Weird.

Today has just been plain weird.

I drove down on to our lower yard this morning as I left for work, to get a pink christmas tree out of my storage building. I wasn't thinking about how much it had rained the last few days. I remembered too late. I slipped and slid into the yard and I knew I was screwed. I went ahead and got out of the car to get the tree, I figured I needed it one way or the other. I got back in the car and all I managed to do was dig myself deeper in the ground. Luckily, my mom let me drive her car to work.

I get to our satelite office and dump out a bunch of stuff I was suppose to give to Ashley(my friend that runs that office) and I have this one envelope and I can't figure out why I have it. So instead of calling someone in the main office, I just stick it in my purse and say I will figure it out later. Dumb. Blonde. Moment.

I drive 30 minutes to our main office. Do some paper work. My boss says, did you leave the lease check for the landlord? DUH!?!? Then it hits me what that envelope was for. Good thing I have a boss that doesn't get angry at me.

Side Note:There was also some weird family emergency stuff one of my co-workers was dealing with in the midst of all this.

This afternoon, Carmen(President of the company and my boss) and I go to an Open House at an Assisted Living Facility. Its nice, I really like the Marketing Girl there. We take a tour of the facility with about 6 others. We get on the elevator and head to the second floor. The elevator stalls and jumps. Which freaks. me. out. I could tell by the look on Carmen's face that it freaked her out too. (she is 8 months preggers) I could tell that Marketing Girl was embarassed, I felt bad for her.

We go to see the model room. She opens the door. Apparently she didn't know that the cable guys had been in there working and they didn't know she was having open house. The furniture was moved around. There were cable wires across the floor. The worker's gloves and sweatshirt were slung across that beautiful, perfectly done up, model room bed. Marketing Girl was horrified. I don't blame her. I felt bad for her again.

We took the stairs down.

I start home. There is bumper to bumper traffic on I 385. We slow to a stop. This never happens. I see an overturned logging truck full of logs that looks like they ran off the road and through the guard rail. No one is stopping to help. I get closer. I start to pull over and get out and I hear sirens coming in the distance.

I get home. Ashley's husband comes and hooks a chain up to my car and pulls me out. Thank you, Jesus, for Barry!

I go inside and take off my work clothes, which are business casual. I pick my pants up off the floor from where I stepped out of them in the bathroom.

The entire seat of my pants are ripped, barely hanging by a thread. Who knows how long they were like that.

Today has been weird.

ps...please stay tuned for an upcoming details on an upcoming give away!

Silent Sundays

I am going to start a series called "Silent Sundays". I don't know if this is an original thing or if its something that others do and I just don't know about. Its like "Wordless Wednesdays" that I see in several blogs. I hope you enjoy!

The Camelias Have Taken Over

This Camelia "bush", and I use that term loosely, is taking over. Its so beautiful though, I don't have the heart to do anything to it. I took these pictures TODAY. These flowers are fully bloomed in the middle of November.

This picture is taken from the front porch, the bush is so big that its like you are standing inside the blooms....


All the petals shedding off the bush......its like looking at pink grass, and in my little world, thats great.



Just a glimpse of God's beauty.



The "Bush"....Can't even see the house behind it, and its about 6 feet taller than the house I am guessing.

Aloneness = Goodness (today anyways)

Snuggie? Check.
Chick Flicks? Check.
Comfort Food? Check. Tissues? Check.
Recliner? Check. Remote Control? Check.

I am set for an afternoon of aloneness goodness!

Be Back later to say some more...

Date

So, I had a sorta date tonight. I say "sorta date" because we were just going to hang out at his house. He had been in Chicago for work all week so he said he just wanted to chill out. Ok, I am down for that.

The "sorta date" lasted 30 minutes. Yes, you read this right ....Thirty. Minutes.

I give up.

Randomness

1. I am extremely tired.

2. It took Ashley(co worker) and I to put up a christmas tree for the 2nd Annual Festival of Trees for Bailey Manor this evening.

3. The aforementioned tree is pink.

4. I cannot begin to tell you how happy that I am that tomorrow is friday.

5. I plan on sleeping in until 6 pm on saturday.

6. Not really but it sounded good..lol.

7. I do have some plans with a sweet teddy bear of a guy tomorrow evening.

8. I did find the energy to paint my nails a new color that I purchased last weekend at Ulta.

9. The shade is Charming Rose Creme by NYC and I am really digging it.

10. I am not going to see New Moon like the rest of the free world this weekend.

11. I am waiting until next weekend to see it, I made the mistake of going on opening night for Twilight and it was a miserable experience.

12. I don't think that I have anything else to say tonight. Sorry for the lists, but I am too tired to actually make paragraphs that have interesting things in them. :)

Quotes

I am a total quote, bible verse and song lyric junkie. I have little slips of paper literally everywhere with random quotes I hear, see written somewhere or that I think up myself. I also have journals full of these quotes, verses and song lyrics.

I thought I would take a minute to share some of my favorites. If I know who said them it will be indicated, some I have no clue to who said it! These are really just a few, like I said, I am a little obsessed.

DRUM ROLL please......

Move mountains, Love much, Release joy & Sing the song you were meant to sing.

Its not always rainbows and butterflies, its compromise, it moves us along. Maroon 5

"Mack, pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.....and if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place." God, from the book, The Shack.

You see the depths of my heart and you love me the same...You are amazing God. Chris Tomlin's Indescribable

Beginning's are scary and endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most. From the Movie, Hope Floats

Sometimes the one you think is your knight in shining armor actually turns out to be a retard in tinfoil!

"Behold, I have indelibly imprinted you on the palm of each of My hands; your walls are continually before Me." Isaiah 49:16 Amp

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. Robert Schuller

Brave hearts do not back down. Sophocles

Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier. Zell Miller

A New Home

Well, if all the other changes in my life hadn't been enough, I go and try to do a new entry in my old blog and good ol' blogspot won't let me log in or supply me with a password hint. So, I will just take it that I am suppose to start fresh. My life has been really scattered this past year. For those who don't know what has transpired with me or if you are a new reader, I will list the highlights below to catch everyone up and put us all on the same page.

1. I have been seperated for 17 months now. Because of SC laws and slow family courts, I will finally be divorced on Jan. 6,2010.

2. I left my law enforcement career in April. Seriously one of the best blessings in disquise I have ever had.

3. I moved to Georgia to live with extended family in April. I really wanted to start a fresh new life, but God had other plans.

4. I moved back to SC for several reasons in September.

5. While living in Georgia, I worked at Stone Mountain Park in Operations as a dispatcher....a job I loved, and I kinda felt like I had the summer off...lol.

6. I now work in Marketing and Public Relations for a Home Health Company. The job literally fell into my lap and I am forever grateful.

7. I have let go of several friendships and relationships recently and have began to evaluate some others. Some were very hard to let go of, but it has made me a stronger person.

I think I have covered about the most important things right now. I am excited to be getting back into the swing of things with blogging. Its been to long.
I look forward to connecting with my old blogging buddies and making new ones!