What's been going ON?

Good morning!

I apologize for the delay. I've been extremely tired in the evenings. Teaching is no joke; I love my profession, but there are days in which it sucks me dry.

How was your St. Patrick's Day? Didn't we just celebrate Christmas and the New Year? I thought of this as I took out my Easter decorations. I have attached pics of my St. Patty's Day card; a photo from work; and, a photo of a colleague and I enjoying the holiday.

WOW.

Current events:

Healthcare bill - - -YES! Obama, it's now time to tackle education.
Sarah Palin - - - please crawl into a hole. Why would someone pay her a million dollars PER EPISODE to simply hear, "You betcha!"
Walmart racial incident - - - we live in sad times
Sandra Bullock - - - I feel for her.
Group that I am working w/at church - - - WONDERFUL. I don't know why God is using me right now, but the results are rather strong.


What are your weekend plans? I am off on Monday; it's our last official day off for the school year. There are some things that I need to do around the house. And of course, I will find something to do. The weather is simply too nice to stay @ home.

Happy Thursday!

An update

Good morning!

An update will occur tonight. Be ret for it. ;)

ONE YEAR ALREADY?!

Exactly one year ago today, I was moving into my first home. Oh, how I cannot believe that 365 days have gone by already. WOW. Indeed, I am ever so thankful to God for this BLESSING.

I have attached some photos from yesterday's sidewalk event.

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FOLLOW ME?

Good morning!

It's been quite some time since my last post. YIKES! I've been extraordinarily busy. As of yesterday @ 11:25am, I am officially on SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!! I hope that I can get my sanity back over the next week.

Starting tomorrow, I will be assisting a church develop their Singles Ministry. Mom has been urging me to start one for quite some time. I woke up this morning to find an email in which the author shared her excitement! WOW! The church member was ecstatic that the initiative had been put forth to develop one.

Follow ME? I haven't viewed myself as the "follow me" type within a church setting. Since I teach five days a week, I tend to want to sit back in church and allow someone to teach me. God, I ask that you order my steps.


Today's agenda - - - Sidewalk Art show. Hopefully, it doesn't rain! Secondly, I plan on curling up with my Kindle. Last night, I finished Roses. It was a GREAT READ! There were some parts that went on too long; however, it was a great "escape."

LIVING IN MY OWN SPOTLIGHT!

Since I have YET to get published in Creating Keepsakes and Scrapbooks Etc., I was so HONORED that someone thought that I was crafty enuf to be featured (becuz I ain't now "Crafty Bitch" like Sara (her words, not mine):


http://tessaann.blogspot.com/

Happy Monday!

Valentine's Day

How was your Valentine's Day? I meant to post my Valentine's Day card yesterday, and I FORGOT. The xoxo shirt was taken @ church; the photo of me looking classy was taken last night.

Monday's Musings:

* I saw "Dear John;" May I please have my $$$ back?
* I will be SO glad when I finish The Darkest Child
* I was glad to bee off today
* Jesus is GREAT force to have in your LIFE
* People need to quit feeling the need to instigate MESS
* My parents and I manage to meet some truly unique folks (eyes rolling)


Happy Monday!

LOVING ME

Daily, I am reminding myself to LOVE ME. I thought that this was a perfect tee to serve as a reminder:





Good evening.

How is your weekend coming along?

Today, I went to the LSS. I was having a great time working on scrapbook layouts until the sweet team teachers put out the cupcakes. Folks, there is one woman that I truly can't stand. It's so bad that I look for her car each time that I visit a local scrapbook store; ditto for my friend. She's got some serious issues. Case in point - -- my friend went to her house almost four years ago. When she proceeded to take off her shoes, she was informed (by heffa) to keep them on because her dead skin cells are what dirties her carpet, NOT my friend's shoes. Today, her craziness struck YET again. The instructors made these cute plate stands from Goodwill supplies. I took a pic of the display, and before I could reach and take a plate, the customer who thinks that she is ALL of THAT lunges for the plate and informs me, "I want that plate. I was up here first."

WTH? Are you kidding me? How old are you?

My response OUT LOUD (and, I do watch myself at this LSS) was : "DAMN." She said, "Oh, I was going to let you take your picture first (as if she was doing me a favor), and then I was going to get my plate.

My inward response, "Crazy bitch."

What's the problem with this situation - - -the woman is at least FORTY-FIVE YEARS OLD MAKING A LUNGE FOR A FREAKIN' CUPCAKE THAT IS ON A GOODWILL PLATE. I don't knock Goodwill whatsoever, but COME ON, the china wasn't LENOX!!! Hell, she gave Gerald Bettis a run for his money.

The woman has some ISSUES. I HATE seeing her at the store. In fact, my girl and I go to other stores PRAYING that we don't see her car in the lot. When we see her car @ the LSS, we both let out a big, "DAMN" in the car and say, "I guess we've got to deal with HER today." We don't know how she has any friends, because we have seen her dog out her BFFs behind their back. She's got one friend that follows her around like a lost, puppy dog.

While at these stores, she takes over and acts as if everyone should wait on her/stop what they are doing. I've met women at other LSS, and they have said, "I can't stand her. She will sign up for classes and have to leave early, and she wants to rush the teacher to finish the directions in order to accomodate her schedule."

She is extremely uncouth when it comes to bragging about all the material goods that she has. I want to scream, "Don't you have any shame? Don't you realize that people in this classroom are rolling their eyes at you? Do you honestly think that these employees really want to wait on you? They are sweet women; however, THEY should have a boiling point, and if you weren't spending so much $$$ there, they would blow you off like the rest of us do. Do you think that they are laughing at your jokes or really care about you reminding them of how much $$$ that you have? Shut UP already. SET down.

This is a woman who would laugh @ me taking the bus over to Mesa (y'all know that I am blind and don't drive); however, when she needed something, and she knew that I was there, she sure would ask for me to look and see what was new at the store. This is a person who would call and invite me to her home for parties only to act as if they parties didn't exist so that she didn't have to pick me up - - - as if I was a burden.


Scrapbooking attracts some CRAZY folks. That's the TRUTH.


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