My Neighbor is Perfect ~ Hooray

It is 12:14 pm (around noon) here, this really is not a real blog post or serious writing, but it is worthy of a post (maybe).

Just woke up and sitting outside drinking my coffee, and my neighbor is outside.

My neighbor is fully dressed, tan, perfect shape, perfect make-up and hair, and even perfect shoes on while mowing grass. Her home is perfect and the grounds.

Liz just woke up, hair looks like birds landed in it sometime, no bra on (come on, I just woke up) and my grass needs mowed severely. I also refuse to cut down the corn stalks and wild flowers that are growing in my front yard for no reason.    :)

Frustrating that she is already so busy and has everything done in her yard, and I must have (4) cups of coffee before I can begin such work.

Hard for me to type right now because only had a 1/2 cup of coffee. Check back in later, have to try to catch up with “Mrs. Perfection” over here somehow, well probably won’t (what for?). It is making feel a bit tense, like I should get up and do some work or something.

Gets on my damn nerves when people try to act like they can “walk on water.”

Here is the kicker: She is about 15 years older than me. Am I jealous?

Yes, jealous of her time management skills and her perfectionism.

Please keep in mind I live in a subdivision community.

What is the point of this post?

Perfectionism vs. realism

Judging Book by the Cover = Boring!

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English: A pair of high heeled shoe with 12cm stiletto heels. Category:Shoes (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Last night, the one intelligent student (at the restaurant), she and I had a pretty interesting conversation about social science.

The young lady said, “When I wear things like this (she was wearing a mini skirt and high heels) the men treat me badly and are mean to me.”

College student continued….

She said, “when I wear a hoodie and jeans, the men are nice and respectful.”

I responded, “yes, this city is odd because the way you are dressed right now is the normal everyday wear in cities like Los Angeles.”

I said, “I honestly cannot believe the United States in such a sexist nation in 2012.”

I continued, “this is the reason, you see how I am dressed.”

I was wearing a long dress that touched the ground, with flowers along the bottom and sandals. This was a Latin style dress, which I often wear due to comfort and looks nice.

She said, “yes, the men are not speaking to me tonight due to my outfit.”

I said, “that’s simply ridiculous, your outfit is nice.”

Really, I mean cannot believe how much people still judge a book by its cover…I sure do not, that would make life a giant bore-fest!

Long Legs Feather Miniskirt Local Threads Fash...

Are Your Posts Readable?

Wanted to drop a quick bit of, most likely unwanted advice into the blogosphere.

Successful blog = larger font

Font that can be easily read without the reader squinting.

Perhaps making font larger if possible on current theme

or

Choosing new theme that allows for larger font

Many readers (myself included) wear glasses, have eye issues, hard for them to read from phone or laptop if font is small.

Notated the above font issue from reading a shitload of blog posts over the past week.

:)

Liz

The “Unsolvable” Rubik’s Cube

Glimpse into my personal life.

I really need WordPress bloggers advice, as this conflict in my life, is like a rubik’s cube to my brain.

Been trying to solve this problem for so long, my brain doesn’t seem to have the “feelings or emotions” to be able to solve this problem.

Meaning that I often times do not put feelings into problem solving. Don’t feel the two go together, in the same category (my brain refuses to put the two into the same category-yes, I know it’s odd).

WordPress Bloggers are smart and can most likely offer me a different point of view of this personal conflict.

  • In other words, I have been trying to control my emotions recently, instead of allowing my emotions to control me.

Background Information:  Husband and I are now separated (not all the way) but very close. I am having a hard time understanding his point of view, as he is not a talker but only a “doer.” He believes in actions and not words, which is why I love him so very much and wish to make our marriage work. I often have a hard time understanding men or their wishes because:

  •  I am simply not a mind reader and refuse to become a mind reader now or in the future.

Problem: Husband has a long list of things that he wishes for me to do, and that is why he “emotionally separated” from me about a year ago. Now, we are physically and emotionally separated, and no longer reside together.

You could be thinking, “giving a person a list is ludicrous.”

However, in my particular situation, it is not, because these things are actions I should be taking anyway, and that most normal people do on a daily basis. In other words, they are of the “norm.” The actions he wishes for me to take would make my life so much better, he is right for asking these “things” of me to do, in order to better my life even if he is not in my life.

Liz needs to do things to make life better (normal) = Husband comes back and everything fine

I do not mind at all implementing the actions that he wishes for me to do, they are basic common sense stuff, that every person in America does on a daily basis, don’t want to list them as it is embarrassing that I do not do these basic things on a daily basis.

For example: Sometimes, I will just not do anything else but exercise (intensely for an entire evening) and thus not really get any other goals accomplished, just as a stress reliever. This seems to be aggravating to others in my life, because I am not “getting things done” in their eyes.

Liz needs better time management in personal life = essence of marriage problem

Problem Part 2: I am unable to carry out the list of actions that husband wants and needs in a marriage.

Why?

Need his support to start the actions I need to take to make our lives and my life better.

Background Part 2: Have tried so many times to communicate this to husband, he is not understanding.

Can you solve the puzzle?

Puzzle:

  • Keep husband = Liz has to “fix” many things personally and take many actions
  • Taking actions = requires husband’s support to start/achieve goals of marriage
  • No support = no action on Liz’s part
  • No action on Liz’s part = no marriage
  • No marriage = Liz unhappy

Do you see the above rubik’s cube?

I am unable to take the actions needed that husband wishes, and the actions would be better for my life (extremely better).

However, cannot carry out the actions without husband’s support, thus I am stuck.

Have no idea what to do, or how to handle.

Goal = keep husband as love him deeply and believe he is my soul mate.

The marriage counselors in this area are just plain stupid, and their intelligence is so low, that I refuse to say any words to them at all. The counselors lack just plain common sense and intelligence in this area. We would have to travel far to find a good counselor.

Bloggers are wonderful advisors on life’s problems, so figured give this a try to get outsider’s points of view, from intelligent people who are writers here on WordPress.com.

Suggestions on how to solve the above rubik’s cube?

English: Rubik's cube rendered in 3Ds Max Espa...

English: Rubik’s cube rendered in 3Ds Max Español: Cubo de Rubik renderizado en 3Ds Max (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The First Love: Heartbreaker

Why is it that young love is so different for older people?

Perhaps due to the fact our hearts were mangled by loss, grief, and crushed to dust?

Speak to a person in the beginning stages of young love, it is such a serious emotion.

Just unsure why after a person gets older (like myself) that the love emotion fades, drastically.

Speaking of love for a partner, boyfriend or husband.

Older women like myself, we seem to not carry this same need for acceptance or love from our partners in order to feel secure.

I would feel fine without the justification of my husband, at this age.

However, as a teen or during my twenties such a lack of attention from a boyfriend or spouse would have driven me nuts.

Older women we just simply are secure and seem to not need the validation from our lovers/spouse to feel good about ourselves. Unsure why this is, but it is nonetheless.

See young men and women have much grief over a break-up. I remember the horrible breakups (boyfriends) of my youth and it was terribly emotional.

Women of my age and older, we have confidence and are secure in ourselves without the need of constant reassurance that we are pretty, loved and wanted by our lovers or spouse.

Would have been nice to have the same knowledge of the strange emotion of love during my first true love, as I do now being older.

First true love of life seems to be the “one true love.” This person is typically the one who breaks our hearts in our teens or twenties.

People of a certain age tend to not allow the love goggles to blind them in regards to dating or marriage, as young men and women do in the teens and twenties.

The first love of ones life, is never forgotten, but does often time cause scarring from a broken heart.

What do You Think?

The above poll is for opinions of the recent post:

http://awomeninherthirties.com/2012/09/19/21-year-old-american-college-students-chapter-one-interview/

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