I am not a neat person. In fact, my husband says I’m a slob. Now, I wouldn’t go that far, but I am messy. I think a slob is someone who doesn’t care. I care, it’s just so time consuming to stop and clean everything up and put it away when I am going to get it all right back out. Does anyone else get that besides me? I have a very ADD mind. I have so many ideas and thoughts and they come so rapidly. I feel the need to start on a project, but then I have another idea and I MUST leave what I’m doing and do a little work on that. It’s not always a choice…it’s a HAVE -TO. And sometimes in the middle of a project…you just cannot tell where I’m going with it. Truth is…I probably don’t know either. It’s one of those …I’ll know it when I see it..things.
I asked Alex why he didn’t throw away something, and he said, “around here, I never know if it’s trash or art!” How clever and perceptive of him. Not that I think my art looks like trash…but that he recognizes that what looks like a pile of trash, may indeed be great art! I know I should do better…but when I am in a creative frenzy…all good sense goes out the window. And truly, the mess doesn’t bother me in the least. I know where everything is…if I cleaned up and put it away…I’d never find it again. Oh, it’s not easy getting mere mortals to get this. I’ve been trying for nigh on 35 years…and I haven’t made much headway with the husband…the boys are a little better…they grew up watching me get involved with project after project. At least I don’t have to worry about Alex tossing out a great work of art. Thanks Al, for getting it.

“When a woman is gloomy, everything seems to go wrong;
when she is cheerful, everything seems right.”
Proverbs 15:15

“We don’t laugh because we’re happy;
we’re happy because we laugh.”
Barbara Johnson

I WISH I WERE A TEDDY BEAR :

Everybody likes them…….
Nobody cares how fat they are…..
The older they are, the more they’re worth.

ENJOY LIFE………….THIS IS NOT A DRESS REHEARSAL!!!

Yes, our small town, here in south Alabama, has finally moved on up in the world. It’s been bad enough that our shopping choices are severely limited, and added to that, the only decent place to shop (Parisian) is closing. But the powers that be have given us a small reprieve. We now have a TARGET!!!!! Now, this may be no big deal to you who live in larger areas, where you have an abundance of shopping…but those of us here in my town are “over the moon!!” It will officially open next week…but, I went yesterday and walked through. It is so clean and bright and organized. Well, we feel like we’ve won the lottery here!!! All we have had was Wal-Mart, and ours is getting pretty sad. Oh, and to be fair, we do have a K-Mart…need I say more? And you shoppers in the know know Target has such a great selection of so many items. We’ve had to be content with shopping Target in other cities, the closest is about 80 miles away. And now, we have our own! Oh, hide the checkbook, I’ve gotta make up for lost time. And, not only that…we have finally gotten an Olive Garden! Well, I guess you know that we are big time now! Of course this does nothing to alleviate the lack of decent stores for the fashionable “mature woman”. Not older…just not younger. Now we do have a mall, but the majority of the stores there carry clothes they hijacked off a boat that was taking them to some foreign country to distribute to the poor. You may have some of these stores in your town. All the bottoms are cut off and ravelled, the sleeves are cut out and they only come in teeny, tiny sizes. Which leads me to believe they were headed to a country of teeny, tiny people. Because any one who is “real-sized” would have gone sorely lacking. Anyway…I digress. We are just happy that Target is here. And I for one am going to do my best to see that they feel welcome.

“What I don’t understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise. I obviously need help! I realize I don’t have what it takes. I can WILL it, but I can’t DO it. I decide to do good, but I really don’t do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway. I’ve tried everything and nothing helps. I’m at the end of my rope.”
Romans 7: 15-19, 24 The Message

No, these are not MY words, but they could be. They could have been taken right out of my mouth. Now, lest you think I have some awful secret, and do terrible, immoral things; fear not. This, my friends, is a dietary disgrace. I need to lose weight and it’s just not happening like I want it to. I went through a weight loss program last year and lost 35 pounds. I felt so much better about myself. And I know I looked better. My husband told me enough times. But then I had to go on a prolonged round of steroids(3 months),and I gained it all back. I was starving all the time. And I ate. It seemed like I could never get filled up. So, in February, I went back on the same diet program…and all I’ve lost is 5 pounds. And I’m hardly eating anything. I have done my best to follow the program exactly, and I know it works…cause it did last year. I don’t know if the steroids have changed my body chemistry, or what. But, I don’t like it! I just stopped and got my son a hamburger and apple pie at Checkers…I got me one, too. I only ate the meat and lettuce and tomatoe….but then, I messed up big time….I ate the apple pie. I can’t believe I did it. I sabotaged myself. This is ridiculous. It is just like these verses in Romans said…they must have been written with me in mind. Just kidding…But I do know this is just how I feel. Maybe this 1 apple pie won’t make too much of a difference…or maybe it will. Just pray that I regain my willpower, and don’t go any further off the wagon. I have a trip coming up in June to Hawaii with my 2 best friends. I want to look gooood. I just hope I don’t have to do it in a bigger size. 🙂

Hi Friends,
My son and I are working on my blog to give it an updated, more personal feeling. WOW! There’s a lot to this blogging stuff! Bear with us as we (he) works it out. I had no idea just how much I didn’t know! Thanks for your patience.