Ted E Bear

I have this bear. He was given to me by my Grandparents and is as old as I am. He doesn’t look like much but is my most cherished possession.

His name is Ted E Bear…creative for a….nothing year old. Grandma and Grandpa gave him to me when I was born and I don’t remember a time without him and somehow his name has always been Ted E Bear. You can figure that one out.

Ted is white and well worn. He is not very big, which suits me because I am also small. His nose has been so worn that it is no longer soft material but instead plastic. His mouth is lopsided from years of love and he has a few sewn together spots.   

At 30 you think that I would have given up snuggling with Ted but I have not. I read an article that said that snuggling with a stuffed animal or pillow as you fell asleep helped produced endorphins and reduced stress…so I have continued to keep Ted tight.

Why share this? Well, I don’t think that it is anything to be ashamed of. If something brings you joy and reduces stress in your life I think that you should hold it close and not be ashamed. Be proud. I love Ted E Bear and I appreciate what he does for me.

If you have something that brings you comfort I would love to hear about it.

BEDA - Day Thirty

Well, I made it through April and BEDA. I can’t believe that today is the last day and that tomorrow I don’t have to write a blog if I don’t feel like it. It has been an interesting month, but I’m really glad that BEDA is over. It’s really hard to think about things to write a decent blog about every day.

Out of all the blogs that I have written over the month my favourite are book reviews. I love to talk about books, and writing reviews really helps to get the urge out. Whenever I finish a book I always sit back and think about the book as whole, this is how I determine whether or not I actually liked the book. I think about the characters, the plot, the writing and how much I enjoyed reading the book. Writing about these points really helps me to wrap my head around my thoughts on the story, and usually by the end of the review I can tell if I will recommend the book or not. I guess that it could be the English major part of me but I will always like to think about books critically after I read them, even if I don’t go quite in-depth English essay in a review.

I also really love to write about music, and the couple of times that I wrote about music during BEDA have been really fun. I always have music playing, and I can’t stand to have my apartment to quiet. I love to listen to lyrics and to discover how I relate to them. I love the emotion that an artist can convey through instrumentation and how a certain song can make me feel. I also love to spread the music that I love around to other people, and writing about what a song means to you is a really good way to do just that.

I’ve written at least one movie review during the month, but I don’t think that I’ll get into that. I enjoy movies, but I don’t really enjoy writing about them. Movies have always been a way to relax and to veg out, I feel like if I try to write reviews about movies it will ruin movies for me.

I’ve written a bit about my personal life, and things that have happened during the month, and while that is a good out let, I don’t think that I’d want to do it all the time. It can be difficult to write about your personal life because you don’t want to share too much and at the same time you want to keep it interesting, it can be a fine line. I’m sure that I will write about my life from time to time, but I don’t think that it will be the bulk of my blogging.

I guess that what I am saying is that from now on I will be blogging about books, and music. I think that suits me fine. They are two of my favourite things, and it will keep my blog fun for me. So, let me say a big thank-you to those of you who have been reading my blog this month, it has been fun! I can’t believe that I have written every day, well I did miss two days but with almost 17,000 words under my belt I’d say that I won this challenge!