Its My Second Year

Well I am finally sitting here relaxed on my couch with a cool breeze blowing in my face.  I am decompressing as well as reminiscing about the last two years of "speaking" to people I have never met.  I am decompressing because I started (yes, I started it) a heated exchange in the diner this morning after we got out of mass.  It was about our son.  I suppose it was not the time and place but I keep it real, I am not one to keep up appearances but at the same time I do appreciate my privacy.  We still haven't said a word to each other since then even as she is laying on the other couch about two feet from me reading a magazine.  After we got home I had to go out to the auto store to pick a few items for my car and hers as well.  I have replaced and filled all of the the little knick knacks that needed changing and filling.

Anyway two years ago I started typing away into the blogosphere not knowing what would happen or where it would lead.  I originally started on Blogger with the now defunct Sojourner Browny blog but came over to Typepad since I felt they had more to offer as far as what I needed from blogging--it was also then I changed the name to Gone Underground as well.  I have "met" many people here in the sphere that I thought would not be possible because of the uniqueness of the Internet and how impersonal it could be sometimes.  That turned out not to be so true for me.  Much of what I have learned could fill volumes so I won't try to say it all here.  I have learned quite though about me which probably goes without saying.  There  were things I knew about me already but were confirmed by things I actually said and then there were things I didn't know.  I didn't realize the latitude of my respect for what other people thought and said in their blogs, I underestimated myself you could say.  Not to say I could rationalize in my mind that it is or isn't okay for someone to think a certain thing but everyone DOES have their own opinion and somehow it CAN be rationalized to BE okay for them to say or write whatever they want to write.  I suppose before I started blogging I would've thought this person or that person is just plain out of their damn mind and don't want to hear another word about it.  I really hope this is all making sense.

Anyway I want to invite everyone for cake and coffee (uh hem....Cathy), AND beer (RED), and tea (I think thats your drink of choice Alix) and whatever the rest of you guys drink....Ant, Posh, Wendy, Carolyn, Space, Jen, Space, Randy, Marrie, Jack, and Frank (relax).  Oh yeah and some music.

Comments

[Cathy]

A few things.

First, congratulations on your two years of blogging. I didn't realize we had started at the same time. Keep writing! I really appreciate and understand your perspective.

Second, thanks for remembering the coffee.

And third and the most important, if you have not done so already, go make up with your wife.

[blackops]

Cathy,
thanks, dont mention it, and we always do, you know dont let the sun go down on your anger thing.