I will be renaming this diary from My Life in Words to My Dear Diary and change the second diary to something else AFTER I figure a title for it, lol. My brain is in that mood and mode again, LOL!

I have gotten to the point in my life where I need to have my own, personal, and place to write my thoughts, what is happening, experience, and what is MINE. I have a diary spot on-line today and have had it for 25 years this September when I went to Blackhawk College in Janesville, Wisconsin in 2001. That site is Dear Diary. I feel that DD has been my most favorite place to go and be my true self no matter what and how I feel. Although, my DD journals have followers and other diarists are able to read my life in words, I encourage a boost from time to time as well as constructive criticism and feedback from time to time. I do the same for other diarists, too, or just read what they recently wrote in their diary for the day. Even the creator(s) of DD share an update from time to time to let all the diarists know what is going on with the diary as a whole. Although the internet or the World Wide Web or www has been around for a long time now,  I actually do not remember the exact time it was available for the entire world, we still have to be careful and diligent while what is called ‘surfing the internet’ because there are bad people past the walls of our homes, apartments, and offices who lure people who are vulnerable. The authorities and law enforcement agencies can do only so much to protect citizens and their worker/communities up to certain points because they have rules and regulations to follow before other agencies can step in to help.

Now, as a Christian, who will admit has made some big mistakes in her own life, will remind anyone and everyone that I am NOT perfect, and I will go to the top of the mountain and shout it out that I am NOT perfect to prove this point, but I do not have to do that because I have Jesus who knows me better than anyone and people I have come across in my 55 years of life this far. I will be honest with you as long as you are honest with me.

Now, I have created a one year journal with Pages AFTER I took about a half an hour taking games of my iPad I KNOW I will NOT play but one time (when I load the game one day to the next) the game and its saved progress is deleted when permanently removed from my iPad or iPhone, I will not see it again. I want there to be enough space on my electronics to keep up with my journaling and other writing. I was born in an era watching how electronics work for individuals who are professionals and not professionals alike. I have seen programs like WordPerfect, Microsoft Office, and Pages evolve into very powerful tools for anyone who uses them. In the 1990’s I have had a computer and cellular phone of some sort able to access the www or World Wide Web now, and I had gotten my first computer I can call my own in December 1987 as a Christmas gift from my stepdad LLL and my mom who lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico at that time, and Mom came to celebrate Christmas in 1987 because I found out I was ill with total kidney failure and could not visit during Thanksgiving Day break in high school the same year. I found out how ill I was in October of 1987 and spent some time in the hospital during October and November of 1987 to regular a blood pressure that should have killed me by then. Finding out that I had total kidney failure/kidney disease was because of an experiment in Health class that took place and ultimately ending up saving my life! I will NEVER forget this for the rest of my life as long as my right mind works in my favor. If I ever lose my mind, it is because of something hereditary has occurred down the line of the family that may have or have not been proven. Although there are people who do not like certain sayings but hear them while out and about and through family members ‘that is the way the cookie crumbles’ as I continue from day to day as Jesus allows for me to be alive and able to speak the way I know how the best I can in writing. I find expressing my words verbally is not easy for me. I am a visional learner as well.

As I sit here getting ready to get to get my diary/journal setup and ready at Dear Diary (DD) I will always be using Pages as my go to place to write in my journal/diary, copy and paste. Welcome to my readable journal/diary at Dear Diary (DD).