December 2011
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Forgiveness: An Ending to 2011
With New Years Eve celebrations upon us, and this being my 100th post, I’ve decided to end the year by talking about forgiveness. The world itself means “the act or process of forgiving, or being forgiven.” But it’s not just a word, it’s a feeling. When you forgive someone who has wronged you, or are forgiven by someone you have wronged, you feel an overwhelming sense...
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Christmas 2011
I haven’t written anything major in a while, and with my 100th post coming up (this is number 99) I decided to write about my holiday before I hit you with something major that I’m concocting in my brain.
If you’re following me at all on Twitter, then you probably saw some tweets labeled #kittychristmas2011. But that was only about 1/4th of my Christmas celebration.
Saturday...
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Day 15 -- A Song That Describes You
I’m on the verge of being 24 and I have already been through so much. More than I let on and a lot of it still effects me to this day, whether it be predominant in my current life or not. I don’t know if I could sum it up in a blog post. Maybe a series.
I have mentioned before that I struggle with social situations and relationships, and that I have suffered from anxiety and...
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Day 14 -- A Song That No One Would Expect You To...
If you’ve been keeping up, then you know that many of my posts have been about my accident, my recovery, and my personal struggles. If you don’t know that, then take a moment to go read this first post and then come back.
Music has been a very big part of my life for as far back as I can remember. I’ve always related songs, lyrics, artists to a particular person, experience, or...
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Serendipitous Moments
You ever have a really coincidental moment with another person? Such as you first meet them and you find out you attended the same school, or you knew one of their relatives long ago, or you share something with them. I’m talking like a really uncanny moment where you just thought, “Wow, that’s such a major coincidence.”
I had one of those moments today.
I went to church...
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The Internet Has Real People
I’ll be the first to admit that most of my friendships begin on the Internet. I do have friends in the ‘real world’ but I hold my internet friendships in high regards. Very rarely do these Internet friendships manifest themselves in person, but when they do, I cherish them because this person knows me on a different level than my ‘real world’ friends. So when Internet...
Day 13 -- A Song That is Your Guilty Pleasure
I am 23 years old and I still watch cartoons, I love juice boxes, I sleep with a teddy bear [most nights], and I love teenybopper music. In fact, I love just about all the music that a 23 year old shouldn’t really love. There’s probably like a secret society of women where it’s acceptable to listen to such music, but if it exists, I don’t know about it.
I first discovered...
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Hi, My Name is...
I’ve really kept my identity secret on this blog. Mainly because I didn’t want anyone to find it by Googling my name or anything. The other reason for my anonymity was because I wanted people to associate my life and struggles and stories and wit with any Jane/John Doe. I’m now comfortable in my blogging suit to tell you the story of how I got my name.
The year was 1987 and my...
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Day 12 -- A Song From A Band You Hate
(Note: I don’t “hate” any bands, but there are bands I refuse to listen to or rarely ever listen to… this is one of them.)
I was 17 when I had my first real relationship. I remember when we first met: It was a sunny April day and my friend and I decided to hit up the mall, as teenagers do. We entered in from the food court and the first stop we made was in the arcade. In...
In Memory
I can’t handle today. I feel a serene calmness in the air, but also panicky. Like something should happen. Then I think on it a moment and I remember something has happened.
Sometimes I feel as though I’ve been dreaming this whole time and that I’ll wake up soon and find this was all a dirty trick played by my subconscious. But I never wake up. It’s real and it happened....
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Jack’s Mannequin - The Mixed Tape
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Medical Update
So here’s what’s been going on in the medical portion of my world:
I went a couple weeks ago for another follow up appointment at my doctor’s office in San Francisco. He seemed really excited and anxious for the next step. So we set up a plan to do my next surgery after the new year begins that way I can spend the holidays at home with my family and friends.
When I go for my...
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I've Got the Single During the Holiday Blues
As I stated in a previous post, I’ve never really been single more than a few months at any given particular time. This means I’ve always been in a serious relationship or casually dating someone every year during the holidays. I’ve always had someone to spend New Years Eve and share a New Years Kiss with… I’ve always had someone to exchange gifts with…...