Sponsorship, Ning Forum, etc…

Hi everyone!

I am finally back, again :)  All of my kiddos started school this year so it will be an awesome opportunity for me to push this site to the next level.

I have been answering emails privately, just not posting alot due to everyone at home for the summer and staying active with kiddos.

I am currently trying to get our Ning forum sponsored for an entire year which means that they would cover the cost for one whole year! It will be an awesome thing and I will let everyone know as soon as I find out.

Don’t forget we also have a FB page, join us there too!

You will see some changes to the blog over the next couple of weeks.  I am going to put into action what I have been wanting to do over the past year or so and add more health info.  There will be easier navigation for different vitamins, etc… too.

Please continue posting any questions/comments on how you are doing with your PMDD.

Woman with Butterfly Wings

So, if you are at a member at the forum you are noticing some changes.

First, the link is the same, but I did change the title to: Redefining Life: Life w/ PMDD Network, I think it is more fitting for a PMDD forum.  This is a PMDD network and the only one of its kind, so we should be very proud. :)

Also, I have been taking notes and ‘trying’ to get started on my first PMDD book, not an ebook, but book which is going be more like my life story from start to finish with my life with PMDD.  I posted how excited I am that I got thru the first page, just a start, but a start. :)  and the title is Redefining Life.  I believe with PMDD you are constantly having to redefine your life.  When you realize you have PMDD you have to redefine the way you do things, when you can do things, etc…
Once you get used to that, with or without meds, a lot of times PMDD throws you a few curve balls and yet another redefining moment comes along.

Next, for some peri-menopause, menopause, or surgery induced menopause hits and of course, another redefining moment.

I just felt that this title fit all of us 100% and I hope you all agree too.

***UPDATE*** 6/15/09
Well, I don’t know if it’s the cramps or the bad mood, or what… but the pic is on my nerves.  It’s not what I want and that of course pisses me off more than it should (good ole’ PMDD) :)  Anyway, I went back to what I love and that is the turquoise color, left it at that and am stopping the over analyzing.

So, the pic is gone!

Now, onto the butterfly pic… I have wanted to find the perfect butterfly picture, my hopes were for the blue morpho butterfly because the color for ovarian cancer is turquoise and the blue morpho is that blue-turquoise color, depending on which pic you look at.  Now, obviously PMDD is not cancer, but our hormones are definitely affected by our ovaries so I thought using the color was perfect.

During my search which has been going on for so long I can’t even remember, that’s why the header of this blog is so plain, I came across this pic today.  A huge thank you to someone on photobucket.com.  I love the thought of the butterfly for PMDD because for me to have wings and just fly FREE, without pain, worry, PMDD (all of it) is a dream come true.  Sometimes when I am having those days when just everything seems to just over-take me, or go wrong, I can just sit outside and literally just drift away, think about a butterfly.  Corny?  Probably! but I love it!

Back to the pic.  When I came across this pic of the Woman with wings, it was perfect.  I just felt it!  It wasn’t over-done, not an overly sexy butterfly Woman pic like so many of them are, it was like it was done for this site.

Also, if you don’t upload your own profile pic to the forum (the network forum: www.lifewpmdd.ning.com, then this pic will be uploaded until you add your own.

If you need help adding your own pic, just shout. :)

I hope you guys love the changes as much as I do!  I can’t wait to get the site header fixed up now!

Stef

Question for all of you~ Reading Posts, Replying, etc…

Hi everyone!

Is it easier for you guys to find out about the new posts because you have:

(a) subscribed to the blog and receive an update via RSS feed or Email
(b) you are a member of the Women’s forum or Men’s forum and see it posted at the forum
(c) you have an incredible memory and check the blog daily
(d) you are a member of my facebook page and stay updated that way
(e) you wish I would update via twitter
(f) you wish I would update via twitter and explain twitter to you
(g) you have another option I haven’t mentioned here

**I am really here to make all of the info on this site available every way possible, the easiest way possible. I have it out there at all of these sites and if you need help, please let me know.

Stef

Staying updated is Easy~ lots of Options

*You can visit the blog daily.
*Subscribe to posts & comments
*Subscribe to receive emails with new posts
*Join the FREE Social Ning Site, lifewpmdd.ning.com

Visit lifewpmdd
If you need help, email me and I will help you!

NEW FORUM: OPEN NOW

**UPDATE** After only a couple of days of the other NEW forum being up, I have spent hours of fighting SPAM. I have decided that the best thing to do is use the social forum/site in addition to the blog as our way of communicating.
I need to spend time posting and replying and researching, not fighting off SPAM.

GO Now, you will love how easy it is to keep up with the blog and chat back/forth with other members from the social network. lifewpmdd.ning.com

The new forum is open now.
Please go by and check it out, I know that it will be more personal, and we can learn so much more from one another.

Enjoy and let me know your thoughts as always!

Stef
www.lifewpmdd.com
www.lifewpmdd.ning.com (PMDD Social Forum)
livingwpmdd@gmail.com