I am so very good at it. I will alienate everyone and anyone who bothers to care about me or for me. I have even managed to alienate most of the readers who come by here to read by complaining or whining too much. I try not to be a drama queen… but some have and do call me that. This blog was started so I would have a place to pour out my feelings and somehow that single idea got lost in my attempt to make friends and write what I thought they wanted to read.
Today I go back to my original idea. I appreciate what readers have stuck it out with me through all of this. I do care about what you think and feel and I will continue to be faithful to those I have come to love to read. I will still comment and let you know I am there, even if you don’t. That is me… faithful to the end.
I am still figuring out WordPress and all it’s intricacies. Posting a picture seems to be my biggest problem. At least blogger had a great system in place for that. Now I have to host my pictures some where and then place a shortcut to them (It is the ONLY thing I miss about blogger!). I can do it… but it can be a real pain.
I heard from Carlo finally last night in a short text message to my cell. He is fine and has come across some old friends. I am happy he has people there he knows outside of his immediate unit. I miss our daily conversations, but that was expected. I will be sending a package over real soon. He says there is nothing he really needs because they have a PX on the base. My thoughts are to send fun things… some of the newer music, games, etc. If you have any ideas… they would be appreciated.
I am still working on the cookbook. I am afraid I lost some of the recipe submissions when my internet and e-mail were down. I will attempt to fill it with stuff of my own and the rest of what Karen sent me (thank you Karen!) so that I can make my deadline to get this out before x-mas.
Well, time to head to work. Big bosses in this week and they have certainly made their presence known. My mind is fried half way through the day just trying to cope with the extra work that has been placed on my desk. Still no word on when I will get some help… but if it doesn’t come soon they will be short one more. The stress of the holidays is bad enough without doing another persons job. Orders are picking up and I can hardly keep up. One of these days soon I will explain my current job and what I do on a daily basis, just so you can grasp what I mean.
Have a good one. Hugssssssss.
Phoenix, you’re going to have days when you think no one understands and you feel unbalanced and a little crazy, but you’re not. No one can tell you they understand how you feel if they haven’t been through this.
It’s even a different (harder) feeling to have a child there than a spouse..I’ve had both. But only someone who has had a loved one in this war or a previous war knows how you feel and if you ever need to talk I’m here.
Tried to comment yesterday, and that didn’t happen. Your site wouldn’t let me. So here it is today. Am mailing you recipes….sorry I cannot transcribe them for you. This is so late in coming to you when I promised. Life isn’t easy…but then you are learning that the hard way.
Just know I love you.
Friends are overrated. Where are all these comment peeps when I need twenty bucks? Say what? You need twenty bucks? *poof!*
You’re right about WordPress and pictures. I like Flickr. Once uploaded you can blog the pictures from Flickr and do any formatting edits after you post. The problem I run into is videos. I notice you embedded one in another post. How’s that work?