I can hardly believe that I’ve had this blog for 3 years. I read through my posts from July 2005 and well, there’s nothing profound or exciting to point y’all to. I was a sad and lost little punkin’. While I have my moments, at least for now I am neither sad nor lost, and for that I must give you a lot of the credit.
I have made some of the best friends of my adult life because of this blog. Sodapop, Laci and Lucy are the sisters I never knew I wanted and the type of friend that I could call at literally any hour of the day … and I think each of us has sent out at least one SOS to the others.
Because of this blog, I’ve become connected to people I never would have met otherwise; there are far too many people for me to even begin to name any more names. I don’t differentiate anymore between my “online” friends and my “real life” friends, because the lines have been blurred. I trust you all with my innermost thoughts, my deepest secrets, my highest highs and my lowest lows.
Thank you. For everything.
And Happy Blogaversary to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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First of all, go congratulations Mr. Yoshi on becoming an American citizen today! That’s right, he now knows more about our country than most born Americans probably do!
Thennnnnnn … Miss Sodapop and I are now famous, thanks to Mr. Fab, who turned us into LOL Bloggerz. Wheeeee! He used a picture from my 32nd birthday … I guess I should have listened to the warnings about crap on the internet coming back to haunt you!
I had a good workout tonight … evil trainer girl commented at the end that I chatted all the way through when I usually clam up due to exhaustion. We did drop sets today …. starting with a really heavy weight until I couldn’t do anymore, then stepping down a bit, usually 4 sets per exercise. Gah! That sucked but I gotta tell you, those lower weighs felt like a fucking walk in the park!!!
I finally bit the bullet and upgraded this site to WP 2.5. I’m not sure why, probably because of my initial installation, but I can only upgrade this site manually, not through the wonders of Fantastico. I can’t count how many times I’ve upgraded but I ALWAYS do something wrong. This time, I forgot to save my wp-config.php file. Oops. That took a while to reconstruct. Of course, I did all this instead of working on the next section of my business plan …
Nothing too exciting happened today … I’m having dinner with my friend Debby tomorrow night. I can’t believe I haven’t seen her since January.
MM is working on the website for his house. It’s hideous. There’s no way around it. It’s so reminiscent of the Tripod days of personal webpages LOL. I may have to make a few suggestions … but as I said today, I can’t control everything and I can’t make everything pretty … despite 15 years of marketing/design experience …
One of our own has a battle to fight. We are going to help. Read this post now. Donate. I can’t think of a better use for your (or my) money.
Today is my little punkin’s 10th birthday. Ah, I remember when I brought him home in a shoebox. He was an evil little thing, all fur and teeth and nails. But he took to me immediately and has been by my side ever since. In fact, he’s sitting right next to me as I type this, probably grumpy that I’m using the computer and not scratching his ears. Twice a year, for their birthdays, I give the boys canned cat food, so they will be gorging themselves tonight for sure.
I feel lately like I’ve been a bad friend. I can’t put my finger on the reason, I just haven’t been 100% available. I think it’s all the stress at work. I have person A telling me something in confidence, person B telling me something else in confidence, person C griping about their love life … plus all this wondering about who is going to lose their job next (more positions were cut last Friday) and it gets exhausting. I don’t talk about anything because I can’t keep it all straight! And then outside of work, I’ve just been blah and self-centered and probably not that much fun. It’s not like when the depression was bad, because I can laugh, I can smile, and it doesn’t feel hollow. But I do think I have a bit of depression going on because, well, that’s just not me.
And then I bitch and moan about my little life when I read about something like this. Lisa has always been an honest blogger, telling things like they are. And it breaks my heart that she has had such a rough time lately and has another fight in front of her. Lisa, I am sending prayers, positive thoughts and hugs from Indy to Philly … I know you will fight long and hard and I know you will succeed!
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And finally recovered from my hangover. My friends were shocked/in awe when I told them of my alcohol consumption this weekend. I have no interest in drinking, although I did offer to get smashed with Miss Lucy since a very stupid boy made her sad today. This boy lives in my home state, so we can pile in the Moniquemobile, kick his ass, then crash for free at my parents! And since Miss Sodapop admitted that she thinks my brother is hot, then hey, I may be playing matchmaker!!!!!
Oh! We have a new blog! During alcohol fest 2008, Miss Laci was insistent about buying a new domain … Soda and I found it more interesting to talk about penises so Laci went ahead and set up Klassy with a K where all four of us will be writing. Because we’re not really all that scandalous as of late but we are ALWAYS klassy!
I am going to put a poll to choose the winner in my caption contest so enter by 11:59 p.m. Tuesday to win a fabulous prize pack from Miss Monique!!!!
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You might learn sumthin’, ya know?
