Today is the day.
Reverend Run proclaimed today “Forgiveness Day.”
Not a bad idea. Why not take a minute & forgive your grudges? Forgive your pain & let go & go forward without any more regrets.
Grudges hurt the one holding them, not the ones being grudged against. Why let them continue to hurt you?
So, forgive & let go. Move on from the hurt & go forward.
To my fellow bloggers: have you ever written an entire blog post, thought it was awesome and then not published it?
That’s me right now. I just typed up an entire piece about my current relationship which I am pretty proud of, but I feel a bit hesitant to post it. While it’s not terribly personal persay, I feel like because it involves another person, I shouldn’t make it public.
Those who served, those who died, and the innocents who lost their lives along the way. On 11/11/11 let’s wish for an end to war.
Sometimes even I get vengeful.
There comes a point in everyone’s life where you think you’ve just had enough & in the words of my two year old daughter, “You done, son.”
Much like everyone else in the world, I was intrigued about the verdict in the Conrad Murray trial.
During my travels on the internet to research articles, assignments or generally surf, I’ve come across some interesting blogs and I wanted to share those links with you.
So, I definitely recommend you check out these links, you may enjoy these blogs as much as I do!
If there are any blogs that you wanted to recommend, feel free to let me know in the comments!
I’ve been playing with the layout/design of the blog.
I’m looking for feedback. Let me know what you think of the new layout or what you would like to see on the blog. If there’s anything you want to see/read about on here, let me know in the comments or on Facebook!
I try not to complain.
I really do. My good friend Nancy at Whispered Inspirations has a saying “too blessed to be stressed” which I’ve tried to adopt into my daily life.
I’m not stressed, I’m tired.
I think back to when I had two jobs, two kids & I made this look easy. Now sometimes it seems so hard. Then I remember why it was so easy back then; I had help.
I had an amazing assistant editor who went above & beyond the call of duty. I still feel he needs a shout out because I’m remembering now that I’m back into the fray that he was invaluable to my career. My homelife has always been me vs the world but his partnership on the professional side of things made life so much easier. I could likely get a new assistant but honestly they would suck in comparison. Part of being invaluable is being irreplaceable.
Now it’s just me. Me balancing schoolwork, homework, kids, a job, & a life. Apparently there’s a learning curve & part of the learning is remembering that I am human. I need days off. I need sleep.
I try not to complain because this is the life that I chose. It’s the life that will bring me security & success. I have all of the tools to make my happy ending, I just need to make them all fit. I often wonder how other people make it look so damned easy & why can’t I be that awesome too? Then I remember the number one rule of life; never compare yourself to anyone else.
So, while there are days (like today) that I would rip off my own arm for one hour off, I remember when I was unemployed & felt useless & that I wouldn’t want my life any other way, if for no other reason than because I can look back & know there were no wasted opportunities. I just need to remember that I’m not the same woman I was before. There is no assistant. There is no partner. There is more expected of me & finding the balance is a little trickier. That’s not to say it can’t be done, it’s just harder. I need to remind myself to take a day off because I have no one to remind me that I’m working too hard. I need to learn my own limitations.
Until then, I’m going to take a nap.
Family is such a subjective term.
Last week, a homosexual couple were asked to leave a Blenheim Tim Horton’s because it was a “family friendly” environment. My first thought was that this was beyond rude. Then, I thought about how hilarious the idea of “family friendly” was.
It’s no secret that my family puts the fun back in dysfunctional. I was raised in the system & my daughters consider my friends their aunts & uncles. The sheer concept of this white bread, picket fence, 2.5 kids, hetero parents & a dog makes me laugh because so few people have that family.
The definition of family has changed so much, it’s hard to define what is & what isn’t. I’m a single mom raising three girls with little help from their dad. It’s not the Disney ending, but here we are. 50 years ago, a multi racial couple was horrible & a male teacher was a dedicated educator. Now, the former is the norm & the latter under suspicion. Single parents, step parents, multi racial families are part of normal life now, why wouldn’t a same sex just be another form of the normal family?
I have a girlfriend who plans to start a family with her wife. It breaks my heart to think that their family could be called anything but a normal family. It makes me sadder still to know that a common law couple who dresses a dog as their child would be considered more of a family than theirs.
Just because the group doesn’t fit the cookie cutter family, it doesn’t make them any less a family. As long as there is love, you’re a family & I’m sorry Tim Horton’s but love is always family friendly.
Happy Halloween!
Whether today celebrates the new year or you just want free candy, remember to be safe & have fun.
Halloween is a funny sort of day. We dress up in masks (or in some cases, next to nothing) & pretend to be someone else, while acting the most like ourselves. It’s odd that we feel that the costume protects us from all the things that freak us out during the rest of the year.
Maybe we should adopt the Halloween philosophy every day. Let loose & have fun & be goofy. If you need cat ears to do it, wear the cat ears. I can appreciate the irony of the most uptight person saying mellow out. However, I think we all need to be truer to ourselves & stop hiding our truest selves until we wear cat ears. Let’s leave the masks for the trick or treaters.
To my pagan friends, Happy Samhain & have a blessed day. To the rest of us, I’m gonna quote a great composer:
“Tender lumplings everywhere, Life’s no fun without a good scare!”
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