30 days of Thankfulness – Day 5

Today I’m thankful for my job. I love my job and even if I didn’t I’m thankful to finally have steady income after several year so of not having it.

I love my job for many reasons…
-an easy going, flexible, easy to work with, easy to talk to, boss (who hosts great parties)
-great students who I get to work with and supervise
-working at the university where I graduated from
-great benefits
-working in library is so much more than what most people would think (I’ll write a post about this later)

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Traditional Fall Wreath

Fall Wreath

I have finally decided to take the plunge and start crafting and decorating a little here and there. I miss it so much and pinterest sure has made me crave it even more. Since I love Fall so much, it is a great time to get in the spirit and add touches of Fall through the house.

A couple weeks ago, I went to Hobby Lobby and picked up a few things to make this Fall Wreath. There are several other type of Fall wreaths I want to make, but I decided to start with, what I call, a traditional fall wreath.
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Fill in the Blank Friday 11.4.11

1. My favorite thing about this week was finishing up on some crafts.

2. Colder weather makes me want to bundle up and get cozy by the fireplace.

3. Three things that make me terribly happy as of late are crafting, eating lunch with friends,

4. If I could only wear one kind of shoe for the rest of my life, I’d choose flip-flops.

5. My personality type is ISFJ: “Conservator”. Service and work oriented – very loyal. They are good nurses, teachers, secretaries, general practitioners, librarians, middle managers, and housekeepers. 6% of the total population.

6. I have a serious problem resisting chocolate.

7. My favorite color to wear is black.

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30 days of Thankfulness – Day 4

Today I’m thankful for our freedom. We get so wrapped in our daily lives that we don’t realize how lucky we are to:
live where we want.
do what we want.
say what we want.
It’s a luxury that is really taken for granted. I’m thankful for the soldiers that the risk their lives everyday and their families that sacrifice everyday.

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30 days of Thankfulness – Day 3

Today I’m thankful for my friends. Today I had lunch with one of my “newer” friends and it was great. The more we’re together I realize, how alike we are in so many ways, and all the things we have in common. She’s someone I know I don’t have to act a certain way or do certain things to keep our friendship alive. Friendships are a 2 way street and we both give and take, which makes for a great relationship.

I’m thankful for my “old” coworker friends, who I stay in touch with. We stay in contact through Facebook through out the year and we “do lunch” in the summer when they’re not as busy. They are thoughtful, faithful people that I love so much.

I’m thankful for all my “faraway” friends, who I keep in touch with on Facebook. Sometimes Facebook is an addiction, but a necessary evil. I feel like I wouldn’t know anything if it weren’t for FB. I’m glad that so many people from high school and other facets of my life on there, so that we can share in each others lives, even if it is at a distance.

I am thankful for all the friends that Rob has. Many of those have resulted in friendships for me. BONUS! 🙂

I am thankful for friends.

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30 days of Thankfulness – Day 2

Today I am thankful for health insurance and the AU employee pharmacy. I am on the state retirement program again and although people gripe about it, we are truly blessed. $25 copay with great coverage. We also have really good drug insurance and what’s even better, Auburn University has their own pharmacy and all drugs are either $30 or free! AWESOME!! That is saving us a lot of money. I am thankful.

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30 days of Thankfulness – Day 1

I’m going to do the 30 days of thankfulness challenge and they are in no particular order. I’m going to base what I’m thankful for according to my current life happenings.

So today I’m thankful for my blog and the company that hosts it, Eleven2. The reason being, yesterday I was quickly trying to do something on here before I had to run out and get Monkey from school. When I got back to the posts page in WordPress it showed NO POSTS! I had deleted every single post. 6 years of writing, 6 years of memories, 6 years of lots of hard work…GONE! I started freaking out, trying to figure out how to undo. WordPress doesn’t have an “undo” button. 🙁 I knew there had to be a back-up of everything, but I didn’t know enough about how the databases work with WordPress, etc. So I contacted my hosting company, Eleven2, through chat and they said they could restore it. After several hours and some trouble shooting on my part, we got everything back up and running.

Like I said earlier, some people may think blogs are stupid, or not understand the point in them, whatever, but when you have invested 6 years…countless hours of writing, researching, remembering, posting, it is a big part of who I am. Whether I have 100 readers or 2 readers. That’s not the point. This is my book of my life and I am thankful to have it, to go back and read. That’s the reason I put the random posts widget over in my sidebar —> I go there and click and read. It’s amazing how our memory fails us.

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Halloween Party

Some really good friends of ours, J & R, have a big Halloween party every year where each of their kids gets to invite 5 kids each, so there was about 25-30 kids. Needless to say they needed our help. Rob and R have become great friends over the past couple of years. R’s boys are in our cub scout pack and R is one of the Assistant cub masters. Although our kids are varying in age, you would never know. We’ve been over to their house a few times in the last couple months and we don’t hear a peep out of any of the 6 of them! That’s pretty amazing. Anyway, serious digression there…So we went to the party to help out as R & J made up a bunch of games along with a haunted house and they really needed some more adult help and supervision.


Us…me as a baby, Rob as Trooper Taylor, TV Boy as Cam Newton, Monkey Boy as an Alien
Saucer Halloween Party 2011

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Fill in the Blank Friday 10.27.11

1. When I was a kid I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up, just like my 2 uncles.

2. As an adult, my dream job would be either a house wife, or after my kids leave home, I’d like a job to that travels, but like I’ve said before I’m pretty in love with my job now!

3. When I was younger I wanted to be just like

4. The childhood Halloween costume that I remember most was when I was a punk rocker.

5. My favorite childhood toy was Cabbage Patch Kids.

6. The time I got into the biggest amount of trouble when I was a kid was when I cut my hair and lied about it.

7. I get daily inspiration from pinterest.

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Total Randomness

Although, a few weeks ago I was trying so hard to get my pics uploaded and put here for my 365, I’ve taken on a few new projects that have consumed every extra second of the day. I’m still working on my sister’s wedding pics. Yes, I’m going very slowly with them. I’m also catching up with old video clips that I’ve taken with my video camera. I’ve had to remake some of the videos because when I made the original movie I didn’t make the different sizes. I just made them strictly for web use. Anyway, hadn’t been too bad. I’m almost caught up with all the video clips that are already on my external hard drive. Then, I get to hunt down all the video tapes and import all of those onto my computer and make movies out of those! WOW! Last time I did this…back in 2006 I think it was, I said I would stay caught up. This time I’m hoping that I really do, because there is such a learning curve every time I do it, plus it is so much more work to do hours and hours of video footage. Anyway, I don’t post those here. I post them on my family website for security reasons. This site is searchable and much more accessible and visited, where as the family website is really only shared with IRL family and friends. If you would like to look at it, just message me and I’ll be glad to share. I just like to know who’s visiting.

I’ve also been doing some crafting. Yes, yes, yes! It has been so great. I’ve been enjoying it so much. I’ve got pics to share! They’re coming soon. I’m still not done with a few of things and I hope to finish with those soon.

On top of all of the above I’ve also been really serious about cleaning. I’m sure Rob hasn’t noticed a thing, but I’m SO knocking out some serious cleaning and organizing. I’ve still got a long way to go, but I feel like the last couple weeks have been super productive. So many times when I’m trying to clean or organize I feel like all I do is move stuff from one place another, but this time it hasn’t been that way. I guess I’m actually finding homes for this stuff.

So that pretty much sums up my business. I do have a few other things I need to tell you, but I think I’m going to have separate posts for those, so keep an out for those soon.

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