I’ve had the longest week ever! I’ve been in bed early every night and I’m pretty exhausted. Today is far from over but I definitely deserve my weekend. My brain is so scattered right now, I don’t think I can even form coherent blog post so this is going to be kind of random.

First off, gas? Fucking sucks. It cost me $40 and that barely got me a little over half a tank. WTF

What’s going on around the bloggy world?

The lovely Lauren at Elle Electric is newly engaged! Read her adorable story and tell her congrats!

Did you happen to catch that edition of cribs when that adorable Canadian shows off his new house?

Happy Bloggiversary Ohmygoshi!

Renee is graduating! Go leave her some love for all the hard work she’s done.

Contests, contests, contests. If you haven’t won a pay it forward contest yet, you’re not looking hard enough! These things are popping up everywhere. Jenn is making you draw stuff in paint to win. Hazel is asking for your favorite meal to cook. Leave Arielle a comment here to enter her contest. Seriously, that is three contests right there, I know there are more but I just can’t think of them off the top of my head. What are you waiting for?!

Okay, that is a tenth of what is happening in the blog world, it’s all I can remember off hand. Give me a break though, it’s been a long week! I’ll be more prepared next time.

Have any weekend plans? I’m planning on finally catching up on my reader, mailing out some stuff, puppy park, a little shopping and a friend’s birthday celebration.

What about you?

Who won? Find out after the jump. Also, read some dirt I read on the winner!

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The final of America’s Next Top Model cycle 10 is tonight. I thought we’d celebrate the end of this awful cycle by doing a poll. Shall we, my ANTM lovers (or haters. I know how it is!)?

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I can’t even lie. I’m kind of addicted to Pepsi. I’ve cut down a lot lately, I use to be able to drink 2+ cans a day. I’ve been trying to stop drinking pop (not, soda!) but it’s hard. I get super bad caffeine headaches and I don’t drink coffee or anything else so I’m not getting any caffeine. I’ve been drinking tons and tons more water and only really have one can a day. I don’t do diet, I dont do caffeine free or any of that other nonsense. I know that if I just stopped drinking it, I would be a lot healthier and I would probably lose some of this awful weight I’ve been carrying the past few years.

Oh Pepsi, I both love and hate you. What is a girl to do? I guess I should be glad it’s not like cigarettes or freaking crack, but still.

What do you have a love/hate relationship with?

Getting parking tickets sucks. 12 hour days. Getting hours cut sucks too. Having your whole day thrown off sucks as well. Not being able to blog or catch up on your reader sucks. I need a nap.

This entry kind of sucks as well.

Your turn.

This is the official whiny-complain-ranty-things-that-effin-suck post.

Go for it.

Edie went to the dog park for the first time today. It was pretty chilly when we got there so not many pups were out. There was a black lab and a boxer there when got there and, of course, my sissy dog was scared. We played at the opposite end of the dog run because she was kind of overwhelmed. Hopefully next week will be nicer and we can make a trip to Wicker Park dog park.

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My interview yesterday went smashingly. I’m pretty awesome at these things, well when it comes to nanny interviews. Kids and babies love me and parents love that they love me. So I’m picking up extra hours with this new family which will put me at around 40-45 hours for a 4 day work week. I’m really excited because I’ve been feeling so strapped for cash lately, with paying off vacations and then gas. I feel like all my money has been coming in and going right back out. Now I should be good for all vacation expenses (flights, tickets to parks, food, clothes and whatever else) and still feel like I have money for gas and other things that I need and might pop up.

I’m spending tonight in. I’m pretty tired so I think it is a good thing. Hopefully, tomorrow the weather will agree and I can take Edie to the puppy park for the first time! Of course, pictures to follow.

Have a great weekend!

I saved this shop to my favorites when I first started browsing etsy. I’m kind of in love with these prints. I only wish I could afford one!

How perfect is this?

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I’ve refrained from talking about current parental situation because I get so worked up when I talk about it, it just leaves me raging. After this past weekend, I think it’s time to let a little more out and vent. I have barely spoke more than a few sentences to my mother since she announced that she wants a divorce at the end of December. I’m perfectly fine with that too. I feel like she is being childish, selfish and incredibly greedy, as does the rest of my family. They will speak to her, but I can’t because if I do, it just won’t be pretty and I would end up exploding in a fit of anger. Seriously, I would probably combust.

I basically go out of my way to avoid her. It’s hard when you live in the same house but I do my best. Saturday I came home with ice cream for my brother and dad and she asks where her’s is. I tell I didn’t get her any and walk downstairs. She comes bursting downstairs with a stupid fucking Joker-looking smile on her face, trying to get me riled up and start a fight with me. Now really, I don’t speak to you at all, why would I bring you ice cream? Don’t come downstairs and provoke me. Of course, you can probably see the steam coming out of my ears but I hold back. I’m really not trying to make this harder on my father. She tells me I have an attitude and I need to stop before I do something I am going to regret. SERIOUSLY.

Okay, I am not regretting anything and won’t because I am not the one acting like a child. I have no intentions of having anything to do with her until she realizes what she is doing and how she has been acting. Mid-life crisis or not, this does not give you the right to abandon your family. She waited until all of us were over 18 so she can pack up and get the hell out and not worry about custody or child support. But I guess what she didn’t realize is that, if you wait until your children are adults they can come to their own conclusions about you for themselves. Maybe you should have done this 10 years ago when you realized you weren’t in love instead of waiting 10 years to drop this bomb out of nowhere. Way to keep up this charade. Now your children don’t want anything to do with you, you wasted how many years of your husbands life and all you care about is money. It seems like this was an A+ decision. Well, pack your bags because we all have had enough of your bullshit.

Then my father is dating. The divorce papers aren’t even signed yet and he’s all over the internet looking for dates. We are barely use to the idea of a divorce and now this. Of course, he doesn’t keep it to himself, but feels the urge to tell us about these women. I don’t care. Honestly, I really don’t. I don’t want to know who you are seeing, what they do for a living, how old they are or anything. I DON’T FUCKING CARE.

It feels like every few days, something new happens and I just am on the verge of having a major meltdown. I’m stressed out. I can’t deal with my own shit and theirs too. If I had just had my life together out of high school and did college the 4 year way, I would be on my own and have a job already. I wouldn’t be working as a nanny, still living at home and waiting for the fall school year to start.

It’s just so frustrating. I’m kind of lost right now.

I can’t wait until my vacation mid June, I really really deserve it.

We are going to keep this one quick because I’m still not all that interested in this show anymore. I just heard a rumor about last night and had to see if it was true! So their challenge is to see what it feels like to be behind the camera. They photograph Paulina and the winner gets 50 extra shots. Fatima ends up winning the challenge and the extra frames. This is the first challenge she has ever won.

For the photo shoot, they are shooting with Nigel. Kind of like 50s glam being chased by the paparazzi with their boyfriends or however they explained it. Anya (it must mean something that every time I try to type Anya, I always end up writing Anyway. hmm…) has a bit of an advantage because she has shot with Nigel before when she won the 7UP nude shot.

On to the photos.

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