Write. Just fucking do it. Write something. Then click that big blue button with the shiny white letters telling you to Publish. Something. Anything. It took a fucking year to get over the whole “what the hell would I even name a blog” paralysis. I realize now that was about far more than not being able to come up with a semi-original name.
Anyway. Some points about me and what to expect if you stick around:
- I curse. Sometimes a lot. And my favorite swear word is “fuck.” I use it as just about any part of speech and even as prefixes and suffixes. You’ve been warned.
- This blog will serve as a pressure valve to release the noise in my brain. That said, the topics will be many and varied. At least I think they will. That all depends on the noise. This also explains the title. Stephellaneous. Stephanie + Miscellaneous = I don’t have to explain this. Why am I explaining this. You’re smart, and you totally get it. Anyway. Books, movies, news, personal ranting or musing, music. It’s all fair game to me.
- I digress. A lot. I think you’ve figured that out already.
- Sometimes I’m a smartass. Sometimes I’m emotional. Sometimes I’m angry. Sometimes I’m pessimistic. A lot. Sometimes I’m overly forgiving. Sometimes I hate myself. In other words, I’m human. Sue me. (Please don’t sue me; I’m broke.)
- I like parentheticals (a lot). And I love hyperbole. I love it so much I want to marry it and have luaus on Saturn.
- I tend toward perfectionism and am often too hard on myself. I will endeavor to just write. Something. Anything. Regularly. Because I need an outlet. Though I hope to eventually have a small community of friends here, my main goal right now is to consistently get my thoughts out as a form of catharsis and belonging. Because even if no one is reading this, it still makes me feel as though I’m at least (a teensy) part of something.
Yeah, I think that’s all of the intro I need. I’ll just dive right in soon. Perhaps even today. We’ll see.
Stephanie + Miscellaneous = awesome! I love it. Welcome. I hope you enjoy it here.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thank you, Melanie! And thank you for the welcome – I needed that. I figured it would take a lot longer for someone to stumble over than it did. Thanks for proving me wrong. 🙂
LikeLike
Keep reading and commenting on others and we’ll find our way to you. 🙂 It’s a good community here. I hope you find that as well.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hi Stephanie! 🙂 Thanks for chatting with me today and “fuck” is probably the best word on the planet lol It has helped me through many trying times in my life. I love that you say “just write” it’s so true…honestly I got kind of caught up with technical writing and tried to keep up with those trying to be the next Hemingway…(news flash: stop trying…it’s like trying to be Freddie Mercury…there can only be one lol) once I got over that and realized I don’t really care to have writing snobs follow my blog, things started to get real and awesome 🙂 Can’t wait to read more from you! xo
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you, Cavelle! For both your kind words and your camaraderie – welcome things in a too often dark world. And damn, tell me about it! I love that you mentioned Hemingway, one of my favorite authors. Sometimes The favorite. And no way in hell will I ever be the next Hemingway. I laughed when you mentioned Freddie Mercury…there won’t be any statues of me popping up in Poland. That’s for damn sure. 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
lmao! yeah…I tried but they weren’t having it…I just don’t get it! lol
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hehehe!! Look forward to reading more from you!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hey there Stephanie! Just clicking around the blogosphere and commenting on blogs that I think are fun and interesting, and you’re one of them. October is my birthday month, so consider this an invitation to my month-long birthday party. Hope to see you over at That’s So Jacob sometime!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Good morning, Jacob! What a sweet way to start my day. Thank you supermuchmuch for the compliment. I will certainly swing by to poke around your place! 🙂
And and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
LikeLike
I love this! It’s bold and in your face and I just love it…A LOT!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yay, thank you!
LikeLiked by 1 person
You are welcome keep up the bold honesty!
LikeLike
This is a serious compliment for me, truly. I’ll do my best! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh fuck. I’m so glad I found your blog! :3
LikeLiked by 1 person
Ahahahaha! Now this is an introduction I would vote for in an election! 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh shit! Why did I see this just now?! 😀 I am glad I’ve dropped by in your ultra mighty space once again! So, I’ve recently done my first participation in a blogger award, and I’ve nominated you for it! If you can spare some of your free time to check it out, here’s the link for it: https://toastandteatogether.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/sunshine-blogger-award Thank you and I hope you have an ultra mighty, wonderfuuuuul day! 🙂 – Diana
LikeLiked by 1 person
Aw yay! Thank you, Diana! Super sweet of you! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
You’re welcome! Although right now, after dealing with so many kids, I feel like I am actually getting sour. HAHA
LikeLiked by 1 person
Pleasure to meet you 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Likewise! Thank you. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hey Dear! I nominated you for the Real Neat Blog Award! Check out this link for details 🙂
http://sunshineinmotion.com/2015/11/01/real-neat-blog-award/
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yay – super sweet! Thank you!! 🙂
LikeLike
Thank you for liking my poem Ornery Cuss. Please come back often!
LikeLiked by 1 person
You’ve got funny stuff over there! I’ll be back! 🙂
LikeLike
Thank you! Come back often. There is a lot there!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I love the name of your blog! I can’t believe it took you a whole fucking year to come up with it…that makes me feel better about my own hesitation in writing (misery loves company ;-)).
LikeLiked by 2 people
Ha! Thank you so much – and yeah, I’ve kicked the idea around for probably much longer than a year…and my go to excuse was, “Yeah, but what would I even call it. Gah.” And then I’d go back to ignoring the idea. 🙂
LikeLike
Same here – it took me ages to start my blog (I finally did so a month ago), even though I did plenty of writing offline over the years. I had two excuses: 1) I value my privacy/anonymity too much (that’s why I’m not on social media) and 2) Who the hell would be interested in reading what I write anyway? Anyway, I’m really glad you stopped ignoring the idea of writing your own blog. Oh, and I really like your header picture – where is it from?
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thank you, and back at ya! We share *very* similar reasons (anonymity and really who would give a shit?!), and it sounds like we started up around the same time. I’m glad we stumbled upon each other!
Thanks for the compliment of the header pic…honestly, I googled something to use until I can come up with something more original of my own. I’m trying to remember what search term(s) I used. Something like “journey,” I think.
I like the title of your blog, by the way. Becoming unstuck. Sounds like a good plan. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Me too, I’m glad we stumbled upon each other! Like you, I’m using my blog as an outlet for my thoughts, even though I can see from what I’ve read so far that you’re not holding back much (while I am…I’m still cautious). You wrote: “Because even if no one is reading this, it still makes me feel as though I’m at least (a teensy) part of something.” That’s exactly how I feel.
I’ve recently moved back to Canada after having lived in other countries for a long time, so I decided it was the perfect time to start blogging as I had wanted to do for the last eon or so. I told myself to ‘just fucking do it’! I’m ultra-talented at getting in my own way, so starting my own blog is my first step towards becoming unstuck.
You did a good job picking your header pic, even though it’s not an original one. All the pics on my blog are my own except for the ones in the reblogged posts. Since I have so many pictures from my travels, I wanted to put them to good use.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you – I definitely prefer your original pics, though!
Sometimes I worry that I’m letting too much out. What if someone connects this with me? My name? My employer? Kinda scary if I let my mind run with thoughts like that. For now, I’ve kinda thrown caution to the wind and let a lot of shit out that I keep bottled up in my day to day life. It’s been…therapeutic so far, I think. I hope you’re finding the same… 🙂
LikeLike
I think that as long as you don’t mention your last name, other people’s full names and specific details of your whereabouts, everything should be fine. It IS tricky to achieve a balance between expressing yourself openly and being cautious about how much you’re sharing. I empathize with your worries – the mind is so powerful! I’ve been finding the practice of blogging to be beneficial to my mental and emotional health overall, but on the flip side, I’m also struggling with comparing myself unfavourably to other bloggers and feeling self-imposed pressure to publish a certain number of posts in a given period. Oh well, it’s all about learning to accept myself exactly as I am. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Ohhhh yeah, I definitely do the comparisons, too. That’s dangerous, because if I’m not careful I could easily allow it to make me quit. And I don’t want to do that. This blog is for me. And yours is for you. And so on. And second to that, they’re for each other…to lean on and find solidarity and support and laughter and all sorts of wonderful things I didn’t expect. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks so much for the reminder and encouragement! I am here to reciprocate whenever you need solidarity and support.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Stephellaneous! Love the name
Your honesty is refreshing in a world filled with people trying to be PC and failing just the same, ha!
I look forward to reading more.
Hi Stephanie, thank you for the visit and follow. I also love and use the word Fuck! a lot lol.
peace and happiness to you
Antony
LikeLiked by 1 person
Aw yay! I so needed the smile you just brought to my face! Thank you!!! And thank you for the visit and follow as well! Pleasure is all mine, Antony! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
All that intro… and I’m. Not. Scared.
Bring the heat, sister. Bring the heat. Which is my way of saying I am looking forward to seeing your posts, and thank you for deciding to follow A Joyful Process.
(waves goodbye for now, but I’ll be back)
LikeLiked by 1 person
Well that was a pretty kickass way to introduce yourself…and I love it! 🙂 Don’t worry, I do my best to keep my profanity-laden tirades to my own space and out of comments on others’ pages.
Thank you for following and chatting. I’m gonna hush now. Once I get going, I can run my mouth like nobody’s business. And I need to clock out! 🙂
LikeLike
You have a wicked sense of humor and wit – totally glad you visited my blog, so that I got to see yours!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you so much! That’s a heckuva compliment! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hi,
>> I digress. A lot. I think you’ve figured that out already.
>> This blog will serve as a pressure valve to release the noise in my brain.
🙂
Take care
Regards
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hello there – thanks for stopping by and commenting! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
You are utmost welcome, Stephanie. 🙂
Take care
Regards
LikeLiked by 1 person
Loving the idea behind this blog! Can’t wait to read more…
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yay! Thank you and nice to meet ya!
LikeLike
Beautiful! Just what I like 🙂 Hey there, I found you over at OM’s blog in the link up he offered to all of us. Glad I came over. I don’t swear a lot (at least not on my blog so far… but sometimes I do. And I do a lot in real life…). Looking forward to diving deeper into your blog but I have to go now. It’s time to take my daughter dancing.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you so much for coming over! I’m the exact opposite…don’t curse much in “real life” but here, I just kinda let it all hang out. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Well, I curse when nobody can hear me 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh yeah…now I *do* do that!
LikeLiked by 1 person
*thinking intensifies searching the creativest fuck I love you joke*
Fuck it, 404, fuck I love you!
I fucking love you!
Damn I just spent my swearing limit for this month, I can’t swear until December if you ever dare left your funny honesty, I’ll get you fucked!
Fuck love!
<333
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hahahaha! Well, fucking thank you! 😀
LikeLike
😃 Thank you to follow my blog 😊
LikeLiked by 1 person
I like your drawings. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you. Which part of my drawings are you attracted to?
LikeLiked by 1 person
The manga and illustrations are my favorites. And I love the elephant. 😊
LikeLiked by 1 person
🙂 thanks
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks for the follow! Clicked through to your blog, read your About, and am hooked. We are pretty similar. Looking forward to connecting with you here in the blogosphere. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you, Molly! For the kind words and the follow, too. I look forward to connecting as well. 🙂
LikeLike
You’re my new best friend. I use “fuck” in my writing a lot, too. It gets the point across quite precisely. And hyperbole. Don’t even get me started. I’ll talk for hours, days. Forever.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hahaha! YES! As soon as I found you, I was like duuuude. Fattymccupcakes is my girl! 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes!!! ☺️☺️
LikeLiked by 1 person
I love you blog header picture, It’s from journey? I just read both that and quest with my kids at school and they loved it. I loved it! Thanks for stopping by my blog.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes, and thank you so much! Thanks for stopping by, too. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
no problems 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Very good to meet you, madam!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Likewise – thank you kindly! 🙂
LikeLike
*bows*
LikeLiked by 1 person
Pleased to meet you, Stephanie. I look forward to following your blog!
Rob
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you, Rob – the pleasure is mine!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks for the like and the follow I appreciate it. I’m happy also because it brought me straight to your blog, I enjoy the sense of humor. Also I mean, sometimes you just have to curse for no reason, especially if you stub your toe.
That shit fucking hurts.
Hope you have a great time in the blogging community you have a new follower out of me.
LikeLiked by 1 person
That’s not what I’d call no good reason! Stubbed toes are assholes!
Hehe…and thank you! That was super nice of you. I suspected I found a like mind…pleasure to meet you. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Pleasure to meet you as well.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Finally I get too say Thanks for following my blog Stephanie – and for all the likes! I’m so chuffed you enjoy what spills outa my brain (when my eyes let me see the keys to write it! ha ha! 🙂 ). Looking for ward to playing around in your blog! Thanks again! See ya in cyberspace! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
I enjoy your poems! And thank you for your kindness! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh! I need to dig out my essay explaining the many virtues and uses of the word fuck. It’s my favorite word, too. In fact, I think we are far more alike than just our propensity to say fuck. Reading this page, I thought you could be my ghostwriter. I can’t even list all of the similarities – it would be far too long.
Thanks for following me… I can’t wait to read more from you.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hahaha! Yay! I love that introduction…pleasure to meet you. Though if I’m you and you’re me, then we met a longass time ago. 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
My favorite is apparently “goddammit” ‘cos goddamn if I don’t use it all the time.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’ll let you have that motherfucker.
LikeLike
Thanks, goddammit.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Reblogged this on Fabulous With Glitches and commented:
May I suggest checking this little dish out? She is fucking hilarious! She blogs out inner thoughts….I swear she’s blogging things everyone is thinking silently. You’ll love her!
LikeLiked by 2 people
I am so glad that one of my favourite words brought me here 😉
But it is 5 in the morning my time , I really should stop reading.
But I’ll come back for more…
Turtle Hugs
LikeLiked by 1 person
Goodnight, Turtle! Sweet dreams, and it was lovely to meet you. 🙂
LikeLike
Thank you 🙂
See you tomorrow
LikeLiked by 1 person
I, like, *commas*, like, a, lot. 😉
Glad to have found a cheesy 80s buddy! ::fist bump::
LikeLiked by 1 person
Commas, commas, parentheses ooooo, and saying like and so and but and and cheesy 80s! *fist bump*
LikeLiked by 1 person
So, like, you are sooo cool (or whatever)…
LikeLiked by 1 person
*flips hair and blows a bubble* uhuh, you wanna like tight roll our jeans and stuff?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Like, *totally!* How could we *not*? (As if!)
LikeLiked by 1 person
HAHAHA! Oh man, I TOTALLY still say totally. Like all the time! Oh my god!
LikeLiked by 1 person
As long as you don’t say, “totally tubular” or “totally radical.” That might be a bit much!
LikeLiked by 1 person
…I DO sometimes say totally gnarly. And…and I’ve been guilty of radical a lot. Kind of a lot. Sometimes. Yeah….I don’t say tubular, though! 😐
LikeLiked by 1 person
I forgot about those! I picked up a lot of these expressions from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Turtle Power! You my homegirl now!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Word.
LikeLiked by 1 person
to ya motha
LikeLiked by 2 people
Damn. How do I top that?☺
LikeLiked by 1 person
With hammer pants. Cuz then I couldn’t touch that.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Damn, girl! You are too legit to quit!😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
Great intro! Going to explore your blog more!
Thanks for following our blog. I hope you enjoy the stories of our journey. And don’t be a stranger – come on over and join the conversation.
Cheers, Alison
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you so much, Alison! Y’all have a fantastic story! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
HI
Thank you so much for finding me and liking my posts and following me 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Good thing I’m going back through here…I’ve clearly not been notified on all of my comments!
Thank you, too! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
I have to do that, along with my spam folder, seems to randomly decide which person it wants to keep
LikeLiked by 1 person
Fucking awesome blog. And yes, Fuck is the fucking best word of all.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I hate WordPress’ guts right now – I’m sorry I missed your comment! And thank you! 🙂
LikeLike
Hey no prob! 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
Stephanie, I just wanted to come by and say thank you for deciding to follow my blog. I hope I can always provide a laugh when you visit, and I look forward to looking at your blog as well. :O)
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you! I was happy to find you – looks like you’ve got some funnies going. I always need and love funnies. 🙂
LikeLike
Well, being a semi-professional sit-down comedian here, I shall endeavor to keep the funnies coming. Thank you, Stephanie, for the kind praise. ;o)
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hey there, I’ve nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award. Should you choose to accept the nomination, follow the link for all the required information. Don’t worry . . . there is no pressure to accept, just know I do appreciate your blog and enjoy reading it! Here’s the link: https://shamingtheshrew.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/the-versatile-blogger-award/.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I am so sorry I missed this. I’ve been doing VERY poorly on my reading lately, as well as keeping the spam section checked on. No idea why this got stuck there.
Thank you so much for thinking of me!!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
reading this intro… I get the feeling you are on the right side of crazy…..as in crazy fun
LikeLiked by 1 person
Aw YEAH! Thank you so much! 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
Kick Ass Blog 🙂 ❤
LikeLiked by 1 person
Aw thank you so supermuch! 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hey Steph, I wanna send you an email! Do you have one???? Mine is thecheekyhousewife@gmail.com. See? Anonymous email so you don’t freak out too much about a random stranger asking. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
I do! stephellaneouswp@gmail.com 🙂
LikeLike
Hey, I’ve nominated your blog for the Versatile Blogger Award! I hope you’ll come by my blog and check it out! http://wp.me/p54HvG-nh
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you so much, Tessa! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
You remind me so much of a good friend of mine. She always just said what was on her mind and is such a gem! I had to laugh at the whole taking a year to start your blog because I did the exact same thing and went so far as to do a couple of online courses to ensure I was setting it up correctly. I wanted perfection but opted for just getting started and rolling with it. Can’t wait to check out your blog. ~Steph
LikeLiked by 1 person
Haha yeah! That’s what I finally had to do, too. Just dive in and go for it.
Thank you so much for your awesome compliments. And it’s a pleasure to meet you. Welcome to the nuthouse! 😀
~Stephanie
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hahaha! Thank you I happen to like nuthouses!! 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person