shout out to all readers of this blog!

I have become aware that not everyone I've invited to read this blog has been able to! I want to get whatever bugs worked out as soon as possible, so please help me out! If you have been reading my blog without any issues, please say so with a comment. If you are having trouble, tell me what it is. Thanks so much! You don't have to ever comment again if you don't want to, but please leave a comment (just a smiley face will do!) and put your name with it, so I know that things are OK for you! :)

word of the day

flexuous \FLEK-shoo-uhs\ , adjective:
Full of bends or curves; sinuous.

This word resonates with me! Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm still in school, and am required to write three sentences correctly using the word of the day. :) Silly, I know! But anyway....

1. Life is a flexuous journey that all must embark upon.
2. The contortions of certain yoga positions require one to be extremely flexuous!
3. Retrieving items buried in our closet can be a flexuous activity! (Dig, bend, and reach!)

a touch from God

"If you want a touch from God, you need to be within whispering distance, not shouting distance."

This thought was left at church last night, and it really impressed me. So many times, we are completely wrapped up in life, and miss the whispers of God. I want to always be near enough to hear the faintest whisper. Life is filled with touches of God if we just stop long enough to find them. He speaks to us in many ways....through His Word, through our friends and family, through the silver lining of the clouds, even through the simple joy of breathing fresh air.

I want, I want...

I spotted this gorgeous cake stand in the Better Homes and Gardens magazine the other day, and fell head over heals for it! It would even be lovely for living room decor with an odd item perched atop when it didn't have a towering red velvet cake sitting on it! :) If anyone feels like buying me (or themselves for that matter!) an early birthday gift, here's the link to the website where you can make the purchase. http://www.aplusrstore.com/product.php?id=902

Breaking News! Woman Discovers E-Z Contact Book!!

If you are like me, and sometimes run around like a chicken with its head cut off, you will love the "E-Z Contact Book"! In my previous life before yesterday, I could not come up with a simple way to keep the myriad addresses of friends, family, and business contacts organized! The disarray was nearing complete disaster; some addresses were on sticky notes, various others on an uncompleted google doc titled "Christmas addresses", and the business clientele list of addresses was......(it's so embarrassing, I hardly want to admit it!) still the same old piece of papyrus that Drew had given us years ago when we bought the business!! Eeeek! Most of the addresses were now obsolete and had a large X drawn over them, new ones had been scribbled in by hand all over the sheet, and one poor address even had the word "DEAD" written beside it! Time had continued on, and I needed to do the same! Finally, after much stress with Excel and Word Mail Wizard, I gave up, and in desperation googled "what is a good way to organize addresses" and found this wonderful program on www.cnet.com called E-Z Contact Book. It had rave reviews, was free, and simple to download and install, even for a computer dummy like me! I was so thrilled, that I promptly created three groups; "FLL Customers", "Friends and Fam", and "Business Contacts", and sat here typing away, feeling like a type-A, organized individual! It's an extremely user-friendly program. You can easily enter a new contact, edit an old one, move it to different list, etc. Check it out, and dare to download a new life! :)
WARNING! Organizing can be addicting! (how wonderful in my case!)

wind haiku

never-dying wind
relentless insanity
why do you blow so

thank you, Thomas Edison!

Sometimes a simple light bulb makes all the difference! We are loving the new curly-cue light bulbs that I picked up at Fred's for the master bathroom the other day. I've never been a fan of them before, always classifying them as dreadfully ugly! But I have fallen in love! These light bulbs transform our once gloomy loo to a sparkly, spa-like space! Whites things seem whiter, and glass things glisten. The downside of all this wonderful spectacular-ness is that I will need to keep things cleaner, as mirror splatters are glaringly evident! And when my reflection gazes back at me from the mirror, I see plainly blemishes that I wish were not so apparent....but, like the saying goes, "you can't have your cake, and eat it too!"