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Showing posts with label feeling accomplished. Show all posts
Showing posts with label feeling accomplished. Show all posts
9.17.2010
5.12.2010
No. You're not seeing things. Stop the presses. It's really me. Typing. On blogspot. For the first time in months.
I would try to list a million excuses, and chances are it wouldn't be that difficult to come up with them, but there really is no honest excuse except that i'm a total SLACKER!
You know that feeling... like when you intend to call a friend you haven't talked to in ages to thank them for a sweet card or gesture or maybe you just happened upon them at the local market and promised a phone call to set up a lunch date. Yesterday passed and you got wrapped up in work, today you're still dragging from the wine you had last night and just don't have the energy, but tomorrow - TOMORROW you will call.
Soon enough it's 4 weeks 3 days and 22 hours later and even though you've told yourself every single day to call, you just didn't and it almost feels like it's too late to even bother.
That's how i've been feeling about my little blog-e-roo. I've seen some terribly quirky things that reminded me of this special nook in my life. And though I wanted badly to post those terribly quirky things it just felt so inadequate when i've been MIA for this long.
Nevertheless, here I am and I have more updates than I know how to type and more than i'm sure you care to read. So this is me dipping my toes in the pool. Check out some things I probably would have blogged about had I not been slacking....
* A signed contract to build a house at the beginning of February. Set to be complete at the end of June.
* A continually growing love for Sully (if you can believe it) who turned one and took his first solo steps since I last wrote.
* A wedding date set at a beautiful old barn in SC - June 5th - and the flurry of stress and excitement surrounding it that i'm sure will make into the pages of a future blog
* Several amazing parties in honor of mine and John's love
* A knee replacement surgery for Dad and his successful recovery
* A visit from my favorite DC-ians (did I say that wrong?)
* The birth of a nephew and news that another niece or nephew is on the way
* A new Canon digital SLR camera (that i've been dying for) as a present and HUGE surprise from John on Mother's Day
* 2 new favorite websites that deserve a blog post of their own
* A vegetable lasagna recipe that John has fallen madly in love with
* A birthday shout out to Tucker who turned 7
* A case of pink-eye for the little guy and some crazy expensive medicine that comes in a little itty bitty bottle
* A best friend's surprise 30th birthday party
* Sully's first experience with egg dye - we did pretty good
* News that my best friend is relocating with her family to Portland, Maine (a new place to visit!!)
* An obsession with paint colors, and just colors in general
* An invitation to the graduation of my cousin who I babysat after I graduated high school (talk about feeling old!)
* A snow storm in Charleston on Valentine's weekend - aka. mine and John's first scheduled date in 6 months that was interrupted when the babysitter called to say the power went out. Charleston's first snow in 10 YEARS on our one date night!!!
* The engagement of two dear friends
* A new hair color - back to my roots brown
Now I promise that we'll talk again soon. I won't stray away for too long because there's lots to be said. :)
I would try to list a million excuses, and chances are it wouldn't be that difficult to come up with them, but there really is no honest excuse except that i'm a total SLACKER!
You know that feeling... like when you intend to call a friend you haven't talked to in ages to thank them for a sweet card or gesture or maybe you just happened upon them at the local market and promised a phone call to set up a lunch date. Yesterday passed and you got wrapped up in work, today you're still dragging from the wine you had last night and just don't have the energy, but tomorrow - TOMORROW you will call.
Soon enough it's 4 weeks 3 days and 22 hours later and even though you've told yourself every single day to call, you just didn't and it almost feels like it's too late to even bother.
That's how i've been feeling about my little blog-e-roo. I've seen some terribly quirky things that reminded me of this special nook in my life. And though I wanted badly to post those terribly quirky things it just felt so inadequate when i've been MIA for this long.
Nevertheless, here I am and I have more updates than I know how to type and more than i'm sure you care to read. So this is me dipping my toes in the pool. Check out some things I probably would have blogged about had I not been slacking....
* A signed contract to build a house at the beginning of February. Set to be complete at the end of June.
* A continually growing love for Sully (if you can believe it) who turned one and took his first solo steps since I last wrote.
* A wedding date set at a beautiful old barn in SC - June 5th - and the flurry of stress and excitement surrounding it that i'm sure will make into the pages of a future blog
* Several amazing parties in honor of mine and John's love
* A knee replacement surgery for Dad and his successful recovery
* A visit from my favorite DC-ians (did I say that wrong?)
* The birth of a nephew and news that another niece or nephew is on the way
* A new Canon digital SLR camera (that i've been dying for) as a present and HUGE surprise from John on Mother's Day
* 2 new favorite websites that deserve a blog post of their own
* A vegetable lasagna recipe that John has fallen madly in love with
* A birthday shout out to Tucker who turned 7
* A case of pink-eye for the little guy and some crazy expensive medicine that comes in a little itty bitty bottle
* A best friend's surprise 30th birthday party
* Sully's first experience with egg dye - we did pretty good
* News that my best friend is relocating with her family to Portland, Maine (a new place to visit!!)
* An obsession with paint colors, and just colors in general
* An invitation to the graduation of my cousin who I babysat after I graduated high school (talk about feeling old!)
* A snow storm in Charleston on Valentine's weekend - aka. mine and John's first scheduled date in 6 months that was interrupted when the babysitter called to say the power went out. Charleston's first snow in 10 YEARS on our one date night!!!
* The engagement of two dear friends
* A new hair color - back to my roots brown
Now I promise that we'll talk again soon. I won't stray away for too long because there's lots to be said. :)
6.04.2009
time marches on
Cari D, my bff since Mrs. Cauthen's 10th grade history class, remininded me yesterday that today, June 4th, marks 10 years since we walked the stage at our high school graduation. I can hardly believe it. In the past day I have been flooded with memories of cafeteria gossip, hanging out in the parking lot before the morning bell, painting the rock, and our most important high school objective - figuring out how to make the cute boys notice us. I have to be honest Soulshine, it's made me a little nostalgic. I've also been completely wrapped up in the typical questions "where am I going" & "where have I been". I mean did I honestly believe that after 10 years I would be highly successful with tons of money in my bank account and a Lexus in the driveway? Okay, so maybe I did but unfortunately that hasn't happened yet (I don't even have a driveway to park a Lexus in). So, feeling a little inadequate, I decided to make a list of my accomplishments since that fateful day to see exactly how far i've come. Here goes (not in chronological order), I:
● became a mommy on the day that Sully was born - January 30th, 2009 (the goal I hoped to achieve above all others)
● am engaged to marry a wonderful man in the Spring of 2010 (we did things the untraditional way)
● uprooted from the home I had known my whole life and ventured to Charleston, SC, making it my new home
● graduated from Charleston Southern University with an emphasis in Communications
● took a job as the Office Manager of HMY Yacht Sales and have been successfully employed with them for 3 years now
● became an aunt
● purchased my very own car in 2007 (I marked that as "the day I became a real woman")
● have successfully trained & raised my dog, a Boxer named Tucker, going on 7 years now
● learned how to strum the guitar
● am a Notary Public
● got to talk on the radio and work in the sound booth as the Intern for 95SX (a local Top 40's radio station)
● raised over $20,000 that went towards the building fund for the College of Charleston library
● volunteered in the Children's Hospital at MUSC
● traveled to Jamaica, NYC, Mexico, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, DC, & Chicago (I consider travels an accomplishment)
● learned that you can't take the ones you love for granted when one of my dear friends was killed in a bicycling accident
● learned how to cook like my mama - not to toot my own horn but I think i'm pretty darn good
I'm sure I could add some other accomplishments to this list if I gave enough thought, but I think this is enough to suffice for now. I guess all that's left to do is figure out my goal for the next 10 years. Hopefully this time I can make it a little more realistic - although owning a mansion on the beach is looking pretty good right about now. :)
● became a mommy on the day that Sully was born - January 30th, 2009 (the goal I hoped to achieve above all others)
● am engaged to marry a wonderful man in the Spring of 2010 (we did things the untraditional way)
● uprooted from the home I had known my whole life and ventured to Charleston, SC, making it my new home
● graduated from Charleston Southern University with an emphasis in Communications
● took a job as the Office Manager of HMY Yacht Sales and have been successfully employed with them for 3 years now
● became an aunt
● purchased my very own car in 2007 (I marked that as "the day I became a real woman")
● have successfully trained & raised my dog, a Boxer named Tucker, going on 7 years now
● learned how to strum the guitar
● am a Notary Public
● got to talk on the radio and work in the sound booth as the Intern for 95SX (a local Top 40's radio station)
● raised over $20,000 that went towards the building fund for the College of Charleston library
● volunteered in the Children's Hospital at MUSC
● traveled to Jamaica, NYC, Mexico, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, DC, & Chicago (I consider travels an accomplishment)
● learned that you can't take the ones you love for granted when one of my dear friends was killed in a bicycling accident
● learned how to cook like my mama - not to toot my own horn but I think i'm pretty darn good
I'm sure I could add some other accomplishments to this list if I gave enough thought, but I think this is enough to suffice for now. I guess all that's left to do is figure out my goal for the next 10 years. Hopefully this time I can make it a little more realistic - although owning a mansion on the beach is looking pretty good right about now. :)
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