ok, ok, ok. i know it's been a while. a long while.
i know i said i was back on the bloggy blog wagon,
but oopsy, i fell off of it...yes, i know, again.
here's why.
life is busy. i am busy. i am working to switch from blogger to wordpress. (ooohhh, aaahhh, watch for that.) and really, i have been using that as an excuse to hold off on posts. in addition, i have a two week winter holiday coming up, and well, that also sounded like a good "re-start" time so i could focus, write, yadda, yadda, yadda.
but alas, two things have happened that have inspired me to stop the excuses. to ask myself, why do you wait, linda? why? why? why? and not just in the blogging department, but in a lot of things. and then, of course, enter the shameless list of things i realize i am waiting on, for this reason or that. (p.s. all my "reasons" are sorta bull. there, i said it.)
back to reason number one. the obvious. this past week's tragedy. the unexplainable, unthinkable, unexpected, unbearable moment, that changed our entire country's opinions of life in some way or another. that alone was a wake up call to me, tomorrow the next five minutes, are not a promise to you missy. value the time you have, and use it to be the best, most useful you, that you can be. (no, that is not a dr.suess quote, although reading it back, it oddly sounds like one. weird.)
and, reason number two...
this actually just happened. right outside of my big, front window. i heard hustle bustle, and peeked out of the curtain just the teensest bit (actually kind of afraid of what i may find, what a chicken, i know), and there it was. in the midst of the first really good, freezing cold, white, and amazing snowfall of the season, stood a group that looked overwhelming large. they all formed a line while one ran up to the front door of that crazy, blinky, griswold inspired, seizure inducing, christmas spectac-u-lattr. and, as i stood there thinking to myself, no way this is going to happen, it did! they did. they began to sing. they were loud and proud, and it was the most beautiful thing i have seen in a very long time. i felt my heart swell up into my throat and then, by god, if it didn't just start dripping out of my eyeballs. i have only cried real tears of joy twice in my life...and thanks to this pack of inspiring, kind strangers, now a third time. that moment changed me. it reminded me that life can be is good. that i don't need to always assume the worst, or always be afraid. that if i pray really, really hard, god will send relief when i least expect it, and need it most. so, i simply had to share with you. right now. no waiting.
and so clearly, in turn, this need to share made me ditch my waiting-to-blog excuse. and then to bust my old waiting-last-minute-to-prepare-gifts-for-the-holiday routine. and then i was on such a roll, i hoisted my bum right up on that brand new elliptical of mine and got to burning those holiday/baby/ilovedarkchocolatetoomuch extra pounds that i have had infinite excuses to wait on ditching.
i really am sorry i waited on the opportunity to touch base with you. and i am thankful you are reading now. i know i will not be able to never put off anything ever again. mostly because that is a part of life. but, i am going to try. try to move more. do more. work harder. and ga, just get after it more often. and i hope, hopey, hope you will too. it's hard to get moving sometimes, but more often than not, you are better when you do.
p.s. i posted this to facebook, but in the event you are one of the 7 remaining humans without an account (mom) i'm attaching this link here. pick 26 for each little person, pick 1, it doesn't matter how many, just that you do it. move. do. shake it up. and share.
i believe they deserve that kind of unexplainable moment to be the new unexpected in their honor, don't you agree?
