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Last Night

Last night was among one of the crazier things I’ve done in my life and, to be honest, it wasn’t that crazy for a lot of people. It was for me, though.

I was a little sad, somewhat annoyed, exhausted and a whole lot of angry. So I did the adult thing, downed an entire bottle of alcohol and posted all my angry, man-hating thoughts for the world to see on Facebook/Twitter.

This is not an apology.

I mean, it was annoying, I can give you that. But I am not sorry. I needed a night to not care. I needed some time to refrain from being the responsible adult. I needed to express anger and I needed to let myself feel sadness and I needed to let it all out — which I pretty much never do.

Luckily, I did so in a pretty entertaining way and no one seems upset with me. In fact, the general consensus is pretty much that I would be a hoot to drink with when, you know, I wasn’t full of angry hate. I think anyone who knows me even moderately understands that I am not that person. I have tried so very hard to be responsible, mindful, positive and strong in the past couple years. I’ve made great strides but sometimes I needed a reminder that I don’t have to be those things all the time.

Last night, I found support from some awesome people, who I would expect to be there, and some awesome people who surprised me by being there. They all surprised me by telling me it was okay for me to feel and act the way I felt and acted because they understood.

I also knew that I would sleep on it and feel better in the morning. Which I did, more or less. Some of the things that set me off didn’t matter in the morning light and some of them are going to make me feel a little blue for a while but none of them are the end of the world or even any worse than anything I’ve had to handle before. And I guess that makes me feel pretty good. Maybe I just needed to check out for a little bit but I’m awesome enough to know how far out I can go and able to reel it back in when I need to.

What happened last night won’t be a regular occurrence, thankfully, but last night needed to happen.

Too much blogging?

I read a community type blog that has been putting out something like 5 entries a day. It’s entirely too overwhelming, difficult to keep up with and generally has become work to read. I try not to post more than one entry a day as that seems like a good amount to work with. It’s enough to keep it interesting but not so much that it swamps the visitor. Plus, after a while, you don’t have anything worthwhile to say so you just wind up posting a bunch of entries that aren’t reallly blog-worthy. I have Twitter for that kinda stuff.

Do you think you can blog too much? What is your limit?

Ode to Twitter

Oh Twitter, how I love thee
if at first I was not sure
it was because I did not know
exactly what you were

Dear twitter now that I know
I will never wonder
how are my blogging friends
or my pals from down under

The beauty of twitter, you see
is having the easiest way way
for those who mean the most to me
to keep me up to date

Now when I see new tweets
I think it’s pretty sweet
Because my friends can easily say
what they’re doing right now, today

Twitter, my friend I hope you forget
and forgive the sin I did commit
Without you, my mind would be stewing
not knowing “What are you doing?”