Y es it’s July 29th again, and another OTT celebration. There are times of the year that I struggle with stopping and just celebrating life, just reveling in being alive and how great that is and feeling that everyone should be as excited as I am that I am alive (I know that might be hard to believe, that I struggle with that, but alas it is true). Today is not one of those days. Today I celebrate.

It is the day of the year where I KNOW that I am precious, special, valuable, and COMPLETELY entitled to demand adoration. Even as I write it I laugh. I laugh but I don’t think of changing it, because today I really do feel that way. Today is my special day.
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M y dad is in the hospital. Will probably be there through the weekend. Makes me nervous. Edgy. Somehow it reminds me (however that is possible, since I was a small child at the time) of my grandfather’s quick demise – at this time of year. I know it was this time of year because he died on my birthday. My fifth birthday. Every year on my birthday – a day I celebrate (and make my friends celebrate) with much gusto – sometime during the day, inevitably, I remember that this is the day my grandfather died. It’s crappy. A day that is supposed to be just about me, for me, always kind of tinged, even tainted, with sadness. With the passing years, the sadness passes quicker and quicker.
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W elcome to my new site and my new blog (although know that every once in a while I may be referencing and even pilfering from my old blog).

While I TOTALLY loved my old site, and the ladies that put it together, I am excited to have this new dynamic site where I can interact with you more and interact with my own ideas more (I am after all an extrovert and need to express myself to know what I am thinking, yes?), and provide more service right here on the site. So TA DA – here it is. Please cruise around, check it out, give me feedback and/or corrections. There is new content, new offerings and the will be more to come, so keep checking back.

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