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Jul. 21st, 2008 @ 04:15 pm Re "Me,"

Right now I'm wondering if I'll even WANT anyone to read anything about me! Yowch!!!

But, anyway, I don't expect this blog to be one long rant or whine; I'm going to continue to emote all over myself in my journals, as necessary, and every little while, I'll post some of my entries (or not!). I want livejournal to be a place where/way that various groups can keep up with the things I'm doing/planning, socially and professionally, that may impact them.

Sooooooo, some hints on how to find what you want and ignore what you don't want-- look for the following @ the beginning of ea. subject header:

OUAF= Once Upon a Family

YPA= Your Personal Archivist

CSHMG= Charleston Scrap Happenings Meetup Group

CMFMG= the Charleston Movie Fans Meetup Group

YG= The Yodeling Gopher

[May be more some/changes in the future.]

If the acronyms speak to you, read on; if not, don't clog your brain unnecessarily!

Take care, all! The next post will pertain to one of the above...

'Til then,

JMWB loves ya!

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Jul. 20th, 2008 @ 11:01 pm Me

I am a 46-yr-old Christian woman, married, with a 13-yr-old son, two dogs, a cat, a guinea pig, and far fewer plants than I'd like. I sing, boogie a bit (will be learning to belly dance soon!), alter books, write as the Spirit moves me, and am getting into self-portrait art dolls, among other mixed-media fun. I am more than a little self-absorbed these days, probably due to a combination of some low-grade midlife crisis and trying to adjust to the constant "tweaking," if not wholescale changing, of psychiatric med.s (sometimes I don't know which is worse, the problems or the "cures").

Anyway, in the throes of worsening difficulties throughout the past several years, I attempted suicide, and was finally properly (I believe) diagnosed as bipolar, in addition to the anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders I was WELL aware of. So, to make a long story mercifully short, I'm not going to try to figure out who the heck I am anymore-- "Up" (or "On," as I always described it) Jean? "Down" Jean? Some artificially- (pharmaceutically-) induced mix of the two? No, forget that-- this is a great time to DECIDE who I am. Hence the introspection, though I'll keep most of that to my realtime "art" journals (certainly journals, not always clear about the "art" bit).

Speaking of which, you can view some of them from a few years ago here: http://flickr.com/photos/cordeliajean/, if you want.

I wonder if anybody's ever actually ever going to read any of this?

Well, sweet dreams! More some other time...

Cordelia Jean Bean Beasley

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