A weekend on the go!

This weekend was GREAT!

I got to spend time with my best friend who I don't get to
see nearly often enough!  The thing that I love most about
our friendship is that even though we don't see each other
often we can pick up just where we left off.  I love those
kinds of friendships and have been completely blessed by
you, Marissa - thank you!!  I can't wait until we go shopping
after Thanksgiving!!

I also got to relax at lake with my family!
I love being outside - I love the peace and quiet - I love that
I can slow down and life isn't so go - go - go!

Today we went to the pumpkin patch - it was a beautiful day - even a little hot
for October, but I am not complaining - I am glad it was a nice day!

Pictures from the pumpkin patch will come another day!

Random thoughts for the week...

This week was really sort of BLAH
I am really quite pleased that it is over

We seem to have a revolving door at my office these days.
It stresses me out - just when it seems like things are going
well and that we have a great team together someone else
decides it is time to move on and well, we start over
And then there is the fact that everyone seems to be really
grumpy - ugh!  I try to stay positive, but sometimes the
negativity gets to me. 

Don't get me wrong there were some good points to this week:

I got to spend an evening with Korrine and John and well, there were some
funny conversations -

Korrine - "Auntie Margo, I can't wait to get big like you!"
Me - "Why do you want to be old like me?"
Korrine - "So that I can have a pretty tattoo on my back just like you!"
**That was definitely not the answer that I was expecting, but I am
glad she like my tattoo.

John - "Go-Go, What is that?" (pointing to the guitar the music leader was playing)
Me - "It's a guitar"
singing ensues
John - "Go-Go, What is that?"
Me - "It's a guitar"
singing ensues

John - "Go-Go, What is that?"
Me - "It's a guitar"
singing ensues

John - "Go-Go, What is that?"
Me - "It's a guitar"

This is the short version - in the 20 minutes of singing we did - I think that I answered that same question about 20 times - this was an exact repeat of the previous Wednesday night during singing at church. 

I got a new cell phone - I heart technology
I spent Friday night at the lake visiting with my parents

Tomorrow I get to see my BFF and other college friends and
Sunday I am going to the pumpkin patch with my family!

Oh how this weekend is going to be so much sweeter than me week -
Too bad the weekends always go so fast!!!

10-10-10

In honor of 10-10-10 I was going to share 10 pics from my day, but most of it has been spent in front of the computer screen trying to fix issues, sleeping or watching my Cowboys lose! :(   So, instead of boring you with pictures of my computer monitor I thought I would share lists of 10's with you.

10 things that make me happy

1.  spending time with family
2.  spending time with friends
3.  chocolate
4.  Diet Coke with cherry and vanilla from Sonic
5.  a beautiful rainbow
6.  being at the lake
7.  pictures
8.  being Aunt Go-Go
9.  ice cream
10.  a beautiful sunset

10 things that irritate me

1.  computer issues
2.  car repairs
3.  wasting time
4.  mean people
5.  people who don't listen to instructions
6.  not being able to go on vacation
7.  when I run out of everything at once
8.  my neighbor's loud music
9.  that I didn't spend as much time with loved ones as I could have while they were here on earth
10.  that I can't decide what to do with my living room wall decorations

10 things I still have to do on my 40 before 40 list

1.  go on a cruise
2.  go on a road trip with friends
3.  sew a quilt
4.  create a recipe from scratch
5.  write a children's book
6.  get NASCAR pit passes
7.  go to California
8.  watch the sunrise on the beach
9.  go on a spa day
10.  explore my family tree

Busy Week

This week has been busy, frustrating and sprinkled with happy moments.

BUSY....

I have had something going on everyday this week except for Monday evening.

Tuesday I got to see...Tennessee!!  

Who couldn't love that face!?!

Wednesday was church.

Thursday night Taste of Newton - if you haven't been - there are 3 blocks of food vendors and you can't find just about anything you want - I eat the same thing every year - smoked chicken prepared by some really good friends.  You walk, eat, and talk to everyone in town!

We ate homemade ice cream while listening to the jazz band from the high school.  My nephew John danced his little heart out - he should sleep well tonight!!

I got to spend my Taste of Newton evening with ....

Oh and my parents and sister were there too - I would have pics from it, if I hadn't walked out of the house without my camera.

In between all of this I have managed to get some cleaning done, grocery shopping, laundry and working 40 hours. I should have done more reading as tomorrow night is book club and I still have one chapter to read. Then there is Saturday where I will work all day - (yes, I work 6 days a week!) and then I will get together with some of my friends from college! And I will look forward to seeing even more of them the following Saturday!!

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Frustrating....

I took my vehicle in for a simple oil change and they call me and tell me that I need almost $1,000.00 worth of repairs - no thanks!  I asked to just complete the oil change and I would decide on the other stuff.  I consider myself a pretty car savvy woman - you see my father is very car savvy and well, poor man, was blessed with little girls instead of little boys.  I guess that is actually better for me because whatever he would have taught a boy he taught me - okay well, he taught me a lot - I am sure if he had a son that he would have paid more attention and learned more than I did.  Anyway....I consulted him and we both decided there was at least one of the thing that should be done, but I took it somewhere else for the work - guess what?  They did the work I asked and didn't have a  long list of unnecessary repairs!  I was so ticked at the other place for trying to scam me just because I am a woman - ugh!!
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Moments of happiness...

Those are the moments spent with my family.

Hope your week wasn't as crazy as mine.

Craft Sunday

I saw this great idea idea here to make a clothesline photo display.  I did mine a little bit different.  I had some bulletin boards that I bought at the ETC shop for 50 cents.  I decided to spray paint them dark brown.

I then hot glued string to it and hot glued buttons over the ends to cover up my mess.

I had small clothespins that I had picked up a couple of years ago and never did anything with.  I made a large display for my hall upstairs and a small one for my bedroom. 

I finally decided what to do with that brown and blue floral fabric I bought.  I picked up some embroidery hoops at the ETC shop for about 25 cents each and I put the fabric in 3 hoops that were different sizes.

I then hung my smaller clothesline photo display next to them.

Now for the last project of the day...this is what my front door has looked liked since the day I moved in - boring and not inviting! 

Remember that fabric I told you that I didn't know what to do with?

Well, I have seen buntings all over the other blogs I read so, I decided to use some of that fabric and the wooden letters I have and make a bunting for the front door. 

Ah - so much more fun and inviting.  I had all of the pieces upside down so that I could glue each fabric piece to the string ... I turned it around so that I could admire it and realized that I had glued the fabric in the wrong order!  Yikes - instead of spelling W-E-L-C-O-M-E I spelled E-M-O-C-L-E-W!  I was so frustrated!  Thank goodness the fabric was forgiving and the glue game off easy so I didn't have to completely start over!  Next time I will glue the letters on after I put the fabric on the string!

Dreams...

Ever have a dream and you wake up in the middle and you try to go back to sleep really quick because it was such a great dream that you don't want it to end?  You try and try, but no luck - interrupted - dream over! 

This morning I was having one of those dreams, but when I hit the snooze it didn't end - it kept going.  I really sorta wish that it hadn't.  It was a good very real dream.  The emotions, the physical feelings, and the people were all real.  Now don't get me wrong it had some not so real parts too!

Some of you will know this about me and others won't but I want to be a mom.  I am 35 years old and like most unmarried women at my age - I thought that I would have been married long ago and have my 2.5 children by now.  While I haven't given up on being married, I am impartial to it - some days I think it would be great - other days I like my complete independence, but that it a topic for another post.

In this dream I was 9 months pregnant and was very close to having the baby.  I wasn't married in the dream as far as I know - no clue who the father was.  I know that I was surrounded by my friends from church and that I was going to let my cousin deliver the baby at my house and without any pain killers.  Now that my friends, is the not so real part!  No offense, Stephanie, but I don't want you delivering my baby at my house and I don't want to try to be a hero and do it without an epidural!! 

The very real part of this dream is that I felt pregnant - I could feel the contractions (or what I think contractions would feel like).  I felt the emotion and excitement of the new life that was about to be born and I felt the love and support from my friends.  I woke up with my arms around my stomach.  I woke up to the realization that it was all just a dream.  I woke up to reality and I must admit that it made me sad - I have tears as I type this.  I am not sure how, but I was emotionally invested in this dream.  Am I crazy!?!

I used to think that children should be born into home with a mother and a father.  As I grow older my thoughts and my feelings have changed on this.  I have considered finding a sperm donor and going through invitro or other methods of getting pregnant.  I have done research over the years and know more about getting pregnant the unconventional way than I ever thought I would.  I most definitely thought this is something that I would do and I came up with a budgeting plan to make this happen - it is NOT cheap!  Then my thoughts changed.  I started thinking this wasn't right - it wasn't the way that I wanted to bring a child into this world.  So, I stopped thinking about it and haven't thought about it for quite awhile now.  That is - until today.  I still don't know that it is the way that I want to become a mom and to be honest I still don't know that I am meant to be a mom or that I could be one. 

I sometimes wonder if that is why God gave me the nieces and nephew that He did.  I have such amazing relationships with them - maybe I am meant to be their cool aunt who gets to spoil them rotten!  Who knows?  All I know is that I am a little sad that it was only a dream...

Today I feel...

tired  exhausted
annoyed
alone
like I have been PMS'ing for a week!
glad it is Friday
that I really should be cleaning my house
that I should not have eaten so many chips and salsa
like I need a "take a number" machine for my desk at work
glad that it's fall
happy that I will be seeing college friends in 2 weeks : >)
like getting my hair cut
listening to my Nicholas Sparks audio books
happy that I found my MP3 player so that I can listen to audio books!
like college doesn't always prepare you for the things you have to deal with in your career
like I need to be more organized
that I need to take more time to enjoy life
that is it time to end this list and go take a bubble bath .......