1 decade down….

Happy Birthday to my sweet girl Brenna!! You are a whole decade older and so am I. 10 Years ago today, I held you in my arms and kissed those chubby cheeks of yours. I introduced you to your big sister Lauren and your GrammaRain. I held you in my arms 24/7 because you would cry and cry. I slept on the couch with you in my arms because you only wanted your Mama. Daddy had to use his little pinkie to get you to settle down and go to sleep.

Time moved on and you grew and grew. You followed your big sister around and tried to do everything she did. You learned to walk when you were a year old and pretty much talked up a storm from as soon as you could. I haven’t been able to get you to stop talking since! I love how spunky you are. You say the funniest things at just the right moment. You are Daddy and Me all rolled into one little package! I love those big green eyes of yours and how your freckles look like angels kissed you all over your face.

I hope you had a wonderful birthday Brenna. You deserve far more than we could ever give you and we want you to know how much you are loved and mean to us. God has blessed us with you! Happy Birthday, baby.

Bippy Block

I have writers block. I don’t know what to post about.
I could tell you what I did Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and today.
I could tell you that I went to the doctor because I was sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I could tell you that I have bronchitis and an inhaler. I could tell you that Natalie’s family had lunch with us on Sunday and then we decided to go out and browse the shops for bargans and deals.
Then I could tell you Natalie and I went and had a girls day out today and got our toes done, had lunch, and then went to a salvage warehouse in Dallas today.
I could also tell you that I saw a mantle there for 175 bucks with great moudling detail on it and I wanted it bad. I wanted it bad like a bald man wants hair. *sigh* but I didn’t indulge.
I wanted to tell you how much fun I had looking around at someone elses discards with someone who knows how cool they are and sees the potential in them like I do.  I wanted to tell you that when Natalie and I hang out it’s like we’ve known each other forever and we like so many of the same things it scares me.  You should also know that she showed up in jeans and a black shirt and a black hoodie. I was wearing jeans, and was looking for my black hoodie. I am serious folks, eerie!

I could tell you how tired I am and how much I just want to go crawl in bed and curl up with a good book and then go to sleep early. But that would be posting and I don’t know what to write.

You got to have a J O B if you want to buy shoes

So, I went to my second job “interview” on the wrong day. I went on Wed. and it was supposed to be Thurs. Ok, I fixed that, went on the right day, even showed up early! I walk in and he puts me to work. He loads my name and password in to the software program and shows me what he wants me to do. I am supposed to put mock orders into the system and separate the ones with double letters. When the sports teams order prints/packages of their team photos, they can choose from about 50 different packages.

Scott (the pres. and CEO of the company) showed me what he wanted me to do and set me free. Okay, second time I have seen this software. It’s a totally different thing when you are looking at someone click here and click there, it’s a whole other experience to be let loose on a program you haven’t used yourself before. I did ok at first. Then I started to question what I was doing. So I asked for help. He said ask if you need help. Well because he was multi-tasking with another interviewee, I waited to ask him until I was sure I had done something wrong. Turns out I wasn’t filling out the right field, which was confusing because I saw him enter the names and team name in the same place I did. Turns out I was supposed to put the name in the name field and it would fill in the other fields automatically.

I did about 3 team packets and started on my fourth right when the other lady came in to test. I did the best I could and other than having to go back and re-do some names, I think I did as well as I could having just used the software for the first time. He said he would call next week and let me know after he has reviewed everything. I am a little impaitent that from the first interview to the actual answer if I got the job is going to end up being 3 weeks. I need to make me some money already!

Natalie and Michael came over last night. We had wings and played board games. Her boys were tired, so they left around 10 pm. We had fun. Natalie and I stayed up and chatted on IM pretty late. I think I left a butt print on the couch!

Today is another busy day. Make dinner for some friends who just had a baby, go over to Matt ‘n Debbi’s to eat and fixerate Matt’s blog and watch some Aggie fooball, and make sure I bring a good breakfast to Sunday School tomorrow.

Monday hopefully brings some time spent with my family and some time spent going salvaging with Natalie.

Happy Labor Day!!