Splendid Mayhem: Hacked! Or something.

Welcome To Holland

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this......
When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland."
"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."
But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.
So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.
But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Hacked! Or something.

OK, I'm not sure what's going on with my email! I've had it for over 5 years now with 0 problems. However, I have gotten several texts and emails saying I'm sending out weird messages!

One was "Hi it's really me.... I've lost 31lbs with this acai crap..." And, Melinda said "if you lost 31lbs you'd disappear. So- obviously- ERASE that! It's NOT REALLY ME!

Another was "I SHOP FREE" Well, if I shop free- I'd sure like to know how I do it. So, That's NOT me either.

When I signed into yahoo today I got "Welcome, Lillie!" WTH?!?! And, my status was "looking for hot boyz 46". Yea.... right. There was a picture there to! That is NOT me either!!!!!!!!

ANY SUGGESTIONS!? I hate to trash that email addy as that's they address everybody has. I did change my password today, and spam a whole slew of stuff.

I AM SOOOOOO SORRY IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE ONES GETTING JUNK FROM ME!!!!!!
BUT, IT'S NOT ME SENDING IT.
I assure you I wouldn't knowingly send out that mess!

2 comments:

AmyMay 29, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Hey chick, are you able to recieve message from us on there though??? I have sent a few to you lately???
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MelanieJune 2, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Well that sucks! Gotta love the internet/computing world!
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