Cell Phone Warning....

So me and my sister Angie talk a LOT on our respective ways home from Chicago every Sunday night, and on our way TO on Friday nights, it's like we travel together, just in separate vehicles.  So Sunday night, we're just chatting away, and my phone starts breaking up, and Angie was trying to decide what I said, based on the blips she missed....

what she heard was "I didn't stop and get any ASS on my way home, hope I make it!"

I wondered why she was laughing....and when she said what my phone conveyed to her, I couldn't help but wonder.....am I really funny.....always having my sister laughing, or is my phone making me so?

"....Get some "ass" on the way home....I tell ya....There's not any "ass stations" that I know of in Indiana that you'll find ME stopping to pump ASS from!  that much I assure you!

Thanks Verizon for making conversations sooooooo much more interesting between two sisters!

I think from now on, i'm going to say "fuel"...just to be on the save side! :)

xoxox

~hl~

On a side note:  I discovered today that I SNEEZE exactly like my Grandma Irene!  Just throwing that out there....Self discovery never stops....no matter how old you get.

This and That....

Greetings from the big city, from my office, that I have to take an elevator up to get to.

I'm still not "home" here, but at least I can get in my car and drive here without having that sudden panic in my morning commute that i'm going the wrong way to work now....that's helpful.

Working here in Lima is a lot different than my days in little ole Ottawa.....I look out my window and see big buildings and civilization.....there are ALWAYS sirens blaring, racing off to here or there....

The people are a lot different, when I eat lunch and stare out the window in the lunch room, I see all kinds of people hustling around.  The rich businessmen in suits, the criminals popping into the probation department to check in, voters coming to the board of elections.....

today i saw an old couple crossing the street, both with the whitest hair, and orthopedic shoes....and I couldn't help but smile and hope and pray that one day that will be me and MG.  That we'll be like that, old and grey, and still together.

This whole working in Chicago every weekend makes it tough on my heart....to have to leave behind it's desire week in and week out.  Rushing back to him on a Sunday night nearly makes my heart SING at the anticipation of seeing him brings.

but enough about that, don't want to make anyone gag with my mushy love stuff....

I'm so looking forward to Breaking Dawn Part 1 coming out AND also "One for the Money" the new Catherine Heigle movie coming out made from one of my new favorite author's Janet Evanovich!

I've realized lately, that I've been blessed by getting to have some pretty amazing people in my life...I really am!  The older I get, the more people I meet and I swear that the quality of the people in my life just keeps getting better.  Those flippant friends have fallen away, the phonies and the fakes, long gone...and what's left, are people who are "real"...people of substance, and qualities some people WISH the possessed.  I am a very wealthy woman if you measure wealth in love for others, and love reflected back at you from those loved ones!

And did I mention I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE riding my motorcycle?  MG, Jim and myself all went out last night for a ride, maybe the last good weather day before winter sets in, and it was awesome.  Got to bust out my wallet with the chain that hooks to your beltloop that MG got me for my birthday last year, I was so biker-chick'ed out it wasn't even funny...ok, so alright, maybe it was funny, but it was bad-ass too!  My bike is a piece of work, just like I am i think...full of quirks....bright red....there's kindredship there, I can feel it.

Now as I will be able to sit and watch the snow fall outside of this gigantic window i sit near.....I'll be longing for "riding weather"....longing to be back out there.....riding my face off!

You never know what will move you, what will grab hold of you until you do it, and between taking a chance at giving my heart to MG, and getting on that bike that first time......one thing I know for certain....is that some risks are soooooo worth taking!

I read something today, an article that said that the average human lives to be 77.  but when you think that you only get seventy seven summers, 77 christmases, 77 birthdays, all the sudden, you start to see that 77 isn't THAT many.  If you had 77 dollars in your pocket, you would be far from loaded, and the way I see it, I dont' want to waste a single ONE of my 77....especially when we're not guarented even tomorrow!

So if you want to fall in love...JUMP!  if you want to ride, RIDE!  if you want to smile really big and let the whoosh of the air, fill up your mouth and puff out your cheeks!  I say do it!

Seventy Seven summers.....and with only 44 left, all I can think is, that'll never seem like enough time with MG....half a lifetime seems like just not enough time to love him like I do......I'm afraid that I love him more than a mere 44 years can hold.

xoxo

~hl~

Fall Leaves.....Change is all around....

I don't know what it is about today, but I feel like I'm tuned into things that I shouldn't, and am blocking out the things that I should be paying attention to....

Now at my new job, i'm supposed to be "LEARNING" my new job.....instead, I found myself closing my eyes on the street as I was walking from my Court to the one down the street....basking in the sunshine and nearly plowing into the Probation Officer leaving his office next door......didn't phase me...at lunch, I listened mesmerized by the clippity clop of my heels on the blacktop pavement, and the sloshing noise my freshly ingested mt. dew and chinese food made in my belly....all while thinking....wow, that was far, far too much lunch, to actually EAT for lunch.  Making mental note, no more chinese buffet for lunch....*burps/belches*.....Pardon me, I can't help it......the carbs are speaking THROUGH me again!

Some things of note:  I'm having a pretty fun time with my sister every weekend in Chicago.....between her making me laugh til my belly aches on the weekends, and MG having me in stitches and non-stop smiles during the week, I'm feeling like that guy from "it's a wonderful life"....or like Scrooge on Christmas morning when he realizes he hasn't "missed it"....I'm so happy, I'm fairly certain that I could make people vomit with the goodness that's oozing out of my every orphis.  Don't stand close to me if you don't want to get any on you!  Just warning you.....

Don't get me wrong, I do have moments of pissy-ness, I am a woman, a woman working the "Pony-Ring" in Chicago......nobody is immune to the negativity that is "customer service" sometimes, but once "off the clock"....I snap back.

There's a lot of crazy things happening all around me.....in the lives of the people I know and love, and I hate to risk jinxing it by saying this, but my life is feeling quite steady at the moment.  Now that all the SHOCK is starting to wear off of quitting my job and starting a new career path.....and I find more and more confidence in the fact that MG and I....well, we're really something.....and all signs point to the fact that we BOTH really love and appreciate what we have together.....I'm starting to be a little less paranoid.  THAT's an amazing feat btw, i think paranoia possibly runs in my family.....in the O***** DNA or something perhaps.

So many times I've wanted to come and write here, so many mental scenes I would of loved to paint for you, to bring you along with me lately......and yet, something stops me.....keeps me from doing so, I'm going to try and change that if I can, bear with me.....for it is fall, and in Fall, I find change in not just the scenerey around me, but INSIDE of me....perhaps that change can start here, now....

All my Luv to those to frequent here, should there be any of you left.....
~hl~