Dear Someone Thursday

Dear Groundhog
I counted on you, I really did. all of this rainy weather is a bit much. I thought, The groundhog will put a stop to it! But, you let me down. You had to come out and see your shadow. What were you thinking??

I think we should have a retake day and you should have to do it all over until you get it right. You saw the movie Groundhog day, didn't you? Now get back in there come out and see that shadow., and I do mean now!
An interested bystander

Dear Tasha:
Your Birthday is less then ten days away. I can't tell you how excited I am about that, not because you will be 4, I hate that because it means you are growing up, but because you can stop telling me about that blasted WII.
Nannie

Dear Sharon:
You are so close to my heart these days. I wonder if that is because your birthday is coming up? After alll of these years, I still miss you and it still hurts as bad as the day you died. I know you are better off in heaven, but it doesn't mean I miss you less. I think about all we missed, you missed high school, proms, Natasha, and a whole host of other things a child should enjoy. I remember how all you were looking to after your surgery was getting to take Gymnastics. Denise and Eric tell me I drummed it in your heads how life isn't fair, but life isn't fair but it's not fair if I lost all these years with you.
Be patient until I get there, I broke my promise about always being with you, but I won't when I get to heaven.
Mom

Dear God:
My mother used to tell me when it rained the angels were craying. That is such a cute story. If you would please, tell them to put a sock in it.
Your servant who is drowning.

Read more Dear Someone letter over at Family of Shorts.

Random Monday Night

If you come here more then once in a blue moon, then you are totally confused. But take heart, you are seeing what you think you are. My blog keeps changing formats and colors.

Now,this wasn't just to fool you, I promise. It is for me to find out if I can find a template I can live with before giving up the ghost and moving to word press with the rest of he crowd.

I don't want to move, I feel all warm and cozy here on blogger, but my blog looks like rush hour at grand central it has so much on it, so I am trying to sort it out, just a little. It seems every time I drop something, I gain something else.

So for a little bit, you may keep getting a shock when you drop in, but eventually it will all settle down and be boring again, and isn't that what life is all about?

We moved in and got settled. Bugs have found somewhere else to live for the moment, ever once in the wile one will get bold and pop out, but just for a minute, they have learned to run when they see me coming. I guess death by oven spray is pretty horrible, but now I have Raid so it will be a mercy death.

Charleston being surrounded by water, oceans, lakes and marshes is the natural breeding ground for misquotes, and other bugs. I love water but everything has it ups and downs. bugs are definitely a down for this city.

Tasha is ready for her bath, I am off to give her one and put her down for the night. Tasha has, just as every child in the world developed an alter ego this summer, she has, at three, developed a cheerleader persona. Don't ask me how a three year old can be preppy but she is and I am confused. Her mother was never preppy but her Nanny was and is..did it jump a generation?

Eric is suffering from a monsterious toothache, he is surviving for the moment on pain pills and amoxcillin, tomorrow we will get it pulled.

Denise is still trying to figure her future out. I remember whne I had so many choices, and hopeshe makes the choices right for her. Me? I made some horrendous choices, like leaving Hewlet Packard to be cool..and turning around and doing the smae thing with IBM, I think of how my life would have been had I not made those decisions.

Denise has a similar decision, she is trying to decide if she wants to go into food management or go back to school I sit back quietly and let her ponder. The wondeful thing about todys world is she can do both..I hope she realizes that as she is pondering her choice.

This is one of my really random posts, because I am feeling random...

Well, we all have those days, don't we?

See you Tomorrow....

Angel

Help! Blogger lost my friends!

Yesterday morning I for the first time in 5, yes 5! days, can you believe it? Well anyway halfway through the day I actually felt like getting on the computer. I did I  fired up the old HP and started checking face book and email, and stuff. The last place I always go to check is here. Just to see if anyone has been by. That is why I have that live track thing down on the side. It amazes me that people from places like New Delhi,India actually come by here and more then once. I feel very humble.

But Yesterday, I went into shock and had to almost be sent to the hospital. I had lost two followers.!

Not only had I lost two, but the two who had been with me the longest!

Now, those who have hundreds of followers or 63, Will think Whats the big deal?, but me the people who follow me are special. 

I don't follow peoples' blogs just to follow them, I know some people have the You follow me I'll follow you thing going on. But me, I follow blogs that have touched me, or teach me, or ones that just plain make me laugh. And I follow each of my followers blogs some really make my day, some are like friends and when they don't blog I worry, some are purely entertaining. All are like visiting old friends and chatting.

So Generally I used to grab a drink a coke, coffee, hot apple cider all of which are out lawed now

sit down and read and read and read. I am learning now how to comment.

I used to think, who'd want to hear from me? But I have learned how good comments make me feel so I do try to now.

It's nice to know someone read your blog and liked it or disliked it even enough to say something. 

Anyway  back to the reason for this blog, I panicked then I went to their blogs and noticed my name wasn't their either now I am really upset because I am thinking they stopped following me because they thought  I stopped following them and now they are insulted. 

OK so I have always been melodramatic on some things. I am far from a drama queen I promise. If you don't believe me, meet my sister. 

So I shot off notes to both of them I didn't!!! and they calmly wrote back, Whats going on? so I researched and found the Blogger glitch:

Hey folks, 
You may have noticed the number of your public Followers has decreased 
over the last few hours. We are in the process of integrating with 
Friend Connect. 
There is small set of users that already use both Blogger Following 
and Friend Connect. To avoid linking the profiles of Blogger and 
Friend Connect users without their permission, we have set these users 
to "anonymous". They are still following privately and will able to 
make themselves public again. 
With the official launch of the Friend Connect integration, we will 
communicate with the affected users to encourage them to reset their 
relationship to public. To reiterate, the number of Followers has not 
changed, and we believe that the launch will improve the visibility of 
your blog and community. We will post more details on Blogger Buzz and 
here as the launch approaches. 
Thanks for your patience, 
Gatsby 
The Blogger Team

Aren't they calm and matter fact about it?

But I felt better knowing it wasn't my fault. I hadn't offended anyone. Everyone was still my friends. 

:)

It is funny how little things throw you day. I remember a Twilight Zone episode where aliens made the lights go off. Everyone thought because there wasn't any power the world was coming to an end.There was pandemonium We expect things to be the same everyday. We expect to turn the lights on and for them to come on. We expect to sign on the computer and  everything be as it was.

We don't handle change to well. But the good news is, change soon becomes the norm and everything is as it should be. 

okay I'm calm now. Really! I am......

sigh.........