acknowedged my hard work and love for the job (Thank you MB)

-Unless you work for a company like Boeing or Bombardier (which I used to) you ain't gettin no tuition reimbersement

It all makes sense on paper...why cant I get it through my head?!

That's it for my rants... :)

-B

PS. I apply for Air Traffic Controller in January. We'll see how that goes. :)

PPS There is a customer at my work that has a plane like this:

It is my goal to become their friend and go for a ride!! Can we say barrel rolls?

My Addiction

{LOVES this picture...gives aviation a girly feel... thanks to google images}

So honestly, I wish sometimes that I had a more interesting vice, or at least ones with weekly meetings I could attend to get it out of my system. I love aviation. The planes, the planning, the pilots...it is all so fascinating to me.

I could watch this movie 100,000 times and it wouldnt be enough:



Ever since I was 18 I have worked in corporate aviation (that's private jets for those not up to par with Aviation jargon). The planes look more like this as opposed to airlines:



I did a 4 month stint working for a mortgage company, and it was HORRIBLE!!! Now that I am back in Minnesota I am yet again having a hard time finding an aviation job, because the industry as a whole is slow...and as it is there are few aviation jobs here. There are corporate flight departments like Target, 3M, Best Buy, General Mills, etc. and I would L-O-V-E to have a job working for a company like that...but it's just not happening for me.

Next week I start a non-aviation job. It is for an amazing company...but it selfish and ungrateful that I am not even willing to pretend to be excited to work there? I should be grateful to have even found a job.

Yet I cannot pretend I am not crushed that it isn't aviation...::sigh::

"If you do what you love for a living, you will never work a day in your life."
-Glen (My stepdad)

I wholeheartedly believe that quote. And I guess its the reason I want nothing to do with anything outside aviation.

Its seriously a disease. Once you're in...you're STUCK.

I refuse to give up though, so wish me luck in my continued search!!

-B

Help?

Okay, my page is SO boring. Can anyone give me tips on how to spiff it up??

THANKS!

B

Happy Anniversary!!!

That's right...Happy Anniversary. I remember when I was younger, and all my friends and I would celebrate our "one month anniversaries" with our boyfriends/girlfriends...too bad none of us looked up the meaning of Anniversary, and therefore did not think about the have that the prefix "Anni" meant annual...yep, we were retarded. Hahaha.
It's been a year since I married the greatest man to enter my life! We are really short on cash right now, but we made the most of it. A couple of weeks ago, I told Matt that this year was his...and he had to surprise me! Well he did a pretty damn good job considering our financial situation...
He took me to a restaurant called "Timber Lodge"...which is special, because that is the restaurant where he proposed to me... :-). (He just pretends that he isnt romantic!!)
Then he filled up the bathtub/jacuzzi/whirlpool in his parents downstairs bathroom, put bubbles, and bath confetti in and had music turned on and everything...it was so relaxing and so nice just to have some alone time with my husband!! Major points, babe.
BUT the disappointing part...we actually managed to keep the top tier of our cake...and it survived the move to San Diego, then the move to Minnesota believe it or not. We opened the box it was in and of course the fondant had all come off of it from the moves, so we cut into it and there were BLACK SPOTS in the filling... yeah, thats what happens when you include fresh bananas in the filling of your cake. Hahaha.
Needless to say, we didnt eat it, but we did the traditional cutting of the first slice together, and I ate a teeny piece of the cake itself (no filling thanks.)
Good weekend though! Enjoy the pics...
LOVE

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