I am so excited! Jacqui from Wacky Jacqui Designs has turned the free part of her blog over to me!!! I am not making and uploading all of the free backgrounds and headers. I am so excited about this because I have always wanted to get in blog design. She is also teaching me everything she knows about designing. I am hoping at some point she will let me join her in the blog design business she has. This also means that I will be able to design my own blog!
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What A Fool
Saturday 9: What a Fool Believes
1. What celebrity do you think is the MOST foolish?
I think all of them are total idiots. I can’t really pick one that I think is the most foolish.
2. What are 5 things you don’t care about?
Men
Stupid People
People who are rude
People who abuse animals
Men who hit women
3. What ‘issue’ do you think your opinion is so right about that you end up trying to sway others to your point of view?
A lot of them. I have strong opinions on child abuse and molestation but I don’t really talk about them because I hate arguing with people over them. NO one will ever change my view on those subjects.
4. What personality do you like to listen to on the radio?
I listen to 97.1 ZHT
5. What culture are you fascinated by?
I am fascinated by all different cultures. I love to learn about people and what they think and do.
6. You are alone with your lover’s diary. What do you do?
Probably read it because I am nosey and don’t trust men.
7. What frustrates you?
Stupid people!
8. Do you remember the first time you were on the internet? What did you do first?
I can’t remember I know I was in middle school though and it was on AOL
9. What was the biggest fight you have ever had with someone?
I have had lots of fights with people and most of them are pretty big because I am a hot head and don’t have a filter when I am mad. I always say what I am thinking even if I shouldn’t say it.
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Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse
I am excited that I am hosting the Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse. I found out about this carnival from one of the Bloggers that has made me realize that I have a voice and can speak about things in my past. Tracie is an amazing person who is helping many people by talking about her past and what she has gone through. When I agreed to do this I thought I was ready to share my story with everyone but now that the time has come to write I have found I am not yet ready to share. I know the time will come. I am instead going to share a letter that was written by a women that is like one of my mom’s. She asked me if she could submit it even though she doesn’t have a blog and I said of course. Here is what she wrote:
Dear Mom and Dad,
Please think about a few things for me. The next time you want to raise your arms to hit me, would you wrap them aroung me tight and love me instead? The next time you want to use your hand to sla…p me, will you use your hand to tickle me and make me laugh? The next time you want to use your foot to kick me, let’s play footsie under the covers and make each other giggle. The next time you want to use your mouth to yell, scream and say horrible words to me, maybe you could sing me a song or tell me you love me instead. I’m just a little kid who wants to be loved.
Please think about a few things for me. The next time you want to raise your arms to hit me, would you wrap them aroung me tight and love me instead? The next time you want to use your hand to sla…p me, will you use your hand to tickle me and make me laugh? The next time you want to use your foot to kick me, let’s play footsie under the covers and make each other giggle. The next time you want to use your mouth to yell, scream and say horrible words to me, maybe you could sing me a song or tell me you love me instead. I’m just a little kid who wants to be loved.
Now on to the other articles for this month.
-Advocacy and Awareness
Lyn Harris presents Never Too Young for Child Abuse posted at Lyn’s Circle: Chronicles of a Married Feminist.
Nancy Campbell presents “We Don’t Keep Secrets in Our Family” posted at Away We Go.
-Aftermath
Paul presents Down and Out and Onward and Upward posted at Mind Parts.
Shanyn presents Let Them Fall posted at Scarred-Seeker.
-Healing and Therapy
Kate presents A Fairy Tale « Kate1975’s Blog posted at Kate1975’s Blog.
Hope presents Spell check doesn?t understand DID posted at The Hope For Trauma.
AM White presents Life Experiences; From Survivor to Thriver posted at From Survivor to Thriver.
Leah presents Survivorship, Friendship and Healing posted at Leah’s Life.
-Poetry
Rick Belden presents present time posted at poetry, dreams, and the body.
Heart Works presents She Remembers posted at Silence Is Not Golden.
-Survivor Stories
Shah presents Carnival Against Child Abuse – Supporting Survivors posted at WordsinSync
-Art Therapy
Paul presents My Self Portrait posted at Mind Parts.
I was so glad I did this. There are so great articles this time! I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as I have.
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Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse
I was reading a blog by Tracie and I saw that she was doing this blog carnival and need host blogs. This is something that is near and dear to my heart because I have gone through it. I haven’t blogged about this subject on my blog but I am going to post some of my story because I hope that one person will read it and it can help them. I copied the following from Tracie’s blog.
The Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse is a monthly event. It’s purpose is to raise awareness about the serious issue of child abuse. All forms of abuse–physical, emotional, sexual, spiritual, verbal–are discussed.
We highlight blog posts, from child abuse survivor stories and their art & poetry, to child abuse as a topic in the news media, as well as PTSD, dissociation and other areas of the abuse “aftermath” that adult survivors are forced to deal with. We link to hopeful posts about therapy, recovery and healing from abuse. All forms of child advocacy and awareness are included.
Many months we have a theme, but no matter what the theme is, we accept submissions for our regular categories: -Advocacy and Awareness
-Aftermath
-Healing and Therapy
-In the News
-Poetry
-Survivor Stories
-Art Therapy I am going to need all the articles to me by January 26. I will be posting all the articles on the 28th of January. I am not going to have a theme because I can’t think of one. If you would like to host a month leave me a comment or send a email directly to Tracie at: fromtracie@gmail.com.
We highlight blog posts, from child abuse survivor stories and their art & poetry, to child abuse as a topic in the news media, as well as PTSD, dissociation and other areas of the abuse “aftermath” that adult survivors are forced to deal with. We link to hopeful posts about therapy, recovery and healing from abuse. All forms of child advocacy and awareness are included.
Many months we have a theme, but no matter what the theme is, we accept submissions for our regular categories: -Advocacy and Awareness
-Aftermath
-Healing and Therapy
-In the News
-Poetry
-Survivor Stories
-Art Therapy I am going to need all the articles to me by January 26. I will be posting all the articles on the 28th of January. I am not going to have a theme because I can’t think of one. If you would like to host a month leave me a comment or send a email directly to Tracie at: fromtracie@gmail.com.
You can send them to me at: margaannemarie@yahoo.com.
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Its In The Bag
So I am so sorry this is so late getting up. I went and saw Jeff Dunham last night and didn’t get around to getting it posted. I found this fun blog crawl on Ashley’s blog. We are supposed to post a picture of our purse and one or several of what is in my purse. Then we discuss what is in our purse and what is says about me. Yesterday it was Trying Our Best turn to host it and tomorrow Julie is hosting. Go give these ladies some love and here is my pictures with explanations!
This is what is at the bottom of my purse when you take all of the big stuff out of it.
This is what the inside of my purse looks like before I take the stuff out.
This is what I keep all my prescriptions in. This way they don’t come open and spill all over my purse and they are always super easy to find.
This are the gloves I where in the mornings that it is below 10 degrees and I have to scrape my car windows.
This is my pink wallet and I bought when I had a super cute pink purse to match it.
This is the note book I carry around to write down possible blog posts or things I need to remember when I am not at work or at home.
My purse is super messy but I am okay with that. I has everything that I may ever need. I hate being out and not having something that I may need. I always seem to have 100 pens in my purse as well. I always take my favorite pens home from work so that people won’t steal them.
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H & Day 16
Humor-This is a positive word to me because if you are laughing it always puts you in a better mood. I know that when I laugh no matter how bad the day has been it will put me in a better mood!
Day 16-My Celebrity Crush
I don’t really have a celebrity crush. Heck right now I don’t have a crush on anyone. I am quite content where I am at and I am happy with the fact that I am single and alone.
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