As if I didn’t have enough going on with CafePress, Squidoo, Facebook and Twitter …
Soon, I’m sure I’ll learn why I need all these.
More likely, I’ll neglect them like Myspace and YouTube.
…
Okay, enough fooling around.
I’m uploading new designs to CafePress because that seems to be *THE* dependable ROI for my time.
As soon as I’m done playing some random Facebook app …
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(another myspace bulletin — I write under stress *g*)
I don’t remember exactly when it happened, but at some point in the last few years, I changed from the person who always tried to be someone that my dad would be proud of, to trying to be the kind of person I hope my children will turn out to be.
My dad’s been gone since ‘92 but we still “talk” and I check in to make sure I’m on the right track. I know as recently as last summer I was still calling in favors, asking if he could put a good word in for me and chase off the rain at least long enough for my outdoor wedding.
Now that the kids are starting to turn into real people, I realize that the last place they will admit to looking for guidance on how to find their place in the world is their parents, but they are watching me all the same. Life as we know it has changed much in the past four months, and I can’t just be the “silly” one anymore; I have to be the silly one AND the serious one. I have to be the firm one AND the flexible one. Oh Em Gee — I have to set a good example.
I’m doing the best I can. As I told them, I can’t guarantee that I won’t make wrong choices, that seem good at the time. Only that I will learn from it, and always make the choice that is not necessarily the easy one or the popular one, but the choice that seems to be in their best interests.
Recently, on a message board aimed at parenting difficult children, there was a post about what we like best about our challenging kids. There was no lack of praise for even the most defiant, stubborn and impulsive child among them.
My children (all of them) are the best and most important thing I will ever be responsible for having a role in creating, raising and advising, loving and setting free. If you think about it, why else are we even here? We cannot live forever — we raise the next generation and move on. We are shaping the future of the world, one life at a time.
One day, I hope my child looks back and realizes that they have tried to live a life I would be proud of. One day, I hope they try to be the people that they want their children to become. Only then, will I feel like I have fulfilled my place in this world.
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A recent bulletin to my 3 hunnert and some myspace frens:
1. A bloodspattered emo myspace profile does NOT make you edgy or angsty. To anyone who has lived more than 19 years on this planet, it makes you look silly, at best. Getting “attention” is great. Being taken SERIOUSLY is way better. Saying f*ck every third line doesn’t make you more intense. Being articulate and confident makes you worth listening to. Bleeding is not a marketable talent. Get a useful hobby.
2. I don’t care if you’re bi. I’m happy for you. But do NOT tell me you’re bi, but you’re not gay. If you’re bi, you’re gay, but simply less discriminating. If you sleep around, you’re a slut, whether you’re into chicks, dudes or sheep. Sluts are bad. Love is good. If you love a duck and the duck loves you, I’m happy for you both. I don’t want to see pictures of you loving the duck any more than I want to see pictures of my parents making me. *gak*
3. You’re whiter than Marilyn Manson. You’re not from the hood, you’re not even from a big city. Someone in your family probably owns cattle. Stop trying to act gangsta. Violence isn’t sexy. Calling women bitches and hoes is not bad ass. Getting a proper education and being successful is the shit. I highly recommend it. Unless you plan on bagging my groceries, go to college. Pay for it yourself instead of drinking away your parents’ dreams.
4. Um, 13 year old girls are not “sexxiii” … people who think that are called pedophiles, and get ass-raped daily in prison. Yes, we are aware you have hormones. You also have control, like when you use a fork or a spoon to eat dinner rather than ripping at raw meat with your hands. You should not be having sex if you’re too young to VOTE “pro-life” or “pro-choice.” I’ve got MANY friends with their own living proof that “birth control” is a sorry joke.
5. When your parents were your age, they may not have had MP3 players and internet porn and meth labs, but they dealt with being teased, not fitting in, being too short or too tall, too fat or too thin, not rich enough, not pretty enough, not athletic enough, and every other asinine high school piece of bullshit that you guys deal with — and survived. They didn’t wear the right clothes, their parents didn’t drive the right cars. And they probably don’t know the names of any of the jerks that messed with them, but still talk to the same FRIENDS who accepted them the way they were.
Teenagers really aren’t that scary after all. The thought of them making the same mistakes as you did — or worse — now, that’s frightening. Knowing that they think you’re mean and strict and full of shit and don’t know anything, because you try to help, that’s frustrating. The knowledge that you can’t keep them from learning things the hard way, that’s just heartbreaking.
To all my teen “friends” with love …
from the mom officially dubbed “Oh Mighty Evil One” …
(an honor I cherish, because I care about what my kids are doing, where, and with whom, and I always will, and sometimes they’ll hate me for it, and some day they’ll understand)
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I sent this bulletin out to my many friends on MySpace this past Monday morning:
Jackson County is charging the taxpayers $22,000 a month to care for 68 horses they seized from Turn 3 Ranch in Grass Lake in March. Most were healthy at the time of seizure, according to the prosecution’s expert witness testimony.
After reports of horses that Jackson County Animal Control ran through a livestock auction last month that were skinny, parasite infested and lacking basic hoof care, I went to the auction this weekend myself … and found the reports to be true. While this batch of horses seemed to be fed adequately, their hooves were very overgrown and they had the tell-tale signs of intestinal worms. (These are easily managed with a $3 tube of deworming paste.)
Where is the money going that Jackson County demands for the “care” of these horses, that they are now selling for as little as $100 a head to any buyer with cash? Just read the Jackson Citizen Patriot … they’re replacing their condemned, filthy and disease-ridden Animal Shelter. On the very backs of horses unjustly taken from their rightful owners, who have yet to go to court on the charges made against them (3 of their 69 horses in poor condition) and without due process. No warnings were issued. No attempt was made to investigate the reason for these three horses to be so thin… instead JCAC rolled in and took over the farm, animals, vehicles, personal property, whatever they could get their hands on. They found a horse-ignorant judge, who believes among other ridiculous notions that you must not care about your animals if you buy used tack.
Visit the forums at GLHorseTruth.com yourselves. Every animal owner should be angry. Innocent until proven guilty is not the modus operandi for Jackson County. People who have dared to speak out have been harrassed, surprise inspections have been done on their farms and records. Letters to Jackson County officials have been answered with threats. And the nation is watching the outcome of this case.
To help spread the word via social networking, please add GLHorseTruth.com to your MySpace friends list.
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There has been a lot, an awful lot, of stuff going on lately, but nothing I could share outside of my very closest friends and family on my private myspace account.
And that other means of conversation which requires face to face contact and spoken words.
But then people want to /hug/ and I don’t care too much for touching and {cooties} and sterf.
One person brought cookies, and that was pretty okay.
When I be gooder I writes more, khey?
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I’m not sure why, as Myspace doesn’t often answer questions from one of its millions, but my “freelief” myspace was deleted yesterday, along with all of my blog entries there, and 280 loyal fans and friends I’ve never met.
I was able to reconstruct the bulk of it by finding Google’s cache of my page and copying the CSS code from it.
It’s not that big of a deal, I don’t see a ton of CafePress hits coming from myspace … I’m still doing better with Google and the marketplace.
If you were one of my 280 friends, or a brand new one, add me!
http://www.myspace.com/freelief
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