Need Feed back

OK, I know I said I wouldn't post here and that I'd found another home for my blog and the latter is true. I'm only posting this cause I want some feed back. Please leave comments as I'm confused as to why the blog is continuing to get so many hits each week when I'm not even posting anymore. Can someone enlighten me? I can see from my site meter that some of the hits are from the same people that drove me to find a new home for my blog and I'm wondering why they would continue to come here at all. It is OVER people. As to the rest of you... care to enlighten me? You can leave your comments, they will remain private as I'm not posting them to the site but I'd love to hear what you have to say.

OH! One more thing tonight is the airing of the Extreme Makeover Home Edition that features the Lucas Family. Check it out! Check your local listings for time.

saying goodbye and thanks

This has always been my place to tell about what is going on in my life and to vent about things that I want to put an end to. In other words if I'm venting here it is in an effort to make that be the end of it. Sometimes this works. It had worked for me with my last vent, "the inner circle" post. I was able to get it all in print and pretty much forget the incident. Before I had gotten the stats from the hits that week and the IP addresses of all the hits I had deleted the posts as I had mentioned earlier it served its purpose for me. What I didn't know then but had actually worried about and was the reason behind me deleting that post, was that one or all of that group would actually read what I'd written. Since I only once remember sharing my blog address with that group and all of my other readers are mostly out of state and of course I have those IP addresses, those I've never met in person. I blogged what I blogged for myself, for feed back from my loyal and regular readers, those that don't know any of the people I had written about in the "inner circle". It was my attempt to not spread ill of them to other locals. As a matter of fact there is only one local that I spoke to in the immediate aftermath of that incident. She is not a reader of my blog unless she got the address from one of the ones involved.

I will apologize for my part in my blog having hurt any of those persons that I wrote about. Not for stating fact as I believe it to be nor for stating my feelings in a place that I set out just for that purpose of getting my feelings in writing. I did change names and though those involved would certainly know who I was speaking of had they read the post, it was not intended for them to read it. I did not think anyone might still be reading the blog from that group. I don't usually look at the stats from my blog for more than total number of hits in most cases. This case was different and I chose to track who was coming and going with a bit more detail when I heard rumblings of locals (this is a small town remember) that had heard that persons from that group were reading my blog and were disgruntled at my take on the event. Still those with no connection to me other than being regular readers have given me their opinions of the event. I chose not to print the responses I received after finding out that they were reading the blog and it would only further hurt and anger those involved.

This has taught me many things, the first and foremost is that I need to have a completely private place to speak the things that I need to get off my chest and though I can and did consider permanently blocking all readers from it I have opened that back up but only because this is the end of this blog. I've heard the rumblings of what that group has been saying, the lies that they have spread and I won't allow this to be a subject that I will discuss ever again. I will still have my outlet for the things in my life that I need to get off my chest but it will be a private place that only I need to see. I've found a place, thanks for the info J., that will allow me to have a way to blog privately and publicly with ease. I will send that address out to my regs upon request. It seems only fitting this blog should end on the last day of 2007, cutting off all ties with the bad and starting something new elsewhere.

Christmas memories 200

Santa was sneaky! He was quiet and he stuffed things so far under the tree that when Brandon and I came down it was apparent he had visited but we couldn't tell the extent of the items. There were so many items back behind the tree that we couldn't see when we came down. It wasn't till Brandon was sitting down on the floor reaching for what he thought was the last item that he caught a glimpse of the packages still in hiding. It was like a treasure hunt! The kids were so happy and that was the biggest gift I could get! In what seemed like minutes but was more lie an hour and a half later all the gifts were opened and the only thing was to try it all out and clean up the mess. I hope you all had a wonderfully blessed Christmas!