Go USA, Mexico, and South Africa!

Dinner with friends, grocery shopping with friends, lunch with
friends, long talks catching up with same friends, talks about college
visits and SAT's, church, dinner, clothes shopping with friends,
bathing suit shopping with friends, lunch with friends, bank, dry
cleaners, driving school visit, pharmacy, Barnes and Noble for SAT
book, brief job searching, and now workout with Mike.
That's what I've been doing since my last post.
:-)

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BFF love

About to go pick up our friends from Thailand at the airport. They are missionaries there, and they summer back here in the states. Their daughter Erin has been Jordans best friend for a long time. I think they met when they were in 4th grade and on a volleyball team together. They used to live here in our neighborhood then. They have stayed close over the years they have been gone, emailing etc.. nearly every day, during the school year, and then spending every summer together. She is like my 3rd daughter. They both plan to complete drivers ed and get their licenses this summer. Hannah, on the other hand, is spending most of her summer at church in the high school internship. My girls are growing up so fast..

I loved the iphone version so much I took a real one with my camera. Slightly different, but man, the colors..

Up. alone. again. Why am I the only night owl in this family? I hate going to bed, as much as I hate getting up in the morning. Maybe I don't like quitting on the day. Like you're giving up this day and you'll never get it back. What did I do with it? Anything important? I hate days that I didn't do anything of consequence for anyone. I merely existed and took up space and consumed resources today. I didn't contribute anything of value to my friends or family. Dude, this is going downhill fast, I better quit this nonsense and go to bed. Who slipped me the  pill of despair?... dang..

Been on the job hunt all day. Plus editing photos.
Tomorrow our friends from Thailand arrive. Excited to see them.
As you can tell I haven't been much in the blogging mood lately.

My iPhone photo of the day. These flowers are on my dining table. They
make me smile

Had a great night with some of our young musician friends. I love these guys so much. They're all single and great catches for any lady out there. I love cooking for them and just sitting around the table for hours just laughing and talking. I don't think I've laughed that much in well over a year. Good times..

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

A shoot gone awry

Painted part of the upstairs yesterday. Yes, I know, it's hard to believe there was still a wall unpainted in my house. Then last night Heather and I tried to go to first thursday downtown , but it was rained out, so we went shopping, had dinner, then went to see Sex and the City 2. Another late night. I feel so old and worn out.
Having my first dinner party in a long while, tomorrow night. Looking forward to that. Date night again tonight because kids are going to their usual friday night extravaganza.
My life is getting a bit predictable. I don't like that. I'm not one for routine and I am getting bored..

This is a weird night.
Church- Said goodbye to Brooke for 2 months. She's staying in
Indiana for the summer.
Saw Zac Mclendon (david's 16 year old son) who is here visiting for
2 weeks. That was.. hard to describe. Had to do a double take cause
he had grown so much. Gave him a hug and talked for a minute. Says he
really does not like Georgia..
Someone that volunteers in missions asked me tonight if I just quit
or got tired of it.. I said no, and asked if she really didn't know.
She didn't and since I had gone there I went ahead and told her about
the affair. She took it well. And was gracious in telling me I have
been handling myself quite well considering.
It was fairy tale night in youth so there were tons of kids dressed up
in costumes everywhere. They rented out a theatre to watch Shrek 4. So
we just dropped the kids off to go see that and we are now at Chuys
trying to kill 2 hours. It's raining cats and dogs and we just want to
go to bed.

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It's almost been one year

Just woke up about an hour ago. Totally wasted.
But now it is time to get this house in shape for summer guests. I miss entertaining. I used to have dinner parties and get togethers here several times a month. But for the last year we've kind of been in seclusion. I think that time is up. Our first guest arrives from Thailand in a little over a week, so gotta get busy.
I love to paint. Not a single wall downstairs has not had a dose of Shileen. There's blue, olive green, yellow gold, brown, khaki green, red, orange..so I think maybe it's the upstairs turn to hit with the brush. The only rooms up there I have personally hit are the girls rooms. I'm thinking I need to do the game room, the spare bedroom and the halls...
Man, I'm looking out my study window, and my trees need pruning again, and there are weeds in my pond flower bed, and the pond is very green.
My desk is a mess, I have papers under both arms as I type. My whole study is a disaster. They say a messy desk is the sign of a creative mind. I must be VVVEERRYYYY creative!
I need help. I am a horrible procrastinator. I am typing instead of getting busy. I could tell you a bunch of trip stories so I don't have to get up? No. Discipline woman. Get up. Type later. OK, BYE.