Banks, quiet moments, and cleverness

Thank goodness that I can take a few minutes when I'm at the drive thru at the banks (lucky me.....I go to two different ones each day) to find a moment of peace and quiet and read.

Also, thanks goodness that they built Mustang steering wills that also work as a Kindle holder!  Yipee.....hands-free reading!

He promises me........

...that things will get better soon.
...that we will have a day off in the next couple of weeks or so.
...that things are going to be great.
...that he will love me forever, because we are soul mates.
He's probably right.
But why is it taking so long?
We are working the hardest we've ever worked in our life. We hardly see each other and when we do....it's at the end of a long day and we both can barely stay awake.
But, he's right. It will get better soon -- because we have each other.
And because we ARE soul mates!

Short and Sweet

“It is good to have an end to journey toward;
but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”

― Ernest Hemingway

Short, Sweet, and oh so true. My guiding words for today!

It's a busy little life

Unfortunately with all the things that are going on in my life right now.....blogging is having to take a backseat. Work is so totally demanding right now. I come home and night and want to cry because I am so tired. I mean the tired that just gets into your soul. Crying won't help. Whining about it won't help either. There may be some relief on the horizon....but only time will tell. Until then, I will hold my head up and keep plodding along. There has got to be some better days ahead!

The piles are getting out of hand

Woke up today and said "what do I need to get done today"

And the piles responded back:

Pile 1 jumped up and exclaimed "pick me....pick me. You really need to get these signs done so that they can get to the schools on time".



Pile 2 responded "oh you should pick me. This is a bunch of work you need to enter into Quickbooks so that you can do your reports on time".



Pile 3 cried "oh you must pick us. We've been sitting here the longest and there are so many little small things in here for you to do."



Pile 4 replied "girlfriend you better get started on me. There is no way you will be able to do payroll without getting my stuff done".



And lastly Pile 6 responded "pick me. I'm the one that you really want to work on anyways. It's been so long since you felt my fabric in your hand. Ditch those other piles and come spend a luxurious day with me".



Guess what pile I didn't get to work on?

This is just another reason....

.....why I love my husband so much.

He just KNOWS when I need a little pick me up and a token of his love.

Love you baby and thinks for thinking of me and taking such good care of me!

Photographic Memories

I finally got the digital photo frame set up on my desk that Cris & Aaron had given me about 3 years ago.

I love it. I have it sitting right next to my computer and I can look at all the photos from the last few years.

Every one brings a smile to my face because there are such wonderful memories attached to them.

Looking at the photos vividly reminds me of where we were and what we did and how much fun we had in that place. It reminds me of how much I love my family. It reminds me of what a truly great life I really have.

Can't wait to go out and make some more photographic memories!

I Love NYC

Because today is 9/11.....of course everyone's thoughts today are with the tragic event that happened 11 years ago.

Certainly, that's what I've been remembering today as well. But then, I am also remembering what a great place that it was to visit back in March and to get to celebrate our 15th anniversary in such a great place!



This was the first thing we saw of NYC when we popped out of the subway at our stop. Our first vision of what this exciting city actually looked like.



It's so much to go and visit a city that seems so much different from the one you live. I never had had the desire to live in the downtown part of a city.....but for some reason NYC had magic about it. It was fun to see the grocery stands on the street. It was fun to go to Starbucks every morning and sitting there watching the neiborhood come to life with families pushing strollers, people walking dogs, and people just living their normal life in the big city.



We sat and talked about how great that would be. We just wouldn't like it in the winter time, as we are NOT snow or cold people. How fun it would be to not have a car and rely on public transportation (we might not be like that part so much if we lived there on a full time basis).





What a fun trip that was. What a fun place it was to visit. What a short amount of time we had to see it.



I can say with certainty, it's definitely a city that we will visit again sometime in the future! I LOVE NYC!!

I would say mine is comfortable

If someone asked you to describe your marriage in one word.....what would it be?

Mine is COMFORTABLE.

It's really easy being married to my husband. We just seem to move through our life on an equal level.

When one of us is down....the other one is responsible for getting us back on track again.

We often pick up the phone and call each other at the same exact time.

We can say one word to say something.....and the other one of us will automatically start answering it because you already know what they are going to say.

We've never had a fight. Sure we have a little disagreements, but we seem to work it out before it escalates into anything huge.

We we just work well together. We enjoy spending our time with each other. We're just comfortable together!

My GO GO is GONE GONE

After weeks of no time off, extra stress, working in the store more than ever, and just having so much darn work to do........I shut down today.

I went and ran one errand and then came home to tackle the mountain of work.

I couldn't do it. So, for three hours I laid on my bed, I watched crappy TV, and I napped.

I am up now. But only by sheer will power.

I'm tired. I need a break.

Excuse me....if you see my mind -- could you return it to me?

Ever have days that sound like this? Seems like more and more of them have been coming my way lately!

* Doing paperwork.....oh yeah, gotta go take the clothes out of the washer.

* Taking clothes out of washer.....oh darn, there's still clothes in the dryer that need folding.

* Taking the lint out of the dryer.....oh crap, the garbage needs taken out.

* Taking the garbage out.....oh gosh, that load of clothes still need folded.

* Folding clothes.....oh yeah, forgot to put a garbage bag back in.

* Garbage bag in.....now where was I? Oh that's right, I still got to put that load of clothes in the washer.

* Clothes in washer......oh shoot, I forgot to shut the water off out front again!

* Now where was I, okay -- back to sitting down and doing paperwork again.

It's a wonder I get any task accomplished at all!

Should we? Shouldn't we?

It's funny. I woke up this morning and felt a little calmer and a little more at peace than I have in the past few days.

It's been an extremely stressful week and we've had lots of staffing issues. Some of these will be resolved soon. But honestly, they never end. Something is always waiting in the background to have it's moment in the spotlight.

Paul and I had been doing a bit of talking the last couple of days and had come to some conclusions. The nice thing is, we usually are on the same path, and that makes the journey easier when we can end up with the same conclusions.

So this morning we had a "board" meeting and started relooking at some of our ideas and rehashing previous discussions and we've changed our minds yet again. However, the stress didn't come back and it's actually put a (small) bit of enthusiasm and excitement back into my life.

Anyways, the moral of the story is.......we seem to make decisions and then further discussions usually sway us in another direction. Keeps life spontaneous. Keeps life CRAZY! I'm just lucky that I have a great partner!