Tricia

Happy New Year to me!! I also have 5 4 GMail invites hanging around. Just leave a comment if you need one. Be sure to leave a valid name and e-mail address.

So in my neck of the woods there are less than 2 hours left of 2004. It’s certainly been an interesting year, filled with lots of good things, such as getting my certificate in Computer Graphic Design with a straight 4.0 average all the way through and acquiring housing after being in a domestic violence homeless shelter for almost 2 1/2 years.
I also allowed myself to let go of my childhood view of my mother and start to be able to see her for the selfishly manipulative person that she is right now, and be okay with that and love her anyway, even if I cannot be close to her.
Not a bad year overall for personal growth, either. At least, I thought so until a few months ago.
How about New Year’s resolutions? Are you making any? Do you usually? Do you stick to them? I think this year I might skip the resolution thing. Or maybe just resolve to be a total bitch to everyone I see all year long, then when I try and fail miserably I might actually still feel good about it. :bigrin:
How is everyone’s New Year’s Eve turning out? It’s quiet here, the kids are watching Ghost In The Shell and looking like they may not make it to midnight, and this is yet another year for me that I have only the kids to spend New Year’s with. Not that they aren’t great. Just…adult company would be nice right about now. Adult company that doesn’t leave me feeling hollow and empty and filled with despair when it walks out the door.
(the rest is slightly depressing self-reflective stuff)

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The other night I watched Tank Girl for like the thousandth time. I swear, that movie has to be one of the most gloriously campy B movies of all time. But I love it. Lori Petty is ingenious. I get to hear one of my favorite Portishead songs. I get Read more…

I was having a strange issue with my recent comments script (among a few other things) since upgrading to MT 1.4. It was quite annoying, but thanks to Mandi, first for telling me that said problem was messing up my entire template, then for allowing me to pick at her Read more…

I won 50 MORE credits from BE, then not 2 clicks later, won 25, and then 2 clicks later won another 2! Is someone trying to tell me to stop surfing so much and get a life?? :crazy:

Umm…I apologize if this post horrifies anyone, but it would NOT leave my mind until it came out. 😆

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OK, OK, everyone else is blogging about BE, so why not me? (Ohhhh, I am being a follower..be still, my tainted heart.) Plus, I just won 50 credits, so I am feeling better about BE than I have previously. I know I am not the most prolific or witty or Read more…

It appears I am currently in the middle of a major comment spam attack. I deleted well over 100 of them this morning, with more coming. So, temporarily, I have had to suspend all comments except for those from registered TypeKey users. I hope to reopen the comments to unregistered Read more…

I have noticed a new and interesting thing that DJ does. Anytime there is something open in the house, whether it is a kitchen cabinet, a closet door, or even a drawer, he goes CRAZY. I’m not talking about just telling me the thing is open. I’m saying that as Read more…

So this is our little tree. There is a nice story behind this tree. Two years ago I had already been in the DV shelter for 6 months and was feeling pretty down. One of the things I had had to leave behind was my old tree and all of Read more…