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Good Morning

  • Apr. 4th, 2008 at 12:25 PM
broken piano
Good morning people!!!
Well I finally succumbed to my friends pleading and put myself on facebook. I'm there check me out!!!! It's fun. I love being able to stay in touch with all my friends!!
 
Well, what's new??? UM.......oh.....well not much!! I'm reading a new book about Benjamin Franklin. It's really interesting.  Franklin is my favorite founding father. He seems so real, not made of marble and stone like some of our other historic figures, like he could fit in even today. I watched a documentary on him last week, it was on the history channel. That got me hooked I think.
What else, oh I'm watching a documentary on the Roman Empire. It's very detailed. I love detail so it's really captured my attention.
 
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Have you ever felt something was missing but you don't know what? When you look around the colors of this world don't seems as bright as they used to? I feel like sometimes I live my life in black and white instead of color. You know, when you look at your life in black and white you don't see all the contrast and depth this world offers. I was watching some high school kids sit in front of a resturant today. It seemed as though they had no cares at all. Most of them were smoking and talking and laughing, but do they really see how what they do now affects their future? Probably not. I remember being  that age and thinking that nothing bad could happen to me. I was in denial and I was very naive.
But not everything that happens to us is bad. Even if it is you at least learn and grow from it. That's what has made me the person I am today. I look at my life now and I live it based on my past. Sometimes that's not so good, I dwell in the past and forget that I'm living now. But I think my past expiriences, good and bad,  have shaped how I respond to things. Those things, in many ways, have made me wise beyond my years, and helped me to take notice of the people around me who could use a listening ear. I don't want the people I know and love to go through the lonliness I went through so I strive to reach out, to make sure they know I'll listen and help any way I can. It's not always easy but God is inspiring me to look at those around me and not just at myself.
 
Can you feel God moving today?? Do you notice His power??
Take a look, you will see.......... 
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Today is a good day

  • Apr. 2nd, 2008 at 9:54 PM
coffee
So good to feel sane again. Well almost, does watching Pucca count as being strange? I mean it's sort of a nonsense show but it's good for background noise. I was watching Jon and Kate + 8 earlier, I just love those kids!!!!! It made me feel good. They are always so cute, even if they're screaming and crying.
 
~~~~~~~~Anyway~~~~~~~~
 
Have you ever felt that your life was too perfect to be true? Or going to well for it not to be a hoax? I kind of feel that way. Things have been going so great lately I feel a bit skeptical about how long it will last. These good streaks haven't lasted long before, but then again I wasn't working toward them then like I am now. It's hard for me to see the difference in myself sometimes. Brice says that he notices it everyday and that encourages me, but I wish it would be more visible for me to see in myself. When I look in the mirror I sometimes (who am I kidding? all the time) still see the screwed up, hopeless version of myself. I don't see the progress, I don't see the saint I am yet. God sees me as his Princess, not a screwed up freak who can't get anything right in her life. I've felt that way for so long that I don't know anything else. But it's getting better, slowly. God is constantly reminding me of who I am in Him. I am not condemned, but have been redeemed. I have an everlasting, ever loving Father.
 
I can't change what I've done but I don't have to dwell on it. Right now is all I need to be concerned with. The past is just that, past,  and the future is in God's hands.
Thank Him for that!!!!
 
Good night, sleep tight, love well, and remember the good memories 
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Begin again

  • Apr. 1st, 2008 at 10:31 AM
broken piano
Ok, new day. Here goes. I'm not to good at writing all the time but I'm here now.
 
Well the last few weeks have been good. Really good. Not too stressful. Work has been steady and not too crazy so that helps. I don't feel like work is all I do. I have alot of friends there which helps. I'm trying to leave work at work and not bring it home. It seems to be helping my stress level stay down.

Home is good too. Not great but good. Brice and I are having some money troubles but that's to be expected. We are just living on the bare minimums right now. We are thinking of moving in with my parents, which will help both them and us. I hope it works out. I would love to be in the same house as my family again. I mean Brice is my family but they are too. I just miss being in a home with more people. I don't like that when Brice is at work and I'm home I'm there alone. It kind of sucks. I mean even if no one is home at my parents' house the dogs are still there so it's not like you're alone. We are just praying God's will and direction. He will direct us, I know.
 
My counseling is going good. We are already two weeks between visits. I'm progressing alot faster than I thought I would. Brice thinks that's because I came into all this ready to work and get well. I feel alot better, too. Like I am able to walk around and breathe. It was so hard to do that before. I felt as though I couldn't do anything without fear of failure. I couldn't just be myself, I felt I had to be what everyone expected me to be.
I'm better now. I am myself, or trying to be, all the time. I am trying not to let my situations or circumstances dictate what I feel and what I do.
 
I feel good about myself and my life. I hope it stays that way, I will continue to work at it
 
Go forth and greet the day!!!
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New Dawn, New Day, New Life.....

  • Mar. 6th, 2008 at 12:09 PM
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 Today is a new day. You know I never really thought about that in depth before. I mean I get up each morning and go through the same routines and try to make it. But I don't realize that today can be different than yesterday. Yesterday is nothing now, today is everything. I can't change what I did or didn't do yesterday but today is a different story. Today is new, open, untainted. Mine to do with what I will. I can choose to mar it with yesterday's failures or I can persue something brand new. Something without the guilt and the pain. 

I have my first counseling appointment today. I'm nervous. Scarred. Not sure what to expect. What am I supposed to say, do? But I have faith that I'll get through it. God will carry me through.


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Managing Pain

  • Feb. 29th, 2008 at 10:25 PM
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To manage my pain I try to drown it out. I throw caution to the wind and block out everything else. Sometimes I imerse myself in another world, trying to evade all else. Reading makes me forget for a while. I seem to forget my troubles and live in that wonderful place where nothing can hurt me. Can you imagine? Never getting hurt again? Never feeling alone again, even when it's so obvious you aren't alone at all? Sometimes I write...put my thoughts to paper. It's easy once in a while, but for the most part it's not so easy. To put all my emotions out there for everyone to read. Everything is just out there...it doesn't seem like such a big deal when you say it like that, but it really is a big deal. I am so used to keeping it all inside it feels so wrong to acknowledge the storm inside. Well here goes. Hope you like it.

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i'm fine....just keep believing that

  • Feb. 26th, 2008 at 5:56 PM
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So work has decided that they want my life to revolve around them. Well news flash!!!!! I won't let it get that way again. My manger called me this morning and said that they need me to work nights like I did before I went on leave. I told her in plain words that my husband  and I only have one car and it's impossible for me to work nights while he works days! I don't have a way to get to work when he's already left the house!! Urg!!! I swear everyone wants dedicated solid employees but doesn't give a rap about their lives. If you can't get to work too bad, get here or don't bother to come in at all. It sucks. I was just getting used to the idea of going back to work and then this happens. I have not had a good day since I got that call. It made me panic...what am I supposed to do now?!?
                                                      
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Does anyone know what I'm feeling?? Do you know what it feels like to wake up every morning and wonder if you'll make it through the day? Does the possibility that you won't ever cross your mind?? Every time you breathe in does it hurt?? Not physically but somewhere deep inside, does it hurt? Do you realize that most people don't care? No one takes the time to care, no one cares unless if effects them. I don't think we take enough time to realize that we aren't the only ones hurting. It sound hypocritcal especially because I've just been complaining. But really......think about it. Do you care about someone you don't know? I do. I know that there are millions of people out there who are just like me right now. I care because I'm one of those many that get overlooked. I have masked my pain for so long that no one cares to look under the surface anymore. "I'm ok, I've always been ok" or "I'm fine, don't worry" that's what I've always said...they just keep believing me. Even with that slight glimmer of pain in my eyes.

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............hum..........

  • Feb. 20th, 2008 at 2:51 PM
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Another day, another dollar. I have decided to head back to work. I don't really want to but I need the activity in my life. I'm not going to work full time again. No way!!! I will not let it be my life anymore. I want to come home in the evening and cook diner for my husband and just be able to relax. Is that too much to ask?? 

I'm feeling ok today. The last couple of days have been hard. I've been struggling with some issues. God is really challenging me to work on my heart. I have alot of unforgivness, anger and bitterness that has taken root there and I haven't done anything to provent it. I need to deal with it and not hide from it. It's not as easy as it sounds. 

So the writer's strike is over!!! YEAH!!!!! I can't wait to stop watching re-runs!!!! CSI here I come!!
~~~~~~HAPPY~~~~~~~
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Good Day

  • Feb. 13th, 2008 at 4:43 PM
coffee
You know I think it's really funny that people say 'Good Day' instead of hello in other countries. I mean how do you know if someone's having a good day or not? Well I went book shopping today!! YEA :) I love getting new books!! I got Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Little Women. I told my husband that I need to update my collection and these classics were on sale so I had to get them. So we spent 3 hours wandering the mall and now my feet are killing me!!! But that's the price you pay for good books!!!! 

Valentine's Day is tomorrow. UGH!!! I don't really like that day. I should now that I'm married and I like getting flowers and chocolate. But I don't think we should wait for a special day to celebrate eachother. Oh well, it's my opinion and I can't change everyone else's.
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morning

  • Feb. 12th, 2008 at 8:48 AM
broken piano
 gosh, headache. for the first time in 3 weeks i woke up without one.  that didn't last long.  watching e.r. doesn't help i guess. i think that maybe this isn't going to work. i mean i'm not used to writing this much and i'm sure no one is going to read it. which is probably good. can't really understand what i'm talking about anyway. but at least i can vent. i want to be able to be honest. and to be honest i need to admit that i have chronic depression. i don't think i've ever said that out loud really. and believed it. i tried to kill myself a few months ago and have been having panic attacks for a while now. my doc put my on anti-depressants and i'm not sure they're working. i can tell something's different but i sometimes feel worse. who am i kidding i always feel worse. this sucks...really. you know how people say you can't know what something feels like unless it happens to you? well this is one of those times.
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sick

  • Feb. 11th, 2008 at 6:17 PM
paris
Ok so I'm not in the greatest mood...arg i hate being sick. i'm sitting on my couch watching the Westminster Kennel Club dog show on tv because the rerun of csi is the pilot epi which is not my fav. anyway...my honey is at work and i miss him. it sucks being home all day puking your guts out.  i'm tired of reruns of csi and everything else. i hope the writer's strike is over soon. i want sara to come back to grissom.  it's been snowing all day at least when i've been awake it has. i hate winter. i mean come on....how much snow do you think i can stand. i see it for almost half the year and in my opinion that's six months too long!!!! oh well... ach migrane and upset tummy not a good combo....have fun kiddies...
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