Saturday, September 22, 2012

Gentlemen... Start Your Engines!!!

  Sorry about the link title...I'm not the most technologically savvy person. But I'm glad that didn't stop you from wanting to read about my friend Erin.  Erin, 28, Raleigh, NC!!!
Your Welcome Guys!!!!!!!
I don't really know how to describe someone you've never met so I came up with some helpful lists!
 
Things she loves!!
God, ministering to the ladies in her life, her family, friends and a good peacan pie. 
 
 
She and I have known each other for five years now.  We are very opposite people, but I appreciate her ability to be herself.  She loves planning fun things and meeting new people.  She is thoughtful, hospitable, generous,  and has always been there for me.  The thing I love the most about her is she is super loyal to the people she loves!!!  Hard to find someone like her! 
 
Now things she likes to do:  NASCAR, Duke basketball, South Carolina Football, a good bon fire, reading biographies, history buff, dancing, traveling, cooking, The Bachelorette, going to Chick-fil-a, and running!!!
She works at a bank and writes curriculum for Sunday School classes but would one day like to also minister full time to young women or be a stay at home mom!




Friday, September 21, 2012

It Just Got Good

I'm back!  Sorry it took me so long.  I've just been busy having fun!  Really I've just been busy.  Really I'm just busy. 

Aside from that... I don't even know the last time I've sat here with all my thoughts.  My mom's cancer threw me for a loop.  I think I've been running from my thoughts honestly.  But my mom is doing well.  She is a strong woman and I've should have known it would take a lot more than ovarian cancer and chemotherapy to keep her down. 

The day I heard my mom say "I have cancer", all the good in my life just seemed to fade away.  Life became heavy, lethargic, and inevitable.  Nothing mattered anymore.  At some point I knew I needed to jolt myself back to life.  I needed fun.  I needed to be able to control something.  I needed to feel out of control.  I needed to be daring, worldly, and irresponsible!  So what did I do?  I got a job!

I did get job.  I love it!  In fact, I bet you wish you had my job!  Except for whinny kids, defensive parents, crabby employees, and total panic, I have the dream job!  I am the assistant director of tracking out (a youth program) at the YMCA and even the worst day there I come home every day with the best stories.  In reality my job really is awesome!  I get to love kids, give comfort to parents, assist employees, and live in total chaos! 

It doesn't take me long to get antsy.  My friend Erin and I went to NYC to visit my other friend Alyson.  I had been there once before for New Years and I new I needed to see the city in the warm weather.  My first hour there news reports a shooting at the Empire State building (see, I love panic).  Alyson is an awesome hostess in showing us the new yorker's way of life. 
Favorite things about NYC: 1. Plenty of good looking guys, single, and I think straight.  2. All the Parks are full of life.  3. Good authentic food! 4. People will talk to the wall if it will stand long enough.  You always will meet someone interesting.  Hi Judy, hope you are doing well!  5. First time to see Broadway- Chicago!! 6. The Shake Shack.  7.  Walking makes me feel accomplished.  8. Did I mention the guys? 9. Everything is within a subway ride. 10. Diversity makes me feel cultured. 

As fun as NYC is, it is not the thrill seeking adventure I was looking for.  I mean millions of people go to NY, duh!  Anyone could do that.  So one of my best friends, Kari, decided she knew exactly what I needed... to jump out of a plane!  And she was right!  I can't say much about that experience except it reminds of Grey's Anatomy when Christina and Owen find the air vent that explodes a rush of air from the floor through their hair.  Owen says it just helps clear your mind, refreshes you.  If you are not a Grey's fan, that's fine, but imagine pure wind rushing through your body as you have 60 seconds to discover everything from hesitation to adventure to purpose to the ground.  I didn't feel unsafe as much as I felt like I was finally doing something rather than just talking about doing something.  I owe a great deal to Kari, her husband (and my friend) Tyler and his step dad Chris and mom Lisa. 
 
 
Anyways, now I'm back home, things are not chaotic, and I'm back to blogging! 
 
p.s. My brother and sister in law are having another baby.  Super exciting!  My 2 yr old niece's name is Zooey. So I'm voting for Chlooey if it is a girl and Jooey for a boy!!