Winds of Change

So, it's kinda like day two on the blog, actually less than 12 hours, but I slept in between, so I am sure that makes a difference. After making my initial postings, I went shopping for a blog skin...This is all so Greek to me, but I'll pretend I know what I am talking about...I think I found an interesting one. But I think the font is not large enough. Guess I'll need to shop some more. I like this set up, but I can't easily manipulate it, so I am turned off by it. LOL Story of my life. :)

I will play with it some tonight, it's something new...It's what keeps me coming back.

I had a kind of nice thing happen today, or over the last couple of days. A web site I used to belong to, that I still belong to, but have real angst over now, has finally stopped hurting me so much. It was/is my old high school web site. While it should seem odd someone as old as me should be concerned over a high school site. It's different. It's about the place we attended--Berlin, Germany. I found the original site about 3 years ago and instantly felt like I'd been found again. It's a hard thing to go through life explaining to people who don't get it, about being raised a brat. It's kind of like a joke that's only funny if you were there. We're all different ages, from 50's to late 20's.

So I joined the site and loved it. Turmoil hit last year during the time of the war. So a fraction of us left to start our own site. It's not that we disagreed with the war, it was the militant views of others on our discussions. I am a life long republican, but I do believe in freedom of speech and those classmates did not. Rather than fight, we left. So our site became a little powerhouse of it's own. We loved it--protected it as if it were our child. When we finally started opening the doors to other visitors, something went wrong and it seemed one explosion after another. Friendships that had been re-made and newly made were hit hard. I stayed with it for the worst part. But now that the fighting is over and so many have left, I just can't feel the same. I know it's about growth. I go back every now and again, but I can't make myself contribute. I finally stopped the visits. However, for the last couple of days, several of the old crew have begun to thaw and contact me. I am so glad for it. I miss those friendships. Even if I don't go back to the site, I am thankful to have the friendships in tact.

However, in the path of all that debris, I found my way to another site. I was researching Tri-care claims and kept finding links to a site called "army-Wife-Life" and as a result, I decided I'd go look at it. It was a blog by a woman who's husband was in Iraq. I read it all day long. Before that, I'd never read a blog. As a result for the links to her site, and a common area to her blog, I am now trying the blog thing. Kinda cool how life takes ya where ya need to be. So here I am!

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