AGONY!!!!!

I am in agony,I say, AG-GO-KNEE!!!!!!

Yesterday was a good day, I took Little Miss to school, stopped by my mom’s to visit for a few minutes and was enjoying myself so much I decided to stay until time to get Little Miss from school. I was late picking her up, but only by a few minutes. I enjoyed my visit, we laughed and talked all day. I got home and spent some time playing Mario with Little Miss and we had fun. I fixed leftovers for dinner and thought what a great day. Visit with mom, no major fights with Little Miss, an easy supper. What could be better? I had to go and clean the office but hey, Hubby would be there and we always cut up while cleaning, so….

Almost through with cleaning and I bent over to rinse out the tub hubby uses to fill the mop bucket and it happened….

I threw out my back! I wish I could throw away my back. I got shooting pains down my legs, both of them, I got spasms across my lower back. I couldn’t straighten up. I yelled for my wonderful husband, was he sympathetic? Why Hell NO!! He was  somewhat upset that we had not finished cleaning before it happened. I told him I only had a little dusting and a few garbage cans to empty, I could do that, I thought. I might be slow but I could do that. He told me to sit down. I told him if I sat down, I would still be there when the boss-man showed up in the morning. I, we managed to finish cleaning and started home. Thirty minutes of pure torture. When will the state of Alabama fix all of the freakin potholes on th interstate and highways between the office and home? And did my wonderful husband try to miss one of them? Of course not. I went straight to the couch and onto the heat pad. A Lortab from a previous injury and a muscle relaxer from a previous injury and I was able to get a couple of hours of broke up sleep last night.

I wanted to post today considering I didn’t yesterday, I had a post idea, and without further ado, here it is.

I have been reading a lot of MeMes lately and most of them ask why did you start, who was your 1st blog to read, who are your favorites and who is your inspiration? And though I haven’t been invited to do this  and I don’t intend to really do it, it got me to thinking.

I got an email from my dad and it was a very humorous Ebay ad for a lot of Pokemon cards. You know what I am talking about. I read it and wet myself from laughing so hard! I read the comments and noticed that she had a blog, http://mom2my6pack.blogspot.com/ , I had never had an interest in reading a blog before, they were for tech geeks and I was sure it would be of no interest to me. But this one I really wanted to read. At least for that day anyway, I would never get hooked on something that was in my opinion a waste of good time. Just how entertaining could it be to read about someones life I had never met or heard of? Well I couldn’t figure out how to read her blog without being registered on Blogspot, I didn’t have anything pressing going on and I wouldn’t have to write anything so what the hell. I read and I laughed. I thought this could be something I could do. Not to her standards but I could get a few gripes off my chest and complain about my family. Maybe it would make me feel better to get things on the “airwaves” and nobody would read it anyway so what did I have to lose?

So on August 30th last year I wrote this post http://justmylife-mygripespot.blogspot.com/2007/08/just-getting-started.html . It was long and boring. Just some info on me and why I decided to start writing. Then on August 31st I posted again,and I got a comment! Le Binky Bitch! It was such a rush, I got my email and it told me someone had read my shit! And thought enough to comment! I was psyched! I had enjoyed putting my rants on the computer and now I had my very first comment. I could grow to love this!

I had in honesty left a comment for her and I know she was just being polite by checking me out and leaving me a comment. I believe it was  this one http://playgroupsarenoplaceforchildren.com/2007/08/29/forget-dantes-circles-of-hell/ I still laugh when I read it. I have had to do a little research to find it. She was so helpful. I believe I  emailed her and told her how much I enjoyed her blog and gushed on for a few minutes before asking for advice on all this stuff. She actually emailed back with so many helpful hints. I took her advice and have gotten oh 400 hits on my site. This from what I thought would be a complete waste of time and no one would ever read.

My third read was, http://inthebowl.blogspot.com/ , I love Blue Momma. I now have 31 feeds on my Blogline account. I follow  more than that at times. I read comments and check out others. I have found so many wonderful people out there in “BlogWorld”.. I never knew that there were so many others out there that thought the same way as me. I have posted before about the bloggers I am grateful for see here http://justmylife-mygripespot.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-i-am-thankful-for.html . I would like to add a few…

http://queenofshake-shake.blogspot.com/ - I have no idea why she wasn’t listed the first time, maybe I had just started reading and wanted to make sure she was a must see.

http://theredneckmommy.com/ - Oh I recently found her and I honestly need a Depends to read her.

http://www.devilishsouthernbelle.net/blog/ - Another somewhat recent find, I do enjoy her honesty. She is a fantastic writer.

http://rimarama.blogspot.com/ - She is just too funny!

So there you have a few of my must reads, there are more and I could link them, but then this would go on for pages.

So who inspires me to improve? All of the above. Every time I read them, I want to improve my blog, write better post, share more of me. I love these ladies! I do have my must-must reads. The ones I must read everyday or my day does not go right.

And I am going to link 2 pages  http://www.suburbanoblivion.com/2008/01/23/ and  http://www.suburbanoblivion.com/2008/01/24/shedding-a-little-light/  I want to say I have been reading her for a few weeks or maybe even months and I think she got a lot of comments she didn’t deserve. I have never seen an attack like she received. I think she deserves some apologies from a few people. Maybe they misunderstood her post, but to leave comments like the ones she received, that was wrong. If they had read her in the past, they knew she wouldn’t have been a cold hearted bitch and if they were new to her, they should have looked back and checked out whether she had been that way in the past. Do some research. I am all for free speech and speaking your mind, but remember before you speak, check your facts. You can not take back what you put out there. I hope she did not lose any readers because of  it. I know I will stick around. I have never had any problems with any of the bloggers I follow. They have been nothing but kind to me. They helped me learn how to get around and how to get a few followers for myself. I hope that in the future, that perhaps I can pass on the advice they have given me to other new bloggers. We all learn from trial and error, in my case more errors, but hey I am still learning.

I hope I have improved from that first post so many months ago and I hope I continue to improve in the future. I always welcome any suggestions I get. So let me have it! Any advice is welcome. From topics to layout. Just don’t say shorter. I am rather long winded. It has been a great ride so far and I have many new “friends” from it. Friends I will never meet, but feel closer to than many of my relatives. HAHAHAHA! I hope I gather many more. I am somewhat bashful in real life, I know hard to believe ain’t it, and I have problems making any true friends, but here, I feel like I am understood dispite my quirkiness. Let me know that your out there. I don’t bite! Or at least not hard. Gotta go, Lortab and muscle relaxer finally kicking in and I hope to get a few minutes of rest. As Always……

HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!!!!! And THANKS for visiting!!!!!!

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