Individuality

The storms moved out along with my headache, yay!  That made for a much more productive and creative day. I had neglected my cleaning list this week so now I feel much better having worked on it. Yes, I know, eccentricities and all that. That's part of what makes me, me.  All my little quirks and habits are part of my make up and that's okay. We are all blessed with individuality and it's something to be proud of. I mean, how lame would it to be just like everyone else?  We should all embrace what makes us different, normal is boring. :)

Blessings in disguise

I've had a headache for a few days now. Barometric. Actually, that's why I didn't post last night and will do two tonight. Anyway, as I was fussing and wallowing about my headache I was reminded it could be a whole lot worse. I spoke with a client who had a close call and just got out of the hospital, a friend's grandparents are doing well but in the hospital, another client has been in the hospital for about a month. It's kinda humbling; a blessing to have just a headache. 

Tonight I was suppose to have to work late. Needless to say I'm not too upset that the seminar got cancelled.  Not that I mind the work, I just could use another good night's sleep. For some reason we just didn't have enough people to fill this event. It turned out to really be a blessing in disguise though. One couple (of the three people still registered) was looking for something a little different than what we were offering tonight. Luckily we have another in-house thing going on where you come in and it's more personable than a group function.  This was better suited for them. Had we just met them at the seminar it may not have worked out, but now we get more of a chance. Like I said, a blessing in disguise. 

Culinary fun and conversations

First, let me start with how great a football day it was yesterday!  All my teams won including my GAMECOCKS!!!!  Tailgate was a blast too. I'm not a cook. Not at all. I was blessed with some culinary skill yesterday though because my fajitas were a hit!  This may not be a blessing to most but to me it was!  

Today was suppose to be our first kickball game but...it got rained out. Most of us were already there when it got called so we hung out under the hatch of my car with umbrellas and chitchatted. Just having casual conversation with friends for 30 minutes that normally we wouldn't have slowed down enough to have was blessing. With all the busyness  of our lives normal, casual conversation is not as common practice as it should be. I might add it's rather relaxing too. 

Yum!

I love pumpkin. Anything pumpkin flavored. Pumpkin spice favored? Even better. I have never met anything pumpkin I don't like. I'm very finicky so this is a small miracle. Today I was blessed to find these:

Isn't it cool how something as simple as a special taste can make you so happy?

Computers and Car Window Repair

The last two days I've been in that shadowy corner of computer land where just as one thing starts to work something else goes awry. When I heard the magic words "let's go home" today a little after 3:00 I was a happy girl. The 'unless you want more time with the computer' that followed was easily answered with a NO. I have to say though, as much as the last couple of days, nay months, I have had moments where I wanted to chuck the computers through window, I've been blessed to be able to have good, educational help and patient people, even when I was a wee bit impatient. I have actually learned a lot from the changes and updates to the system.  Hopefully, a few more bugs our IT guy can work out and there will be sunny skies for a few months in computer land!

Since today was windshield repair day (yay) and I got off early it changed the repair location.  Luckily, I was blessed with a great company and a nice man that drove to our house on the other side of town and now I have a nice, new windshield!!!

Those little feelings

You know those little feelings you get sometimes that tell you just when you should or shouldn't do something. I think those are blessings; God's way of saying "Yes, it's the right time," or "No, just wait a bit."  That happened today, not on a huge scale or anything but enough that I took notice. My windshield has had a crack for several months now. I just kept putting off getting it fixed. It was probably about 6 inches total on the passenger side. I was talking to the insurance person about something totally unrelated and decided to ask about the windshield. I was told no deductible (yay!) and who to call. I was satisfied that they were coming out on Thursday to replace it while I am at work. A couple hours later a coworker and I ran out to grab lunch.  As I was about to back out I looked over and the crack had spread all the way up to the top of the glass, basically half an oval now. It wasn't like that when I was driving to work. It most definitely has to be replaced now. Good thing I had that feeling. 

Tumbling Trees

The tree in our neighbor's yard split and flew into our yard today. We had quite a storm here. We were blessed that there was no major damage and no one was hurt.  Some of the large branches in our pines broke too, but nothing drastic. It could've been was worse and I am very thankful it's just messy.