I swear to God some times people make me ill.

I don't get them really I don't. I mean first a boss wants you available to him 24/7 but he isnt willing to pay the price. We are talking the difference of 100$ a week here folks.

I think sometimes that people don't want to see the bigger picture at all they only want to see the $$.
 

This is just a short note to say that I am alive, busy as hell but alive and well......


Hope yall are too!!!
 

This very well could be my last blog entry before Easter as life is going to be busy for the next few days. So I will wish everyone the best for the long weekend!
 

Writer by night.

Some how this seems befitting.

I babysit/ kid sit -- WHATEVER during the day and have to herd (yes it is very much similar to herding sheep.) 6 kids back to my house after school every night. It is a bit of a task considering their ages: 8, 7, 6, 5, 4 & 3.

Then meanwhile I trying to do eveyrthing else im my life, including my books.

Ahhh life sweet life....LOL
 

While my cough is gone, thankfully enough it seems my life right now is a never ending cycle, day in and day out. There never seems to be enough time to just be. I can barely work on my books -- that is evident when I was impressed with word count of 452 words yesterday. I don't write in here, my journal anymore. I have not joined a contest for ages and I think the last one I did I entered a pre-written piece.

My Christmas gifts lay started -- but not finished. I bounce from Item to Item there too. Like I am not sure what would be the best to get done first.

I run here and there, week after week, day after day. Seems never ending some days. I know it will get better. Things will get easier. But sometimes that feels like it is a long time in coming.

Oh well! Off to the grindstone I go!

AlleyCat
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Yup thats me folks! Im slowly suffering from what seems to be bronchitis. It is starting to get better.... just kinda lazing about....
 

I have yet to figure out which i am doing.

Its been another hectic week already, seems like everyone wants a piece of my soul and there aint a damm thing I can do about it.

I have so much I want to do yet I cant seem to sit still long enough to focus in on any of it LOL

Oh well today is another day---might as well make the most of it!
 

Well I know I have not written anything in my blog since I blew up last week. And there was a reason for that. I did not want to open my mouth, shoot it off and then get kicked off of WDC before my subscription ended, cos well I cant be wasting that kind of money.

Now dispite certain emails that I have recieved telling me that my opinion is not founded. That, to quote a phrase, "were not picking on" my sister, I do not agree. To those people, I have one this to say. If you read my blog PROPERLY, I clearly state that while in my travels, as in, during my time on WDC, I have noticed SEVERAL of this type of instance. It is NOT JUST ONE TIME. This just happens to be the one time that I decided to voice my opinion on it. Period. and any further comments or emails will go unanswered and ignored. I dont want to get into it anymore.

Now that I cleared that much up, more for the rest of you to understand than anyone else I can get back to where I was in my own world.

Busy.

Just about running myself ragged with things to do and people to be with. Never ending cycle over here.

Oh well Such is life!

Had a great day with my grandmother yesterday, but came home hobbled. The damp cold just seeped right into my bones and by the time i finally set foot on home turf I was in pain, settled that with a hot shower and a nice dinner, and a couple of tylenol for arthritis. Let me tell you folks that stuff works like a charm. LOL.

Had a massive birthday party on Sunday for my oldest daughter, who turned 7. 11 kids in total (including my three) so it was loud, but everyone behaved nicely so I cant complain a bit. They could have totally totalled my house but it was a snap to clean up afterwards.

Saturday was the first day I actually got to relax after the week of nonstop go. Dispite the fact that it was march break and all up here, it was busy for me.

Thank god we are back to the grindstone again over here. LOL!
 

There is something that I need to get off my chest. It has eaten away at me all night. And yes folks, I did toss and turn on this one.

Almost a year ago I came to this site with my sister. I wanted to work on my books. I wanted to learn. I wanted to make myself into a better writer. I wanted to make some new friends with the same hobbies and interests. I found all of this and more when I got here.

I gave so much in the beginning to the site, my time, effort and love. I wrote on here day in and day out. I tried everything, any contests any groups that caught my eye. I made friends, some of who are still around some who arent. Point is I dove in head first and gave it my all. And I do mean that it is a great place and I do love being here for many reason so please dont think that this is a slight against WDC its not.

I loved it.

BUT the longer I stayed the more I noticed something. This place has something I have not seen in a long time. The only thing I can equate what goes on here with is HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA.

In all my life I have never seen a bunch of people act like some of the people on this site act. Most of us are adults here, if not you are quickly approaching so someone tell me why is it that I find more childish acts happening the longer I stay?

For those of you who are wondering what I am talking about and what has gotten me all riled up this time. Allow me to explain... or rather quote, with permission from the author of course. It is no big secret that my sister is Lisa Dawn -- One day at a time . She was the one who brought me to this wonderful site. And she has been for all intensive purposes AMBUSHED.

The following is directly from her blog and she has granted me permission to post some of it here:

I never really knew how much I loved this place until today though. For me to cry over it must mean something to me. Each port I have always looked at as someones bedroom or den. And that is how I looked at mine.

To be told that I have to tear apart my port broke my heart. I did not lose my tail I lost my heart. My first instinct was to close down my port. SCREW IT ALL. and that is what I started to do. Throwing each piece into private setting so I could slowly take it down. I cried to my friend and she insisted not to do anything as of yet until I could talk to the MAMA and PAPA of the family so to speak...

Well I put my port back together. I am not sure how long it will stay this way but for the time being this is it.

THis is how my day went.

I got a message from a friend here on the site telling me that my entire port is an infringement of copyright. She was relaying a message for a couple of others on the site because they felt it was best I heard it from a friend and not a cold email. THEY WERE WRONG. When a messenger is sent you are unable to say how you feel - DONT SHOOT THE MESSENGER theory.

All because of the little guy I display so proudly. That cute little guy and all his wonderful friends. I was even told that I could not even go as far as using the titles I have for my folders. They to are infringements.

When asked could I use....Coloring pages colored by me, my cross stitches that I have completed, or even hand drawn pics - NOPE............

............I have never meant any harm and I would truly not mean any disrespect to a place that I love. I really feel like I have been picked on. All I was doing was turning my little space within these cyber walls into a something along the same lines as the so many websites out there expressing their love for their favorite characters.

To read the unabridged entry go to : "I lost more than my tail" 


Would that not piss you off too? Knowing someone who gives this "home" of theirs everything shes got and then some and to get trashed like that?

Not to mention the fact that I...ME... I Ally-Brains Like Pasty Oatmeal made each and every one of those banners she proudly displays with Winnie The Pooh. Why are they picking on her? She was not the one who put them together --- I AM ! So why not come after me??

That is why I am so cheesed off. This one time, these people who call themselves "fair and just" did not nit-pick with me personally (which i generally let go in one ear and right out the other), but rather with someone that I care about, not to mention that it is a person gives a whole lot of their time and energy into making this site fun for others. Dont believe me? Check out her port Lisa Dawn -- One day at a time that in itself is a testament of what she does around here.

This is not and I repeat not the first time that I have heard of non-sense like this going on. Where certain people have used their "powers" to trounce others. And Yes I do firmly believe that this it the way it is in a lot of cases. If you are not of the same mind-frame as them, or one of their friends or groupies, you will NOT be treated the same, and in a lot of cases not fairly either.

That my friends is politics. And on a site such as WDC politics that infringe on the comfort and happiness of others should not be permitted. This is a place that people should feel safe and secure. It is a place to build hopes and live dreams. To come and relax and enjoy.

Not a place where people have to kiss ass to get what they want, or feel like they have to look over their shoulder to see who is watching in case they should offend them in any way.

With That being said.... Please keep a keen eye here in my blog and in my port as I will be starting up a campaign to put an end to all of this non-sense and turn this site back into what the owners wanted it to be.

If you or someone you know has had a similar problem, please, email me privately, I will keep your name anonymous if that is what you would like. But I make it my goal, to make sure this does not keep happening to others. This site is a great place to be but the non-sense is enough to turn anyone away.


AlleyCat
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Love Like You've Never Been Hurt,
And Dance Like Nobody's Watching!!"

 

Well I am starting to wonder when I will get enough juice to finish this novel. I seem to be going at it in spits and spurts.

ARG!!!!