Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone

This year, I am most thankful for having my family intact. I had such a rough time in 2009, that I could have ruined 2010 for my entire family. However, despite my nuisances, my depression, and my disappointment with life, I was able to come out the other side with my family intact. My health? Not so much. Looking back over this year: I have been unemployed for 8 months, injured my knee, diagnosed with degenerative joint disease and multiple bone spurs, lost a car, almost lost my husband and my sanity, started back to school, changed my degree once again, moved from Brunson back to West Columbia, and took on three part time jobs. WHEW!!!! What a year it has been!
2011:
Will be just as busy. I start a new part time job in January, should graduate with a Bachelors Degree in English during the summer, will see one "child" graduate from high school, will go back to school to obtain a Masters, will hopefully be able to take a trip to Scotland and Ireland with hubby, and will make NO New Year's Resolutions this year!!! What is the point? I do not stick with it, so No New Years Resolutions. OH, AND 2011 is the year of mine and hubbys 20th year out of high school (Time for 20 year reunions) and 20th year of marriage.  

So, here at Thanksgiving, while I still feel a little lonely without my closest friends and family, I am most grateful for having my husbands family and my children home and healthy. While I may not have a home of my own, I am so grateful to the man and woman who allowed us to come and live with them; my mother and father in laws. They are forever coming to the rescue, and while I am frustrated about always having to lean on them, I am grateful they are there to lean on, if for no other reason but to help with the boys.
I am so grateful that my boys have and are growing up to be respectable individuals. They (as we all) have faults, and make mistakes; but gratefully they learn from them, pick themselves up, and perservere. It seems like I do not tell them enough how proud of them I am, how much I love them, and how much I hope and pray for their futures.

Today, I miss all those who have gone to God, and all of those who can not be with us for one reason or another, but am grateful for every moment I have spent with family and friends and for all the memories. 
"Thanks for the Memories, Thanks for the Memories..." 

New happenings and thoughts...

For who ever reads these things, and cares (LOL):

Recently, I completed my British Lit classes at Ashford University, and my CNA clinical instruction for the year. I was offered a new job at Bryan Psych. It will start (orientation) Jan 4th 2011, I will be working 6am-10am daily Monday thru Friday, and the clients are the same as I am used to - the elderly. This job will give me guaranteed 80 hours a month, plus some. And all I will have to do is pass medication, so no stress!
I am now 30 credits away from graduation at Ashford. I can not wait to get my Bachelors Degree, and starting working on a Masters in Education, so I can teach.
I am another month closer to being the mom of a High School graduated child (June 4th, and counting the days!!!).
Last week I spent two hours on the corner of Gervais and Huger Sts, with a car and a dead alternator. The alternator ended up costing us $720, which decreases my Christmas fund significantly.

When I finish my paper, for my Eng class, I will post is next (It is about meeting my mom about 15 years ago).

I am a little depressed because tomorrow is Michael's Birthday and I don't know where he is or how he is doing. Also, next month is the 27th anniversary of Daddy's death. I still wonder, if Daddy was here, would Michael have ended up the way he did.

On the upside, Moma and I have a totally strange and new relationship. She is friendly now, and we seem to have gotten over my tumultuous teen years, and her years of depression.
This Christmas will be a busy one, as I ready myself for the new year. Will there be any new resolutions? And how successful will I be at them? Why do a new resolution, if I wont stick with it? LOL


Ok, those are my thoughts for now...I have now got to go tend to this sore throat and disappearing voice.

Five o'clock Rush

Five o'clock Rush

by Beverly H Meetze

Five o'clock
Everyone to their exits
Parking lot empties
Orange globe
Blinds us all
Rap blasts to the left
Blue lights roll to the right
Red light, STOP
Green light, GO
No one moves!
5 o'clock Rush!
Church on the left
High Rise on the right
Like Inch Worms
Crawling slowly
STOP!
Inch, Inch, Inch
Horns blast on the Left
Bus loads on the right
5 o'clock Rush
Orange globe disappears
See the cars inch
twenty minutes more
To Home Sweet Home
Through 5 o'clock Rush

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