I got a dog today. Well, he’s not home with me yet, but I did go to the pound and adopt him. He’s an old pit mix, a real loveable guy with a rough exterior (cig burns, scars, etc) and a really scary look to him, but he’s the friendliest dog you’ll ever come across. Believe me. Anyway, I’ve just been going crazy looking up food and collars and stuff for the guy. I haven’t arrived at a name yet. I’m just gonna have to get to know him first. wait! He already has a name.. Bruno. Yep, like Borat’s gay German character! Haha! I did want to name him one of the Dirty Words, but that’ll have to wait for my next dog. Maybe I can find relative…
I’m still learning tons more about my mom. Had no idea that she was in the military. Like, none. Crazy, right? I’m totally flipping out. My mind is blown. This woman was amazing, and she’s gone. But I still have memories, at least the memories I’m getting from what I’m learning about her. That’s something, I guess. Ah well, besides that I’ve been doing the regular. Reading funny stuff like To Late Night Infomercials and trying to find people. If I need to, I can pretty much always find someone. Okay, laters.
Even though it still feels like I’m going through the motions as I do a people serch for my mom’s friends, I can’t help but feel like this process is reconnecting me with my mother. Like by finding people for her, I’m finding out who she is all over again. Kinda funny, huh? Not as funny as this list of Other reasons for 3 AM phone call.
The reality of my mom’s death hasn’t really sunk in. As I mentioned in my last post, she wanted to find someone, er, lots of people from her past so that she could say good-bye to them. So I’ve been doing a people search for them and finding a lot of them. And they’ve sent really heartfelt messages, but it hasn’t resonated with me yet. I’ve just passed them on to my mom. Meanwhile, I’m distracting myself with rants To the Time Change and looking up vitamin information.
Boredom is a funny thing, isn’t it? Like sometimes I’m so bored that all I want to do is search people online. Other times, I’m so bored of find person that I want to do anything else. It’s funny that being bored can mean two completely opposite things. Someone wrote to me to ask how my mother was doing since we patched things up over the holidays. Well, she’s dying. Yep, she has some crazy brain-eating bacteria that will kill her some time within the next nine months the doctors tell us. Since she knows I’m so good at person lookup, she’s enlisted my help to track down all the people from her past that she would like to say good-bye to. Yes, grim news, but oh well. The only thing cheering me up are rants like this to the girl who kissed me when I was five.
That’s my life right now, one big fat snoozefest. I just feel restless in my life. I’m bored with job, and I feel like I never see my friends anymore. I feel antsy, but I don’t know about what. Then I get anxiety about feeling restless and want to figure out why I am feeling this way. Maybe I should find people to help like a therapist or a hypnotist! I don’t know what to do!! I am hoping that blogging and expressing my feelings will prove to be somewhat theraputic. I can find people online that do the same thing. I mean, I suppose it’s not different than talking it out in person with a friend. Hmm, only the computer won’t give me advice back, unless I go into a chat room or something. Ugh, I have to get back to work, I am finding email addresses online to update my boss’s roledex. FUN! Not!
Now that the holidays are over, everything is back to normal, and I am back on track with my life. My relationship with my mother has never been better. Honestly, being honest was the best thing I could I have done. She’s really been off my case and we’re able to talk on the phone and have normal human being conversations. I have just been working a lot lately. I see my friends on the weekends, and this past weekend I went away with a couple of my buddies. It was really relaxing to get away. There was a lot of beer. What else…I guess I’m still trying to find people online and reconnect. It’s easy to find a person these days; it’s super exciting. Also, Hulu is a cool new search site you should check out. I gotta get back to work, because my boss is coming. Be back soon!
So, last time I posted I said I was going home for Thanksgiving to my controlling mother. When I was there she really just pushed me over the edge. I finally just exploded on her the day after Thanksgiving and got everything off my chest. I told her about how smothered I had felt and how I was an adult and needed to be treated like one. She protested at first, but when I broke down crying, I think she got the point. She started crying and started apologizing profusely. We had a good mother/daughter laugh/cry and then the rest of the trip was great! My mom and I are on way better terms now, but I am still going to my boyfriend’s family’s house for Christmas. My mom put up minimal arugment so that was very nice. Oh, and I ended up using those people search engines and found a few old friends who I reconnected with while I was home. We had a blast going out together. It was so great to see them since it had been a few years. They were so grateful that I did a people search and got us back together. Anyways, I gotta finsih up at work here before I head out. Have a great holiday!!
I know I have this running theme about control, which I am definitely feeling a lot lately. I am flying back home for Thanksgiving and my mother will not stop calling me! I don’t think she understands the concept that I work and cannot answer the phone, nor talk every five minutes. She’s just stressing out about this dinner like no other. You’d think the Pope was coming to Thanksiving instead of her daughter and my Uncle Jim, who will eat ANYTHING. Seriously, it’s so bad that I’ve even considered not going at all. My boyfriend’s family really wants me to come to their house, but I told them that I had to go home or my mom would die. My boyfriend even offered to come with me, but I told him that if he met my mother he wouldn’t want to be with me anymore. Of course that’s an exaggeration, but it’s still bad and I don’t want to subject him to that kind of torture. Since I am going home, and will be bored out of my mind, I decided to use my people search skills to find my old friends from home and see if they are still around to get drunk with. It is the only way I will stay sane. And since it’s so easy to find a person, why not. Oh god, I just remembered this article my mom sent me: PremiumHowtoGuides.com-Proper Dining Etiquette, so I don’t forge to behave on Thanksgiving. I bet I’m at the kid’s table.
Hey everyone, Becca back with you and back in control of her blog, no more superfluous RSS feeds, just my clear and concise posts! So I have some great people search information for you all today. People search is one of my latest likes. People search and finding people as I mentioned in my last post is so easy to do online with the use of people search engines, that is sites that are essentially like a Google search engine but just for finding people. They’re so easy to use, just like Google and you have results for anyone with the name you are searching in minutes. They also provide you with ages and city and State info to help you narrow your search and find the person you are looking for. If you just getting started out in people search, the best way to get started is to read blogs like this one and I have a couple of other really informative people search blogs to recommend
People Search
Find People
Also check out: Premium How to Guides - How to keep children safe online it’s a great article that all parents or perospective parents should read to keep their children safe online.
Hey everyone. I just spent like… a half hour deleting a bunch of superfluous RSS updates that I wasn’t even remotely prepared to find ruling my Tumblr when I came back today to update. I mean… seriously, I have never experienced RSS like that. Maybe it’s just me, but I was expecting like a little area at the bottom of my blog that was going to renew each day regardless of whether I checked in or not, but instead I got a million posts about the same topic burying my own stuff far far far in the bottom of the pile - so far in fact, that I never found my first original post!! I don’t know if it got deleted in the RSS fray, or what… but it’s gone. It was titled Dill Pickle in a Red Shoe if anyone has seen it. Anyway, I’ve fixed everything now (I hope), and if you visit my site you can hopefully plan on not seeing pages and pages and pages of duplicate news content, but instead totally awesome fresh content written by yours truly. Speaking of which, my name is Becca, and I’ve got some likes and dislikes I should probably lay down right away. I like this website… a lot: PrivateEye.com - Find People with People Search. I also like Twining’s Earl Grey tea, long walks in the city, special fake-meat vegan foods (although I’m not vegan), cacti, reading about finding people online, people search in general, facebook, office supplies and hills like white elephants. Dislikes include Pistachios, olives with pits, wastefulness, post it notes (and the people that use them too much), and… people that focus too much on dislikes. The glass if half-empty, after all. Anyway, that’s all I’ve got to report for now. I’ll hopefully be back pretty shortly here though.
