Thought for the Day...or Life

You are responsible for your happiness. You are the only one responsible for your happiness. You are not responsible for someone else's happiness.

Because living my life is hard enough without taking on someone else's as well.

Ramblings of an Irritated Mind

DB and I got into an argument the other day. I've been grumpy since, so he asked me if it was related to that. Nope! Welcome to the week-before-my-period. I may be depressed, exceedingly irritable, have absolutely no energy and have a feeling of doom headed my way...but it has nothing to do with him! Now, I keep track of my cycle, and after so many years would think that he would have at least a little idea of it, but no.
I give others too much credit in reading my mind. I try to speak "man" for him, but being a female for much longer than I've been trying to do that, it's not an easy thing to do! Of course, that follows into getting help around the house, taking care of the animals, and all the myriad other things that you have to take care of with a family. Sometimes you just have to give in and ask for help. Even if you think it should just happen! It doesn't.
 I remember from when I was growing up - my mom used to tell my younger brother to "use your words". We'd try to interpret his "uh" and point. Usually it would work! Then we all grew up and got complicated.

Yep! Rambling!

All Life is an experiment. Or, How I decided that I wanted to Blog.

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."
  --  Ralph Waldo Emerson

I read this quote the other day. I have one of those emails that sends a quote of the day. Sometimes they are funny, sometimes they are dumb, sometimes they just get glanced at and deleted. You know.
Anyway, I've been thinking about my life - I'm in my mid 30's, and am once again trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. Sounds like fun, no? No. Not really. I find the older I get, the less inclined I am to take chances. I'm feeling like a stick-in-the-mud. So I decided that I would use this quote as my kick in the ass to do things. These things may not be very exciting, but since my idea of exciting is going out to dinner & a movie (Check! Pirates 3 and Chinese) this really doesn't bother me. 
So, back to chances, and life, and experimenting. I'm an introvert by nature and nurture both. Putting my thoughts and ideas out on the web is scary. Heck, they don't usually even get written down! Here's my start. Let's see what happens. I have no real purpose to this besides entertaining myself, so it will be random. Full of things that I like, do, have discovered, or find thought-provoking.