Or, what the heck is going on inside of her head?

No, no worries, it is absolutely fine.    I just have alllll of these ideas running around in my head and feel as though I need to catch them and write them down. 

I have a lot of blog ideas.  I always have ideas about doing a post a week that showcases a date with my city, Columbus.  I have ideas about what my blogging schedule should be.  I think about having a theme for each day – like Sunday Link Love, Food for Thought Friday, blah blah blah. 

And there is a ton of behind-the-scenes work that still needs to be done from when I transferred to my own domain.

Then there’s trying to figure out the best fitness options for my schedule, such as it is right now.  There’s trying to figure out the perfect food combinations. 

So what decisions did I make? 

Well, I know that beyond anything else, I should do what makes me happy, because I don’t want to ever feel pressured to blog or to workout or anything like that.  That takes the joy out of it.

And…

1.  I will only blog on Glow if I have more than just a food diary to post.  I don’t want to say, hey, I did nothing today but here’s what I ate.  I want to have something substantive to say as well.  And really, that’s something everyone should stick to – don’t feel as though you have to blog every single day to please ANYONE.  It’s really about putting your best content out there, not just filling up space.

2.  My weekends are usually pretty tame, as while I consider myself to be a homebody, I consider Bob to be a shut-in on the weekends. LOL.  And since I love spending time with my snugglebunny, I choose to stay home with him most of the time.  I might get out during the day for lunch with the girls or such, but most of the time, I’m home with him.  So there’s not a lot to blog about and I probably won’t blog much on the weekends.

3.  I may have some of the theme days like I mentioned above.  We’ll see. 

Okay my pretties. I’m off to do a post on Glow, because I did workout today!!  Woot woot!!

Catch you on the flip side!

Glinda (my car) and I had a little fender bender today.  I hadn’t planned on going anywhere today, but Bob worked a ton of overtime this week and worked yesterday (he is normally off on Fridays), and so he asked me to run to the store for him.

I was on my way back and traffic was horrible as usual.  I pulled into the turn lane and continued toward my destination turn.  A black car pulled out in front of me and in the split second, I tried to speed up so that they would miss me.  However, they caught my rear passenger side. 

I’ll admit it – I was FURIOUS, because it wasn’t as though I had stopped suddenly and someone couldn’t miss me.  No, this was about them not even bothering to LOOK. 

So we pulled over into a nearby parking lot.  The other driver was a boy, probably about 18-20, and his mother was with him.

He asked me, did we hit?  Ummm, yeah, you hit me.  His mother came flying around and told me that *I* had been driving in the turn lane, which was “illegal” and that I was at fault. 

Ummmm, no.  So sorry. 

There was very little damage to Glinda, thankfully.  A few scratches that Bob will buff out.  There was way more damage to his car – a lot of scratches and such on his driver side front end. 

The mother said, I’m calling the cops!!  I said, fine – which is what you’re supposed to do anyway, as you have to file a report.  So she called and the officer arrived about 15 minutes later. 

In the meantime, she and her son were incredibly cocky about how it wasn’t their fault.  I called Bob and asked him to come and get the groceries.  While we were waiting, I simply stood next to my car and didn’t say anything, even though there were a few things I wanted to say about their attitudes. 

The officer arrived and he asked for our information.  Then he took me aside and asked what had happened.  I explained my side.  Then he took the other two aside and asked them. 

I KNEW I had won when they both started arguing with him.  Which, btw, don’t argue with police offers, yo.  If you don’t agree, fine, take it to traffic court.  But don’t argue right there, as it won’t endear you to him and he is the one making the decision.

Anyway, he had us both waiting in our cars while he wrote up the report.  BIG change in attitude from the pair of them – they refused to look at me and there was a lot of sulking.

I started my car to get some a/c going – the main reason I wasn’t planning on leaving the house today was because of the heat.  It was hot and humid.  Even right now at night it’s still 87% humidity.  The other driver went to start his car as well, but it wouldn’t start. 

Now, I am a nice person.  Even if I am not happy with something you’ve done, I wouldn’t just leave you stranded.  But they didn’t ask me for help.  Instead, the mother went into the restaurant nearby and had a waitress give them a jump.  I’m guessing they were feeling foolish over how they had acted.  Had they asked for a jump, I would have helped.  But as they took care of it on their own, I didn’t offer.

The mother went back over to the officer and tried to argue with him again.  I’m sure she was saying some things about me.  Too bad for her, he came over and told me that I was free to go, but not before I saw a ticket written out to the other driver.

Of course, being human, I wanted to say something when I left – maybe about how they weren’t so high and mighty now – but I didn’t.  I left and went on my way. 

No, I don’t need that kind of excitement in my life.  I am glad that no one was hurt.  I am glad that Glinda is okay, although I do have to wonder why her original owners had her for 7 years and didn’t have an accident.  I have had her for 3 and hit a deer and now this.  Oh well.  In the end, those are small things. 

Hope your Saturday was less eventful!

Darlings, I am so sorry that I am so far behind on my Reader, comments and emails.  I promise to catch up soon.  

Also – I respond to the comments via email AND back to Intense Debate, but for some reason, they are not showing up on my site.  So if you’re new here, I DO respond to comments.  I promise!  I just know that I don’t always make it back to a blog to read responses to my comments, so I figure an email is a better way to communicate.  They are supposed to show up on the site as well, but for some reason are not.

I may play around with another plug-in, to see if it works or not. 

I think that this challenge really helped me to verbalize many things that I hadn’t before, including how happy I am with my life right at the moment.  Is it how I expected it to be?  Not even close!  But I am very happy with what I have right now. 

And I enjoyed getting to hear from you, whether it was from comments on here or you took on the challenge on your own blog. 

I hope that you enjoyed this meme with me. 

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I think it’s pretty obvious that at this point, I live to maintain the happiness I have found (and all who are involved in it) and to hopefully help others create their own version of it.

What do you live for?

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That’s pretty easy – Wanting what you have.    

I am pretty much ridiculously happy in life right now.  That doesn’t mean that I don’t have worries or concerns – I’m human after all.

But I am lucky enough to be in a place right now where I have slowed down and am trying to grab a hold of each moment.  I’m not saying that I make every moment count.  But I am more “in the moment” than I ever have been before.

I love Bob so much.  And when he holds me, all is right in the world.  It’s like this protective barrier comes up and nothing can touch us.  I know that those moments are to be treasured.

I love my friends.  I enjoy every minute that we spend together. 

I love my bloggy friends, the people who comment here and with whom I interact.

I am at peace with my family.  I know that we are all different people and we don’t have to be close.

I want for nothing, even without a job, except things that I don’t need. 

I am truly blessed.

For me, the meaning of life resides in time.  It is the one thing that you can never get back.  It never stops.  

To give someone your time is the greatest gift you can possibly give.  And they will remember this beyond any other gift you give them, in the end.

No one ever looks back and says, gosh, that Louis Vuitton purse was the best gift I ever received.

I love stuff, don’t get me wrong.  I love to shop.  I love to buy things.  I like to have nice things.  But I don’t become attached to them.  I can easily let them go. 

I guess the meaning of life for me is about making moments count.   And that can mean everything from filling your time up with wonderful adventures to stopping and smelling the roses lilacs. 

What is your definition of the meaning of life?

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Geez, deep question.  Or, insightful, even.  Ba dum dum.

There are many definitions of love out there, of course. 

I think, for me, love is about kindness.   You want the best for those whom you love.  You don’t wish bad things on them, you aren’t jealous of their accomplishments, you want them to be happy – with or without you.

It is also about honesty, because you should not fake love.   We all have days where we love our families and friends, but we may not like them that much.  But the love is still there.  If you don’t feel that, let them go.  They deserve better and so do you.

It is about compromise, especially on the superficial things.  Bob and I compromise on many things, and we agree to disagree.

However, our core values are the same, and that is very important. 

It’s about joy.  It doesn’t matter where I’ve been or how long I’ve been gone, I still look forward to seeing Bob every time I come home. 

That is love, at least to me.  How about you?

1.  Stand up comedian

2.  Continue the singing career I started

3.  Finish law school

4.  Many of the things on my bucket list

5.  Write a book.  No clue about what.

How about you?

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Funnily enough, it was my energy that people always remembered me for.  I remember adults saying over and over how they wished they had my energy.  I need to get that back!!

And, though I didn’t know this until I was much older, apparently I was thought of as a beautiful child.  

Also, I was always singing.  And I would take paper bags, turn them upside down and paint faces on them.  They were my “choir” and I would direct them.  I used to have a picture of it, but I can’t find it.  I was no more than 5 years old. 

How about you?  What are some notable things you did as a child?