Happy Anniversary

Happy Anniversary Baby, Got You on My Mind

Tomorrow is my 5th wedding anniversary (5 years married, not 5 weddings) and, at the risk of being overly sappy, I'd like to utilize this post as a little public service announcement to my husband:

Happy anniversary, Gabe!  I love you more today than I did when we got married.  Watching you grow as a husband has made me very proud of you and watching you become an exceptional father has convinced me that you're my soul mate.  You never hesitate to do whatever you need to do to meet the needs of your family, even at the expense of meeting your own needs.  Your little girls adore you and I know you feel the same way about them.  You make me feel like I'm beautiful and smart and special and I know that I must be to deserve a wonderful man like you by my side.  I'm grateful for every minute we have together and I miss you every second we're apart.  Here's to the 5 years we've had, to the 50 more I'm hoping for and to all of eternity after that.  Thanks for the babies!!!

Communication

Communication

I think, for the next few posts, I'll put up some random stuff from my writing journals.  I carry a notebook around with me and write down ideas and stuff when they come to me.  Some of it makes it into poems, stories or articles but a lot of it never gets out of the notebook.  I have hundreds of little snippets littering my journals like a cutting room floor.  I have fun looking back over some of the things that crossed my mind, and maybe you will too.  Here's a poem:

Communication

Am I a song?

     Chorus and verse connected

     Memory interjected

Am I a riddle?

     A misunderstanding

     An answer demanding

Am I a poem?

     Moving in rhythm

     Intimacy given

Am I prose?

     A noun, adjective, verb

     The common man's word

Am I a speech?

     Politics, promises, first impressions

     Carefully guarded intentions

Am I a lesson?

     Knowledge to impart

     Academic heart

Am I a lecture?

     Reprimand for mistakes

     Advice I didn't take

Am I an advertisement

     A pretty package

     A billboard in traffic

Am I a ballad?

     A recurrent refrain

     An oft spoken name

Am I a eulogy?

     A life celebrated

     Goodness exaggerated

Am I an article?

     A source of expertise

     Informative and brief

Am I a story?

     Innocent and mild

     Comforting a child

Am I a novel?

     A predetermined plot

     Complete with epilogue

Am I a diary?

     Casually introspective

     Privately self-reflective

Am I a sonnet?

     A sigh of delight

     A murmur of night

Am I an announcement?

     A rooftop confession

     A public obsession

Am I a cliche?

     Lost originality

     Trite commonality

Am I a definition?

     A resolved concept

     Creatively inept

Am I a sermon?

     A basic truth

     Belief without proof

I am speaking

     Optimism and rage

     Words on a page

A Changed Woman

A Changed Woman

I really am a changed woman.  Before I had kids, I was so much fun! 
I was all, "Hey!  Coast Guard party!"
And the Coasties were all, "Hey! Tiecen's here and her stomach is so flat!"
And my brothers were all, "Thank you for letting us come over tonight!  You're so cool!"

Then, I had Olivia.  And my stomach was noticeably less flat but I was still pretty fun.
I was all, "Me and 7 of my girlfriends are gonna go walk 5 miles, by the beach, in less than an hour, at 6 am, while pushing strollers!"
And my best friend, Nikole was all, "Come over after you get the baby to bed and we'll paint our nails and watch a movie."
And my brothers were all, "I'm gonna go out to a club downtown tonight and I'll come over to your house after so we can hang out til 3 in the morning."

Then I had Ruby.  And my stomach had drifted pretty far from what one would call flat, but I was heading back to my old, fun self pretty quickly.  Then, when she was two weeks old, BAM! I had a pulmonary embolism (blood clots to my lungs).  I spent the past year getting better and I think I'm pretty much fully recovered (with some residual damage), but things just aren't the same.
I'm all, "Wow!  I really wanna stay up 'late" to finish watching Hocus Pocus on the Disney Channel but I'm just not gonna make it."
And Nikole's all, "Sweetie, you're so tired, let me paint your nails for you and you can head home before dinner."
And my brothers are all, "I'll come over on Sunday afternoon before I head out with my friends."

And I'm all, "Yeah! I made it through the entire level 3 of Sweatin' to the Oldies!"
And Nikole's all, "Let's stop a minute so you can catch your breath."
And Gabe's all, "Babe, you look so cute when you wear my sweats."

I'm a changed woman.  But they are so, so, so worth it.

This post is yucky!

Caution Reader- This Post is Yucky!

I have had a reoccurring dream for several years that I find very disturbing.  I dream that I get an itch on the palm of my hand and, when I go to scratch it, I find a bump there.  Out of the bump, comes a worm.  It comes out in different ways: Sometimes I can see little antennae sticking out and, when I pull on them, the worm comes out.  Sometimes I squeeze the bump and the worm comes out.  Sometimes, the worms are vividly fluorescent colored, almost like a cartoon.  Sometimes, like last night, the worms are brown and very realistic. 

A couple of things are the same every time I have this dream.  The worms are always coming out of my hands.   At the beginning of the dream, I don't feel too alarmed about the worms and am just relieved to get them out.  Then, as more and more continue to show up, I begin to panic, which is usually what wakes me up.  I hate having this dream!  I can never go back to sleep after it and usually end up getting up and cleaning something around the house.

I looked up the meaning of this dream on some dream interpretation sites.  The closest match I could find was "worms under the skin," which I saw on several sources.  They all say pretty much the same thing:  Dreaming about worms under your skin means there is someone in your life upsetting you or that you don't trust.  The person upsetting you can even be yourself, i.e. you have a poor self-image or low self esteem.  It can also represent a high level of stress or unidentified health issues.

Now, I'm a confident person and I like myself pretty well, so I don't think it's the poor self image thing.  Although my life isn't perfect,  I'm generally happy and have a laid back attitude, so I don't think it's the stress.  There are a few things bugging me, but that's just part of life and I really don't think it's getting to me that much.  There's not anyone close to me that I find untrustworthy or that I'm secretly upset with.  So, what's the problem?

I'm normally not an overanalyzer (is that even a word?) and I don't dwell on negative things too much.  The reason why I'm putting so much effort into figuring out this dream is that I don't think I can stand to have it again!

More from the floor

More From the Floor

Snippets from my writing journal, Part II- Brief Bursts of Philosophy:

-I wouldn't want to have a disease named after me.  I feel bad for the posterity of Lou Gehrig.  Any time they tell someone their last name, they'll go, "Like the disease?"

-Here comes a new moon, fittingly starting off the month with an  inky, suffocating blackness.  The lack of light is a stark reminder of my dismal prospects at contentment.

-Nothing shook my faith so much as the mythology class I took where I learned all about the other fanatics who are sure they're right.  I'm half convinced that I too am a fanatic but if it makes me happy, then what's the harm?  Having absolute truth is overrated and, in my world, takes a back seat to happiness.

-Clearly the only person who cares about me is me since I'm the only one who listens when I'm talking.

-If I watch any more Court TV they'll have to give me a law degree... and a prescription for Prozac.

-"I'm often accused of going off on tangents but it's very important to stay patiently with a thought or you will lose precious insights in an effort to move on to the next thing."  This was a quote from one of my favorite professors.

-The question keeps coming to me: How can I reach out to others?  Sure, I want to help, but I'm not 100% altruistic.  I want to feel a connection to things, to people, to the world.

Software TTS gratis

Software Gratis Pembuat TTS (TEKA-TEKI SILANG)

Mengisi TTS (Teka-Teki Silang/Crossword) kadang memang menyenangkan, selain juga bisa bermanfaat sebagai media pembelajaran mulai dari anak-anak sampai orang dewasa. Jika dulu membuat TTS masih manual dan cukup lama agar penyusunan katanya tepat, maka dengan kemajuan teknologi, saat ini membuat TTS terasa begitu mudah dan menyenangkan.

Salah satunya dengan aplikasi EclipseCrossword, yang merupakan software pembuat TTS (Crossword) dan bisa diperoleh (download) secara gratis. Meskipun gratis, fasilitas yang diberikan cukup banyak, baik bagi kita yang dirumah sampai bagi para pemilik website/blog. 

Untuk membuat TTS, tinggal mengikuti langkah-langkah yang ditunjukkan. Kita tinggal mengisikan daftar kata-kata (Word) yang akan tampil dan Pertanyaan untuk kata tersebut (Clue). Setelah selesai, maka hasilnya dapat di cetak, atau di tampilkan di web kita secara interaktif, sehingga user bisa langsung mencoba dan mengisi TTS yang kita buat.

Fasilitas yang disertakan EclipseCrossword adalah:
* Menyimpan dan membuka kembali project yang telah dibuat
* Mencetak (print) hasilnya dengan berbagai opsi
* Menyimpan sebagai halaman web, baik interaktif (user bisa langsung
mengisi) atau tidak
* Menerbitkan hasilnya dalam format RTF, Windows Meta File (WMF),
Postscript (EPS) atau dalam format text untuk di export ke software
lainnya. Semoga bermanfaat

Aktifasi alamat wordpress

Ok deh, berikut ini sedikit panduan semoga gampang dipraktekkan bersama-sama 




Buka situs http://id.wordpress.com/ atau klik link tersebut – gampang kok karena isinya pake bahasa endonesa 



Klik lingkaran merah yang ada tulisan “Gabung dengan 890.000 blogwan yang telah ada … “



Tulis namamu atau nama samaranmu di kotak “Nama Pengguna”, “Alamat Email”, dan kotak2 di bawahnya, kemudian klik tombol “Berikutnya”



Tulis nama alamat website yang diinginkan pada kotak “Domain Blog”, Judul Blog seperti “Wira Wiri Naek Sepeda”, bahasa pilih EndonesA sahaja – agar mudah panduannya  dan klik tombol “Daftar”



Cek kotak surat di email yang disertakan tadi, karena ada kiriman notifikasi untuk pengaktipan alamat wordpress anda.



Buka isi e-mail dari WordPress.com



Klik link yang disajikan dalam e-mail tersebut



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Gunakan username, password yang diberikan tadi 



Slamet, anda udah punya web site sendiri, sekarang klik “New Post” untuk mengisi web site nya 



Tulis judul tulisan pertama anda dan isinya pada kotak lebih besar di bawahnya



Kalo pengen menampilkan foto caranya seperti attachment pada email biasa, klik tombol “Browse” yang ada di bawah kotak tulisan besar dan klik tombol “unggah”



Setelah fotonya nangkring klik lingkaran “Ukuran penuh” dan Pranala “Tidak ada”



Kemudian klik tombol “Tampilkan”



Setelah tersimpan, klik “lihat tulisan”



Nah, dah jadi semuanya …. kalo ada salah-seleh mohon dikoreksi. Ayo pandemen sepeda semua dimanapun berada, banjiri internet dengan informasi, foto2 dan jual-beli sepeda di sekitar anda 

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