Category: BlahBlahBabble

On my never-ending quest to get all of the boxes of stuff out of my apartment from
The City Suites, I went through 3 more boxes of random things last night. Where did all this stuff come from? Did I really think I needed to save all of these magazines? I’m now up to about 8 bags of paper that needs to go to the recycling bin. And I’m nowhere near done.

At least 95% of the stuff is going out the door. Bank statements and paycheck stubs are about the only thing I am keeping. It feels so good to be free!

Today is a strange anniversary day. August 31st is always a day that makes me look back at my past. I got married 12 years ago today. (I got divorced in 1993.) So it makes me look back on the past, on the reasons I made choices that I did. I realize how different I am today. This is a good thing.

Today is also the 5 year anniversary of Princess Di’s death. The significance of that is not so much that she died, but that the Insignificant Other & I broke up – one of many times – shortly after the accident. Maybe the night before her funeral? Anyways, he actually proposed to me later in the month, before my birthday. But he would never set a wedding date, and by January, 2001 I gave up. I figured 3+ years was enough time to finally come around.

It’s not so much a day to think of loves lost as it is to think of personal strength gained. I am a better person then I was 12 years ago or even 5 years ago. I am proud of the person that I have become. I’m thankful for the lessons I’ve learned.

Remember that little Big Blogger All-Star! game? Well, guess who was nominated again? Yes, me. Craptastic. So once again, a plea for help. See, Peter has quit the game, which puts me in a really uncomfortable position of having to vote off the one person I didn’t want to see go – Rusty. But it is now a choice between Rusty or me, and … I’m not ready to go either. I don’t want Rusty to go, but I have no choice since Peter quit. So, can you help?

The power of my vote was noticed – two contestants nominated me with the plan of getting me to vote Rusty off. I wasn’t going to let them use me like that … then Peter quit. Craptastic.

Pleeeeease help. Go here, vote for Rusty. Spread the word, share the love. Meanwhile, I’m going to be sitting on the edge of my seat for the rest of the day.

A pizza pie that is. I was late because of stuff we had to wrap up at the office in order to meet a 9am deadline tomorrow morning, but I still made it to meet some of the H-Town Bloggers tonight!

Kymberlie left the office before I did, so she was already there with Steven – and they were sweet enough to share their pepperoni pizza with me. Yummmm… I’ll add tomorrow to who all was there, showing up late made it hard to go back through intros with everyone. It was great to finally get to meet Kathy because I’ve read her site for such a long time. Elaine has the fun task of keeping all of us bloggers in line (and showing up for events!), and there was also Hanna, Marc (Mark? Marcus? Damn head cold – my ears are still messed up!) and … several others that I will add right here tomorrow.

I wish that Matt and Laurence (and all the others) could have made it. Maybe next time?

The H-Town Bloggers are getting together tonight at Star Pizza! It’s been years since I’ve been there – so I can’t wait! Want to come and join us?