We will see how this post will turn out today, my fingers act like I dipped them in crisco, so there may be several mistakes.
Greetings all and welcome to 2009! 2008 is behind us and there are changes coming in the near future! As doors closed and opened in 2008 I find myself being thankful but excited for what is to come. What is to come exactly? Well, I dont know. But I can tell you about right now.
The reason for the title? I just needed some simple words to sum up the end of last year and the beginning of this year.
Our christmas tree this year, a live one!, is tilted. Out of all the trees we have had previous years, I like this one the best because Joe and I searched through several trees but I liked this one the best. We didn’t know of course it was tilted until we got it home and up on the stand. But it made me smile because it’s still a beautiful tree just tilted. 
And the lost socks? These words just have a funny story to go with them. I don’t like socks that hug my ankles, so I always buy the “ankle” socks that sit low on the ankle. The socks are little to begin with but add to that, that I have SEVERAL pairs of these little socks. I find them all over the house, all over the laundry room and so does my mom. She has a lost sock basket for all the lost lonely socks without mates, since I can remember she has had this basket and whenever we didn’t have a mate to the sock we would look in the lost sock basket. So that’s what I did this morning since half of my socks were missing. Low and behold! The mates to my socks were in the sock basket. Thank you mom for keeping the lost sock basket!
Onto the laughter, I love to laugh, I love to make people laugh. Laughter is one of the best sounds in the world to hear from a child, a group of people, anyone.When you hear laughter sometimes you can’t help but smile or even laugh yourself. Now that I’ve been out of high school and college I find myself laughing again. Why? Because in high school I felt like it was a popularity contest that i was never going to win and studying was the only way to hide from it. High school was also hormones, drivers license, transitions, and life decisions. I already knew what I was going to be doing for the rest of my life so I felt like high school was a waste because we had to take all these other classes that didn’t pertain to what I wanted to learn about. And in college? I spent most of my time studying and being serious because I wanted to do really well. I did for the most part but I do wish I had lived a bit more and not been so much of a hermit. Now that I’m out of school and really starting life it’s very exciting for me because now I get to do things for myself and others because I want to not because I had to study or write papers, or memorize the entire book of James in the Bible.
It’s weird, and hard to explain. I feel more freedom. More freedom to be me and who I am. I enjoy learning, a lot and I loved being a student, but I love learning life experiences- gaining years for my career, moving out on my own, taking care of a household, dating the man of my dreams, eventually getting married and doing the kid thing. Maybe I was in too much of a hurry but now that I’m to the point where I want to be, I’m very excited to take my time and learn. Hopefully this all makes sense to you guys.
Just some things I’ve been thinking about in the last few days. The holidays have been so crazy I feel like I’ve been able to relax today and get back to the normal.
Joe and I are great! I can’t express how blessed I am to know this man, let alone date him. I could not ask for a more wonderful, thoughtful man. I probably haven’t mentioned it but coming up pretty quickly we are flying out to California to visit his family, go to disney land, see the ocean, etc…I am very excited about this! I am excited to see where Joe came from and grew up because it is different from being in ohio by far! Plus it will be a nice vacation after the VTNE and break from the insane ohio weather.
Work is also going very well! I am honored to work with a wonderful group of people who make me feel like part of the family!
I need to finish working on some stuff but I wanted to come give an update and say hello. I hope you all are doing well and havign a good 2009 so far.
I’m outtie like a belly button!
