oh ten

boy oh boy,

are we really only 15 days into this year?!?!

oh ten!

really,

this year has already held so much...

more than i can wrap my little head around

finding out i was going to have a little bowl of cereal of my own

only to find out a few days later....

this again wasn't our time

oh ten!

finding out that so many people at work

are leaving....

leaving because it is a really difficult work environment.

making it harder, because they will not be there to stand up for the rest of us.

oh ten!

learning my grandmother fell again

and broke her arm this time

oh ten!

putting an offer on a house...

the house that flake and i.

after two years of looking,

finally found the one for us

only for the flake to get a job offer

in buffalo, new york!

what?!?!

and yeah.....it happened.....five minutes before the seller has finally given the offer we were looking for

oh ten!

seriously

i'm not quite sure what the rest of the 350 days oh ten can hold!

oh ten,

i'm not sure i'm ready for you....

and all you have in store for me and my cereal bowl....

but you are here....

there are places i remember

all day,
i've been singing the beatles song
there are places i remember
i'm not sure why
but i just can't get it out of my head

but it got me thinking
there are places i remember
some good memories
some bad memories
some indifferent memories

some have gone through changes

but i know for sure
the place i am right now
has not changed a bit
the place that i am right now
the place i live
is just as ghetto as it was
three years ago when i first moved in

at first,
the ghettoness of this apartment complex
hid itself very well
with the neatly kept lawns,
the beautiful brick buildings,
the cute names of the streets,
the nice pools,
and the amazingly priced living
sure did keep me thinking i was getting a deal
but then the sun went down,
and i learned quickly exactly why the price was as "great" as it was!

then the ghettoness began to slowly creep out
the booze bottles in the parking lot
the leftover chicken bones on the stairs
the weed smoking right outside my door
the dirty clothes left outside
the stray cats eating out of trash bags
the repo truck circling the parking lot daily
oh yeah--you can be jealous!

but....
the ghettoness hit an all time HIGH
when flake and i arrived home on new years day
it was a cold, foggy morning.
it was the kind of morning that you just want to get back in bed
as we walked up to the stairs
there it was
a pile of vomit
i was totally disgusted
yet, i stepped over it
and headed up the stairs
halfway of the stairs
another huge pile of vomit
(clearly from the same vomiter....being that the color remained consistent)
i nearly added to the pile
but kept myself together
and continued up the stairs
until we got to the top
and found the best, most awesome pile of vomit i've ever seen,
right in front of our front door!
oh yes, if you weren't jealous before,
i know you are now!

and to add insult to injury,
or ghetto to ghettoness
i called the apartment complex to report my find
they said
"well, the maintenance men don't return until monday,
we will put in your request,
so you should see it clean by tuesday, or wednesday"

oh yes, there are places i remember
all my life
though some have changed,
and i guess if i think about it hard enough
this place has too....
it has gotten even more ghetto than i ever thought it could!

awesome!

the bowl

i've taken a break from the blogging world

over on my other blog

mainly because i was worried if i posted something,

the people who knew who i was....

might get offended.

i started a blog because i wanted to.

i started a blog to have a place to vent.

i started a blog to have a place to let things out, and leave them behind, with record of course.

i ended up blogging because i felt obligated, and ultimately that is not what i wanted.

i was also constantly worried that i would hear how others felt the need to critique my blog....

so i left the blogging world.

i so missed my little blogging friends, and little blogging world,

so, after much thought, and a little pushing from a friend

i decided to jump back into the blogging world

with a new address

and a new name.

so welcome to the cereal bowl!

so if you are wondering.....

who are you?

that is easy,

i'm lucky, lucky charms.

i'm married to flake, corn flakes.

we have a dog, cocoa, cocoa krispies, who i like a lot

and a cat, shredded, shredded wheat, who ... well, isn't my favorite!

we live in a little town, just west of you,

or east,

or north,

or south....depends on where you are

and we love our little life in our cereal bowl.

so grab a spoon, and your favorite cereal, and join us

on our daily, weekly, or who knows how often i'll post adventures!

happy new year, from our bowl to yours!