That Time of the Month March 29, 2007

We skipped right over spring around here and have gone directly to summer.  It is hot and the pollen is thick. 

 April fools is coming up at the end (or beginning) of the week and I really want to pull one over on Wil.  I have yet to be truly successful at pulling a good prank.  I was thinking about this at work today and vocalized my plans, wanting ideas to flow forth from my coworkers.  Lelia (a 54 year old woman that acts as if she is 75 with bleached blond hair and the facts that she married her high school sweetheart and has never lived anywhere besides Cowan, Tennessee) swivels around in her chair and says, “You should put ketchup in his underwear while he is sleeping.”  It took me a second to react.  So, Lelia, you’re telling me I should try to make Wil believe he has some sort of condition where he is bleeding out of some body part that is contained in his underwear?  No, thank you.  I can just picture the whole thing.  One, getting the ketchup in his underwear while he is sleeping and then watching him be freaked when he thinks his insides are exploding or that he has become a woman overnight.  I’ll pass on the foolery.  Does anyone have any better ideas?

a first (and hopefully) last time for everything March 21, 2007

Today, while working the drive thru at the bank, I was asked out by a married and much older man.  I don’t tell you this to brag (for sure).  I tell you this because this was the first time that had ever happened to me.  No likey!  It made my skin crawl and my stomache flip.  It all started a month or so ago when I heard his radio playing while I deposited his money and asked him if the singer was Bjork and he said yes and let me borrow the CD without me asking and then a few weeks later I gave him the CD back and then a few weeks later I asked him about the movie, “Dancer in the Dark” and we chatted about that for a mintue or less and then today, he came through like usual but gave me a card with the check he was cashing.  It said on the outside, “Amanda:  You Can Open This Later”.  So of course, when he drove away I opened the card and read it and was shocked.  Now, what I expected was not to get a card at all so anything was shocking.  The card, in a nutshell, said that he was giving me the message through a card because of the security cameras and the microphone that everyone I work with can ear and that he would like to have lunch with me or a drink after work.  Then he gave me his email address.

I might be WAY to trusting in people but even after reading it I thought maybe he just wanted to talk about common stuff and be a friend but that thought quickly left when I remembered the trying to get around coworkers and the fact I don’t know him at all and I am married.  I have to write him, I guess.  I have had lots of advice and I am trying to figure out what feels right for me.  Of course I showed my boss and told all my coworkers.  I even told the girl at the beauty salon and a few of Wil’s friends. It always amazes me when people don’t turn out to have the same morales as me.  I need those basic sets of rules to be followed. There’s no argument for the other way.

What I did on my birthday…and beyond…. March 12, 2007

Well, another birthday has come and gone.  I was required to go to a “how to sale products” workshop (not its official name) for Regions bank on my birthday.  It was good to get away but the drive was long since it was in Nashville and I really don’t care about the content matter so I attempted to be class clown instead which actually worked out well.  I treated myself to starbucks for breakfast and it was worth every calorie.  When I got home, my parents and my niece had come to visit and they stayed for the weekend.  It was great.  We went shopping and ate out and just had family time. 

I share my brithday with both my sister-in laws.  Quite the coincidence.  I had lots of birthday ecards from friends (thank you!) and having Rachel (my niece) here was very special.  It is fun to have a baby in the family.

28 is weird.  I definitly feel age becoming a factor in my life.  I think things like:   Am I too old to be wearing this?  Is this appropriate behavior for “my age”? What am I going to do with my life?  Before it was:  What am I going to do or where am I going to go for my brithday party?  I still want to have a party for this year.  Things are just busy. 

I thank God for the things that are right in my life.  I feel that it is so. 28 and so much more to learn. 

Happy Birthday- Mind, Body, and Soul.