A Barrel of Nelsons

Ok, so I’m absolutely jumping on a band wagon.
First start here with kim.kim’s post.
Now check out N at Paragraphein, Anne, and Kateri.
While I’m not sure that this particular picture measures up, it’s one of my favorites. (My absolute current favorite would be this one, but you’ve already seen it.)

Dawn is one of my newer reads. But I got hit by a ton of emotion reading two of her recent posts (I’m only somewhere near a week or two late commenting on them…)
They were about adoption and being at the hospital.
There’s a thread on the forums about hospital experiences too.
Where do I begin with [...]

Feb 26th
Dear the Me Of a Year Ago,
Ok, I know you’re scared and pukey right now sweetie, but you need to listen.
Go out and buy a pregnancy test. It’s going to turn out positive. I know you’re scared, but there’s a wonderful little person inside of you that you need to do this for. Then [...]

Let me tell you about my friend Joe… Joe is Irish-Italian-Polish-American, which makes him rather loud and opinionated. Or maybe he’s just loud and opinionated normally and it gives him lots of excuses. He’s lived in Texas and Chicago and I still don’t understand how he ended up in Columbus. He’s Republican and Catholic. He [...]

So we took a trip down to Carmel last night. Russ, Brynn and Gary were down for the weekend, and we dropped in for dinner. Might I comment that since I’ve hooked myself onto the Nelson clan, I had quite a few good meals. And I’ve frequented restaurants I’ve never heard of before. Last night’s [...]

So I’m (finally) working on updating my blogroll. It’s pretty pitiful, ain’t it?
Anyone have suggestions on people I should be reading?
That’s how this thing is formed, most of my blogroll is people I read 5 days out of 10. Note that I don’t have very stringent criteria. Obviously there are some I frequent more [...]

So, you might have noticed that I missed Love Thursday yesterday.
Yeah. Not. A. Good. Day.
I’ve been having alot of those lately. And for various reasons, some being my personal neurosises and some being some ugly facts of circumstance, my typical vents and “safe” places don’t feel like viable options.
Sometimes I feel like I’m dangling [...]

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Well, after that last post I’m in the mood for some lighter fair… with pictures.
It’s the Year of the Pig… actually I’ve heard it’s the Year of the Golden Pig. You know I was born in the Year of the Pig (the 1983 version). Maybe my luck with take an up-swing. We’ll see.
Anyways, to celebrate [...]

I just haven’t felt good about my writing lately… I’ve got 4 unpublished posts (of varying ages) that just make me go “Bleah!” I’m stumbling over what to right, self censoring in some cases because I’ve been wobbling in and out of some ugly depression/anger/guilt thingies over the past week or more.
Then there’s the [...]