Lynse Leanne

After we moved here in March I threw myself in to the desire to meet new people and make friends and get attached here. I was trying to make it my home. I was making an effort to better mine and Chad’s relationship….and many of you know twitter, facebook and blogging has been something that hasn’t assisted in the bettering of us. so i kind of broke away from it for a bit.

I stopped.
I started a new twitter account for many purposes but mostly to simplify.
I was over the popularity contest that i saw brewing online.

It had become a lot like High School drama and i was getting stressed over it and i didn’t want to be. I didn’t want stress. Twitter, Facebook and blogging had been my stress reliever, it was the place i went like another world that took me away from the stress of my then job. It was my make believe world that i could escape to and find refuge in.

I went through i time when i really wanted to just focus on living in the now. I posted over on Elora’s blog while she was in Africa something that was making my heart beat at the time. I posted about how i had been living life through 140 characters and to a point i think it hindered my experiences. It hindered what i got out of the moment because i wanted to share it with everyone and break this sometimes magical moment that can never be recreated. You can read it here.

The last couple of weeks I have been wrestling with some things in life like who i am. what kind of friend do i want to be. where did i see me in 5 years. where do i see chad and i in 5 years.

And for me personally the best way for me to spend some time hashing things out is to write. I know i am not the most fantastic writer and i use “…” too much and write in run on sentences that make my English teacher friends cringe (sara and elora), but it is in fact my outlet. And i stopped it.

But i want it back. I want to write again. I want to share my happiness. My struggles. My fears. My failures. My successes. I want to share it with you all.

So i want back. I can not promise i will update daily, but i am going to try and update more often. And it may be more raw as i fight some things out inside of me. I hope that you will join me.

buckle up. it could be an interesting ride.

You know when you are playing a team sport and you have a play called and you are talking about it and at the end everyone claps their hands and yells “BREAK!”

Well as you read this think of that tone.

cause i am yelling “BREAK!”

I have spent a few days realizing that i should take a break from this little thing called blogging, twitter and facebook.

The play is for me to take 2 weeks off to spend time focusing on me…through continued healing as i am on my journey. To spend some uninterrupted time with Chad as we plan our next steps as the Stevens’. and to refocus my love towards God and remove this little idol that keeps creeping its way into my life.

So from tomorrow AM until December 14th i will be M.I.A. But i will be available by email at lynseleanne[at]gmail.com , but i will not be checking it as often, but i will be checking it twice a day. :)

I would appreciate your thoughts and prayers during these 2 weeks… make sure i dont miss anything too HUGE…kthxbai.

Today during a meeting i got so excited about something that i saw on twitter and in my excited and passionate voice i said,

I so almost ReTweeted that!

and i didnt think anything of it and moved on. After the meeting someone called me out and said that it was so funny that i just threw that term around like everyone should know what i meant….so the more i thought about it i realized that in the same way Christians have their own language that make it Christianeese and also make the “club” exclusive i think that the social media world has the same…and i wanted to bring those out in a funny matter.

So here are some Social Medianees Words…. (think about these as a 95 year old with no context)

Tweet
RT (ReTweet)
DM’d
@someonesname (while saying “at” to refer to a person)
Tweet Up
Hashtag ( that seriously sounds like a drug)
Followers (sounds self righteous)
Twitpic
Avatar

Those are some of the things that if you say to someone with no twitter context, they would stare at you like you are stupid…i would like to come up with some more for Twitter, Facebook, Blogging.

Its your turn…go…

I am not going to lie.

I am lacking inspiration right now…my guess would be the lack of caffeine.

I have a question for you…..

What inspires you/gives you creativity?

This has been something that has been on my mind a lot lately.

Community is such an important thing not only in my day to day life, but on here….I want for this to be a place that you can call your community.

I have times when i feel that and others when i dont. So i would like to know what you think would help make this place a community….

is it something i am not doing and need to start?
is it something i am doing and need to stop?
what do you want to hear about?
do you want more details of my daily life….past and present?

I am putting lynseleanne.com in your hands….

tell me what you want and what you think will help make this more of a community!