Memorial Day

Many thanks to all military people that have served this great nation in the past and currently. No amount of thanks can really express our feelings for what you have done and are doing for the cause of freedom here and abroad. Thanks also to the families of all those military men and women, because it had to put an enormous strain on those left behind to pray and hope for their safety.

God Bless America and God Bless You.

Long Time No See

Its been months since I blogged, but its not from having an uneventful life. Far from it. I`m working now ..three days a week. I love this schedule , Monday - Wednesday, then I have a looooong weekend. I do home work( as in house-cleaning, not school work) , do errands for my Mom and cook for my hubby. Thats not a hard life , is it?

Job Hunting

Oh how depressing it is to go job hunting. Today I offically started my ordeal of "begging". Its so demoralizing to be looking for work. Please let me come work for you..please..please. Oh, how I hate it. I`d forgotten what it was like to look for work. All of my prayers now will end with " Please Lord, send me a job".
God bless.

Crazy - Gnarls Barkley - Official Video

I love this tune.

Memories

Not having a job to go will give you plenty of time to think...about past and present. Today I was thinking of when I was growing up...summer time then was getting up early and working in the vegetable garden and helping out with inside chores when the early morning garden chores were done. I`m like my daddy in that I loved to be in the garden. Mama would can all summer long.. tomatoes, corn, green beans, butter beans , pickles..anything daddy took a notion to plant would wind up in a jar by the end of summer.
Ahhh those meals mama use to cook for us....I can taste them now. When I was little I took it all for granted but now I know that those were the best meals I`ll ever have because mama cooked them for the family she loved so much. It really does make a difference in how food tastes , when the person cooking loves you. Sure beats someone that hates you putting arsenic in your food..hehehe.
Mama put love into it. Thats her favorite thing to do anyway, she cooks, and cooks and cooks. She use to do fried green tomatoes that I simply loved and still do to this day (but I can`t do them like her), and she`d make the best cornbread in an iron skillet that was to die for. Hot out of the oven with butter smeared on a piece of it is so heavenly. She also can do fried apple-jack pies that you just don`t know when to stop eating. My uncle ( her brother) can eat them all most as fast as she can make them....and of all things he never gains a pound either. I can look at them and feel my thighs stretching. She`d fry potatoes with onion in them and pinto beans and steamed cabbage combined with that wonderful cornbread and you`d be in food heaven.We`d make homemade ice cream in one of those old crank freezors..one of us kids would sit on it and the rest of would take turns cranking that thing till it was frozzen stiff...or we`d have ice cold watermelon that daddy had put in the spring water down at the creek to get cold...juice running down your little arms and making streaks down your belly from playing without a shirt on all day and you`re dusty and dirty...oh my I think I`d better go drink a Slim-Fast before I do something that I`ll regret.
This is what being on a DIET does to you!!!!
God bless

My days are running together

This being a lady of leisure is for the birds. I`m going to have to find something to do to keep myself busy. Start a little business or something. I`d always told myself that when I retire I`m going to have a set routine..get up at a certain time , do certain things on specific days..you know , have a routine. Well, I think I`m going to have to do that before I retire. Starting tomorrow. I`ll have to think on this for a little bit...but yes ..I`ll start tomorrow..doing ....something. I wish I could invent something, or write a book, make something that people couldn`t live without....ummm let me think...
God bless.

Oh,CRAP!!

Oh crap, I let me temper get the best of me today at work and now I`m at home. I just couldn`t hold it in any longer so I walked out...one of those "take this job and shove it " days. I`ve been there 13 yrs..whewww. Now I have to think about what to do next....another full time job or a part timer? I think I`ll just rest for the rest of the week and decide later.
I`m pulling a Scarlet O`Hara.."I`ll think about it tomorrow."
God bless.

Monday morning blues..

It`s that time again and it feels like I haven`t had a weekend at all, especially since my job calls for six days a week lately. I only have Sunday off, and thats just not enough time to get all the home stuff done and try to get a little bit of rest. I haven`t been to church in three weeks, because I`m so tired. I laughingly say that I go to "Bedside Baptist Church", meaning I watch church on TV on the Sundays that I don`t actually go. I hope the Lord forgives me for this oversite.
Its so hot here in North Carolina..so muggy. I can`t wait till the weather breaks and cooler temps prevail. I`m a Spring, Fall person anyway. I don`t like extremes..hot-hot, or cold-cold.
Spring is so new. Everythings given another chance to get it right. New berth, in animals, humans, trees, flowers... Smells are at their best in the spring. Sweet honeysuckle, buttercups, new mown grass. Oh , I love the smell of new grass after its cut. We have a shrub in the south that we call " Sweet Bubby" ,I know thats not its real name but its what I`ve always heard it called, it has the most divine smell..like vanilla-pineapple...its a little brown blossom...not much to look at but I do love to smell it. I guess its just one of those things from child-hood that you catch a scent of and instantly you `re back in that time.
Fall is so invigorating to me..that cool crisp nip in the air..beautiful turning leaves...everything looks like its glowing. And besides the best holidays occur in the fall and early winter..Thanksgiving and Christmas...enough said.
God bless.