YAY! Inspiration!

Okay- 2 things I'm totally excited about. The first one is this blog:

http://chrisguillebeau.com/3x5/about-the-project/

It's FANTASTIC. Well, if you're me it is. :) I'm posting it incase you find it fantastic also. It was JUST what i needed to keep on being inspired. I love it. Thanks, Drew!

And Drew is the other thing. MFN works with him, so she knows him differently. I just read his blog mostly. The Rogue Priest. Google it if you wanna. He's a good writer, and he is totally a rogue priest. Polytheist, which is just what else I needed- it's been eons since I've heard a new idea. I'm being swallowed up by the same ole political bull$hit that keeps me turned off to it, the same ole religious debates that keep me turned off to it, and I have been wanting something NEW to think about. Polytheism is NEW to me. I LOVE seeing the world through someone else's eyes. YIPPEEE for new ideas.

Today Suzanne was all loaded up on pain meds. That makes me happy for her, sad that she needs them, but happy she was feeling good. She's much more smoochy and lovey when she's on them, and we had a great conversation. She feels guilty for some things regarding me, things that she shouldn't. I TOLD her to stop it, but she hasn't yet. She also said some brilliant things about kids, birth order, and how they are treated. I need to make even more sure that CJ gets to be a kid sometimes instead of always being the oldest and having to be responsible. Especially after yesterdays incident. Great timing. She has 2 of the best kids ever---she always kept the lines of communication open with them, and she thinks that was huge. She showed her kids respect even as she taught them they need to respect adults and other people. She said that one thing she would like to do differently is that somewhere in doing that, her oldest (my first baby ever) started to worry more about disappointing her than following her own path. Now, she is only 22 years old and she is on her own path now, and that's not such an old age to break off of the norm. She is going to be a Naval Officer, or so she thinks right now.

Anyway, all in all, today instead of seeing everything that I do WRONG, and OH there is plenty of that, I feel like I can look at what I know I do RIGHT and I do WELL and I'm all fired up to do something to make the people closest to me shake their conventional heads and say "Where did she COME from?"
Julia just asked if she should draw me wearing a dress or a shirt. Apparently, I am not allowed pants. Lookout world!


That's all for now. I miss Cullen to pieces! They drove through the nasty storm last night. At least they don't have the spas, coming back through the MOUNTAINS, during a white out storm. They are still driving. 25 hours in. Gross.