When you saw the title, you probably thought I was going to write about Ellen Degeneres. I'm not.
Instead I am going to talk about how the name, Ellen, has taunted me my entire life. I am the oldest of my parents' three daughters. My mother's middle name is Ellen.
When they were born, my two younger sisters' were given middle names of Ellen. So out of the four women in my birth family, I am the only one with a different middle name – Kathleen.
In an attempt to assuage her own guilt from choosing to exempt me from the Ellen legacy and to help me feel better about being the outcast of the family, my mother made up this story: my youngest sister was named after my sister's and my middle name combined. Therefore, her name is Kathleen Ellen.
I don't buy it. Apparently it didn't occur to my mom that she would be excluding me from the "Middle Name Ellen Club" when she named my sister Kathleen Ellen. She could have called her Ellen Kathleen, but noooooooo, she chose to call her Kathleen Ellen so that she, my sister Cindy, and my mom would all have Ellen as their middle name.
From now on, when she tells me that I am the weird one, I will say, "Had you given me YOUR middle name, I might not be so weird."
In truth, I would never say that to her, and it really doesn't bother me anymore that my middle name is different. Just like it really doesn't bother me that she doesn't read my blogs (sniff sniff, wipe a tear, try to force a smile).
Anyway (said in the Ellen Degeneres dramatic style), as Juliet said in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, "What's in a name? That which we call an Ellen by any other name would smell as sweet."
Come on – I couldn't very well use Rose here, could I? (Apologies to Shakespeare, but he doesn't read my blogs either.)
And that completes Day #5 from the A-Z Challenge. Brought to you by the letter, E.
Previous A-Z Challenge blogs:
Amazon Hates Me – Day #1 from the A-Z Challenge
Bored – Why? Day #2 from the A-Z Challenge
Craziness – Day #3 from the A-Z Challenge
When Your Daughter Develops, DON'T DO THIS!
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
When Your Daughter Develops, DON'T DO THIS!
Today's blog appears in the Help For Single Parents blog, entitled
Development And How to Embarrass Your Prepubescent Daughter – Day #4 from the A-Z Challenge.
Please click the link and you will be taken through the initial stages of puberty.
Development And How to Embarrass Your Prepubescent Daughter – Day #4 from the A-Z Challenge.
Please click the link and you will be taken through the initial stages of puberty.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Craziness – Day #3 from the A-Z Challenge
Craziness runs in my family. I get it from my children. I was perfectly sane before I had them. And then somehow the craziness gene passed through the placenta and into me.
It's true. How many times have you heard the statement that children make people crazy? I am living proof of that truth.
It's why my mind often leaves my brain and I am left in a state of stupor. It's why I sometimes can't make a coherent statement or a complete sentence.
It's why I signed up to join the A-Z Challenge that requires me to write a blog every day in the month of April!
And you thought I was going to write about Cancer. Surprisingly, though I deal with Cancer every day, Cancer wasn't the first word that popped into my head for today's challenge blog.
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Today's challenge was the letter C.
Crazy? Me? C! (Si, see?)
And that completes Day #3 from the A-Z Challenge. Brought to you by the letter, C.
It's true. How many times have you heard the statement that children make people crazy? I am living proof of that truth.
It's why my mind often leaves my brain and I am left in a state of stupor. It's why I sometimes can't make a coherent statement or a complete sentence.
It's why I signed up to join the A-Z Challenge that requires me to write a blog every day in the month of April!
And you thought I was going to write about Cancer. Surprisingly, though I deal with Cancer every day, Cancer wasn't the first word that popped into my head for today's challenge blog.
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Today's challenge was the letter C.
Crazy? Me? C! (Si, see?)
And that completes Day #3 from the A-Z Challenge. Brought to you by the letter, C.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Bored – Why? Day #2 from the A-Z Challenge
One of my granddaughters often writes on her Facebook account that she is bored. I can't even remember the last time I was bored. As a matter of fact, boredom isn't even part of my vocabulary – anymore anyway.
I remember a time when I was bored, though. During that period of my life when I didn't have children or grandchildren, when I didn't read, when I didn't write except for myself, when I didn't crochet much, and when I didn't surf the world wide web, I was bored – always. Hard to believe for kids today, but the Internet wasn't around back then and blogging wasn't even a word.
Before I had kids, if I wasn't busy every single second of every single day, I became bored very easily.
Fortunately for me, my children, from the time they were born, have provided me with hours and hours of entertainment. I still delight at the funny things they do and say. If blogging had been around back then, I would never have been at a loss for material.
These days, much to my children's dismay, I blog about what they do and what they did when they were younger. I also blog about the antics of their children, and, when my grandchildren share funny things their kids say or do, I blog about my grandchildren's children.
The reason I never get bored is because I have so many things that interest me and that occupy my time – every day. If I didn't have so many hobbies and interests to keep me busy, I'd go crazy, and I'd rather be crazy busy than be crazy from boredom.
So I'm making it my mission to get Amanda, who has kids – two of them (a two year old and an infant), a hobby – or more friends willing to visit with her during the day!
Lucky for Amanda (actually, lucky for me) I'll be watching three of my grandchildren a couple of days a week not far from where she lives, so I'm hoping to help her with her boredom by seeing her more often. Maybe a Grandma visit once in a while is better than being bored all the time.
As far as a hobby for her is concerned, we'll have to work on that.
And that completes Day #2 from the A-Z Challenge. Brought to you by the letter, B.
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I remember a time when I was bored, though. During that period of my life when I didn't have children or grandchildren, when I didn't read, when I didn't write except for myself, when I didn't crochet much, and when I didn't surf the world wide web, I was bored – always. Hard to believe for kids today, but the Internet wasn't around back then and blogging wasn't even a word.
Before I had kids, if I wasn't busy every single second of every single day, I became bored very easily.
Fortunately for me, my children, from the time they were born, have provided me with hours and hours of entertainment. I still delight at the funny things they do and say. If blogging had been around back then, I would never have been at a loss for material.
These days, much to my children's dismay, I blog about what they do and what they did when they were younger. I also blog about the antics of their children, and, when my grandchildren share funny things their kids say or do, I blog about my grandchildren's children.
The reason I never get bored is because I have so many things that interest me and that occupy my time – every day. If I didn't have so many hobbies and interests to keep me busy, I'd go crazy, and I'd rather be crazy busy than be crazy from boredom.
So I'm making it my mission to get Amanda, who has kids – two of them (a two year old and an infant), a hobby – or more friends willing to visit with her during the day!
Lucky for Amanda (actually, lucky for me) I'll be watching three of my grandchildren a couple of days a week not far from where she lives, so I'm hoping to help her with her boredom by seeing her more often. Maybe a Grandma visit once in a while is better than being bored all the time.
As far as a hobby for her is concerned, we'll have to work on that.
And that completes Day #2 from the A-Z Challenge. Brought to you by the letter, B.
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Friday, April 1, 2011
Amazon Hates Me – Day #1 from the A-Z Challenge
I know what you're thinking – Amazon doesn't hate me, and maybe you're right, but Amazon does hate where I live.
I'm beginning to hate where I live, too. Apparently the State of Illinois has gone on a rampage of sorts, taxing everything and anything that has anything at all to do with Illinois, whether the product or service is just passing through Illinois or in residence here.
Illinois even wants to own the Internet so that if any transactions at all take place in or through the State of Illinois, Illinois wants its greedy little fingers in whatever might reap it some rewards.
I used to have Amazon on my blogs in the hopes that one day I might be able to make money from selling Amazon products, but like lots of other businesses who are pulling out of Illinois due to Illinois' excessive tax rates, Amazon has pulled out too.
Illinois businesses are vacating Illinois, and if Illinois doesn't stop raping its residents, the whole state will be a ghost town, or rather ghost state.
To be honest, I wasn't really expecting to make much money from Amazon – I haven't had an Amazon account for more than a couple of months, but I really would have liked to have had the opportunity to make some money from Amazon.
Warning to bloggers planning on moving to Illinois: not only will you not be allowed to sell Amazon products on your blogs, but also some of your favorite businesses may have (in memory of Elvis) left the building.
And that completes Day #1 from the A-Z Challenge. Brought to you by the letter, A.
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I'm beginning to hate where I live, too. Apparently the State of Illinois has gone on a rampage of sorts, taxing everything and anything that has anything at all to do with Illinois, whether the product or service is just passing through Illinois or in residence here.
Illinois even wants to own the Internet so that if any transactions at all take place in or through the State of Illinois, Illinois wants its greedy little fingers in whatever might reap it some rewards.
I used to have Amazon on my blogs in the hopes that one day I might be able to make money from selling Amazon products, but like lots of other businesses who are pulling out of Illinois due to Illinois' excessive tax rates, Amazon has pulled out too.
Illinois businesses are vacating Illinois, and if Illinois doesn't stop raping its residents, the whole state will be a ghost town, or rather ghost state.
To be honest, I wasn't really expecting to make much money from Amazon – I haven't had an Amazon account for more than a couple of months, but I really would have liked to have had the opportunity to make some money from Amazon.
Warning to bloggers planning on moving to Illinois: not only will you not be allowed to sell Amazon products on your blogs, but also some of your favorite businesses may have (in memory of Elvis) left the building.
And that completes Day #1 from the A-Z Challenge. Brought to you by the letter, A.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Nolan and the Gasp – Sometimes Good Ideas Can Be Scary
While he was opening the door to the pantry and after he turned on the light, I noticed bananas on the counter and a light bulb went off in my brain – we could make smoothies instead!
As Nolan opened the pantry door, I dramatically gasped to alert him to the fact that I had just come up with a great idea.
Instead of being happily surprised by my idea, three-year-old Nolan had quite a different reaction to my gasp. He immediately slammed the door, ran to the open space under the counter where I was standing, and hid beneath it.
Afraid of dark spaces, Nolan thought I gasped because something was hiding behind the pantry door. His reaction reminded me of my reactions every time his mother, aunts, and uncle nearly forced me off the road with their gasps while I was driving.
The only danger today was the possibility that Nolan would crack his head on the counter as he dived beneath it.
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