Posts Tagged ‘personal’
Disney-Pop Century-Grey hound and Public Transportation
Saturday, June 26th, 2010I’m back! Rested and ready for my hectic life. The kids are happy I’m home.
Pop Century is a great hotel! I liked staying there alone. Disney did a fantastic job. And I will take my children back to a moderate resort a few years from now, when they are not stroller bound.
I know I’ve had a few not so great vacations down south, my little girl did get sick, but those bad vacations make you really appreciate the good ones.
A woman does need an alone vacation, and I should have taken my first a lot sooner than at age 34. I figured out why I was obsessed with Disney, and it was advertising. I wanted during the tough times, to be at the “happiest place on earth”. And I wanted that for my family when I was a kid, because in my opinion, they were not happy.
I would not have had that moment of clarity with my children with me. So being alone, helps people figure out some deep issues. I dropped a lot of baggage I was carrying around at that happy place, and I thank Disney for the advertising, it did help a little girl hope for the future. I wanted to go there.
Pop Century was the best place for that for me. It had every memory of the past in larger than life icons. It had collages in the lobby of stuff I had and longed to have. It helped me let go of the past.
I took the Greyhound bus to get there, and I loved traveling by bus. I want to try train next. Greyhound, when the bus broke down, and there was a five hour lay over in Savannah, GA, still got me home. I got to sit and talk with many people that did many things, and had many reasons to take the bus. Greyhound’s staff was fantastic, and helpful. I could have not asked for a better way to meet people.
Lastly, I got back and fourth from Disney, not by Cab, but by Public Transportation. I got to Disney using the Orlando Lynx Bus system, bus 25 takes you to the main bus station from the Greyhound Bus station, and then bus 50 takes you straight to Disney. For Two dollars plus a transfer it saved me on cab fare, thank you to two men who helped me with that.
All in all, an alone trip, a scary idea at first was the best thing. I lost some of my fears. I felt safe among strangers. Everybody needs something like that, in my opinion. Back to work I go.
Happy New Year
Monday, January 4th, 2010This might read very personal, bare with me.
I have not made my resolution this year. Reflection always gains me insight, again bare with me.
I started tomekeeper, last year to continue my writing drive. I also really started commenting on Huffington Post, as amaycatbaker. I started my first twitter, and facebook. As far as I know my facebook is gone, and my myspace should have been shut down and it doesn’t seem like it was, I have to look into that. I shut down facebook because of an e-mail thing. I’ll try to explain below.
I had to delete my long time e-mail just last month, I had it for eight years, but something happened that was slowing down my computer, and after the deletion, my computer started acting like new.
I told my only living parent to not contact me if he insists on bringing up the stupid possiblity that I am not his, if he thought it was true. And you know what, no contact. SO I guess I am now an orphan. I have been living family drama free for a few months, and I like it.
I have family, I still talk to. I know I owe christmas presents to the ones that do show me they care, that is my fault and I have no excuse for not doing it this year, accept after having three children in three years, it does affect the brain, because of lack of sleep. Again that is no excuse. I was a bit self centered over the last couple of years… but they produced the cutest little girls and one precious little boy.
This site will keep going and growing as I have time. I grab time from my children to have these moments where I feel free.
Something is bothering me. I will work through it as I always have, on my own.
To the people who end up in my writing and blogs, I hope to not offend too much. These are my opinions. Mine alone.
To one person, smile. You are a strong woman, and don’t need to hear it from me. Keep moving forward everybody. Off to read to the kids, hum… what internet story today.