A Wordle is a nifty little contraption that takes words from your site and creates a little snapshot of those words. Also, you can enter random words and create a wordle. See, no blog necessary. Hmm, unless you want to post it. Well, then I suppose you could save it to photobucket or flickr or something like that. But now I am off topic.

My Blog’s Wordle:

Let’s see what I was saying this past week, shall we? ~ little thoughts ~ {Oh, My!} ~ write things ~ {One can hope they are not my little thoughts.}

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My Writing Blog’s Wordle:

Is it just me or does that kind of look like a shoe print?

NaNoWriMo!!! ~ WRITING WRITING WRITING ~ Hopefully they are ‘just words’ and not ‘just words’. Oh, and you can watch my progress throughout the month with the nifty widget located at the top right of the page.

You should try this out. Just head over to Last Shreds of Sanity and find out how. Then be sure to link up your Wordle. I cannot wait to see it!

There are many things I do not know. Many things of which I am unsure. I have no clue what I want to do career-wise. I have a couple of thoughts that interest me, but I don’t know. I wonder what my purpose is. I think a lot, maybe too much. Those thoughts range from the mundane ‘What should I make for dinner tonight?’ and ‘They want how much for that?’ to the not so mundane ‘What is the meaning of it all?’ and ‘If a tree falls in the woods on a butterfly and no one is around to see it, does that mean there won’t be a tornado in Omaha? And if so, how would we know?’

Really, I think these things. Just yesterday I was thinking my post titled ‘Nananananananana Nananananananana Wri Mo’ should have been ‘Nananananananana Nononononononono Wri Mo’ instead. I could change it, but that just seems wrong. Yet for all the things I don’t know and may never know there is one thing I am more than a little sure of in this life. I was meant to have kids. Okay, I was meant to have my kids.

My mom believes we choose our parents. Our souls in preparation for coming down to earth take stock in the lessons learned in previous lives and plot out what they wish to learn in this life. Then the soul chooses who will help guide its journey. Now, I know many may not believe this or say that is sacrilegious. I’m not sure if I believe it, but I find it interesting enough to ponder it. It also humbles me to think not one, but three souls chose me to guide them this time around. All three are clearly different, but I offer something they desire. Must be that thoughtful nature of mine. No, I don’t mean nice, I mean I think an awful lot. Too much for anyone’s good, really.

Yesterday I spent the afternoon with Megan. We checked out the New River Mall, which is quaint and found this awesome stuff for body/hair/and a bubble bath at Victoria’s Secret. Not sure how well it works, but it smells *wonderful*. I don’t recall its name. Maybe Megan will leave a comment with that since she has the bottle.

Megan told me how she was chosen to perform a duet, her on flute with another music major playing guitar, during the second semester. She is told this is a high honor as freshmen are almost never chosen for these things. She’s nervous and excited, but what else is new.

I told her about the I-Hop commercial that makes me laugh every time I see it. It’s like the Bartle’s & Jayme’s commercial from the eighties when they were in the plane that was kept cold and one of them sneezed this dainty little ‘ah-choo’. I laughed every time, and usually a tear or two followed. Sometimes, things just strike me funny [or hilarious, even]. It was funny since I started laughing so hard I couldn’t get out the entire commercial. Full on tears, people! I told Megan she will be with her friends and this commercial will come on. She will start laughing as she thinks of me and they will all look at her like she’s a nut.

All of this makes me wonder if my children chose me so their lives would have a lot of inane laughter. I think we laugh almost every day. And not just a chuckle, but a full on healthy kind of laugh. We enjoy spending time together, but don’t hover. I like my alone time just like they do. I just hope whatever the reason was, they are getting what they need from me to fulfill their purpose in this life. When they move on and sit in contemplation of how their life was spent, they find it was a life well-lived. One full of laughter and learning. Yeah, it’s a nice thought to think our children choose us. Makes me feel even more fortunate they are in my life.

image courtesy of inju

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There is a little singing and a little dancing going on in my head write now [yes, I really wrote write, when I obviously meant right]. There is a bit of ladidadida and tralalalala flying between bouts of writing and coffee swilling and Dr. Oz watching. Oh, yeah you heard me correctly!!! Dr. Oz is the bomb!

Okay, this post is being interrupted by a random text message sent from Amanda [no school today since it is Election Day and she is at the movies watching Saw 6]. Yeah, I know she’s only 16, but she thinks horror movies are cool. Not me. I saw Nightmare on Elm Street when I was 14 and had nightmares for 6 months. I went on to see all of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies and had many, many dreams of Freddy coming after me. Usually he was someone I knew who would turn into Freddy. {shudders} It was not fun. Anywho, I distracted my own post and my own interruption!!! Wow! That can’t be normal. LOL

Amanda: Holy Omg that movie is intense cant take it anymore

ME: Lol

Amanda: Its not funny

ME: Sorry [laughing while I type, of course]

Amanda: Lolz its ok

Guess she found her Freddy. Lol Hey, I am not one of those overprotective parents, okay? She needs to find these things out on her own. I already know I don’t like scary movies. Besides, those Saw movies scare me just from the commercials.

Now back to my original post ramblings. I am really enjoying this NaNoWriMo thing. It is just what the writing faerie ordered! So far I am at 5,371 words [5,001 is recommended by the end of day 3] and I am not done writing for the day. My goal for today is 6,253, or 2,000 more than yesterday’s final word count. So, I am taking a few mini-breaks. I check out a few blogs, leave some comments, write a post full of gibberishness [poetic license]. I love this writing stuff!

Random thought:

Is it just me or is the I-Hop commercial with the two nutcrackers just that funny? I laugh every time I see it.

Want to follow my progress?

I will be updating more thoroughly over on my writing blog. This keeps me accountable! And if you want to be my writing buddy that would be *awesomely-wonderful-terrific*!