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Joe

He’s feeling insecure and missing me. We are going through a rough patch. He keeps posting photos of me. In some of them I look a little weird. In this one, I look drunk or stoned but I wasn’t either. And in this one, my hair has grown to such large proportions that they kicked me out of Utah and then made me leave the country. Germany was glad to have me. I got a new guitar! And, look at Alex! And Tony! And Devon! (Where’s Tyler?)

Joe is a good guy. He’s really working on his Stuff. And Stuff is hard to work on. Whatever happens, he’s going to be more Joe than he’s ever been.

And, I love him.

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Dear Internet,

Your letters, emails and comments have been amazing. Thank you.

I’m taking the weekend off. Please come back next week for an update.

Sincerely,

(and with xoxoxo)
leahpeah

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So – Really?

I’ve gone through some growing pains with this blog. It started out as just a way to stay in touch with my kids when we were living about 300 miles away from each other. About the time I realized that they weren’t reading it that much, I figured out that I really loved writing in here and I wanted to keep writing even if they didn’t read it or if no one read it. I loved writing out what I was feeling and it helped me process all the stuff going on in my day. And then I started doing interviews.

The interviews I do with people are really there because I’m selfish and I want to know what drives other people. I’m fascinated by people. What makes them tick? Why do they do what they do? What makes them what they are? When I find someone that I’m interested in, I pester them until they agree to let me poke them in the brain. Usually it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. Either way is fine, but of course I prefer the former. And if you enjoy them – Great! But I don’t do them every day or even every week. Sometimes I write about just plain’ol me.

So, I can’t really explain it, but now I find myself in the position of lame email stalkers, wonderful loyal readers, casual drive-bys and various family members. Some of those people want to tell me what I should write about and what I should not write about. Some of them think that because they have been reading me for years, that in some way they own a piece of this online persona and they should get to weigh in their thoughts about what goes on here. Well, I have to say to them: sorry, but no. I respectfully decline your offer to tell me what I can and can’t write about. This online persona is attached to a real person – me. I have feelings and thoughts and emotions all my own and they are ME and REAL and will continue to dominate no matter how you feel.

There is this pressure to keep things light and funny and witty. I can do that some of the time but other times I’m depressed, or sad or something bad happened and I want to talk about it. And I can! Because this is my space! Like the past week or two have been insanely hard. The business is growing and we have clients that want work done and not enough people and time to do it. And Joe is going through some major stuff and regrets getting married to me. And there is a divorce looming. And my kids are sad. And I cut my finger really deep. And my ovaries hurt. And things basically suck. So, where can I talk about that if not here? And the minute I think about writing it all out, I get another email from someone asking why I write about mental illness when I can be so funny at other times. Well, guess what? I’ll write about whatever I want to write about. And there are so many blogs out there in the world that I’m sure you can find something that you might like more. So – go. Or stay. Or do whatever. But if you decide to stick around and hate what I write – don’t tell me. I don’t care. Just wait a few days and I’ll have a new interview up or I’ll write about something cute the kids said or post a new photo. It happens. I swear.

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Internet, I Turn to You

The business is going really well. In fact, so well, we could use help. Isn’t there someone(s) out there that wants to do programming for us and is worth their weight in bits?

Here is the ad we are running:

Crawberts.com, a web development company, is hiring 2 programmers with at least 30 hours a week to devote to our projects.
Must have recommendations.
Must be good with deadlines and communication.
Must: PHP/MySQL, JavaScript, HTML
Desired: Ruby on Rails, web development skills
Please include example links along with your role in developing them with your info.
Contact: Please email us at jobs AT crawberts DOT com

And I’d just like to add: please! don’t be a flake. Look – I really don’t care where you live. That is the beauty of the WWW. I can be here, you can be there, and we can work together fine using lots of fine internet tools that people have created just for people like us. I just want you to 1) know your stuff as well as you say you do, 2) have been around long enough to have done some work for other people that you (and they) are proud of, 3) know yourself well enough to tell me an accurate ballpark of when you will deliver good code to me, 4) let me know as soon as YOU know you won’t be delivering said code on time, 5) have a stellar work ethic and 6) feel like integrity is one of the most important things in life.

Here is what we offer:

Freedom to work from your house in your underwear or pajamas if you want.
Freedom to work from our house, but please at least wear pants. Or not. And next year, we’ll throw in an office location to pick from as well!
Totally flexible work schedule.
Unlimited growth. Seriously.
Unlimited job titles. Except for Co-Founder because that one is taken, twice.
No Causal Fridays with optional/mandatory bad Hawaiian shirts.
An opportunity to be a part of a great company.

I’ve never been prouder of anything I’ve been a part of than this company, with the exception of my kids, because who/what can top that? Nothing. So, seriously, email me. But don’t call me unless I ask you to. Because that shows you can follow direction well. And I like that in an employee.