But aside from that, she's still completely normal
My boss forced a vacation on me after the PFH (project from hell). I am coming at you now from home – IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MORNING!!
I may play some WoW. Or not. Blog. Or not. DVD’s. Or not. Or sleep. Or not.
And my house is clean. and silent. Bliss.
Everyone converges Thursday, but for now, I’m alone. I need this.
I found this at IzzyMom. My Declaration of (Blogging) Independence. You all know I’ve had trouble blogging recently because (shock!) real life got in the way. I’ve been struggling a bit to get back into the swing of things. “Friends and passersby, I give you my declaration of independence from all ridiculous and counterproductive thoughts and behaviors related to blogging.” Use it yourself if you wish to, and go let Izzy know about it.
1. I will only write when I feel like writing. I will not allow myself to feel obligated to write a blog post or do any other blog-related activity if I don’t feel like it.
2. I will no longer stop to consider if a post will be boring to other people or use that as a deciding factor in what I write.
3. I will write from my heart and remember that my blog is about me and whatever I want to write about.
4. I will not compare myself to other bloggers.
5. I will not allow myself to feel bad if I notice that someone doesn’t come to my blog anymore.
6. I will not concern myself with comments or stat counters or other numeric devices that might have the ability to affect my mood or what I write.
7. I will not feel bad if something I care about doesn’t get a lot of feedback or comments.
8. I will always try to remember that blogging is a hobby first and foremost. When it stops being fun, I will step away and re-evaluate.
9. I will no longer feel guilty about not commenting “as much as I should” because my first responsibility is to myself and my kids. Though I love reading and connecting with other bloggers, real life needs to come first.
10. I will not worry about losing readers if I change my focus from time to time.
11. I will be true to myself and my feelings. I will be cranky if that’s how I feel. Being a diplomat 24-7 is just exhausting and unnatural.
12. I will try really hard to fight that feeling that I am missing out on something if I’m not reading and commenting on blogs.
13. In committing myself to this declaration, I am setting myself free so that I can enjoy blogging more and stress about it less.
14. I will update and add to this declaration as necessary.
You may notice the new button over there on the right. I’m a ChaCha Guide! ChaCha is a fairly new search engine. But here’s the twist – you have a choice. You can either search yourself for whatever you need – OR you can ask a guide for help! Picture my 71 year old father trying to search for autoparts… He could ask someone to find the info for him…
Rather than asking his extremely busy daughter, who has better things to do than to DROP EVERYTHING and go to his house to search for Model As, while fielding every question under the sun, underscored by, “You can do that?” and then going home. Not that that’s every happened.
Ahem.
Now I can just show him (and bookmark for him) the ChaCha Search With a Guide function. I think that’s so cool. And since I love finding things, and know where to look, I’ve become a guide. Which means I’m finding things for people (I just don’t have to travel to their house to do it.)
1. Your bio indicates that you work for/at a movie studio; what is it that you do?
Hmmm. I can’t get too specific, but the bottom line is I help put music into films. I work on pretty much all of them, from script to post. And that is all I can say. But! Here’s the view from my office!
And maybe if you click this link it may give you a hint as to where I work.
2. Have you considered having any other children or is your family complete?
Oh boy is it ever complete. Done. No more. Zip. Snip snip took care of that. I definitely do still get yearnings, when I hold someone’s baby – my last baby will enter Kindergarten next year (sigh) but… Joseph is going to be high maintenance for the rest of his school career probably. Logan has his impending surgeries and the recuperation from each. Who knows, with us, what the next child would bring. Plus – and I find it terrible that I didn’t find this out prior to getting pregnant – I only had a 60% chance of carrying either of the boys (or my other two angel babies) to term without one of us dying. So, no. Yes, I want another baby. No, it wouldn’t be a good thing for our current family.
3. Do you have pets?
2 Kitties. Sassy and Pebbles. They are annoyingly loved. I didn’t want pets – at all – because I’m the one who has to take care of them or harrass others into taking care of them, and I just didn’t want to do that. At all. But – they’ve grown on me, of course. I’m a softie. And one prefers to sleep with me holding her like a teddy, sharing the pillow, and body under the covers. How can you not love that. I awake with the other on top of my head, purring from the sheer pleasure of being near her sister. And they are half (maybe whole? Who knows who the daddy is.) sisters from our babysitter’s hussy.
4. If you were to move from California, where would you want to live?
Someplace very green. Like Oregon. Or Washington state. Forests and lakes and streams.
5. Why did you start blogging/journaling?
I started a decade ago. I’ve always typed a lot faster than I write, so putting my journal no a computer was just natural, rather than handwriting it. But then I ran into one – it may have been Kymm – and I thought to myself, I can do that! And back then, there weren’t web page editors like frontpage, or blogging tools or software. You handwrote the damn html yourself, and found someplace you could FTP onto… Mine was the 10mb of space you automatically got with an aol account. So that’s what I did. As for Journalling – I’ve been doing that particular act all my life. My husband says I should publish them. I may, just one copy, for myself. It’s a needed vent, and a way for me to explore things on my own – hash them out.
I finally feel like I can breathe. My project (or my portion anyway) is done. Which means I can get to the stack on my desk that’s about 3 feet tall. But that’s okay, because I can actually do it now. Here’s hoping for more content on my blog, now that I finally have the breathing room to do it.
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