(Yeah, yeah I went there)

Guess what, my dears? It’s totally time. Time to bust out, to shine, to shout and smile and spin around with love. It’s a new friggin year!

Time for me to announce that I’ll be moving my virtual home.

I don’t have my domain name yet to give out, but it will definitely get posted here when I do. All I can say is that it’s exciting, it’s fabulous, and it fits with my phrase for 2012:

Passionate, creative sharing

That is what I’m focusing on this year: putting myself, my joys, my art, and my love out there. I want you to know this terrifies me — scared shitless. What if I fail? What if I don’t have the energy? What if I’m not good enough?

Guess what? IT’S OK! I give myself full permission to be afraid, to get distracted by making art, to wander and roam and learn and experience. It all comes around, and makes me that much more jazzed about all this sexy sharing I’ll be doing.

I owe this to myself — to be the fabulous person I am, no filter.

I owe it to you, because I love you all and want you to know me.

And I’ll be damned if I don’t pull it off. We’re talking forward momentum, baby. Push through the mess and the yuck and come out on the other side reborn. Maybe you got a few scars on the way, but so what? They make you beautiful. They make you unique. They ARE your story!

2012 is the year we’re going to kick some serious ass, my loves. Let’s get ready to rock.

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Filed under: My Life, Up and coming

To my folks based in the United States, Happy Thanksgiving! To all the rest, Happy Thursday!

This will be short, but I wanted to express my thanks. For one, I’m thankful for all of you! I’m thankful for health and knowledge, growth and learning, friendship and love, and so many other things it makes my heart smile just to contemplate.

In thankfulness, there is mindfulness. Remember why we celebrate this holiday. Gala of GalaDarling.com makes an excellent point of this today, and I recommend fully reading her post and checking out her linked articles. History can be shocking, but the sacrifices of others are a waste if we don’t learn from them.

The biggest gift that you can give, both today and over the holidays, is the gift of presence. When you spend time with your loved ones this holiday season, be fully present (link and inspiration by Leo Babauta). Turn off the smartphone, ignore Twitter for an hour or two (I know, right??), and be fully THERE. It’s a serious stress relief, and aids in opening you up to the joys the world is going to throw your way.

Giving love, thanks, and awareness,

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Filed under: My Life

I read something interesting a few minutes ago, that got me thinking enough to put it out on the internet (cuz, yanno, that’s totally hard to get me to do). It was a quote by Danielle LaPorte, and I’m probably going to botch it but hopefully the message gets through…

If you dont like something or it’s not clicking, drop it like a bad habit.

Interestingly enough, when I read that I thought of my blog. It’s not that I don’t love writing or presenting my thoughts to the web, but lately it hasn’t been clicking. I haven’t *had* to do it. In fact, it’s felt like a chore, and like laundry, I put it off until the hamper is full and feel obligated to kick it off. Honestly, that’s not fair to myself, or to anyone who has done me the courtesy of reading what I have to say.

So what does this mean? Honestly, I’m not certain. Occasional posts? Maybe. Scrapping it this site and starting something new? Entirely possible. With digital media, the sky is pretty much the limit. What I do know is I had ideas for change in June and I never saw them through, which does not sit well with me, but I don’t think this is the forum I want to see those changes live in. Obviously, as things do shift and change and grow, I will say something on here, or on Twitter.

But change is coming. Let’s grow.

All my virtual love.

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Filed under: My Life

I’ve spent most of my weekend working, and decided to share the fun things popping into my head while I worked. I hope you enjoy, or at least get a good chuckle out of it!

• Why is there not a webcomic at Tehsaurus.com? I feel like that could be really funny, a lolcat T-Rex with a grammar habit.
• “I need to pat down the bacon.” “Why?” “It’s going through TSA.” (Yes I actually said this)
• Why do people use [Eds. note] on personal blogs? On most personal blogs, isn’t the writer also the editor, designer, and publisher?
• Football game noise in the background does not make for easy writing/editing/thinking.
• Doctor Who makes a rather easy background for working.
• Browser crashes make for a very sad Liz.
• Ice cream exists to de-sad the Liz.

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So…y’all know you can see my occasional delicious tasty sexy HELPFUL AND FRIENDLY content on Tecca when you miss me, right? And that if you want talk to me on a sporadic spastic caffeine-fueled regular basis, you can hit me up on Twitter, right?

Right.

Just checkin’, kids.

SO HI LOVES! How are you all doing? Ninja hugs and crazy spontaneous declarations of love to the lot of ya. As always, I’m crazy busy, but I am being social and spending time with local friends which has been amazing! I forget sometimes just how much I get out of being around people I care about, which then results in posts like my last one where I just get so sick of the cycle I’ve jammed myself into that I need to give myself a kick in the rear.

Because I’ve been spending more time around friends, I’ve been mulling a lot on the connective nature of the internet lately. No, not the internet’s power to connect you through a series of tubes. I mean the internet’s power to connect you, at pretty much any given time, to like-minded individuals.

How hot is that? I can reach out right now while I’m writing (the golden hour of 1:36am) and, through the miracle of the internet, find someone who will respond. Yes, they may think I’m utterly bat shit crazy, but they’ll at least respond to tell me so!

I don’t think we appreciate this availability as much as we should. Truly.  The ability to connect, to express love and compassion to others through any medium, is a gift. When was the last time you were thankful for that chance to express yourself to someone else?

Go say thanks to someone, my darlings! You’ll make that person’s day, I promise.

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Tags: finding Liz, Loving others, the internet
Filed under: My Life