Easy E !!

Hello strangers. I always seem to have some dumb excuse for not blogging like I should. I hate to keep saying it's because I am busy but it's true. As if I didn't have enough to keep me busy, I have signed up to do a craft show in Hartselle on July 18th. I will be selling my rings, pendants and some cute hair clips I have been doing. I hope everyone can come and check out my booth. Kelly will be there too with her great painted stuff. Now, on the the marvelous letter E.

Ebay - what can I say, I have been an ebay addict since about 2001. I have bought and sold stuff on there forever. There is absolutely nothing that can't be found on there. Not to mention
that it is usually cheaper than anywhere else. Love it love it. If you have never shopped on there beware though, it will become addictive.

Etsy - This is a fabulous little website I discovered about a year or so ago. It is packed with all
sorts of handmade item and supplies. It has some beautiful stuff on it. I think the last several baby and wedding gifts I have gotten have been off there. It is great for special personalized items. I even have my little shop on there. Please if you never have, stop by and check it out. Here is the link http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5650129 Stop by and support all us crafty folks out there

Eiffel Tower - I adore anything and everything with the Eiffel Tower on it. All my friends keep
their eyes open and have gotten me some wonderful things over the years. I really started my obsession after visiting Paris in 2001. Being at the top of the Eiffel Tower is the coolest thing EVER !!! Of course, if you ask my friend Cindy, she will tell you that I loved it so much because I was high on a jelly doughnut, lol I had a spell with my blood sugar so we stopped and ate at this beautiful little park right underneath the Tower. I had a French version of a hot dog and a raspberry jelly doughnut. It was the BOMB !! OK, so Cindy has been convinced that I got high off the sugar in the doughnut and was acting a fool. I prefer to think of it as being giddy with the moment, LOL LOL. So this became my favorite place in Paris so I have been collecting things ever since. I don't really have room to put out all my goodies now, they are in storage. Someday, I will have a house to display it all again.

England -- I have been totally obsessed with British history for years, ever since middle school.I read Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and The Wives of Henry VIII and I was hooked I honestly prefer it to American History most of the time. I have always dreamed of getting my PhD in history and my concentration would be the Tudor period, with Henry VIII and ElizabethI. I have been to London and I was in heaven. The Tower of London was too cool. I would have got to see Queen Elizabeth's grave but some grouchy monks in Westminister Abbey ran us out !!!! If you check out my bookcase at home right now, 75% of the books have something to do with either England with a few about France. Maybe this is why I love Harry Potter so much. I am just a sucker for a British accent, lol.

Edward Cullen - Ok so I have to give a shout out to the most wonderful romantic fictional character EVER. The only other one to come close would be Noah Calhoun. It also doesn't hurt that his real life alter ego, Robert Pattison, is beyond dreamy. Just another reason to heart a British accent. Too bad he couldn't keep it for the movies.

This is my E entry for today. I hope everyone enjoys it. I hope to blog again this week. Keep your fingers crossed for me. Oh, one more little soap box moment before I go. Yes, I know he was weird. No, I don't think he was a pedophile, I think he was a sad lonely mentally ill man. But I cried Thursday when Michael Jackson died. I LOVED his music. Always have, always will. Would I have invited him to dinner or asked him to watch my kids, lord no. What I don't have a lot of tolerance for is people who just want to spew hate and venom at the dead. Let him have his moment of memorial because he was a great artist. Then let the dead rest in peace. Now, I really am finished for the day :) Hope everyone has a great week. I look foward to seeing my girls on Friday night for a big birthday palooza !!!

Back to the Alphabet Soup

Sorry folks, long time no blog. I have wanted to but I have felt like I should include a new alphabet blog first and I have come to realize D is not one of my favorite letters. It has me sorta stumped. Anyway, here goes my meditations on the letter D.

Dolls - I really don't care for dolls. When I was a little girl, I wasn't much of a baby doll girl. I had one named Joy who was totally bald. I never really wanted those that would cry and poop or whatever. Of course I adored my Barbies, but I think that is more about fashion. Now, dolls really creep me out. Especially the ones in antique stores, with the eyes that roll around in their heads. Serious nightmare material. Plus, they always seem to be "looking" at you. Nope, I will never be one of those little old ladies with 100 china dolls piled on the bed in my guest room, LOL.

DHS - Good ol' Danville High School, my illustrious alma mater. What is there to say? Did I get a good education? Well, in English and history most definitely. Mr. Walker and Mrs. Fleming were awesome. Other subjects, not so much. Overall, I HATED high school. I was a very unhappy lonely little person. I didn't feel like I had anything in common with anyone and didn't fit in anywhere. The people who know me now would have never recognized that shy girl. I didn't come of my shell so to speak until I was in college. I have reconnected with a few of the people I went to school with on Facebook, but by and large I never see anyone and I like it that way. It is too painful for me. It brings up too many bad memories. I really don't want to remember the girl I was then. I buried her a long time ago.

Depression - This is a topic I am very passionate about. I have suffered from moderate to severe depression ever since I hit puberty. That is one reason high school was so hard for me. I had all the normal teenage drama going on plus my crazy mind to boot. This was way before there were things like Zoloft or Prozac and no one really acknowledged that young people could suffer to. I am not ashamed to say I have been on medication for years. It has been a god send for me. It was like I spent my teenage years walking around in a foggy bubble. It blocked everything I saw, felt and experienced. The medicine helps to lift that fog. I don't really talk about it all that much. I am not the type to take my "bad days" out on others. Most people will never know when I am having a bad "spell". I tend to keep too much of it bottled in, which makes things worse. My hope in writing this is that anyone else who might be suffering might think about getting some help. I am not ashamed and neither should you be. Depression is not a choice. It is not just "feeling sorry for yourself". I can't imagine that I or anyone else would suffer by choice. A good attitude helps, but only so much. It helps to find someone to talk to that understands. There is always hope and light at the end of the tunnel. I am living proof of that :)

Well that is my entry for the lovely letter D. I promise I won't wait so long again before I blog. I have lots I would like to talk about. Hope everyone has a super week !!!