Happy Notes on This and That
I was thinking of starting a new LiveJournal and retiring this one... may be on Sunday. And getting a new E-mail to match. ("Skye-lark" gets very old, at least after a few years).
However, I decided that it would be far, far too much trouble to go to... at least right now. Switching all my friends over and so forth.
I ♥ Facebook. I have been adding applications the past few days and it really is the one essential on-line presence... all of your favorite music, movies, photos, books, friends, and personal information all in one place! And I'm all for such organization. I just wish all of my friends had one!
I am quite happy today. I took a shower and washed my hair this morning, which always feels good. :) My reports in school this morning were, all but one, less than 1 minute long, and the next ten are the same!
Things are most definitely settling back into place after being topsy-turvily overthrown for a while there.
We now have a date and a destination for moving to Pennsylvania, which are both good things to have. The date is July 17th, exactly one month before I turn 19. The destinaton is a rural townhouse (ignore the contradiction! :-) in Watsontown. I am looking forward to a real house, my own room, and coming up here every summer.
As for the family matters, things are more or less the same as they were before everything happened. The case has been closed. There are things that are different, though; most of all that I have changed. I really learned during all of that what I thought I already knew. I must follow what I believe and not pretend. I can't waver back and forth. But I must also feel good from the inside out about what I believe, have confidence, and let it be apparent to every single person in my life that in spite of any differences, I love and appreciate them and want to share. I have learned that I will be misunderstood sometimes through my lifetime and that it can't be helped, but that things will always work out one way or another, and I have learned to accept that. Basically this event seemed to actually clear the air, even if not bonding us all together, and I am enjoying the clearness. We know where we and the other person stands. And I will continue to stand where I am, while loving others, until others do not want me at all, if indeed the day ever comes; and then, still, I suppose I will have to love from a distance.
I am very happy with Yahoo! Mail. They have gotten rid of storage limits! They really do get better and better. I haven't used any other web-based E-mail, and now I probably never will.
I made a new signature for the end of my E-mails, and me thinks it is very pretty:
I have to run... I've been on the computer just a bit too much the past few days. But you know... I'm considering again the new LJ/E-mail idea. :D After all, I feel as though I'm on the verge of starting an entirely new life.
It's time for flitterin',
Dustin' off the trunk and flitterin' far,
Where the grass is greener
Now and then comes a time again
For flitterin'.
It's time for packin' up,
Dustin' off our trunks and bric-a-brac for
Some new destination
Don't know where, but we're goin' there,
We're flitterin' again.
New places, new faces,
New friendships will start
While old places, old faces
Stay dear to our heart
As we go flitterin'
Followin' a rainbow glitterin' bright
Over the horizon
May be then and may be there
We'll settle down and never care
For flitterin', flitterin', flitterin'...again."
Really, though, I feel as though I'll have a home in two places, which I will. My homestate of Pennsylvania and my adopted home of Maine. (Not to mention visiting Daddy in California every winter! ;)
However, I decided that it would be far, far too much trouble to go to... at least right now. Switching all my friends over and so forth.
I ♥ Facebook. I have been adding applications the past few days and it really is the one essential on-line presence... all of your favorite music, movies, photos, books, friends, and personal information all in one place! And I'm all for such organization. I just wish all of my friends had one!
I am quite happy today. I took a shower and washed my hair this morning, which always feels good. :) My reports in school this morning were, all but one, less than 1 minute long, and the next ten are the same!
Things are most definitely settling back into place after being topsy-turvily overthrown for a while there.
We now have a date and a destination for moving to Pennsylvania, which are both good things to have. The date is July 17th, exactly one month before I turn 19. The destinaton is a rural townhouse (ignore the contradiction! :-) in Watsontown. I am looking forward to a real house, my own room, and coming up here every summer.
As for the family matters, things are more or less the same as they were before everything happened. The case has been closed. There are things that are different, though; most of all that I have changed. I really learned during all of that what I thought I already knew. I must follow what I believe and not pretend. I can't waver back and forth. But I must also feel good from the inside out about what I believe, have confidence, and let it be apparent to every single person in my life that in spite of any differences, I love and appreciate them and want to share. I have learned that I will be misunderstood sometimes through my lifetime and that it can't be helped, but that things will always work out one way or another, and I have learned to accept that. Basically this event seemed to actually clear the air, even if not bonding us all together, and I am enjoying the clearness. We know where we and the other person stands. And I will continue to stand where I am, while loving others, until others do not want me at all, if indeed the day ever comes; and then, still, I suppose I will have to love from a distance.
I am very happy with Yahoo! Mail. They have gotten rid of storage limits! They really do get better and better. I haven't used any other web-based E-mail, and now I probably never will.
I made a new signature for the end of my E-mails, and me thinks it is very pretty:
I have to run... I've been on the computer just a bit too much the past few days. But you know... I'm considering again the new LJ/E-mail idea. :D After all, I feel as though I'm on the verge of starting an entirely new life.
It's time for flitterin',
Dustin' off the trunk and flitterin' far,
Where the grass is greener
Now and then comes a time again
For flitterin'.
It's time for packin' up,
Dustin' off our trunks and bric-a-brac for
Some new destination
Don't know where, but we're goin' there,
We're flitterin' again.
New places, new faces,
New friendships will start
While old places, old faces
Stay dear to our heart
As we go flitterin'
Followin' a rainbow glitterin' bright
Over the horizon
May be then and may be there
We'll settle down and never care
For flitterin', flitterin', flitterin'...again."
Really, though, I feel as though I'll have a home in two places, which I will. My homestate of Pennsylvania and my adopted home of Maine. (Not to mention visiting Daddy in California every winter! ;)