It's me, Charity

I really don't even know where to begin with this post. This book was the best book I have ever read. I picked it up thinking it would be a fun way to pass the time- a cute, romantic comedy. But in reality it ended up being way more than I had expected. The premise of the book was a girl in her 30's who had never been married and was looking for men in every which where. Looking for a husband, trying to force situations that weren't good, the whole shebang. Instead of it being a humorous book it was very, I don't know, I don't even know how to put it into words. I cried through most of the book. Simply because, this girl, it was me. It was SO ME. I am so afraid that I will end up alone and never be married that if I see any male that fits the bare minimum of my requirements I go after him, and immediately have us married off in my mind, and try to scheme and plan how we can get together. And yes, I admit it. I google stalk. Don't look at me like you've never

I fell in love with this pair of heels that I found in Walmart this week. Sadly, I have not worn heels in over 4 years and with the issues from my ankle last year, I can't wear them anymore. I tried desperately to walk in these and basically fell down in the shoe aisle. Pretty embarassing. Beautiful shoes though.. I am still mourning not getting to wear them! I guess its a good thing God made me tall 5'9" 1/2... These boots however I think I could do! I have been seriously wanting a pair of cowboy boots for some time now. I keep trying to win them from the Pioneer Woman, yeah thats not working. I'm hoping to get these for Christmas.. Anyone else want to give me shoes? Size Ten Please! Yes, I have massive feet. Shut it!!

Well as many have asked me what my exciting news is.. Many.. ha.. by Many I mean three.. but that is many to me!! I figured it was time to share with y'all.. Some of you know this and its news to others of you.. As of January I am going to be a full time college student. Thats right, I am finally biting the bullet and going back for my Bachelors so I can teach. I'm excited, alittle nervous, but mostly really excited! I'm doing an all online program so that I can work and be flexible with my time. Hopefully I will graduate in two years or less and then start teaching at Ivy Tech, and gasp, working on my Masters. I don't even want to THINK about working on my Masters!!! Ever since I graduated I have planned to do this. But the timing was never right and I was never motivated enough to get with it and just buckle down and do it. But now, the timing is perfect and I am really excited to start and work towards my goal.. Wish me luck!!

1. Today is my parents 33rd Wedding Anniversary! 33 years and two kids later they are still madly in love!! 2. I scored a pair of black wedge dress shoes at Payless today with the fabulous 50% off everything in the store Oprah coupon. Man I wish I had more money with all of the clearance items being half off as well... It was hard!! 3. Dog n Suds closes tomorrow. I finally got a coney dog today!! 4. I now have a cute little Miss Charity babysitting bag that has special goodies in it. I'm bringing it with me to small group tonight. Hopefully they kids will like the goodies!! 5. I really can't wait to have kids of my own. But I really do like my sleep. 6. I hate it when the bottom of my pants get wet from the rain. I thought about blowdrying them but they would only get wet again when i leave in 50 mins:( 7. I love rain. However I hate driving in rain. Especially at night. :(

(This first pic is for Coral, Bethy took a bite out of her fries just so you could see we were eating! :) ) Today I me the fabulous Emily, and her daughter Bethanne for lunch at Chick Fil a! I hadn't been in YEARS so I was pretty excited! We had a lovely meal and a fun time just chatting.. Bethanne is a HOOT and so much like her mother it was almost scary! Wish I had gotten a pictur e of her too!! Anyways I was so proud, Emily and Bethy remembered it was Pink Weds and both wore pink!! YAYS!! SO proud, sniff sniff.. a tear!! And take note of my necklace please, its Vintage! My Mom had it in HS!! :)

So it has been brought to my attention that I am lacking in the blog dept! You would think with more spare time I would be blogging non stop! Alas there is not much exciting things to blog about. I will have an update later this week with my exciting news! :) Other than that life is nice and quiet and I love that! Sunday afternoon I went with Katie to get her hair cut. She wimped out when we got there and didn't chop it as much as I was expecting and hoping!! But I was a good girl and didn't say anything even though she said my face said it all! :) Her hair cut did turn out really good though! I am continually amazed at how good of a hair cut you can get at my local great clips for such a little amount of money! As we were finishing up I saw this guy who looked ALOT like this guy I went to Youth Group with. Well actually it looked like his Dad, but i'm pretty sure it wasn't. He had a little boy with him though so I was confused. He looked at me and gave me a weird look

1. Worship music at my church. It gets my soul a-goin! 2. A Sunny halfway warm day. 3. Talking to people at church. 4. The perfect pair of dark jeans. 5. A fairly clean apt. 6. A possible trip on the horizon! 7. Being able to rejoice with the Sabens about their adoption. Jesus moves mountains!! 8. Feeling good and being able to go to Sunday church TWO weeks in a row!! (this is huge for my sickly self, HUGE) 9. Finding out that my fave cheap ligloss has NOT been discountinued, its just only carried at certain stores in town. YAYS!! 10. Talking to Joey on the phone this morning. Today is his birthday. He was so excited! 11. Bananas 12. Finding out that its not my chocolate syrup that tasted weird, it was the off brand ice cream! WHEW!!! Seriously, that relieved me!! 13. Books by Tamera Alexander. 14. The Song- Beautiful One I love, Beautiful One, I adore. I <3 that song!! 15. Easy to do curly hair. 16. Finally biting the bullet and working out. (only once but hey!) 17. Sunlight throug

I originally wrote this blog back in 2007. The words in it still ring true as the day I wrote them, so In remembrance of my Grandpa and losing him on Oct 25, 2003, I post this in his Honor. Today was a really hard day for me and my entire family. 6 years ago this morning we lost my Grandpa due to complications following surgery for his lung cancer. I can still remember every detail of that morning. From the huge storm that was going on, getting woken up early by my mom screaming on my answering machine for me to wake up. frantically trying to get to the hospital in Indy while Mom and Kevin and I were all bawling and driving at over 90 miles per hour. Getting pulled over by the Indiana State Police for said speeding. The look on the poor troopers face when he came to the window and the three of us were sobbing so hard we could barely tell him what was going on. He ended up giving us an escort for most of the way back. Whoever you were, thank you so much for your kindness.

1. It is a beautiful fall day outside! Overcast, very windy, and in the 60's, I have my balcony door open and am loving listening to the wind whip through the trees! 2. I have got to get back to a normal sleeping schedule. I have been staying up untill 11:30-Midnight and then I can't get to sleep for hours! SO I sleep in late and sometimes am so exhausted I have to take a nap, which only worsens the whole not getting to sleep at night! 3. Is it me or is Facebook seriously messed up today? Its giving me status updates from last night?! 4. So Happy for my friends who are welcoming their hubbys back from deployment! One just got in the US yesterday and the other is scheduled to arrive soon! Thank you Lord for keeping them safe!! 5. Seriously excited that Cindy found out she is having a baby girl! I would post a picture of her and the tiniest cutest baby bump EVAH, but I think she might just kill me. Can't wait till she has her baby and I am listening to the birth on the phone,

Well I feel the need to post an update after slamming Delta Airlines several weeks ago. (which I really need to learn how to link to a post, anyone want to share how to do that with me?) Anyways, I am happy to report that Delta is TOTALLY REFUNDING my ticket!!! If you remember I was to be a bridesmaid in one of my bff's weddings in August, but with my health issues I was still to sick to go and fly, so my Dr grounded me. Well with the help of my FABULOUS Dr and his letter, Delta is refunding my entire ticket AND gave me a 50.00 voucher!! Sweet, huh? I'm sure it had nothing to do with the mean letter I sent them threatening anything and everything under the sun. Nope, I would NEVER do anything like that! NOT ME! ;)

Yesterday was errands day. I actually got alot done but still have some things still to do. This is me waiting at my Chiropracter last night. He was running late s I proceeded to take pictures of myself in the exam room while I waited! :) Nothing exciting is going on right now in Cherry Land and that is exactly the way I like it! I do have an exciting announcement to make, SOON I promise!! Possibly next week, so stay tuned!

Well I STILL can't upload all of my pics:( Here's my outfit for church, pardon the crappy flat hair its struggling.. I tried to copy Ginger Snaps fun poses for her pics but I didn't quite get there... Check out her daily fashion posts, she's listed under my peeps! And of course you know I had to pose with my pizza!! :)

Well I had several pics to upload but its not letting me do anymore, so You'll just have to look at this one of me with a really goofy look on my face. I made pizza for lunch today. And by made, I actually mean MADE!! WHAT WHAT!! :) I had dough that I rolled out, and added cheese, cut up peppers from dad's garden, mushrooms and pepperoni! YUMMY!! It didn't turn out half bad! I pre cook the dough before putting the stuff on top, so thats why the crusts are alittle well done. Oh well it was tasty!! I watched The Proposal this afternoon and LOVE LOVE LOVED IT!! Soooo funny!!!! I think I may have to put it on my Christmas list! I'm geting ready to watch 17 again, I think it looks cute!! I do so love the redbox thingies. A movie for a dollar?! Thats what I'm talkin about!!

I updated my peeps list, I added several blogs and friends that I love. There are still a few more to add so keep looking back! In the meantime, stop by one of their blogs and show some love!!

1. I just finished watching the Duggars-Newest GrandDuggar, it made me cry!! 2. My computer crapped out on me for two days this week. It was HORRIBLE!! Luckily I was able to fix it with ALOT of help!! 3. I made cookies today and managed not to burn them! or under cook them!! YEAH!! (and by Made, I totally mean, broke apart the allready made dough and put them on a cookie sheet and baked them) 4. My hair is struggling. I am beginning to wish I hadn't cut it so short. Its at an awkward length right now. 5. My Mom gave me the cutest knee length denim skirt with a flare in the middle and I am so excited to wear it to church Sunday with some cute tights!! 6. I love babysitting for small group! The kids are so much fun and are used to me. Tonight they crawled all over me! So much fun!! 7. I'm watching a DVR episode of Dr Phil and I swear his guest, Mitch Album, or whatever his name is, he looks like he's wearing a wig! If he isn't man, he really needs to re think his hairdre

Friday I got to spend time with my bubbies and after Katie got home we had a lovely dinner of this FABULOUS chili her hubs had made for us. SERIOUSLY GOOD CHILI!! The best part was when Sam was giving us the update about the weather outside.. Sam-Darrhhkk.. Darrhhkk 'side (translated, its dark outside) Joe- Its dark because God spoke it into existance. Silence from me and Katie.. then laughter.. seriously you never know what that child is going to say!! Here's Sammy taking a rest from the puzzling puzzle to watch curious george.. Mom gave me these foam thingies to give to the boys and boy howdy did we have a good time with them! :) Sam has entered into the Irritable Twos, not terrible because he is an Angel Child (in my opinion!) but he has his moments like this where he was upset i wouldn't let him get in the fridge. so we had to throw ourselves down and fake cry. so of course I had to take a picture!! I know, i'm going to be a FABULOUS Mother!! Back to the puzzle. Lif

1. Finally having a Sunny Day! No more rain!! 2. My old victorias secret grey sweat pants. Pure Comfort! 3. DVR. 4. Having a clean kitchen and bathroom. Next stop-Living room! 5. Being happy for my old roomie, the original BORGESS, getting married yesterday!!

Here are two pics of the bubbies from babysitting.. Joe is making a funny face, I swear that child cannot just smile for a pic!! This was the day Sam Sam was very sleepy. So he just hung out with his blankie and sucked his thumb while we watched Thomas the Train..

So yesterday I massively cleaned my kitchen. I organized everything that was sitting on my very small counter and cleaned like nobodies business!! I don't think it has been this neat since i moved in!! Here is my updated counter. My kitchen is decorated in Coke products as you can tell! This is the second attempt at making bread. It rose, but not all the way. Sooo yeah... Not too happy. This is my mad face. GGRRR

So today I learned that I really cannot cook whatsoever. I was so proud of myself, I completely cleaned my kitchen, I mean, vacuumed, MOPPED, organized all of my little counter space that had ALOT of stuff on it. And while cleaning I got the great idea to make a loaf of homemade bread! I love my Mom's bread, so why can't I make my own in my bread machine? Problem #1 was that it takes 3 hours to bake. 3 stinking hours. Not great when you start it around 6 pm and are hungry!! Problem #2 If the container does not say YEAST on it, and even if you are pretty sure that it has yeast in it, and your mom just forgot to write it on the container when she gave it to you, you should check to make sure it is yeast. Otherwise two hours later, while cleaning your living room you will notice a smell. A burnt smell. A smell usually reserved for when you are making frozen pizza (yes I burn them) or hamburger helper (yes I burnt that last week). You will be shocked, SHOCKED, to open your bread ma

1. Sara sent me this from today's paper. It could have been written by me. I get freaked out when people touch me! I blame it on living alone for the past 6 years!! DEAR ABBY: I am a young woman in my 20s who, while very friendly, is funny about being touched. I am extremely uncomfortable when people outside my immediate family hug me, rub my shoulders or place a hand on my back or arm. Yet somehow, people tend to do this with me. How can I express my discomfort without sounding antisocial or mean? I'd appreciate your advice. -- TOUCHY SUBJECT DEAR TOUCHY SUBJECT: Do it with humor. Say, "If you do that again, you'll have to marry me!" It should work with members of both sexes, depending upon the state you live in. 2. I had two candles going last night at my apt. It was sooo soothing, it was raining outside, thundering and dark, good smelling cinnamon candles, sigh.. I love fall!! 3. I am wearing my new work sweater today and am very upset that its alot shorter tha