I hope you are reading this in good health and total happiness!
Between this cold/flu/who knows what the heck, work and life in love, I haven't kept up as much with my blogging.
Let's see...quick updates. I'm getting married.
(I'll let that one sit for a while)
Work is SUPER busy, but I really love it! I am going to be at another one of the house builds this weekend and since I know the family that is going to be in this home, it makes it that much more touching. I am absolutely amazed at the outpouring of volunteers, donors, etc that come in to Habitat on a daily basis. I have a small army of volunteers that are always so eager to help. It is neat to be in this environment. I will take some pic's this weekend and post them.
I have had this crazy flu, cold, something-or-other bug for about 2 weeks and let me say, it has been relentless!! One day, it is sinus, the next day an ear ache, the congestion and coughing doesn't stop. SO much that I haven't slept in 2 nights. Night before last, I was about to tear my head off because it hurt so bad after coughing all night. I finally started dozing off early in the morning, but had to get up to get some stuff for my brother at 4am. I came back and got some sleep. It is the strangest thing to me how a cough knows its sleepee time and it just kicks into high gear! UUGGH...drives me nuts! Well, last night, same drill. Although, this time at about 1am, I got up and tried something different. A friend of mine told me to put Viks on the soles of my feet and put socks on and the cough would stop. So I tried it. HOLY MOLY! I really DOES work! It was even 2 minutes that I had my socks on and it just stopped....and most importantly, I slept! Yowsers!! So great!
STORY TIME!
Terry and I went camping this past weekend. On Saturday night it was 29!!! YOWSERS! Talking about cold! We had a fire going and if you stepped more than 5 feet away, you were freezing. We took some firewood, but it was apparent, we weren't going to have enough. So, we grabbed our gloves and ventured out behind our camp to see if we could retrieve some debris that could provide yummy warmness!
We did it in the early evening so we could see because it gets pitch black out where we were at. We are walking around and every so often, there are these tree stumps that are about 3 foot high. It appeared someone else had already chopped the tree and just left that. Well, they are anywhere from 2 - 5 inches in diameter, so while I hear Terry crunching the leaves under his boot about 20 feet from me, I decide I will call on the powers of Karate Kid and kick this tree stump down. So I position myself into the crane.....uh....ok! I am exaggerating! I step back, kick my leg back and kick it with my left leg. "WHAT THE!??!?" It's like the stump morphed into a huge rubber stick. It sent me flying back and I tried to regain my stability, I am looking around to see where Terry is. I didn't want to give him material to razz me, you know. Luckily, he was no where to be seen! We gather some wood and on our next trip, he and I are together and he sees that stump. (yes, I'm talking about the super rubber stump) "this looks like its ready to go down", he says. I look at him and think, "this will be hysterical!" Just to be fair, I say, "I don't think it will come down." To which he responds, "of course it will!" So, I stand back, he gets into his Karate pose, kicks it SO hard, it sends him back!!! OMGosh!!!! I was cracking up!!!!
Well, life is interesting how it has its own vindication.
Fast forward a few hours. We have our wood, I am at the camp and we have a stack of wood. I am standing over there breaking branches. They are on the ground, I put my right boot where I want the break and with my right arm, I yank the branch til it breaks. I've done this a billion times. Well, I hit a branch that is just bein' stubborn. I yank and yank and the thing doesn't give. I finally get upset and with both hands give it a huge tug. CRACK! As the branch cracks, it literally flings me in the air and I hit the ground completely flat! Terry comes runnin' out asking, "are you ok? are you ok?" I tell him,"give me a second." I started wiggling my toes and fingers to make sure everything is in tact. I then start cracking up! OMGosh!! I can't believe I did that!! Terry starts laughing with me and we laugh til we cry. He notes, "hmm...payback isn't always fun, is it!" I start to get up and he says, "no! Wait!" He runs to the tent. I am thinking he is going to get me a pillow or something sweet. He comes running out with the camera!! LOL! He takes one picture, no flash. "WAIT!" I am cracking up!! "I can't believe you", I say. He takes another and says, "I had to catch your Karate Kid moment!"
Anyway, here is the picture! This might be one of those you had to be there, stories, but what the heck...it was just one of the moments we laughed til we cried!
So, my sister introduced me to this website called Etsy. I have a link to her store on my blog spot. Here is the deal, I wasn't exactly sure what this was, but in looking at this further, it is a really cool deal! It is people across America, just like my sister that have a craft or talent for making things and they open up a little "shop". They have purses, accessories, journals, scarves, scrap booking stuff, etc, etc. LOTS of stuff! As I am looking through their pages, I see things and think, "that would be good for so and so." I know with the Holidays here, we all feel we have to go and buy gifts for people and sometimes there are those people that have everything. But here it is, why not put that money that you would normally throw into a big corporation like Macy's, Target, or JCPenny and put it back into everyday Joe and Joane's hands? I don't know, something about that just resonates with me. Anyway, I have attached a link to the home site, my sister's site and another friend of mine's from high school that makes some very pretty hairclips with amazing flowers.
http://www.etsy.com/
http://http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6255377
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6234398&order=§ion_id=&page=2
Hope you all are doing well!
PS
Regarding the getting married thing...uh...ya...that would be a no...at least not any time in the next 24 hours! LOL! (o=
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