Unbidden, thoughts of you
flood my heart with tenderness
sweetly tugging at my heart strings
reminding me why I call you 'Boo'

The sound of your laughter
is to me like a sweet symphony
and your words make me giddy
as if nothing else should matter.

I'm all excited about you
Are you my genie in a bottle?
the one with the magical touch
Will you grant me just one wish?

just take this fear away,...

It's that time of the year again and as much as I'd like to hang onto the number that has been my companion this past year, I'll try and embrace this new number with excitement. In the past year since I celebrated my last birthday, many good things have happened to me, many blessings have come my way and much growth has taken place in my life. I praise God!

As I sit in my room typing away on this online journal/blog thingy, I can't help but wonder why in the world I was ever scared...

I was reading this book (The First Five Years by Bill and Pam Farrell) and came across this, I laughed so hard that tears ran down my eyes. Now I don't know if it will be funny to other readers or why it was even funny to me but it was and I had a good ol' time laughing. I'm thinking maybe it made me laugh that hard because it had a few (well, a lot) of home truths in it. So if it makes you laugh, great but if it doesn't, then you are just a sour-puss. Here goes:

To the...

It was one of those slow work days and I wandered into the break room where the guys were sitting. I had expected them to be talking or eating but they were all sitting down and their eyes were glued to the TV as they intensely focused on whatever it was that was on. I pulled up a seat to sit beside them hoping it wasn't a baseball game or a football game they were looking at because I find those boring and would rather watch Cartoon Network or something.

"What are you watching,guys?"...

I stepped up to the ticket counter to purchase my ticket for a matinee showing of a movie I really wanted to see. The lady at a ticket counter was a very beautiful, young lady with a lovely smile to match who asked me what movie I wanted to see. I smiled back and told her, then my eyes sought out her name badge. I like knowing people's names especially if they are providing some service to me as I've realized that there's something about calling such a person by their name that makes the interaction...