And We Had Fun, Fun, Fun!

Our little family took a trip to Columbia, SC to a great children's museum called Edventure. It was so much fun...for the child and her two hired hands! There was so much to do and see - it was just plain fun. As a mom, it was just a relief to be in a place where my child could touch all the exhibits, run freely, laugh and explore without one moment of mommy tension or panic. If you are a mom, you understand this...everywhere we go from the grocery store to the department store to even kid-friendly places such as Chuck E Cheese or Monkey Joes always carry a bit of danger - things could be broken, she could wander off, etc. This place was completely void of all the dangers and I could relax and just let her have fun...and that I did.

Here are some pictures from the day...I think they explain the adventure better than my words could ever express.

There was a wonderful butterfly garden exhibit...
She got to drive a John Deere...
And gather some eggs...
And milk a cow...
And did a little grocery shopping...
She gassed up the car...
Then took it for a spin...
There was an emergency and she shot down that pole, fast as lightening...
She got in a little practice for her future career as Uncle Abe's assistant...
There was a music studio... so of course we had to make some music...
She and her daddy...finding that drum beat! I have no comment!

It was a magnificent day...a great family adventure. It is hard to have a day completely filled with happy moments with a four --soon to be five --- year old ... but this was one of those days!

Living Happily in the Moment!
Bev

The Quilt

Tonight I stopped by my parent's house to check on things while they are out of town. It is always fun to step back into my old home, see the order in my mom's world and feel the calmness as I step through the back door.

While we were there, my child wandered upstairs and into my old bedroom. She loves to play up there...there are wonders to behold for a five year old. Truthfully, I love to hang out up there too whenever the opportunity arises. It is a comforting place for me. There are treasures that I packed away long ago in the closets and every once in a while I like to spend time taking the memories out and shifting through them.

There have been times that I have retreated to that room this year while looking after the house as my parents travel. I have driven there in the middle of the night and spent an morning or two, pulling up the quilt that rests at the end of the bed and just finding some peace and comfort.

Tonight, as we were getting ready to leave, my sweet girl came down the stairs bringing the quilt from the bottom of the bed with her. She wanted to bring it with us so she could cuddle with it. I guess she had a fond remembrance of it from the past week when we had to spend the night at my parent's house after our air conditioner broke. She and I shared the bed upstairs and sometime during the night it got a little cool, I picked up the quilt from the rack at the bottom of the bed and wrapped the two of us up in it. We were cuddly warm and cozy.

I let her bring the quilt home. She rode home cuddled in it and then spent some time on the couch this evening watching tv and being bundled in this pretty quilt that belongs to my mom. I am sitting here writing this blog with quilt pulled up on me...it is like a warm hug. I supposed now that I have put this in print and admitted that we "stole" the quilt, I will have to put it back. But for the next day or so, I am gonna feel its warmth and the peace and comfort of my favorite quilt, here in my own home tonight.

Living Happily in the Moment,
bev

One Ringy Dingy, Two Ringy Dingy!

I spent Sunday afternoon (and several days last week) talking on the phone with one of my best friends who happens to live across the country. When we were younger, we used to talk on the phone non-stop, all the time, even watching television shows and calling each other at the commerical breaks. Of all the people in my life, at least from my past, he is the one I have talked on the phone with the most. That is until we grew up.

Then of course time and distance and life stepped in and it was just a phone call here and there with special news or just a quick catch-up call a few times a year. I am not complaining...cause those phone calls were just as special to me as all the others in the past. Of all my friends from high school and college and time after that who have left the local vicinity -- he has been the MOST faithful at keeping in touch. I remember in high school making pacts that we would always be in touch, I think everyone did that sort of stuff...but guess what...the two of us have actually done that! It is hard to explain how young I feel every time I see his number come up on the caller id.

So, we have been chatting since he came home for a visit last weekend. He is navigating life and so am I, it is nice to have a familiar voice on the line to listen and for some reason, he likes my advice. It is a role I in which I am pretty comfortable, I can dole out advice (sometimes pretty good advice too!) it is just taking it for myself that gives me trouble.

I am so thankful for his active reappearance in my daily world...I wish he didn't need advice -but I am glad to be able to talk things out with him and be needed as a friend once more. I kinda feel like it is 1983 again...I just wish I could find a old Magnum PI rerun on television so I could call him during the commericals...just like way back when.

Living Happily in the Moment!
Bev

WYSIWYG - Maybe Not!

Earlier this week I was introduced by a friend to another blogger and I have been enjoying reading that blog and soaking up the inspiration that I found there. The author of the blog is a friend of a friend and although we have never met, I feel like I know a bit of her and would like to sit and talk with her for an hour or three.

We share common thoughts, fears, ideas and hopes for the future. It is refreshing to listen to her voice.

But here is one thought that has been in my mind the last few days as I have sat at my laptop and feasted on her rich, eloquent writing; I don't know her at all.

I mean, sure, her thoughts have been laid bare for me to read, just as I lay my thoughts out for you. She has posted pictures of friends and family, written cute stories about them all, just as I do for you, and she has shared her pain and sorrow as well as the common everyday joys of life, just like I do on my blog. Yet, even as I read the almost two years worth of posts, I come away with only a fraction of the picture of who this person really and truly is, much as you, who come here and read my pitiful stabs at profundity don't always have a true concept of who I really am. If you know me in the real world, perhaps you have a better understanding, but even then, I am more than the person you read here everyday.

There is so much more to my life than this blog. I am multi-layered, with emotions that are sometimes easy but most of the time hard to explain or rein in. I experience joy and laughter and true happiness on a daily basis. I also have sadness in my heart and scars from the past and there are tragic things that happen around me as well. I believe it is called being human. Some days are good, some days are bad, kinda like your life I would suppose. I say this with all the sincerity I can muster at 11:30 PM, but just because you read me, just because you get a glimpse into my psyche, just because I slip the door open a crack and let you peep into my life...you don't really know me, not all about me.

I almost made this blog private a few weeks ago. Some of you faithful readers were even sent an email about that fact; but I re-thought that decision. Someone in my life presumed to know me, the inner workings of my soul and brain and emotions and relationships completely based on things read here and promptly taken out of context. This made me want to hide my blog from the world. I was hurt, I was mad, I was taken aback. To presume to know my life and my circumstances from this blog and to make concrete blatant statements based on that presumption is ludicrous.

I am honest. I am transparent. I am forthright with my feelings. I try not to sugarcoat my life and I certainly concede that there are posts that are bone deep in emotion and perhaps a bit of drama and romanticism. But it is my spot in the world to be that way...I am not going to let one person shut me down.

Several factors have brought all of this up to the surface once again as I was truthfully not going to mention it further. But after reading the new blog on my reader list, hearing her voice, her raw emotion and realizing almost too late that I was starting to make broad statements about who this person is and what her life is about, I caught myself and realized I don't want anyone doing that to me and I should not presume anything about the blogger.

This blog is about my life, about my thoughts and my struggle to find the happy moments in life, BUT it is NOT ALL of my life, NOT ALL of my thoughts or my struggles to find the happy moments.

I hope you continue to read and I hope you continue to find happy moments in your own life and most of all I hope you read what you read here with a grain of salt...not everything is always as it seems!

WYSIWYG - "What You See Is What You Get"...popular for computer software, but not necessarily for this blogger!

Living Happily in the Moment!
Bev

Wading In !

I am reading others
I am wading in deep water

When the thoughts settle back into my brain
And can find their way to my fingertips

I will return!

SILENCE!

Ah! That is so nice!

Living Happily in the Moment!
Bev

Wordless Wednesday!

Have a great day ya'll!!

Living Happily In the Moment!
Bev

A Day In Our Life!

Last night, air conditioner broke.
Spent the night at my parents' house.
So thankful!!!

This morning, husband fixed the air conditioner.
Hannah and I went to tap dance and then spent the afternoon swimming.
So happy!

What's not to like about this day?

Living Happily in the Moment!
Bev

A Day That Will Live in ...

I was going to save this post for the day it is actually about, but I think I will share it now for I fear that day and the emotions it could conjure up for me as well as some of the others who read this little spot on the blogsphere.

I am a person of needless trivia. I remember phone numbers of long ago, pointless trivia about actors and actresses that I admire, songs that were playing during certain momentous and not-so- momentous times of my yesteryear. I would probably be a Trivial Pursuit champ...if I could ever find someone to play a board game with me. My most favorite thing it seems to remember is apparently dates. Good bad, I remember them!

There is one particular date that is starting to stand out in my mind as something to take note of, a date that is just around the corner and will forever be inked in my mind. It is August 10th.

My life forever changes on this date. The first life altering event happened on August 10, 1991. It was the end of life as I had known it up to that point. It was the day that my best friend (at that time) got married. She was like my sister and although I was glad for her, I was sad for the way our lives would forever be changed...no more just us girls, no more sleep-overs, no more hanging out and searching for Mr. Right together...it was over. I remember being sad, life changes do that to me.

The next time August 10th loomed large in my life was in 2005. It was the day that my beloved dog companion Jake passed away. That day altered my world as well. He was my faithful companion for thirteen years, my heart's first "child" and the first dog I ever loved. My heart is still broken and my world is never going to be the same.

This year, August 10th falls on a Monday and yet again, it will be a life altering day. Monday, August 10th will my daughter's first day of kindergarten. Can you imagine a more life altering day...ever? Life altering for her - she will be in school for the next 17 years or more. Life altering for me...my baby is growing up and away from me and I am suddenly going to be the mom of a child in school...with all the empty moments in the day ahead of me.

August 10th...it is a written somewhere that for me at least, life tends to change on that day.

Living Happily In the Moment!
Bev

Cloudy on a Sunshiney Day!

While I am clearly someone who loves people, adores my friends and family and enjoys spending time with all those I love, I have determined today that I am lousy at "reunion" type events.

Yesterday was heavenly to me...hanging out with friends I see very rarely, talking about our pasts and presents and futures, smiling and laughing so much that my face hurt afterwards...what is not to like about a day like that?

Well, I will tell ya...it is the next few hours after it is over and the next day when you realize that those same people are once again gone from your world...for some reason, it throws me over the abyss. I don't consider myself a very depressive type of personality...but today, today I woke up and wished for all my world that I had some medication to get me out of the blue funk I wandered into a some point during the night.

Perhaps it is just the "high" that comes from being happy, really happy for a few moments out of this year and the inevitable "low" that comes from every highly charged event that is capturing my good mood today. Perhaps it is the thought that I once had these friends around me everyday and only now, when they are far away, do I realize how much I took that for granted. Perhaps I long to be a teenager again...to do it all differently, erase some of the hurt and bad decisions and trek on a different path. Perhaps it is that mid-life crisis rearing it's ugly head again. Whatever the cause, I am feeling like sitting at a table for one, enjoying a little pity party...complete with some nutter butters and a slice of key lime pie.

As I am writing this post, my friend Abe just texted me that he is at the airport and had a great visit. He reminded me not to cry...that the best is yet to come! I hope so...I really hope so, cause just the thought of that is enough to keep me going.

I wish for you my bloggity friends that you have at least one of these spectacular friendships in your world...I can't imagine my life without it and it makes days like this bearable...cause I know that there is more laughter and fun in my future with my wild and crazy friends.

Living Happily in the Moment!
Bev

Somethings Never Change...and Then Again..Sometimes They Do...But it is Always Fun!

It is Saturday and this post has nothing to do with a beach, or water or sand castles. This post is about this day, this fun bit of time travel I have had the opportunity to experience.

When I was in high school, my friend Sue and I met three guys in a chemistry class one day. It was pure friendship at first sight. The five of us were together and instantly inseparable. I never once after that thought of myself as a separate person, I was part of a group, my group, my friends. At the end of our junior year one of the guys moved away but thankfully, through some miracle or twist of fate, the remaining four of us survived as a unit. We went through a lot together, happy times, sad times and some of the funniest times in my life.

Of course, over time, life has stepped in and we have been scattered to the world. My friend Sue and I, although we live in the same town, rarely get to visit, life is just chaotic for us as mothers and wives. Abe lives on the other side of the country and Charles a few hours away...the unit that used to function as one, is broken into four pieces. It is a rare event that brings us all together anymore, the last time was over ten years ago and then four years ago we were able to see each other, but not all together, it occurred on separate visits. These were people I spent eight hours a day with at school, rode to and from school with, came home and hopped on the telephone to watch television shows with and spent the weekends and even some vacations with, they were and are and always will be family.

Today Abe and Charles came home. I got to sit in their presence and laugh and giggle and reminisce and talk through tough topics...it was heaven on earth to me. Sue was not able to join us, but I am hoping she will be able to at least see them at some point today. I got to walk around our mall with them, it was de ja vue...I felt sixteen again...only with a less judgemental heart and a love for these two guys that are my friends...my true friends...the kind that come around when no one else will...I am blessed beyond measure to have them in my life...and thanks to that technology that I am always complaining about...I can still have them in my everyday world.

Abe, Charles...I love you both...I am wishing tonight that we were all sixteen again...oh how different we would do things. But I would hope that we would still be friends, cause I can't do this life without knowing you are out there, holding me up and making me laugh!

Living Happily In the Moment!
Bev

Here is a picture from the afternoon...I forgot to mention that another of our oldest and dearest friends, Kim C got to stop by also and we enjoyed some really fun and laughter filled moments with her as well. Left to Right, Abe, Bev, Kim and Charles.

The Beach Notes, Vol. 1

I have spent the past few days at the edge of South Carolina…toes in the water of the mighty Atlantic Ocean, chair in the sand and brain on neutral. My brain has needed to be on neutral for awhile and thanks to this last minute vacation it got there and I threw away the keys!

My only sadness during the week was that I was without pen or paper (or laptop!!) at some really prime moments. I had some great posts written in my head over the course of the last four days, I am only hoping that I remember at least one of two of them.

The one thing that I did think about while watching my child play in the sand and my husband trail along behind her, ever her faithful servant, is that there is a lot of life happening on the beach. The people watching is extraordinary…the laughter is all around, there is music and food and sun and water and shrieks when a volleyball goes off track or a wave bounces someone back onto the shore quicker than they had seen coming. Life was happening all around me, and just like I am here at home, I was an observer. Now, don’t go feeling all sad for me…I was doing exactly what I wanted to do…reading, watching people, relaxing in the sun and working on a tan while trying not to burn. But I was observing and thinking big thoughts in my head…it was exhilarating. It reset my priorities, made me reflect on all that is askew in my world and seemed to calm me while jostling my thoughts, all at the same time.

I love the beach. It is truly a happy place for me. Oh sure, it can be hot, the sand can burn your feet, the undertow is ever present, there are creatures in the water that can bite you or sting you or worse, my hair is a curly mess, everyday, no matter what I do to stop it…but I love the beach.

I will try my best to remember some of my most profound beachy thoughts and spill them out for you, my sweet readers in the coming days.

Thanks for reading and coming back day after day…it still amazes me and it still inspires me.

Writer’s block is officially over…see ya tomorrow!

Living Happily in the Moment!

Bev

Like a Bad Rash...

I'm Back!!!

We returned from our beach trip this afternoon...I have lots to write about, but at the moment I am knee deep in laundry and catching up on emails and well, life! Hope you all have had a great week. I can't wait to get back to the writing routine. There will be a new post in the morning!

Living Happily in the Moment!
Bev

I've Got My Toes in the Water...

and it will be good tomorrow and the next day and the next day and for two more days after that...

Gone to the Beach...

Enjoy your week...this blogger is on vacation!

Living Happily In the Moment
Bev

Life Is Good Today.

Movie Tickets...$14.50
Popcorn.....$5.00
Drink ........$4.50
M&M's......$4.00
Video Games..$2.00
Ice Cream at Cold Stone Creamory...$9.05
Sitting in a movie theater, cuddling with my daughter and spending all my husband's money cause he made me mad this morning....PRICELESS!!


Yes, we had a movie day today. Just me and the girl because the husband worked overtime. What better way to spend all that overtime money than on a girls day out. We saw Ice Age, Dawn of the Dinosaurs. It was really cute and did a pretty good job of holding a four year old's attention. We only had two bathroom breaks! The Ice Age movies are always a hit with my girl...she loves that squirrel looking for a nut. (If you haven't seen any of the movies...go, rent them immediately...they are funny and cute...especially if you have a preschooler's mind like I do most of the time.)

Hannah loved the music so much we might have to invest in the soundtrack...she was really having fun while the credits rolled...there was some dancing in the aisle from my Baptist child.

After the movie we made our way to the video game section of the lobby where the theater folks once again grab your wallet and take out a huge wad of change or the few measly bills you might have left after purchasing a drink and some popcorn. Honestly....when did popcorn and a drink equal the cost of admission...DURING THE DAYTIME???? I guess to go to a movie at night we would need to refinance the house. Anyway... after the video games took our money, we headed outside to the heat! Ice cream seemed like a good way to end our day, so we headed to Cold Stone for a fun treat. Hannah got Cotton Candy mixed with Strawberries and I stuck with a more traditional Mint Chocolate Chip concoction. We had a blast.

Even better, she fell asleep on the ride home and now I am free to paint a little bit before the husband arrives home. Life is good today...hope it is in your world too.

Living Happily In the Moment!
Bev

Friday Flashback - 1985

It was 1985.

What a year...first one out of high school, had my first job, in college and living life! The above picture was taken at the tail end of 1985 at a Christmas party two of my best friends and I hosted. We were "speak no evil, see no evil and hear no evil." Cute, weren't we? I wish I would always be posed in that "speak no evil" position...perhaps I would get in less trouble that way.

Now, here is my bit of trivia about life in 1985...

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the day that Coca-Cola realized they had made a huge mistake...today is the day that they did away with that awful "New Coke" and went back to the original Coke formula! (Do you all remember that fiasco...such a horrible time in the world!)

Yes, I am a Coca-Cola fan...and since I know this bit of trivia...perhaps I am a bit too much of a Coke fanatic! :-)

Hope you all have a fantastic Friday...
Living Happily In the Moment!
Bev

What Passes For Normal Around Here

My husband has been working some strange hours lately. Truthfully, his work schedule has always been "different." Since the day I met him, he has worked a five week rotating schedule...meaning he works a weekend and Monday of nights, gets three days off, works a weekend of days, gets a day off and then works three nights. After that he gets a weekend off and then four day shifts and this is the best part...he gets seven days off. Well, most of the time. There are times that overtime is called for on that break or like this past month he has switched positions and lost his seven day break due to switching departments. I say all of that to say this...we have never had a "normal" life, the 9-5 routine with all weekends and holidays off has not ever been part of our world. I am really used to the life, it still messes with my mom's head and my friends never seem to know if we are available for weekend parties...but all in all, it is a routine that suits us.

Last night, my husband agreed to work an extra three hours for a fellow employee and so he did not get home until 10:30 PM. It worked out okay, because then he did not have to go in until 9:30 this morning to relieve that other guy...but it was WEIRDER than weird for me. This morning, I got a glimpse of what "normal" must look like to most of you readers. I slept until 7:30 AM...it was light outside, birds were chirping and my child was still sleeping. I was able to meander to the kitchen, fix breakfast and even catch up on facebook while my husband got ready for work. Soon, breakfast was ready, the child was awake and watching cartoons and my husband was able to eat breakfast and visit with us, and we even paid a bill or two before he headed out the door at the reasonable time of 8:45 AM. It was quite strange.

So, just for today (and tomorrow, as it turns out!!) we had a closer to "normal" household routine. It was lovely...it was calm and GOOD HEAVENS, I don't know how ya'll do it!!! I am so used to rushing around at 4 AM, getting breakfast and lunch packed and him out the door so I can go back to a few more hours of sleep and then waking up to a quiet house and no real agenda...I think a "normal" routine would drive me crazy!!! Hee hee!

I guess what is normal for us is strange for others and what is normal for others is stranger than strange to me.

I would love to hear about your morning routines? Does anyone have anything similar to me -- or I am still the only weirdo around???

Living Happily In the Moment!
Bev

Then I Saw Her Face...Now I'm A Believer!

She is almost five years old. It is completely unfathomable to me to think of that...where is the little baby, brought home in a carrier, so tiny I feared changing her clothes and holding her? She has been replaced with a tall and slender, brown haired, brown eyed, little girl...full of life, of laughter and such spunk, it is hard to contain.

With a month left before she embarks on her twelve year school career, and two months left as the mom of a four year old, I hope you will allow me the indulgence of highlighting a few of the more unique things about my beloved daughter.

She loves snow cones, ice cream, and Popsicles.

She is fascinated by frogs and bugs and cries whenever she sees a dead butterfly.

If there is a dog in her sight line...you can bet, she will be petting it and loving on it within minutes.

She loves to jump...on anything, from anything, around the house...she is a ball of energy.

She loves to sing and on occasion makes up some of the funniest sweet songs around.

And speaking of music, she is fascinated with all kinds of it...loves playing on my piano and if she gets her hands on any stick it quickly becomes a drumstick and the closest flat surface becomes a drum. She has favorite songs on certain cds and requests them over and over in the car.

She is a HUGE Monkees fan...no, not the kind that swing from trees, but the band from the sixties...they are playing on her cd player as I type...and she sung herself to sleep tonight to Wake Up Sleepy Jean...

Suddenly, Spiderman and Superman are on her list of favorite movies and cartoons to watch...apparently she is hoping for a super hero to come rescue her!

She is a picky eater...didn't used to be...but now...unless it is a chicken nugget or some fruit...you might as well not take the time to offer to her.

She drinks apple juice from a coffee cup...and calls it coffee...just a little trick she picked up at her friend Kaitlyn's house.

She loves to drink water. Which provides me with a great segue to this...she loves water. Baths, swimming pools, sprinklers, mud puddles...if it is wet...she wants to jump in it. She has been known to take three bubble baths a day...just relaxing and playing with all the toys and bubbles makes her day.

She wakes up at the crack of dawn, refuses to take an afternoon nap and like the Energizer bunny, keeps on ticking until at least nine at night.

She wants to be where the action is, whether that is outside with her dad in the shop or inside with me in the kitchen.

She knows how to change oil in the car...and she can't wait to get her driver's license so she can drive her daddy's 68 Camaro. (how do I tell her that will NEVER happen???)

She loves to read, loves to learn and is fascinated by math.

She loves board games and puppet shows and dressing up like a princess.

She has a favorite Princess gown and magic wand...and yet, she has insisted on wearing the same pair of soccer short and shirt to bed now for a week...

She is complicated, multi-layered, happy, sad, dramatic, funny, creative and the joy of my life.

I can only imagine what the next year will bring...it is a journey full of all the good things in life. What did I do before her?

Living Happily In The Moment!
Bev

Surprises in a Playroom!

Just when you think your child has forsaken the toys of her past and you have given up on her ever wanting to play dolls, or be a princess because she would rather play with frogs and bugs and run around outside kicking a ball...you wander past the playroom and catch her doing this...

Putting on her old Snow White costume...trust me when I say, it was a JOY to my heart!! I was so excited and ran to get my camera...
and this is what turned around to greet me...apparently she was playing the part of Snow White right after she bit into the SOUR apple...

So...she may wear the clothes of a princess...but the attitude is still 100%, my very dramatic, very unpredictable, and always keep 'em guessing...Hannah!!!!

Living Happily In the Moment!
Bev

Just Another Manic Monday

Today was a busy one...two playdates, some laundry and some light housework. There was even time to throw a roast in the crockpot and whip up some macaroni and cheese, black-eye peas, biscuits and rice and gravy. I am feeling quite domestic today.

I don't really have a post in mind for this day...other than just to say I am still here, the blog is still not private yet, but as soon as I get the time I will put the lock down on it and get those invitations sent out to all of you who have responded and want to continue to read here at this spot.

We had a fabulous fourth of July holiday, lunch with family, fireworks, lots of fun was had by all.
Hope you and your did as well.

Living Happily In The Moment!
Bev

The Fourth!

Happy Fourth of July!!!

See ya on Monday!

Technology Terror!

Remember the days of the telephone...no, not that cute little phone that is razor slim and fits in your pocket. I mean the one that hung on the kitchen wall, was a weird color, like blue or green or black, something hideous and undecorative and had a fifty foot cord that allowed you to walk around the house, a couple of times, get tangled in it and plop on the couch, all while talking to your friends? THAT PHONE.....I MISS IT!!

Today was a day of technology terror for me...my cell phone called someone -- yes, I said it, it called someone on its own, while closed and in my purse. If that wasn't bad enough, it recorded a message on that person's phone...OF ME SINGING TO MICHAEL JACKSON...cause I was alone in the car and that is what I do!! On top of that horror, when I realized it and tried to text the person an apology (cause goodness gracious, I didn't want to call anyone...please see my post from last week!!) the texting feature on my phone went crazy, sent me an old text and, although now, it is quite a funny story, at the moment it was not. Chaos ensued on my texting world in the produce aisle of the grocery store. I was wishing for a real phone at that point, not the crazy texting, email world we live in. My nerves, they were shot.

As the fun of my day continued, I met two girlfriends for dinner at the Red Robin (come on, you know you want to say it with me....REDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Robin!). I was telling my story of misplaced texts and we were all laughing at my craziness...ha ha ha!! We all agreed we missed that old phone in the kitchen too. As if on cue, in the middle of our talk, my friend Myra received a text from her daughter...she is thirteen, and I believe would have loved to have come out with us last night...sorry Rebecca, maybe next time though!! Anyway, she requested her mother take a picture of herself and send it to her...there's that modern technology creeping into our lives. Now, my friend Myra was thinking she is the queen of technology, in fact earlier in the evening she wanted to demonstrate texting to me! She decides to honor her child's request and pulls out her cell phone, shows me how to take a picture with it and we take a picture of her. She adds the line, "Just finished eating." to it and sends it to her daughter's cell phone...only WAIT...she typed in the wrong number and thus sent the picture of her self and the caption to a complete stranger!! Clearly, she and I and probably anyone of our friends over forty should not be allowed to have a cell phone with options. Great time of day, coming on the heels of my crazy day, that was the funniest thing ever. We laughed about it all night. Oh, and I received a note from her this morning that around midnight "the stranger" sent her a text asking who she was and where she ate!" Oh...it is so funny, I hurt from the laughter!!

Moral of this story is quite simple, I will not be using my text messaging function for quite awhile, and if you get a call from me, and there is some kind of singing going on...please hang up immediately...my cell phone is quite possibly possessed.

I am going to start searching the antique stores for one of those old timey kitchen phones and revert back to carry a quarter in my shoe for those "away from home" emergencies!!

Living Happily In The Moment!
Bev

Wordless Wednesday...On A Thursday?

Yes, I know...WACKO with a camera.

This was supposed to be Wordless Wednesday's post.. but since I have dawdled my day away painting, the clock has turned to Thursday and I am just now sitting down to blog. See, DEDICATION folks, that is me... dedicated to bringing you the very best in mundane entertainment.

Yes, I am still painting, yes, I am tired and sore and still loving the color on my walls. And yes, today, while buying more paint, I could not help but notice these switch plates. They are textured like stone... and they look great! The picture does not really do them justice...you have to see it and touch it to appreciate it -- truly. I felt the need to share though...and yes, I do know that there is a spot right above the switch plate that needs to be touched up...for some reason it shows up in the picture more than in real life!!

And I am seriously thinking of starting a whole new blog dedicated to my home improvements. This is the year of re-decoration after all.

Living Happily In the Moment!
Bev