Comments on: new normal http://mandythompson.com/2008/08/15/new-normal/ Mandy writes music. Mandy leads worship. Mandy loves Drew. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:32:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The way things were | thatangiegirl.com http://mandythompson.com/2008/08/15/new-normal/#comment-33802 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:03:32 +0000 http://mandythompson.wordpress.com/?p=621#comment-33802 [...] made me think about what Mandy wrote on her blog this morning about change. (Check it out here). We get used to “the way things are.” But inevitably, things change, and they soon [...]

]]> By: mandythompson http://mandythompson.com/2008/08/15/new-normal/#comment-14122 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:13:30 +0000 http://mandythompson.wordpress.com/?p=621#comment-14122 you can’t beat having your family together – no matter what the cost. i’m glad you’re finding positives in all that. love you!

]]> By: Brandy http://mandythompson.com/2008/08/15/new-normal/#comment-14103 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:06:31 +0000 http://mandythompson.wordpress.com/?p=621#comment-14103 BESIDES missing people, I like it. ;-)

I like the area. I like our house. I like the slow paced life. I like not having to worry about which family member is peeking through my front window (seriously). I like knowing Jake is going to be home at roughly the same time everyday. I like knowing he’ll be home for dinner every night. :) I like knowing he’ll be home on the weekends. I like that because we don’t have good friends here yet (okay, I have one) it forces us to do more family stuff together. There is nothing we don’t do together. That is a nice change from life before where we did almost nothing together because of his job. I like that Jake is able to put the kids to bed everynight. As much as I miss my friends and family, I like having my family together, having Jake home more.

So yes, I like it. :lol:

]]> By: mandythompson http://mandythompson.com/2008/08/15/new-normal/#comment-14078 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:36:54 +0000 http://mandythompson.wordpress.com/?p=621#comment-14078 and you like it??? your description of normal made me sad.

]]> By: Brandy http://mandythompson.com/2008/08/15/new-normal/#comment-14074 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:59:36 +0000 http://mandythompson.wordpress.com/?p=621#comment-14074 Minot, North Dakota is my new normal.

No family around is my new normal.

No friends (so far) is my new normal.

So far, besides missing people, it’s not bad. I’m liking the new normal. ;-)

]]> By: mandythompson http://mandythompson.com/2008/08/15/new-normal/#comment-14059 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:57:14 +0000 http://mandythompson.wordpress.com/?p=621#comment-14059 Nor: GREAT quotes! do you pull these off the internet? ;)

Tam: you know – that’s a fabulous reaction to such news. to realize that you’ve been living in it just fine, even though you weren’t aware of it. it was already normal for you.

]]> By: tam http://mandythompson.com/2008/08/15/new-normal/#comment-14054 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:05:49 +0000 http://mandythompson.wordpress.com/?p=621#comment-14054 just over 4 years ago i found out i had lupus. it ticked me off. it scared me. i was so upset for so long. several months later i met with my doctor and he told that he suspected, after looking through my chart, that i had-had lupus for almost 10 years. wow. really? so “this” has always been my normal. why should anything change. it is normal for me to wake up and feel like someone who would call in and use a sick day. i can deal with that. cuz those are good days for me. thats normal. the new normal came with learning to deal with knowing why i felt the way i did physically. having been given a “name” for it. that was hard. but in reality, nothing changed…just a new word was added to my vocabulary.

]]> By: TheNorEaster http://mandythompson.com/2008/08/15/new-normal/#comment-14045 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:31:34 +0000 http://mandythompson.wordpress.com/?p=621#comment-14045 Beats me. I love not being normal. ;)

“It must be admitted that the normal man knows that he is so only in a world where every man is not normal. In order for the normal man to believe himself so, and to call himself so, he needs not the foretaste of disease, but its projected shadow.” ~Canguilhem

The quote comes from a book entitled, “Damned for Their Difference: The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled” by Jan Branson and Don Miller.

Good read. Very good. :grin:

]]> By: mandythompson http://mandythompson.com/2008/08/15/new-normal/#comment-14043 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:23:33 +0000 http://mandythompson.wordpress.com/?p=621#comment-14043 Ed: women? i’m SURE you’re up for the challenge!!!

Al: we’ll take all the forward motion we can get – it means you’re still in the game. sing to yourself – “just keep swimming just keep swimming. swimming swimming swimming swimming” you’ll get there!! HEHE

annemarie: HI! just checked out your blog… glad to see you here!

Nor: why is it that those who are normal don’t wanna be, and those who are weird don’t wanna be? is it the greener grass thing???

]]> By: TheNorEaster http://mandythompson.com/2008/08/15/new-normal/#comment-14033 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:51:03 +0000 http://mandythompson.wordpress.com/?p=621#comment-14033 “The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.” ~Joe Ancis

Normal is just another word for average.

And if there is one thing I am not and DO NOT want to be…

…it’s average.

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