Surprisingly Overwhelmed! (But in a good way)

I started this morning off in a shitty mood to say the least. I mean, it's Monday for goodness franks! Plus last night ended on a crap note, so waking up on the wrong side of the bed was pretty inevitable. (Son of a Monkey!)

Then of course the day wore on ...

One sick child, one whiney child and one little miss know-it-all later ...

Did I mention the lines at the library, bank and Meijer? (OMG NEVER GO TO MEIJER AT 5PM!)

Needless to say I poured myself a nice glass of wine, then a margarita, then sat down at my computer to catch up on my websites and such. And this is the point in which my jaw dropped and a tear formed in the crevice of my eye.

Today's comments alone were amazing. It was a question I was asked, so I answered, figuring the questioner and I were the only two who have experienced this predicament (Returning to work after a leave of absence due to a mental illness). Apparently I was wrong.

I know this must this may come as a shock, at least to me it does, but sometimes I enjoy being wrong!

I continued on to check my monthly stats via Google Analytics (NEVER use this ... it's addictive and it will rule your life) and almost gasped. One month ago I was freaking out because I had hit 2K visits in one month. Today my visits (so far) for the month of January are almost 2,700!!! Um...seriously... November ended with just over 1,800 visits. How can I not be overwhelmed!

THEN to make that overwhelmedness (yes that's a word!) I saw that 12 visits came from this site alone. Um, yeah. I haven't posted to this site in well over a month. So I swoop over here and holy mother of all that is chocolate, 35 followers!!! I understand that this pales in comparison to the almost 200 I have on AaB, but I have NEVER advertised, publicly posted, etc this site EVER.

So ... where did you all come from?!?!?

Needless to say, today, I am ever so grateful in so many different ways. I truly feel like God is smiling upon me and blessing me with so much of his awesomesauceness. Have I even mentioned that I may no longer be getting a divorce, PDog has only missed school for being SICK in the last few months and I'm starting a new job helping those go through foreclosure (just as I did) get help?

Now if you've been following this blog for any sort of amount of time, you'd know the past 3 years of my life have been INSANELY difficult. All I can say is, I'd go through it a million times again to feel how I feel today. And for ANYONE who has hit rock bottom, it gets better ... IF you learn from your mistakes and do your damnedest to not make them ever again. And if you are as lucky as I am ... you may even become a stronger person for having experienced it all in the first place.

And my prayer to all of you going through these difficult times right now, is that one day soon, I hope you have the chance to be surprisingly overwhelmed too! (But in a good way)