Yes, that will be me. I am in Property & Casualty Insurance classes all week starting today from 8-5. The test is next week and promises to kill you in the process. And, it is not like I have an option in all of this, I have to pass this exam so I can discuss one of our major product lines to our clients.
Let the fun begin!!!!!
There seems to be a place in time where everything that you want and long for is unreachable. All your goals, longings and dreams are just that; it is almost like you are so close that you can actually touch it and feel it. But that is all that you get. You do not get to step through on the other side and live in what you want. This probably sounds really depressing, but I think that it is true. We all think we know what we want and desire, but maybe what we need is different then what we want. Maybe me being stuck in my apartment for so many weeks because of being sick has made me really think way too much.
I am not sure, but I look everyday into a "world" that I so want to be apart of, but I know that I cannot nor will I never be. I should not be. I have come to a resolution and some days it is easier and some days it is harder. But, my resolution is strong and I know that is how it has to be.
Or at least trying to!!! What happened to being young, youthfull and vibrant? It left me on December 1st.
Instead, I feel old, falling apart and sick. Yes, I have now offically been sick for almost 8 weeks straight. I was on the way to feeling better, getting good sleep, finishing my meds and taking vitamins. And then, the mother of all colds has hit me and left my voice to being very low.
Maybe you have and maybe you haven't. Well, I have heard a whole lot about it because I have come down with it. It usually affects senior citizens but it also affects those whose immune systems are very weak/low. My poor doctor almost laughed when he told me that I had it because of everything else that my body has been through in the past 6 weeks. Wait a minute, I am laughing too! I think people have given up asking me if I am feeling better and have changed to, so what are you dealing with now?
If only you knew............................... What on earth compels us to do something when we really know we should not or don't want to.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I still have the great gift of playing poker (Texas Holdem). Tonight was the first time in about two months that I could make it to poker, which happened to be a tournament to help set the new ratings for the new year. I am very pleased to place 3rd out of 10 and take home some money.
In all honesty, it was just great to get out of the house from where Christmas is still lingering, laundry that needs to get done, pine needles that still need to be picked up and an office that looks like a tornado came through it. But, beating out 7 guys was also great!
Yes, Delta emailed me an apology today for all my delays, three cancelled flights and losing my luggage twice! I am sure that everyone else that traveled and had problems also got the same email. But, what was really cool is that they dumped 15,000 bonus points in my frequent flier points.
I was only about a thousand points away from being a Silver Medallion flier; now I am close to Gold. The only difference this will make is that I will now be a higher priority to get me on a plane if I am delayed or trying to fly stand by. If it can help me on even one flight, I will be truly grateful. It is sad when your week is scheduled by airline flights, like mine is many of times.
It is hard to summarize this past year in just a few words. It definately has been the year of many changes for me and my family; but, it has also been a year of great memories that I hope will remain with me forever.
Some of these memories include:
Many, many sad goodbyes
18 hours of bonding in a car - music changing every hour
30,000 frequent flier miles
25,000 miles on my Camry
2 new tires - one blown/one slashed
3 dings on the car = $1300 dollars
New friends
New church
Feeling loved
4 hours of traveling for an hour long dinner with B
A great Thanksgiving with S
Many great phone calls from Miami!!!
Learning to say no
Girls weekend in St. Louis
New babies
Miracles in relationships
Loving the 5 minute phone calls from the other side of the world
Realizing that I have a lot more strength then I thought possible
And now I look at a new year. I am not one to really make resolutions, but I do have some goals that I want to obtain. Mainly, preparing to buy a house at the end of this year and not being the workaholic that I have realized that I am.
But, there are two events that I can't wait to be apart of:
My brother coming home!
Watching C fall in love and then be there on her wedding day as a bridesmaid!