Currently Listening Beautiful Star: The Christmas Collection By Rhonda Vincent Beautiful Star of Bethlehem see related

It's snowing outside.  As you can only imagine... I'm just sitting here in my office with a dumb smirk on my face... I just can't wipe it off!  I LOVE SNOW!  And fall is my favorite season.  So when it's snowing and there are still beautiful leaves everywhere... I'm happy.

This weekend my mom and aunt are coming into town for a "girls weekend".  They're too cute!  They're so excited that even if I wasn't so excited about the whole thing, I just can't help but be now.  I am one stinking blessed girl to have the mom that I have.  And the Auntie that I have.  So yeah... We're going to go rock out the Point of Grace concert... woot woot!  Hahaha... No but yeah like I said, will just be fun to be with them!

Then of course... the oh so important game day sunday... (dun dun dun *que football music).  Steelers v. Browns.  And who would have guessed that this would end up being such an important game!?!  Wow.  I'm not sure how it's going to go and thats a little un-nerving. 

Haha... While we're on the subject of football... So... Pastor Seth and Director Don talked me into being part of a fantasy football league.  As the weeks roll on it become more and more clear that I have NO clue what I'm doing!  Haha.. It's all good.  Someday I'll understand.

Anyway... I do have a new blog... So I can't guarantee I'll be writing here much anymore.  But never say never, right?

Ps.  I'm listening to Christmas music already.  That's right.  I'm breaking my own "no Christmas stuff before thanksgiving" rule...

Currently Listening Still Feels Good By Rascal Flatts see related

Have you ever had one of "those" weeks...  a week where nothing seems to be going as it should?  Well I have most definitely had one of those weeks.  A week where when I touch something: it breaks.  I talk to someone: I say something stupid.  I forget a detail: it was important.  I think I have just enough: I have bags of surplus or stacks of debt.  (Be it money or nacho's... there's the whole gamut.)

Not sure what to do on these types of weeks...

I've also had more than plenty "a-hah" moments this week.  Some people enjoy these... When I have them they tend to be a bit more frustrating than enlightening... you know the type... The type where when you finally realize something, you're almost embarrassed that you didn't get it before. 

Yeah I've had a few of those... and then on the rebound to recover... ooohh.. lets just say I try to recover a little too quickly and make the whole situation more confusing than if I'd just let it be when I messed up the first time.

Like... Sometimes I just answer questions, throw ideas out... and then realize... sometimes far too late.. that maybe the way that I said it, was not interpreted quite as I had planned.  Oh well.

What's done is done.  I hope I haven't screwed too much up in this "those" week...

Life continues to fly by... Yesterday concluded our missions confer...er, rather "Global Outreach Connection" week here at SAF.  Betty Constance spoke to my heart.  What more can I say but thank you to her for the hundreth time for her encouragement and support.

Other than that... 5 of my 7 days are booked... and 3 of my 7 evenings are booked.  Every week.  This makes for fitting life in a tad challenging.  I'm trying though... so people, please be patient with me.

For anyone who hasn't heard my heartbreak news... We had to put Junior down about 2 weeks ago.  Long story short.. he was a good dog.  And I miss him.

Alayna is an answer to prayer!  Praise God!  She's gaining weight again is she and mommy Keri have returned home. 

My uncle Ken is not doing so well.  For anyone who doesn't know... Ken is Danny's dad, and my nextdoor neighbor, and my uncle whom me loves.   Last Wednesday they found he had several small holes in his colon so they did emergency surgery... they removed 12 inches of the colon, but it was too swollen to "put back together" so they have him in ICU... but he's running a fever.. and throwing up and doesn't have enough oxygen.  Pray for him.  We NEED him to get better.

Ok i'm late...oops. 

Currently Listening Lonely Runs Both Ways By Alison Krauss and Union Station This Sad Song see related

Time just keeps ticking.  I can't believe I've been here for a year already... but on the flip, I can't believe all the things that have happened in the past year, could have all happened in only one year.  While I sit here and think about everything that has changed in my life in the past year...  I have problems thinking of anything in my life that hasn't changed.  And oddly enough... I think I might be okay with that. 

I head back to Somerset a week from today.  Heading there always meets me with incredibly mixed emotions that I can't even explain.  I dunno.  Just rambling.  Haha.. No one reads this anyway! 

This secret location that I sit at and ponder these thoughts... yeah they play the oddest music here.  It's overwhelmingly distracting... yet incredibly entertaining. 

Can you tell yet that I'm incredibly distractable at the moment... Distractable.. is that a word?

So in the world of Laurie's favorite nephews... Austin has a new toy.  The speakerphone. Everytime I've called Leah in the past few weeks, I've found we can't talk longer than about 3 minutes before she's scraping him off the end table and fighting him for the phone base... mind you this is no easy task for her.  While she may be a 21 year old working mother and wife.. her 18 month son is quickly gaining on her in size.  I know you're trying to talk to me through your computer right now and you're saying something like "come on Laur, theres no way he's bigger and stronger than she is"  and my reply is "nay, dear friend, nay.  There's a reason we've dubbed him our little linebacker."

I miss mountains.  My dad is currently riding his way through the wild west on his moto bike.  I wish I was with him and Mr. Jeff.  I really really really wish I was with them.  I would totally take the saddle sores and back pain to ride across the country and back on a motorcycle.  No... they weren't inspired by "Wild Hogs"... they began the planning for this before it came out... though it is my personal, professional, opinion that that certainly added fuel to their fire.

Right.  Well.  Brad and Rodney are coming to visit me the weekend after next.  I'm fairly excited about that. 

Humph.  (haha I've always wanted to write that)

Peace out. 

Currently Listening 5th Gear By Brad Paisley Oh Love see related

I'm tired, sunburnt and blistered... but it was worth it all.  I rode Maverick and it is as amazing as they say it is.  We waited 1 hour and approx. 12 minutes to ride it... and it truly was glorious.  All that to say... went to Cedar Point yesterday with Seth, Julie, Cheryl, thirty some high schoolers and 2 kiddo-s.  Fun day... long, rediculously hot day... but fun day.

In other news... haven't really posted anything in a long time.  Thats probably something to do with all that I want to say... and no sure way to say any of it.  Too much going on in this little mind right now.. there's no way it can be healthy. 

ok.. that said, the end.