New Years
Every year around this time I sit and make a ridiculous list of things that I resolve to never do again. Generally this list mocks me on a daily basis for months afterward until I finally give up and throw the stupid list away. Here is a list of things that I stuck with:
Oh wait there are none.
Besides making me feel like a failure another thing that my resolutions have in common is that they are ways to "improve" myself. But by who's standards? There is a long list of things about me that I love, things that make me, me. Why do I feel a need to make a list of things to do each year hoping in vain that one of the things on my list will make me the person that people seem to want? Here are truths about me:
I am no Southern Belle
I have opinions that I share freely and openly with anyone who wants them and some that don't
I will step in front of a moving bullet for any member of my family or for my friends
I'm pretty sure I would step in front of a bullet for a stranger
I have great eyes
I am not a morning person
I love to clean, actually it is a fetish that I cannot control sometimes, I have walked into peoples houses for the first time and dusted their ceiling fans
I am a control freak
I have my dad's quick wit and my mother's flare for drama
There is no one and nothing more important to me than family
I can cook my own meals, balance a checkbook and do my own laundry and I have been able to since I was fifteen
Patience is a virtue that I do not posses
I shop way to much
I think I can save the world all by myself and I can't
I like to buy gifts for people with no occasion in mind
I hate surprises when I know they are coming
I can navigate around a big city with ease and grace
I am not always proud of the decisions that I make but I acknowledge that I am the one who got me here, good or bad
So this year I will not make resolutions to lose weight, jog daily or to stop dancing in the coffee bar as though no one can see me. I am a who I am and I will stop making apologies for it. I will keep in mind that wanting people to accept me for me in a courtesy that I need bestow to everyone I meet.
Everyday I grow and I change, I am constantly learning new points of view from people around. In time I may become a person that learns when to voice opinions and when to keep my mouth shut or that will enjoy getting up at six to go jogging but these things will come in there own time and will not be decided but the end of a year or the beginning of the next.
This Crazy Christmas Season!
Today officially started the madness that is the Christmas season. Okay the madness may have started four weeks ago when the work schedule became a life style and the house and family became a blur and a faint memory. It could have also started when Christmas packages started to arrive (thanks family) or during the mad dash to Christmas shop on the one morning that I did not have to work. I however prefer to think that the madness started today. Today was the last day of work (until Sunday), today was the first day I was able to see my family as more than loud blurs, today was the day the table caught fire, today was the day I unwrapped my first present, today was a good day.
Oh, what was that? How did the table catch fire? Well it all started when Trisha and I loudly and in unison said, "Hey, Pernille, don't let Tanner have any matches, he will catch the place on fire."! Several hours and presents and a meal later we split up to watch various movies and tv programs in various areas of the house. Trisha was curling my hair while we watched Oceans Eleven in the basement when an alarm went off in the movie, wait there isn't an alarm in the movie, hmm. I can't really remember the next minute or so but I do remember smothering a fire with towels and listening to Marla (in mid swing) complement my hair.
I love when things come together for a reason. We had planned on going for a driving tour to see the Christmas lights or going to Harrisburg to see a movie. If we had left the house, or if the fire alarms did not work (and trust me they work REALLY well) we might be out of a house, or out of a Christmas, out of the joy of our pets and our clothes and all of the other things that we take for granted everyday. Tonight as we stood around the table surveying the damage (which was not much) I thanked God a thousand times that we were okay, that we didn't go to the movies.
Ocean's Twelve can wait for another day because my family will go to bed tonight knowing that they are safe. I wish you a Merry Christmas and a safe, comforting night!
School bound!
It's official!! Today I completed my enrollment process. I met with my advisor and set my schedule. I take English and Math MWF from 10-12 and Comparative Religion and Spanish TR from 12-4.
I was charged out of state tuition but I received enough Financial Aid for classes and books. I am so stinking excited.
Thank you to everyone who has rooted and prayed for me. I start classes January 12th!
E-Mail Hell
On Friday I e-mailed a friend in Topeka, on Saturday I logged on with eager anticipation hoping to find a reply. My biggest disappointment is to open my AOL account and find that there is no new mail, or to be excited that there is new mail only to discover that it is junk mail.
Saturday night I learned a new disappointment. After signing on a large red screen appearred telling me that my password or screen name had been entered incorrectly, after retyping my password several times I clicked on the
I forgot my password button. A new screen appearred telling me that an e-mail had been sent to my account with information on how to change my password.
Here is a little Hmmmm for you... if I cannot get into my AOL account because I cannot remember my password (which I know I put in correctly) how am I supposed to check my e-mail? So I did not panick, instead I called the "Help" line, which PS THEY ARE NOT HELPFUL. They apologized for the inconvenience and offered to sent up a new AOL account for me. Not that the new account would provide me with access to my address book, or months worth of e-mails but they would be glad to assist with that service.
Yeah, cause I am going to put my trust in you again.
So I no longer have my e-mail account. I have a new account but all e-mails that may have been sent to my AOL account since Friday are currently being held captive. If you would like to e-mail (PLEASE DO) my new address is
FeelinFroggy79@hotmail.com. Please send me an e-mail so that I can put all of the addresses into my new e-mail account.
I promise as soon and the holiday season is complete I will begin blogging again, between now and Christmas Day I work six days a week at least. Also I need Christmas lists from those of you that want a gift. I will be shopping this weekend and mailing at the beginning of the week. DISCLAIMER: E-mailing me a list does not ensure that you will receive a gift from the list, in fact it does not ensure that you will receive a gift at all. I am only one person.
