Death

>> Thursday, July 29, 2010

Recently a close friend died and while his wife was away buring him, she asked me to housesit and puppy sit for her. I, of course, said yes. While I have been housesitting, I have realized why it takes people who once lived with a person who died, take so much longer to heal from the pain of their loss. So I posted that as a status update on Facebook. Well the daughter of the person who died texted me and asked me to remove the status update. For me, it was almost like she was saying that it was not right for me to understand that. It is like she assumes that the death of her father only affects her and her family but I think that to believe that is to assume that he never touched another person in the whole world. But that would be wrong. Her father touched so many people with his sense of humor and love for life. Am I wrong for understanding why people feel this way?

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I am a late bloomer...

>> Tuesday, April 20, 2010

I can't tell you how many times people have told me "You are a late bloomer". For the longest time I didn't really pay attention to that phrase but as I am getting older (shhhh Tiff! I know I am the baby of the group but I am still getting older!) that that phrase is so true. I was the last person in my family to start that wonderful monthly thing, I didn't have to do any of those girly things (ie. wearing a bra) until I was almost 14, and I was one of the last people in my school to decide where to go to college and what I wanted to major in, and that is only a tip off the iceberg. I am starting to realize that I am the last one in my friends group who is single and doesn't have kids. With my last friend without kids getting pregnant, I am thinking that I need to get on the ball and find myself a suitable husband. I am not so pressured to have kids because I don't want them, but the whole marriage thing is really starting to bug me. I know that it will happen in time but the brutal reality that I am still single is starting to ring louder and louder. Being single hasn't only affected me in the sense that I am feeling like a really late bloomer, but it is also making me question relationships. I am being excluded from activities because I am not married and/or don't have kids, which I think is wrong! If a friendship is based off of a person's relationship status, how true can that relationship be? People tell me I just need to find more single friends but that is so much easier said than done. I am not a college student (at least not in the traditional sense) and I have 3 jobs trying to make ends meet so meeting people is rather difficult. I have been the victim (more than once) of my friends attempts at matchmaking and everytime it ends up the same - I am a friend that is a girl and someone that they can talk to when they need a girl's opinion or something along those lines but I am never the girlfriend. I am sure it will happen in time, I am just ready for that time to be now.

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I shaved my head!

>> Monday, February 1, 2010

....and I have a video of it, thanks to my amazing and wonderful friend Tiff! (Thanks so much dear for doing that - it is amazing!)

You will have to go to her blog to see it which is Life in the Zoo. Go see it please. She worked really hard on it, and it is amazing! :)

Thanks y'all!

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I am going to do it...

>> Friday, January 1, 2010

Yep...that's right...I am going to shave my head. I am not talking about just cutting my hair really short - I am going all the way. No worries...I will be donating my hair to a company who makes wigs for cancer patients. Please watch my blog for ways that you can help me in this adventure.

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