Blogging Virgin

Please be gentle... it's my first time!

I spent a sleepless night lost in the web... facebooking, looking up the value of a salvaged bowl (nothing like finding that old bowl is worth over $100!) and other random stuff. I did try to sleep; finally gave up and took a relaxing bath. All the while, thoughts, ideas, sermons, rants and ravings ran through my head. Many will be surprised I've never felt the need to blog; I tend to live out and I'm married to a computer nerd, so why not blog? To be honest... too trendy. Same reason I have never read a Harry Potter book or watch Dancing-with-the stars. I hate doing what everybody else is doing... they zig, i zag. Of course, in my quest to be individual, I am really just like everybody else. Don't we all want to be original and unique?

It's now past 8AM, so the monkeys are allowed out of their cages. I have a strict rule: everybody stays in bed until 8AM during the summer! Otherwise, miss Nana Bears would be in my face by 6! Are all children naturally morning people? Then puberty hits, and they become night people? By adulthood, I think we're like a shuffled deck, some morning, some night... right now i seem to be an afternoon person! I'm sure I will write my fair share of health up-date stuff, but not today.

I will tell you I have finally shaken this last bug and almost feel human. Yay! I am looking forward to moving into my new office. For the past ten years Tom has had the back area as his office. It's really too large to be an office or a den, maybe more like a library, because one of the walls is solid bookshelves and it has a (non-working) wood stove. While Tom worked from home quite a bit, this was perfect, but Intel has changed it's policies and we've added two more cute distractions to our family. Therefore, Tom suggested that we trade my craft area near the kitchen for his mega-office in the back. It works out wonderfully, because now the whole family doesn't have to maneuver around my latest project... and Tom can shut all of his equipment in the built-in desks and shelves perfectly. I was feeling well enough to start the move; the boys helped me box everything up and move them into the big room. At that point I got very sick, so all of my "stuff" is in boxes, and I can't find a thing! Losing things is one of my pet peeves; so much so that it can send me into a panic attack. I was surprised when a professional told me I have OCD and perfectionist tendencies. Who knew?

Okay, this first blog is pretty boring. I promise to be more offensive next time! I think I'll talk about my views on homosexuality.... that is sure to offend both my conservative and liberal friends.

TTFN... if u have a sec, pop over to the judasforgiven blog, or the aaron m. pre-memorial foundation on facebook and donate what you can. i have over 600 FB friends; if each person gave $10.... then aaron would have... (doing the math)... let's just say he could pay the rent and keep the lights on! I'll try to figure out how to add his blog to my links... I may have to wake up Tom for that!

Thank you for being so kind and reading this tenderly... hehe! -jay-