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Published March 10th, 2010
The magic my Knight creates - Bruce Young Art!
What an awesome day!
I woke up having to shrug a few frustrations from the day before off my shoulders, but that was easy enough, considering there is a hot water crisis in the house. Nothing like washing your hair in freezing cold water to put a smile on your face and a spring in your step.
My nerdy, must meet deadlines personality had me ready to meet with my Knight and get as much of my website sorted as possible. I’m so excited and can’t wait to show the world what an awesome job he’s done.
Giving myself some credit … today I noticed changes in me at every turn. Now … remembering that I love my personality and think I’m absolutely sparkling, I do also admit that I can be very trying at times. I’m always most aware of how trying I really am and how my mind has the ability to multi-task with the assumption that everyone is following the goings on of my thoughts, when I am with my two Geminis. Not because I’m more conscious … oh no … it’s far simpler to take note of my issues when my Knight and my Greggie (shocking combination for my issues … tee hee) get together and pass little comments just loud enough for me to hear. Better still … they do this little thing where they give each other the Gemini look.
Either way, I thank them for two very important things …
1. Their patience with me. With my mind mapping mind. With my ability to confuse any task. With my ‘pretty but impractical’ personality … um … I’m sure if I left a gap the two of them would fill in anything I might have missed out on.
2. They lovingly point out these traits and I’m slowly watching myself do awesome things like … finish a sentence. Believe that I can do little things without needing help all the time (that is wordpress related, by the way. Occupy myself with something so that I don’t hang over their shoulders waiting to do the next thing … um … once again, I think they could fill in some gaps.
On the upside though … I always manage to use my mothering, nurturing, butter-them-up talents and make sure they are well hydrated with tea and happily fed with sandwiches. I must admit that I was disappointed when they didn’t enjoy the game of choosing if they wanted their bread cut in squares or triangles. It works a bomb on my 8 year old nephews.
I love a good collaboration … and I have two!
Greggie … we make the most rocking team! So, I drove him a little nuts this morning by poking fun at him, but I did make him tea. I also had moments of AWE as I watched my business partner work his magic and breathe more life into our exciting ventures. Somewhere between all the words he weaved into magic … the left over of the anxiety that has been lingering, all washed away!
My Knight … okay, so he gets like 90% of the credit for the blog and my soon to be launched website. I think I’ve made it clear that he’s my creative genius, but he’s also patient enough to help me learn. Now that’s key to my personality, because I always think I can’t do it before I give it a shot and realise that I can. Today that all came to light when I finally took the time to learn how to do plugins for wordpress … well, then there was just no stopping me and I don’t think there is stopping me yet.
I love perception and can just imagine him needing a stiff drink after spending an entire day working with me, but in my little bubble … we just make such a rocking team!
I love it when so much is achieved and we have laughed our way through the entire work load.
So … I hope you are liking the changes to the blog! I did the ‘share buttons and the twitter button oh … and the new comment format … all by myself … woo hoo!! So, now that I have made it so much sexier and easier, I hope you are tweeting, sharing through facebook and commenting … hint, hint!
Project me would be incomplete without something niggling at the back of my mind today …
It’s my terrible need to want to erase people from my life as quickly as I can. After my dad passed away, I had to remove his numbers from my phone and any trace of things that would upset me, as soon as possible. Now I find myself wanting to delete people from facebook merely because they have moved on and I feel as though they have left me behind.
I can pretend and say that it’s because I only have people on there that I communicate with, but there are some that I haven’t spoken to in years. The truth is that when I see their status’s, who they are befriending and who they are ignoring … it irritates the shit out of me (sorry … my feelings spewed that out!) … and I just don’t want to know. I’ve been deleted before and it’s not cool … so I’m fighting my way through not creating voodoo dolls in my head of those people who … in truth … I wish I was relating to a bit better (or it wouldn’t hurt so much now … would it?)
What to do … she ends the day wondering …
I always say that all anyone ever needs is one person to believe in them. I get all of the believing in yourself stuff, but it's like one of those fuel driven lawnmowers. You first need to crank it up before it goes on its way and does its job. I remember growing up with one of those and watching it have to be tugged a few times before it got going … that's really what its all about.
i called my brother 'dad' today … he sounds so much like him!
I believe that most people don't think they can do many things that they actually can given a little push. Countless times I've seen someone handed a task of various degrees of difficulty only to say that they don't know how. My job is always to simply say, "You're good, you'll make it work." Truth is, I've yet to be disappointed. Guess it's just a confidence thing. A little support goes a long way – even if is it blind.
If time only heals if you let go, then you're on the right path when you start removing all trace of someone once they are gone, no matter the reason. That's something I really need to be able to do. I had to upgrade my phone to no longer have my dad's number on it.
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