{"id":11,"date":"2008-08-09T20:16:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T00:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2008-08-09T20:16:45","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T00:16:45","slug":"out-of-order-out-of-sorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/out-of-order-out-of-sorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of order Out of sorts&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to thank my brother David for my first blog entry.\u00a0 He set up the web page-the blog and then\u00a0guided me through the process.\u00a0 He has been privy to some of my e rants and raves-being the computermrknowitall kind of guy-me thinks he nudged me into blogging-just so I would have another format to vent-thus keeping emails to him shorter.\u00a0 Fat chance.\u00a0He set up my website in a matter of minutes-sitting on our mothers sofa-actually my six year old asked for her web site first.\u00a0 That request got declined.\u00a0 She is 6 for gosh sakes.\u00a0 When I actually got to see the site I was at first overjoyed-to be a member of the artist techno world.\u00a0 And now when people ask me if I have a web site I can say, &#8220;As a matter of fact I do&#8221;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Then slowly, a small, teeny tiny voice in the very dark corner of my innards whimpered.\u00a0 All my labels were right there in 18 point font staring right back at me.\u00a0 I was all those things-have been for a long time- with the exception of mother-though I have been a mother in some form or foul(mouth) for sometime.\u00a0 But gee, as complex and complicated as I can be -seeing those titles seemed to make it all so simple&#8230;.. 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