Too busy....Update

Things have been crazy since I last wrote and naturally, a lot has happened that is worth writing about but I'll just hit the high points since all the details would take longer than I thought. September 3 I was in a low speed car accident with an 18 wheeler! Yea, scary! I was just driving home from work in stop and go traffic and I looked in my rear view mirror and all I saw was peter-built grill! And he bumped me and I tried to pull forward but couldn't because there was a car in front of me and he just kept bumping me! I was so scared and waiting for him to  stop. After about 5 times I finally was able to pull forward and he switched lanes and started to drive away! I followed him and laid on the horn and pulled up next to him and rolled down the window and yelled you hit me pull over! He eventually pulled over and as it turned out, he never even knew he hit me! He thought his breaks were going out so he was pumping them. Thankfully I was fine save really bad whiplash that lasted about 2 1/2 weeks and so was my car except a lot of scratches and I slightly out of place bumper. So over all it really turned out to be somewhat of a good thing because we made some money out of it! Who gets in an accident with an 18 wheeler and walks away without a scratch? Apparently I have great guardian angels! 

So on a better note, my Mom gave Reese and I tickets to the baseball game last weekend and we had so much fun! We had great seats! 3 rows from the field behind the visiting dugout. It was great and it made me realize that I really need to invest in a much bigger zoom lens for my camera! I got some good pictures but they could have been great if I had a better lens! Also, we just moved into a new office which is much nicer and the best part is, I am not all alone in the office all the time because we combined with our sister companies and I no longer sit directly under an A/C vent! 

And the best  news of all, my husband had a great job interview! We are very excited because it looks like we may be climbing out of this 8 month slump we have been in! He has a second interview on Tuesday and he met someone else at the chili fest. this weekend that may want to set up an interview as well! Thank God! This is proof he is listening! Ok I know I am kindof cutting this short, but I am watching a movie at the same time and it just got interesting enough for me to actually pay attention! I hope to write more often this month. God bless! 

Mondays and City Lights

I have come to the conclusion that work really is just work and not this dream career that I just love getting up at 6 am for all dressed in career barbie clothes. At some point I guess even the greatest of careers becomes a job. Don't get me wrong, I really like my job and the people I work with, but it is not exactly what I always dreamt of when I was in college. At some point, mondays become the start to yet another week of traffic, coffee, hectic days and not enough sleep at night and saturdays turn into a chance to get the laundry done and "sleep in" till 8 am! I never thought I would hear the words 8 am and sleep in in the same sentence! Now I am making it sound like I have this boring mundane life with an 8 - 5 and no fun on the weekends but no, that is defiantly not the case either. The whole Saturday being the day to sleep and clean thing is somehow becoming a bonus and, I dare say, a rarity because I am somehow protesting the fact that I am a career woman now by making plans to go out of town or do something fun every weekend. This is a great idea in theory, but unfortunately it makes for some really bad mondays and even worse wednesdays at which point I almost always come home and fall asleep on the couch during an early episode of everybody loves Raymond.

On another note, I am seriously considering moving to the City. Yes that's right, the woman who wore cowboy boots on her wedding day and is hard pressed to find a picture of her from the ages of 8 - 15 without a horse in it. Something tells me I just might like it for a change of scenery. We would be so close to the theater and bars and clubs and great restaurants and anything and everything we could ever need or want save a tree over five years old and a big open field. But I guess that is the trade off. But we can always visit our family on the weekends and get away form the city for a while. Then it might really feel like a weekend. Who knows, just a thought....

Busy!

Yesterday was yet another crazy day at work followed by errands that come with the territory which didn't allow me to get home until about 8:30. However, I do have to say that at this point in time, it is all worth it to know that I have a job that I like and it is in the field I want to be in which is more than most people can say at the moment. I went to get my nails done because fortunately or unfortunately when you are in sales people pay attention to your hands more than you know and on the way home there was an amazing pink and purple sunset that I enjoyed with my husband over the phone. I guess that sounds weird, but I guess when you are busy over the phone is better than nothing at all. Well I know this post is not that inspiring but I gotta get back to work! I am really not sure if anyone is reading this anyway because I only have two followers and the only comment I have is from me seeing how it worked. Oh well, it's a good excuse for me to escape and have 5 or 10 minutes to myself every once in a while so read it or not, I will be writing. Have a great day everyone ... or no one.

Two sets of footprints

Sorry I haven't written in a while. There has been a lot going on in my little corner of the world. And to be honest, I have learned a lot since my last post. I realized that I am starting to get used to being married. It is now weird to see my maiden name in print. I never thought that would happen. Its funny how I lived almost 26 years with one name and I have had my new name for just under 5 months and I am already accustom to it! But this does not mean that I don't still feel like a newly wed! It is my hope that we stay in that classification as long as possible. I still miss him during the work day and get butterflies when I see him after a long weekend apart and I still get lost in his eyes over pillow talk or a romantic dinner. I really hope that never fades. My great grandmother gave me some of the best advice that I have ever actually followed and that was to marry a man that has beautiful and honest eyes because everything else will fade.

I have also learned that sometimes you learn the most from those you think you are teaching. Recently I have learned about true inner strength from someone unexpected. She is an incredible, strong, young woman that God has blessed in a way none of us would have imagined. Once again he has proved to me that his plan has nothing to do with ours but it always turns out better than we thought. We may not be able to predict our future, but I do know this, nothing is ever a mistake. I have also learned that, more often than not, our decisions, no matter how small, almost always directly affect not only our lives but those of many many others. The term "domino effect" comes to mind. In this case that could not be more true. In some round about way her decision will be an answer to a lifelong prayer of mine and bring more joy than she knows to her and her family. It will teach her so much and my hope is that from this she will learn how strong she is and that she is a fighter and that her faith will grow stronger than ever. I hope she knows that I am one of her biggest fans and I am here whenever she should need me and my prayers are with her. I am so very excited to see the outcome and watch her life unfold. Remember, there are always two sets of footprints in the sands of life.

A quick thought over sushi and pot stickers..

I have come to the conclusion that there is something great about sushi and pot stickers combined that really make for a great "dacation". Even through I am alone I see myself back in Colorado at the greatest sushi place on earth learning to use chop sticks among great company with a spectacular view. I realize now that that was one of those "simpler times" I previously mentioned that somehow I don't think I ever fully appreciated. So my friends, always remember that you only live once and therefore enjoy every moment of it, especially the little things like a great bite of sushi in a little mountain town surrounded by friends that just may be around for the rest of your life.

Is there something more?

(I wish I could take credit for this great picture but it is not mine. This is the work of my friend Karsten from Germany. I miss you!)

Today, for some reason, more than ever I am a dreamer. For the first time in probably at least two months, we made it to church and our 9am bible study. But on the way there, half asleep, I found myself staring aimlessly at each subdivision entrance sign that lined our 45 mile path to church. I thought, which one would I want to call home and how in the world am I going to make that happen? I know it is in God's hands, but I can't just sit idally by and expect him to just send a tornado Dorothy style and click my heals three times and poof, there it is. I have to come up with a plan and stick to it. And now that I am married, my Husband is part of the plan. Thank God for that because I have a feeling it would take me a lot longer to get to where we want to be without his support. But then I started thinking, am I going to miss this? These days labeled "newly weds with no mortgage and no kids". Am I going to look back and think, man those were the days, I wish we would have stopped to smell the roses more instead of wishing them away. I think we tend to do that in life. We wish away the times that are "simple" (in quotes because lets face it, nothing in life is ever simple) and then when we get what we wish for, and it makes life that much more complicated, we yern for the "good ole' days." But isn't that human nature? I think that somehow that is how God proves to us that there is a heaven because no matter how great things are we yern for something more and we are never quite sure what that something is. Maybe we will all find it behind those pearly gates and there will be this amazing ah ha moment that we finally say, so this is what it all meant and this is what all those sacrifices were for and we will dance like we have never danced and live forever with the knowledge that there is no longer an enemy at our back. What I wouldn't give to know that all of my loved ones would experience that with me. What I wouldn't give to see the light on there face when all of their wildest dreams come true after they have sacrificed for a while and been brought out of darkness. God please make me a light onto their path that they may know you as I do and maybe even teach me something along the way.

Business ... I think....

Another of my passions is photography and as I see it, why am I taking all of these pictures if I can't share them? So they probably will almost never have anything to do with what I am writing but either way they are there. Take them or leave them.

I went to lunch with a broker yesterday to see if he might be able to help drum up some business for us. And yes this would be my first business lunch, alone anyway, and I was not sure what to expect. So I made a special effort to prepare a flyer and a portfolio to go over and patiently waited through the small talk for the right moment to start my little "shpeal" and 20 minutes came and went and finally he asked a quick question about the business at hand and then continued on about how he liked to fish and surf and how he was fairly newly married as well. Don't get me wrong, it was a great conversation but not at all what I expected. So I have come to the conclusion that business lunches are a time to start relationships and not a time to actually do business. I guess it makes sense...if someone buys me enough lunches at nice places chances are I am going to get to know them and maybe even like them and quite possibly want to do business with them. Oh did I just "get it"? Is that really how it has been for years and it took me this long to figure it out? Wow, in that case running a business in today's corporate world is expensive because you can't exactly take them to McDonalds now can you? Can you just imagine? Yes I would like to take you out for lunch to discuss the corporate merger, would you like fries with that? Hmm somehow I don't think there would be too much merging... just a guess. Ok well I know you are going to laugh when you look at the time this is posted but I am really tired. Yes I am married but no I am not old .... just tired. So goodnight, God bless and Gig em'. (Not sure where that came from, did I mention I am tired?)