I Could Have Avoided All That Trouble If Only I'd Remembered.....

I could have avoided all that trouble if only I'd remembered to go to the store earlier. It was the day before Thanksgiving and I was on my way to my Grandmother's house for a family get together. I was talking to my sister on the phone when she asked me if I had remembered to pick up the stuffing and other stuff that was on a list for me to purchase for the supper. Somebody else had picked up the turkey, but it was my responsibility to get all the fixins' for the meal. Well I had totally forgotten about that small fact. The only option at that point was to go to the store and try to scrape up the last of the dressing and instant potatoes that I could find. As I walk into the Foodland, it seems irry quiet at first, then I see them. All the moms and dads of the town, cascading down the aisles to get the last bit of rolls or gravy that they had forgotten, totally unconcerned with the casualties their squeaky carts created along the way. This was just going to be more fun then a barrel of monkeys.

I Felt It Everytime You Prayed For Me

I love my mother and my sister, and my friends all very much. There’s no question about that. But I’m not always the best person in the world at showing it. I just wanted to take this chance to make sure that they all know that I do realize how much patience you have with me every day. You are always there for me when I need you and you are always giving me insight when I have absolutely none of my own. Even though we have had our ups and downs, you have always been there at the end of the day, and more often than not, that fact alone has surprised me more than any other fact. When I’ve been sick, when I’ve been broken, when I’ve been tired, when I’ve been lost, when I’ve been careless, when I’ve been confused, when I’ve been hurtful; I felt it every time you prayed for me. Thank you.

I Did Not Just Do That!

So I'm at Kroger getting some gas for the weekend, right, nothing to amazing about that. I forgot to get my license for the clerk to look at for my check that I had written, so I had to go back to my car to get it out of my purse. I had my keys, purse, wallet, checkbook, register, and pen all in my hands when I finally dug my ID our of my purse. So when I had found what I was looking for, I threw the rest of the stuff down on the passenger seat. What I hadn't thought about was the fact that I had also thrown down my keys and my only other spare was in the purse, whih I had also thrown down into the seat. This fact occured to my just as I say the door close. What a lovely evening in forty-five degree wind-chill waiting on my wonderful mother to come save me. Ughhh!!

Before I Die

Have you ever thought about what you wanted to do before you die? A lot has happened in the past few weeks that brings this topic to the forefront of the mind. I was thinking about it the other day and desided that I was going to start making a list of things that I want to acomplish before I die and here are a few of them:

1. Make it to College
2. See the Grand Canyon
3. Have a full and totally random conversation with a total stranger
4. Tell someone what I really think about them
5. See the New York skyline
6. Start a food fight
7. Make it to the top of the Statue of Liberty
8. Send a message in a bottle
9. Create a full family tree
10. See a lunar eclipse

I Just Wanna Sit Here For A While

People are always going to embarrass themselves, that's just the way life goes. Most of the time you just want to shrink into nothing and act like nothing ever happened. But sometimes when something just completely and utterly humiliating happens, the only thing that you can do is just sit there and let it sink in. When you think about it it's kind of funny, because most of the time when we want to just run away from something we did, it's no big deal. The moments that are really embarrassing are the ones that we can't even believe happened. Like when you drop a tray in the middle of the lunch room when it just happens to be dead silent, or when a group of friends are helping someone move and all the sudden the wrong box opens spilling a dreaded secret all over the floor for all to see. Those are the moments that one would think that they would want to disappear, but end up just standing there in shock instead. It's at these times that you just want to sit there for a while.