| My 200th blog :) |
Jan 27, 2006 1:58 pm
Mood: excited, 772 Views | Wow I'm surprised I've done 200 of these. I have only been doing them for about 6 months. I don't really remember when I began here on FF.
What's interesting to me is that I have a whole other circle of friends that I've met through blogging that are not the same friends I've met from spending two years on the discussion boards.
What also amazes me is how many really nice people there are here that do blogging and put down their feelings and thoughts each day. I feel like I've gotten to know them personally from the things they write on their blogs and mine.
I'd like to thank Moony, Nonni, Allwoman, and Classy Lady and all the other people that always send me words of encouragement whenever they see I'm down or laugh with me when they see I'm up. | |
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| I'd Better Not Be Getting Another Cold :( |
Jan 26, 2006 8:47 pm
Mood: annoyed, 802 Views |  | Hmmmm I've got that annoying feeling that I get right before a cold comes on. The temperature today in Omaha was 64 F. That is 35 degrees above normal for this time of year.
That combined with stress I think may be leading me into another cold which is NOT what I want.
Last February I got a cold and it lasted for an entire month. In November I got a cold and it was annoying for over two weeks.
I'm hoping that I escape this time. I shouldn't be getting another cold only two months after I just had one. Another possibility is that it's allergies. |
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| An inexplicable feeling of apprehension. |
Jan 26, 2006 2:42 pm
Mood: anxious, 816 Views | I don't know why but I have been nervous and anxious lately. I think one of the main reasons is that I am nervous about next year. Some really major changes are happening in my school next year and no one is certain what impact that is going to have on our department.
Another thing I think is that my colleagues have been upset about the way their kids are acting and I'm worried that I'll be stuck in long 90 minute classes with some of these kids next year and it makes me feel uncomfortable. Changing jobs is an option but I am a very settled person and really don't like having to go through the stress of resigning my position to look for another one. I have considered applying for a different job within the same school system but am unsure if they would allow that or not.
I also have a lot of things on my mind and it seems like every few days another thing upsets or bothers me. I have fortunately gotten the emotional support I need from some really nice friends, particularly at my main job. They have been wonderful to me as they know some of the things I've been going through.
Still it's almost the weekend again and I'm hoping to relax and have a little fun. | |
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| Getting through Wednesday "hump" day. |
Jan 25, 2006 5:42 pm
Mood: calm, 831 Views |  | Well today was much better for me than yesterday was although there was some real sadness today. One of my students had her brother take his own life last night. She was completely devastated.
She came to school anyway and spent the entire day with the counselor. Some of my colleagues in my department are really stressed out right now too and people all seem a little high strung.
Personaly I had a reasonably good day. I had no problems, then I went to the university to post on FF for a bit before heading to my other job until about 7:00 PM. Then I just came home and hopped on FF to see what's up?
Well it seems like the days and weeks are just flying by. I am trying to save some money so I can do something I've wanted to do for over two years in a couple months. |
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| Just a ho-hum day. |
Jan 24, 2006 8:33 pm
Mood: bored, 721 Views |  | Hmmm, don't really have much to say. It was kind of a ho-hum day from beginning to end. My students annoyed me a little bit in one of my classes but mostly it just seems like the day passed.
Had a little bit of fun tonight on FF discussion groups but not a lot is really going on. Looks like I may get to bed a little earlier as not much seems to be going on.
Talked to a couple friends on the phone or online this evening but just a ho-hum day for the most part with nothing too bad or too good at all going on.
Wish I could say I had lunch with Cameron Diaz or something, but it was just kinda boring. LOL! |
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| Well I Feel Better :) |
Jan 23, 2006 7:25 pm
Mood: contemplative, 807 Views |  | Okay well although I have to reset my drama counter back to zero again I feel a lot better tonight and I need to just take it easy and not get all worked up about things.
It's another Monday. I worked at both of my jobs and after a brief scare this morning about some things I had a relatively normal and functional day.
One more thing I learned today and that is just how really unimportant in the overall scheme of life things like posting to FF are?  They are filler to entertain and occupy ourselves, but they amount to virtually nothing when something of major importance rears its head.
Friendships are everything but post numbers, races to get to the tops of standings and things like that make no difference in the overall scheme of things.
Just have a near brush with death or something and you'll realize that. |
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| Speechless. |
Jan 23, 2006 4:32 am
Mood: worried, 815 Views |  | Well the title of the blog tells it all. I think I am going to take a break for a bit from blogging.
I am running out of the energy and my emotional batteries just keep getting drained. I have some friends who are going through a lot right now and I am very worried about one of them in particular.
Meanwhile I am also trying to still resolve huge emotional issues in my own life that led to me coming to FF in the first place almost two years ago.
I want to thank all of my wonderful friends here bloggersville for their kind comments and friendship.
I'm definitely not leaving FF, I'm way too addicted to do that.  But I think I might take a couple days or maybe a week off from blogging here as I almost feel like things I say on here are being misinterpreted or taken wrong by people.
It is almost impossible for me to have even one full week with out getting upset by factors beyond my control. Maybe having a less visible present on the blogs will help some.
Maybe by tonight I'll change my mind of course, but if not, give me a few days or a week or two here and maybe I'll be back. |
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| A Pleasant But Fast Moving Weekend. |
Jan 22, 2006 8:06 pm
Mood: content, 788 Views |  | Well it was really a pretty pleasant weekend for a change. No real upsets or stress and just a chance to do a little singing, do a little working and do a little talking on FF.
Only problem is that it's almost over and tomorrow it's back to work. The weeks do seem to be flying by. I can't believe that January is almost over. That is unbelievable.
I just found out something a little annoying last night and that is that my other job is having it's year end party on the very night that I was originally going to try and have my birthday party. Since I missed the year end party last year I don't want to miss it this year so I might have to try and organize my birthday party on a different day.
What is sooooo weird is that I have had more parties fall on the exact same day as another party this year than has ever happened in my life. |
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| Relaxing on a lazy Sunday. |
Jan 22, 2006 11:26 am
Mood: calm, 842 Views |  | Okay, no drama/trauma counter is almost to 4. LOL! Seriously I went to bed around midnight last night, got a great night's sleep (8 hours) and this morning and this afternoon have just been floating around to various places chit chatting and talking to my friends.
I do have to go to work and put in about 4 hours but things have really been fairly mellow and non-stressful today and for the past several days which is what I really want to see continue.
OOoo and I got evaluated last Friday and didn't even have to take a tranquilizer an hour before either. LOL! I think I did okay, I'm pretty sure, because she didn't stay the whole time, she left after about a half hour.
Oooo I bought a new CD on Friday too. It was Blondie's Greatest Hits. I have always been a huge Debra Harry fan. I like her music and this CD has most of her big hits on it. |
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| A Movie That Makes Me Feel Good. |
Jan 21, 2006 8:31 pm
Mood: grateful, 744 Views |  | Well tonight things were a little slow around the old FF site, so I decided to watch The Shawshank Redemption which I had only just watched for the first time a couple weeks ago around New Years Day.
What an incredible and wonderfully inspiring movie about hope, despair, love and friendship. This movie is extremely sad and at the same time extremely inspirational.
It made me cry the first time I watched it, although this time I'm on a little bit more of an even keel and so I didn't cry although I still love it.
Anytime I EVER think that I've got it rough, this is a good movie to remind me that I lived a cupcake life and that my problems are world's away from being anything to compare with what the character of Andy went through in this movie.
It just leaves me with such an uplifting and positive feeling about my own life to watch this film. |
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