Today was a good day. The cat woke me up at 7:30 AM but that's ok because I wanted to wake up at a decent time today. The boys & I went to the Pendleton Farmer's Market & looked around for a bit. I got a little aloe plant for $1 but there wasn't a lot there.
Then I went to the gym for Casey's step aerobics class, where she kicked my ass for an hour. I also did day #3 of the C25K app that I have. It was so hot in the gym this morning & I was drenched w/sweat & it seemed like the run took a lot more out if me today but I finished it.
Both of the boys had a game at 3 so we did our duty (duty!) at the baseball field. Zach's team doesn't really keep score yet but the kids did well despite the heat. I didn't get to watch Xander's game because I help out in the dugout for Zach's team. Aaron said the boys on Xander's team did well but they didn't win.
My dad turned 60 today so his wife threw a surprise party for him. We were a little late because of the baseball games but we made it in time to see him smash cake in his face. My dad set me a text this morning wishing me a happy 34th but I was convinced I was turning 35 today. Math is hard. I thought my dad was 25 when I was born but he was actually 26.
I don't mind getting older because it's part of life. I'm happy with where I'm at in my life & when I think about the goals I had set for myself back in my 20's, I'm not disappointed, even if I'm not where I thought I'd be. I may not have my degree but I own my own home & I have a family, which is something I never imagined that I would have.
That's enough for now. I'm going to put my kids to bed, drink some Jack & Coke, & play Kinect Adventures with Aaron!
Saturday, June 04, 2011
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Regarding Privacy
I've been blogging since '98, whether it was on geocities, myspace, livejournal, or on my own domain. I like to blog because I like to write but I'm not very good at keeping a journal. Blogging is so much easier to do because it's on the computer and, I'm not gonna lie, I like the feedback that I get about my blogs. People may not always comment on a certain post but I've had a lot of people tell me that they enjoy reading my blog.
I've always tried to be careful about airing personal issues on my blog for several reasons. 1) Misunderstandings are so much easier when someone else is reading what I wrote. I may write something, intending it to be funny; whereas the person reading it will think I'm trying to be snarky 2) I tend to want to blog before I think about what I'm saying and that's never a good thing 3) Most of my personal issues involve my husband and I just yell at him when he gets home from work. It's easier than logging onto the computer
I recently had some pretty major drama go down concerning someone in my life and I was so very, very tempted to get on here and to spew some pretty hateful things. I've had a lot of anger & hurt building up for the past few months & unfortunately it all exploded a few weeks ago. I've always said that my blog was a place for me to vent & rant & express my opinion of whatever it is that I want to talk about and if you don't like it, don't read it but the thing about the internet is that once you put it into writing and you click that little post button you can never, ever take it back. Even if you delete the post, there is still a record of it somewhere that someone can read. The same thing goes for Twitter & Facebook.
It's been hard pretending that nothing was wrong & that everything is rainbows & unicorns. I wake up every morning with my stomach in knots because I still think about what happened and I'm still very angry & hurt but unfortunately, I burned that bridge and there is no going back. I was tempted to make my Twitter & my blog private and I did so...for about 5 minutes. I'm not going to hide behind a screen of privacy when I usually don't talk about anything worth being private about.
I like posting blog updates about my D&D games and getting random comments from other gamers. I like posting silly mommy blogs and book reviews. 99% of the stuff I post here is not worth protecting. So I'll just take the lesson that my momma taught me when I was little and apply it to here & to Twitter & to Facebook (which is private, but only because I post a lot of pics of my kids). If I don't have anything nice to say then I just won't say anything at all.
It's something that I always took to heart but it seems that I forget that lesson because I was afraid that people mistook my being nice as being weak. I thought I was standing up for myself and in the end it just made things worse. If anything, I've learned not to put myself in that situation ever again.
I've always tried to be careful about airing personal issues on my blog for several reasons. 1) Misunderstandings are so much easier when someone else is reading what I wrote. I may write something, intending it to be funny; whereas the person reading it will think I'm trying to be snarky 2) I tend to want to blog before I think about what I'm saying and that's never a good thing 3) Most of my personal issues involve my husband and I just yell at him when he gets home from work. It's easier than logging onto the computer
I recently had some pretty major drama go down concerning someone in my life and I was so very, very tempted to get on here and to spew some pretty hateful things. I've had a lot of anger & hurt building up for the past few months & unfortunately it all exploded a few weeks ago. I've always said that my blog was a place for me to vent & rant & express my opinion of whatever it is that I want to talk about and if you don't like it, don't read it but the thing about the internet is that once you put it into writing and you click that little post button you can never, ever take it back. Even if you delete the post, there is still a record of it somewhere that someone can read. The same thing goes for Twitter & Facebook.
It's been hard pretending that nothing was wrong & that everything is rainbows & unicorns. I wake up every morning with my stomach in knots because I still think about what happened and I'm still very angry & hurt but unfortunately, I burned that bridge and there is no going back. I was tempted to make my Twitter & my blog private and I did so...for about 5 minutes. I'm not going to hide behind a screen of privacy when I usually don't talk about anything worth being private about.
I like posting blog updates about my D&D games and getting random comments from other gamers. I like posting silly mommy blogs and book reviews. 99% of the stuff I post here is not worth protecting. So I'll just take the lesson that my momma taught me when I was little and apply it to here & to Twitter & to Facebook (which is private, but only because I post a lot of pics of my kids). If I don't have anything nice to say then I just won't say anything at all.
It's something that I always took to heart but it seems that I forget that lesson because I was afraid that people mistook my being nice as being weak. I thought I was standing up for myself and in the end it just made things worse. If anything, I've learned not to put myself in that situation ever again.
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