My second “Blog” of the year and it’s almost May…

I am determined to make a commitment to blogging on a regular basis. Some may think for a person who has made the declaration that she is a “writer”; having written since 7th grade some fictional story of one kind or another, that this shouldn’t be a problem but it is, fiction is easy, “making up” stuff and putting pen to paper so to speak is easy for me, but “blogging” to me is totally different, “blogging” is me! It’s me expressing my opinion; rose colored glasses and all…

I tend to ramble when I write, me being me, I have random thoughts and take off.

Commitment: to commit to something, make a plan, stick to it, don’t give up…all these things run through my mind when I hear the word “Commitment”.

Definitions of the word…

Merriam-Webster.com

Main Entry: com·mit·ment

Pronunciation: \kə-ˈmit-mənt\

Function: noun

Date: 1603

1 a : an act of committing to a charge or trust: as
(1) : a consignment to a penal or mental institution
(2) : an act of referring a matter to a legislative committee b : mittimus

2 a : an agreement or pledge to do something in the future; especially : an engagement to assume a financial obligation at a future date b : something pledged c : the state or an instance of being obligated or emotionally impelled (a commitment to a cause)


(I love Wikipedia!)

Commitment means to show loyalty, duty or pledge to something or someone, and can refer to:

Personal commitment, interaction dominated by obligations. These obligations may be mutual, or self-imposed, or explicitly stated, or may not. Distinction is often made between commitment as a member of an organization (such as a sporting team, a religion, or as an employee), and a personal commitment, which is often a pledge or promise to ones' self for personal growth.

Brand commitment refers to the strength of the relationship between consumers (or customers) and a particular brand (or service).

Involuntary commitment, the practice of using legal means or forms to commit a person to a mental hospital, insane asylum or psychiatric ward against the will or over the protests of that person.

Ontological commitment, belief in ontology in philosophy.

Cell commitment, the molecular event that leads to cellular differentiation.

Organizational commitment can mean something pledged by an organization as opposed to its members.
Commitment (computer science) - the concept of commitment is studied in several branches of computer science around the notion of something pledged.

Physical commitment is information pledged about physical systems (that are situated at a particular place and time).

Social commitment, in a multi-agent system a directed obligation from one agent to another to perform certain actions so as to bring about a certain state of affairs.

Commitment scheme, in cryptography

Commit (data management), to make changes permanent in data management. For example, COMMIT is a statement in SQL. The opposite is to rollback (data management).

Kingsbury Commitment, the beginning of AT&T's monopoly in the telephone industry

Climate commitment, a model of climate change.

LBC Commitment, the second major-label album from the band Lucky Boys Confusion

Commitment (Guang Liang album), or 約定, an album by a Malaysian Taiwanese singer Guang Liang.

"Commitment," a song by LeAnn Rimes on her album entitled Sittin' on Top of the World.

In poker, it means that someone will do better by staying in a hand no matter what (even if he probably doesn't have the best hand, he would still win more money by betting all his chips), rather than folding

For example, Corey Nelson committed to Texas A&M, but then decommitted on signing day;

also see "Integrity" & "Character"


Wow, also see Integrity & Character!! Integrity is not a word you hear often, it’s a good word, I see strength and fortitude, a willingness to do the right thing no matter what is popular, standing by your beliefs; being true to yourself and all that takes character!


Ok, I digressed, back to commitment, being committed, ok that just struck me as funny, sometime I think I should be committed; sent to the funny farm. Not that I’m crazy but maybe 2 bubbles to the left of center! I’ve always felt that those People who say they are normal or sane are actually the ones who aren’t really and those of us who feel that we are a little “off” are the really sane ones! Dang, did it again…

This commitment stuff maybe harder then I thought, I suppose I will have to have the courage of my convictions as well; makes me really glad I have a great group of friends to support me.

Ok, so I have to have commitment which leads to integrity and character and now courage…

I can see courage coming into play very soon, I suppose since I am putting this “blog” out there in cyberspace and (gulp) I suppose on my Facebook profile…I will have to do it and be there for my writing…

I suppose now I will have to see if I have integrity and character and the will to keep this commitment.

I hope the rambling hasn’t caught any of you off guard, you were warned and this is me, I’m a blend of life experiences that have happened and those being brewed out there for me to experience, anything is possible, no more impossible dreams…I wonder where this journey will take me, take us, that is if you care to follow along…

Feel free to comment or not!

Ok, I've been really remiss!!

I was reminded tonight about this blog, not that I hadn't thought about it but I didn't know what to write or if I even remembered my sign in or password!! But this is important, I love to write and keeping up with this blog can only help!! I love feedback...ok, I'm getting ahead of myself....let's back up....



I have been writing a bit of fiction and yes, I've shared it with several friends but not all, this is a growing living breathing story to me, I simply adore this wonderful flawed confused loving people, their lives are complicated, things happen, life isn't perfect or simple and this story is proof! So, I may use this blog to throw somethings out there, get some ideas, bounce things off of you...so FEEDBACK is important!!



I also have a lot of random thoughts, yes, on occasion I wear rose colored glasses!!



If you are reading this blog for the first time start at the beginning, the early postings, the first is Why Widget?! 10/30/08...

also understand, sharing this blog and my story is a big step, I am basically a shy person, my writing is very personal and close to my heart...and yes, I can still take feedback, it's the only way I'll grow and become the novelist I know I can and will be...

march....

ok, i've been remiss in my blogging...

i went to mecca and watched practice on 2/11, then watch (on tv) the duals, the truck race, the nationwide race and the Daytona 500.

since then its been racing in Fontana and Las Vegas...and there's a certain driver that forgot that there is a speed limit when on pit lane....grrrr

but it is NASCAR and i'm very happy, now my countdowns are in days not weeks...except the countdown until i go to Charlotte!!

birthdays

yep, it's that time of the year, but it's just a number!

i'm going to disney and spend some money, not my money but their money! since i have an annual pass i don't need free admission, i will opt for the birthday fun card, which has a value equal to admission!

then i may head east to Mecca, well, it's my Mecca!!

no NASCAR weekends 10 & 11

ok, i've been preoccupied, weekend 10 wasn't bad because that Friday QVC was as Stewart-Haas Racing and spent an hour with Tony, Ryan was there part of the time.... and weekend 11 wasn't bad either because the boys had been in Daytona for fanfest.

this past weekend was wonderful!! Tony did great in the shootout, coming in 3rd. Ryan came in 3rd in qualifying on Sunday, doesn't mean too much except starting position for the duals, I'm hoping for a Stewart-Haas second row...

the duals are Thursday, i love racing!!

no NASCAR weekend #9

It’s only a few more weeks until real racing begins…there has been some NASCAR activities going on, media tours, testing and this past weekend some of the drivers were in Daytona for a fan fest…

Over in Great Britain there was even some strange race involving cars hauling camper shells around a track, looked more like demolition derby to me than racing.

At least NASCAR righted a wrong from this summer when they changed the format for the Bud Shoot out and made it a manufacturer’s race and not a race of pole winners and past shoot out winners. Originally it was going to be the top 6 cars, not necessarily drivers, of each manufacturer, which left out Tony Stewart since he left JGR to form his own team, SHR, going back to driving a Chevy. The thought of a rookie (Joey Logano) in the race and the 2 time champ out of the race was more than I could handle and I planned on not watching the race….but now each manufacturer has a wild card car and since Tony is a past champion he gets the spot. To be honest I don’t know who gets the wild card for Ford, Dodge or Toyota…my bad. Now I'll watch...

no NASCAR weekend #8

less than a month until there is racing again...thank goodness...At least this weekend there were driver sightings on CMT Cribs, they visited Kevin Harvick, Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch. can you tell my heart isn't in this at all...