Happy Birthday To Me!

What a lovely birthday weekend - not only do I get three days - but I get a weekend filled with the love and blessings of friends.  Friday evening started with prayer and wonderful dinner out with friends (even if I was cramming for weigh in on Saturday morning and had to eat salad and the service was terrible!) - Saturday started with breakfast with friends and a lovely day of laying around the house (and doing laundry).  Saturday evening was filled with a pool party and excellent dinner at friends - more good times.  Sunday morning was a bit hectic at church - lots going on - but hope that will calm down in the next couple of weeks.  Went to lunch out with a friend and not only had a great customer service experience but got a discount card also - will have to eat at PF Chang's more often!  Sunday evening went to visit my mom - we had a nice visit - have other mom stories from earlier in the week - will have to get those posted in the next couple of days - back to last evening - at one point she asked me how my love life was - made me laugh!  She also told me about an outfit that she had laid out on the chair to put on before breakfast and when she came back it was gone - last Tuesday when I was there - the outfit was red - last night the outfit was blue and then 5 minutes later when she brought it up again - it was pink (it's her latest obsession).  God Bless Her!  After visiting with her - went to friends for dinner - fantastic (and found out I like yams - as long as they don't have all that sugary stuff on them) - and I got my favorite thing - angel food cake with chocolate frosting (thank you!) - in fact - I think I just might have the leftovers for breakfast - mmmmm.  I started this morning with a couple of my favorite things  - got to see my friend Jan - walked up to cheer her on in her 1/2 marathon and then I treated myself to not just a tall - but a grande hot chocolate.  Happy Birthday to me!

Early Birthday Gift

I got an early birthday gift yesterday.... check it out - Betsy Marie...   I got my baby back, baby back, baby back...  I got my baby back, baby back, baby back!  I was convinced when I left her at the body shop two weeks ago that I wouldn't get her back - cried as I drove out of the parking lot.  But here she is - in living color (although I don't think black is really a color - but you get my point).  It was so good to see her!  I know it sounds crazy - I certainly wasn't this attached to my Corolla (Betsy Jane - they are all named Betsy) when I had her - but there is just something about my Integra - I just really love the car.  When I went to pick her up - there was a guy in the office that might have been either the owner or manager and he asked me if the Integra was mine - and I told him yes - he said he was glad they were able to save it - that it is a really nice car.  I completely agreed with him - it's nice to have her back - God Bless the body shop!

Take My Mind Off Everything

What a week!  Well - here's an update...  had to get a new rental car after a warning light came on in the first one - the new car doesn't have a sun roof - bummer!  Haven't heard anything about whether they are going to total my car - several of the claims folks at work told me it can take a couple of days to determine - will be following up tomorrow (the consensus is about 50/50 as to whether they will total it).  And was told of a 'special assignment' opportunity at work that looks very promising - although getting information about it today wasn't without its drama.  I'm leaning towards the opportunity - but any prayer you would like to send my way would be greatly appreciated!  But best of all today - was an evening out with B - just to take my mind off everything else that is going on - thanks, my friend - God Bless You!

Crappy Day

This is how my day started - needless to say - it wasn't a very good one.  Got rear ended on my way to work - and am fine - just really sore - and the doctor told me I would feel even worse tomorrow - God Bless Him!  I have to say, though - even with the crappy day that it has been (with all sorts of crying going on) - there have been blessings also.  The blessing of a friend that recently got a job - but is off on Fridays so she was able to chauffeur me around to take care of the details.  And the blessing of a doctor's appointment this afternoon that had already been made for my annual physical.  And mostly the blessing that he was able to swerve and only clip the side of my car - had he hit me straight on - I would have been in much worse shape!  And with this damage there is still hope that they won't total my car - but Monday may really be crappy if they do - no matter what, though - God is Good and God is Ever Present and God will Never Fail Us!

Former Student

So I'm driving home the other day and stuck in traffic and I enjoy reading the bumper stickers and license plate frames and occasional personalized plate that comes along - but the plate frame I saw recently really made me laugh out loud.  It said...  'Texas A&M - Former Student'.  And all I could think was - nothing screams 'I didn't graduate' more than creating a license plate frame that says 'Former Student'!

Trying To Stay Cool

I have stories to tell - and pictures to post - but they will have to wait for another day.  It's late and I'm tired - but snapped this picture of little Miss Sadie this weekend as she tried to stay cool outside on the balcony and thought it was so much fun that it deserved a post - so enjoy!

Almost Too Old

At our church communications meeting the other night, we were talking about how to improve our website and what we could do to make people want to visit it daily.  One of the suggestions was to create a blog.  So I've been thinking about how to make it work.  I was trying to think of how to make it not so taxing on people to contribute - I know a little about trying to keep a blog updated on a consistent basis (or not keeping it updated as is more the case).  I was in the church office yesterday afternoon for prayer therapy and before we started, I was talking to Pastor Darren about it all.  He said he could easily do one entry per week.  So I challenged him to try one per week for a month to see how it goes.  I told him that it can be really, really tough to keep it current.  To which my dear friend, Jill, said that it's because I'm almost too old to have that gene to blog every day.  Needless to say, we enjoyed quite a laugh about that.  Oh well - I guess ALMOST too old is better than just TOO OLD!