Where have I been?

 Hello. 

Where I've been? 

The last few years have been crazy. And in more ways than one. 

We had the pandemic. Which changed all of our lives. In an instant from family members, we lost and friends to the way we live and participate in the world. And all that time, 

I had medical issues and various other problems. That I had to take time away to focus on. You saw me here and there. Occasionally. But not as consistent as years past. I'd like to say that is going to change very soon, but I can't say exactly when that will start. 

Since the beginning of 2022, my life has been one change after another. I Sold my house. Or my husband's house I should say, I quit my job. I spent a few months not working for the first time since I was 18. And in May we packed up all of our belongings and moved over 900 miles to the state of New York. We moved to the upstate part of New York in an effort to find a new life and seeking happiness. Things all didn't go to plan. But they're starting to turn around. 

We Came here with very little information about the place that would be renting. But after trying for weeks to find somewhere else, that would take us and our animals. Even paying months and months in advance extra deposits. No one would allow our animals. So, we arrived hoping That this landlord would not be a scam. 

The move here actually took us a from Monday afternoon till Friday morning before we made it here with the truck. There was a problem with our truck reservation. We're told we had it for seven days. Turns out the person only had changed it to three. Weird. Never would have worked. Thankfully Penske was wonderful in resolving in this and did not charge us a crazy absorbent amount For technically being late. 

We get here. The rental was not ready. We proceeded to have to stay many more days in a hotel. 

Once we had the address, we went to check it out. And we found a rundown home. 

That was not anything, like we were expecting. And for eleven hundred dollars a month. We never thought we would find something in that condition. We moved in because even while trying to wait on the landlord to move in, We couldn't find anywhere else to go. Even while being here, It was impossible to try to find from being in Indiana. Information just is not available widely online. 

So we stayed there, knowing that if everything worked out, it would be for a very short time. We've lived out a boxes. We never unpacked. We only took out what we needed. I started work at end of June, after a whole bunch of problems. With Crooked mechanics and the DMV. I think it's BMV here. 

So I started my job and It's been going. After starting my job, I found out that a lot of the things that we were told about buying a house in this area were lies or at least wrong. Because I had no gap of employment more than 6 months. I didn't even wait 2 full months Before starting the job applications.I would be able to start the process to purchase a home. 

Here, they require. A pre-approval letter. Before you can even begin looking at homes. Even if you have cash, they want a pre-approval letter. So we began our search and after a few weeks, I started really to feel Hopeless, because rates were climbing. Houses one after another were being snatched up before we could get them. We would make offers on homes. And be told that they had already been taken off the market and that they had updated it yet. 

I'm happy to announce. That we have officially moved into our own home in the state of New York. 

Now comes the long part. Of unpacking sorting. And decorating, and making it a home. 

So more content coming soon. 

Product reviews will be picking back up. A lot of things are needed for this home such as lights and other things. So, I'm going to be trying to test a lot of those things for you and let you know what I think. 

Thanks for sticking with me. Ruby. 

Confessions of an UGLY Beauty blogger No.1

I think about it often, that when people look at me in day to day life that they would never believe me that I am a beauty blogger. I don't have nice hair everyday and I barely wear makeup. I constantly think about makeup and looks but I just don't have the motivation to learn all the techniques. I'd rather sleep in an extra 15 mins than get up and put on makeup. I pin things I want to try on Pinterest that I might never do. There was once a time when I was "bored" I would play with makeup and my hair and take pictures. I found happiness in feeling like I might be pretty. Then something happens and I just don't feel like I can do it. I guess it's a side effect from all those years being told I would never be anything but an ugly fat unwanted girl.

Passions in life, Where did I lose my way?

I just watched If I stay tonight and man can I tell you its a tear jerker. The thing that had me crying so much was the fact that she knew what she wanted and she loved what she did. To play something so purely is amazing and makes me realize how empty I have come to be? I guess that is the best way I can describe it... I had such dreams and passions when I was younger, or so I thought. Its hard to remember that long ago when now you ask me what I want to do I can't really come up with an answer. I have reached an age where what once seemed so important doesn't matter anymore. I have become someone without hopes and dreams. Writing is one of the last things I do for myself  simply because I want to, (besides nail polish that is.) Even with writing I feel like I am not where I want to be. I feel like its become like a job to me and has lost its fun. I am working to regain the passion I once had and not just write reviews, could short stories or poems be in the future again? Who knows only time will tell. I know just how that girl felt to know that when she wakes she would be alone in the world. I am not alone anymore but I feel like I may have lost a piece of myself during the years I was alone and I just don't know what I want anymore.

I guess I just simply want to be happy and I'll take everything else one day at a time.

A positive change

So I recently got food poisoning a few weeks ago and it was horrible. BUT there has been a positive change since then. I have always been a soda drinker, specially Mtn dew. I just love it. Well I had been having a lot of problems about the last 6 months where my stomach was on fire everyday and I was always having to take tums. I went on vacation for a week in January and had no mtn dew while gone and the burning went away. So following that I stopped drinking regular mtn dew and then drinking Mtn dew Live wire. I really love live wire but its hard to find and expensive because I have to buy in in 12 packs.

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Then came the food poisoning. I couldn't eat or drink anything but water and I hate water. I always normally do flavored water with mio and things anyway but had switched back to soda full time when the water locally started smelling really funky. That day though I had nothing but plain water and the only thing I ate was a piece of french bread plain, greek yogurt, and plain water because everything else made me sick. I have never ever had food poisoning so bad in my life before. It was so bad I had to call out from work because I couldn't even walk right and the nausea was worse than anything else I have ever experienced.  So I spent the next 24 hours asleep or in the bathroom and then had to go to work the next night after expelling anything I had been able to take in all day and no food in my stomach. 

So of course I was miserable and spent the next few days scared to eat much of anything and that whole week was just miserable because I had to then work on the only day off I had in exchange for the sick day.

I went through terrible caffeine withdrawal but I am over it now and I have only had a soda 3-4 times since then. I used to drink 2-3 a day and really if I can't have my Mtn dew I just don't see the point anymore. So I have been Living on the Nestle Pure life Splash in mandarin orange and the flavored waters from Dasani in acai grape and mixed berry.

So here is to healthier options and maybe a new step in my weight loss journey.

Never thought I would get paid to write

Since an early age I have wanted to write. I have always loved books and getting lost in them and I wanted to give that experience to people who read my writing. To feel the characters pain and happiness but I never thought I would ever actually make any money from writing. I started blog after blog and they fell to the way side because I kept trying to do a blog for each hobby. Finally after they sat stagnant with no new content I decided to create one blog and combine them all together and thats how Life of a Mad Typer was born (after a few name changes that is.) When I first started I just wanted a place to flex my brain and keep in practice of writing. After being out of school for so long I felt like my writing was flowing from me and I was losing it. That is why I started to blog and I never thought I would get paid to write in the form of cash or products. It's been almost 2 years now since this blog itself has been going and I would like to think my parents would be proud of what I have built from the ground up. The blogging community is amazing and has blown me away with the kindness they have shown me.

Do you blog? Leave me your link in the comments so I can check out your blog!

The Worst Birthday present ever.

Sorry I haven't posted much lately all! Life has been a little crazy. Thursday was my 25th birthday and I went to see the new OZ movie and loved it. Then Friday while our out of town guests were getting ready to leave we were at a stop sign and got rear ended so now I'm doing my first ever accident claim. Happy 25th birthday to me right? My poor baby, I've not even had her a year. Hope all is good with you.

Loss of a Loved one. R.I.P Robby

Everyone that knew Robby knew he loved puzzles. I was sitting at my desk on Sunday trying to write something to say but the words were hard and I was trying not to cry at work because I never know when I might get a call, but no matter how hard I tried every time I pictured Robby in my mind and hear his voice from my memory a few tears would escape and I couldn't hold them in. I ended up not being able to find the words that night but I had a puzzle piece at my desk that was a piece of a puzzle I had lost and then found and it inspired a poem that said better how I felt then all the things I had written down and scribbled out.

From behind the typewriter.

Things have been really crazy for me! With the time change we watched the clock hit 2am and and then change back to 1am. It was like a nightmare! So I had to work 9 hours instead of 8 but thats not that bad but I am not back into my sleeping pattern with the change.

I have been working with a friend to get her blog started. I designed her banner and Facebook cover and photo. Working on a button for her next go check her out http://jujusworld1.blogspot.com/.

Just got done watching the latest walking dead and boy can I say I didn;t expect that. I am off to bed goodnight.

Baking for carry in.

I made cake balls last week for a carry in at work. They we're strawberry with cream cheese icing and white candy coating. They were a hit! Not to many left and I was asked about them the next night.

Dying my hair an alternative color.

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I have wanted black with neon blue streaks forever. So with a little nudge I went for it.

Tomorrow Is the big day!

So YAY I just realized we are officially at 500 posts! Go us! Tomorrow I get to pick up my new iPhone from  Best Buy. I am using the cash I make off my iPhone 4s to get a 3ds XL and I cant wait! I may even end up picking up the new Kingdom hearts game.

Other news, I am going to be working LOTS of overtime the next few days but at least I got to keep 1 day off. I am doing 6 hours on Saturday and 2 hours added to my shift on Sunday and Monday. Didn't volunteer for the 2 extra hours per day but I am stuck with it so Oh well.

Have you guys played songpop? It's quite addicting! Well I'm off for now have to get ready for the morning. I am planning on taking a folding chair and reading my kindle so I can possibly finish the book I am reading and get the review up soon!

Trying to be house wife-ish

I'm not Susie home maker at all! I'm the working girl who leaves the cooking to the Old Man but today I picked up a few things and even made cookies! These turned out! Not burnt not raw! So this year my baking skills 2 inedible mess 1

Vacation in Indy day 2.

So we woke up on the second day the day I called "tourist day" to do all the things I wanted to do. The thing I didn't count on? Nothing being open yet... Yeah I know should have known better but I was in such excitement I couldn't wait anymore! We had breakfast at the hotel and man what a good breakfast it was! Yogurt,bagels and cream cheese and make your own waffles! We ate till we were full and took some scrambled eggs and sausage to Fuzzy back in the room (he's very spoiled you see) and he promptly gobbled it all up!

He's odd he likes to get on selves and lay there at the hotel he just loved to hang out on them like this.

Odd day. The case of nudity.

Ever have a day that just starts off so weird and seems to ruin the rest of the day? Well that day,for me has been today. Want to know what happened from the moment I tried to leave the house? Read below to find out!

Haven't posted lately.

Sorry all I have been on vacation and there is a rule in the house that we just don't talk about it online. We have seen too many horror stories where people posted on fb or else where they were out of town and gotten robbed so I thought it best not to say anything at all. Not to mention that I was busy sight seeing! I have tons of pictures coming and reviews of places we went. Today I have been just trying to get all the pictures on my pc and sorted and the bad ones deleted. So prepare for vacation items for the next few days. I am actually up really late for me and about to go to bed so I will see y'all later!

Life is good.

Things have been going pretty good with me! I am currently working on a nightmare before Christmas theme set but I am off for the holiday and on my way to fun! Sorry not a long post tonight, currently trying to get things cleaned and laundry done so I don't have to worry this weekend. It's going to be rough because I am going to be sleeping at night and awake in the day and have to be back to normal (sleep during day awake at night) by 12am Monday morning when I go back to work!! Wish me luck. Have a good holiday weekend.

A cake adventure!

I haven't baked a cake since middle school or high school but I did it today! Made business partner/co-worker a birthday cake!

A day in the life of an #abuse victim

So some time ago I did a post about abuse. I did my makeup for the photos for the post and left it that way all day and went around town. I had been planning this post about the experiences that I had that day but didn't write it until now.

Carpe diem: What made me realize to seize the day

The other day a co-worker was in a car accident. We work thirds and he had just got off work and was on the way to get his daughter but had to drive to another town to pick her up. He fell asleep at the wheel and crossed into the on coming traffic hitting another car head on. Neither of the people in the other car had a seat belt on. The passenger in that car was a 7 month pregnant woman and she died in the crash. I was in total shock when we were told at work on Monday morning. I was going to post something on here that day but on top of being sick this was just another thing to scramble my mind.

I am in shock.

I am in shock about a situation that occurred yesterday after work. I am not sure how to word or even how to begin to put my feelings into words so I think I will take the day to work over it and give myself some time to try to become coherent again. Thirds is like a family and when something happens to one of your own like this it really brings home how close you are to danger. I am trying to work this out in my head but I find it hard to imagine that it happened. When my boyfriend left the house it took about 20 mins of hugs before I would let him out of my sight as I am scared what could happen. I will work on better forming my thoughts tonight and how to address a touchy topic and how its made me stop to think.