wow, i haven’t been on here for so long i forgot my password. been so wrapped up in my own stuff, unaware of everyone else. i’m sorry. i am catching up on you tonight.
Migraine December 27, 2008
I woke up today WITHOUT the migrane that has ruled my world for the last 3 days. It is gonna be a good day!
Door Decorating 2 December 24, 2008
Well, it is quite amazing how a group can make anything difficult. Here are the rest of the doors in our contest at work. The judging was on Tuesday. People were laughing and carrying on during the voting that morning. Some girls wore signs that said “vote for door #___ and you MAY win a trip to florida”; others were offering similar “SILLY” things. We were laughing and joking, so I said “well, vote for me and I will get your paycheck done early”. The initial voting came in and I won. However, someone declared that I had tampered with the voting with an unfair advantage…..get real people and get over it! It is not like they weren’t going to get paid before their regular payday anyway (Thursdays – which happens to be Christmas and we are closed) Well, there was not enough Christmas spirit in me to be jolly, so I just took my door out of the contest. So, you might say, I was not one of the ones who brought JOY to my own office that day (Door #3 on the first post was my door). We were being silly. Hmph. Okay, so here are the rest of the doors. The blue snow scene won.
Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas.
Door Decorating December 11, 2008
We are having a door decorating contest at work. These are the 4 that have been completed. Someone is coming to judge on Monday, December 22. What do you think? If I was as savvy as my friend Maggie I could put a voting button on here, but I will need lessons to learn all that. So, just comment and let me know what you think!
Door #2
Door#3
Door #1
Door #4
December December 1, 2008
Can you believe it is December? Man, where did this year go? I came home from work sick today, but brought work home with me. I am loving this new technology (well, new for me) I can log in to my work computer from my laptop and still get stuff accomplished while in my sweats on my couch. Kinda defeats the purpose of sick time, but at least I don’t get as stressed thinking I am getting behind at work. Back to my original thought. December. I have not done any Christmas shopping (well, I went once but only found stuff for me), I do not have my tree up, and haven’t done any holiday baking. I am not even singing in the cantata at church this year, so I have no excuses. Where does the time go? I love to bake and take homemade goods to friends, but we have my husband’s work dinner this weekend, he is also in the church drama the following weekend and then we have the weekend before Christmas which is when my brother will be here. Whew. Baking may have to take a backseat this year. What are your Christmas traditions? Baking, caroling, family time, church. You will find as your children get older that you have to be flexible to those traditions. When I first married we had it all down pat. My grandmother’s and my parents on Christmas Eve, our house and his mom’s on Christmas day, his grandmother on the 26th for supper. Now we try to go with the flow……..our grandparents are now gone……..my brother now has a small child and they go back to Missouri before Christmas day……my daughter has her husband’s family to work in…..traditions become less important than time together. I treasure the time together. Well, maybe “traditions” is not the right word, maybe routine is what I mean. We still know that Jesus IS the reason and are thankful for Him, that is our tradition. Our routines must change.
Here is what my tree will look like if I ever get to that part
Maybe I could just print this picture and hang it in my living room!!
Thankful November 26, 2008
Tomorrow is the day we are “officially” to be thankful, but we should be thankful every day (like you really didn’t know that) A few quotes that I have collected over the years……..
You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven (Johannes A. Gaertner)
If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul (Rabbi Harold Kushner)
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out (John Wooden)
The unthankful heart…..discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly belssings! (Henry Ward Beecher)
and………..an unknown quote……..
If you haven’t all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you wouldn’t want.
Happy Thanksgiving friends.
Merry-go-round November 22, 2008
You know how it goes…you have been there too. Everything around you is spinning faster than you can keep up with it. You work and work and keep getting further behind. This one wants this…that one wants that…you are being pulled from all directions. You meet yourself coming and going. Which way do you go? What do you do? I too often try to be all things to all people and sometimes it is just overwhelming….the merry-go-round of life. I just want to jump off this ride for a while. But that can’t happen. Work lady, wife lady, mom lady, church lady…which one wins out this week? I brought home a stack of work from the office for the weekend, if I do that, the house won’t get cleaned, if i clean, my office work won’t be done. If I do my Bible study, work AND house stuff isn’t done. What do you do to be successful at all of those? I need to be more Mary than Martha. Sit at the feet of Jesus, but then that means work doesn’t get done….and that puts me on the merry-go-round again. Whew…..anyone dizzy besides me?
27 November 15, 2008
So hard to believe. My youngest will be 27 tomorrow, don’t blink ladies…it goes way too fast. It seems like yesterday he was graduating from pre-school in his white pants and plaid jacket reciting his “I Want to be a Banker”. His blonde hair in a mullet (haha – he hates that picture!) Or was it yesterday I was sitting at the Greenville Park Ampitheatre watching him get his first t-ball award, or maybe the Little League game he made an unassisted triple play. Wait, maybe it was 6th grade graduation when I took 30 pictures of him in his new suit and wire-rimmed glasses (oh wait, no film in the camera). Oh…I remember…it was the first high school golf match when the golf bag was bigger than him and he beat all the guys twice his size. It was just yesterday he was pitching a no-hitter or winning that regional game, or was I watching him receive his All-State award from golf pro Russ Cochran. Oh…. I think it was yesterday he graduated high school – top of his class. No wait, my memory is better now, he is playing in College Golf Nationals in Albequerque NM (5th place) or Palm Coast FL and getting that college regional win. Oh, there he is coaching the local high school baseball team. No, I remember now, it was Monday night and he was coaching basketball with his first teaching position. Blink. Blink. All I know is that all these seem like yesterday. I have been through 7 different graduations, 4 sports, umpteen awards, girlfriends and breakups, and I love him more every day and everything seems like it went by way too quick. Cherish your little ones because before you know it they will be 27 too! Here are pictures of our dinner tonight. My beautiful daughter and my son. We came in 3 cars and at the end of the dinner went 3 different ways. I miss all the days that seemed like they were just yesterday. Blink..blink..there went more time.
Mmm…Mmm…Good November 13, 2008
Well, I know that is normally for Campbell’s Soup, but I don’t know how else to describe my Sonic Sweet Tea today. I could also say “Good to the last drop” but that is Maxwell House Coffee, but I am savoring every last sip. Our Biggest Loser contest at work ended today. As a group we lost 89 pounds which I think is awesome. Those of us who stuck out the full 8 weeks decided that we would continue with the weekly weigh-ins to help hold us accountable, so my sweet tea will be short lived, but an occasional treat for myself. I have changed my eating habits (like nothing after supper) and resolve to continue that. But for today I will enjoy this Route 44 (Yes…….the largest tea Sonic sells) until it is empty, and maybe even eat that lunch size bag of potato chips with my turkey sandwich, but tomorrow is another day. (oops…is that Scarlett still with me?)
So, I will toot my own horn for a minute. Indulge me. I was just a little short of averaging a weight loss of 2 pounds a week, so almost 16 pounds for the contest. I came in 2nd. I am back into pants I couldn’t wear in September, tops are not as tight as they were and at the peak of my exercising (before I hurt my back exercising Sunday night) I was making 60 laps around the gym at church. Of those 60 laps, I would run 10-15. I plan to continue walking and hope to do the exercises again when the back allows. No crash diets, no laxatives, nothing but watching how much I was eating and exercising. A healthy adjustment. Thank all of you for the encouragement…….keep it up……..the holidays are upon us!
Now I must go and sip the remainder of my tea. Mmm….Mmm….good.
Biggest Loser Week 7 November 6, 2008
Well, only one more week to go in our Biggest Loser contest at work. They didn’t give us results today, but I think I am stuck in 2nd place, and I am not sure I can overtake the leader. I lost another 2 lbs this week. But the leader will have to gain weight next week and I will have to lose double my weekly pace for me to catch her – I think. But still, I have lost 13 lbs. and that is a good thing and my eating habit are much better. But, I will say–next Thursday after work–don’t get in my way as I go to Sonic for a large sweet tea!! That is my one reward I am allowing. I can’t wait!!!!!!!
