A Sad Goodbye & Signing Off. AND ON AGAIN! May 2, 2011
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Hello? Hello? Is anyone out there?! I totally don’t blame you if you’re not… It’s only been FOREVER, but for whatever reason this ol’ blog chugs right along and still gets a decent amount of traffic. The most popular post? The Cornhole one. So random.
I don’t even know where to begin… life is… different. The biggest thing to report is that about six weeks ago our little family of four became an incredibly sad family of three. We unexpectedly lost our sweet protector – our Great Dane, Duley. As much as I was around euthanasia at the vet, as described in detail here, I was completely unprepared for how much it actually hurts and the way that it shakes you to the core. Baron is so lost and lonely, and now that is the hardest part. We want him to have a friend, but are not even close to ready to consider getting another dog. There’s just nothing that can fill the void. We miss our Dule Bar every day.
On another note, as most of you know, I started this blog during a particularly crappy time in my life, so even though I like to laugh and joke about the ridiculousness of everyday life, this blog has always had a shadow of bitterness and sorrow for me. Well, considering the fact that I just turned 29 (and the fact that I doubt I’ll live to be 120), my “quarter-life crisis” is over. WHAT? WAIT! What does it all mean?! Just relax, blog peeps! I am retiring this blog and gearing back up with a new one.
My Dad told me not too long ago that much like himself, I tend to create my own little piles of chaos, just to keep things interesting. Ummmm… True. He said he thought that it had something to do with being intelligent and never having an idle mind or something to that effect… I can’ t remember exactly ’cause I was thinking about something else at the time. Anyway, I have been thinking so much about that lately and how it seems that these days my life has just about the perfect level of insanity. Thanks to the love of my life and our oh-so-perfect-for-us location, I have just enough beachy fun hang-out party time, balanced by a silly amount of work (for not nearly enough money). We fight and make up, we get knocked down and we get back up, and we laugh and love all the while. It’s the perfect balance of chaos and normalcy that my restless mind requires. Hence, the new blog title…… drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr (that’s a drumroll) – “Perfectly Kaotic”. For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Katie, so that’s why the chaos starts with “K”. Now normally I hate that kind of grammatical crap (or krap, if you will)… but for my new little bloggy’s purposes, I love it.
And another thing!!! – the further along I got into this blog and the more people who started reading it, the more I toned down what I REALLY wanted to say out of worry about what so and so would think about this or that. NO MORE, PEOPLE. I started writing for ME. Now don’t get me wrong – I am not (and will never be) intentionally trying to hurt anyone’s feelings. I’m just going to say what I’m thinkin’ when I’m thinkin’ it. And be warned – I have a potty mouth. And I also have a new fancy schmancy phone, that I’m hoping will make me more apt to blog on the fly. Sneak preview: my thoughts on how difficult it is to NOT look like an asshole when one of your neighbors waves to you while you’re walking your dog and holding a bag of his shit. Jeez WHY am I always talking about shit?! Okay so maybe less shit on the new blog. But maybe not… Hope y’all will check it out either way. Quarter-Life Crisis Girl – over & out.
thank you so much Kerrie… and I am sorry for your loss as well. I should clarify – by “lost him” I meant that he got sick and was gone in a matter of hours, not that he ran away. Although I guess in a way he really couldn’t find his way back, just as you said. Either way, we so miss him!