I'm engaged!

As long as I had been single I had this image in my head. I would be the old single lady.. Living in a condo in Florida...wrinkled skin from laying in the sun the majority of my life.. And playing bingo on Tuesdays. Somewhat of a golden girl television show script of what my life would inevitably end up being like. Because, I thought I would be inevitably single. In October that all changed. I went to the dentist for a regular appointment and ran into Lisa (my fiancés mom who works there) she came over and chatted with me. The conversation was just catch up but ended with the exchange of my number and her son, Derek's phone number. I texted him later that evening and we began making plans for a date in the future. A few weeks, phone calls, and thousands of texts later we go on our first date to a Shilohs, a local steakhouse. It's your typical "first" date. Except I planted a kiss on him at the end of night and then got out of his truck and ran inside my house. I got butterflies and my 24 year old self had to tell my 16 year old self to pull it together!

After that date, if we had spare time, it was spent together. Word got around to me that his mom said we would be married by the first snow fall next winter! This scared me at first but then the thought made me excited, content and overwhelmed with a joy I couldn't hide. I hadn't felt those emotions in years. Plus, his mom had been our modern day Cupid. It only seemed appropriate she could predict our future too!

Derek works for an electric company as a lineman. He works really hard and it makes me even more attracted to him that I know he is dedicated to his job. When we first got together he would leave for work on Monday morning and come back home on Thursday evenings. It brought us close together in a short amount of time. We were laying in bed one night and the topic of marriage came up. I said something along the line of be saving for a ring. Well he took it to heart, and I meant it with all my heart too. Engagement was brought of a few others time and I told him, "I want to be legitimately surprised, you down on knee, and my parents blessing."

We both had bills to pay a few weeks before Christmas and I didn't think Derek had any extra money. He kept hinting that I might get a ring around "tax time" so I had pushed the idea out of my head. I went to dinner with some of my high school friends and Derek had been out with his uncle and his papaw. He told me they had been to some junk yards and couldn't wait for me to get home. We were sitting in his bedroom and he looked at me and said, what would you do if I had you a ring right now? I said, you don't have a ring so why are you asking me? He kept repeating it and being persistent, so much to a point that I was getting annoyed. I said stop asking me that. I was sitting on the end of his bed and I will never forget the moment as long as I live. Derek walked over to me, got down on one knee, pulled a ring box out of pocket, and asked me to marry him!!!

There in his bedroom, I cried tears of joy, knowing my life would never be the same.

Back to basics!

It's been months since my last post! Shame on me! I need to get back to blogging and taking time to remember the details of each day. It's going to be so nice to look back through my blog years from now to find out exactly how my life was going. I haven't wrote in awhile and it mainly is to due to the fact I have been doing some soul searching. Things that have been on my mind are small reminders of a reality check that life is all about the enjoyment of our relationships. The bonds we form between family, friends, and others are small reminders that life is simply about living in the moment. Take time to enjoy TIME. It's precious and my week day evening I couldn't be enjoying mine better. I have been busy with a new job and apartment hunting. For someone that doesn't enjoy moving I have seem to made a frequent habit of it!

Now that fall is right around the corner I'm excited for sweatshirts, coffee, and football! Because ready or not, here life comes y'all.

Puddle Jumpin

Day two of deeper puddles. When a fisherman cast his pole into the water don't you think he has practiced that first? I do. I bet he has been out in water his entire life. I mean the most amazing fisherman not some rando in a boat. Or, maybe just maybe the best guy that caught the biggest was just a random in a boat. He could my johnnyD hellllooo deep water. ;)

All I'm saying is this: people that get themselves out of deep and sometimes sticky situations have had practice. Practice doesn't make it perfect. Practice gives us the ability see change. Sometimes when we practice a new outlook on life we find that what didn't work before, could work again. Then we attempt jumping over our puddles a new way. A way that others may not agree with. So, I have decided that if others don't agree with my way... Then they can cry themselves a little river. Find a little boat, sail down whichever stream that looks good to you. Don't worry about those big puddles, just jump in. Love and happy wacky weather Wednesday.

Here I am again..

Once I again I find myself wrong about the right things. Sometimes I see the glass half full and other times, girl let me tell you there isn't a glass even there. My writing comes from around me and things that go on in my world everyday. I find myself letting go and truly writing in the weirdest places. I was at a coffee shop last week and then this Sunday morning at church.

I get inspiration from people that I meet or scenes from a movie. I enjoy listening to others tell stories about life that they lived through. Life they made it through...I want to know that no matter how big my problems are, someone has a problem that they are facing. A problem that in their eyes seems just as big as my problem. This knowledge has developed a well educated young lady if I might say so myself. (toot my own horn toot toot)

My post tonight is short and rather straight forward. I'll even admit tonight that my style is not usually straight forward. I enjoy tip toeing around the problem, getting my feet a little wet just a tiny bit, then finding a solution. Why would anyone jump head first into a crazy muddy puddle?? Especially when they have no earthly freaking clue who's had their tracks through that same crazy muddy puddle? My questions are rhetorical. My answers are simple. I will jump into puddles, if I know I can swim my way out of them.

Girl friends with problems

I know we have all heard this story before but this time I am serious. The next time one of my lady friends starts with all this bs about Tom, Dick or Harry, I'm over it. I may let her talk, I may or may not listen to their complaints about a weekend out at the bars. I may roll through ideas in my brain about what advice I could spit at em. When the fat lady sings it's time to go. If you are having problems I feel bad for you girl...I got 99 problems but boy ain't one.


Just count your losses for what they are. It's something you lost at. No pain, no gain. We are all driven internally to desire emotion, comfort and kindness from those around us. Lets shout this from the bottom of a jar of broken hearts. If your relationship isn't all about you, that's a problem, get ready to run. Run for independent choices, run for fairness, and run for love. Decide everyday to make yourself happy girlfriend.

I will always attempt it. A girl has to try right?

Okay. So my weekend update in general has been somewhat hectic. Yet from the outside looking in maybe no one would know. Who cares if they do? We all have problems. I'll always try to discover a gameplay to resolve a situation. I am human. Maybe I could attempt a resolution twice. But let me tell anyone this. "They" say third times a charm for a reason. I believe that when a girl tries three times, thats enough dear. Move on to the next and if I were in your shoes, previous tries will be given the LUCKY charm of two. :) that's it and that's all. Happy Sunday y'all. Stay shiny.

Stay away from trash...smell like flowers instead

Today I woke up. That's enough to be thankful for. Today I am not in the best hospital in Lexington. That's enough robe thankful for. We become involved in a society that tosses us in garbage and then expects us to smell like flowers. Live today for you. That's enough to thankful for.