today is the first day of the rest of your life...

or...."take it one day at a time"or...."all we have is 24 hours". have you ever been annoyed by these cliches? i don't think i was annoyed by them but i never really understood the concept until i was about 36 years of age. i went through a big crisis in my life and i remember looking at the clock on the 1st day of my crisis counting each minute. it was then that i truly understood the meaning of "one day at a time", that first 24 hrs. felt like an eternity, but it taught me how to live in the moment, that those sayings aren't cliche it is reality. we spend so much of our lives always looking forward. when i was about 10 i couldn't wait to be 15 then 21, then i couldn't wait to be married, then i couldn't wait to have kids, couldn't wait to graduate from college, couldn't wait to have a good job, couldn't wait, couldn't wait, couldn't wait.....argh!! i stop myself from regretting those feelings of looking forward so that i don't spend my time looking back. i feel it is good to set goals while maintaining a sense of the here and now. i don't want to miss out on the beauty that is right here before me!!

i suppose if your reading this you may wonder why i titled my blog, blobbermouth? i don't really consider myself a blabbermouth, though sometimes i do tend to ramble.  i  have always wanted to do everything that went against the trend. for instance, when i was a young girl in 7th grade, i really wanted saddle shoes (do you remember those). my mom let me buy a pair and i was so excited to wear them to school. it wasn't long before almost every girl my age owned saddle shoes. boy, when they became a trend i wanted nothing to do with my saddle shoes. i have so many similar stories i could tell throughout my life. it's not that i don't like blogs but why do we have to call them that? i wanted to call mine something different, like, blob instead. when i started to create my website i decided i wanted a "blob" but i realized no one would really understand what that was and i didn't know how to make a "blob" and don't have the time to figure it out. i just decided i would title my blog, blobbermouth instead.