What a glorious day!

Today was such a wonderful day!  That's me kneeling during the confirmation at St. Peter's Episcopal church today.  I was confirmed and I am so happy!  I am at home at St. Peters, they are my church family, spiritual family and mean more to me than I can say.  Being away from my friends and family in South Carolina, my friends at St. Peter's have filled that gap and I'm so proud and honored to say I'm officially a confirmed St. Peter's parishoner!  The service today was so special and there were quite a few people who were confirmed, received and even one baptism.  The church was packed and it was a beautiful thing to see.  My wonderful husband, Sam, gave me my own personal copy of the Book of Common Prayer that I will cherish forever.  Bishop Smith blessed it and signed it for me and I look forward to using it time and time again.

At the end of a somewhat difficult week, today was a breath of fresh air for me and I feel cleansed somehow.  The day to day business of living has a way of dragging me down some days and I feel bogged in all the "stuff" we have to do.  Sometimes I wish there was a pause button so I could just sit and do nothing, relax and rejuvinate from everything that pushes at us in life.  Life is hard and life is stressful but the days we have when we have moments of joy are so worth all the other difficult days.  Joyful days make us stop and take note of who and what is important to us and that was what today was for me.

I am blessed!

Man builds no structure that outlives a book...Carl Elliott

I love to read.  With that said, why can't I get through the book Wicked?  This book hasn't had a character in it I've even liked so far, well maybe except Nanny.  I loved The Wizard of Oz and loved the play Wicked but the book is giving me a headache...so drawn out and relatively boring in spots.  I will perservere and finish it though, not a quitter when it comes to a book.  Also just finished Eat, Pray, Love...wasn't crazy about that one either though it's gotten so many reviews and kudos everywhere.  Haven't seen the movie yet but I've never seen a Julia Roberts movie I didn't like, so hopefully if I ever get around to it I'll enjoy that one.

It's a difficult week and I think my state of mind is not the best...training on a new system, leaving in a few minutes for St Pete to train more and then back home to finish tonight...will be a long, mind numbing day.  But I like days that break my normal routine so there is that.  I don't know where this job is taking me, couple of different directions to go in at the moment, so we'll see.  I'm so thankful to have a job and possibly options!  In this economy that's so invaluable.

My mother-in-law is staying with us for a week or so...now that's another blog all in itself! haha  She is a sweetheart of a lady but can sure be a challenge in ways I won't even go into in this blog.

Seize the day people..have a great one..and hopefully I will too!

November already?!

Wow, what a whirlwhind the last two weeks have been, hardly time to take a breath much less write anything about what's going on.  Where to start...well, we had a fantastic halloween party!  About 35 people attended and it was just so much fun..here's a photobucket link to the decor and party pix.

http://s903.photobucket.com/albums/ac234/aunteah/Halloween%20decorations%202010/2010%20Ruis%20Halloween%20decorations/

http://s903.photobucket.com/albums/ac234/aunteah/2010%20Halloween%20party/

The costumes were terrific, some outrageous, and one in particular was very controversial but unintentionally so.  I caught quite a bit of flack about it...the rapper in black face.  It never occurred to me, though I wish it had, that this was inappropriate and racially derogatory.   I know the person who dressed in the costume is not a person who is at all racist and I'm 100% sure she didn't mean any harm, nevertheless, it struck a nerve and I sure heard about it.  I hope next year we won't have anything like this happen, but again it was unintentional I'm sure.  We had tons of food and of course there were prizes for the costumes.  We played one game that included a toilet paper plunger and toilet paper and that got lots of a laughs but I'll keep you guessing on that one! lol

The next day I was beat.  It sucks getting old, I don't like the achiness and tiredness that sets in after a busy day or evening.  It just doesn't seem fair that just when life gets to be the most enjoyable, that physically it sometimes is difficult.  But we have to just suck it up and deal with it!

Yesterday and today I've been at St. Joe's in Tampa in training for a new system to work on pathology transcription.  It will be nice to have another option and security in knowing I have another avenue in this field, but it's amazing what I've forgotten and what's changed since I worked with pathology almost 20 years ago!  It's been interesting though and I think I'll enjoy the option of doing something different every now and then.

Sam is on four 10 hour shifts the next four days so we won't have much time together.  I'll finally be able to box up all the halloween though while he's at work and get it put away in anticipation for bringing out the Christmas trimmings.  I love decorating but it sure is a chore, but gladly worth it.

I am so thankful my family is going to be here for Christmas.  My parents, both sisters and their families and Santa is coming to aunt Leah's and uncle Sam's this year so I'm excited about that.

I'm really drained mentally so I'm done for the day.  Nite all and sweet dreams ☺