orbie

First, some morning haiku:

butterfly stomach
fluttery heart and damp hands
the madness of love

Now onto the meat of this post:

I am cutting back on my news consumption. I've been doing so since last Friday, and I have come to believe this one change is most responsible for my better overall attitude about life in general. All the news ever does is make me sad or outrage me, and who needs that several times a day ... or all day long?

Instead of constantly checking my news reader or the collection on news web sites in my bookmarks, I am replacing that activity with more usage of Twitter, Facebook, texting, and email to connect with the many, many people in my life. It's a much more positive and happy experience, and it brings love and joy into my life to be in near constant contact with friends and family, as well as meeting new people and creating even more friendships.

Along the same train of thought --connecting with people more and not data-- I have also decided to begin writing letters on paper. The sort that require stamps to deliver. I used to enjoy sending and receiving mail more meaningful than the most recent cable bill or sales flier, and it would be nice to get back into doing that again.

With that said, if anyone would like to partake in the Great Letter Writing Experience, feel free to email me your address (JustOrb at gmail.com) or post it in the screened (and my eyes only) comments on this LJ post (or pass it along through whichever other means works best for you). Even if you think I already have your address, send it along to me again anyway. I have been as disorganized in my electronic data retention as I am with everything else in life, and I don't know if I could find anyone's address that isn't memorized and in my head. I'm going to work on being better about that as well.

I continue to maintain that this is my decade and that great things are in store for me. I also continue to feel that this year will be the year of Big Changes, and thus far --even though no changes have been especially external or visible to the outside world-- there have been some internal big changes. I think I have finally found myself, and I like the person I discovered. It's a shame it took me this long, but better late than never, right?

Now if you will excuse me, there my furry cat children are demanding attention, and then I believe I will head over to the craft store. I do, after all, have a gift card burning a hole in my wallet!