Sweatin the small stuff...

Those little things in life that make you want to just scream, or pull your hair out, or stick forks in your eyes. One of those things for me is when you are getting gas. This always happens to me on the days that I don't need it to. The days that every little thing that can go wrong does. The days that it would have saved the world from being harassed by one more frustrated person out there. What are the chances of on one of those days......have to get gas......and of all the pumps at the station I have to pull up to the one that the lever on the pumper that lets you not have to stand there and hold it the whole time....is broken.

If everyone has a pet peeve, this is my president of pet peeves.

It has happened the last 3 times I have stopped for gas.

Email from Grandaddy

My grandparents have gotten email hooked up at their house, which they use through the television and the keyboard is wireless, which they use sitting in their recliners. Grandmother is usually the one to type everything, that grandaddy tells her to type. As our family has strings of emails that go around all the time, some very inappropriate and some very hysterical, we got this one yesterday from them - and you can tell that grandaddy typed this one himself! To funny not to share:"isent seare a letter asking theem to send me 2 rools of toilet papper they retered my letter with a note that they needed the page no and item no i sentthem a note saying you dommie if i had your clatog i would not need anny papper simledont you thhhink dad"He can read and write, apparently he just can't type. How many 85 year old retired farmers you know that can use a computer?!

Give it ONE more try....

I am going to give this blogging thing one more try. Although, most of my thoughts probably don't need to be in writing in the world wide web.....Here is my life in a nutshell:

Looking for a house to buy. I have to buy one by November of this year so I can get that $8,000 tax credit - I still can't believe you can get this. I look and look and look and just haven't found the one that I walk into and says "this is my house." I am going to keep looking until I find it.

Started graduate school in January. I have not done this in 10 years because I am terrified of the GRE. I finally bit the bullet and enrolled and now I am so glad I did. Summer school is going to kick me in the rear though. And, I have to take the GRE again, I didn't pass it the first time. I am not a good test taker. I didn't study enough and math is stupid anyway.

Work is busy. I am so lucky to have my job. Acutally, I am the luckiest person in the state of MS, that's what I think anyway. I love my job. I am going to be doing a little more traveling coming up soon with some new responsibilites but I am very excited about it. Go SilverSneakers!

The last two months of my life have been the most challenging months I have ever endured. I don't even know what else to say about that, other than it can't get any worse so I sure hope it gets better. I am trying to discover my "parts" so I can figure out how to handle these things when they come up, and I know they will again down the road. Nothing can make it different than it is right now. I can't control anyone else's decisions. I can't fix things that are broken. I can't make it go the way I want. All I can do is learn to forgive the things I can not change.

I am so glad God made the beach. It is one of the only places that I can go and not worry about things. I can sit on the beach from sun up to sun down - just give me a book, water, peanut butter and jelly sandwich and maybe some boiled peanuts or pringles....I am set. I will be there very soon....