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Megan

A Doorknob....As in Dead As.....

Well my iphone committed suicide on Saturday. I was using a gas station restroom and has so carefully placed my phone on the toilet paper holder whilest I tinkled. (yes I said tinkle) Everything was smooth sailing, until I received a text message. Being that my phone was still on vibrate from earlier in the day, it vibrated incestently. It was the violent vibrations that caused my phone to take a flying leap off the toilet paper holder and onto that ever so lovely public restroom tiled floor. I didn't really think much of it at the time, except that now my phone was covered in public restroom floor germs and that I really really needed to get to my car and get some germex on it. I quickly ran out of the gas station, jumped in my car, pulled out my wonderous germex, and quickly spread as much as I could on my hands, washed them and then my phone. (ps I know you aren't supposed to get iphones wet, this would be the reason I did all this with a cover on it and I only put the germex on the back....the place that touched the floor) I just assumed that everything was fine....until I went to respond to the text that had caused my phone to take the flying adventure and realized that the "n" key didn't work. Neither did the "u" key. I thought..."Ok well I will just turn it off and back on and see if that makes it work." So I did just that. Nothing.....My phone was actually ok....for the most part, until later that evening. While I was babysitting I realized that part of my screen was frozen. Then, once I got home, I couldn't type anything into a text. So I hooked it up to my computer to restore the factory settings ( I thought that maybe that would help..........it didn't). Finally, I broke down and put in a request for Apple to call me the next day. They did. After an hour long converstation, we concluded that my phone did in fact commit suicide and would need to go in for repairs or they would just need to send me a new one. I was ok with that. My boss' wife has an array of cellular devices from which I could choose to use during the time my phone would be in for repairs and I could just get it from her the next day. Well.....at least thats what I thought. After the Apple call, my phone decided that it just didn't want to be used at all anymore and the 'no touching zone' had moved to possess the entire screen, thus not allowing me to unlock it. By this point, I was in a slight panic. This phone is my life....as sad as that may sound. We don't have a house phone at our house, and I don't possess a real alarm clock. This phone played those parts. What the heck was I supposed to do. I know! I will email Kerri (boss' wife) and see if I can just go pick up a phone from her today. Ahah! Good thinking. So I open my trusty laptop and pose myself to write her the most pitiful distress email ever, when I discover my laptop has run out of juice. No problem, I will just plug it in...duh. Well I go a searching for my at home charger (I believe you should have more than charger, one for home and one for work) and its nowhere to be found. It then hits me that I took my whole computer bag to work, including my at home charger, and only brought home my computer. Dang! My charger is still at the office. So I jump in my car and head across town to grab my charger. I finally get home and shoot Kerri an email and so patiently wait for her to email me back. :) yes patiently........In the meantime, I get to listen to my phone almost die from exhaustion with people texting me and emailing me. BTW This never happens....people incestently texting me......I'm just not that popular, until, of course, my phone commits suicide. So finally Kerri emails that she is in town and is bringing me a phone. YES! My hero!!! I jam my SIM card into the blackberry and charge it up and its a go! I'm connected to the real world again! Thank goodness for Kerri and her eclectic electronics collection! I have a connected phone again and my iphone should be alive and working in a week or so....at least I hope. Dang technology! Both a blessing and a curse :)

Jewelry Making and Christmas Shopping

Have I mentioned lately how much I love the Holidays? Those being Thanksgiving and Christmas! Well I do. I L-O-V-E them! This year, I have completed most of my shopping pretty early....well early for me. I have most everything made, wrapped, and ready to go to the different houses for Christmas. If you know me at all, you know that I usually don't finish shopping until either the 23rd or even Christmas Eve. So a week before is a record for me. I am pretty stinking pround of the gifts I get to give this year. From Rangers' tickets, to a Red Roomba, to some the best pieces of jewelry I have ever made, to the amazing cookbook I wish I was keeping for myself, everything is absolutely perfect. I like to think that I got something unique to each person. I hope they like what I got them...well I got for them from other people. :) Oh did I mention, that this year, I did most everybody's shopping for them this year. It was an absolute blast! I can't wait for everyone to open their gifts. Aside form the gift part, I am just excited to get to go home and be with my entire family, extended and everyone. I can't wait to see my pals from Farmersville for some bonding time.

Well its this time of year, that we are strongly encouraged to take a long look at our lives and give thanks for everything we have. Our health, job, house, friends, family are just amoung a few that are typically included in that list. My question is....why are we only encouraged to do this during the holiday season? What about the other 10 months of the year? Should be ungrateful or less grateful during those months? My challenge to people this year, is to be thankful for life year round. Let God know that what He provided you with is enough. That you are completely thankful for all the blessings in your life daily. Expand those blessing beyond what we are "normally" thankful for. Expand them to the sunshine, the rain, the person that smiled at you in line at the grocery store, the grocery store, the warmth of your house, the fact that you can read, your car, your computer, the phone, the fact that you live in a place where so many conviences are at arms length. Don't get me wrong, we should still be thankful for our health, house, family, etc, but those are the only things we should give thanks for. This Christmas season and the beginning of a new year, challenge yourself to be a better person. A Thankful person. I promise that you will notice a difference if you say thanks to God for the person who cut you off on the highway, rather than cursing at them. Other people might just notice it too. Merry Christmas and I hope you all have a wonderful time with your peeps this Christmas season!

Megan

PS: Here is a picture of one the necklaces I made.....I just had to keep this one! :)

The True Meaning of CHRISTmas!

On my way to work this morning, I was listening to some Christmas music on the radio. One of our radio stations play Christmas music all the way through the holiday season. I understand that there are a ton of songs out there that are "funny" and have to do with Santa, and lots of other things associated with Christmas. I did not however know that there was a song entitled,
"The 12 pains of Christmas." This song took on a whole outlook to Christmas and what this season is all about. It also poked fun at the "12 Days of Christmas." A few of the pains included in this song were, children crying, dealing with inlaws, charity, and shopping for gifts. Color me crazy, but I thought the whole meaning behind Christmas was to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Over the years, this concept has appearantly been lost. This season is no longer about family, celebrating the birth of a King, being together, or just being happy and excited about life. It is now all about who gives the best and most expensive gifts, complaining because you had to spend a little bit of time with some people that you might not particulary care for, complaining about traveling, throwing a fit because "Santa" didn't bring you exactly what you wanted, complaining because you had to stand in line for hours to get that one perfect gift for someone you didn't really even like. When did it get to be like this? When did we all loose our values? When did the true meaning of the season change? Why do we now care more about things than people? Why do we put so much pressure on gift giving and trivial pursuits? Personally, this year will be different for my family. My grandmother, the matriarch of our family, is not doing so well. She has been through so much this past year. Her health is declining everyday. There is a very distinct possibility that this could be our last Christmas with her. So this year, I am choosing not to focus on anything but being with my family and all the things that brings with it. I don't care about the gifts. I love giving to other people, but I would be just fine with not receiving any. I have so much in my life and so many things to be thankful for. I don't care about all the little things that could go wrong anymore. I am just excited that I get to spend the whole day with my grandmother and my family just being together. I challenge anyone who might read this, to spend this Christmas season focusing on what this season is truely about. Focus on those who are not quite as fortunate as you. Focus on those who might not have the family that you have, Focus on those that just need a smile from you. Focuse less on all those small things that aggrivate you. Focus less on things and more on life and family. Focus on the reason we celebrate this particular holiday and all the joy it brings. Focus less on yourself and more on others. Focus on Life!

A few thoughts on a beautiful fall day

Well November is officially here. I love this time of year. The fall brings cooler weather, brisk days, the changing colors of the leaves, time changes, and my favorite....Thanksgiving! I love all the seasons of the year, but there just seems to be something about this one that just gets me every year. It has a kind of magic in the air that I love. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday....but not because of the food. I love the whole family thing of it. I love spending the entire day at my grandparents and hanging out with my cousins and my brothers. I love playing Scrabble until we are blue in the face then switching to 42. I love everything about it. The football games on tv and the ones we play outside in the front yard. I love the parades and watching them with my aunt while we cook. I just love the day. I love that most of the time we are dressed for a blizzard, but it always ends up being in the 70s or 80s the whole day. Definately a great day. I also love going to the stock show the next day. Call me crazy, but I am in love with agriculture and everything that comes with it. I love getting up super early the next day and driving to Waco to hang out with my brothers while they get pigs ready to show. Its definately a great time of the year. It also kinda kicks off stock show season. Beginning in January there are so many stock shows to get ready for and go to. I love it! I guess I just love everything today. :) It has to be this beautiful weather. Sunny and 70 makes for some awesome weather. I can't wait to see what God has in store for me this season. Soooo exciting!!!

Time is changing

This week has been particularly stressful for me. Its been stressful, but very eye opening for me. This was my week....
Monday:
Work, last minute Fields of Faith stuff, run errands
Tuesday:
Work, put together everything for FOF, run errands
My phone blew up all morning with calls for FOF, then the cell tower went down and I couldn't receive or make calls or text anyone. I finally got a hold of my dad (thank God for Onstar and call minutes) and found out that he lost his job on Tuesday. They closed the car dealership where he worked. By the end of that day, I really just wanted to cry myself to sleep.
Wednesday:
Day of Fields of Faith, getting everything together and set up for FOF, FOF, Cleanup for FOF, stress of planning and carrying out a large event.
Thursday:
Work, class, recovering from FOF
I found out Thursday morning that they were rushing my grandmother into the hospital. She had been tossing her cookies for about a day, and they were afraid she was going to dehydrate. They gave her some medicine and sent her home. She still isn't doing to well. I had class that night and wasn't prepared for it. I am not a fan of that.
Friday:
Work, then date night
Saturday:
Dinner with Courtney in Fort Worth.
On the way home I called an old friend from high school. I talk to him every now and then and hadn't talked to him in a while. I guess God was telling me to call him. Well it was a completely eye opening converstation. This friend and I pretty much grew up together. He was super close to my brothers and me. Well we were doing the whole catch up thing. You know, how is life? Good and yours? Then I asked if he was still in school and he hit me with it. He told me the week of finals before he was supposed to graduate he started his first round of chemo. I was like "Whoa! Chemo? What is that about?" He told me that he had been diagnosed with testicular cancer. Back in December, he was working some cattle and was kicked in the groin by a calf. His groin area swelled up pretty good. He didn't really think to much about it for a while. In March, the area begin hurting super bad, so he went to get it checked out. The doctor ran a couple of tests and determined that he had testicular cancer. They ran a few more tests and found that the cancer had spread to his stomach and possibly his lungs. At that time they began an agressive chemo regimen. He was only 21. He was a fairly healthy, extremely active, typical 21 year old good guy. He caught me completely offguard with the whole cancer thing. It hit me like a ton of bricks. I just couldn't believe that something like that would happen to someone like him. He seems like he is doing well, though. He is getting his life back. He is working, and doing well. As of August, there was no more cancer.

All of this just took its toll on me. I know that sounds completely selfish. I shoulder everyone else's pain and problems. I can't help it. I have done that my entire life. My dad, my grandma, Brent, I shoulder every bit of their pain. I guess I feel like its up to me to fix everything, or at least do everything I can to make it better. That was not the case this week. I couldn't fix anything. I just pray that this week is a little better. If you read this, please say an extra little prayer for my dad, grandma, and Brent this week.

Have you wondered?

Have you wondered why? Why is the sky blue? Why is the grass green? Why is it so much easier for me to pen this blog than it is to write my incredibly important psych paper? Why is it always either paper or plastic and not like plastic or paper? Why do we always assume the worst? Just some random questions to ask. The whole why is easier to write an entry on my blog than my psych paper is the main one plaguing my at the moment. Another one is...Why is that I always seem so inspired to blog when I have a big assignment due for school. That is a biggie for me. This summer I have been terrible at keeping my focus on school. It just isn't there. I am not sure why. I love school......for the most part, but for some reason, I just can't seem to stay focused on it. I would rather focus on hanging out with my friends, going on mini trips, watching tv, playing on facebook, work, cleaning my house, mowing my lawn, watering my plants, grocery shopping, laundry, shopping....pretty much anything besides my homework. I am trying to get that focus back. Maybe summer classes are not for me, especially ones that last the entire summer. What happened to summer just being summer? You know, hanging out with your besties, roadtrips, swimming, and just lounging. I miss being a tiny child when you got to do all those things. I guess now its time for me to actually be a grown up and become trully responsible. BOOOOOOO!!!! I know I am kinda rambling about this....but that should just tell you how much I don't want to write this stinking paper. I am seriously flirting with the idea of dropping grad school all together and just working one job, and living my life. AHHHHHH I dislike grown up decisions very much!!!