Last Thursday was my birthday… I was not nearly as happy about it as this little scene I made makes me out to be… Actually, I was dreading playing my game. This year, it was Audie who accosted me as soon as I walked out my door where her, Wolfgang and Pekoe threw me a party. I had to blow out candles, smack a piñata, then proceed to give out the cupcakes inside to other villagers to get goofy presents (which are in this picture). I’ve always hated the fuss, even from these adorkable animals. I don’t like getting old. I know age is a state of mind, but I was in a bad state at the time…

Part of my annoyance was this monstrosity…

I was so looking forward to getting a new tattoo for my birthday. In my last entry, I posted a picture of the tattoo I was supposed to get. Yeah… Check out my last entry and you’ll see why I’m pissed. Not only is the shape wrong, but she did exactly what I told her not to do. I didn’t want a black outline and I wanted the same colors as the picture I sent her several weeks before. As you can see, she just did whatever the fuck she felt like doing. The shape is wrong, the colors are generic watercolor shades (which she didn’t even do nicely), she cut me with the gun in almost every part of the outline and the colors were washed out like this within a week. She rushed it, too, finishing it within about a half hour. Then she had the fucking balls to charge me $140! Jesus Christ! That’s the same amount I paid for the one on my back and that one is three times the size, he drew it on my skin free hand and it took him hours to do! This is shit! Absolute shit!

Now I’m going to have to go to someone else to see if they can fix what disaster this idiot made… And she knows it’s shit because she took a picture of it and never posted it on her Instagram, though she posted ones she did after mine. Go figure… I’m almost afraid to find out how much it’ll cost to maybe fix this monstrosity. So I’ll end up with the most expensive, small tattoo in the world. It’s just bullshit. And I can promise you, I’ll make sure she won’t be getting a good Google review because fuck her. She knew this was a birthday present to myself… Why would you rush and do such a shit job? I’ve seen some of her other works and I know she can do better stuff, so what the fuck happened here?!

A lot of people have told me they love it, but I think it looks more like an oddly colored artichoke, to be honest. My friend suggested I go back and have her fix it… After the shit job she did?! No fucking way!

So, in light of the suck ass tattoo, I decided to go shopping a few days before my birthday. I ended up getting a new purse (like I need that) and a matching wallet, a cute straw hat and a new pair of sandals that have an interesting story…

These were crazy expensive sandals. $89.99! Yes, you can think I’m clinically insane now. I don’t like spending a lot on clothes or shoes, but these really caught my eye. Also, I saw on the sticker on the bottom of the display that they were marked down to $79.99. I justified buying them because, hey, I’m saving $10!

So the girl gets my size and they ring up full price. When I told her the sale price, she didn’t seem to believe me, so she fetches the display and proceeds to tell me they are, indeed, on sale for $79.99. No shit! I just told you that! So I think we’ve cleared things up until she asks me, “Do you want them for the $79.99?” I had to bite my tongue from saying, “Nah, I think I’d rather pay full price… You must be a special kind of stupid!” Seriously! Who the fuck is going to say, “You know, I realize this item is on sale, but I don’t feel like saving money. I want to pay full price.” No one is going to say something that idiotic! Who doesn’t like to save a few dollars, right? That was just the stupidest thing I’d ever heard! But I was good Jackie; I politely told her I wanted them for $79.99, then laughed about it all the way home.

Four days after my birthday, Baxter celebrated his birthday!

My little baby just turned 2 this year! I know, 2 isn’t very old, but I can still remember the day I brought that little three month old ball of crazy fluff home to be my best friend and now he’s 2!

It was certainly an interesting day… He had this notion in his head that he wanted to spend his special day by acting up and doing everything that he knew he wasn’t allowed to do. It’s a dog thing, I guess…

I spent most of the day telling him, “Mommy doesn’t want to yell at you on your birthday! Can’t you behave?!” I assume he couldn’t because he didn’t… And I had to yell at him on his birthday…

Still, it’s nice that we have our special days so close together so we can celebrate together. I even called my mom and had her on speaker so that Grammy could wish him a happy birthday. I’m sure she thought I was insane for that, but she’s kind of used to my insanity by this point. And she loves her goofy grand puppy!

How could you not…? Just look at that adorable little face! He’s certainly my little love! And he always will be!

Then, as you can see, I went and did something I was so not wanting to do… I went to get my COVID vaccine…

To help ease some of my anxiety, I decided to poke fun at the way it came up on my phone. “Initial dose with chair”… I posted it to Facebook with the statement, “Am I getting a free chair with my vaccine? You know, like how you used to get a free toaster when you opened a new bank account? Because that would be awesome!”

But joking didn’t help when I got there… They had converted an old storefront in a strip mall into a clinic and I was completely overwhelmed and freaked out when I got in there. To be honest, I almost bolted right back out the door.

Please don’t think I’m a horrible person… I want COVID to go away as much as the rest of you. But my paranoia against brand new vaccines gave me such anxiety. I’m sorry, I go through enough of feeling like a guinea pig with my psyche meds. I don’t want to be one with a vaccine that was pushed out on the market way faster than it should have been. Yeah, it seems fine now, but who knows what will happen years down the road?

I know sci-fi movies and TV programs aren’t a good example to base my thoughts on, but… think about it. How many movies or shows have you seen with a similar scenario? There’s a pandemic, we make a vaccine, the vaccine ends up fucking people up and BAM! Humanity is completely wiped out due to our fuckery…

I was terrified, but I got it… It didn’t seem bad until a few hours later when, holy shit, it felt like someone cracked me in the arm with a bat! Yikes! Yesterday I ended up sleeping almost the entire day away (which was really not a good thing). By afternoon, my face felt hot, but I didn’t seem to have a fever. Parts of my that already ache on a regular basis ached worse than usual. By night, I developed a headache that, by this morning, was so much worse. Joy… And soon after I woke up, the constant sneezing and nose running began. What the fuck…

There’s a reason I made this picture so small… It’s because I don’t want you to look that closely…

I know I said I wouldn’t ever do it, but… I had some pictures taken on my birthday (it was a beautiful day) since I really don’t have many of myself that aren’t selfies (awful selfies…)

But I’m getting old. Soon I’ll hit a milestone no one wants to hit or looks forward to. So I felt that, while I still look kind of okay, I should get some nice pictures taken outside. Jackie in her hippie dippy element! Hahahaa…

Spring is a great time of year for me (minus allergies). Maybe it’s because I’m a spring baby, but I always feel a sense of renewal when spring hits and things start bursting back into life. I’ve asked my uncle this, as he’s also a spring birthday (his at the end of April) and he’s said he feels the same way as me, that there’s this sense of renewal. It’s hard to explain exactly how it feels unless you experience it yourself. But it feels wonderful!

So… are there any other spring babies out there? Those of you that are, do you feel this same sense of renewal when everything begins to bloom and the weather gets pleasant? Let me know in the comments! I’d love to hear from you!

Have yourselves a hippy-dippy day!