"thanks"giving???

Here's a helpful hint. If u r cheap like me and generally only get new phones when people cast off their old ones check to make sure their phone isn't still set with their daily alarm. Or else u r going to be waking up @ 4:45 on Thanksgiving morning even though u have no turkey to put in the oven. Blah!! And so starts thanksgiving day...
I can think of a million things that I should feel thankful for but I can’t seem to muster up any real sincere thanks for any of them. Tis the season and all but I’m just not feeling it. Thoughts of turkeys make me feel empty and Christmas trees in all of their splendor leave me feeling less than spectacular in their presence. I’m not unhappy, but I’m not exactly happy either. I’m just kind of there, and not really feeling it. I feel sorta blah and I feel stuck. But worse than feeling stuck I don't know the direction I would like to go if I were to get unstuck. Whatever train of thought I'm on at any given moment can be so easily derailed and suddenly I'm on to some new idea... I can't focus... heck I don't even know where I was going with all of this!
Anyway. Guess I'll just shut up now, drink my cheerwine and hope I get one of the turkey legs at dinner! Happy (unthankful) Thanksgiving.

What I've learned Wednesdays...

1) The older I get the longer those 400 and some miles between Jacksonville and Salisbury seem to be.

2) There is a lizard that squirts blood from it's eyes and apparently crickets hear with their knees.

3) The "Shake Weight" is a real exercise tool. Look it up. Watch the infomercials. It's hilarious. (oh and ps a bit of a dirty mind is required in order to get the full effect)

4) I'm tired of feeling replaceable.

5) In exactly four days I am going to be 28. Yikes. Where can I find a rewind button?

Quote of the moment...

"Live life fully while you are here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up. You're going to anyway so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human."

the things we do...

You do some of the craziest stuff ever when entertaining eleven two year olds all day. Never imagined I'd be filling latex gloves up with water, poking holes in the fingers, and helping the kids "milk the cow." Jacksonville kids... most who've never seen a real live cow... milking pretend udders... (which they thoroughly enjoyed by the way!)... wow... oh the things we do!!!