Thankful Times

In the spirit of the week I will share what I'm thankful for at this time in my life. I like to do this every year. Some will be repeats, some minute and some a little deeper. Enjoy!

• My family - I could go on for days about why they are so good to me. They support me through all the craziness in my life and love me unconditionally. Mom you are always there to listen to me vent or just there to offer advice as needed. Dad you are there to support my decisions and will do anything to make sure the family is happy. Sara how I love our nights of instant messaging. I know to most of the world this seems pretty minor however this is time I love and look forward to when I see you are online. Amy you are open to listen as needed and love us all unconditionally. So my family is much bigger however if I went into it all I would be here for days.
• My friends - This year I have been able to spend time with many of my friends here at home and all over the world. Thanks to Tiffany, Ryan and Mike for being my travel companions. Kearney girls what a great weekend to reunite in our old stomping grounds. I had a great time that weekend. I know these are friends I will have a for a lifetime. To my friends here in KC I love you all dearly, Leslie, Christy, Tara and Jackie, we don't see each other enough, but great times when we do. Linda and the other game girls I look forward to our game nights every week. Fun memories. Again I could go on for days, I love my friends and what you mean to me.
• Chloe - she is here to welcome me when I get home and I love my cat.
• I have a job and work with folks I enjoy.
• Facebook - so not everyone gets it, but I have loved reconnecting with friends from the past and staying in touch with those I see regularly.

I hope you are all Thankful this year.

A Few of my Favorite Things

Tonight I thought I would write about a few of my favorite things. Kinda a combination of the random thoughts and what makes me happy today.

• Watching football in my PJ's under a warm blanket on a cool night (exactly what I'm doing now)
• Chloe greeting me at the door when I come home (nice to know I have been missed)
• Breakfast on Saturday mornings at Hy-Vee. I go by myself and I just love it. I look through the add and listen to all the old men have deep discussions over coffee.
• McRib at McDonald's. I understand there is possibly nothing natural in the McRib, however I just love it when it is available. I had one for dinner tonight.
• A great deal at Kohl's. Really I love a great deal anywhere however I pretty much only shop at Kohl's so those are the deals I notice. Today I had a 30% off coupon on top of the Early Bird Specials.
• Going to a good movie with an even better friend. I went to see Fireproof today with Leslie. Good movie and great company.
• Opening and listening to a new CD. I really love buying a new Christmas CD every year. I typically hold off until Thanksgiving as I don't typically listen to it prior to Thanksgiving. However, today I purchased Sara Groves Christmas CD. She is one of my favorite singers and now a Christmas one, very exciting.

So after I read back through I realize I did most of those things today. Hence, good day.

Ironic Thought

We have separation of church and state, however we vote in churches.

Good And Not So Exciting

So I initially was going to write about the good things in my life and what I'm not looking forward to in this upcoming week. Then I started to watch Oprah from today and realized what is wrong with my life and my health, I'm not having sex. So that was probably way more information than most of you wanted to know and others of you know I'm being somewhat sarcastic in this statement. However, it has been over a year since I went on a date. So I won't elaborate any more if you feel like you need to watch then I'm sure you can find it on the internet some where.

So what else in my life, I'm really excited that I get to stay in town all week this week and won't be leaving town again until next Monday. At which time I will be going to Tulsa and I'm going to be driving with 3 other co-workers so I won't be all alone. I'm looking forward to the election being over and really nervous that people are going to get complacent and then decide they don't need to stand in line and vote. I did go an vote early so now I'm just looking forward to the outcome. I also want people to continue to be passionate about change on November 5 as they are today and on November 4.

I am going to spend Friday evening in Liberty with Troy and Sara. This will be good as I haven't seen them in over a week at this time and it will be 2 weeks by the time I get there on Friday.

What I'm not looking forward to this week is my crazy week at work. I will be in KC however we are doing interviews almost all day everyday. Luckily I won't be in all of them, but I will still have a crazy week due to all the folks being in the office. I have to go to the dentist on Friday to have a filling replaced. Some of you know that when I was younger I spent a lot of my time at the dentist and many teeth pulled, this doesn't mean that I love to get the work done. I have a great dentist who makes this as good as it can be but it still isn't fun. I'm nervous about what they may find when they get in there as my hygienist told me that what is causing my discomfort could be a cracked tooth but we won't know that until we get in there. So we are starting with replacing the filling, but he could take the current one I have out and then find something worse. That will be new territory for me as the worst I have had done is my wisdom teeth pulled. Okay, that was a lot of explanation for only a filling.

I have also remembered how much I hate it when Daylight Savings Ends. I mean I left work at 445 today and it was already getting dark out. Very frustrating. I mean when am I supposed to do yard work, on the weekends? That is no fun weekends are when I like to relax and see friends, not rake leaves.

On another good note, I got my Taurus started this week. I hadn't driven it since August. So, I bought a jump starter and got the car started. I went and drove literally around the entire city. When I got home I realized that I had forgotten to put my new sticker for 2009 on my license plate and to put my current insurance card in my car. So luckily I didn't have any trouble as I would have been up a creek without a paddle.