Yesterday, after my Alter Ego, Cranky Giraffe, posted about my son’s crazy little love letter to his newest idol, Lady Gaga, an old old blogging friend tweeted it, with an idea that maybe he could meet her! I know the likelihood of it being re-tweeted by anyone other than myself is pretty low… But who […]
“It’s been a long time since I came around Been a long time but I’m back in town And this time I’m not leaving without you” ~Stefani Germanotta (Lady Gaga) I know I haven’t been here blogging for quite a long time (almost a year and a half…), but there was something about blogging that […]
The airplane seat map shows that the emergency exit row seats are considered “less desirable.” It’s a little ironic since they come with extra leg room, even if they don’t recline (really, who needs to recline 2 inches when you have two extra feet of leg room?). I think the real reason they are less […]
This month I’m traveling around the country to check out fellowship positions. It is exhausting, trying, lonely, and often confusing. Most of all, I miss my kids. I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how fellowship and moving to one of these places would fit into the current, ideal, little life of […]
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing. ~John Butler Yeats, 1909 Is there a difference between pleasure and happiness? I had never really thought much about it until today. My husband sent me an interview by Dr. Robert Lustig, who just […]
Good questions with no good answers, unfortunately.
Though, I do want to say, it is always okay to fall apart. Your family and friends should be there to hold you up and put things back together…
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Usually me falling apart = fighting with DH. He is the worst for moral support. I am about to leave the rest of my support network, so I don’t know where else to go. 😦
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Blogosphere to the rescue! 😀
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Go for a run. Have a glass of wine. It’s what I do.
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I’ve already packed my cork screw and I’ve already had the last of the screw cap bottles… Running it is, I guess.
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LOL! Sorry, I had to laugh. I can’t imagine what it’s like leaving a home you love for the unknown. I’m sure you will look back on your time fondly and very quickly make new memories.
July 1 is rapidly approaching and soon enough you will be so busy being an intern that you won’t even have time to breathe …
Now how’s that for the voice of reason?! 😉
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I don’t have the answers, but I do know that it’s okay to not be okay. And you’re allowed to fall apart. You don’t always have to be strong, even though it feels like you do. ❤
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I just don’t know how to fall apart. I want to, but I’m afraid to let it happen, you know? Maybe that’s what some people call “resiliency, but I just call it “being paralyzed”
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I write things out. Sometimes I hit publish, other times it’s in longhand and I rip it up after.
I bug people on twitter or Facebook. Not about the issue, but just to distract myself.
I am sorry you are going through feeling this way. You have had a lot happen in the past three months, so do what you have to in order to take care of yourself.
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Thanks. I feel like I am running out of people to bug… I definitely have been trying to write, but I don’t even know what I feel anymore, I feel like a big empty void 😦
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I second what djmatticus said…blogosphere support…when you move, it goes with you 😉
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You shorten your days. You get through the morning, then the afternoon, then the night. Repeat until you’re ready to take on more again.
And you do it all with a smile, because someone else is going through it as well and needs your smile today.
And when necessary, cry. After all, to grow anything it takes some rain.
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