New Attitude
Perhaps smack in the middle of a very unpleasant cold is not the best place to be making decisions, but nobody ever said I was the sharpest knife in the drawer.
But something clicked in me this morning.
I need to bump the negative out of my life. The sour grapes. The whiners. The complainers. The chronic malcontents, who, no matter what are always determined to find the dark side of everything.
I’m not saying life is all sunshine and rainbows. I know it’s not. I’ve done my fair share of twitter bitching, for sure. But you ever notice that… Continue reading
Things I Don't Miss About Twitter
I’ve been gone from Twitter a couple of months now, and I can honestly say I don’t miss it one single bit. I made a great group of friends, and they are still my support, my sanity, and part of my heart, even though we all may not talk every day. Twitter brought me my very best friends. I am not in the least bit regretful of the time I spent there.
I thought I would miss a lot of things after I left. In truth, I don’t. It’s actually awesome as hell to not have to put up with… Continue reading
365
365. The number of days Maddie has been gone.
I think of her every day. I have a picture on my desk at work, courtesy of the lovely Casey, of the balloon launch after Maddie’s funeral. It’s a daily reminder to me of love, loss, and gratitude.
So much has happened in the last year. My baby has become a toddler. She walks, she runs, she climbs. She talks, she whines, she cries. Last night was one of the worst meltdowns I’ve ever seen her have. Ever. A year ago I might have thrown my hands up in desperation… Continue reading
Twenty Questions
So on Friday I asked you guys to submit your questions: What about me do you want to know? I got questions from three of you.
My dear friend Issa asked these:
1. If you won the lottery and could live anywhere in the world, where would you live and why?
This may seem like a cop out answer, but I would have to have at least 2 homes. One would need to be somewhere in England. I yearn for that country, and have never been. Is a lifelong dream to visit. Living there would be beyond awesome. My other… Continue reading
Fitting In
I keep reading about fitting in. Or not, as the case may be. Issa wrote a great post about it. About expectations, obligations, frustrations.
I started a Twitter account a little over a year ago. If memory serves me right, it was because I wanted to follow Tweets from a local restaurant (I might be a tiny bit obsessed with food). I never in a million years thought it would have the impact on me that it did. I met people who would become my very best friends. The fact that they live in another state and we’ve never met… Continue reading
All in the Details – For Layla Grace
My circle of friends on twitter is in pain today. For months we’ve all been watching, waiting and praying that a little girl with cancer would beat the odds. For about the last month, we knew she was going to lose her battle. Today, a sweet little girl, not much older than my Ava has flown away to be with angels.
I chose not to follow updates from her parents. Too fresh on the heels of Maddie’s passing and dealing with Ava’s own issues, I felt it was too much for me to handle. I come off as a real… Continue reading
Not Building Back The Wall
To be honest, I really don’t know how to start with this one. I do know that I am upset. I am hurt. Once again drama has reared its head. I swear to God, I don’t go consciously looking for it.
You would think after being burned so badly in the past, I’d be slower to take down my defenses. In a lot of cases, I am. However, every so often someone comes along and they just have a way of making you feel comfortable. So you share. You share intimate details of your life. You exchange histories. You talk… Continue reading
Friday Rants
I have spent a large portion of this entire week irritated by one thing or another. Is it really too much to ask that the world gets a clue? Apparently so, and it doesn’t look as though it is going to happen anytime soon anyway. So what’s been chapping my ass this week, you ask? Ok, maybe you didn’t ask, but seeing as how this is my blog, I’m gonna tell you anyway.
- People who want to tell other people what to write on their blog. If you want specific content, perhaps you should write your own. If you don’t… Continue reading
How Long Before She Demands Perrier Water With a Twist?
I discussed a while back my challenges with getting Ava to eat. We went through about three weeks with her eating very little at all. I know all toddlers hit that “Hell no I don’t want to eat, I have better things to do” stage. However, Ava was losing weight. That became a concern.
I turned, as usual, to my Twitter gals, who plied me with ideas for us to try. After discovering that my little non eater was nursing a stomach virus (that she passed to me, thankyouverymuch) we worked on getting her over that and then tried to… Continue reading
Friendship and the internet, what it all really means….yeah, here I go again.
This is the post where I call out my own hypocrisy and tell you why I went back to Twitter. Plus a small dissertation on friendship.
I was reading comments on a friend’s blog recently and the subject of Twitter was being discussed. Some folks were talking about paring down their follower list to make it more manageable, since it is physically impossible to keep up with the daily ramblings of 900+ people. I started thinking, what if I restored my account, and whittled away at my list so that I was only following/being followed by the few people I… Continue reading
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