blogging ... snapbomb

I am beginning to expand my horizons and my thinking about being online. There are so many resources! As the economy and our job sources have dwindled considerably over the last few years, we've had to explore new options. There are sites like snapbomb that allow people to earn some extra income while writing about subjects that they enjoy!

Writing has been a way to find an outlet without any outside pressure or stress put upon that creative source. Yeah for blogging!

Creative inspirations have usually been more visual for me .... sometimes at 3 A.M. I have had some of my best ideas come through. It's quiet at 3 A.M. Blogging allows all creativity to come through, no matter what time of day it is. I'm learning more about myself and what my interests really are. We can move forward with our motivation to continue to create and feel and prosper .... this is the ideal of our country. Obama's election night speech I have saved on my TIVO because it made me feel proud of our ideals. Watching the campaign unfold and turn into the success that it has become and will continue to be, despite all the imperfections of the people who help to make our ideas a reality, has been beyond inspiring and long overdue.

X marks the SPOT

What a time we're living in right now ....

Here I am again, all dressed up and nowhere to go. Asking my parents, the boomers, over the last couple of years for help. Coming to them with my problems, for the first time in my adult life. Being honest with them. As a kid, they would sometimes be "passive-aggressive and avoidant in spite of (their) best intentions." (Salon.com, Heather Havrilesky). I'm college educated and have never had a problem getting work and making a comfortable income. And now our country hasn't felt it this bad since the 1930's.




Considering what comes out of times like these; people become resourceful. The Xers "are far from over ...citing Gen-X icons like Quentin Tarantino and Jon Stewart, along with Gen-X triumphs like Google, YouTube, and Amazon, among others ... they might be the most unsung and influential generation of all time." (Time.com - M.J. Stephey)

Keeping our radar in tune has been our claim to fame. As part of the Xers, I've been given an opprtunity to find the balance between the past and the future.

X generation

As a person born in 1972, I'm considered to be part of generation X. We are children of the boomers, who didn't take no for an answer, EVER! And they expected us to do what they didn't necessarily get to do. Get a full education, get married, have kids, have the house and mortgage, and the cars and the pets, and the blah, blah, blah, blah. These things are all quite wonderful, but the last eight years have been completely non-supportive of these "right and correct choices" made by a generation of very educated and motivated people.

So what are we to do now? Yeah, for all of us that voted ...... and got someone with a functioning brain to lead our government and listen to the citizens .... go, OBAMA, go!!!

The drastic measures that my husband and family and myself have had to take in order to survive through this horrific administration have been unlike anything I could imagine happening to US citizens. Having no job support, and yet the government wants to give people more credit???? Isn't this how we got here in the first place? Isn't doing the same thing over and over again when it doesn't work considered to be "insanity"?

I know I'm venting. But our motivation to work and earn a respectable living in the wealthiest country in the world needs to be honored!