live moxie

(okay, I have noticed I like to do… after my title.  No idea why

Anyway, on to my original topic- Spiders.  I just went into the garage to check something and when I picked it up a nice little spider crawled underneath and got away from me.  Now I know spiders are not bad, they eat other bugs, etc… but I still cannot stand them!!  I know most of them are harmless but it is always my fear that I am somehow going to see one of the ones that is harmless, think it isn’t, not kill it and then get bitten by it.  I know it sounds a little far fetched but it can happen.

I live where we have brown recluse spiders.  Have you seen the bites those ones do if you do not get it treated or know about it?  One of my neighbors actually had to have plastic surgery because she was bitten by one.  I have been bitten by a “something” before and had  large bruise the size of half my thigh on my thigh, and to this day I still have no idea what kind of bug bit me.  :(  So bugs scare me a little bit.  I also thought it was appropriate given it is Halloween.

I had to hand out candy tonight and I wanted to dress up for the kids.  I was going to go out afterward but this is my first weekend where I have nothing (yup, absolutely nothing going on), so I think I just want to relax all weekend.  I do have some homework I could be doing though.  But I dressed up as a 50’s poodle girl.  I made my costume for probably under $15 dollars.  I went to the craft store for felt, made the skirt.  I used a black felt piece to make a scottie dog and I used those sequins that are strung together as the leash.  I also took $5 canvas shoes from Walmart and painted them to look like saddle shoes.  I had enough stuff left over to make my two dogs little skirts as well.  All for handing out the candy….  at least I get into it right?

Anyway, Happy Halloween!  I hope you get some R & R this weekend as well!

So my grandmother came to visit us today.  I think I mentioned before that the reason I know about Moxie the drink is that my grandfather has always drank it and I grew up with him drinking it.  Now, I knew my grandmother was coming and I asked her if she could bring me some Moxie.  Moxie has a very unique taste and is only sold in certain areas of the country, mostly in the northeast where it is from.  Which means I have no access to it unless I can find a place around here that sells it.

Anyway… she told me that she would try to pack some in her suitcase and she brought me four cans.  So as I sit here I am drinking my Moxie!  :)  If you have never had it the taste is hard to explain.  It isn’t one that a lot of people would like.  The can looks a little bit old fashioned, but I absolutely LOVE Moxie.  I really think it has to do with the fact that it reminds me of my grandfather and something he has always loved.

Anyway, the taste as I mentioned is hard to explain.  It is not very healthy for you as the ingredients are; carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup and/or sugar, natural and artifical flavors, caramel color,  sodium benzote, gentian root extractives [I think this is where the taste comes from], phosphoric acid, caffeine and citric acid.  Healthy right?

I am trying to come up with a word to describe how it tastes but I can’t.  It tastes kind of bitter. I looked on the Internet to see what other people say and Wikipedia (yeah I know) says that the taste is from the gentian root extract and that you can kind of recreate the taste by adding “Angostura bitters to root beer, or by mixing Campari with Coca-Cola. Its bitter taste is also reminiscent of Italian chinotto soda”. It has a little bit of an after taste as well.  You should try some.  :)  There is Moxie information Here. It is definitely not for everyone.

okay, I am sitting here in my room with my two dogs.  Bailey is on the floor chewing a bone and Pancake is on the bed with me.  Pancake has TWO, let me say that again TWO bones in front of her but is choosing to chew neither of them.  She is instead watching Bailey chew her bone on the floor.

Why is it that dogs always want what the other one has?  I think they are worse than children when it comes to that!  Bailey has been known to purposely lie in Pancake’s bed so Pancake cannot have it.  She will take Pancake’s bone and walk around the house with it in her mouth or bring it outside just so Pancake cannot have it.  But I must say right now Bailey is doing nothing wrong!  She is chewing the first bone that I gave her.  She is hapy with it.  Pancake has two bones and is not happy with either of them.  She is sniffing them every so often but other than that she just looks at Bailey on the floor longingly.

Hmm… I guess I just won’t understand everything about dogs.

Okay, so today started off a little differently.  As I write this I am sitting outside on my deck enjoying the beautiful weather watching my two dogs rolling in the grass.  I should be at school.  As I think I have mentioned I am currently in graduate school.  I slept in today and was getting ready to leave the house around 12:00.  I am a graduate assistant and so I had some work to do with some forms and entering the data.  (I know, you’re jealous).  Anyway, I check my phone and at 11:57 I received a text message that all classes are cancelled until next Wednesday.  Now, it really is not as bad as it sounds because next Monday and Tuesday are fall break, so really just today and tomorrow have classes cancelled.  So I try to log onto my e-mail to see if there are more details or the alert website and the server is of course overloaded with everyone else trying to see what is going on.  I did receive an e-mail yesterday because there have been some “anonymous emails” with threats and they were looking into it.  That e-mail just said that classes were going on as scheduled.  Well, now apparently those have continued and there have been fires being set around campus.

Okay people… why?  is my only question.  How pathetic are you that you have to go around sending e-mails saying you are going to “do something” on October 9th and set fires?  I was talking to my ga lady and she said that she thought it was kids who just wanted to get out of a test and quite frankly I agree.  I mean, they are probably going to get caught.  The local police and campus police are now investigating it.  Is getting out of a test or some other assignment worth getting kicked out of school?  uh, no!  A lot of teachers are giving practicals and tests because it is the mid-point of the semester, so really that opinion that some of the teachers and students have is not too far fetched.  It is quite sad though.

Thankfully, the school is not taking any chances. We had to learn the hard way that these threats can be real.

Anyway… sorry for the negative news.  On a more positive note tomorrow is my last day of work!  It is pretty bad that I am quitting my job because I do have expenses to pay (that I can pay with money from my assistantship) but I also have a credit card to pay (school stuff and stuff when I lived out on my own, in case you were wondering), so I am not going to have a lot left over.  But I thought about this long and hard and it was one of the adult decisions I had to make.  I need to have more flexibility for school and my graduate assistantship.  They want me on days that I have to work and it is hard to have that all worked out.  In addition, I am going to be back to baby-sitting during the days which is what I want to do anyway (work with kids) and so I am just praying that I will get the card paid off soon.  I hate knowing that it needs to be paid.  It isn’t a ton, but as I mentioned I’m a worry-wort and a perfectionist.  Sorry I am all over the place today.  It was just the adult decision I had to make to quit my job and be able to have more control over my schedule.

Also, the job while it has great bosses and great people, the people I specifically worked with were controlling and negative all the time.  It goes back to one of my previous posts regarding being negative all the time.  I just cannot understand how you can live in this negative bubble and not do anything about it.  God gives us free will to make choices and those choices are going to impact our lives.  You can choose to live it or you can choose to live the same way you are living and travel down the same path you were going and it is never going to change.  As much as you complain about it, it will never change it until you do something to change it!

*gets down off soapbox* I’m pretty intense when it comes to living your life.  haha.  I just have spent so long around negative people at work, that I either have to say what I need to or I would loose my mind.

Anyway, Happy Thursday people!  I am already pretty addicted to blogging.  Let’s hope it doesn’t get worse.