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Blahs
2008-04-03 17:59:00 I’m tired and I want to go home. Not exactly inspirational or inspiring is it? But true. oh so true. This hamster wheel of a life is draining me. Slowly draining me. Today, I have no motivation to do anything positive, and I hate that. Granted, it’s that “time o’ month” so, I’m more lethargic and cranky than usual, but it’s there. I’m tired of that pregnant man post being at the top, so this is to push it down. I wasn’t going to write at all, who wants to hear waaaa waaa waaaa all the time? You get enough of that from your kids. Ok, I’m done whining.
The Pregnant Man
2008-04-02 22:59:00 I’m about to make my first foray into stating my opinion on what is a controversial topic. First, I would close comments if I could, but I don’t know how. That being the case, please be nice to me. I’m stating an opinion. Just as you all can on your own blogs. I tend to stay away from controversy, religion, and politics. It comes from my fears and anxiety about confrontation. I’ve shared personal religious stuff - but in regards to my life, not in regards to is/isn’t, should/shouldn’t. And in politics, I don’t go there, because I feel ignorant. Let me share with you the facts, and then I’ll let you know what I think. Thomas Beattie and his wife, Nancy, couldn’t have children. Well. Nancy couldn’t. Thomas is a post-surgical male who chose to keep his reproductive organs. Nancy had had a hysterectomy, so rather than hire a surrogate, Thomas became pregnant via artificial insemination. He’s now about 6 months... More About: Pregnant
malaise
2008-04-02 02:12:00 All day today I’ve been pissy. Well… Bitchy would be a better term. Screeching and such. Every little thing a major annoyance. Perturbed. The kind of day where in the span of a half hour you drop everything you touch, you get a couple of papercuts, and then you spill water all over the inside of your truck. I couldn’t figure out why I didn’t have peace. I kept praying - because this was awful. Just awful. Nothing had happened to warrant this. Usually some serious things need to go wrong for me to have this kind of attitude. And then I got real tired. And then I craved chocolate. And then the light bulb went on. Dude, I hate PMS.
AllTop…
2008-04-01 18:53:00 I have made the AllTop List! You can find me in the Life bloggers section. I’m very excited about this! These are really good blogs, people. Please go take a look around. Thanks, Guy!
Writing Roundup
2008-04-01 16:36:00 If you’re not into that self promotion thing, you can just move right along until I write again… heh. Every once in a while I think it’s good share what I’m doing. You might actually be interested! Let me re-introduce you the other places I write. A review blog. Yes I’m paid, either in products (which I then review) or in cash. I do not take assignments in which I’m requested to write positively. I’m way too snarky for that and would then try and finagle the review. heh. So - I only take assignments in which I can actually really write what I think. Hopefully - for them - it’ll be positive. If not? Such is life, and maybe they’ll have interest in the criticism. This is my baby. A blog geared towards the parents of kids with special needs. I touch on everything from mild learning disabilities to children in a vegetative state. Being that both my kids are special needs, it’s almost cathartic at t... More About: Writing , Roundup
Fools Around The Corner
2008-04-01 01:58:00 OK. This is a warning. Tomorrow is April 1st. If I get on here and rant about some stupid thing Poe told me, or did, or said he did… REMIND ME that it’s April 1st. Trust me. He’s done some doozies to me. On my old paper calendar, for years, I had written in on each April 1st, “Don’t Believe a Thing Poe Says.” Really. Oh, and never believe this one either. She’s gotten me sucked in every year, and every year I swear she won’t get me again. Now that I’ve written this all out, let’s see how supid I am tomorrow, mmkay? More About: Corner , The Corner
Introducing…
2008-03-31 16:32:00 My latest endeavor. There is more content coming. But I wanted to announce it.
Blog?
2008-03-31 14:58:00 If you write a blog, please read this entry. I am a brand. So are you. More About: Blog
Splogging - Don’t Do It
2008-03-30 16:25:00 I wrote about my splogged content. I then wrote about my seeming inability to act. To recap… Content splogged, me mad, me ineffectual. I have since made sure that my Creative Commons is up-to-date (it was) and added a widget to add it to my feeds. I decided against moving to partial feeds because my readers were very vocal about their hatred of them.What I did not do, which I will do immediately after posting this, is do another search on my links (can someone tell me how to do this OTHER than Technorati links to you?) and ask for my content be removed. And keep track and follow up. Why didn’t I do this before?? I am leery of confrontation. I’m small potatoes. I was afraid of a fight I couldn’t win. I’m not afraid anymore. (update: went to find my content again, and couldn’t find it. Disappeared? WHY didn’t I bookmark or make screenshots?!) This is my content. Mine. I created it. I thought of it. I took the time and energy...
They say it’s your birthday…
2008-03-29 15:31:00 … well it’s my birthday too, yeah. 33 today. More About: Birthday
My Mind
2008-03-28 19:30:00 My mind is all akimbo. Things are starting to come together in plans to come home. Granted, not tomorrow, but concrete plans. There’s a light at the end of the tunnel. But I’ve had too much caffeine and cannot seem to put the words to paper blog in order to tell you all about it. My mind is a jumble of thoughts, coherent and not. Good and bad. Fears and elation. I can’t seem to sort it all out. Usually writing it out helps, but not today. More About: Mind
motherhood, I wish I knew
2008-03-26 23:53:00 I was originally going to write this for a blog blast on another blog of mine. Except then I realized I didn’t need the prize - it was for munchkin babies and my kids are too old. But I’d already written the post and apparently had something to say. So, here it is. You know… There are several things I wished I knew before I became a mother. All the way from pregnancy all the way down to where I am now (my sons are 5 & 7.) I wished someone would tell me how crappy I would feel when pregnant. I knew the technical symptoms. But no one ever sat me down and said, “Look. You’re going to feel like crap for the next 9 10 months. There will be varying forms of suckitude, and it can take different forms. Be prepared.” Or, how freakin’ bloody it would be - both for my husband to witness during the birth, and for the after process of bleeding. My poor husband went literally white and almost passed out. He thought I was bleeding to death, poor... More About: Motherhood
My Community
2008-03-25 01:36:00 So, last night, The Queen of Spain twitterized a video chat session. I went ahead and logged on. I just text chatted, while the other ladies (and there was a dude too, but I never caught who he was) were on video chats. That’ll happen soon - I have a camera on my new! computer! coming! Along with QoS, was GeekMommy, Schmutzie (didn’t get to chat much with her), ToThink, Crunchy Carpets, and TheMacMommy. These are all new to me bloggers, except Queen of Spain. Actually, I’d heard of them, just never actually read them before. My point is this - these were all new peeps for me. I’m now twitting them, and I’ve bookmarked them for perusal. First let me just say - it was fun. Real time chatting, while seeing pretty faces, in an unplanned (I think?) “hey let’s talk” kind of way. Unless I totally barged into a party that was thought out, in which case, mea culpa. However, this isn’t the point - I’m just setting you u... More About: Community
Quotations
2008-03-24 15:43:00 The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.-Richard Bach Amen and amen. More About: Quotations
He is Risen
2008-03-23 15:27:00 He is Risen Indeed Please take time, today, if you are a Christian, to truly recognize in your heart and mind what the resurrection means. What He went through, what it means for Him to resurrect, and what it means for your life - and your life hereafter. Remember the destination - while living the journey. A very blessed Easter to you all! Photo: Claudia Meyer (St Germain en Laye) France
what i do online each day
2008-03-22 20:21:00 Each day, there are specific things I do online… My “dailies” so to speak. Google home page, which is calibrated for my own interests, including my email and weather Aol mail and news Blog mail Twitter (which is actually an all day refresh kind of thing) FreeRice Mvelopes Guild Website (for WoW) Google calendar Bloglines Cafemom MySpace cre8Buzz Yuwie - Although I’m considering deleting my account Disaboom Blog here Blog Stars Behind Bars Blog Special Needs Parent And various other places that are linked to here in the sidebars. That activity comes through emails though, so I only go there when there’s something new I’m notified of. Mondays - the weekly stuff Waste of Time Comics - Heh. He’s in my wow guild. BlogHer Gig Forum Mmolecule comics I’m also working on my review site, but I’m not ready to start publicizing it really yet. It’s all organized neatly in bookmarks and my foxpro buttons, so it’s fairly... More About: Online
Truthiness
2008-03-20 19:41:00 I decided that I’m woman enough to show you all my true self. As part of the Self-Portrait Truthiness project at Flickr. I am a real woman. Yes I wear makeup and jewelry. I groom. Heck, I even shower! But in the morning all you get is me - morning breath and all. But, my husband sees this every morning and hasn’t run away screaming into the dark morning hours yet, so I know he loves me anyway. Sweetney had this to say: I post this for two reasons. One, I think we’re all very good at glossing over and covering up, and let’s face it, that’s kind of lame and cowardly. We all promote our best head-shots, our most flattering angles, and stuff under the rug the reality of what we REALLY look like without tweaking and all manner of artificial support. I’m no different, of course: I edit and select all of the images I post here, and am loathe to publish photos that make me look less-than-attractive(-ish). But I’m not a head-shot, and my life mo...
My Poe
2008-03-19 19:54:00 This photo is significant for two reasons. How hot is my husband?! This should tell you I finally received replacement cords for my digital camera, which has been missing since last July.
Tired of the Fight
2008-03-18 19:32:00 Cross-Posted at Special Needs Parent as well Do you ever just get really really tired? Tired of it all? Tired of the drama… Tired of being the “responsible adult…” or the “responsible parent…” Tired of dealing with all the kids issues, and having to be on top of it all, and realizing at a certain point… My God will it never end? And it won’t. And I’m feeling it today. So, my youngest son, Logan (he would be the one with the heart issues) is going to be held back in Kindergarten next year. He’s just not keeping up. Bad news - He’s being held back. Good news - He’s being held back. On the one hand - developmentally speaking - he’s very very young. That’s just because of his heart issues… Smart as a whip - but more like a 4 year old (physically and mentally) than a 5 year old. Smallest in his class. As his teacher put it, there are no learning issues, there are no psychologica... More About: Fight
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
2008-03-17 17:34:00 Having absolutely nothing to do with St. Patty’s Day, this is the conversation from the car this morning, on the way to school: Joseph: Logan, what do you want to be when you grow up. Logan: Police. Joseph: Well… You could be a Sheriff too, you know. Logan: What’s that? Joseph: Same as police - they just wear a different hat. More About: Patrick , Happy , St Patrick
Pay no attention
2008-03-15 01:33:00 Testing feed. Please go back to your business. More About: Attention
Nothing I Can Do
2008-03-14 23:25:00 Well… There’s nothing I can do really… The are long excerpts, not the whole thing - the excerpt, plus the link, means it basically sucks, and there’s basically nothing I can do. I am going to be taking some steps for prevention of this in the future, however. And yes that could mean partial feeds. I’ve already gotten feedback that I will not be read due to that. I’ve decided that if I go that route, and I’m not read because people want don’t want to click over? That’s ok. Sucks, but ok. I need to do whatever I’m comfortable with. I’m not sure what that looks like yet - but the only thing I’m selling here on my blog is me.
On a lighter note…
2008-03-14 22:39:00 Last night: I come home. Poe is folding laundry. When he does tasks like this, he likes to blast music. The kids also like the blasting music. Poe is trying to talk to me, and we look like idiots trying to yell through the music to talk to each other. I turned the stereo down two volume notches. Logan marches over to me and puts one hand on one hip and points to the stereo. Logan: Why did you do that? Me: So I could talk to your father without yelling. Logan: That… Just does not Rock! More About: Note , Lighter
I’m Pissed Off
2008-03-14 20:34:00 So. Someone is stealing my content. However they are linking to me. They are scraping my content, but then listing the link to the entry. So, I think, technically it’s not illegal, since they are listing my link. Problem? There’s my entry, with a bunch of google ads that I’M certainly not getting the money for. See - they’re not commenting on the entry. Just Hoox, or some other names wrote this… Then my entry… Then my link. I don’t really know how to make them stop (since they’re linking me!ARG!) They’re making money off of my content, without providing content of their own. But the link makes it legal, as far as I can see. Not only that - but I don’t want my own readers to think I am the one doing it to get more links out there or hits out there. So - I’m doing some research. I apologize if you read this in a feeder - I may be going to partials instead of full. I also will probably be do... More About: Pissed
How do I Twitter?
2008-03-14 16:55:00 So… How do you Twitter ? I don’t mean the nuts and bolts - I get that. I mean when you’ve got people you’re following. Do you just check Twitter several times a day to see what people are up to? That’s the part I’m not getting.
Do you love me?
2008-03-14 03:56:00 If you’re reading this, then I encourage you to take the survey. The data helps BlogHer and BlogHerAds stay relevant to both me the blogger, and you the reader. More About: Love
to laptop or not
2008-03-13 14:14:00 I think I need some advice. Do I buy a laptop or not? I will have the money from our refund. however, I’m not sure I should spend it on that or debt. Then again - this other refund - that rebate thingie for the economy - is found money. I didn’t work for it, I didn’t earn it, so heck, why put it towards debt? I have an old clunky laptop which is fairly unuseable. When talking to those in the know about such things, they basically said “Go new… Even if you try to upgrade the old one, it’s just not meant to handle that much processing.” OK fine. I won’t upgrade, it would be new. Then there was the mac vs pc debate… Which I still haven’t reconciled. Why do I want one? I have a desktop at home, and one at work. They both are fine. I have no complaints there. But every once in a while I would like to go sit on the couch instead. Every once in a while, I’d like to go to starbucks and write without ... More About: Laptop
bah
More articles from this author:2008-03-12 17:11:00 I am really really struggling today. The kids are annoying me. Joseph stole a Diet Dr. Pepper. He argued constantly about what he should bring to school… We ran out of the house late, and so I have no makeup on. Just one of those freakin’ days. I prayed. About my attitude. ‘Cause this sucks. And further more - this project of Joseph’s was for his Student of the Week. Jesus, am I a bad mom or what? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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