Anissa
A lot of people don’t “get” the blog world. Or the Twitter world. They think that the friendships you make aren’t real. I’ve said this time and time again how many REAL friends I’ve made online- either through this blog, Twitter, or message boards. They’re people I laugh with. People I cry with. People I connect with. People I pray for. It just so happens that last night as I was chatting with some Twitter friends, we got word that Anissa Mayhew had a stroke and is in the ICU. Anissa has a daughter Hannah’s age. A daughter who has battled cancer. Her baby has had cancer. That in itself is enough of a hurdle without now battling her OWN health while her babies, all 3 of them, wait for her. I know people might not “get” this. But the second I heard about it, I was devastated. Sad for her that she puts her whole life into her daughter and now she’s helpless.
Last night Livie woke us up at 4 am and stayed awake. We turned on the TV and let her giggle and play while we laid in bed with her. Yes we were tired. Of course we would rather be sleeping. But instead I looked at Hubs and told him that there are so many parents who wish they could be doing this with their babies right now. Parents who have had to live through what I believe is the worst tragedy ever—losing your child. Thinking about Anissa who would love to be healthy and at home up with her child at 4 am instead of in the ICU–I’m most appreciative for my health and my family’s health. At the end of the day, it’s all that counts. That we’re happy and healthy.
Please pray for Anissa. Pray for someone that I’ve talked to a few times on Twitter but who has made me laugh a million times and inspired me even more.
EDIT:
If you want to help Anissa and her family, I put a donate button on the sidebar.
When Twitter became number 1
Over the past few weeks I’ve been really bitchy about Facebook. I’m not going to delete my page because I like to be able to see people’s pictures and keep up with their lives. What I don’t like is how people judge so quickly. It barely even happens on my own page. I see it on other people’s pages. When it DOES happen on my page, I get even more upset. I never spew my opinion about what someone is doing on their page. Or anyone else’s for that matter. Facebook is too public and that is just not the place. I never get how people think it’s ok to tell someone how they’re dead wrong and they’re an idiot or a loser for something. I would never do this. And yet I see it. Sometimes I post my opinion on something on my OWN page…or just generally state something about myself on my own page and when I get comments back that are a bit off, it bugs me. If I read someone’s status and don’t agree, I just don’t comment. Period. I don’t want to contribute to anyone’s dark cloud over their head for the day. I guess I just don’t get why people think that’s ok. I don’t know. And yet on Twitter, if I state my opinion on something…if someone doesn’t like it, they just don’t say anything. It’s easy to not say anything in both social realms and yet it seems like on Twitter people have more couth. They care more. Maybe it’s because I have my tweets protected so only people I consider friends can read what I say? Either way- Twitter has been A LOT more popular to me lately than Facebook. I’m sure a lot of you tweeters can agree.
Freakin Twitter
i swore i’d never do this OR play farmtown. and yet here i am…freakin twatting. lol. i got on yesterday. find me. TheRealBecks or click on the “I tweet” icon on the right.
i can’t guarantee that i’ll actually KEEP this. it’s a trial run. i feel like it’s not any different than facebook updates…and i think that it’ll get annoying because i feel like unless i’m logged in ALL day and constantly refreshing i’ll miss stuff that i really want to read. and then if you follow TOO many people i feel like it’ll be a clusterfuck of updates and i’ll go insane. seriously. SO i’m gonna try it. if i start to feel my head spinning, twitter will be gone.
but i’m STILL never farming!
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