I’ve decided to be prudent with the final post of the challenge and make it about a message I hold near and dear to my heart. The basis of the song means a lot to me, it used to be a well known and beloved song across the nation. As of late though, patriotism and nationalism have been slandered as heresy and racism. I am hoping that this song helps bring a little nationalism to my readers. Yes, I love this song, regardless of my lack of faith in religion.
Yup, it’s me again. Here with yet another random song that comes from my childhood. You see, today my community is throwing a celebratory Easter Egg Hunt for the children! It made me pause and think of this song. I love this song so much that I used to actually have me singing it as my voice mail!
Hope everyone is having a wonderful Sunday, and if you’ve got time, go harass Suze for me since I’ll be busy with an egg hunt!
I know, I know, it’s well past 5 days since I started the bloody challenge and by George I said I’ll do it at my own flibberin’ pace! You can just deal with it. Now, I’m not personally a fan of country but I like this song, heard it a lot when I was a kid. My mom used to play it often on Friday and we’d dance around our home giddily as could be.
Also, you can blame Suze for the random eclectic choices. If she hadn’t nominated me for this blasted challenge, you would be well on your way to experiencing some other drudgery, I’m sure.
Hey, the challenge never said it had to be 5 consecutive days. Just 5 days of music. Lay off! Suze, stop snickering.
To go along with my nostalgia moments and the daily prompt, I figured I’d find a song about purple. I hope you enjoy as much as I have. My mom used to play this song for me when I was in a bad mood, it always managed to perk me up and get me groovin’!
So apparently I was nominated, yet again, by Suze, for something silly. It’s some sort of 5 day marathon of posting about music. I adore this woman, even though she drives me nutty. It’s okay, I’m going to break the rules, it’s a symptom of my insanity! Who am I to let her down after she went through the trouble of nominating me on day one after all!
Post a different song quote for five consecutive days.
Post what the song quote means to you (optional).
Post the song that the quote is from.
Nominate two different bloggers every day of the challenge.
Yea, about that… Not really going to post a quote from a song, I’m going to share the most appropriate YouTube video of the song I like. Kiss my fanny! I may or may not give insight as to why I picked the song, I haven’t decided yet. I do however know I will not be nominating anyone to do this along with me, though others are more than welcome to join in the fun!
Now for my day 1 of the 5 day song challenge thingie. Rule breaking is awesome.
I was nominated, as always, by Suze to do something new. Again. This whacky woman loves to drag me into these nominating things, but she knows I refuse to nominate people because I don’t like bugging people, I think she just likes seeing me go off on a whacky tangent about unintelligible things. She seems to really immerse herself in my writing when I blather on about inanities during a nomination post! Either that or she likes all the flattery I write about her… Maybe I should stop. I haven’t decided yet.
Either way! Today is about 3 things! First off, this is my 1 year blogging anniversary! HIP HIP HOORAY!
Secondly, this is about a post from my first day of blogging and a little thing I’m currently working on!! Okay – rule time. I guess… >_> Darn silly Suze and her nominations always having rules.
Here are the Rules:
– No cheating. (It must be your first post. Not your second post, not one you love…first post only.)
– Link back to the person who tagged you (thank them if you feel like it or, if not, curse them with a plague of ladybugs). I curse Suze with a billion caterpillars… In cocoons !
– Cut and paste your old post into a new post or reblog your own bad self. (Either way is fine but NO editing.)
– Put the hashtag #MyFirstPostRevisited in your title.
– Tag…um…five (5) other bloggers to take up this challenge. Yea, I’m so not doing that, kiss my tuckas.
– Notify your tags in the comment section of their blog. Sure, I’ll do that in invisible ink.
– Feel free to cut and paste the badge to use in your post. There is a badge?! WHERE?! I LOVE BADGES!
– Include “the rules” in your post. Uhg I hate rules.
Well … Onto my first ever post. It was a bit of a doozy.
Something To Think About
I have been facing a dilemma for some time now, and I have yet to come up with a solution. I have a habit, you see, a very bad habit that seems to be common among a great portion of the world. Most people in their mid twenties to their mid thirties and the generation before that grew up with this bad habit, before there was ample research done to see just how bad it really is. Most who had wise parents who sought the information tried to stop their children from starting this bad habit before it became a life long grudgingly horrid constant in their lives, but growing up with it… Well that makes it hard, and when you grow up with friends that do it, it becomes appealing until you realize you too can’t seem to stop.
You see, I am a smoker. I have been trying to quit for a year almost. I’ve tried the cold turkey, I have tried patches and gums, I even managed once to quit. Sadly that was short lived and in vain, since at that time I was living with chainsmokers. It wasn’t long before I was back on the smoking bandwagon and feeling miserable all over again. The frustration of trying to quit something so addicting and the sensation of feeling so useless because every tactic doesn’t seem to work.. It can be very overwhelming for a person who just wants to be healthier and happier.
As the ongoing struggle continues, I keep reminding myself that one day I will be free of this habit. I will not give up on stopping, no matter how vain my attempts may be. I know that at the end of this long and dreadfully miserable journey, happiness and a healthier me is waiting.
So there is my original post, kind of disappointing and depressing and bleh. I have good news though! My husband and I decided this weekend, on the eve of our 5 year anniversary of being together, that we’re going to work together! Here’s the post I put on my blog Facebook page on March 12th, our 5th year anniversary.
Awesome, right? Full of hope and joy and excitement and frustration all at the same time! WOOHOO! I’ve only had 1 cigarette in the past 48 or so hours! So in celebration of not just 1 anniversary but 2 anniversaries, I want to make a shout out to all the people who read my blog and say thank you. Thank you for being here, thank you for reading my insane ramblings, and finally thank you for being you.
If anyone would like to take on this challenge, you can self-nominate like Suze did! Love you all!!!
I missed writing day 7 of Suze’s 7 Days Of Summer Challenge because I was at a funeral, but I’m making it up now! The 7th day of July’s prompt from her challenge is noting the end of summer, and what one looks forward to with the coming of fall. There’s a lot I look forward to, honestly!
Fall is when both my girls’ birthdays happen! My Marie Bean will be turning 3 this September, and my Celeste Bug is turning 2 this October. Celeste was born on the 18th and had an 11 day stint in the NICU, barely making it home before Halloween. However poor Marie got sick right as we were bringing Celeste home, which broke my heart because that meant no trick-or-treating. Marie’s birthday is literally the day before her daddies! If only she could have held off another 24 hours, then they’d share the same day together for the rest of forever.
One of the other things I look forward to every year when Autumn comes is the changing of the leaves. Especially during a particularly spectacular sunset, when the sun shines through the color changing leaves. It is literally one of the most amazing and beautiful things I think I’ve ever seen, when the leaves begin to turn colors and start falling to the ground. I’ve always wondered how people turn them into leaf wreaths, whenever I find these beautiful little leaves, they’re so brittle and incapable of turning into something artistically gorgeous.
Don’t even get me started on Halloween itself, oh my goodness. Halloween is one of my top two most favorite holidays of the year. It is the time of year when children dress up in adorable and or semi-frightening costumes, blood oozing or covered in bazillions of sparkles. We get princesses, ghouls, ghosts, vampires, lady bugs, lobsters, and so many more adorable childrens’ costumes. I had Marie dressed up in a ghost tutu for her first Halloween, and Celeste’s first Halloween, she had a lady bug tutu dress, fully trimmed with wings and a customized headband.
I look forward to many more beautiful birthdays, and oodles more amazing Halloween adventures with my girls.
Finally caught up to today’s post for Suze’s weird little 7 Days of Summer Challenge, it’s day 6 and today’s challenge is to create your own national holiday and describe how others would celebrate it.
National Rollerblade / Roller-skate day would be a day in which everyone used roller-blades or roller-skates to get around to their destination instead of cars, trucks, bikes, so on and so forth. Everyone would be fully geared with all the necessary knee and elbow pads, along with a helmet for their head for those who aren’t that terribly balanced. They could either have a standard set of roller-blades/roller-skates, or they could get ones with patterns they could color themselves to create their own unique designs.
Each resident of all participating countries would have police officers policing the streets to ensure that all the roller-bladers/roller-skaters are traveling safely and helping those who are having difficulty staying up on their own two feet. There would be designated areas approximately every few blocks where people could take a rest, drink some water, then get going again. Each rest stop would be equipped with a shelter for those who are adversely affected by the sun, and would be in front of a shop for which people could purchase a light snack for anyone who might have to keep their blood sugar level due to the excessive exercise.
Suze’s day 5 of her 7 Days of Summer Challenge is supposed to either be about 5 things you would pick up at a beach or alternatively, a summer activity you enjoy the most and why. Since I wouldn’t be caught dead on a beach, because it requires being out in the blazing sun and being surrounded by more than I could handle in naked people… Not to mention about two boatloads of sunscreen to keep myself from burning and disappearing in the wind like a vampire who sees their first sunset… I think I’ll write about one of my most favorite activities that I enjoy doing during the summer time.
I absolutely love to take walks to little nature areas like nature reserve parks and rock quarries, or even graveyards since it is my favorite place in the world to go to begin with. Usually I find a nice cozy little shaded spot and curl up with a good book, be it a physical book or an eBook, and just read. I’ve not been able to do that for some time, but it was always my favorite thing to do ever. Now, as I’ve grown older and started having my own family, I take whatever chance I get to read and truly immerse myself in the fantasy of worlds unknown. Either that or write my own little weird slice of paradise.
I get my best clarity when I’m alone by myself, with little to no distractions. So I don’t really get a whole lot of time for writing or reading since the kids are always all over me or getting into stuff they really shouldn’t be. Personally I prefer when they’re all over mommy, because that’s when the most fun begins.
Today I am playing catch-up on Suze’s 7 Days Of Summer Challenge. Day 4 of her challenge was supposed to be about what Independence means to me.
The idea of Independence Day is the thing that all who come to America seek. Freedom. Freedom from fear, freedom from oppression, freedom to be who you so wish to be. There is always a price to be paid for ones freedoms though. Often times freedom for the masses comes at the cost of the lives of others. We struggle to balance freedom and payment for freedom, and worse still, we struggle with the very ideology of “Freedom for All”. We the people of the American United States cannot all be held accountable for our countries dreadful actions and or decisions, but what we can do is remove those who do not speak for the people.
Our government ought to be held accountable for their failure to listen to the constituents that put them in office. It is obvious that our government has forgotten log ago what the true meaning of the Declaration of Independence is about, along with the American Constitution. We were once an independent nation whose ability to communicate, debate, and come to a resolution was what let to America’s fruition. Now, we have forgotten what Independence is, what our Constitution stands for, we no longer know what true freedom is like.
Sunken Thought 