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Ok, another extended break. What�s new this week, let me see?

I can�t say this loud enough, WHO CARES WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK ABOUT YOU! ONLY YOU NEED TO WORRY ABOUT HOW YOU ARE! You have enough to worry about, such as overcoming your fear of the MONSTER. Ok, that�s off my chest.

Let�s get on a nicer note here. I was writing this at work and I had problems talking on the phone, only, 1 out of about 10 calls I received during my 12 hour Shift. I know I�m getting better on the phone. You know what, I like to think about positive things like this because it reminds me that I can stay fluent.

First of all, I'm sorry for taking longer than a week to update this, but I went to Las Vegas for the New Year. Which leads to my next story.

I met this wonderful woman during my stop over in the Denver airport. Within about 20 minutes I told her that I stuttered, just so both of us would be more convertible. Which worked out great. I knew her for about 4 hours, but it felt like we were friends for years. We are now keeping in touch by E*Mail and it's great!!!! This week has been a great week for me and I want to share this with you so you may not be afraid to talk to somebody, because you never know how well the friendship could turn out. Our lives are too short to be afraid of the monster. Enjoy life, you won't get a second chance. Talk to you next week.

Lori, thank you for being such a wonderful person.

This week has been a banner week. I�ve been extremely fluent on the phone and even spoke over the P.A. system, with no stuttering. But, there is no one at work that would even notice that I was fluent. I wish people were not so embarrassed to talk about topics like this! Oh well, the world is not perfect.

This week was a little general, sorry.

This week will be about a co-worker of mine. He saw me working on this web page and he asked what the title of the web site meant. Well, a perfect time to talk about my stuttering. So, I told him the title meant that my stuttering is only a small portion of me and that it (the title) reflexes my attitude towards my stuttering (staying positive at all times). Do you know what he told me, he said, I didn�t even realized you stuttered. Now that made me feel pretty good, because either he didn�t notice or I�ve really been fluent lately. Either way it is an extremely positive comment. Thank You Erik. I will talk to you guys next week about another experience of mine.

I would like to start this first week out on a positive note, so I will tell you what a very good friend of mine told me last week. He said that in the last seven years that he has known me, I have improved my stuttering almost a 100%. He felt it was because I matured and gained confidence in myself.

My intentions are not to brag, but to let you know that all it takes to give you a boost is someone to tell you something like this. It really did help to reinforce what I thought I was thinking about how I viewed this topic.