Current YouTube faves

Current favorite channels on YouTube include these random bits:

Self-help

  • Lisa A. Romano ACoA Life Coach. Very down-to-earth person with a kind, practical approach to helping people who are co-dependent. I appreciate that she puts the content out there for free, too. Link.
  • Spartan Life Coach. A straight-shooting Brit who’s absorbing to listen to, has a dry sense of humor and usually keeps it pithy. Often talks about narcissists, borderline personality disorder and other topics of interest. Link.

Music

  • Pomplamoose. There’s a weird, smooth, funny quality to her sound that I love. Link.
  • Only1Noah. I could listen to his mellow, smokey voice forever. Love his “Sexy and I Know It,” especially the chorus. Link.
  • Taylor Swift. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know some will mock. But I like her. Her music is catchy, her videos are funny, and she has a pleasantly self-deprecating sense of humor. And it annoys me when people mock her story-telling songs about breakups, so I feel a wee bit defiant about liking her. She seems complex and authentic. Cool. Link.
  • Lily Allen. Another singer I enjoy (very NSFW, though).– Link.

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Whoops, here I am

I really don’t know what to do with my blog anymore. It seems like the older I get, the more my life accelerates. I don’t have time to blog like I want to, but I’m loath to leave my outdated contents out here, untended like an abandoned front yard. Don’t mind my knee-high weeds, y’all.

Some things I’ve thought of include:

  • Changing the site to reflect links to my résumé, social media presence, and work contact information. But work is not all that I am. Maybe I could devote a page to this, though.
  • Using the site just as a reference library where I can store the memes I use in chats with friends on Facebook. But it’s one thing to pop a meme into a FB post, and it’s quite another to amass stuff like that online when other people have developed it. If I do this, I think it will have to be on a private page just for my own use. It *would* be nice to have all the funny little pictures and interesting quotes organized and ready for my use somewhere, though.
  • Using the site to shorten uninteresting or fruitless interactions. For example, use some or all of the site as a place where I can refer people who take up tired old arguments that I feel very “been there, done that” about and no longer want to rehash. I sometimes have to remind myself I’m not the jackass whisperer. It would be nice to have a place where I’ve posted my thoughts, arguments and links about major issues that I care about but no longer want to discuss ad nauseum. I can just say, “See my magnum opus on reproductive rights at this link.”
  • Posting all the silly stuff that I enjoy in one spot, like pictures of the badass little squirrels in my back yard.
  • Keeping lists of things. Such as my favorite podcasts, funny random thoughts, etc. I like to make lists.

Whatever I do, I think I’m going to start thinking of my blog as basically a place where I can kick off my shoes, snuggle up under an afghan and be comfy, because it’s just for me. I’ve lost that urge to EDUCATE THE WORLD (such non-humility, lol) or to seek atta-girls (I feel okay about just being me without that validation).

I also don’t want to tolerate trolls and the tirelessly obnoxious people with keyboards and a lax approach to taking their medication, so I may or may not continue allowing comments. I’m DEFINITELY going to keep comment moderation on, if comments continue, though.

Does it seem weird to want to do that on a spot so public as the internet? (Whoops, there I go, seeking validation again!)

~ Carolyn

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Closing curtains on Obamacare articles

I never intended to take a blog vacation of more than a year, but some serious life events intervened. I am thankful to say that life is now back to “normal” (as close as it gets anyway, lol).

In the interim, I have lost interest in chronicling my journey toward understanding the details of Obamacare. It’s too large of a project for me to continue slogging through it when I don’t have the passion for it anymore. So I will put that project aside, at least for now.

~ Carolyn B.

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