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Thursday, October 21, 2010

More About Me

As one of Mama Kat's prompts this week, she asked us to write or spruce up our ABOUT ME page and since all I had was a tiny little about me paragraph, I took the challenge:

More About Me

Hi. I'm Diane. Welcome to my little blog. "Be still a minute!" is simply an order I've been barking at my two boys a.k.a. the demolition duo since they were in the womb.

Their biological dad, my first husband, Darin, died in an accident on December 26, 2003. Dev was 4 years old and the Dracenator was 5 months old at the time.

Grief sucks and is by far the fiercest monster I've ever gone up against. But, by the grace of God, the love and support of an amazing family and a few precious friends, I kicked its ass and I'm darned proud of it.

I found my now husband, Charlie, on Yahoo (yes, I'm serious!...you can find anything on the internet if you put enough hours into it) in December of 2006 and married him in June of 2008.

In addition to Dev and the Dracenator and Charlie's 2 grown sons and one almost grown daughter, we have two longhaired Dachshunds we adopted from a dachshund rescue in 2009. They were given their Andy Griffith Show character names, Brisco and Charlene Darling, by their foster family, but I mostly call them Big Boy and Li'l Bit or The Darling Wieners.

I have a crazy obsession with wiener dogs that I blame on Dixie Dog, a stubborn little longhaired wiener who was in my life for 14 years before she died in 2009. As God as my witness, I will never be without more than one wiener in my life at a time again.

We love wiener jokes around here. I've been a mom of ALL BOY boys for 11 years now so I finally decided that "if I couldn't beat 'em, I'd join 'em!" Except for the peeing in inappropriate places outside thing. I know my limitations.

I once took an online personality test that told me I have a calming effect on those around me and that I have some mad staying power in relationships. I've also been told I can be hard to get to know at times.

Maybe that's true though I don't mean to be. Once I do get to know you and love you, you are pretty much stuck with me for life.

But don't be afraid, cause I don't mean that in a crazy, psycho stalker way. I promise.

So if you ever get the notion to be still a minute again, come on back and say hi. I love me some comments almost as much as I love wieners. Okay, maybe not that much but still...you get the idea.

16 comments:

  1. Great to get to know you :) The nice thing about these prompts is it forces you to read the About Me section :) I know I don't do it too often and I should *bad blogger*

    Visiting from Mama Kat's

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  2. I love the origin of "Be Still a Minute." It's perfect!

    I'm so sorry for the loss you experienced. I can't even begin to imagine the pain you felt. I am very glad that you have found new happiness now!

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  3. New follower and what a great post to start with and getting to know you...getting to know all about you. :)

    I love what you said about your loss. It obviously has taught you a lot, but reading that you still have so much fun, love, and joy to write about is inspiring to many I am sure.

    Look forward to reading more!!

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  4. WOW... I love getting to know all about you!!! You go girl for kicking grief's butt!!! That says a lot about you in just that sentence alone!

    And LOVE you have Erma Bombeck all over your blog! :) She was one of my favorite authors... or wise onesof this world!

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  5. I love it when I find my way back to bloggers I like! I'm stopping in from Mama Kat's! I really love your sense of humor and the strength you have!

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  6. Hi from another mom of two boys, and a (shorthaired) Dachshund! I just hopped over from Mama Kat's, but look forward to reading more from you :)

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  7. Calming? Hmmmm? I don't know about that one.

    Great upgrade! One day maybe I'll follow in your footsteps and launch my own blog.

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  8. Thanks for sharing about yourself. Sorry about your loss, but glad that you have Charlie and more children and the dogs now =)

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  9. Great "About Me!" I so love your sense of humor b/c it lines up with mine (although I'm not so eloquent about words.) Glad you found C--and Thank God for the Internet! Can I get an Amen?!

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  10. Wow, that's a great About Me page. I too only have a small paragraph. It was in fact the only thing on my site for sometime. It definitely needs an upgrade. I'm so glad you came by my site today. Looking forward to reading more from you. I just quoted Erma Bombeck last week! Great material-

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  11. I am so proud of you. And I agree with calming and your joy does inspire me me too. I am so glad that terrible monster brought you into my life. Here's to fighting the daily battles, so we can win the war;)

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  12. I 100% agree about grief. I lost my best friend 16 months ago and it has been the worst pain ever.

    I too found my soon to be future husband online - eharmony, but I did try out yahoo as well.

    I love your About Me!

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  13. Great About Me section! I love the way you tell your story with humor! Sorry for your loss... grief is really tough. If you don't kick it's butt it will kick yours! I'm happy you were able to overcome it.

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  14. You've lived a long life...I can't even imagine how difficult your road has been to put you are where you are right now.

    And by the way, I love the name of your blog.

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  15. Stopping by from Mama kat's. It's nice to get to know you! Looking forward to reading more of your blog!

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