I have crossed over...

To the dark side of blogging.... Dear me! What on earth have I done?... Oh yeah, I found a platform where I can be annonymous and still discuss the trials and tribulations of daily life!

This first post will be the generics. Afterall, if anyone out there is planning on reading my posts, one must know something about me right? right?.... RIGHT?

I live in the cold state of Minnesota where Fall has decided to decend upon us with a vengence. I shiver as I type this just thinking about what the wind chill did to the temperatures yestrday and today... I wore my winter coat... yes... I'm serious... It's cold...

On the off chance that someone i know may randomly read this blog, I hope to keep it annonymous... therefore, No Real Names Shall Be Used. You may refer to me as ladybyrd... and no, I actually hate birds. : ) I have a Little Gentleman who is three years old and very much turning into a little gentleman.

I also have two cats - Thing One and Thing Two (also not their real names). I enjoy sitting on the computer after The Little Gentleman has gone to sleep and watch a movie while playing the computer and having my cats fight over who gets to sit where on my lap. They will try and outsmart one another, each switching spots with the other so that they are closer to my face. They have sat on top of one another in order to get sitting rights. Ah.... They make me giggle.

I can guarantee that these three entities who dominate my time, energy and love will be mentioned often and often enough within this blog.

Something else you should know... I'm a gemini... in the truest of the sense... I continuously have "the twins" battling with eachother and I HATE making decisions! Plus, my opinions are always changing due to incoming information adn which twin (the reasonable, and not reasonable) twin are deciding which one holds precidence... Does that make sense? Good, cuz I can't figure out a better way to explain it.

I have been told that I am so low maintenance that I'm high maintenance. Really? Is that possible? I enjoy being low maintenance... I spent minutes vs hours getting ready to go out. My hair has been curled so few times that it can't hold a curl no matter how much hair spray is put into my hair. The last make up I wore (other than putting it on here and there and then washing it off right away - same with the hair, I start curling it and it ends up in a pony tail) was when I in my one and only wedding as a bridesmaid. THAT was fun. I had recently lost 70 lbs and got to wear my first real formal dress and have my hair and make up done. I felt like a princess and lost count of the number of jaws that dropped when people saw me. GREAT ego boost. Anyway. My point is that I'm not the traditional girl who cares only about looks and clothes. I wear what is comfortable and affordable. I would rather go to Perkins to eat than a restaurant of $100/plate. Where is the high maintenance? I blame it on the twins. I love and hate being Gemini all at the same time.

Speaking of The Twins, I find it a coincidence that my favorite Twins player has the same last initial as me and also has a birthday one or two days before mine, although I was born the year prior. He also has a small son, but i don't know how old the son is. And no, Mauer is not my favorite player.

I am very hippy, very old old school traditional (I would go back to horse and buggy if I could!) and very femanist at the same time. I would give my left nut to live on a commune, with a dozen or more children running around, and all the girls knowing they are empowered to become whatever they desire no matter what! : ) I hold Michelle Duggar in great awe, often get into arguments about whether 19 children is too many... To that I always respond with #1 - who are we to say how many children any couple can have. #2 A woman in Minnesota had more children than that (I'll get the article some time and share) and #3 How remarkable of the family that not only do they have 18 children currently, but they have 18 well rounded and generous children who are healthy and intelligent, the family has no debt and they live in a house that they built themselves that took over two years. There are no children in that family who are special needs and all of them are lucky to have not one or two but 17 (soon 18) siblings to share their love with. Am I jealous? Hell yes!

.... I could continue... There's much more floating around in my head that will get posted some day... but for now, I figure I've given you enough fat to chew. Besides, I just put in the movie Emma and would like to dedicate my attention there.

Peace and Love and thanks if you've read this far!