It's About the Journey

Thursday, June 7, 2012

That one time an old lady was in my room

Yes, and I’m not talking someone who I knew.

I got to thinking about this the other day for some reason and thought it was a great story to tell. I was probably a Junior in high school when this happened…

I was sleeping,

it was the middle of the night

and I started to wake up as I felt someone was in my room.

As I slowly started to wake up more I realized there really was someone in my room and they were hunched over holding a bag.

I thought it was my boyfriend or a family member so I clicked the light on to see what was up…

UM NO it was some random old lady in her house coat standing in my room.

My door was shut,

she was bleeding in some spots,

and was all wet.

I freaked out to say the least. I went to get my Mom up to handle this weird situation.

My Mom was totally confused and I just told her to come on and she would understand….

We brought the lady into the kitchen and my Mom and Mike started talking to her to get some information.

She was telling this story about how their truck broke down up the road and they had a horse trailer on and all this stuff.

In the meantime the neighbors called the house looking for their mother who was visiting and has some dementia.

Yeah she’s here we found her IN MY BEDROOM!

It was so crazy.

The story she was telling was actually a true story but it had happened YEARS before.

She had gotten out of bed and wondered out of the house in the middle of the night while everyone slept and found her way through the pasture to our house.

The reason she was all wet was from all the dew on the grass and she had cuts on her from the barbed wire fence.

It was sad because she was really confused and you could see that she really had no idea what was going on. Also it was pretty crazy!

I will never forget that crazy night.

Monday, June 4, 2012

Monday...Poo

It's currently 8:00

I have to leave the house in 15 minutes

I am still in my Pjs, drinking coffee, watching Fox News

Trying to do anything and everything to roll back the clock so I can continue to do homework and check blogs

It's not working

POO!

Not really but thought it was cute :)

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Today Amber and I took a mini road trip to Jefferson. Jefferson is a neat little town to spend the afternoon wondering antique shops and having a tasty lunch and we did just that. We caught up, which afterwards I told her there was way to much to tell which is a pretty good sign that we should do this more often. :)

Amber & I

This is probably the only thing I found that I REALLY wanted. It's like a big metal globe...LOVE IT!

Lunch at Auntie Skinner's

To end our day we got a couple root beer floats at the General Store. MMMMM

I had a great weekend catching up with my family and enjoying two separate little girl trip get-a-ways.

Happy Sunday...I hope this week flies by. School starts tomorrow so I'm sure I'll be a busy bee with homework.

Canton

My Mom and I went to Canton on Saturday and it was packed and by the time we left it was HOT! We had a really good time browsing and catching up. I only got two things but they were two things that I wanted to get and the total of my two things was a whopping $6.50.

My Mom and a terrible shot of me starting the day

Part of the food vendors

Check out my super cute bracelet my mom got me, herself, and Lara. It's friendship style even though you can't really see that part.

check out those mannequin legs....I was itching to get them and make a Christmas Story style lamp for Lincoln...but they wanted 40 bucks for some legs..uummm don't think so

This is the junk site that I found my 50 cent candle stick holder

I don't think we will be going back again until it cools off.

Friday, June 1, 2012

Weekend Plans

1 Year

Today marks one year of Lincoln and I “officially” dating. It went like this….queue the time machine music…..We first met at Rachael’s wedding festivities (2010). I went back to Iraq and all that and then late March of 2011 rolled around and I’m home from Iraq for good and enjoying life. Hendrik and I went out for a quick bite at Daisy’s (the taco shack) before we headed to cut a rug at The Mule in Commerce. While there I ran into Lincoln and we just started texting that night. We continued to text and even hung out a few times until we got a feel for each other. Pretty soon we were hanging out 3-4 nights a week and I really liked him. It wasn’t complicated or forced; we just fell into a relationship that was great for the both of us. Memorial Day weekend of 2011 we hung out with our best friends Casey and Kaylynn at the lake. All weekend all our friends were asking us if we were together or what the deal was. I just threw all those questions in his direction. LOL June 1^st Lincoln asked me “so are we together or what? I’m sick of everyone asking us” LOL I said well that is fine with me if that’s what you want. So it was done!

Now a year later we are cohabiting nicely and enjoying each other’s company immensely. We are so different and being with Lincoln has helped me learn to be better at relationships and I have also learned to be patient. I love Lincoln and how our lives have become one that we share together. We get along great and in my eyes he brings out the best in me and even though he will NEVER admit it I know that our relationship has taught him a lot and I KNOW that I bring out the best of him. LOL I know that we have many more happy years of dating and maybe of even more than that ahead of us and I can’t wait to see what’s in store.

Yesterday afternoon I got a text from Lincoln and he wanted to know if I wanted to just eat out last night. I thought it sounded like a great idea because I really didn't feel like cooking. Nothing around Winnsboro sounded good so we headed to old faithful...the TACO SHACK. We were enjoying our yummy food and my brother happened to show up too. It was total coincidence and instead of getting his planned to-go meal Colby joined us and even snapped some pics of me and Linc afterwards.

the taco shack

where it all began

I had a great weekend in Dallas planned with some fun stuff to do that we both enjoy but Lincoln got slotted for overtime work so instead we will just be doing our celebrating at home which is just fine and we can do a trip later on down the road. I didn’t go all out on big gifts like I usually do, mainly because I don’t have the funds, but I did get Lincoln a really cute gag gift. He is always surfing Craigslist for his wish list items like boats, campers, tractors, and all sorts of other man things so since I can’t get him a real boat I got him a toy boat that he can even put together. LOL I thought it was cute so I went with it.

Lincoln is the best at guessing gifts and when he picked up the little wrapped box and shook it he was like oooh this sounds like a Lego boat!!! He had no clue that's what was really inside but what 24 year old would just say that...WEIRD

I love giving cards. I usually give Lincoln a really sweet one that has all my loving words inside and then a funny/cute one that is themed with his gift. Yesterday when I got his stuff I couldn’t decide just on a cute and then a sweet one so I ended up with 3.

I was totally surprised when I got home today because I had these beauties waiting for me and even had a handwritten note.

I shed a few tears because I really didn't expect anything and Lincoln's gestures like this are always unexpected and because of this he is always keeping me on my toes.

Happy 1 year together Babe! I love you!

Late Night Pinning

Lately Lincoln has been busting his butt at work and I’m not just talking working his regular shift and coming home. He has been working weekends that he’s off for overtime and really working hard while he’s there so I have had a lot of alone time. When we both get home from work, eat dinner ,and visit a bit and by like 8:30 his eyes are getting very very heavy and by 9 he’s in bed. Since I don’t do jack but sit on my rear all day I am not tired at 9 so I’ve been staying up and doing a bit of pinning. I’m usually not the biggest Pintrest user but as of late I have found some pretty good things. Here’s a few of the cool things I've found....