I would just like to state, for the record, that, even though my husband would disagree, daylight savings time is wonderful. I can’t tell you how nice it is to finish with a lesson at 7 PM and still be able to walk to my car in sunlight. I’ve been in a much better mood for the past two days than I have all winter simply because I feel like I’m getting home earlier. Granted, I technically am getting home earlier…but that’s beside the point.
It’s been an interesting couple of weeks around the Ingram household. Thomas and I have both been SO sick. Thomas was sick all of last week. I started getting sick at the end of last week while Thomas was starting to feel better. I got really sick over the weekend (ear infection AND sinus infection), but Thomas was feeling pretty good until Wednesday when he came home coughing up a storm. We sent him to the doctor on Thursday morning to find out that he had bronchitis. So now we’re both home sick pumping antibiotics into our systems and praying that the bacteria will leave us alone.
On the up side, I think I’m finally starting to catch up on all that sleep I lost in college.
This is not for me. I’ve known what real friends are for a long time.
Real friends are not the ones who are always ready for a party, but never ready to help. Real friends are not the ones who are more concerned with their own plans than they are with your problems. Real friends are not the ones who will buy you booze, but won’t help you pay for things you really need.
Real friends will come to your rescue when you ask, and sometimes without you even having to. Real friends do not leave when the going gets tough and your life ceases to be “fun”. Real friends want you to be happy, healthy, and safe, and they grieve with you when your not those things.
It’s fine to have some “fake” friends. Everyone does. They’re generally fun to hang out with, but don’t put your life in their hands. They could care less about anything of consequence…about anything “heavy”. They just want to have fun and bolt when things get difficult.
Your real friends are the ones who love you. That’s why they’re still here.
As Thomas and I watched the ball drop on New Year’s Eve and the calendar flipped from 2007 to 2008, I couldn’t help but cry. 2007 was one of the hardest years of my life, and I’m so glad to see it go. I lost one grandfather, nearly lost another, and had so much stress from other family situations and life in general. The one bright point in my year was my wedding. I love my husband and I love being married to him. To a certain extent, Thomas is the one who has helped keep me sane for the past year.
I’ve been terribly withdrawn for the past few months, primarily because when I’m upset about something…in this case, my grandfather’s sickness…I don’t much feel like being around people. I have a hard time living life and being sociable when I feel like everything is going wrong. It feels fake. I think I’m back now though. My grandfather has been moved to a rehab facility and is working on being able to do things for himself again. I expect him to be going home within the month.
I have lots of plans for 2008, but I don’t like posting “New Year’s Resolutions” and stuff like that. I’d rather just make some changes and see if people notice. I do like how a new year makes you feel like you can make a clean start. Really that’s why I cried at the new year. I felt like all the bad was over. Now I can put it behind me and move forward. It’s such an unbelievable relief.
Happy New Year, everyone!
I just spent $75 on yarn. If anyone was wondering how my yarn addiction is doing, there’s your answer. I fear I may have just blown the answer to “What is Allea getting me for Christmas?” for many of you as well. I have made more dishcloths in the past year than I can even count. And apparently, I’m still going strong. Also joined a knitting group today. Just a group of women who get together a few times a month to knit and chat. Finally, my mother-in-law is building a site for me to sell my dishcloths, so that will be up soon.
At least I know that if this piano lesson thing doesn’t work out (yeah, right), I have something to fall back on…
Did I mention this is all Kim’s fault?
So if anyone would like to go jewelry shopping (or Christmas shopping) this weekend, I’m having a jewelry party at my house on Saturday at 2PM. Leave me a comment and I’ll email you directions.
In what now seems to be an annual occurrence in the Cary/Apex area (remember last year’s giant chemical fire that required the evacuation of over 10,000 people in Apex?), yesterday we had another towering inferno in our little suburban paradise. Apparently, the road construction crew was drilling and hit a gas line, cause a continuous giant fireball in one of Cary’s busiest intersections (Tryon and Kildaire Farm). My mom’s office building just happens to be in that intersection (it’s the 2-story rectangular building you can sometimes see diagonally across the intersection in the video), so she saw all the action first hand. In fact, a lady who works for another business in her building was driving through the intersection at the time and happened to throw a cigarette out the window at pretty much the same time as the fireball was ignited. For a moment she actually thought she caused the explosion. Of course, she didn’t, but I bet she thinks twice the next time she tosses out a cigarette butt.
I do think it’s kind of funny that last year’s explosion was almost exactly a year ago (Oct. 5, 2006). Makes me wonder what’s going to happen next fall…
Oh yeah…and no one was hurt.
I don’t have anything to write about, but for some reason unbeknownst to me I feel compelled to post anyway.
That is all.
Warning: There’s no telling what’s going to be written about today, and what is will probably be annoyingly random.
Had lunch with Sara today. Hadn’t seen her since my wedding. It was awesome.
Bought tickets to see Chess with Heather. Hope the actual story is as good as the music. Either way, I can’t wait to see Heather.
Helping with music for VBS this week. Might be helping the kids worship leader make a CD of kids songs. Pretty excited about that.
SO GLAD we’re finally having Bible study again tonight. It’s been three weeks and I’ve been having major withdrawals. Plus, we’re starting to talk about finances tonight…a very appropriate topic for newlyweds.
Quick rant: Why do places insist on using Ticketmaster as the only means of acquiring tickets to their events? What a rip off! Why should anyone have to pay $2.50 to print off their own tickets at home? And what the #%!(^*#%# is a convenience charge? I didn’t think it was very convenient. Ticketmaster should die.
I need sleep. And chocolate. Hmmmm……
Anyone want to go swimming?
Wishing everyone a happy Independence Day!
And in other pretty much unrelated news…
It has recently been brought to my attention (thanks to Google Analytics) that the vast majority of the visitors to this site are still using Internet Explorer. Unfortunately, this site doesn’t display properly in IE (thank you Microsoft for your unwillingness to follow standards). So if you want to see what my site (and countless others) are actually supposed to look like, you should visit http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ and download Firefox (for free). You’ll thank me…or at least you won’t think I don’t know how to make a working website anymore.
