Good grief, I feel like I have been hit by a truck. . .

Oh, wait I was hit by a truck. A Chevy 4x4 to be exact. He pulled out in front of me on my way to work. Sun was in my eyes, but conveneintly reflected off of the bumper of the truck because it was in the middle of the intersection. Seeing as I had no stop sign and was on a high way, and he was at a stop sign, not on the highway, it was a tad confusing. I swerved, and all the way down my passenger side there is a huge scrape. My doors are punch and puzzled. They look like a puzzle where the pieces need to be pushed down into the puzzled to make it whole. My mirror is not happy at all. It could have been much worse. Thank you Dad for giving me the teachings of defensive driving. I swerved, I scraped, I cried, but I am alive! If I hadn't, I would be dead! He was really nice (the guy that hit me). My pride & vanity are all that are injured. I am grateful. The insurance guys have been really nice. Thank you God for good people.

Thanks Giving

Harry Potter was great, both times. I didn't find it nearly as magical, but I think that was due to the lack of Williams in the music. It was more action/adventure. Saw it twice. Once in West Va with my boyfriend, John, while we were visiting his Mama in Bramwell, WVA, home to the millionaires. Bramwell used to have more millionaires per capita than any other city in the US in 1915! Coal, steel that kinda thing. It was nice to see Mrs. Kahle again. She likes having people come and stay too which makes for good hospitality. From there there was work and then to my family's home in PTC for Thanksgiving turkey. It was John's first overnight stay with the fam so everyone was freaked out, but I felt like it went well. I stayed extra only to discover Firefly, thanks to my brother and his rocket scientist friend who has alligators as next door neighbors! It was a good stay. I came home on Saturday to an exhaustion I wasn't expecting. Sunday was a day of chores and movies. I am still behind, but I am taking tonight off too in order to catch up with things. I think I summed up two weeks in one paragraph. Pretty good if I do say so myself!

I am slammed with work. Slammed. Can't believe it. Am taking it home am so slammed. Today was a Monday and dreary at that. Maybe it will get better tomorrow. It has to it is Tuesday. My New Year's event is all lined up and ready to go though! Hurray. Now if I can just get through Friday's Christmas event I will be good. Whew. This is a lot.

MOVIE WEEKEND!!! Woohoo!! Walk the line...Harry Potter...hmmm.....hurray for good movies! I have Road to Perdition at home which my brother swears by however I have yet to not fall asleep through, however I am giving it one last ditch effort just for Crater's sake. Movies, movies, movies....Yeah, I am going to West Virginia about noonish today so my movies will be limited and I will be in the sixth Harry Potter book in 15 degree weather!

Great Article:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/11/17/eye.ent.potter/

I feel your pain my friend, I feel your pain. . . .

Well I am not so worn out today. I stayed in last night and well. . .I sort of stayed in. I went to the new McDonald's in Clarkesville that had a private party and are opening on Friday or something. They had folks wandering around saying, "Would you like a fry?" or "Perhaps you would care for a chicken mcnugget?" It makes me laugh even now. Don't get me wrong, the place was beautiful and doesn't look like any Mickey D's I grew up with, but it was just wierd having apple pies in their boxes offered as a dessert taster. Funny. All the folks that were there were high society on our local level. I felt very priveldged to be there. THEN I went home and stayed home. I felt all priveledged and fancy and one of the crowd to come home and be me: Ramen Noodles and watching Willow from the Netflix. Funny thing about Willow, I never realized how old or how bad it was. It still worked, but the best actors were Willow, Val Kilmer and the baby. The baby was probably better than Val. I think that if the plot were a little more developed it would have worked. Maybe if they had done it in a trilogy like they did Star Wars. All of the producers and directors and such were all really big A list folk, but everyone gets a bad apple once in a while and this movie was bad. I still liked it though. I think I like it because it has a good ending, a quest of the main character, a little love, the great fight of good and evil, Val with his shirt off and it was a movie I watched growing up. It was still bad though. Now that I watch Star Wars, I realize how bad the acting was in it too, but I still like it too. I think sometimes you just gotta have a soft spot for bad flicks. Got through a good deal of Potter last night. It is long! Read more in Mark. I find it humorous when Christ gets mad. He starts to get mad initially when he randomly picks a fruit tree, fig tree and wants something to eat, realizes there is not any figs on it and zaps it permanently for being empty. That would be the equivalent of me going into Chick-fil-A and saying "What no chicken? ARG!!! You will never have chicken again!!! ARG!!" Then He goes to the temple and pitches a fit when all He really needs is a chicken sandwich. Guess He has a human side after all. At least He fit a lesson into the fit pitching process, that is better than I would do.

Worn out is an understatement. At the same time, because I am disciplining myself, I seem to have lots of time. I am able to keep my house clean, spend time with Rachel and spend time with friends. I am in the middle of Harry Potter 6 and am loving every second of it. DO NOT tell me what happens. It is better written than the other books. She keeps moving forward, which I keep expecting a lag time, but I think now that all the exposition is out, she is able to do that. I have been falling asleep to it (because I am so tired!) I have been watching West Wing incessantly because I want to get the fourth season. Yes, I have three seasons and am more willing to buy the fourth than pay my bills. Call me addicted if you like, I don't mind. It is tiring to keep up with WW. I am also looking forward to my Women's Bible Study on Thursday. It is helping me to balance out in the God department. Megan is still mad at me, but whatever. She will get over it or go away. I think she is getting over it though. Iris has been sick which is not so good, but little kids get sick. I get stressed without my best friend. My friend Mike is in the hospital for kidney cancer. They are going to take a kidney and the tube, but right now they are fighting infection off and he seems like he is in a lot of pain. He is my friend who had a double stroke about a year or so ago. He was just getting back to normal. I am praying for him and visiting him. That is emotionally tiring. My new job is way crazy and exciting. There is nothing about it that bores me and there are lots of things that I get to do. It makes me tired performing on this level, but I get my first real job paycheck on Friday. WHOA. I am ready. In the meanwhile I am going to be trained tomorrow. I am tired too. I mean, I am tired. I ran two miles yesterday at the gym. The stupid machine said I didn't burn any calories, but I don't believe it becuase I can feel a nice stretched pain in my legs that is dull but not painful. Will probably wait until Wednesday to do that again. Did I mention that I am tired?

I'm on the last train to Clarkesville and I'll see you at the station. . . .


Did anyone see the train, somehow I got off in Cornelia and I can't seem to figure out how to get home! I started my new job, can ya tell?

I am into Mark/Peter. Yeah, he's weird, why? Phrases like: where the worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. . .if your eye causes you pain cut it out and throw it away. Yeah, I have never understood this passage. The only way I know how to relate is to just ask God to take away my character defects when they cause me pain. My newest defect is oblivion. While in a lot of ways this can be an asset because I stay in my own little world and not bother any one, the flip side is that I forget people. This week, I forgot Megan. I don't know how I forgot Megan, but I did. I have been in my own little world trying desperately to do what God would have me do and I stepped right in my own way. Specifically, I stepped on Megan by forgetting her. I forgot Iris's birthday party. I had another function at the same time and thought that the birthday party would be over when I was done with what I was doing and didn't stop to call, write or send smoke signals. I just forgot. Selfishness and self centeredness is the root of all my troubles. I tried to apologize because that is the right thing to do. Michelle says now I have to let God do his thing and heal her heart. I went to my first ever Bible study this morning and the theme was the power of God. People talked about all the great miracles that God performed in the old testament and of course the Miracle of the new testament and my insides still want to worry. I want to rub solvent on her wound and make her my Megan again and I just can't. God has to do that. God is the solvent. Christ is my solvent, but God is the solvent. I can't believe I got that out of my reading from Peter. . . Mark, last night. Last night when I was thinking about what the passage meant all I could think was I don't get it. Have salt in yourselves and be at peace with one another. Let go and let God huh? Okay, that I get.