I thought I might let you in a little more on who I am and what my life is like through some pictures…
This is Tim and myself on a beach in St. John. We went to St. John for our honeymoon and it was absolutely fabulous!!
This is Kansas (black dog w/ crazy eyes!), Blu and me cuddling (as usual) at home. They are great cuddlers!
Here is my mom and me. We were playing Space Invader!
There are more pictures coming soon…
I have just started discovering in the past year or two that I do not really know who I am. I do not know what I like to do, wear, listen to, participate in, support, whatever. I know that sounds really strange, but I really don’t. You see, I struggle with three things that keep me from this: being self centered, focusing on what everyone else likes (maybe if I like or do those things too, they will like me), and I really lack motivation. Also, I will fixate on another person who I really like/respect/see that everyone else likes and think about how I can be more like them. I do not live my own life!! So, now I am trying to figure out what I like to do with my time and energy. One thing that I truly desire to change is my relationship with the Lord (so cliche). I hardly ever focus on Him. And when I do, it is mostly self-centered. I want activities that I really enjoy and love. I want causes that I am passionate about. I am not really sure what all I am trying to get out right now. I just catch myself reading other people’s blogs and thinking about how great they are and the great life they must lead. But they are just normal, like me. They are just living their life as it comes to them. So, I am going to go home and spend time with my husband (who by the way is one thing/person that I know that I love so much) and our dogs. We will hang out on our new couch that we bought from Big Lots (but you can’t tell!) and watch the series of Die Hard that I bought him for Christmas. I can get so bored with things, I should learn to appreciate them!
By the way, I have just started to teach myself how to knit. I am knitting my sister a scarf for her birthday present. I really like stuff like this, but again have never been fully motivated to learn how to do it. I would love how to sew, bake, knit, and all! Someone told me the other day that I am a hippie at heart, and I loved it!
It is so funny how I can think something is a little funny, or maybe not even at all funny, when I am watching/listening/reading it by myself. But then, I will watch it with Tim and all of a sudden it is freaking hilarious!!
One of my favorite things to do is watch the bloopers/gag real on movies. I am thoroughly upset if they do not have one on the dvd. Last night we rented “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End”. I watched the blooper real while Tim was taking the dogs out. I only thought it was ok, not too excited about it. Tim then came in w/ the dogs and we watched the movie. We both really like Pirates of the Caribbean. Tim has watched the second one more times than we could count. So, we really liked this one as well. Afterwards I wanted him to watch the blooper real too, I don’t know why, I just wanted him to see it. We probably watched that thing at least four times, rewinding several parts over and over again. It was so funny! (I have even burst out laughing today at working thinking about it. I was standing alone in a room so it was probably weird looking). If you know Tim well ( he reserves the good laughs for the really good stuff) you know that he will giggle when he laughs hard. It adds so much to a funny moment that it brings it to the level of, “I can’t breath b/c I am laughing so hard” kind of thing. He makes me so happy, and laugh so hard!
I have been reading quite a few adoption blogs lately and also blogs from people who work in orphanages in other countries. My heart is just so heavy for all of these children! I have always wanted a big family. Now that I am married I am one step closer to that dream. It will still be a little while, but man do I want to give all of those children the love and support that they deserve! Both my husband and myself want to adopt. I pray that the Lord shows me what He has in store for me regarding a future with any of these children.
Have you ever seen the beginning of… crap, I can’t remember the name of either movies. I also cannot remember the actor’s name who is in both of them… he is actually the narrator of both of them. Or maybe I have just seen the beginning of only one movie along time ago and think it is another movie. Anyway, the movie begins with showing the greetings of the new arrivals at an airport. I got the chance to do that one day b/c of work (won’t go into detail about all of that b/c I will probably go off on another tangent). I think that is one of the my new favorite things to do. If you ever get a chance to go to an airport and watch people greeting the arrivals, do it! There is so much joy and excitement in it all! First, you watch the waiters. You can see their impatience and anticipation and excitement all in one just through how they stand and stare down this tunnel. Then when they catch sight of the people they are waiting for. If they are with others they will announce, “There she/he is!” Then there is even more anticipation b/c they see what they have been waiting for. Then the arriving person gets closer and the anticipation gets to the point where you think the person might pop! The whole time, by the way, you are feeling these same emotions even though the greeters and arrivals do not know you are a part of this event and you have no idea who the people are. Then, they meet! They hug, they kiss, they cry, they laugh. It is so wonderful. A couple of times I wanted to be a part of the hugs and laughing and crying, but I knew that would be way too weird! The cutest greeting I saw was a little girl, maybe not even 2 years old, and her mom were waiting for her grandmother. The little girl got distracted by the Christmas tree in the airport and did not see her grandmother walk through the arrivals’ tunnel. The grandmother came up behind her, then the little girl’s mom told her to look and asked who that was. The little girl kind of squatted down so she could see through the crowd. She then saw her reward, ran up to her grandmother (who by the way had a really cute winter coat on) w/ her arms up in the air, and yelled something in her own language that was probably her name for her grandmother. It was so great! Again, I wanted to be apart of this moment! I did not see anyone upset or angry with anyone else. It was great to see and be apart of. It makes me want to travel more!!
I really enjoy working at my new job. There really are so many reasons for me to like it. But, this morning I got to experience a really great reason to love working here.
There are lots of women who work here. None of us really get paid the mega bucks, so we cannot afford lots and lots of clothes. So, what do we do, we exchange clothes. I love it!! There are women here who have kids of different ages, so they just pass the clothes along once their kids out grow them. Well, this morning one of the ladies who works in radio traffic came to my office and asked me to try on a jacket she had. It is a beautiful jacket and has a wool-like material on the inside; very warm! I tried it on and if fit. She said it was too small for her and I could have it. This coat was probably around $150 on the rack and she just gave it to me! She said Merry Christmas like it wasn’t a thang (trying to talk slang here 
smiled, and walked away. I am so excited, so I thought I would share with you all.
Who would have thought this would be one of the perks of this job!
Hello everyone! I have always wanted to do one of these blog things, but have not really ever been any good at it. So here it goes again!
I have recently been married to a wonderful man named Tim. We were married on June 2, 2007. We have been married for six months now. Truthfully, we don’t really pay much attention to our anniversary date. It will definitly be different for the one year anniversary though. We will take our first vacation together for that week. I am super excited b/c my parents are letting us use some of their timeshare! It should be great!
Tim and I live in Johnson City for now. We are hoping that we will move at some point in the future. We have no clue at all though when and where it will be.
We have two dogs, Blu & Kansas. Blu used to be Harper. Tim decided to change his name on Thanksgiving. I am not going to lie, it is hard to remember he has a new name. I also like Harper better.
Tim is the manager of the local Smoothie King. I am the promotions director/sales assistant at Holston Valley Broadcasting. I work with four radio stations, but most of the work is only w/ two of them. I really enjoy it, but I struggle with creativity.
I really want a big family some day. Maybe four or five kids. We are planning to wait awhile, four or five years. It is so hard though b/c I have so many friends who are pregnant or who already have babies. I want one!!! But at the same time I have this huge fear that I am going to be a horrible mother. I guess we shall see, hopefully.
