Tron

A couple of days ago here at work, my coworker and I were talking about movies. I mentioned I haven't seen Lord Of the Rings, and a guy from another department chimed in, "You're missing out!" So the 3 of us talked about movies for a little bit and I brought up the classic movie, TRON. The guy in the other department said that he kind of remembered it. I was appalled! How could anyone not know the classic movie Tron? He then said he was probably just a few years old when it came out.

So today, I was looking up when Tron was released- 1982. I then went to the guy in the other department and asked when he was born. He was born the year after Tron was released. It really freaked me out. Granted I was only 4 when Tron was released, but I've decided that no matter what, I can never date anyone who was born after Tron.

Thankfully, I'm seeing someone right now (D) who was born Pre-Tron. Yes, I'm a total geek and I know it and admit it and love it.

-MetalRose

Busy Weekend

Friday night I got home, ran to the grocery store, then came home and painted. Saturday, I lounged around in the am, and went up to paint at about 4 pm. By Midnight, I was so tired of painting, but was so close to being done... and I know the maintence guy wanted to have the floors done, so I kept going. I finished painting at 5 am. I was exhausted and crashed hard.

Sunday, I said I was going to go back up there and clean, but never really made it. I had to get my place back in order. Finally it's nice again. Did some rearranging and got summer stuff put up (lawn chairs and what not) and found a place for the Christmas stuff to be stored.

Tonight, we had dinner at my aunts house. The whole extended family was there, save for one cousin and her husband. The Christmas tree was stocked and looked like Santa had been there already, but it didn't take long for everything to disappear.

My aunts got me a linen table cloth, linen napkins and a candle holder. It cracked me up. When I had D over I had to call two of my aunts to see if they had any linen napkins or candle holders.

With that.. I just got a call from D and got totally side tracked from where I wanted my blog to go.

I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas.

-Metal

Do you know what really sucks?

Waking up on Friday morning thinking that it's Saturday.

That sucks.

-MetalRose

Psychotic

Alright, here is the story.

A friend of mine (who will remain nameless) dated and lived with their significant other for a period of quite a few years. They broke up many years ago and kept in contact for a short while.

My friend hasn't talked to their ex in over a year. Today this person told me they were going to drive by their ex's new house "just to see where it was and what it looked like." I told this person not to do it because it would be considered stalking.

I then prodded and asked how this person knew of the new place. They admitted they googled their ex and found the address of the ex's new place. I asked why they googled their ex and my friend replied that they googled a lot of people. I asked if they had googled me. They said they hadn't.

I asked if they had been invited to the house, and they said no. I kept trying to ask why this person wanted to drive by the ex's and I couldn't get a good answer, all this person did was try and justify going over there. It went from: I want to see where they live, it's a competition, and I want to see how they are doing or I want to see how our old pet is.

I pointed out if they wanted to see how their ex was doing all they had to do was to email or call the person and that driving by their house (when they had NO other reason to be in that area) would be considered stalking. They said they weren't so I printed out a list of signs of stalking and highlighted what they were doing.

When I pointed them out they said they weren't doing that. Cyberstalking- they said they weren't constantally IMing them or sending them emails. I did point out that it has been a vast number of years since they broke up and yet this person is STILL googling their ex to check up on them.

Surveillance- They said they weren't but then said they were going by the house to "check up on them" which I pointed out is exactally that.

The printed page then said something about it being a pattern. The person claimed they hadn't done it before. Which may be true, but I'm sure this is not the first time they googled their ex.

They then asked if I had ever googled anyone and I told them yes. BUT the reasons I google people are FAR different from the reason this person is. I google my son's dad to see if I can locate him. I've also googled D after he admitted googling me. I've googled myself a bunch of times as well.

So my question to everyone: Should this person drive by their ex's place "to check up on him, see how he's doing, and to see if they can spot an animal in the window"? Keep in mind this relationship has been done for many years and there has been no contact between the two parties in at least a year.

There was at least 3 other people who said that what this person is doing isn't sane... and one said, "Let 'em do it if they want."

Your thoughts? Is it borderline stalking or is just an old flame making sure everything is alright?

-MetalRose

Triple Threat

Today, when I got into work, there was a gentleman who got in the elevator with me. He was wearing a suit (and although I work in a professional building, we aren't required to wear suits and ties.)

I told him he looked nice. He then said, "I really like your hair color. Of all the color's you've done, I like that one the best." I thanked him and told him that I usually change my hair color when I'm bored or get tired of it. He then said, "Well at least it's better than tattoo's or piercings..."

I replied, "I have those too."

He was silent for a minute then said, "Triple threat, huh?"

My response, "Yeah, and that's the way I like it!"

-MetalRose

A new day

I've got blogs all over the place. I figured it was time to condense them all in one.

Who am I? I'm a 29 year old single mother of a kick ass 9 year old boy. Our life consists of metal concerts, camping, bowling and many other things.

I'll post on here about my life which can include the following things: Dating, music, musicians, concerts, vacations, my son, work, people or things that really piss me off. Anything that suits my fancy.

The way I live my life is this: If I were to die tomorrow and someone wrote a book about me, would I have enough stories to make it interesting? Would I have loved enough people for strangers to empathize with me? Would I have laughed and smiled enough to make my stories comedies or would I have hurt to many people so that my story would be a tragedy?

I sometimes put song or movie quotes at the end of my blogs to convey what I'm thinking or if I think it's funny.

So, for all the new people and old ones,

Enjoy.

-MetalRose