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female who lives in Florida with her guy and two cats, loves Disney,
reads fanatically, tinkers in photography and believes growing up is
overrated
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There are people on the net that
have nothing better to do with their time then be nasty to other
people online. They post rude comments, spend hours a day talking
about sites they hate so much, that they well, spend hours a day
talking about them. (lame) They mock the owners and posters for
their opinions and their right to free speech. They expect everyone
to fit into their narrow-minded little world view or else they throw
a temper tantrum.
To these people I say
grow up.
Here's a bit of info people...the
web is a HUGE place. If you don't like what I say here, or who I am,
or what I do, or talk about, or what I look like, or the color of my
hair, or whatever asinine thing you dwell on, go somewhere else.
It's really, really easy. Honest. You just click the little "x" in
the corner of your browser and *poof* the offending, big, mean and
nasty site has disappeared.
I pay for this site. It's mine.
That means I can use it for whatever the hell I want to. Don't like
it if I'm bitching about something in my life? Oh fucking well. Go
somewhere else. Think I'm stupid for expressing my thoughts? Too
fucking bad, don't read them. Somewhere along the line, someone
forgot this simple fact: Live and let live Don't like me,
cool, fine, whatever, I don't care. This journal is NOT for
you. It's for me. I'm not in it for popularity or fame or anything
stupid like that. I write it because I need to write and express
myself and get things out of my head sometimes. So read or don't, it
doesn't matter, but don't waste my time (or yours) bitching about
it.
*gets off soapbox*
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Friday, February 02, 2007
Today's Florida Tornadoes Just wanted to check in after I received a comment inquiring if everything was ok in my part of the state. Apparently, there were some horrible tornadoes today north-east of my location in central Florida. So far, I've read there are 14 people killed. Jeez. We don't normally have that kind of tornado here. I mean, we get some, but they're small. Usually F0 or F1 (on a scale of 0-5.) Many come in off the water. But almost never this bad.
Just to give you a relative idea of location:
I'm in the pink circle area and the tornado path is north-east of me as you can see.
What an awful tragedy. My thoughts are with those who were affected by this disaster.
Kinda Sad No specific reason, just been bummed this week. Haven't been sleeping well in the slightest, achy, crampy, and just generally feeling bummed and sad. Blue. I can't get comfortable when I sleep because my neck's been in an awful knot lately. Worse than normal. (I have permanent damage to my neck and thus it hurts me every single day of my life. If I had the money to afford regular massage therapy for it, I'd get a ton of relief, but my budget tends to allow one every three years or so.) One of those going-through-the-motions kinda weeks.
On the upside, I guess google really does work because I had a couple surprise Valentine's Day Penguin orders come in out of the blue. Like, *poof* an email with notification of an order. Always a good thing. I hadn't sold anything since mid-December. I had an amazing flurry of orders the first two weeks of December and then....nothing. So it was nice to see an order come in. (One is "flying" it's way to the Netherlands!)
I really need to make some new pieces (and finish ones I've half-hearted started) and get some more updates to the site but...it goes back to that desire without drive problem. I want to spend a few hours working on something creative, but....I just can't bring myself to actually do it. You know how it is when you're in a low point; everything is just too hard and takes too much and you just can't find the energy to accomplish it.
So yeah... I guess I'm going to try to wrap up and force myself to shut down and go to bed. Last night, I couldn't sleep and ended up being awake until almost 5am. (!) Yeah I don't know. I didn't want to be. I wasn't doing anything. I was just unable to sleep. (The caffeine from the Excedrin I had to take probably wasn't helping matters.) It's damned frustrating through just sitting, staring and realizing that hours are going by for no real reason. Bah. Hopefully tonight I can get to bed somewhat more reasonable. (And yes, 2am does fall under that category for me.)
Hope everyone else had a better week. G'night for now.
Sad News I just got off the phone with my mom. Turns out one of my sister's cats, Squiggles (an adorable orange tabby who's very sweet and very shy) has cancer. He apparently threw up blood and she rushed him into her vet. X-rays show a tumor inbetween his heart and his lungs. Because of the location, it's inoperable.
Fucking cancer. You may recall that my mom lost her cat, Socrates, to cancer last year and of course, I lost my cat, Kush-ka to cancer a few years back. And I cried alongside a few of my online friends who also battled and lost with cancer last year too. It's just everywhere. It's on the rise and no one knows why. Pet Cancer Awareness reports that it's the number one disease related killer of cats and dogs.
I feel terrible for her. And I feel worse that so many of us can relate, having been through this before.
Treasure From Down Under So, Kenno posts a picture of some lovely Paua shells in his journal last month. I complimented him on how pretty they were. And before I knew it, I got an email promising to send some my way. OooOOOh, shinnies? For me?
So I warned my mom that a box from New Zealand would be making it's way to the post office box. (Technically, it's hers and it's up by her house and I just mooch off it because I don't really need one of my own, but it's convenient to have access to one sometimes.) Anyway...she called me last week and told me that I had in fact, received a package. But she was going to wait to see me to give it to me in person. Oh the anticipation!
Well, I finally got it and wow. So very pretty! Paua, if you don't know, is a type of abalone shell that's only found in NZ. And it's loverly.
Thank you so much for the pretties! Next time I get down towards a beach, I promise I'll scrounge for some Florida ones to send in return. Though, I can tell you they won't be anywhere near as pretty. Twenty-one years ago when we moved here, shells were plentiful and gorgeous. Now? Little to nothing of value to be found. You buy your shells for $2 a small bag in the Wal-Mart craft isles. Still though, there must be something of interest I can find. I'm just going to wait until the weather warms up a smidge. (We had our very first freeze/frost warning of the season last night!)
Thanks again though. It's just all shiny and pretty!
FYI Even at 29, swinging on a good, old-fashioned swing at the park is still fun. I highly recommend that if you, like me, have not done so in years and years (possibly dating back to when you were using the swings at your school), that you head to a park in the near future, find a swing and do so. It's still quite enjoyable.
Still though, there must be something of interest I can find. I'm just going to wait until the weather warms up a smidge. (We had our very first freeze/frost warning of the season last night!)