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Weird title!
I was thinking maybe I should just date it.
I don't have any one particular subject.....just me rambling... or maybe I should say venting.
I got home late last night...my flight was delayed a few times and by the time I got home I was so tired I could hardly eat!!
I learned a lesson last night....some times I'm opinionated.... I've seen people run through the airport and I've thought to myself they should have gotten there sooner..... But after last night....I've learned my lesson......when all those people wouldn't let me pass them.... I realized they're thinking the same way. That maybe it was my fault I was running late....but it wasn't....it was the airline.
So....I'll never judge people running through the airport again!!
This post is seriously going to be a venting....leave now if you must :) just kidding. Maybe I should say warning warning (who remembers Lost in Space? everytime I type warning warning I can hear that robot saying "warning warning danger danger"....I loved that show!).
Today I woke up thinking I'm going to have a productive day and I'm going to get started early. Fluffy and Sissy woke me up around 6 and after that my brain got to thinking....so off to work I go.
Some time after 8am I needed to add an event to my ipad calendar (ical)...so I added it and turned it off. But....I thought to myself I better double check I entered the right year (our year is about to change) and when I tried to turn it on....it didn't work.
I about freaked and spent the next hour doing everything I could to fix it. Charging it didn't work, connecting it to itunes didn't work....nothing. I was in total panic mode!! By the time 9am rolled around I had made myself an appt with the apple store. I left with enough time to get there....except.....not one car but two of them.....got in front of me and drove 30 in a 45mph. I missed my appt by 8 minutes.
Long story short...even though I missed my appt the manager was able to do a hard boot on it and it came right up. I could have hugged him or something I was so happy!! and I was thanking God it wasn't broken!!
The heater people came to fix our furnace today. Hopefully we'll not have any more mornings of waking up without heat. The ignite thingy needed something. (that sentence is worded all wrong but it's late and I'm tired.)
Tomorrow is another crazy day!! Blood work in the morning for Brooke ....then off to the mall ...she starts CAPS next week and needs business casual clothes for five days a week for the next five months. We've very excited she's in the program!! I wish they'd accept me as a student :)
After that I need to get Fluffy to the vet....she's not doing well and I'm afraid to take her in. I really hope they don't mention the cancer word again!!!
Thanks for listening to my rambling!
See ya!
This week has been absolutely crazy!! We wrapped up our Christmas shopping the day before Christmas eve (I think Tammy said she calls it Christmas Eve Eve).
Dave was a real trooper....he drove me around....and even went to the grocery store with me. Two people shopping for groceries is so much faster...I think I may beg him to go with me more often!!
We celebrated Christmas last night.....went to church at 8pm and was able to sleep in a tad this morning.
We're going to see True Grit this afternoon (Dave and I never saw the John Wayne version) and I'm super excited! I love Jeff Bridges...he's my most favorite actor next to Anthony Hopkins (& Nicholas Cage).
Tomorrow I'm headed to south Georgia for my uncles funeral.
If I find some downtime I may post a few pictures I've taken lately (but you know me I have no concept of time).
Have a Merry Christmas!!
I had a little problem at the post office yesterday and that reminded me of a story I could tell......since I love telling stories :)
Before I begin my story....let me tell what happened yesterday.
It's no secret that I'm overwhelmed right now....but true be told even if I wasn't injured...I would still be stressed and overwhelmed. It's who I am :) and 90% of the time I do it to myself.
So, yesterday I took 140 Christmas cards to the post office (I'm still not done).....and instead of going in...I drove up to the blue box and dumped them in........except...... the very last card landed in my lap and it did not have a stamp. Holy cow...did that mean all my cards didn't have stamps? I didn't know..... I had some help. So..... I drove home as fast as I could to get my Business Line card....drove back to the post office. Walked right up to the business line......Thank God Suzanne was working the window and she knows me!!! I told her I didn't think my cards had postage...since that one landed on my lap and it did not.
So, she had some guy walk out there......dug through the box for me and as it turns out the only card that didn't have postage was the one that landed on my lap. Isn't that just amazing? I say God was watching out for me and made that card land in my lap!!
So, that got me to thinking about another mishap that happened at that very same blue box about 8 or 9 years ago.
I was the Yearbook chairperson for the elementary school. And the deadline for certain parts of it were due around the holidays (closer to Thanksgiving ....I think). So I'm digging my heels in ...working on the yearbook ....deadline is on Monday....it's Sunday and what do I do? I fall up the stairs and break my finger :O (yes I fell up the stairs!!)
Here's the low down... I'm headed up the stairs with my arms loaded with stuff ...remember I was working on the yearbook ... and I tripped.....not sure which item broke my finger...I think it was the clipboard. (I also think my toe got stuck in my pj's but we'll never know...it happened so fast.)
It was a sight to see!!! of course Dave was out of town...I was in my pjs..... My finger is killing me....swollen and purple....so I run outside to my neighbors for help. Not my brightest moment....oh well water under the bridge.
So, now we fast forward to what happens a few days later.
I have a splint thing on my pinkie finger ....and I need to mail an envelope....so I drove up to the blue box ....went to put the envelope in the box and I dropped it on the ground....(it's not easy with that splint thing)......so I get out and pick up the envelope and I raise up and hit my head on the box. It hurt like no other....of course I said that about breaking my finger too....but seriously it hurt so bad everything went black and I couldn't see straight. Some how I get back into my car...now picture this...I'm driving with my right hand...my left hand with the splint is holding on my head .....because the pain was unbearable. Who knows if anyone saw me hit my head or holding my head as I'm driving...if they did they must have laughed really hard....I'm I looked like Lucille Ball or the Three Stooges ....except.... I really was hurt!
As you can see I lived to tell the story ....but that month was a real doozy!!
I wonder if all those hours of watching the Three Stooges rubbed off on me :)
See ya later!
I just have to share this with someone.... yesterday I was in the doctors office ..... and while I was waiting I was reading a book. Yes...normally when I'm reading I use my ipad ....but when it's a book I want to make notes in I buy the book and mark it up with my highlighter and pencil.
My Bible is the same way.....I also dog ear the pages :O I know some of you are cringing :) I only do it on books that I need to reference later.
Back to my story...so this lady looks over at me and laughs at the title. And then she says it out loud....like it's funny or something. She even repeats it like it's a joke or something.
So then she asks me "are you going to cash in on your passion"... I didn't really know how to respond so I told her I had an online business and I was reaching people all across the country. She wasn't impressed but that's okay .... remember she's the one that approached me. Maybe a real sales person would have jumped in and tried to convince her that stamping or blogging is the best thing since sliced bread. But that's not my style.
I love what I do and I want to share it but not that way :)
The book I'm reading is "Why now is the time to Crush it! Cash in on your Passion.
Let me explain...I read a lot! it's a way to shut my brain down.....other wise it never stops thinking. Most of the books I read are mystery/romance. I love Nora Roberts and Nicholas Sparks....James Patterson.....the list could go on and on.
But I also read things that feed my brain ....you could call it self educating.
So, I ran across this dude on You Tube and he spoke very passionately about his business....he's over the top hyber & loud...and funny too. But what he was saying is Right On!
I've been telling my sister Kim to start a blog for years.....but she just hasn't caught the bug. I've even started a few for her but again...she's not like me. I've kept a journal since I was ten years old and taken pictures all my life....all that is the same as blogging...or to me it is :)
So, this book that I'm reading asks....what are you passionate about? For me...I could list several things! But I called Kim yesterday and she couldn't tell me. I ask her...what's your five most favorite things in your house? She couldn't tell me. So...now I'm on a mission to find Kim :) I love you Kim and you know I only have good intentions. She likes a lot of stuff....but what makes her jump up and down happy?
That's my question for the day? What are you passionate about? Do you have something that brings you incredible joy?
Next subject...I was in a lot of pain last night...so I went to bed early with my laptop. I watched two movies...one made me cry really hard and the other made me laugh. I'm looking forward to Christmas week.....I'm going to watch at least 10 movies and maybe more!! (another thing I'm passionate about .... I love movies...but we'll chat about that later.)
See ya!
p.s. the movies I watched were "When in Rome" and "A walk in my shoes". (everyone should have to watch "a walk in my shoes"....it was sad but so relevant in our world.)
I can strike one item off my list of things that was causing me stress :)
Brooke and I have been struggling with our washing machine for months and with both of us working with one hand and a defective washer....can you see the picture? One big pile of dirty laundry :O
(I really should be taking pictures to share with my stories.....that's a scary thought.)
So Dave and I went out yesterday and bought a new set. Our dryer was one that I had bought in a yard sale several years ago and it was having issues too.
They're being delivered tomorrow and I'm looking forward to washing our clothes for one cycle only (you don't want to hear all the things that crazy washing machine was doing!!). By the way we bought a Samsung but please if you have one that doesn't work right...don't tell me. I don't want to hear anything negative. If I think positive thoughts all will be well!! (that's how my brain thinks.)
Hopefully that new set can work miracles and get us caught up!!
p.s. Thanks for all the kind emails and comments about my "i got the blue" post!! I love y'all :)
Seriously I'm a little sad!!
Part of it is because I can't use my left arm...or I should say I'm not supposed too.
And part of it because it's Christmas and I don't have a tree up and my house is a train wreck.
And...I'm sad for my friends that have lost their jobs and are struggling to buy gifts and make ends meet.
And my aunt is going through a hard time with my uncle's sickness and I'm too far away to do anything.
This was the year that I was going to go gang busters for Christmas! I swore in 2010 I was going to reclaim Angie and bring back those things that brought me joy. For example....my Snow Villages. We have such memories of those....not just because every year I got a new one on our anniversary ...but because Brooke was always fascinated with them!! I can't tell you how many times I would find the cows moved or the little trees. I think she must have thought since they were so little they were meant for her. I can still see her face when I could catch her playing with them. First it would be a look of oh no I'm in trouble...and then a smile because how could I not laugh. She looked so darling!! I miss moments like that. (Okay...I'll admit there were days in there that I lost my temper and hollered...aka yelled.)
Yesterday we went to the doc because Brooke hurt her bicep tendon in her right arm and I have my thing going on with my left so I told her we could tape ourselves together and we'd be one complete person. That cracked us up for a while!! She doesn't want to laugh when I say crazy stuff...but she does. I love it!
I just realized this whole paragraph came out of nowhere :) oh well...I thought it so I typed it.
Have a great day ... & go do something nice for someone you love or even a stranger!
