Lightening Online

A short time ago, the lovely Frogdancer participated in an interview style meme. You put your hand up to be interviewed and that blogger sends you 5 questions to be answered on your blog. I love answering interview questions. It’s always interesting to see what people will come up with in the way of questions. I had no doubt Frogdancer would come up with some interesting questions and she did not disappoint.

1. You’re a city girl who has decided to live on a farm in what looks
like to be a fairly isolated part of the country. While I’m sure that
there are lots of compensations (what with the husband, fresh air and
freedom from nosy neighbours and all) what was the absolute hardest
thing to deal with in such a big change in lifestyle?

Firstly, I should probably point out that I never really “decided” to live on a farm. More like dragged kicking and screaming! After all, I did attempt to tell my now husband that there was no way I was ever going to marry a farmer!!!! The things we do for love, I tell you!

So, what was the absolute HARDEST thing to deal with? Definitely the lack of shops! I had shopping withdrawal for many years and just the thought of travelling to Adelaide was enough to get my heart beating fast in anticipation of all the shopping I could do. These days, large shopping centres kind of overwhelm me and I’m not as in love with shopping as I used to be. Although, I have discovered the awesomeness of online and catalogue shopping.

2. You insist that chickens aren’t scary, even though I think that
anyone can see that their beaks are sharp and pointy and vicious
looking. Is there anything from the Animal Kingdom on the farm that IS
scary and gives you the willies?

SNAKES!!!! My single biggest fear about moving from the town to the farm was the snakes. And in our first summer out here, we had almost as many snakes near the house as my mother-in-law saw in her entire time on the farm! It was a REALLY bad year. Most years we’ll have one in the house yard, two in a bad year. That year we had 10!!! It was a horrible introduction to farming life.

And no, chickens really aren’t all that scary - as long as you’re not a worm!!!!

3. If you could have your time over, would you use different names for
your family on the blog? In fact…. what would you call them if the
names you are already using were banned by the blogging police?

The names I do use for them fit them perfectly so the blogging police would have a fight on their hands if they wanted to take them from me!!!! It was hard enough to come up with those names in the first place given how terribly uncreative I am. I’d probably resort to calling them DS10, DD8 and DS5. At least then people would know their ages. Lleyton is the only one that knows what I call him on the blog and he LOVES his nickname. He’d be devastated too. Would the blogging police really take away a 10 year olds dream????

4. Does the thought of using caravan park toilets for months on end
freak you out even slightly? (Or is that just me?) You’ve blogged
about what you’re looking forward to, but what are some of the things
that you think may be a challenge when you experience your trip?

Ummm….yes. Most caravan parks maintain their facilities well but you do stumble on the occasional nightmare (like we did in the Snowy Mountains where we had to trudge up a steep hill with inadequate lighting to get to the spider infested girls bathroom). When we first bought our camper trailer 12 years ago, I wasn’t sure how I’d go having to use public bathroom facilities. But it doesn’t worry me as much as I ever thought it would. Once I even met up with an old family friend in a caravan park bathroom!

As for challenges, I expect there’ll be many but here are a few that come to mind right now:

• Needing to pee in the middle of the night! I hate that when you have to cross the caravan park in the dark, especially if it’s cold (lucky we’re spending most of our time in Queensland so it hopefully won’t be too cold). I remember once camping in the Flinders Ranges in July when I was pregnant and threw up whenever I got cold - having to go to the toilet in the middle of the night was no fun!!!
• Deciding how independent we’ll allow our children to be when it comes to going to the toilet and showers alone. It gets kind of tedious having to take them every time but well, you never really know who might be lurking and is it really worth the risk?
• 5 people cooped up in a caravan for such an extended period of time. What happens when we have a fight? No bedrooms to stomp off to and slam the door on! Curtains just don’t have the same satisfying sound when you shut them!
• No constant internet access!!!! Aaaarrrggghhh!!!!!
• What we’ll do if there’s a family emergency while we’re in Far North Queensland (eg. a funeral). Will we leave the caravan and fly back or what will we do?
• Getting sick or injured while we’re away.

5. And finally….
If for some reason (like a random someone interviewing you on your
blog) you had to pick one single experience you had which was the BEST
EVER, what would it be?

Oh, this is really HARD! The best day of my life so far would HAVE to be my wedding day. It was AWESOME. My heart was so full to overflowing that I never thought it would be possible to love Farmboy any more than I did that day. I was wrong though. I’m very thankful that our love continues to grow. I know it’s something I can never take for granted.

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If you’d like to get involved, all you have to do is put your hand up (via the comments section or contact form) and I’ll send you 5 questions for you to answer on your own blog. Once you’ve done that, you also include the offer to interview any of your readers and that way the meme goes on and on and on (as memes have a tendency to do). If you don’t have your own blog and would like to participate, let me know and I’ll publish your interview here on my blog.

Oh, and one more thing. Given I LOVE answering questions, if you have a question you’d like me to answer, feel free to leave it in the comments section below (or via email/contact form) and I’ll answer those questions here as well. BUT, be kind okay.

I caught site of this somewhere around the blogosphere and thought it looked like fun.

1. Who was your FIRST prom date?

We don’t really have prom’s here but the school I went to did have a Senior Ball in year 11 and 12. I went with a guy named Andrew in year 11. The guy I wanted to go with was in a dilemma because another girl had asked him (and he didn’t want to be rude to her) so I magnanimously told him it was okay with me if he went with her. BIG mistake as I nearly didn’t end up with a date. But it worked out in the end and the guy I wanted to go with took me in year 12 (and was an absolute gentleman). Not that that guy I went with in year 11 wasn’t an attentive date too.

2. What was your FIRST alcoholic drink?

Port - and it tasted like cough medicine!!!

3. What was your FIRST job?

My first “real” job (not counting babysitting, some office filing and some work I did for my dad in my early teens) was as a check-out chick at Bi-Lo. I LOVED it!!!!

4. What was your FIRST car?

A yellow Diahatsu Charade that I named Nikki. I wasn’t rapt in the yellow colour but the price was good and it was SO cheap to run. I LOVED that car!!!

5. Who was the FIRST person to text you today?

We don’t get mobile coverage at home so texting is rare other than when we’re away.

6. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning?

No idea. I take about 2 hours to be awake enough to have a coherent thought!

7. Who was your FIRST grade teacher?

Miss Jury. She was so lovely.

8. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane?

I have only ever had 1 ride in an airplane when I was pregnant with our 2nd child. From Adelaide to our nearest town. Just a small 12 seater. A couple of week’s later our next door neighbours died in a plane crash with the same company and same sized plane and I’ve not been game to fly since. Plus we don’t have flights into our local town anymore (that company went bust). One day I’ll go on a large airplane (I bet it’s rare these days to find someone who’s never been on one).

9. Who was your FIRST best friend, and are you still friends with him / her?

A girl named Emma. I wish we still were in contact. I’ve moved so many times that it’s hard to maintain contact with old friends. We did manage to stay in contact for many, many years though.

ETA: I just found her on Facebook!!!! Wonder if she’ll remember me?

10. Who was your FIRST kiss?

I have no idea!!!! I *think* it was a boy named Vernon who lived across the street from us when I was about 10 or so. My first “real” kiss was with a guy named Aaron when I was 14. He was a sweetie (most of the time). Had my name on the ceiling above his bed in glow in the dark stars.

11. Who was the FIRST person you talked to today?

My husband.

12. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning?

Doesn’t everybody have a call of nature first thing in the morning? Or doesn’t that count? Most mornings I start the day by staring into a cup of tea and trying to work out how to get it to my mouth when my arms aren’t awake enough to work.

13. What was the FIRST concert you ever went to?

I don’t suppose school concerts count? I don’t think I’ve ever been to a “real” concert.

14. What was your FIRST tattoo or piercing?

My only ever tattoo or piercing is my ears which I got pierced for my 12th birthday. It was right in the middle of netball season (my last ever netball season until recently) and my coach was NOT happy. I had to wear band-aids over my ears to play. I remember her “*grumble* *grumble*….girls who have to get their ears pierced in the middle of netball season….*grumble* *grumble*”. LOL. I LOVED that coach.

15. What was the FIRST foreign country you went to?

Melbourne!!! Ha, ha. Well it felt like a foreign country when we first moved there. I’ve never been out of Australia.

16. What was the FIRST movie you saw in the theater?

Not sure if it was The Boy Who Could Fly or World Safari 3. My grandparents used to take me to a movie when I stayed with them in the January school holidays and I know we saw both of those but don’t know which was first.

First movie I went to on my own (ie without adults) was Good Morning Vietnam.

17. When was your FIRST detention?

Year 9 Maths. *sigh* I had numerous although only 1 was an after school one (my teacher was way too nice for his own good). Most were just lunch time detentions thankfully (as it meant my parents didn’t find out). I also got sent to the Deputy Principal that year but never “made it”. The teacher who sent me (and the loud-mouthed guy I was wagging class with) didn’t know me by name. The advantages of going to a large school. Lucky really as the Deputy Principal was nicknamed Hitler by the students and was pretty intimidating. But I was one of the good kids, really! (so good I actually kind of feel bad about this incident - doesn’t really feel “right” that I got away with it LOL).

18. What was the FIRST state you lived in?

South Australia

19. Who was the FIRST person to really break your heart?

A guy at uni named Paul. He was like 10 feet tall (not really but it seemed like it) and when we walked hand in hand I felt like a little kid. We had to kiss sitting down. LOL. I was devastated when he called it off after 3 days. REALLY devastated. He was the first guy to ever dump ME. Not sure if that was *why* I was so devastated. I’d had a thing for him for a while so was over the moon when we started going out.

20. With whom was your FIRST date?

Define date. Because I’ve never been a big one for “dating”. I’m more the “hanging out” type rather than the formal “guy picks up girl and takes her somewhere” kind of girl. I went to see a movie with a boy in year 9 (the one mentioned above - Good Morning Vietnam). That was probably my first ever “outing” with a guy alone.

21. What was your FIRST pet?

We had a pet rabbit named “fluffy”. I guess we had other pets but I can’t remember any earlier than fluffy.

22. Who was your FIRST roommate?

When I moved out of home I moved into a flat by myself. I did have a friend who came to stay with me from time to time when she had Tafe so that’s probably the closest I ever had to a room-mate. We got into a few scrapes together too. Like one night we were driving around and ended up being followed by a couple of guys. We had to drive to a male friend’s place as we didn’t want to lead them back to where we were living (my flat was in a back alley).
23. Who was your FIRST love?

A man named Chris who I’ve since caught up with on Facebook. Hope he doesn’t read my blog! I was 13 and what did I really know about love? But in a way he was still my “first love”. My husband was my first love in an “adult” sense.

24. What was your FIRST screen name?

Lightening. I’ve mostly used “Jodi” online and occasionally “hanners” but Lightening was the first time I really sat down and thought about what I’d like to be known as online. It was a nickname given to me by some guys in my year 12 English class and written on my pencil case by my best friend (who spelt it wrong ). I like this spelling better though.

25. When did you have your FIRST baby?

January 29th 1998. I was 23 and thought I was “over the hill” and should hurry up and have kids. Mind you, there was a time when I thought 15 was “over the hill” too. I look back now and realise how young and inexperienced I was. But, you live and learn.

This was heaps of fun. If you decide to “pinch” it like I did, make sure you let me know so I can come and have a read.

I was tagged a little while back by Sharon to do this “A-Z of Me” meme:

Attached or single? VERY attached to my husband!!!

Best Friend? Farmboy (my husband)

Cake or Pie? Is cheesecake classed as “pie”?

Day of Choice? Friday - has been my designation “day off” for many years now. I’m pretty good at sticking to it too!

Essential Item? Toothbrush - I can’t sleep if I haven’t brushed my teeth.

Flavour of icecream? Mint choc chip

Gummy Bears or Worms? Neither. I HATE gummy bears!!! Sorry Frogdancer.

Hometown? I’ve been everywhere man. Well, not quite EVERWHERE but too many places to be able to call any one place “home”.

Indulgences? Anything with cream. I try not to indulge too often but I am rather parital to cream. Especially if it’s combined with something chocolate. Or cheesecake.
January or July? July - it’s my birthday in July

Kids? Always wanted them. Was afraid I wouldn’t be able to. Now have 3 which I’m stoked about (most days!)

Last Movie I saw in a Theatre? Good question. Not sure I can even remember.

Middle Name? Louise

Number of Siblings? 3 younger brothers - feel sorry for me yet?

Oranges or Apples? Oranges with warm custard - YUM!!!

Phobia or Fear? Lighting a match or anything gas. I had a gas heater blow out in my face when I was VERY young.

Quote? Can’t think of one off the top of my head.

Reason to Smile? Comments on my blog (hint! hint! )

Season? Spring - I love the freshness and the feeling of hope. I only hope we’re going to get one this year. It feels like it’s jumped from winter directly to summer at the moment.

Tag five more…. Gemisht, Gnometree, Wendy, Kin, Kelley

Unknown fact about me? When I’m trying not to cry, my eyes go VERY blue. Every now and then I’ll get a comment about how blue my eyes are and it’s almost ALWAYS at a time when I’m trying not to cry.

Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animals? Let me guess, this was composed by a Vegetarian?

Xrays or Ultrasound? Ultrasound, given the only times I’ve had them has been when I’ve been pregnant.

Your favourite food? Do I have to pick only one? No? Good. Is chocolate a food? I think my favourites are pretty much all the unhealthy stuff. Pizza, Chicken, vegemite on toast not to mention cheesecake and anything chocolate flavoured (unless it’s been tainted by coffee or liqueur).

Zodiac? Not something I follow

Six words? You’ve got to be joking!!!!

Both my blogging and my commenting gives testament to the fact that I’m NOT a woman of FEW words.

Twitter and Plurk have both proven to be quite CHALLENGING for me. How do you say what you need to say in such a small amount of space? I can tell you now - it aint easy. Not for me anyway.

So being tagged by Journeyer for this six word memoir meme has had me scratching my head. Can I REALLY sum up my own life in just 6 words? Hmmm….

There was 1 word I knew HAD to be non-negotiable in my 6 word memoir.

PINK

Here’s what I ended up coming up with:

Sad start. Pink rocks. Flying now.

Could you do it? Summarise your life in 6 words? What about a part of your life? Have a go. If you don’t have a blog (or don’t wish to blog about it), feel free to include your 6-word memoir in the comments section. I look forward to reading what you come up with.

Yesterday I posted a meme that revealed a little of myself to you all.

You may or may not have realised this by now, but I’m away. These posts have been prewritten and prescheduled to publish. So you can stop sulking about the fact that I haven’t responded to your comments or commented on your blog. I do still love you!!!

I don’t like saying “hey everyone, we’re going to be away from X…. to Y…..” for obvious reasons. But since we’re due back any time now, I feel like it’s safer for me to say this now. I’ll be back on deck as soon as I climb out from under the mound of dirty washing and recover from jetlag (no, we didn’t actually leave our own time zone BUT I still suffer from “jet lag” after being away).

In the meantime, I thought it would be nice to encourage you all to share a tiny bit about yourself. Kind of like an “in-house” meme. Rather than going from blog to blog, it’s just for us here within this post and it’s comments.

So, here are my questions for you:

1. If you had to choose only 1 food item to eat for the rest of your life, what would it be?

2. Name one place you’ve never been that you’d really like to visit one day.

3. Where is the best place you’ve ever lived (your favourite) and why?

I hope you’ll join in and leave your responses to these questions in the comments section. I look forward to reading them when I get back on deck.

I’ve been tagged for this meme by a number of people and keep thinking I’ll get around to it one day. Decided it was time I actually DID get around to it.

Thanks Wendy, Mark and whoever else I missed (sorry, I thought there was someone else. That’s the problem with procrastination If I missed you, please let me know as I’d LOVE to give you the link you deserve).

What I was doing 10 years ago:

At the start of 1998 my first baby was born. At that point in our lives, Farmboy was more married to farming than he was to me so it was pretty much Leighton and myself home together (which was a LOT nicer than being home alone). He stayed small for quite some time (which caused it’s own stresses) which meant I could carry him everywhere in a sling so we bonded quite strongly.

Five things on my to do list for today (well, tomorrow - it’s almost 11pm):

These are for the day this is written, not the day it will be posted.

1. Write some advance posts ready for us going away.

2. Ironing

3. Sort out our personal finances (they’re a MESS)

4. Keep warm (it’s wet and FREEZING as I type this)

5. Session with Personal Trainer

Things I would do if I were a billionaire:

Honestly, I have NO desire to be a billionaire. I would totally STRESS out that someone was going to kidnap my children and hold them for ransom (do I watch too much TV?).

Three of my bad habits:

Grinding my teeth

Procrastinating

Thinking horrible things about myself when I look in the mirror

Five places I have lived:

Adelaide (2 different houses - can’t remember the suburbs), South Australia

Port Pirie, South Australia

Glen Iris, Melbourne, Victoria

Mulgrave, Melbourne, Victoria

North Essendon, Melbourne, Victoria

Five jobs I have had:

Babysitting

Check-Out Chick at Bi-Lo

Child Care Worker (in a couple of different Child Care Centres)

Occasional Care Early Childhood Worker (Preschool)

School Services Officer - Special School and then Special Ed in a regular school

Five People I Want to Know More About:

I’m going to tag my 30-Day Challenge Team Members

A Juggling Mum

Epheriell

Journeyer

RazorSoB

Planning Queen

(Jade, I didn’t forget you but couldn’t find a URL for your blog at the time of writing this post. Feel free to consider yourself tagged and leave a URL in the comments section).

So, I have been tagged for this meme by Miserly Mum and Lis and figured it was about time I found myself a little “roundtoit”.

First I have a question. What on earth is Food Porn???? Can someone please explain this concept to me?

This meme started at Smokey Mountain Breakdown.

Here are the really simple rules. Answer each of the five questions. Tag five bloggers you would like to pass the meme to. Have them link back to you and to this post as the source meme. You and they can take the graphic from here if they like.

1. What food do you consider the best “date” food? In other words, what meal or food item do you think is sexiest to eat in the company of someone you would like to look sexy around?

Chocolate coated strawberries. Or strawberries with champagne. Or just plain strawberries.

Mind you, I don’t think I have ever actually tried to look sexy around anyone.

2. What well-known person would you like to share a meal with—with or without clothing. (saying whether or not clothes are involved is optional).

Shannon from The Biggest Loser. I’d love to pick his brains on a number of topics. And eating with him would encourage me NOT to over-indulge!!!

3. What does your perfect breakfast-in-bed look like? (Food AND the details, please. Candles? Music? Flowers? Hot tub? Dancing girls?

I HATE breakfast in bed!!!!! A cup of tea, yes. Trying to eat breakfast balanced on my lap or a tray is definitely NOT my idea of fun. Toast crumbs in the bed….NOT my idea of fun!!!!

Breakfast in the hot tub? Ummm….. strawberries and champagne (any time of the day is fine). Better make that PINK champagne too!!!!

Candles - yes

Music - no

Flowers - maybe (can’t stand flowers that are scented - I either sneeze, get a headache or both)

Dancing girls - *snigger* NOT likely!!!!

4. What do you consider the best application of whipped cream to be?

A toss up between chocolate mud cake and a nice rich cheesecake.

5. Oh-God-No, Biff, the yacht is sinking! You are sent to the galley to retrieve the food. What luxury food items do you snatch first? The champagne? The caviar? Smoked Salmon? Truffles? Chocolate? Or something else?

I’d definitely have to go with chocolate. Mind you, I’m not sure that “soggy chocolate” appeals all that much to me!!! And the LAST thing that would be on my mind if a boat was sinking is food!!! I can’t swim!!!! (well, okay, I can do a few strokes but not much).

I am going to tag:

Cellobella - because she seems to be rather interested in food porn.

Kelley - so she has another reason to use the word porn. And I can imagine her answers will be a LOT more interesting to read than mine.

Anonymum - because I don’t think I’ve ever tagged her before.

Guera at her “A Roaming Aussie Kitchen” blog.

Marita at her new Wordpress blog. Go Marita!!!!

It’s been a busy couple of days for me so I wasn’t going to post today.  However, this came to my attention tonight (thanks Sueblimely) and I thought it would make for a quick, fun post for as many of you as possible to participate in.

~~Begin Copy~~

This is the easy way and the fastest way to :

1. Make your Authority Technoraty explode.

2. Increase your Google Page Rank.

3. Get more traffic to your blog.

4. Makes more new friends.

Rules :

1. Start copy from “Begin Copy” until “End Copy” to your blog.

2. Put your own blog name and link.

3. Tag your friends as much as you can.

1. Picturing of Life 2. Juliana’s Site 3. Hazel-My Life, My Hope, My Future 4. Jeanne-The Callalily Space 5. Colin from Life 6. Sue - Blogging Sueblimely 7. Lightening Online 8.Put yourself here

~~End Copy~~

Well, because I’m EXTREMELY tired and need to go to bed, I’m tagging you ALL.  Yes, that includes YOU way over there that has read consistently but never commented.  And YOU with the lovely eyes who’s only just begun to read this blog!!!

It’s easy to do.  You add your own link to the end of the chain and PASS IT ON.  Simple as that.  I’m going to attempt to follow this around so those who do this I WILL come and visit you!

Weeeellllll…… it would seem that Frogdancer has tagged me for a meme.  I will blindly overlook the fact that I am number 7 (!!!!!!!) on her list instead of number 1 as I so rightly SHOULD be!!!!  LOL.  Just kidding!  After all, just because I was the first person EVER to comment on her blog doesn’t grant me any privileges or anything does it……..????????? 

It’s that 8 random thingymabob meme.  It’s a good one cos you can’t really claim you’ve done it before…….after all, who ONLY has 8 random things about themselves to post??????

 So, here goes:

1.  I LOVE internet tag as it doesn’t involve any RUNNING.

2.  When I write the number 8, I like to write it as 2 circles, one on top of the other.  It’s my tiny way of rebelling against what I was taught in school.

3.  My middle name is Louise.  Hands up who else has Louise as a middle name…..it seems to be a common choice (yep, our only DD has that as a middle name as well!)

4.  I had cheese and onion chips for breakfast this morning (yeah, me bad……)

5.  DH asked me the other day what my favourite meal is and I have NO IDEA!!!

6.  When I was in year 9 I punched a girl.  I really am a nice person…..honest!!!!   So, now you have to know the whole story.  She hit my younger brother.  Everyone knows that I’M allowed to hit my brother (or bag him out or whatever) BUT……NO ONE ELSE IS!!!!!  It was on the train after school but my co-ordinator found out about it and went absolutely mental at me.  I found out later that he’d held me up as a shining example to my boyfriend of the time (like said something along the lines of “why can’t you be more like J…..?” when he kept giving this girl a hard time) so my turning around and punching the same girl made said co-ordinator look a little foolish.  I learnt the hard way that it’s not a good idea to make a co-ordinator look like an idiot!!!!  2 years later I had him for year 11 English Literature and he still HATED me!   

7.  In year 8 the school I went to had WHITE dresses for the girls.  Who puts white fabric on teenage girls???????????  As you can imagine, water was the weapon of choice by the adolescent males…………. *sigh*

8.  I have never been a bridesmaid.    I’ve always wanted to be but it’s never happened.  The girl who was my maid of honour didn’t even invite me to her wedding!!!    DH on the other hand has been in 3 weddings (those of his best man and groomsmen).

Now, I tag…….

1.  YOU!!!!

2.  YOU

3. You

4. you (I know, you get the idea……)

 Yeah, it’s kind of cheating I know.  I usually try *not* to cheat on these things but I’m on holidays…….  BUT, it’s not all bad.  You will NOT miss out on your linky-love.  Anyone who does this meme and links back here, I will make sure you get your linky-love.  If you remember, make a comment in my comments section that you’ve done the meme.  If not, as long as you’ve claimed your blog with technorati, I will pick up on your link here and be able to add you to the list that way.  I look forward to reading your posts upon my return. 

Cellobella from SultanaBlog has tagged me for this meme. Which is great timing really as it’s a good way of avoiding talking about the outcome of all my SHOPPING I did this week (and the figures I’m avoiding facing)…..

1. Post 5 links to 5 of your previously written posts. The posts have to relate to the 5 key words given below (family, friend, yourself, your love, anything you like).
2. Tag 5 other friends to do this meme. Try to tag at least 2 new acquaintances (if not, your current blog buddies will do) so that you get to know them each a little bit better.
3. Don’t forget to read the archived post and leave comments.

FAMILY

I love my kids!!!  But some days I really LOVE them.  And they make me cry with the awesome little people that they are turning into (some days…… ).

Moments Like These

FRIEND

What is it they say?  In order to have friends, you need to BE a friend.

Help

YOURSELF

I think this post reflects something of a realisation in me that it’s okay if I’m not the “same” as the person next to me. That it’s okay (ish) to be me and to allow my current season in life to simply flow until it’s time for a new season to begin.

Seasons

YOUR LOVE

This post started out being about the new teddy bear my DH bought for me and ended up being a post about Love Languages. One thing that never ceases to surprise me with blogging is where some posts will take me and the things I learn and discover AS I’m writing about them.

Introducing……

FREE CHOICE

I’m going to break the “rules” a little with this category. I’m mindful of the fact that there are some fairly new readers to this blog who may not have yet read this series. So instead of choosing just a single post for the series, I’m going to choose a single series (of 9 posts). I haven’t yet had a chance to update the links that are within these posts so please backtrack to here to get the next link. If you follow the links within these posts, they’re take you back to my old blog and that could get rather confusing. This was a series I wrote outlining my journey so far from a life of mindless consumerism to embracing a life of simplicity (well, moving toward a simpler life…..).

A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Step

Joe Dominguez

Tracking Spending

Fast Tracking Our Dreams

You Cannot Steer A Stationary Ship

Living the Dream

How Did This Happen?

Words of Wisdom

Fast Tracking Our Dreams

And now for the tagging part. Apparently I need to tag at least some “new” blogging friends.

Kate at A Byootiful Life

Lotus at Sarcastic Mom

Rachel at A Juggling Mum

Miscellaneous Adventures of an Aussie Mum

Alyndabear

All of these blogs are reasonably new to my “regularly read” blog list and I haven’t gotten to know the authors all that well.  Not well enough that I’d usually “tag” them - in case they go “Lightening who????  Who does she think she IS tagging ME????????” LOL.  So I hope they understand the spirit of this.