Cheeky in Blue: The Bloggess...because wine people, because wine...

Do you all ever read The Bloggess a fellow blogger, I say fellow blogger like I'm in some kind of club consisting of bloggingesque people in the know and that perhaps I'm on a first name basis with them, like we have lunch and chat about potential blogging topics like the latest Benjamin Moore must have gray for walls, the perfect Schumacher paper, the most abnormally brilliant farm house table for your kitchen...but sadly no, I have never met The Bloggess, but I love what she writes. She's a complete hoot. She posts things like this, that make me giggle...

And this...

And her story about
Beyonce the giant metal chicken is classic, one of the funniest things evaAH!...

And she was #1 on the New York Time Best Sellers List for this, which is apparently filled with awesomeness and cocaine, which is well, maybe the best selling tactic ever for a book unless it was filled with some Ryan Gosseling... I'm thinkin... I think the title captures the inner dialogue in most of us...words to live by people...

She is a riot, and has a true gift for writing in the way that makes people laugh for days. Sometimes she reminds us of what is real, because let's face it, it's easy to forget, and she tells us of her numerous struggles with depression. And again she's brilliant...because she's real.
And she writes about it here in I'm coming out of this eventually.

Sometimes we just need someone to bring the wine...girls are brilliant at this,
From the Bloggess...

Me: I’m having a nervous breakdown.

Friend: I’ll bring the wine.

I have true empathy for anyone going through the depression that The Bloggess talks about effortlessly. I don't struggle with depression, but I do battle anxiety on a regular basis, yet I know so many people who do, and her words can make a difference. Anxiety is a different beast altogether that can honestly wreck a person if you let it.

So how do you not let it wreck you...

-you deal with it like you would if you had high blood pressure, or cholesterol...

-you're honest about it so that everyone in your life knows this is who you are, (it's not like you are a serial killer people)

-you recognize that everyone has a story, and I assure you theirs is way-haayy better than yours...

-get moving, bloody well sweat people (don't I sound so very English right now, well yes, yes I do)

-get out of your comfort zone, do something that scares you on a regular basis, (I don't mean drinking snake venom for god's sake...I mean something like going parasailing when you're afraid of heights, or taking a trip all by yourself...you can do it, you really can)

-get out of your head, get outside, breathe in and out, because there are days you forget to

- be with friends, loads of friends and yes...