Brown chicken Brown cow!!!

yeah yeah yeah.... I despise that song too - LOL
but - you can't take me down today!
(even after 78239872234 days of rain!!!)
I'm doing a happy dance, singing a song, and well.... it's been HOW MANY years since I've done a real live cartwheel??? but I'm doin it!!!
I'm listening to music and cleaning my house!  YEP - I'm in THAT good of a mood!
HA!

BRING ON MONDAY!!!!!!

I just took my final for my last semester of actual class time!  PHYSICS!  AND I got a 92!  yep - sure did.  92 in PHYSICS - YAY me!!!!
now granted - it's a TOUGH HARD CRAZY road ahead, I still have to finish up final clinical rotation (but I have checked off on all scans I need to check off on) AND I still have those Board tests to take (which I have heard HORROR stories about), but today, I feel like I have NOT actually wasted the last year of my life and I feel as though God has led me down a road and he's still holding my hand.  He isn't letting go yet.    We still have a few more hurdles to cross, but I guess this test today was just a MUCH NEEDED reminder that God brought me here for a reason and he's gonna continue carrying me through  :)

{{SHOUT OUT to Preacher T for the EXCELLENT service and MUCH NEEDED message at church Sunday!  I love you and am so proud to call such a GREAT man of God, my husband!}}


Hope everyone else is having a GREAT Monday also  :)

BRING. IT. ON.

Today is my first day back in the saddle.
First day back in class.
It was pretty easy squeezy going back to the classroom.
Watched a movie.
went over the new syllabus...
then it HIT

the new grading scale....
the new online class added on top of real class and 4 days now in a clinical site doing scanning...
ALL the homework...
all the extra time needed this semester...
how CLOSE it is to graduation...
no WAIT - how CLOSE it ACTUALLY is to taking registry tests!!
MULTIPLE TESTS!!!!!!
(tests that I pay to take.. pass OR fail..... and if I don't PASS, the whole school thing was just a big PHAT waste of time!!)

BUT - I choose to accept this task!
I WILL fight this task

I have a LIST of things to work on .....  not JUST succeeding at school - but a LIST of SEVERAL things that I choose to look at different.  A list of things that I'm about to tackle and WIN with the grace of MY GOD on my side!!!!
(that list will come in a later blog)
But after a VERY inspiring message T brought Sunday  (yes T - you never cease to amaze me, AND you never know how just what you say is ALWAYS ALWAYS just what SOMEONE sitting in that church needs to hear!)

Anyway ......
as for now - MONDAY - I'm back in the saddle in sooooooo many ways!!
BRING on the week..... BRING on life!!!

HAPPY MONDAY everyone!

When I jumped - I landed flat on my face...

Is it Monday?!!??

So far today - I feel as though I've struck out.
Beating my OWN head against the wall.
Some days are more frugal than others and today is not one of them.

Some days I feel like God is holding my hand and taking me down a path
and some days I feel like I just smashed a wall.

Some days I feel like people get me
and some days I feel like EVERYONE thinks I have lost my mind.

Some days I feel as though I'm making good decisions
and some days - I feel like EVERYTHING I do is questioned and not enough.

It seems as though no matter how HARD I try to do the right thing and think and plan ahead, it's just NEVER enough.  Someone tells me I'm irresponsible, someone tells me I'm wrong, someone looks at me like I'm stupid, someone has a "better idea"...

BACK OFF!

I'm over it.

how about this?
if it gets done, it gets done
and if it doesn't - WHY the crap should I care?????
no one else does until it's too late!!!!!

today = EPIC FAIL.
Good thing it's Friday.

~ Motivational Monday ~

And now I would like to take you back to your regularly scheduled programming…..

Remember back when I did a motivational Monday every week?!  Where the crap did THAT go?!  {shrugs…}

Well….

I'm back now……..

Life took some crazy twists and turns… ups…downs…bends and breaks…. But here I am – still standing….and for THAT – I would like to share a little bit of motivation for this lovely sun-shiny Monday.

There are a lot of things changing in my life and a lot of big changes to come.  Things I have prayed about for a LONG time are coming to fruition and some things are not… or maybe – wait – maybe they are – just not in MY TIME or the way I THOUGHT they would come to fruition.

Truth be told…..nothing ever really happens the way I THINK it should.

WHY?

Because I become too focused on what I want, when I want it.  Rather than the big plan that God is working on every day.

And just when I think ….. ahhhhhh…… this must be God's plan……. Wow – where did this come from?  NOPE – pulled right out from under me too….

Expected the unexpected … or how about this – EXPECT nothing at all.

A friend of mine always says "expectations lead to disappointment" – so "expect" nothing.

Anypoo….

I have school starting soon.  (August)

I started a new job (on top of my current one)

BOTH jobs are "supposedly" staying in tact while I'm in school

(good-bye life…..what little I have!)

Zack will be a sophomore in school.

Zack will be 16 (and driving……..shudder) in less than a year…

And once school does start – who the heck knows (because school is FULL TIME) how I will continue to make enough money to pay my bills…….

Sooooooooo many things on the horizon… it kinda freaks me out when I think about it.  BUT at the same time…..I am sooooooo thankful.

I'm thankful for all I am being blessed with.

I'm thankful for my dreams finally coming true.  (if I don't flunk out! Ha)

I'm thankful for the great child I have at home, who is (so far) helping every step of the way.

I'm thankful that I am on a path that God paved for me…..when it was time.

No matter what else is going on….I know I am walking hand in hand with a God who is paving the way as I go.

I came across this quote today and I wanted to share it with everyone…..

"God knows what we need better than we do.  Sometimes he redirects our course, giving us a unique and unexpected treat – and meeting a need we didn't even know we had."

Most of the time, it's probably best that we DON'T know the entire plan ahead….. live in faith, not expecting anything, and trusting that what God has in store is bigger and better than you can ever imagine on your own.

Rather than getting overwhelmed – I vow to be overjoyed.

Period.

No questions asked.

My future is in the hands of someone who CAN'T screw it up…..and if he didn't think I could handle all that is coming my way – he wouldn't put it on me.

God has faith and trust in us too……

Don't let him down  ;-)

Happy Monday and I hope everyone has a fantabulous week!!!!!!!!

~t@Mi G~

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Here comes the week...off to a good start!

Happy Monday to all!!!
My week is off to a fabulous start - but it's going to be a CRAZY crazy busy week and weekend! =) *just how I like it!*
To get the week started right - today - I won FOUR tickets (how ironic for me and my 3 best SATC girlfriends) to a "Little Black Dress" party at Mai in Nashville this Saturday night! YAY! How fun is that?!?!!! AND the Bonus is: Cassie will be there AND Kaci Battaglia! I can't wait!
I should have LOTS to write about this week and ESPECIALLY this weekend! (also planning a trip to haunted houses Friday night! YAY - it's been YEARS since I have been to a haunted house!)

Anyway - here's my fav song by Cassie to start the week (this was the "cruise" theme song back in 2006!! Shout out KAT!!) And I'll go ahead and attach Kaci Battaglia's song! It's good too and it CRACKS me up in a crazy psycho girlfriend kinda way! HA

Good Morning Monday!

Sitting at the doctor's office this morning with my son, I thought I would catch up with everyone from the weekend.  (and it IS Monday - so I need a treat to get me going......something to make me smile on Monday!)

What I thought was going to be a pretty relaxing weekend turned out to be busy as usual for me.  Friday night was ok; put in my fifth day at the gym for the week, 2 trips to the mall (thinking of new clothes always makes me smile!) & a pit stop to help my friend with some preparation for Jr Miss.  My son stayed with a friend so I had a friend over for (late) dinner and some tv.  Got to sleep just in time to get back up and spend Saturday morning working an auction.....in the rain - YUCK!  I did love getting to spend some time with my friend Colette though - who is just about ready to explode with this child she is carrying.... she is SUCH a cutie preggo   =)    She also brought along her 3 year old daughter to hang with us while we were working, she is very close to the age of my niece and they are just so flippin cute at that age.   You just never know what might come out of their little mouths!   The little cutie and I took several trips down the street to the potty and each time after I sat her on the toilet, she would tell me "now - go outside the door"   SO cute!!  (insert smile - I need lots of those on Monday mornings!)  After the auction I met a couple of the girls for lunch and then back home for a nap.  Saturday night I spent watching Jr Miss.  For those of you who don't know what that is - it is kinda like a pageant only the girls are judged ALSO on grades, fitness, and they each do a private interview with the judges that is also graded.  Like other pageants, they are also judged on poise and each has to perform an individual talent too!  VERY entertaining.  But of course watching these adorable little 16ish year old high school girls, always makes me reminisce back to MY high school days and think about all the things I would have changed if I had known what I know now!  ( I know I know, it's so cliche - everyone says that.....)  So after the show, as I wasn't feeling so well, my son and I stopped to pick up a movie and headed home.  About half way through the movie I got a phone call from a friend needing a ride home.......so at around 1AM I'm out making my rounds  (which let me point out I don't mind to do AT ALL!  I would MUCH prefer the phone call come, than worry about any of my friends out trying to get themselves home after a night out on the town - if you know what I mean).  Finally make it back home and try to finish watching the movie  (WHY do I do this to myself?!?)  So that I can turn right back around and it's time to get up for church.  Even got to get up earlier to prepare food to take as we were having potluck outside after the service!  (My lovely charming child however did NOT get up with me and would now be grounded from all electronics for the week - just a sidenote!)    The plus side is that after church, I did finally get out to see my parents and family whom I felt like I haven't seen in months!  We took a nice field trip to the farm and I got to see the new baby cow, some new chickens, the most precious little kitten EVER (whom I almost took home with me after swearing I will never have another animal INSIDE my house again!)  and the weather could NOT have been any better for it!
Last night I spent cleaning house as I'm having a jewelry party for my sister in law on Thursday night - AND did some catching up on DVR!  Stayed up WAY too late before a Monday morning........so I'm D-R-A-G-G-I-N-G today!!!!!!!!
Therefore - I am posting some things to make me smile and a FUN song.... and hopefully getting this Monday morning started!
Happy Monday everyone!
Enjoy!
....the cutest kitten ever  =)   & Cutie pies babies that joined us for the auction (that we had to take a picture of) and then the sweetest funniest video out there right now!  SMILE REAL BIG!!!!!!!