So Simple - So True

The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates

Waiting... Ha Ha Ha

I do a lot of shopping on line and am recently recovering from my EBay addiction and have found this graph to be true a few times LOL

The Truth About Super Glue

Pet Peeve Vent

I am well known for having pet peeves and I had an encounter with one today. I have to be careful to not let little things determine my mind frame. But, I am allowed to vent about it for a minute LOL. I am just wondering why people that work in stores put price stickers in the most inconvenient places! I know, it sounds stupid, but Im serious! I bought some frames the other day and both of them had the sticker on the glass front of the frame. So after I got the frames home, I had to spend my precious time (LOL) fighting with that sticker and of course it doesnt just come off in one quick pull. But I have found a friend in my war against stickers - lighter fluid! If you put a few drops of it on the glass it steals the stickyness from the sticker and then it comes right off without leaving that nasty gluey like mess of a square. My brother first told me about this when I was complaining about that ugly glue square on the side of one of my large candles. (Again, why wouldnt they put the sticker on the bottom of the candle) Well, today I picked up a book and when I looked at the back of it - to read a preview of the book - what do you know - one of those evil stickers was in my way. I hate them! LOL And there was plenty of empty space on the back where it could have been placed, but it was inconsiderately placed right over the most important part of a book - the words!
OK, Im done venting now and I feel better already! Thanks for reading! :-)

I'm still here! LOL

Ive been missing for a while... Now its time to get back in the swing of things. I started back to work a week ago. I have been feeling pretty good, I just get sore as the day goes on, but that is to be expected after having back surgery! Getting used to getting up at 4:40am all over again has been hard on me too, but Im working on it. LOL I hope all is well with you all! Take care!

In His Hands

Lately I have wondered what life is all about
My past, present, future. I cant figure it out
Then suddenly it came to me
Only HE knows whats meant to be
During lifes highs and through the lows
HE will show me what I need to know
HIS love and protection are never far
Like that November day when I totaled my car
When that truck pulled into my path
HE was there - right in my lap
That day HE taught me a lot of lessons
All in a span of about 2 seconds
That vision of myself lying in a coffin
Made me start going to see my Dad more often
When my brother came around that curve and slammed on brakes
You should have seen the look on his face
He saw my car before he saw me
When our eyes met all I saw was relief
I went home from the hospital bruised and sore
But appreciated life more and more
I know that HE kept me safe from harm
And placed me back in my Mothers arms
Now when I lay down at night I cant wait
To thank God for keeping my family and friends safe
Thats just one of the moments in my life
That HE made sure I'd be alright
I dont understand whats meant to be
But I know HE always looks out for me
HE didnt keep me in that bad relationship any longer
Than what I needed to make myself stronger
Now I know I am truly blessed
Because I can recognize real happiness
If I hadnt went through any hardships
I couldnt appreciate how great my life is
To anybody that has played a part
I thank you from the bottom of my heart
Whatever life brings my way - I know that I am
Without a doubt - IN GODS HANDS

Always Remember...

We all have to go through what we have to go through in order to become the person we are meant to be. Good times, bad times.. they all make us. Never doubt that.

To My Wonderful Husband

Sometimes I feel like I'm living in a fantasy
I get confused about how a man could be
So perfect for me…. And I wonder
When will we go wrong?
Sometimes I wonder how long
It will take
For you to wake me
I'd just hold on tight
If you ever took flight
I could never let go
I'm goin' wherever you take me
You know I said forever and my words were very true
But I'm scared because I can't find anything wrong with you
Am I dreaming? Am I foolish? Could it possibly be?
That you really are the perfect match for me?
How'd I get so lucky?
Why do you love me?
I must have done something right
In a past life
All the riches in the world for the rest of my life
Could never match up to being your wife
You're mine- I'm yours- I'm living a dream
For once in my life – everything IS what it seems
I gave you my heart and that's where it belongs
And now I'll stop wondering what will go wrong
I used to think a "Soul Mate" was only a myth
Until the day I became a Smith

Good Times With Dad

While working on a Fathers Day present for my Dad today, I started laughing - thinking about some fun times we have had. We share a silly sense of humor. One day as we were walking in to KMart someone else was walking out and set off the alarm indicating that they left the store with something that still had the "inventory control tag" on it. So we started jumping around and saying "We won! We won! What did we win?" Of course we got some crazy looks but it was hilarious to us! Then we made our way to the card section in search of a birthday card for a friend of his. I picked one up that said

"**Its your Birthday!!!** You could win all sorts of prizes! A new home! A car! A vacation! Or several other smaller prizes."

When I opened the card I saw a drawing of a large star and these instructions -

"Hold card up to the light and look in the star to see what you have won."

When I did that, I saw the word "Card"

Oh my goodness!!!! I was laughing SO hard! So of course Dad reads it and he starts laughing. We were in the card section literally crying in laughter about that card. Theres no way I could tell this story that would do it justice. The harder he laughed the more I laughed and vice versa. And the more people walked by and looked at us like we were crazy - the funnier it got. I will always cherish times like that with my Dad. We laughed until it hurt. It felt great! :-)

Dont Judge...

I saw this quote somewhere months ago and have it posted in my kitchen now. I just saw it and thought it was worth sharing. Something to think about....

"Dont judge others by their actions then judge yourself by your intentions."

After Surgery...

After surgery - I have been doing pretty good. Ive been out of work a month and half and really thought I would be back by now. I started physical therapy today - just rebuilding my back and leg muscles. I feel pretty good from day to day - just get a little sore. Im not supposed to be sitting up too much - just laying and walking most of the time. I do sit more than I should though - its hard to do a lot of things without sitting! The Dr told me to walk more. I wasnt too excited about that. Well - I had to walk so why not go somewhere that I would actually like to walk? So, we went to the beach this past weekend - that was some good walking! I havent been to the beach in years. I really needed to get out of the house! When I walk around the neighborhood I cannot just sit or lay down in the street when I am a little sore or tired. On the beach I could! That is what I call making the best of it! :-)

Respect My Stuff!!!!!

This happened a couple of years ago. I was just reminded of it and thought I would share it since I find it pretty entertaning now. I didnt then. LOL
At my job, there is a different company that is contracted to come in during evenings or weekends and clean the buildings. Usually it is just standard stuff but every so often they do more in depth cleaning. Well, it was a Friday and I was scheduled to work all weekend. I brought a container of muffins to work Friday morning, ate a couple of them and saved the rest for the weekend. Toward the end of the day, I was told the clean up crew would be coming so if they asked for access I was to let them in the building. It was time for one of the "big cleanings" and they would be bringing a lot of equipment in. Saturday I made sure to save myself 2 muffins for Sunday - because on the weekends we work alone so we cannot leave to go get any lunch. When I left Saturday evening the clean up crew was downstairs and had not made it to my office yet. When I came back in Sunday I immediately noticed how clean our kitchen was - a pleasant surprise being that I worked with mostly men that dont clean up well behind theirselves. So, I go to the refridgerator to get my bottle of water that I had been refilling each day at the "Mountain Water Dispenser" in the hallway. The bottle was gone. There was barely anything in the fridge at all compared to how it looked the day before. So, there I went - off on a rant, "I can NOT BELIEVE they threw my water bottle away! What right do they have to throw anything away? Even if it was empty, it was in there for a reason! They need to respect my stuff!" Then my head snapped to the left where my muffins used to be on the counter. Thats right. Used to be! I walked slowly to the huge trash can and look down to see the muffins, still safe in their little compartments of the case they came in. I REALLY got mad then! I went on and on about how "I can NOT BELIEVE......" I was pissed! I didnt bring any breakfast and was thining about those muffins on my way to work! After going on and on about it I decided to take them out of the trash and eat them anyway! After all, there wasnt any trash on top of the packaging they were in - so they were fine! Who were they to decide my muffins were no longer good to eat? How dare they! I popped them in the microwave for a few seconds to get them nice and warm and I had the breakfast I had been waiting for. All day I told people the story about the nerve of people to throw my stuff away! Well, I was off work Monday and Tuesday and when I returned Wednesday I was telling a co-worker about it and how mad I was that they did not respect my stuff!!! When I got to the part of the story where I said that I noticed my muffins in the trash, he stopped me and said, "Oh, yeah, I accidentally knocked the muffins off the counter the other day and the thing they were in came open and the muffins were rolling all over the floor. So I threw them in the trash."
Yeah, it's funnier now than it was then!

Is it Just Me?

Is it just me or are some people dumber than the law should allow for no good reason? Sorry to come of so harsh, but seriously... I wonder that sometimes. Really, I dont have a problem with people not knowing something or not fully understanding something, but I hate it when people have no understanding AND they have an attitude. You may see me talk a lot about attitude because I just do not see why people are so rude sometimes. Anyway - let me give you an example. I get some crazy calls at work sometimes and I love to share the stories. I work for an electric company and my department deals with power outages. OK... a guy called and wanted to know if we had an outage at a specific intersection one night. I checked our records and did not see any outages for that area. When I told him that, he got even more rude than he already had been and pretty much told me I had no idea what I was talking about. He insisted that there was an outage to the red light there. He said he sat at the red light for a long time and when he finally decided he had waited long enough, he went through the light and was pulled over and given a ticket. He wanted a letter from us saying we had an outage there that affected the red light. (Does this make sense at all?) So my question to him was "So the light was working?" And he got loud and said "YES! It was working but it wasnt working!! It was red and did not turn green! Can you not hear me? Now I have a ticket because of you and I want a letter! Do you know how to type? Or do you just get paid to sit there and piss people off all day?" So I so politely explained to him that if there was no power going to the light then the light woul not be lit up at all. No red. No yellow. No green. Just nothing. I tried my best to make him understand that all we do is supply power to the light, we dont have anything to do with how long it takes for the light to change. He asked to speak to my supervisor. I usually do not like to transfer calls to my supervisor because he has enough to do and I felt like I could handle it. But by the 3rd time that I tried to explain something so logical and the 4th time that he called me a few words and said he wanted to "talk to someone with some common sense" I saw my boss coming and told him he had a good one waiting to talk to him. After watching my boss sit in silence for a little while he said, "So the light was working?"

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Lighten Up!

What is everyone so mad at? It seems like so many people have an attitude. Is it really THAT bad? Or is it the "in" thing now to be rude and have this "I dont care" persona? Well I just dont get it. What happened to smiling at people when eye contact was made? Simple things like that. OK, so everyone has a bad day sometimes, but there's no need to make it contagious. Anyone who has a customer service job - I feel for you! My job has limited contact with the public but we do have to answer phone clls some times and it amazes me how rude people can be RIGHT from the START of the phone call. Dont get me wrong - I can get mean too, but it takes a lot to get me to that point. But I think some people just wake up mean! Lighten up people! Attitude really is contagious - thankfully ignorance is not!!!!
Of course some people are going to say its not easy to just "Lighten Up" And I understand that. Times are hard right now - I get it! My husband lost his job almost 2 months ago, I'm out of work on short term disability leave right now (66% of my pay) because I am having back surgery in 2 days... life isnt perfect... But walking around with a chip on your shoulder all the time isnt going to lighten your load!

Dwelling On It

OK, hello world. I have been hearing about this blogging thing and decided to give it a try. Why? Because I have a lot to say! Life has taught me a lot! LOL I dont exactly know what I am doing yet but I think if I can figure this out it will be a lot of fun. My mind is always going and going and I have to have some way to get it all out. I am having surgery in a couple days - on Thursday. I am having a microdiskectomy. Did I spell that right? I'm ready to get it over with but of course not looking forward to it. Since June of last year I have been having problems with my back - most symptoms in my left leg. Anyone who has been through it knows it is a pain in the butt - sometimes literally. So - I will be stuck - pretty much in bed for a couple of weeks after the procedure and need something to do. I used to write a lot - but now that the net has taken over the world I am turning to this. I type just like I talk - nonstop. :-) So I may bounce around from subject to subject sometimes - but here is a little about me ---
I am 33 years old, a military brat, one older brother, one niece, married for about a year and a half now, no kids of my own, one step son, home owner, full time job, friends of all sorts from all over the place and a large Southern family - most of us are in Georgia.
There's a lot to me and plenty of time for me to get it all out... but right now what is on my mind is KIDS. Do I want one? I just cant figure it out. My step son is great. He is 9 and Ive been around him for a few years and it is amazing how much he has grown. I am comfortable with him now but it wasnt always like that. I have never really been around kids. I am the youngest, I was not raised around any of my younger cousins, etc so I dont really know how to relate to kids. At first when my husband and I were getting serious, it was a huge adjustment for us all. My step son lives about 3 hours from us and when he would come stay with his Dad before I was in the picture he had his Dad all to himself. Then I came around and invaded his territory. We had to sit down and have a heart to heart talk one evening. Then when we actually moved in together it was another learning experience. Mason was used to sleeping in the bed with Rod and now there I was - in his way again. But we got through that too and now when Mason comes I really enjoy him. He is here now and just seeing how Rod looks at him and how happy he is around him - it makes me wonder if I am robbing myself of the greatest love in the world. Rod is a great Dad. But would I be a good Mom? I have no patience. That scares me. People say I will get some tolerance if I have a child. But will I? Who really knows? My husband and I are best friends. We have no drama in our life. Life is great. So I am afraid of change. I go and do as I please. I know that will come to a screeching hault. Will I feel like I traded in my life to run behind someone else all the time? I have always been an independent woman and I am afraid a child will make me feel like I have lost myself. BUT - I cant imagine that joy of looking at a human being and knowing that I am one half of that person. I wonder what she would look like? I bet she would be the sweetest thing. When I hear kids call their MOMMMMYYY... I wonder how it feels. I think the permanent part is what scares me the most - it's forever. Of course my marriage is forever - and of course we depend on each other - but nobody depends on someone like a child does a Mother. Am I woman enough???? I have never doubted myself in life except for in this department. I was raised to believe I can do anything - I can be anything - I can have anything - and I have achieved everything I have ever truly set my mind to. Most things come easy to me - because I know how I feel and I go from there. But I am totally confused on this one. I dont know how I feel and I dont know what to do. I guess I'll keep dwelling on it. Maybe I will figure it out before it is too late. I hope so.