"Life's a Dance You Learn As You Go"

Ok so I haven’t’ written anything in like a week or so…this is going to be a very long entry but hang with me…this past week I have to say was one of those weeks that you have to come up with a reason to say it was a “character building experience.” I think I will name it clutter. Well what do I mean buy clutter; it was a test of simplicity. My life is a manic Monday everyday but I love it that way, I live for busyness, for constant hustling. Everyday is careful planned out to, from the moment I wake up to the second I rest my head down at 11pm for bed. I know, I know, life isn’t supposed to be so planned out. But I try and capture ever minute to its full potential, leaving no room for twiddling my thumbs. Well last week all that planning blew up in my face!

Monday I found out that my younger brother who is 15 is walking down the wrong path towards trouble! He is really a great kid but he’s making some bad choices the typical teen years. Then I got a call on Tuesday that my brother did not come home for two days, and me being the crazy controlling sister that I am freaked out and wanted to catch the next plane home! My heart truly ached at the thought of anything happening to him, I prayed and cried a lot that day, not only because of my brother but a lo because of a “guy” thing…if you get my drift. So Tuesday ended and I woke up to a new day on Wednesday. I told myself, “This too shall pass.” I have to say Wednesday was a pretty food day I think I don’t remember anything too dramatic happening…well it doesn’t matter cause Thursday made up for both days.

Thursday I found out that my brother came home, so that was praise a lift of worry off my shoulders. Thursday night I headed to my soccer game, we loosed, which wouldn’t be so bad but it was our last game and it determined whether or not we had a winning or losing season…we played hard though an that’s all that matters, who am I kidding it just sucked. Well as I was leaving the game, oh I forgot to mention that it was pouring down rain during our game and about 48 degrees outside. So I was soaking wet, and cold, and all who know me know that I hate being cold!!(And scared) anyways I got into the Crichton shuttle, which I drove to the game. I tried to back out of my spot in the parking lot but there was a car blocking me, so I saw another way that I could take, it was to go forward and over this little grassy area. Didn’t look like it would be a problem at the time, well I was so wrong! As I drove forward it was fine at first and then bam! I hit a huge drain and the passenger wheel bounced in and out so high Melissa (the other girl in the car) hit our heads on the roof and looked at each other with faces of complete fright….it happened so fast that I couldn’t stop and then as I continued to drive through it, the back passenger tire fell straight in two the drain...I revved the engine frantically trying to get out of the drain but the wheel just turned and shot out water everywhere! A friend of mine named Josh was outside and saw what was happening and yelled at me to turn the car off cause I wasn’t getting out, so I turned it off and thought to myself we are going to pull this van out of that whole! So I got out of the van and went to see the tire, I came around the van took one look at the wheel and my eyes began to tear up…I got in the car and just when I was about to start balling josh came over and told me not to cry and that everything was going to be alright, it was very sweet. See the tire was all the way in the drain and the only thing that could possibly get it out was a tow truck. But of course here in the south any chance for a guy to bust out his chain and try and pull anything out of a ditch is extremely adventures and gets them all pumped up! So first we had a stranger try and pull it out with his jeep, ya that didn’t’ work, then we had a guy come over with his John Deer tractor that only made matters worse I think, finally I called my best friend Ginger to come out with her AAA card! She fallowed through and came out my rescue; AAA came and pulled that sucker out in no time! YEAH FOR AAA! At this point I was very relived and thought this had to be the end of my terrible weekend, Friday could only get better, but I was wrong of course.

So on to happy Friday, which was not too happy. See I let my teacher barrow my digital camera for some class pictures she was taking on a field trip, and when she came back she caught me in passing and gave me my camera back. Well I was off to lunch so I didn’t have a chance to put it away…well that was the last time I thought I would ever see it. See later that day I went to get my camera out of my bag to take pictures of some stuff for work and it wasn’t there! I frantically ran all over school to see where I left it, but the only place I had been was in the bathroom, which it wasn’t there and then my friend Brandon’s car for lunch. I called him and he said it wasn’t’ in there. I had counted it lost at this point and tried to move on to the weekend….Well Saturday came and it was a great day really with just one little mishap, as I was leaving Starbucks I couldn’t find my keys I figured I just locked them in my car, well as I walked out and looked at my car I noticed that my keys were sitting in the whole in the drivers side door! I was like my luck, but hey my car was till there. You know I would love to have captured people faces as they walked by and saw the keys! That is probably better then an alarm because a robber would look at that and think it was a trap…lol…

I can not tell you enough how happy I was to start a new week, Sunday went very well. I babysat for my boss on Sunday night, he ahs 9 children so it was quite an adventure. Seven girls and two boys, but it was easier then watching just two kids. They all helped out with everything! I am going to have to have their mother mentor me when I have kids because she runs a very tight ship!

Now it is Happy Monday, not only is it Monday, but my friend Brandon called me this morning and let me know that he found my camera hidden under some stuff in his car!!! I was very stoked…so now I am on to the rest of the week which is a very short one because I am headed home on Wednesday for the Thanksgiving Holiday!

Tuesdays are good for one thing... Peppermint Mocha!

Is it to early for Christmas?

I was at Starbucks this morning, go figure, and I overheard a couple talking about how Christmas has come out to early this year; “let’s have Thanksgiving first" they said. If you have stepped one foot into Starbucks lately you know what they mean. The whole place is decorated for Christmas and they even have Christmas music playing throughout the cafe.

Well personally I love it, I do not think it is too early for Christmas! But hey I am one of those big goofs who is playing Christmas music in my office already and getting peppermint mocha almost every morning...Hey why not? This time of year comes only once a year and why not celebrate it for two months instead of one? Plus it is all about the "Spirit of Christmas" anyways. A state of mind really, we should be merry, and spreading joy all year round, celebrating Christ's birth, but I know that through the hustle and bustle of the season that tends to get left off our Christmas priority list.

So I leave you with this challenge, it's for myself as well...Make today a Merry day, A time of Peace, and Spreading Joy, not because of what you have or what is to come , but because Christ was born and from this supernatural event we have eternal life!

What is LOVE?

Love don't make no sence...

Well it's been an interesting week....Lets see Monday was nice beginning to the week. I had a soccer game and once again we slaughtered them..lol...it was a fun game. By Tuesday I was wishing it was Friday and by Wednesday let’s just say I turned on cruise control and now I am coasting into the weekend! Last night I went to an amazing concert, featuring the David Crowder Band, Earth Suit, and Shawn Mc Donald, all very good!
It's Friday! Oh and Happy Friday it is!

Well nothing to interesting in Bobbi’s world, except for this book I am reading, " By the River Piedra, I Sat and Down and Wept" by Paulo Coelho. I got it on Tuesday, my friend Kurt made me promise I to pick it up, and I finished it today I could have read it in a day if I had the time. From the moment I opened, my eyes ran across the pages as if I was inside the book myself. I have never read a love story before quite like this or anything of the sort really. It is a story about a woman who is struggling with really letting go and let her heart take control and stop trying to control everything! It takes place in France, (where we all know love always does)...The Author does an amazing job at illustrating and explaining in detail what true love entails. It's a book about faith as well, about how where truth resides there is faith..

What’s funny about this book is how it is so me! I have to be honest I started reading it very pessimistically; I mean I just thought love stories are so fake and unrealistic. But then as I continued to read I started to laugh and cry at the same time and became overwhelmed with passion....you see this woman is me in a nut shell. I was relating so much to her that it scared me, but at the same time open my mind to some interesting prospective on life.

I don't want to ruin it for anyone out there who hasn't read it yet, which I highly recommend you read it, but I will say one thing, "To love is to lose control"

An excerpt:

"YOU HAVE TO take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun-and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that t doesn’t exist- that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives they will discover that magic moment..."

French toast with peanut butter

I had a pretty great week nothing new really just school, work, and soccer. Can you believe that I am actually not at borders today doing homework, well not yet at least. I have so much to do today and all I want to do is just veg and watch friends season seven. I made some yummy French toast this morning with peanut butter....yum, yum. Oh ya we won our soccer game on Thursday, we creamed them 6-0. It was a pretty boring game for me the ball never really came back to the defense much.

Yesterday I went around looking for cars, oh let me just tell you that being a grown up can be tough sometimes. Oh and the face that I am a young female, car salesmen think they can take advantage o me. They think I am going to be nieve and make a quick decision, but I prove them wrong, and myself. See I am the type of person to get an idea in my head and I won't be able to stop until it's completed. I went in at 11am and didn't leave until 4;30pm! I think I drove every type of car on the lot. They gave me the break down of what my payments were going to be, and I decided I could hold off for a little longer. I can't believe I just walked away! It's so not me, but I don't want to be attached to a huge car payment, I want to save and buy a car cash. Or at least have a big down payment so I can have a smaller car payment. Well the most interesting part about the car search was the car dealer. He was nice and all and I know that they are supposed to be nice and friendly but he was a little too friendly, if you get the drift. And at the end of the day he asked me out, WHAT! I was so weirder out, I just said are you serious, I pulled out the "I am not dating right now card". Which is not true I just didn't want t date HIM! I mean I don't have a problem with age but he was 34! My dads only 40! Ya....so ya...that was that..

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