I will never forget!

September 11, 2001
I remember where I was and what I was doing, of course. What I also vividly remember is how I felt when I heard the news. Emotions ran through me, shock, then fear, and then feeling of helplessness. Here I was, a native New Yorker, stuck in the middle of the country in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. I so desperately wanted to pack up my car and get to NYC as quickly as I could. I NEEDED to pull someone out of the wreckage. For days, even months, I was CONSUMED with all coverage of what happened. I had to have every tidbit of information that I could get. I watched news stories, documentaries, read newspapers, magazine articles, and books. The event had literally consumed me and my life. Still to this day, 5 years later, if I see something about it, I stop and read it. I look at the pictures and watch the movies. I still cry. I will cry today, I actually already have. I will never forget.

God bless America!


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I'm copying off of Rochelle and doing 13 things about ME!

1. I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE flowers!

2. I'm a NY Yankees fan.

3. I love to play just about any sport except for soccer.

4. I'm most happy when hanging out w/ friends.

5. I love to cook, play games, watch movies, read and scrapbook.

6. I miss my mom more than I ever thought possible.

7. Texas isn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but I still don't LOVE it.

8. I like staying at home.

9. I hate being overweight more than I let on. I don't like to draw attention to myself and I feel that my size does just that.

10. I wish that I had an established career. I wish that I had finished school and THEN gotten married.

11. I love being out on the open water but it scares me to death.

12. I have a love/hate relationshiop with flying. It scares me a little, I'm afraid I'll puke on the plane again but I love that you can be in NY in 4 hours instead of 20.

13. I don't like weddings. (there I said it, it's out. Now what do you think of me????)

Wordless Wednesday

It's the little things....

On Thursday there was a pounding on my front door, now usually I avoid answering the door but today I decided to go for it.
Me: Can I help you?
Man: My brother and I paint the numbers on the driveways every year and yours are gone so wanted to let you know we are offering this service today. Here are the designs you can have for $5 more.
Me: (looking around for said 'brother', glancing at the laminated sheet he handed me) I said let me call my husband. I'll be right back.
I shut the door and called C told him what was going on he said go for it since you can barely see the numbers on the house anyway.
Me: (to man at the door) "OK let me see the sheet again." So I'm staring at the sheet that has designs for most of the TX area teams and local college logos.
Man: "we are doing both sides of the driveway so if you are torn between two we can put one on each side."
Me: "No, that's not it... I'm a Yankees fan." (I know this was hard for him to figure out b/c the Yankees flag that was 24 inches away from him was not actually touching him.)
Man: "well, I could do the football helmet and put NY on it"
Me: "Uh, that would be football, the Yankees are a baseball team."
Man: "Oh. What is their logo?"
Me: (looking intently at the 24"x36" flag 2 feet away from where we are standing.)
"Um, it's an N with a Y over it.
Man: "Can you print it out?"
Me: "YES!" (thank you google images!)
Man: "you go print it out and bring some scissors or an exacto knife and I'll get started on the numbers."
Me: "Cool beans, I'm on it."
So I ran upstairs and printed the NY logo and this cool man sat at the bistro table on the front porch and painstakingly used my exacto knife to cut out the NY logo and then sprayed it to the front curb. (He kept the stencil by the way 'in case anyone else wants it') So now I have a one-of-a-kind front curb #'s design and I am happier than a clam!
Man: "All done! For the special design it'll be $5 more."
Me: "Sweet! That is totally worth it to me!" (besides now I know how it is done and we'll do it ourselves next time.)

oh and my husband has already run over it so now we have the nice black tire schmear on it. :SIGH: I can't have anything nice.

Have a FABULOUS three day weekend "Ya'll"!

can I actually do a THURSDAY THIRTEEN?

I'm not totally sure what a Thursday Thirteen actually is except for maybe 13 random thoughts... so I'll share my randomness w/ you today.

1. I'm listening to silence. Usually we have a radio on 24/7 but I turned it off. The fridge isn't humming, the a/c isn't on, the dogs are sleeping, it's just me and the laptop. Silence is nice.

2. wow. I'm stuck already. huh.

3. I'm actually excited about my future. Like for the first time since I got engaged to be married. This is cool.

4. Have I ever confessed on here how much I LOVE a clean house!??!??! It's totally awesome!

5. Even though I don't work, I love a 3 day weekend. Hubby is home one more day w/ me!

6. I'm loving blogging and reading blogs. It's fun, it's like a peek into other peoples lives and ya get to know them better. It's also good for me to get some stuff out. KWIM?

7. What to have for dinner tonight??? I dunno, but I do know I've gotta get the sauce for tomorrow nights dinner started!!!

8. I'm pretty sure I can't make it to thirteen. I'm just not that interesting.

9. The person that laughed at me for getting someone to clean my house just called to find out who I use. Now, THAT is HILARIOUS!

10. I have found 2 new friends that I find myself thinking of often. I thank God everyday that He allowed these friendships. They are better for me than I ever could have imagined. THANK YOU!

11. I'm a scrapping tonight! Well, altering but it's done at my scrap table and w/ paper so it counts.

12. I wish I lived closer to family.

13. Look at me, I made it!! WHOO HOO!! (this probably doesn't count though, b/c it's about nothing really. but we won't tell anyone will we???)