Sunday, October 19, 2008
Personal Mission Statement - Journal Pals #2
MY PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT
by Michelle Frost
(chelle523)
My goal is to become more active
as a volunteer in my community
so that I can
put my values into action.
I believe in taking care
of my neighbors and helping people
who can’t help themselves.
I believe this entails more
than just donating money –
it means donating time
and giving of myself.
My first step toward this goal
will be to take local
first response training and
then contacting my local branch
of the American Red Cross to see
how I can help in a
larger capacity.
by Michelle Frost
(chelle523)
My goal is to become more active
as a volunteer in my community
so that I can
put my values into action.
I believe in taking care
of my neighbors and helping people
who can’t help themselves.
I believe this entails more
than just donating money –
it means donating time
and giving of myself.
My first step toward this goal
will be to take local
first response training and
then contacting my local branch
of the American Red Cross to see
how I can help in a
larger capacity.
Who Am I? chelle523
Who Am I?
The Basics:
My name is Michelle Frost. My Swap-bot “handle” is chelle523. I live in Urbana, Ohio – a town of about 12,000 people in central Ohio. I’m 38 and I’m the mother of 3 kids – ages 19, 16, and 9. I’ve been married to the same man for almost 20 years. I’m currently a stay-at-home mom as I home-school my 2 youngest kids. In the past I’ve worked as an office manager, a credit representative in a bank, a librarian and a computer teacher. I am a freelance writer and mixed media artist. I like making ATCs and working on art journals and altered books in my spare time. I also love reading, comedy, music, camping, travel and hiking.
The Not-So-Basics
I’m annoyingly optimistic and pretty progressive in my views. I have bipolar disorder, but am blessed that I don’t find it to be a handicap most of the time. I’d like to change people’s perceptions about the capabilities of those with mental disorders. I’m very spiritual though not overly religious. I believe very strongly in the idea that what goes around comes around, and also try to practice random acts of kindness as often as possible. I tend to look for the humorous angle in just about everything, as I find humor is one of the best tools for making your way through life. One of the greatest compliments anyone’s ever paid me was that I can make just about anything fun. My heroes are my two grandmothers – my grandma Porter because she helped raise me and is one funny, headstrong, compassionate lady, and my grandma Pullins because she was strong enough to raise 7 kids and still went back to high school to get her diploma when she was in her 40s. Here’s to strong women!
What’s on my mind at the moment?
A few things – first, that raising three kids is sometimes a lot bigger challenge than I expected! Second, that I need to develop a plan to get a handle on my weight without overdoing it and damaging my healing from the surgery. Third, the upcoming election. Fourth, money or the lack thereof.
A few random favorite things
IKEA, Hello Kitty, kawaii, cats, manatees, beaches, South Carolina, Paris, Brian Regan,
Ireland, otters, rainbows, vintage and retro stuff, Evian, prime rib, sushi, writing,
stationery, history, literature, LOLcats, lemonade, Rice Krispie treats, pecan pie, baklava, movies, music, bracelets, eyeshadow, vampire books & movies, letter swaps, crayons,
colored pencils, scary movies, flip-flops, concerts, video games, ATCs.
The Basics:
My name is Michelle Frost. My Swap-bot “handle” is chelle523. I live in Urbana, Ohio – a town of about 12,000 people in central Ohio. I’m 38 and I’m the mother of 3 kids – ages 19, 16, and 9. I’ve been married to the same man for almost 20 years. I’m currently a stay-at-home mom as I home-school my 2 youngest kids. In the past I’ve worked as an office manager, a credit representative in a bank, a librarian and a computer teacher. I am a freelance writer and mixed media artist. I like making ATCs and working on art journals and altered books in my spare time. I also love reading, comedy, music, camping, travel and hiking.
The Not-So-Basics
I’m annoyingly optimistic and pretty progressive in my views. I have bipolar disorder, but am blessed that I don’t find it to be a handicap most of the time. I’d like to change people’s perceptions about the capabilities of those with mental disorders. I’m very spiritual though not overly religious. I believe very strongly in the idea that what goes around comes around, and also try to practice random acts of kindness as often as possible. I tend to look for the humorous angle in just about everything, as I find humor is one of the best tools for making your way through life. One of the greatest compliments anyone’s ever paid me was that I can make just about anything fun. My heroes are my two grandmothers – my grandma Porter because she helped raise me and is one funny, headstrong, compassionate lady, and my grandma Pullins because she was strong enough to raise 7 kids and still went back to high school to get her diploma when she was in her 40s. Here’s to strong women!
What’s on my mind at the moment?
A few things – first, that raising three kids is sometimes a lot bigger challenge than I expected! Second, that I need to develop a plan to get a handle on my weight without overdoing it and damaging my healing from the surgery. Third, the upcoming election. Fourth, money or the lack thereof.
A few random favorite things
IKEA, Hello Kitty, kawaii, cats, manatees, beaches, South Carolina, Paris, Brian Regan,
Ireland, otters, rainbows, vintage and retro stuff, Evian, prime rib, sushi, writing,
stationery, history, literature, LOLcats, lemonade, Rice Krispie treats, pecan pie, baklava, movies, music, bracelets, eyeshadow, vampire books & movies, letter swaps, crayons,
colored pencils, scary movies, flip-flops, concerts, video games, ATCs.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Who Am I? - SadTomato
People who know me in everyday life would say I’m hard to get to know, that no one really knows who I am. This stems only from being cautious with how I let close and allow to get to know me due to years of being let down and disappointed by “friends” and people who were supposed to be trustworthy.
Truth be told, I’m not real fond of offering-up information about myself, but if someone asks a direct questions, I’ll answer honestly and openly. A person has to demonstrate an actual interest in order for me to take the time and make the effort to reveal myself to them these days.
So who am I? I’m a very private person who like a slot of alone time and solitude. I require a significant amount of time in nature to feel at ease and at peace. I write compulsively – this is my greatest love and passion and all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life since I was a small child and first learned to read and write.
I’m a person with a lot of ideas and theories who likes to discuss them and hear what other people think and believe as well. Open-minded and accepting, liberal and intelligent, creative and empathic. I devour books and love to nap.
I’ve been plagued with wanderlust since I was a child and can’t stand to be in one place too long before I get restless. This is proving to be somewhat bothersome as I get older, have married and now own a home and can’t pack up and move every year.
I’m very impulsive and spontaneous, a leap before looking type of person. Luckily it hasn’t caused me any major problems because I have good intuition and am a good judge of character. I trust my senses about situations and people and when something doesn’t feel right, I don’t get involved.
Ideally I’d like to travel the world, writing and taking photos. But isn’t that what everyone wants to do? We’d all be doing that if there were any money to be made in it, if we could at all survive that way.
More realistically, I’d like to publish more of my own writings and eventually be able to live solely of the money I make from writing and not have to substitute teach or write for a newspaper or have an office job or anything else to supplement my income. I’d like to spend summers in Alaska at our cabin and the rest of the year here in Illinois…well, not the whole rest of the year, I need to wander about to be truly happy.
I have a pretty optimistic outlook despite the bleakness of things these days. I think it’s important to find small things every day to make us smile and happy, and to always remember it could be worse and to remind ourselves of people who are in situations much worse than our own. There was a time I was very caught up in negativity and became very depressed because of it. Not a good way to live, and not something I’ll ever allow myself to go back to.
I’m insatiably curious and hunger for knowledge and truth. I am always creating something and learning or trying something new. I love animals, nature and watching people as a way of figuring them out and understanding them better.
I correspond with people all over the world – men, women, free people, prisoners. I indulge in many forms of art and crafts. I’m the type of person who can’t stand to just sit around watching TV or doing nothing. I have to be constantly engaged and involved in something. ADHD? Perhaps, but it keeps me out of trouble!
I’m non-conformist, non-traditional, child-free by choice, opinionated but believe in the “live and let live” doctrine. My spiritual beliefs lean toward the pagan path, though I don’t believe in deities. Frank Lloyd Wright summed it up best when he said, “I believe in god, only I spell it nature.” Voted “most revolutionary” in my graduating high school class.
If I had to sum myself up in just a few words: intelligent, creative, non-conformist with a mean case of wanderlust and an on-again-off-again need for extreme solitude.
I’d do well in a cabin in the woods with books, pens and paper and a small town with a few bars, shops and restaurants about 10 miles away. In fact, that’s sort of my life right now, only it’s a small house in the middle of corn fields rather than the woods and my husband and cats are here with me.
Truth be told, I’m not real fond of offering-up information about myself, but if someone asks a direct questions, I’ll answer honestly and openly. A person has to demonstrate an actual interest in order for me to take the time and make the effort to reveal myself to them these days.
So who am I? I’m a very private person who like a slot of alone time and solitude. I require a significant amount of time in nature to feel at ease and at peace. I write compulsively – this is my greatest love and passion and all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life since I was a small child and first learned to read and write.
I’m a person with a lot of ideas and theories who likes to discuss them and hear what other people think and believe as well. Open-minded and accepting, liberal and intelligent, creative and empathic. I devour books and love to nap.
I’ve been plagued with wanderlust since I was a child and can’t stand to be in one place too long before I get restless. This is proving to be somewhat bothersome as I get older, have married and now own a home and can’t pack up and move every year.
I’m very impulsive and spontaneous, a leap before looking type of person. Luckily it hasn’t caused me any major problems because I have good intuition and am a good judge of character. I trust my senses about situations and people and when something doesn’t feel right, I don’t get involved.
Ideally I’d like to travel the world, writing and taking photos. But isn’t that what everyone wants to do? We’d all be doing that if there were any money to be made in it, if we could at all survive that way.
More realistically, I’d like to publish more of my own writings and eventually be able to live solely of the money I make from writing and not have to substitute teach or write for a newspaper or have an office job or anything else to supplement my income. I’d like to spend summers in Alaska at our cabin and the rest of the year here in Illinois…well, not the whole rest of the year, I need to wander about to be truly happy.
I have a pretty optimistic outlook despite the bleakness of things these days. I think it’s important to find small things every day to make us smile and happy, and to always remember it could be worse and to remind ourselves of people who are in situations much worse than our own. There was a time I was very caught up in negativity and became very depressed because of it. Not a good way to live, and not something I’ll ever allow myself to go back to.
I’m insatiably curious and hunger for knowledge and truth. I am always creating something and learning or trying something new. I love animals, nature and watching people as a way of figuring them out and understanding them better.
I correspond with people all over the world – men, women, free people, prisoners. I indulge in many forms of art and crafts. I’m the type of person who can’t stand to just sit around watching TV or doing nothing. I have to be constantly engaged and involved in something. ADHD? Perhaps, but it keeps me out of trouble!
I’m non-conformist, non-traditional, child-free by choice, opinionated but believe in the “live and let live” doctrine. My spiritual beliefs lean toward the pagan path, though I don’t believe in deities. Frank Lloyd Wright summed it up best when he said, “I believe in god, only I spell it nature.” Voted “most revolutionary” in my graduating high school class.
If I had to sum myself up in just a few words: intelligent, creative, non-conformist with a mean case of wanderlust and an on-again-off-again need for extreme solitude.
I’d do well in a cabin in the woods with books, pens and paper and a small town with a few bars, shops and restaurants about 10 miles away. In fact, that’s sort of my life right now, only it’s a small house in the middle of corn fields rather than the woods and my husband and cats are here with me.
Oh, and I also read palms and Tarot and do handwriting analysis. Very much interested in mysticism, magick, and occultism. (And I have four tattoos.)
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
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