2008

Normally I don't get too excited looking ahead to the new year.  I don't usually have huge events that I'm looking forward to.  This year is different.  I am totally excited about this year!  There are many very big events that will be... life changing I guess is a good way to look at it.  First and biggest is the coming of a new nephew!  I can barely begin to imagine how not just Karen & Greg's lives will be changed but mine too!  I am still having trouble wrapping my mind around the fact that I am going to be an aunt and Karen is going to be a mom....scary...I know!  ;)  Second I am hoping that this year I will be buying my very first home!  Exciting and scary but I think it will be fun and nice to finally have a place I can settle in for awhile and maybe actually unpack for a change, lol.  I have gone over my finances to make sure I'm not going to get in over my head and I should be fine but I still have to get preapproved for a loan and find a realator before I can actually start my house hunt.  I have never bought anything I couldn't pay in full for right then so I'm not looking forward to for the first time having debt but I know that is the reality of buying a home.  Last is I am hoping to be in my first horse show this year.  Not quite as monumental as the other two but still something I am very excited about!  I started jumping a couple of weeks ago and I can hardly believe how far I've come compared to college where I spent most of my time trying to overcome my fears after constantly being bucked off.  I'm not even doing this show in hopes of winning I just want to do it because I think it will be fun and it's something to work towards (not that I'm not going to try for the blue).  Here's to a great year!!!  Hope everyone else has an awesome year too!!!! 

New Years Eve

So does everyone have plans for new years eve?  I am thinking about staying home again this year but this time I'd like to have something to do.  So if anyone is free lets come up with something fun to do!

unusual church service

So I had something extremely unusual happen to me at church yesterday.  I went to Seven Hills Church formally Fellowship of Believers.  I haven't been there in a few months so I thought I'd go and see what was going on there.  Well as the pastor started his sermon the guy sitting next to me leans over and says 'if your single will you give me a call' and hands me his number!  In the middle of chuch!  That is something you do at a bar not church or at least not during a service!  I was so shocked I couldn't thinking of anything to say.  First of all I'm not the kind of person to go out with a random person I don't even know, second I'm not the kind of person to even CALL a random person to go out, third I felt that his timing was a bit rude and thoughtless and fourth I want to say he was around 40 or 45, a little too old for me!  What got me is the reaction I've been getting from people.  The first people I told this story to was my parents and they got mad at me because I said I wasn't going to call him.  They said they'd have Diane or Karen call him (thankfully Diane and Karen are with me and think the guy sounds a bit.....well I can't think of a nice word to use so put what you want there).  They finally backed off when I told them how old I thought he looked.  My 2 friends at work were about impossible too!  I thought people would know me better than that!

work, home & play

Yummm!!!  My work brought in Thanksgiving dinner for us for lunch today.  Turkey, potatoes/gravy, greenbeans and an assortment of desserts....I love it!  Of course it doesn't come close to our real Thanksgiving dinner.  Nothing can compare to my mashed potatoes (or my dads) and a turkey right out of the oven but it's still pretty darn good! 

On the other hand, is anyone else in shock still that it's November and only a week til Thanksgiving???  This year has seriously just disappeared!  A lot of stuff has happened this year and for as quickly as it has gone by it also feels like several years worth of events have happened in this one year.  For example, in less than 6 months I am going to be an aunt for the very first time!!!!  I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around that, it just seems so surreal.  I have a feeling next year will end up going as quickly as this one has.  Because not only will I be welcoming a neice or nephew (I'm voting for neice!!!) I might also in less than a year be buying my own home!  It's all very exciting but kind of scary too!

For the first time in my life I am taking "real" riding lessons.  I've had riding lessons growing up but they've been sporadic and inconsistent, which usually was a week once every few years at a Girl Scout camp.  I had riding lessons in college as part of my degree but we didn't get to really grasp what was being taught before moving on to something new.  Also my instructor....well lets just say left a lot to be desired.  I almost gave up forever the one thing I love doing more than anything else in the world because of her.  So Marit, the lady who used to be the stable director at Potters has been giving me lessons.  Unfortunately it's expensive so once I get back into riding and get my muscles built up I'm going to have to go down to fewer lessons.  But I'm hoping to be ready in spring to be in a horse show.  I've never been in a real one and I always thought that would be fun to do.  We'll see what happens by then.  I'll let you know so if you want you guys can come cheer me on

what to do?