It's been too long...

I have no good excuse for being away from my blog..Besides, I think excuses are kinda lame.

I have been busy and I am almost done with my Christmas shopping ( I love the internet) I have had, yet again, some more random health issues and thus I have been a little depressed lately. I am trying to put on a happy face and rejoice in what has become my blubber belly. I never thought I could be so... so.. so... fluffy... no, that's not right... so.... bountiful. I'll go with bountiful. No matter how hard I work on it, or don't I never seem to morph back into my former self. It really is beginning to suck.

BUT, that is not why I have chosen to blog. Why I have chosen to blog is to remind all of my fantastic readers... I hope I didn't loose you all. That no matter how much we have or do not have their is always room to be the better person. To reach out and help for no reason at all. To be the person you want to see in those around you.

I was recently getting coffee before work, running late, feeling like I looked frantic and yucky... and it being Washington of course it was raining and windy... I dropped my purse in the parking lot and everything went everywhere. I had decided that I was having the worst day ever. and it had barely started.
I look up and realize an elderly man who I know from my job was dashing around (well as fast as he could) the parking lot gathering my MONEY and other purse contents. He walked up to me, having retrieved all of the belongings and said: "It sure is windy, but I think I got it all."
so sweet!
I thanked him and we both walked into the starbucks. I offered to buy his coffee and he respectfully declined. Instead he GOT MINE!!! He said "we all have what look like bad days and you have made my day so many times, I thought I should return the favor" he winked, got his coffee and was off.

I immediately decided to change my attitude and went on to have a pretty damn good day... and a good story to boot!

I know my previous statements seem really sappy and "hallmark" but they come from the heart. I may have what I think are bad days, but in the end someone out there is having a REAL bad day. I love my life and with the good comes the bad and so I have chosen to look past my chubby belly and enjoy all the great people I know and those who I hope to meet. LOVE YOU ALL!!!
PS. Valerie this is for you! If God didn't think we could handle it, then it wouldn't be happening. You are strong and you need to know that!!
PPS. here is a recent picture to prove the belly is an issue :)

Inspirational

A female humpback whale had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines.
She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat.
She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a
line tugging in her mouth.



A fisherman spotted her just east of the Faralon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed
for help.

Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only
way to save her was to dive in and untangle her -- a very dangerous proposition. One slap of
the tail could kill a rescuer.

They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her.

When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles.

She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, nudged them, and pushed gently,

thanking them.

The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the

whole time,

and he will never be the same.

May you, and all those you love, be so fortunate...

To be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you.

And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.

I pass this on to you, my friend, in the same spirit