Light Bulb Moments

So if anybody reading this is also reading my craft blog you know that I've been busy crocheting things for craft fairs this fall and haven't done anything new in a while. If you read today's post you know that I've spent the last few days working on a Tree of Life, and while it definitely didn't come out perfect I'm pretty happy with it since I basically made my own instructions in my head. Since my craft blog I try to keep dedicated to crafting I thought I would talk about my "light bulb moment" I had while making it in this blog. Half way through making it I looked at it and all I could think was "meh". It was nothing to show off to anybody, nothing I would bring to a talent show, there was really no excitement at all for me while I was looking at it. The thought struck me then that when God made me He didn't say that. We are made in his image, we are "fearfully and wonderfully made", and as the creation of a perfect being we ended up exactly how He wanted us to. All the little "flaws" I see in myself are only things that I and the world around me sees as flaws (note, I'm taking about physical attributes here, not heart issues, those are all entirely mine). It's incredibly comforting to know that when God finished making me He looked at me with satisfaction, He was happy; there was no doubt, no second guessing, no wishful thinking. On a completely different note, the transmission went in my car again, and The Boy and his father are replacing it for me, so to thank them I made sugar cookies with pink lemonade frosting and sprinkles, and they are delicious. Especially because I decided to put at least a quarter inch thick layer of frosting on each cookie, and seriously, who doesn't like sprinkles? Anyway, I'm off to see if I can make another Tree of Life any better a second time around. Later :)

Life

Well, life has calmed down for the most part. Unfortunately one of my managers' husband is going through some rough medical things and she'll be out for a little over a month so there are more things to do at work now but that's always nice this time of year. Preferably under better circumstances but sadly, such is life. The Boy plowed his cell phone into a snow bank yesterday. Thankfully he has an iPhone and we could track it via iCloud. Also very thankful I caved and let him get the lifeproof case last time he needed a new one. Settled down with some Chinese food tonight and am going to crochet for a while, make The Boy dinner when he gets in from shoveling off the roof, and hopefully hit the sack early tonight. I haven't worked 5 days in a row in quite a while now and it caught up with me today, I'll be glad when Saturday hits. It's kinda crazy how quickly your body adjusts to things like only working 2 or 3 days in a row and then having a day off. Until next time :)

Hello, Goodbye

Aunt Ginny's funeral was today, and I cried a lot. Planned on coming home and binge eat ice cream, but the family decided to go to Longhorn Steakhouse instead so I settled for chicken fingers, a baked potato and green beans. Nothing like comfort food on a day like today. Then I found out my friends baby boy was born this morning at 3:30 am, 8 lbs even, 21? inches, and a full head of red hair. He's beautiful, a little wrinkly but beautiful ;) As I sat and listened to my aunt's funeral, I found out she went through a lot of hard times in her life, but she came out a strong and beautiful woman because of it. You may never read this Locke Charles Hale, but I hope your life isn't all smooth sailing, I hope you do run into trials and tribulations, but I also hope you know that you are surrounded by people who love you dearly and will help you through anything and everything you meet up with in life, and I hope it all shapes you into a strong, kind, good, and loving man. Thank you for letting me hold you without screaming or crying today ;) Love, Gabby.

Sad Day

Not going to be a long post tonight, just wanted to write this out somewhere. I just found out my Aunt Ginny passed away last night, and I'm kicking myself in the rear because I told myself I needed to go visit her, not for any reason but just because I hadn't in a while, and I just never got around to it. I should have. Honestly, I'm glad for her sake she's gone, she was old, tired, and I think she was ready to go, I'm just mad at myself that I didn't consider it important enough to visit her to actually take time out of my day and do it. What was so important that I couldn't have. Gas? Whatever, I have a job and I'll make more money, that's not an excuse. But that's pretty much what I use. Either that or I'm just tired and want to relax. Not anymore. I'll go relax at their house and do a puzzle with them or something. Not going to just "make an effort" anymore, I'm just plain old going to spend time with my family I'm not going to have around forever. That's all.

And Life Must Go On

My brother leaves for Japan in the morning. I spent all of yesterday with him, but of course that's not enough. The end of vacation/someone elses vacation always seems to sneak up on me, maybe it's the same for you. At the start I always think I'll have plenty of time, and then as it gets closer to the end there's no where near enough time. Hopefully he only has about 10 more months before he can come home on terminal leave, one of his head people (no longer in that position) only let people have 2 weeks of TL, but the one who took over for that lady is much more lenient so we're hoping he'll let Alex save up all his time and use it for TL next holiday season. The best part for me is that I have 2 weeks of vacation this year and I plan on taking one in late spring/early summer of next year so we can spend some time together and catch up on stuff. Maybe the anticipation will slow down this year a little bit instead of it flying by like last year. No? Yeah, I didn't think so either. Well, life must go on, and I must accept it, so in the meantime I'll keep praying he stays safe and comes home to us safely this fall. Until next time.

Cinderelly Cinderelly

So I spent the last half of my day mopping the store because apparently all the cleaning people gave up mopping as a lost cause. I'll be expecting my fairy god-mother any day now. I really didn't mind, it helped with my exercising every day, I'll probably pay for it tomorrow with my wrists but I'll just have them stick me in jewelry for a change :) So we've been doing pretty well while my boyfriend has been looking for a job, even managed to save a little money through Christmas which was exciting, and then this morning the radiator broke in one of the cars. It always works that way doesn't it? Such is life I suppose. I've got a couple of posts up in my craft blog, going to do a small one tonight. It's been kind of a blah day so not a whole lot to say tonight, so I'm off, hopefully tomorrow will be more exciting :)

So Far So Good

Well I got my workout in today without even trying. I took my nieces sledding today, trudging through the snow wasn't exactly easy, hopefully but the time it snows for this coming winter I'll have lost enough weight that I won't sink with every step. And now I'm doing my new years celebrating a night late lol. Spending the night with friends just relaxing :) Gonna get back to it now. :)