Happy 5th Birthday, llj!

I started LLJ back in 2005 after a terrible month of May where a confidant wrote a good riddance letter and I was left sorely lacking in the conversation department. This confidant gave me a place to vocalize all the words that had been trapped for so long. I am a girl even if a bit on the quiet side and girls need to get their word allotment in or they become a not so nice word. One of the things the confidant had put out there was something about doing a blog together. I had begun the research and without his two cents anymore, I begun to pour my heart out here.

LLJ allowed me to vocalize and I found myself more peaceful. LLJ lets me speak and doesn't shut me up. Typing and seeing my words form on a white space gives my brain the allowance to think. It still amazes me that I might start with a very small speck of thought and then as my fingers do the writing dance, my brain begins to form strong thoughts, questions, and confidences.

I had hoped that I my writing would find friendly ears. I had thought this would be a great way to make strong connections and find fellow deep thinkers. I had also thought this would help me gauge my writing and thinking skills but no bites. So I keep training...

I started an addition in the past six months where I couldn't get enough of the Amigurumi world. From this I have grown the blogs I read. I love to listen to other women whether it be about their life, their home, or their craft. Reading blogs, crocheting, and my day job have sorely bit into my writing time. But I am a listener at heart and I find blogs a way to 'make friends' without them ever knowing and without the rejection or I have no time for you or your single and I am married jargon! Lame, I know but it is honest. All those barriers are gone in the blog world. Rock on wall flower girl!

So here is to the 5th year of the joys of writing and listening. May the this Mysterious Adventure I call my life-walk with Jesus Christ be fuller and richer with each new day.

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Why twitter?

1. Being a writer want-to-be, I thought this would be a good challenge for me. You have 149 spaces to write an answer to "What are you doing?" I have decided to really stay focused and make sure that every answer is an action and not a state of being. Sure if I have space, I will hopefully add interesting tidbits, too. I aim to make my replies to others an action too. When you read the tweets of others, there is often replies that leave you out of the loop. It is suppose to be a rolling conversation. I want my experience to be inclusive enough to allow anyone to jump in and tweet at any time.

2. I have noticed that phone calls from friends often include the question "What are you doing?" I have to admit that question has annoyed me in the past! The obvious answer is that I am sitting here with phone in hand talking to you! The underlying answer is that what I may be doing in my life seem uninteresting enough to share with you. So why twitter to this question if it annoys me? Now, that is a question! Hmmm, I feel that what we do with our lives is important even the mundane stuff. It is intertwined with our being valuable and with a purpose. So, this answering the question of what I am doing is allowing me to stop and pay attention to the moment and make sure I am living beautifully and doing beautifully with thought.

3. I read somewhere that Twitter is about having a conversation and it is a conversation with everyone all over the world. I am conversation deprived. When alone for long periods of time and the walls begin to lack luster, conversation wants to be heard by another human being. I am hoping to send my actions and thoughts out into the wide abiss and see if I get any message in the bottle back. Just maybe I will strike up a webbie friend or two or more. And just maybe a webbie friend or two will become a more sustain and substantial conversation. Good and rich for both.

*topping* - I can tweet anytime with email. It is nice when I cannot be 'online'!

*You can see my tweets on the side column ->