Birthday surprise

Well, I'm moving very slow this morning. I will be out of town next weekend when my actual birthday arrives so my friends gave me a surprise party last night. I have the best friends in the whole world!

It really was a surprise too! As a matter of fact, it was such a surprise, I almost didn't go. I was tired and just wanted to go to sleep. I got talked into just showing up long enough to say hi to everyone. Well, I stayed a lot longer than that. LOL!

Want to know something funny? I think they are planning some kind of surprise for me at work on Monday. That's the only day next week that I'm actually showing up to work. LOL! The kids in my class are in on it and they spilled the beans. They told me everything and then told me not to guess. LOL!

Here's to surprise parties...

http://www.4shared.com/file/70268450/267dabb1/Birthdays_11-08-08.html?

Here's a request...

I feel bad about only making small posts this week, but I've got a lot going on right now and I'm getting ready to go out of town next week. I'm going to spend 5 days up in St. Augustine, Florida as a mini vacation. I love St. Augustine! Happy birthday to me!

Here's a request I got from one of my friends. She's making a card for her teenagers. LOL! Hope you can use it too...

http://www.4shared.com/file/70070498/310fccdb/maid_11-7-08.html?

Lie

I'm using this on one of my birthday projects. Hope you can use it too...

http://www.4shared.com/file/69942168/23c8b421/Lie_11-6-08.html?

Destiny

I'm going to make a quick post. I'm having a hard time adjusting to the time change and I am really sleepy now.

Did everyone vote on Tuesday? You have to admit, that no matter who you voted for we're lucky to live in this country. It's going to be very interesting to see how the next four years go.

http://www.4shared.com/file/69808494/fa4cb32f/Destiny_11-5-08.html?

Worries

I have a friend that worries about everything. She worries and stresses the rest of us out. LOL!We can plan the simpliest project and she'll ask several times a day how it's done and request a sample everytime she asks. She was tracing turkey feathers for school the week before Halloween arrived.

She always gets her work done before the rest of us, but we all get it done. Now, which way is better---worrying the whole time or getting it done without the worries? I vote for no worries!

http://www.4shared.com/file/69671059/da63daa8/Worrying11-4-08.html?

Living life

I had a very interesting talk with a friend of mine about life in general. He talked about the things he has done and the things he is waiting to do. Waiting....for kids to get older, for the economy to get better, to drop that 10 pounds he's added, to pay the mortgage off, to get a promtion at work, to get a new truck....Waiting

Now, I know we can't throw our responsibilities out the window, but what happens to our life if we all just sit around and wait? Will we look back and be glad that we waited or will we be sad about the missed adventures? Is there a way to be responsible and still live our dreams?

The dreams I have now are not the dreams of my youth---gave up on that rock star dream a long time ago. LOL! I have seen many of my dreams come true---I have bungee jumped. I have been to Paris. I have loved someone with every ounce of my being and known his love in return. There are more, but those are the biggies!

There are other dreams that I haven't visited in a while and I think it's time that I did. It's time to stop waiting and start living...

http://www.4shared.com/file/69423719/9461efd9/Live_the_Life_11-03-08.html?

What a day

Saturday was a wonderful day! I slept till 10:00 (one of the advantages of living alone) I didn't leave the house until 5:00 today. LOL! I had trouble finding my car in the parking garage again. (It was on the third level this time.)

Thank goodness there are only two levels to the parking garage at the grocery store. Any more and I'd never be able to buy ice cream. It would always melt before I found the car. LOL!

I caught up on the episodes of Dexter that I had missed. Love that show!

I went across the courtyard for a cookout with my friends. It was a beautiful day with lots of sunshine so I took the catwalk in Jimmy's honor. We went out for a ride on the boat and watched the sunset from the water.

We took a walk down to Collins Avenue for a few drinks. With weather like we're having the walk and outside table were a must.

A couple of the guys decided to get tattoos in Jimmy's memory. Us girls watched as they endured the pain and claimed that it didn't hurt at all.

I have no tattoos. I'm way too big of a chicken for something like that. I tried to talk them out of the tattoos. I thought they should wait and think it through a little more. Maybe let a little more time pass. I asked why they would get a tattoo to honor someone that didn't have any tattoos and they answered, "because we can." LOL!

They were happy with themselves for their decision so I had to support them and I must admit that the tattoos looked great. I just hope they're still happy with their decision a couple of days, weeks and years from now...

http://www.4shared.com/file/69328850/488962fd/Foolish_things_11-2-08.html?