Thought for the Day

Here's the serious one:

Listen to the mustn'ts, child.
Listen to the don'ts.
Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts.
Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me...
Anything can happen, child.
Anything can be.
~Shel Silverstein

The funny one that my secretary said on the announcements today. She couldn't remember if it was original, or she heard it from Jack Handy.

If I had a dollar for every dollar I spent, I'd have all my money back!

Random Thoughts

I broke the coffee pot last night. I was really mad at myself.

I have to take my lunch break today to run an errand across town. I could've mailed it, but I didn't have a stamp. Who uses stamps anymore? Well, obviously not us.

I did something to a friend yesterday that I got irritated someone did to me earlier in the week. Go figure. I apologized.

It's snowing.

I got a new cookbook I'm eager to try out.

It's the last day of January. That was fast.

My desk is a mess again.

Wordless Wednesday

The Deaf

One of my favorite disabilities is deafness. Weird to have a 'favorite' disability, isn't it? When I got to college, I didn't know what I wanted to be. Since it was a private school (gasp! I know, I'll be paying back student loans until I die!), we had chapel every day. I loved chapel, the socializing, the singing, the socializing, the prayer, the socializing, yeah, you get the idea. Anyway, their were interpreters for the Deaf there. 'How cool is that?' I thought. Upon further investigation, most of the interpreters were Speech Therapy majors since they did not have Deaf Ed. I became fast friends with the Deaf people. I learned sign language. The best way...from Deaf people. It's not ASL proper, more of a pidgin type, but most of the time it gets the job done. I will be taking our state interpreters test Feb. 29th. Please pray~LOL. I've recently found some 'v-logers,' and watching them I am so discouraged because while I get the overall message, to actually reverse interpret what they are signing to make it sound like it should (a 'normal' conversation)...shameful!
*Anyway* all this blah blah is to say that I have recently 'met' Karen (maybe I'll really get to meet her someday). She's a cool lady who has run into some trouble recently. But, it reminds me (and brings me back to my point) about why I love Deaf people....Rarely do you see a one of them that isn't happy and well-rounded. I mean, for the 'disability' that us dumb hearing people consider them to have you would think that they would be "oh woe is me, I can't hear, I'll just sit here and let other people take care of me" Nope! They are happy, uplifting, funny, successful, patient, proud, strong, brave, joyous people. They remind me how lucky I am when I start to have a pity party for myself about the troubles I have. I've learned a lot from them about what is truly important and to take what you have and make the best of it. I need to be reminded of that every once in awhile, so thanks Karen, Darin, Mary Lynn, Cassie, Lacey, et al! :)

The Desk, Pt. 1

A couple of months ago, Dear Hubby found a desk for $15! at Goodwill. It was ugly, yes, but he's pretty handy (I think I'll keep him) and the desk is wood, so he figured he good make something decent out of it.

So this weekend, it was finally warm enough to dig it out of the carport and start working. Here it is, in all it's glory.



This is the cool stuff you put on it that makes the paint come off.
Ok, it's called stripper. That's paint stripper.

I love it when it's all done and you can just scrap it off!






But, alas, it doesn't all come off, especially when there's like 3 layers of paint on it. We think this desk was once white, then brown, then green. So, we used the sander (imagine Tim the Toolman and his rr-rr-rr) and the scraper. Dear Hubby even let me use the sander! At first I was a little leary, but then I thought, well, it was $15, if I mess it up, oh well! 1452 hours later......

it looked like this! Nice, huh? And that was just the front! Whew. And my shoulder is sore this morning. And my mother would cringe that I am starting sentences with "and."


I will post some pictures when we finish....um, whenever we finish!

Just Doin' My Job

I got a compliment from my supervisor today. "Michelle, I just wanted to tell you what a good job you're doing on these. All the dates are in there and everything is filled out like it's supposed to be." Huh. Don't get me wrong, I appreciated the compliment, but isn't that what I'm supposed to be doing!? It made me wonder how many people aren't doing their job if they felt they needed to commend me for actually doing mine.

<---Shakes head.....sad.....

Thought for the Day

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life~happiness, freedom, and peace of mind~are always attained by giving them to someone else.

~Peyton Conway March