Live Free Or Die

I like being busy. It keeps me active and my mind clearer. Heaven knows my mind needs to be cleaner, in more ways than one!

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I have broken my rule about watching tv and gotten myself hooked on a show called The Big Bang Theory. Awesome. Dry humor that literally has me laughing uncontrollably at times. Then again, I am so simple minded that I find the strangest things humorous.

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In the local news back home they are targeting a new skate park that has been opened in Memphis. Sheesh guys, give it a rest. Skaters have choices about helmets. I can’t imagine trying to do something like skating with a helmet on. I’m surprised that they haven’t required helmets for ice skating and skating rinks – yet. Can’t control other important events around them so they stick their noses in and try to give skate boarding yet another bad rap. WTFE.

Once again society through the media is focusing on the negative instead of the positive. Bad things happen but for a change dear media, can you start focusing on the good in life and give people hope? Oh wait, then you lose control via the beloved ‘fear factor’ so well known to be used by religious groups, parents and other authority figures.

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Been working a lot lately and loving it. I know that a job is where you go to earn money, but I have to say that I am so lucky to have a job that I enjoy. Granted some days I stress out, yet I never dislike my job itself.

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I am also enjoying home life a lot more. Things have changed around here enough that I also look forward to coming home after work. Work was my haven for a long time, and now I have two places that I truly enjoy spending my time.

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I broke down and had a checkup and got some overdue dental work done. I currently have stitches in my mouth that are driving me crazier than I already am, but didn’t realize just how bad my jaws were bothering me and other issues caused by this one silly tooth – that no longer lives in my mouth.

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My family is doing good. A few major things going on or already passed but still going good.

One child had knee surgery and is doing good now. He should be ready to rock and roll when his son is born. That is another awesome thing going on – I’m going to have another grandson!

My oldest daughter and mother of my grandson is working, raising her baby and going to school. Girl, you so rock!

My youngest daughter is shift manager at work. Way to rock sister! You and your awesome self!

My youngest son is not only skating again, but doing it more awesome than before. He is also a drummer in a band!

My mom is hanging in there. She is in a lot of pain. I can’t stand it and the nerve block had last week isn’t working. She did sound awesome when I talked to her, though. Beautiful person and beautiful mom – I wish I could take the pain away from her.

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Hope everyone else has awesomeness going on in their lives!

Anti Reformed?

I think I’ve had a change of heart.

Yes, I know I’m a princess. Apparently in more ways than the norm.

My Live Writer wasn’t talking to WordPress correctly or maybe WordPress wasn’t listening to Live Writer correctly or possibly my server wasn’t listening to either of them correctly – so I just didn’t blog anymore.

Okay, so that isn’t the whole reason, just the icing on the cake. I have been adjusting to working and haven’t had a lot of time to blog. I also made a deal with myself that I wouldn’t blog about negative things and obviously didn’t have a lot of nice things to say.

Live Writer’s html tags being stripped when I published, well, that was just the final straw.

And…to top it off it wasn’t Live Writer’s fault. I’m not sure what happened that made it stop working out of the blue. Even more frustrating were the fixes dating back in the early 2000’s and here I just started having issues with publishing.

I also tried installing WordPress on my phone so I could blog from it. Didn’t work either. Lead me to believe it was server side issues.

Instead of finding a solution, I just said to heck with it. Instead of creating a post while in the dashboard of WordPress, I just said to heck with it.

Yep, princess mode.

It didn’t help that I miss my Blackberry. I miss how all of the software worked together. If I dig deeper into things, I really miss my Palm – my Treo to be exact. Okay, so if the truth be told I miss having a cell phone and a PDA being separate from each other.

I also miss the days of being able to “google” for information and actually finding it. I can’t even find simple instructions on how to do anything online anymore. Everything is about top-ranking in searches today. I don’t care who is number one as long as it is going to not waste my time while researching.

I use to be pretty good at this stuff. What the heck happened?

I took a chance last night and searched for a solution. Strangely enough I found a post on how to strip lines out of WP headers if you weren’t using Live Writer to publish. It apparently makes the weight of the post lighter for quicker loading and potential to move you up in SEO rankings in searches. Hmmmm….

Backward approach? I’m pretty backward at times so I tried adding these lines instead of taking them away.

So, I added, to my theme’s header, these lines:

<link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://yoursite/xmlrpc.php?rsd" />

<link rel="wlwmanifest" type="application/wlwmanifest+xml" href="http://yoursite/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml" />

Now she works.

How did they get removed in the first place? Was it a plugin I used? Nope. Checked the original them for those lines and didn’t find them. Still a server side issue because those lines aren’t in any of the themes I used before and my current theme did work at one time.

Problem solved and now maybe this princess can start blogging again.

Hitting The Road

I’ve changed. A lot.

Exactly a year ago today I acted upon a decision I made that would change my life forever. I packed up my truck with my clothes, laptop my cell phone and drove 1400 miles to New Hampshire.

It was the scariest yet most exciting thing I have ever done.

I can’t tell you exactly what route I took. I only remember setting the destination in TelNav and just drove, drove, and drove until I reached my destination.

The route kept changing depending on the time of day and the traffic. I learned about toll roads, safe rest stops and the overwhelming need to find a hotel at one point – to take a bath.

Many of my friends thought I had lost my mind. My family couldn’t believe that I did it.  I didn’t allow myself think about all of that when I was making the trip. I kept my focus on the target. I kept my eye on the my goal.

I am was, for the most part, an over-thinker. I have talked myself out of 99% of the things that I wanted in my life. That left me settling for 1% of things I allowed for myself. More times than not I settled for what was in front of me, easily available, instead of aiming for what I truly wanted.

For the first time, in a very long time, I didn’t run from anything or anyone. I simply, in the truest form of the word, went for something that I wanted and sincerely needed for me.

I didn’t just wake up and say “I’m moving” and then made the move. No, I had a couple of dry runs which were for all purposes just me chickening out.

I am not bragging. I am not an amazing person. I am, for once, a human that made a decision and stuck to it.

I am grateful that I did something, made something happen, for me.

We have all been in situations where someone that we cared about needed something and we made sure they got it. We moved heaven and earth to make sure that they got it. Many times it was something that wasn’t needed but would enhance their lives or help them with their day to day lives.

A year ago today, I did that for myself. I didn’t do it to anyone or because of anyone else. I did it for me.

A year ago today many people thought that I was the most selfish insane person they knew.

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Today:

I am no longer the moody person I was a year ago.

I have a job.

I don’t have to take medicine to calm my nerves.

I don’t drink.

I exercise.

I smile, from the heart.

I pay my own way.

I am happy from the center of my being.

I love myself.

I respect myself.

I don’t run from problems.

I don’t run to problems.

I am more accepting of others.

I look forward to each new day, and embrace the adventures that it brings.

I am my own hero.

 

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