I’ve enjoyed HP a lot, and so I don’t want to quit entirely. However, I can’t keep going the way I have and still do other things that are important to me. I have priorities. I’m not writing these out to excuse myself, but I’m a social person and I want people to know me as someone besides a thumb-clicker. In turn, please feel free to leave me a message or comment about yourself.
I'm only going to post maybe once a week in my herd, so if I thumb you, I'll only be thumbing you for however many I made (never more than 100 thumbs), and you can assume I've made more comments on the herd if I thumb you. That way you don't have to check back until you're thumbed. ♥♥♥HP hasn’t interfered in my marriage, but it has interfered a bit in family time, so from now on, I won’t be doing it unless I feel I’ve met my obligations to everyone. My kids are really important to me and, well, they won’t be around forever. Brad’ll be in college before I blink, and then Tristen will be a high school student. I want to make the most of it.
I teach a Sunday school class for single moms. I was a single mom for 10 years and God provided for me through church people and I want to help others to know His love like I do. That involves weekly visits to some, weekly phone calls, and preparing a Sunday school lesson every week. It also involves helping them be resourceful and being resourceful for them, sometimes. They range from young ladies to very old – motivated hard-working people to substance abusers. One lady died this past November. Another lady has been diagnosed with two kinds of cancer after finally leaving a 14-year abusive relationship.
I have several books I want to write… some fiction… others that aren’t. I can’t see spending 2 hours a night thumbing when I could be writing, researching or even socializing after working on that during the day. This is a personal goal that is very important to me.
I’m an avid bird watcher. I’ve identified over 40 different birds in my backyard and I intend on spending a lot of time outside with them this spring and summer. I’m interested in photography, also, and birds will be one of the subjects I’ll be spending a lot of time photographing.
I’m also into crocheting and crafting.
And my husband and I are going to start geocaching, too.
One thing that’s bothering me is that I’ve lately given up blogging on blogspot and posting on LiveJournal, and those are things that are very important to me. The blog is where I do some theological writing. LiveJournal is where I have over 60 friends, some of them for 10 years or longer, and I keep up with them through there. And this isn’t even mentioning Facebook and all I have going on there with Scrabulous and Chess Pro. I’m sort of driven when I do something so it was a big deal to get a lot of points wracked up on HP, but now, I can see there are things I’m letting go and I don’t want that to happen.
Then there are all the home improvements, cooking, gardening, walking, etc. Bookkeeping. Cleaning & laundry. The list goes on and on, eh? Shopping. Travel. Baseball games and events.... I'm getting a headache. ;)
Happy thumbing! See you around!
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