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Wednesday

"The Book of Me, Written by You" - Life Chapters

This is a journey of finding yourself and how your loved ones see you in their eyes. Further, this can be online and carried forward to share, if you wish, to future generations.
This is a journey of finding yourself and how your loved ones see you in their eyes. Further, this can be online and carried forward to share, if you wish, to future generations. - See more at: http://joannfitz.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/the-book-of-me-written-by-you-topic-1.html#sthash.2TuO2bVu.dpuf
This is a journey of finding yourself and how your loved ones see you in their eyes. Further, this can be online and carried forward to share, if you wish, to future generations. - See more at: http://joannfitz.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/the-book-of-me-written-by-you-topic-1.html#sthash.2TuO2bVu.dpuf
The prompt for the week is:    
Life Chapters
The Brief:
  • Is your life divided into chapters?
  • How has that happened? Has it naturally evolved?
  • Can you easily reflect where one chapter ends and another begins?
    • Are there any surprises?
  • Are those Chapters determined by people and / or places / or significant events?


The chapters in my life have all naturally accord by decisions people have made. I like to think of it Sliding Doors" effect. Its just like the movie - you come upon one ultimate decision - do you go left or right because each of these will take you onto a different journey. Then your life go spiraling this way or that and sometimes they intersect again and sometimes they don't.
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Growing up, I started reading things like "Choose Your Own Adventure" which is a story in which the reader makes decisions and it would send you in different directions based upon the decision. Life is exactly like that.


I have to say, my life has been divided into chapters. They are:
  • From prebirth to when my mother left my father
  • From when my mother and I were together until I left the US to get married
  • From walking off the plane until current

Prebirth to Mother leaving Father

I know from more than one person, how much fighting, yelling at one another and laughing and jokes were done. Usually the fighting and yelling were done when my father was home and the laughing and jokes were when he was away. That's how I can remember tiny snippets from that time. Nothing major just feelings really.


Mother until Migration to Australia

This was mainly one of moving and sameness. My mother did and does thrive on nothing changing and everything staying the same for about 3-4 years. Once the 3-4 year mark hits, and all of a sudden she has to move. She complains about it all, but rather than make adjustments or finding out how to stay, she up and moves again and again.

She has a routine and those of you who break it, hold on to your hats because its going to get loud. If she doesn't eat by 4:30pm then either you miss out or it gets cold - tough if you want something different. If she has a show she watches, don't try and get her to tape it or miss it or else there will be hell to pay and you'll be sworn at quite a bit.


Migration to Australia to Present

This one is more often than not thought of in happiness. We've been married over 15 years and I've only had to move 5 times and most of those were because of the time when we had a fire and moved around a bit. However, since buying our house, I haven't had to move in over 12 years and its been THE BEST in that regard.
Us in front of our house

Like all couples, it hasn't been happy times all around. We've had me first getting a job, because no one wanted to hire someone not Australian. Then I lost my job 4 1/2 years after I got one due to them selling 1/2 the business and so I was unemployed again. Then I got another full time one working for the state government only to loose that one at about the 5 1/2 year mark due to budget cuts when they cut the whole position in the state and again I'm unemployed. I've now done study for web design and finished it with A (or HD) marks, only to find the jobs need some kind of real experience in order to get them. This is where I am at now.
2014 Web Based Tech Qualification

Further, you had us try and have kids. Unfortunately being classified infertile and about 10 years ago we were told we had about 1-2% of ever having kids. This year we decided to roll the IVF dice again to try again - only to fail. At the moment, we're trying to get over accepting this disappointment.
One of our campsites at Bathurst.

That being said, we have had some good times - camping and attending a few V8 motor racing meets at Bathurst in New South Wales in Australia. We visited 14 of states in the US and the final goal will be all 50 of them. We've built a house, and am happy. The only thing I ever require is a stable roof over my head, happiness, food in the belly, and kids. It looks like they are all going to be met except the last, so I guess that's something.



  Check back for the continuation of "The Book of me, Written by You" series.    

Saturday

"The Book of Me, Written by You" - Journals & Diaries

This is a journey of finding yourself and how your loved ones see you in their eyes. Further, this can be online and carried forward to share, if you wish, to future generations.
This is a journey of finding yourself and how your loved ones see you in their eyes. Further, this can be online and carried forward to share, if you wish, to future generations. - See more at: http://joannfitz.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/the-book-of-me-written-by-you-topic-1.html#sthash.2TuO2bVu.dpuf
This is a journey of finding yourself and how your loved ones see you in their eyes. Further, this can be online and carried forward to share, if you wish, to future generations. - See more at: http://joannfitz.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/the-book-of-me-written-by-you-topic-1.html#sthash.2TuO2bVu.dpuf
The prompt for the week is:  
Journals and Diaries
The Brief
The Brief
The Brief:
Do you keep a journal or diary?
How far back do they go? What do you record?
Where do you keep them?

Do you always buy the same one or vary them?
Have you inherited any?
Do you intend to pass along your journals or destroy them?
Pictures
Do you have a favourite?
What do you use to write with – biro, pencil, ink or fountain pen?

Do I have one?

Over the years, it has been mentioned to me countless times about keeping a journal or diary. However, I have to admit, I have tried over the years, but I don't have one and never really kept one for any time except for school assignments which I don't even have. 

When we did an IVF round, I did have an IVF Blog that I wrote in Microsoft Word. That's an interesting one and as we're getting ready to do our second IVF round in early 2014, its been interesting to go back and see some of the things that happened if we cannot remember. I'm going to  try and do another blog for the second IVF round as well.

There has been some updating of apps, so I might see if I can find the time (which is part of my problem), to start a journal of daily life. It might be interesting for those future generations to look back and see what I do in a day, even if its not very interesting. As we don't have any children, the journal and blogs might just be wasted time. A fact is that I'm going to sit down and record my memories of people, places, events as soon as I can. At the moment, my life is pretty full with life events (going away, having in laws visiting, classes that I'm taking are pretty lengthy, and sporting events - Bathurst on but we're not camping there this year) and that's only in the next 3 weeks this is happening.

I know I'll have to find out who wants to be the keeper of the family history information before I pass away, this way everything I've spent the last 8 years doing won't be lost and future generations won't miss out on the past.

Online Blogs

I do have 2 online blogs. One is for IT content that I talk about using WordPress. The other is entitled "Jo's Personal Blog" and that one I've had for a few years using Blogger. However, it doesn't seem like that, because when I lost my job this past year, I figured to start that blog up again and as the term blog had changed (from basically what you are going to do during the day to your thoughts on overall topics), so I went through most of the posts and either deleted them or put them into draft form where others couldn't see them. The upon talking to one of my teachers, I decided to start up my Jo's IT Blog to talk everything IT related. 

These I post in every week (Personal Blog over the weekend I publish, and IT Blog on Wednesdays I publish). On each I'm getting a pretty good handful of people - my personal blog has an average of about 30 views and my IT blog has about 200 people viewing and following. In the personal blog, the areas people access my blog from is unexpected - Australia, US and.... Europe! Yes, Europe and that I wasn't expecting. Hi to everyone that's in Europe!


Family Journals/Diaries

As far as I know, no one in my family has had either of these. I know when my grandmother was alive she would tell us about having the Nazis come through her childhood hometown and the
The Nazis at my Grandmother and Great Grandmother's hometown of Malkinia Gorna
fighting, but she never, to my knowledge, wrote any of it down. As I'm the family historian, or have been after asking questions for years and 8 years ago I started searching for some answers. As I've been looking for answers, I've been reading old newspaper clippings of the time right before or around the time my grandmother left Poland. I have to say, what she told me was one thing and reading newspapers back then give me the chills. Oh how I wish she was still here to ask even more questions!  Thankfully, my father is still with us, and I'll ask him more questions, but I have to wait until we visit again; however, I fear, that he won't know as much as I'm hoping he does. 

 
Warsaw Newspaper in 1920 a few days before my grandmother left Poland for the US.

I think the closest thing one side of the family ever got was a family bible. However, I was told, by my father Matthew, in August 2013, this bible was in shreds and couldn't really be read any longer, which broke my heart. This was a very old and pretty bible. It had gold leaf on the outside pages, very detailed pictures inside and there was a 2 page family history pages all filled out. To be told that all that information is gone is just heartbreaking.

Check back next week for the continuation of "The Book of me, Written by You" series.   - See more at: http://joannfitz.blogspot.com.au/#sthash.KPTGu0so.dpuf
Check back next week for the continuation of "The Book of me, Written by You" series.