Oh my.....YAY for short weeks!  I sure do need this long weekend coming up.  I am so, so ready for it!  Friday night I was really  just drained and decided to do nothing....Saturday I had lunch with my pirate friend down at Black Oak.  There was such a nice breeze I really could have sat there by the water all day long.  Of course as soon as I hit the top of the hill the breeze was no more.  I ran a few errands and then home for a bit.  We had a cookout at Sally's Sat night.  Sunday was really a lazy day!  I went to the grocery store early then home to do laundry, catch up on some shows and well spent a lot 

of time in these-------->

<3 my fuzzy ugg flops!

Yes, I even let my happy self where them to mom's house for dinner...ha ha ha

Um..that's OK, it's a Rental! 

So yesterday I dropped my car off to have the side painted where a sheet of steel fell on it back in Feb.  The rental car guy was 30 minutes late and then refused to drive over 40 so almost 90 minutes later I was back at work.  This is now my new ride for the next few weeks...better to put miles on it than mine though...he he he  Elizabeth & Michael will totally get that caption under the rental.  :o)

Had a good lunch catching up with a friend and then back to the office.  After work I worked on my ads that I am looking to have out in October. (Total of 2, for two different local publications).  Thank you to my dear friend Susan Peterson for letting me steal a pic of her darling little girl to use in my ad.

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Then I got dinner ready but decided to go walk for a bit before eating.  It was not as hot as it has been but I would still like it to be a bit cooler for sure!  Today I got to work, no internet at first and then the realization that it was the 31st of the month and I had for the first time ever just flat out forgotten to get the tag renewed for my car.  After a brief moment of "Oh crap" style panic I then recalled that I am not driving my car.  Dropped it at the shop where nobody will be driving it so luckily it is all good!  ha ha ha  Now, I just gotta remember to get that done after the long weekend so I will have it when I do get my car back!  I decided to go for the "good start" this morning and had a big huge apple for breakfast when I got to work.  I mean really, they are supposed to be filling and give you energy....I am afraid it has done neither.  BOO!  It is only 10:30 and I am like starved....this is just nuts!  

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Well that is the update for now kiddos.  I will be happy to share more when I have more.  :o)  I hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far....just keep telling your self..."It's a short week!"   "It's a short week!"   "It's a short week!"   "It's a short week!"

"There are new words now that excuse everybody. 

Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, 

the people you can bravo or hiss. 

There was a truth to them that all the 

slick credulity of today cannot touch."

~ Bette Davis

Oh my.....and it is only Tuesday!  I mean Monday's stink, lets all just face it, we know it.  Yesterday in particular was a yucky day for me and well it just happened to fall on a Monday making it a big fat double whammy!  So needless to stay I clearly started the week off wishing for Friday before it had even started.  Situations are not always what we want and we do the best to deal and move on which is what I sort of felt like I was doing all day long yesterday.  Full or ups and downs for sure.  I was briefly reminded that there are some truly genuine, caring people out there when a friend of mine heard is little girl broker her arm at school and he literally just dropped everything, picked up, left NC and headed to GA to be with her.  I mean I was in a car accident at 16 and well since I was still breathing mine just went about his daily routine and saw me whenever it was he got home that evening. Oh well move on Whatever.  I was glad to see such genuine care and concern in someone.  Someone that would do whatever necessary to brighten the day of the one he loves so dearly.  Sweet!  I mean apparently there are 2 or 3 left in world.  

On the other side of that I was also filled with reminders yesterday that the moment you get excited, the moment you think someone has opened their eyes and stepped out of the "bubble" they call life and have turned over a new leaf......Oh wait, that is no new leaf at all.  It is simply the glare from the sun or gloom from the overcast day that made that leaf look like a new one but it was just your eyes playing tricks on you.  Not a thing had really changed! Oh well, guess the thought was nice while it lasted and so once again Oh well, move on, whatever.

Today started off with a lovely Workers' Compensation Audit.  Yes, an audit.  What flipping joy that is.  To add to that my allergies are so awful that until the auditor left and I could take my contacts out and clean them once again my vision was horribly blurry.  I had to restart my computer 3 times before they arrived just so I could get some work done.  Seriously, it is very frustrating to try and work and not be able to because your computer belongs in the middle of the highway awaiting the next 18 wheeler that would like to take the pleasure in putting it where it belongs!  Regardless, I put a smile on and was oh so super friendly until it was over.  I mean really, you don't want to irritate any type of auditor for any reason.  They will stick it to you one way or another if they don't like you.  It is what they do.  

It is only 85 right now which is a nice change but still humid.  Yuck, not a fan of humid!  I didn't get to workout all week last week and it is really starting to take its toll on me.  I have a workout partner but they have been so very much slacking and negative about it all I am starting to think I will be going it a lone from now on which stinks, I don't do as well when it is just me.  Oh well, move on, whatever.  

I think that will be my response to everything this week.....HA!

No pictures today, sorry, I will try and do better about that.

"I have noticed even people

who claim everything is predestined,

and we can do nothing to change it,

look before they cross the road."

~ Stephen Hawking

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So not a lot more to talk about.  Friday night a bunch of us went out to Black Oak for dinner by the lake and to celebrate Sally & Ralph's engagement.  I was really surprised, Donna, Darla, David and John even came.  (They never get out)  I think they had a good time though.  There were 15+ there as well has mom's best friend from Ohio, Jo.  She and mom have been friends a very long time.  Donna and Darla were up dancing and caring own which was just neat since they never even come out to dinner.  The music wasn't bad although it was beyond hot and humid.  Hurry it up Fall!   

I have not done a whole lot of anything today.  I have been working on my new Ad.  Hopefully it will be ready and turned in for the October issue of HELLO! Morristown Magazine.  I am doing a half page ad so I have just been working on getting it laid out and such.  I don't think I will make many more changes to it at this point.  Or maybe that is just my tired eyes talking....lol

I decided to take a break while it wasn't raining and only 90 outside to lay out on the swing for a bit.  Gracie enjoyed the short lived breeze and then decided to join me on the swing...ha ha she is a funny critter.  Oh course as the humidity started to take its toll on me the neighbors decided to toss out the little wiener dog who clearly does not enjoy being outside alone so once my peace and quite dwindled away I decided it was time to come in.  I love animals but I am just not a fan of nonstop barking or yelping.  Oh well.  Enjoyed it while it lasted.  I think tonight will be outdoor movie night under the fans of course!  Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend.

Enjoying the short lived breeze..

Joining me for nap time on the swing....

Ha ha...she is funny!

"You are never too old 

to set another goal 

or to dream a new dream."

~ C.S. Lewis

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Sister....My Sister

Well I will start this post off about my sister.  We are 7 years apart in age so things were a little different for us growing up than with a lot of my friend's and their sisters.  They all seemed to be just about 1-2 years apart allowing for them to share in a lot more things growing up.  Yesterday morning I got in my car, head pounding, to head to work and saw a letter on my windshield.  So I got out and pulled it off and got back in the car.  I opened it and started to read it (all the while extending my late arrival to work even more) and my eyes actually teared up.  My sister had left a letter for me.  Yep, you know those things that people used to put on that stuff called paper before email, texting and facebook became our only forms of known communication.  It was very unexpected and very much appreciated so I thought I would post it here.  (She might get me for that later, but its OK)  I think if you click on it you can enlarge it.  Thank you sister and I love you!

Sister --------> 

Letter ------>

As far as the rest of the week thus far.....HECTIC!  We did have our new regular GNO last night and had a good time and added 2 new faces to the group.  Again, I just think everyone needs it and mid-week is a good time for it.  It has been raining the past two days.  Makes for a gloomy day but we have stayed 85-90 which has been such a nice change.  Shall I mention again.....I WANT FALL!!   I am cooking dinner for a friend of mine tonight.  I knew it was just going to be she and her son at home tonight and thought she might be better off to have some company so I offered to cook dinner.  This does mean I have to clean the counter off at lunch but that's OK....LOL  I am  glad to do it.  Anyway that is really about it for this week so far.  Nothing too major going on.  Hope everyone is having a wonderful day!

Keep Ethan, Hannah & Abby in your prayers as they are in the process of their multiple surgeries at Shriners in OH and their continued road of healing.

No insightful quote today, just a funny one.  I used to pluck my sister's gray hairs and now she gets mine. HA!

"A sister will always notice her 

sister's first gray hairs with glee."

 

~Allison M. Lee

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A Year.....

So, August 15th 2009 was the day I officially moved into my new house.  August 16th was the first night I actually stayed there.  It has been such a journey.  If you ask my life long friend Geoff what is the one thing I have wanted for about the past 14 years....he would say, "She wants to own her own home.  She is very stubborn and financially is set on doing it, on her own."  My mother could tell you something similar I am sure.  I refused all of the thoughts and ideas of roommates and renting before buying and all that stuff.  I had my mind set and I wasn't going to settle regardless of how much it frustrated me at times.  My wonderful agent, Joyce, also my beautiful mother had me go through the whole pre-approval process and everything.  Frustrating but glad I did it.  I was very set on the area I wanted to live in as well.  I wanted Talbott area. Nice, clean, not crowded but also costing a little more and offering a little less as not much stays available in the area for long.  So we looked and checked things out and I was repeatedly disappointed in what I was being given to work with.  I was still set on an area and wasn't going to give up though.  I was driving home for lunch one day and right there in subdivision we were living in I passed a house that had a chair in the front yard and white letters posted all over the windows.  I knew these were not there that morning so I better check this out asap.  I called Joyce and asked her to see what she could find out.  Geesh...a note on finding something in Talbott, although the letters had just been posted mom was the 4th agent to call about the house already. (told you Talbott was a popular area)  So it took a couple weeks before they could get a price set on the house and allow agents to show it.  Of course driving by it a couple times a day I thought it was more like months....yes, impatience was setting in.  So, we finally got the call we could see it and we rushed to make arrangements to get a earnest check (which was required when making an offer) and I met mom, dad and my sister at the house as soon as I got off work.  I was ready to make the offer, had the papers drawn up already and everything.  I remember walking in and before I had even made it through the entire house I just stopped for a minute, my sister looked over and said, "Oh no, don't!, she is going to cry!" Yes, that is exactly what happened.  It was just this overwhelming feeling that I just knew this was the house for me and yet at the same time more than overwhelmed about the amount of work that was going to be required even before I could move in.  I mean I could afford what they were asking but I could not afford what they were asking and to make the home livable at the same time.  I was just devastated.  I had all of these different things and thoughts coming at me as well as my own.  Mom felt sure we could work something out, dad (stubborn and mind you not an agent) was dead set that we could find something wonderful and move in ready for the same price in the same area.  Mom and I knew this was crazy but we set out the next couple weeks (impatiently sitting on the offer for the home and just waiting....) looking at homes in the same area for the same price.  Dad quickly came around to the fact that it was just not as easy, cut and dry as he assumed.  I had some things working in my favor, yes in fall of 2008 the economy was on a huge downhill slide.  There were a lot of people with money and a desire to down size or make a move.  The issue for them, most of the people in this situation were in need of a place to move in within 30 days and with the work required this was just not going to happen for most.  I on the other hand had no deadline, no time to be out.  I was pretty open as far as that goes.  After a month we finally started making so pretty low ball offers.  I mean we were dealing with a bank, we were not going to hurt an individuals feelings and we knew exactly what was owed on the home.  The bank was a little difficult.  Instead of 24 hours between counter offers they ran more like 72 hours.  In the middle of negotiations they changed their agent requiring us to pretty much start all over.  A process that should not have taken more than a few days took weeks!  WOW...Talk about stressful.  Finally everything got worked out, closing came around and the work could start.  I could not help myself, I went and started cutting up the awful vinyl in the kitchen as soon as I got the key.  I had all this stuff in mind, I mean I had already designed my new kitchen before we even had an offer accepted.  I was ready!  My wonderful family chipped in.  We stripped wallpaper, primed, painted, tore down walls, replaced sub floor, tore out all the cabinets, electrical outlets, light fixtures, I mean we just gutted it.  It took 9 months of working every weekend and most evenings.  Donna and Darla helped strip wallpaper and paint on Mondays (the day the Shoppe is closed).  It was so much work and everything was done paycheck to paycheck after the mortgage and bills were paid.  I purchased blinds a couple at a time.  I even bought base board and shoe mold a few pieces at a time as it all had to be replaced.  Finally I got moved in on a Saturday but I was so exhausted I couldn't move my bathroom so I slept on mom's living room floor that night...LOL  Sunday was my first night there and the evening was a little difficult for all.  I mean it had just been my mom and I since I was 16!  I remember her telling me to come get my pajamas and I got there and she hands them to me at the door and says good night and stuff and I head home.....she called my aunt and sister and said "She just took her stuff and left" *tears to follow*.  Well hello, you handed me my stuff and the door and said good night, what was I supposed to do?  Needless to say I don't think anyone got much rest that night.  In the winter I got new windows which I needed so very much and in the spring I had all new gutters, soffit and vinyl put in around the carport and house.  Made a huge difference.  I am always seeing something that got missed (I am told this will never change) or something that has settled.  There seems to be a bad seam in the main bathroom that will need to be prepared in the sheetrock so I guess I will be repainting that wall in the near future.  At the same time I sit back and I see things that remind me that it was blood, sweat and tears of myself and those I truly love and could not live without that went into making this house my home, not some strangers.  The scratch in my floor from moving day, the 3 places where I managed to hit the ceiling with the roller when painting even though dad had already trimmed (tried to cover them up but they still show to me) they all just add to the character of the home and remind me daily of all the hard work and love that went into making it a home, my home.

There really are times that I sit back and the reality is still setting in a year later.  Sometimes I walk to the fence in the back yard and just look back at it.  It is something that deep down I was just never sure I would accomplish no matter how much I truly wanted it.  I am reminded daily just being there as well how blessed and lucky I am to have such a wonderful and amazing support system in my family.  I can't imagine a world without them nor would I ever want to.  I am so lucky when there are so many others out there that don't have that wonderful supportive family.  I love them all so much!!  I am so thankful for having them in my life each and every day!

MY DESIGN

LOVELY STARTING POINT

AFTER

MY STARTING POINT

NOW

"Call it a clan, call it a network, 

call it a tribe, call it a family.  

Whatever you call it, whoever you are, 

you need one." 

~Jane Howard

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The Hummingbird.....Yea...I will get to that in a bit....

Before I start, please continue to pray for Ethan Raines, 13; Hannah Allison, 8; and Abby Raines, 2.  They all start their numerous surgeries this week and next.  The mother actually went to school with my sister.  Small world!  They still have a long road ahead for sure.

Work was OK today.  It was payroll days so I was busy until I left.  Helps the day go by more quickly.  Then we had Girls Night Out again.  I think it is a good idea.  By mid week everyone really needs a break for sure!  It was Me, Linda, Terri, Sally, Mom and Lisa.  We had a blast and I think most of us will giggle every time we walk into a Weigles for quite some time.  (inside thing, but it is all mom's fault)  

Today was once again crazy hot!  It is just absurd.  I am so, so ready for fall.  Here it is 10pm and it is still 85 outside.  I sat outside for a bit.  See I have several hummingbirds that seemed to have nested in the trees in my back yard.  I love hummingbirds.  I always try and catch a shot of them when I can but this year they have sort of taunted me.  I mean they buzz by so quickly one actually hit my hair today at lunch.  It is just crazy.  They never have gotten that close in the past.  These are small babies and even when you see them in the tress it is really hard to get a shot of them.  They are so beautiful though.  There is 1 that is so pretty and shimmery and sort of reminds you of the colors in a peacock.  There are 2 that are mostly black and have these bright red patches on their chests.  Don't recall seeing them in the past.  Anyway, I didn't get a good shot as these have been very tricky but I did finally catch one today.....LOL   I wish I had been ready for it, I would have zoomed in!  Crazy little critter.

So, now that you have gotten your giggles out of my adventures in hummingbird hunting I think it is time for me to call it a night!  Hope everyone had a terrific Thursday!

From scarlet to powdered gold,
to blazing yellow,
to the rare
ashen emerald,
to the orange and black velvet
of your shimmering corselet,
out to the tip
that like
an amber thorn
begins you,
small, superlative being,
you are a miracle,
and you blaze
 
From "Ode to the Hummingbird" 

Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973)

Tuesday......and well, that is really just about it.  It seems to be one of those weeks again, one of those where you are just waiting and waiting on Friday to get here!  The heat has just been awful.  Yesterday 97 w/Heat Index of 107!  Really?  I mean my friends in South Miami are cooler than we are.  It has just been crazy.  It is hard to enjoy being outside when it is just so miserable.  My niece and nephew started school back yesterday and I think that went well for both of them.  Always good to get off to a good start of the year.

On another note, here lately I feel like every time I post I am asking to think & pray for someone.  I don't like to see so much going on but it is just part of life.  So, before I forget.....

Please keep  

Ethan Raines, 13; Hannah Allison, 8; and Abby Raines, 2 

& their family in your thoughts and prayers.  All 3 children were badly burnt in a backyard camp fire accident in Arden, NC.  I don't know them but we do share mutual friends and just to think that everyone's lives can change in a split second....It is very heartbreaking!  They were all flown to Shriners Childrens Hospital in Cincinaitti.  I know they have a long road ahead of them and that you can never send up enough prayer.  

(Asheville Citizen Times - http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20100810/NEWS/308100020 )

 

For everyone else, I sure hope we get some relief from this crazy heat and humidity.  It would be nice to sit outside for more than 5 minutes at a time and still be able to breathe!  I have been talking with the Trio Theatrical more frequently this week and hopefully will get some time to speak with the show director this evening.  I am looking forward to getting started on their various projects for their upcoming season of performances.  

I think my niece Starla has decide to start doing some pageants again.  Hopefully here shortly I will have some pics to post.  I promised her we would take some, it has just been so dang hot and sticky out!

Well that is really all there is as far as updating, not a very exciting week so far.  Maybe I will have more for you later....LOL

Hope everyone is having a good week!

"It is wise to keep in mind that 

neither success nor failure is ever final."

~ Roger Babson

TGIF!  Oh my, that is just all I can say.  What a crazy week it has been.  I am ready to go home and not think about work for a couple of days.  Went and worked out again last night and it was just as tiring as the other night.  I am not sure where people seem to get all this energy from after a workout.  Makes me just wanna take a nap!  Salad and Steak was worth it though I suppose.  he he  Last night seemed to be the night that everyone wanted to fill my head with all of these thoughts and ideas.  I mean some of them were just fun creative ways to advertise my side business and maybe produce some more work as far as that goes but still a lot to think about.  On the other side of that were some things to think about and consider that I had never before considered.  There would be change for me for sure although I always worry myself with the whole "Well what if....." and then I get myself a little stressed.  I haven't decided anything on anything just left me with A LOT to think about and consider for sure.  Like I don't already keep enough things on my mind.  For the locals, keep your eyes peeled, I am be working out some advertising with Hello! Morristown Magazine.  Keeping my fingers crossed it will be a deal work taking!

So I am going to be getting together with some friends this week and hopefully meeting up with the show Director for the new Theater group I will be working for Trio Theatrical.  I am looking forward to meeting him and hopefully getting to move forward on the various projects we have discussed.  I, hopefully, have my first photography job lined up too!  Exciting!  If you know me you know it is rare my camera is not with me at any given moment.  I love to snap pictures of anything and everything and sometimes you end up with nothing special and sometimes you grab something really beautiful!  If nothing else though, it is my hobby and it makes me happy so it can't be a bad thing.  If I can make a little extra money on the side here and there that would be a blessing!

I think that is about it for an update today.  Hope everything has a wonderful, wonderful weekend!

A Beautiful Sunset at Panther Creek Park

Darling little Humming Bird.  I love these things but gosh they rarely sit still!

Nature.....How beautiful!

"Anybody can sympathize 

with the sufferings of a friend, 

but it requires a very fine nature to 

sympathize with a friend's success."

~ Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man under Socialism”

So very thankful that we are half way through the work week!  This week has just seemed like a chore from the start.  Made it back to workout yesterday....geesh miss a few weeks and it will get you good when you go back.  BOO!  I was hoping it would help me sleep better although no luck there.  It was still good for me though so I will just have to stick with that.  ha ha

To night is a little girl's night out.  Should be nice to just relax a bit and not think about work.  One of the girls wont be there tonight, her friend's 7 month old son passed away last week and she is going to spend some time with her.  Although she will be missed with us this evening this young woman needs her much more than we do tonight.  So very sad, no doubt.  I know you don't know them, I don't know them but please keep Chris and Amanda Blanchard in your thoughts and prayers during this very difficult time in their lives.

"On the night you were born,
the moon shone with such wonder
that the stars peeked in
to see you

and the night wind whispered,
'Life will never be the same.'

Because there had never been
anyone like you...
ever in the world."

~ Nancy Tillman

As we all sit and go throughout our day with our peeves and whatnot I hope we all can still step back and keep in mind....Things could be worse, we could be one of those less fortunate & we should be thankful for where we are, what we have & most importantly the loved ones in our lives.

With that being said......I really have an issue with all of these crazy, non-educated drivers out there that 1) Can't Drive and 2) Purchase vehicles they can't handle.  I mean really, if you have all the money in the world that is just great, I am truly happy for you but don't go wasting all that money on large SUVs that you can't even manage to maneuver through a drive-thru let a lone actually park properly!  I was seriously struggling between laughing my pants off just watching her so very slowly try and make her way into the drive through with her big Navigator and getting very aggravated that I was wasting time stuck behind this woman that I am starting to think could not find her way out of a wet paper bag with both ends cut out of it! It is like going to Turkey Creek and trying to do a little shopping and having to back out of an entire aisle just to park because that idiot in the Hummer that thinks they are so cool can't manage to get out of their parking spot because someone parked within 20 ft of them in either direction while they were in the store.  It is bad enough, in my opinion, that Driver's Ed is not required in the state of TN in order to drive but come on now, If You Can't Drive It, DON't Buy It!  I just don't think that should be too difficult.  There is the lovely update from my lunch hour.....LOL

Saturday will be lunch with the Pirate and Kameron. (for those just coming in, Pirate is my friend John from the United Kingdom.  It's an inside thing)  Anyhoo, he is here about 5 more weeks.  3 more for work and 2 strictly vacation time and then it is back to the United Kingdom for a bit.  One weekend soon I think we are headed back to Biltmore.  We went just before he left the country in May and he is dying to go back.  I haven't met Kameron yet but he wants me to meet her so we will see how that goes.  Hopefully she will turn out to be a good one!

Well it looks like I have a few things to finish up for the day before dinner out with the girls.  I think we all need it this week!  I hope that everyone is continuing to have a wonderful week!

"Behold the turtle. 

He makes progress only 

when he sticks his neck out."

~ James Bryant Conan

Really...

August already?  I can't believe it.  Yesterday was a Monday for sure.  The start of my least favorite month of the year and a Monday that felt so much like about 5 Mondays crammed into one!  It was one of those days I got off work, poured a glass of wine and just needed to chill a bit before anything else.  I have been on a sandwich kick for whatever reason lately but last night I decided to grill salmon.  It was a good change.  

I have been really bad about updating, not even pictures!  I really have not taken any.  I took one today at lunch though, just for this.  Christie said I needed to get my booty in gear with this blog thing...ha ha ha  HAPPY BIRTHDAY (early) Christie Angel Brookshire!!  (Look at that, you got your very own little shout out in my blog...ha ha ha)

Things have been moving at work, not sure they are really where I would like them to be but somewhere is better than nowhere....right?  On another note my side business PWD has really been picking up and I have been so very thankful for that.  I have Hope Outdoors (I know I have written about them before), Trophy Destinations, Trio Theatrical and ABC's Complete Auto Detailing.  They have all been keeping me very busy once I leave job 1 each day and weekends too!  Again, nothing but Thankful!  

If it is not one thing it is another.  Set funds aside for the dentist for myself and a cleaning for Gracie then desperately needed tires so first things first dental funds went to tires.  Ugghh maybe the side business will keep moving at a good pace and I will quickly have funds aside for dental again!  Although Ford is running a great deal on tires with $100 rebate so I am getting tires cheaper than ever before so that is a positive for sure.

I have been doing some catching up with old friends as well. (so at least you know I am doing something other than neglecting by blog and working HA)  A couple weeks ago I met up with Jessica & Johnny Howard and their two boys.  Gosh I had not seem them since 97-98 so that was a lot of catching up!  It was good to seem them though and I enjoyed catching up.  In some ways it was as if we picked up where we left off, crazy huh?  This past weekend Geoff & Joseph Dilts came to visit and see the house and family.  We normally catch up on a regular basis but with me buying the house and working on it I have not seen them in 2 years!  I can't believe how tall Sepy (Joseph) has gotten and he is a polite little young man, nothing like his daddy was at that age....ha ha ha  Sunday was a bit of a lazy day.  Caught up on some DVR stuff, visited with Mom a bit and watched The Sorcerer's Apprentice, it was a cute movie.

I am hoping to go workout today.  They are only open until 7 so with everything going on in the past few weeks I haven't been at all.  I think it is starting to take it's toll as well.  I just don't feel as good.  Hopefully it will make a difference getting back into the swing of things.  

Well that's it for now, must go finish up payroll now that lunch is over.  Ya know, that thing called WORK, always getting in the way huh?  Thankful to have a job though as I know there are so many out there less fortunate.

Please continue to keep our classmate Nicole Farlow in your thoughts and prayers as she is still battling every day for one more day with her children and to live her life.  Cancer = UGLY & MEAN!

October 30th is Race for the Cure.....I will keep everyone up to date on my plans with that this year.  Hope everyone is having a wonderful week thus far!

Well, I did not mean to drench this little one in water today but I am pretty sure it was much happier after I did so!  

btw.....Dear Mother Nature, 

Do you think you could drop it down a few notches?  I would be oh so very grateful!

Use what talents you possess; 

the woods would be very silent 

if no birds sang there except 

those that sang best.

~ Henry Van Dyke