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The Heavy

July 10, 2008 By Michele 4 Comments

I don’t really want to go all heavy right now, with BlogHer prep and anticipation at it’s peak.  ‘Cause it is for me too!  I’m excited, and anxious, and anticipatory – and quite frankly need to get away.

But.

But.  I’m waiting.  You see, in a few days we’ll find out what, if anything, is causing my mother to jerk uncontrollably.  She had two tests, a cat scan/MRI, and an EEG.  We’re waiting on those results.  In the first, the tech asked her, while he was scanning her, “And does your doctor think you have a brain tumor?”  And during the EEG, “I don’t like the looks of this.”

And so we wait.

I’ve talked to Poe.  Whatever the results are, I’m going to BlogHer.  Good?  Great I’ll get the break I need.  Bad?  I’ll need the last harrah for myself.

I realize it seems morbid.  But when you’re part of the sandwich generation – you have to think morbid.  My mother has almost died 4 times in the last two years, and in the midst of that, two years ago, my biological mother died.  3 years ago, my brother committed suicide.  These are the facts of life folks – death is a fact of life.  I live next door to my two elderly parents.  I wait to find out if one of them is dying.

If she is – there are going to be big changes around here.  Like I said, I’ve already talked to Poe – and we have some plans in place in the case that she’s terminal.  If she’s not, huzzah and we move on with our life as it was.  If not?  Well, I’ve got a whole family, including an 8 year old, and 6 year old, who see grandma everyday, and it’s my role as daughter, wife, and mother, to see them through it.

So – I wait.

I just needed to get this out.

New Game in Town

June 27, 2008 By Michele Leave a Comment

While I went off the deep end a tad bit, my attitude is improved. Nothing’s changed, mind you, but my attitude has improved.

I’ve decided to turn my social anxiety in a post just for you. Look for my BlogHer 2008 disclaimer, coming soon, and find out about all my foibles and idiosyncrasies ahead of time.

The Stuggle to Keep On

June 24, 2008 By Michele 2 Comments

The basic why is I’m struggling.  Greatly.  I want to be home, I need to be home, and I think God wants me home.  But I’m not home.  And so I’ve been struggling – emotionally, spiritually, and practically with that fact.

I’ve never been one to wait things out.  I’ve no patience.  Once a decision is made, I can never seem to understand, “Now isn’t the time, ” or “Wait,” or “in the future.”  I’ve made a decision, so why can’t I follow through?

It’s made it very very difficult to go to work every day.  I’m physically exhausted.  Nothing seems to be getting done anywhere!  At work, at home, or my online activities.  I’m failing at everything.  And since this is what’s rolling through my head on a near constant basis – I haven’t been writing, because who wants to hear that over and over and over again?

I feel that BlogHer is going to be a turning point for me.  I don’t know why.  It’s a conference.  A conference of, you know, the coolest people ever, but it’s still a conference – a series of meetings – so I don’t know what I think will happen.  Perhaps I just need the rest from my daily life?  Maybe that’ll give me perspective?

I honestly don’t have the answer, so I’m just trying to hang on while everything seems to crumble around me.  It’s a mental crumble – but a crumble just the same.  I’m trying to remind myself that my children are (relatively) healthy, my marriage is healthy, so everything’s good.

Right?

Simplification

May 29, 2008 By Michele 2 Comments

Despite appearances, I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth.  I’m merely taking stock.

I fled two blogging jobs that weren’t compensating properly for the amount of time it took.  I don’t have that much time right now, so I cut them.  I’m cutting feeds right and left – things I just skimmed aren’t worth my time right now.

I’ll never leave blogging – it’s my journal, and I’ve been here a very very long time.  I’m just simplifying the things that take away brain capacity.  Sometimes it feels like I’m full up in my head and everything is sort of sliding off the top ’cause there’s no more room.  So I’m making room.

I’m also looking into other blogging possibilities – while being properly compensated.  I don’t have great expectations, just open to the possibilities.  I’m also looking to the possibilities of at-home telecommute positions, in order to get me home before we’re technically out of debt.  All part of my plan.

Simplification and drawing in close around the nucleus of my family.  That’s the intent.  I’m not going anywhere…  Just closing the sphere a little bit.  I’d rather read a few blogs that effect me, rather than hundreds that just sift through.  I’d rather have a paid blogging job that pays “real” salaries than “settle” just to say I’m writing.  I’d rather work at home than outside the home so I can better instruct my boys in life, instead of giving them a hurried hour before bedtime while mentally drained.

I’m circling the wagons.

fog lifts

May 23, 2008 By Michele 1 Comment

You know how yesterday I was all angsty?  Well this was in clear skies, before the rain, thunder, lightning, flash flooding, mudslides, and tornadoes (?!).

Today I feel great.

So either I felt it coming, and now it’s broke, or something.  I don’t know.  I’m just that in tune with mother nature, dude.

That or I’m bipolar.  Seriously, though, my husband sometimes wonders.

As an aside…  I think I’m finally a grown up.  I actually lost track of what the heck I was doing in the shower this morning.  Why?  Because I was internally debating the pros and cons of money market accounts.  People, I’m dreaming about being fiscally sensible.  Does that give me grownup status?

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