User Profile

Now, for everyone else...

What's up with your user name???

Simple. Flipnwow. Flip, a shortening of Flipster, which was the base of one of Phillip's first internet usernames. Wow. A shortening of wowuover which, however stupid it was, was my very FIRST user name online. Flip -N- Wow. Or, as a play on words, Flippin wow. See? Easy stuff ;)

Anyway...........

I'm Jaime. I recently turned 30. Scary. But I'll never be as old as Fip.

Actually I'm completely unaffected by turning 30. "Just another year." She muttered flippantly. Come back in exactly 10 years if you want to see me having a nervous breakdown about my age.

I have a beautiful 8 year old son from a previous marriage, and he appears in here from time to time. I also have a gorgeous 9 year old step-daughter and an adorable 3 year old step-son. I'm also pseudo mom to a very sweet 6 year old boy. I'm completely in love with my husband, mairondil, the nicest guy in the world...my best friend...the guy in my dreams, the one who dances with me in the coffee aisle at Walmart and makes me laugh...and it can only go up from here.





We had our first baby together on September 22nd, 2007. Avery Brynn. Daddy picked out the middle name...he did good. She is beautiful and perfect! We planned her. People know that for certain so I don't know why it's a question, but I felt I should remind and clarify.








My world is good :)

I'm dull usually...but at the same time I'm an enigma. A paradox as refreshing as a summer's breeze....hmm. That makes me sound like douche.

I'm bitchy, snarky, always sarcastic, usually funny, sometimes whiny and quite frequently lovable. I have a hard time making decisions. I second guess myself. I'm not at all conservative. I think I might shock my conservative friends. I like guys in black eyeliner...but not every day. I'm not truly opposed to anything I can think of, but that doesn't mean I practice it... then again, it doesn't mean that I don't. I live in a gray area between cultures, practices and labels. I like it there. It's warm, cozy and expansive. I can always change my mind. I'm Catholic which means I have all the sin and double the guilt! My husband is also Catholic and we recently started attending church again after finding a great one across the street from our new house. We're doing our best to get on track :)

When I was little I liked to play in the mud with the boys, blowing G.I. Joe out of trees with firecrackers and shoving Hot wheels around the sandbox. Not much has changed. I still like to play with the boys but girls are ok too so long as you leave the Barbie's at home...unless of course you prefer them with a crew cut....because that's how they end up around me.

I make fun of everyone, including myself. I am NOT politically correct. I AM an equal opportunity snarker. I make fun of humans. We're all stupid, when you think about it. I criticize movies/songs/commercials/tv shows...I'm not the person you want to watch media with. I have the mind of a writer, though I don't use my skills. I find humor in anything. I think sometimes I offend people with that talent...alternately, I do not think it's possible to offend me. I challenge you. Go ahead, try.

I love forensics...I love the shows, clinical or gory...there isn't much that bothers me. I used to watch Faces of Death while eating Taco Bell burritos. I'm fairly unshakable. I love paranormal, even though I'm not sure I believe it. I've been called a pessimist but really I'm a realist. I love long drives and getting lost on purpose. I love road trips, especially if they're spontaneous. I love being places I've never been. I love cities, places big enough to keep up with my need for adventure. I love diversity. I love coloring outside the lines. I don't do well with authority, restraints, boundaries or guidelines. I'm the kind of person that would assemble a desk without ever opening the instructions...it might not work very well but without people like me there'd be no Leaning Towers of Pisa. I get bored easily, but I'm learning to better control that as I get older. I broke out of my box a long time ago and you'll never see me climb back in...it's stuffy in there and I think I'm claustrophobic.

My mind is so open sometimes my brains slide out. At least that's what my mum used to say. I keep the saying though because when I have a "moment" that's a very charitable excuse ;) My "liberal" tendencies have nothing to do with politics. I don't DO politics at all. One crook is as good as another. I am liberated but I am not "liberal" at least not in the society-based sense of the word.

The key to happiness is to grab life by the horns, at least that's what I believe. I look back on my life and realize that I've had so much fun because I'm not afraid of much of anything. Very seldom will you hear me say "No, I'm too tired/fat/pregnant/lazy/scared/nervous/sick/worried about looking silly/etc." I don't let anything stop me, unless there's a definite risk to my personal safety or others....beyond that, trying new things is what makes me chug happily along, and what interests me most. If I had to give advice, it would be to live as much as you can, while you can.

I refuse to grow up. Why would I do that?

I'm also a dedicated friend, although that always seems to bite me in the ass. Repeatedly. Seems I don't stop taking applications though...I'm a glutton for punishment. That being said, this journal is 100% drama-free. There will NEVER be a public entry... It'll be damn hard to get added to it, and the first ounce of drama that creeps into it will result in the offender being banned...first offense. Not deleted. Banned.. Sorry, that's how it's got to be after my last journal. I graduated high school in 1995. I have no desire to go back. This is my fresh start journal and it will remain sane.

I seem to give out some crazy-people pheromone or something...I've tried showering it off but it won't go away. If you're clinically insane in a bad way, you need not apply. If you're crazy in a good way it's both welcome and encouraged. Don't be surprised when I ask for a salute. Sorry. It's a necessary evil.

I'm a full time mom and homemaker who was thrown into this position after her job was "eliminated". Don't think that means I don't work. The only people who would think so probably don't have children. In my non-existent free time I'm an urban explorer and an amateur photographer and my favorite shots are those that go hand in hand...semi-decent pictures of falling down buildings are orgasmic.



Quote of the week:
Forsake not an old friend, for a new one does not compare with him.
* Apocrypha -- Ecclesiasticus 9:10


Remember that one kiddies...they'll be a quiz and if you don't study, in the end it'll be you that fails.














My beautiful family, minus the two little boys but including Avery, lol.










Our beautiful Avery Brynn. 9/22/07













Click here for our Flickr account started 6-10-07!!!


"Please Understand me." By David Keirsey.

If I do not want what you want
Please try not to tell me that my want is wrong
Or if I believe other than you
At least pause before you correct my view
Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances
Try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly
Or, yet if I act or fail to act in a manner for your design for action
Let me be
I do not for the moment, at least ask you to understand me
That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.