Hallucinations?? All About Me??

IF YOU FOUND ME THROUGH A SEARCH FOR HALLUCINATIONS, PLEASE CONTINUE READING.

I've been thinking a bit about how people find this place. Over the past week there has been an increase in the number of people visiting from a search on MSN for the word "Hallucinations". Apparently, this blog is the fourth link on the list when using the MSN search engine for this information.

Hello all those searching for information about Hallucinations. I am sorry to say I have very little experience with hallucinating in the traditional sense. Unless you count seeing something out of the corner of my eye and me looking up to see who is there, but there isn't anyone. If you truly need medical information regarding hallucinations you can go here. But I hope you stick around and see what this blog is really all about.

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Ok, got that business taken care of. There is a story about why my blog is called Hallucinations, but that is mostly for another time. Part it though is that it is a play on the idea of my stories, poetry and other writings. Good fiction after all can make you feel like you are there with the characters.

I've realized also, that I haven't ever done a introduction post about me. While again, in good writing it is best to never give a monologue about a character's description, I figure it can't hurt to give a few of the basics. POW asked in the comments of my last post if I have five children. It got me thinking that I don't usually just spell out such things. So, here ya go:

* I am 31 years old. This is an amazing thing for me as I really only feel 20 inside. But then I think back to who I was at 20 and realize she isn't me anymore. So, I have learned to accept that 31 isn't as old as I thought it was as a kid.

* I have been married for over 11 years. If you do your math you will see that I was married at the age of 20. Yep I was a kid, only I thought I was all grown up. Funny what 11 years of perspective with give you. I love, adore, like, need my husband. He is the most amazing man I have ever met. The best part? That even after all this time..and all these kids..he still thinks I'm sexy! Don't ya just love it?

* I have five children. No multiple births. The oldest is 10. Again math lovers you will calculate that my first was born a year after we got married. More specifically she was born one year 13 days after the wedding. Her name is Heather, her nicknames are boo boo bunny (she was born the day before Easter), hare, hair, hairball (altho this one has tapered off as she's gotten older.) I will give complete stories of nicknames another time. My second child is Dale and he is 8 years-old. His nicknames are puppy and monkey boy. My third child is Deborah. Her nicknames are Deb, bear bear, boo, little bear. She is 6 years-old. I call them all hunny, sweetie, babe, baby, buddy too, but those are shared nicknames. My fourth child is Robert. After three kids, we thought for a time we were done. But we weren't (also a lengthy story for another post). Robert will be 2 years-old this Saturday. His nickname is Bob, altho as he's gotten older we use it less and less. My baby is Brandon and he is 10 mo.-old. His nickname is baby boy. Eventually there will be more, but he needs to show us more of who he is first.

I know there is a lot of thought out there about not using your childs' names in your blog. For the most part I refer to them by their age, not their names. But my husband and I have discussed these things in detail and are comfortable with the levels we have chosen. I give this disclaimer only because I have seen discussions on other blogs about this very issue and I don't want this post to turn into that.

* I am very close to my mother. My father died 4 1/2 years ago of a sudden massive heart attack. My grandparents have all passed. I am very close also with my husband's family. He was raised extremely well. I have many brothers and sisters that I will reference very little as I feel like they have not given me permission to share anything about them. The one exception is my brother who draws the web comic and anything you learn of him will be at his site VRcomic.com. (You should all go visit him and use the link on his homepage to vote for his comic!)

Those are my basics. At least the basics of the people in my life. I am thinking about writing a post about all the jobs I've had and how they compare to life as a stay-at-home mom. So that will probably be coming soon enough.

Any questions? I can't promise to answer in comments but if there is something you really wish to know, ask it there and I will email you if I feel it best answered privately. Opening myself up is a tough thing. I have learned that my writing here is much better when I share more of myself in the telling. So, there may be some great posts in me that just need to be shaken out.