Life is like a day planner...

...everything is "penciled-in." Or penned, highlighted, doodled or sketched. (At least that is what my planner looks like). I have just been feeling rather "planned." I mean, I write almost everything down. I think people could quote me as saying, "Let me write that down so that I don't forget." I have a to-do list and a to-do list for my to-do list at times! It gets to be insane! I mean, I have come to terms with the fact that I have inherited the "antsy gene" from my father and his side of the family, ok, I get it. I have a hard time sitting still and doing nothing unless everything that I can think of, or that is on my "list" has been accomplished and is put away. Out of sight, out of mind eh? (wow, if I keep up at this rate, I will have all of the cliche sayings in this one entry!)

But the things that I write down aren't always:

A. The most important
B. Things that make me happy
C. Things I need to do right away (I tend to think about things sometimes too far into the future when planning)

I sometimes wish that I could break this cycle, but for work it is EXTREMELY necessary as there are many "drive-by" conversations where someone will ask/tell me to do something and I have another person come by 5 seconds later and ask me to do another thing. I would go bonkers if I had to remember all of the stuff that they tell/ask me to do! Yikes!

Even as I am writing this blog, I stop to think about what I want to accomplish this weekend while I have the house to myself for tonight and tomorrow. (Derick is in Medford celebrating his Grandma's birthday! I could not go because the party was earlier this afternoon, and I could not leave work as we have a floorset first thing Monday morning that I had to stay late to prep for anyway.)

So it is just me and the puppy tonight. I think he is bored with me. Since I got home later than normal, he has wanted to play whereas I have wanted to eat, change into comfy clothes and catch up on my Project Runway from last night.

Well, I guess that is all for tonight. I will try to resist the list. We'll see how I do :) I might have to break open one of the books on my nightstand that keep piling up. (I think I have 5 now that I want to get to reading!)

-L

"If God is trying this hard to talk to me, I'd better pick up the phone..."

So, I am not sure if you have ever felt the presence of something greater in your life, but for the past few months, God has been trying to whack me over the head and tell me to listen up. Other people have been praying for me in my current life situation and in the past few months, two of those prayers have been answered. Crazy. You know how things also tend to happen in threes? Well, I am now waiting on my "third thing."

All of the things that have come to be have been really good for my life - work life, me,life and I think just general overall life. I don't feel that I need to go into much detail here (and that might just kill some of you) but if you really care, we can take it offline and I can fill you in.

I just wanted to share that sometimes when you are really feeling all alone, that there is something bigger than all of us out there. And sometimes, all it takes are a few too many "phone calls" before you look and say, "Hey! I hear ya, loud and clear! Thank you for letting me know you are there!"

Really, that's all I got.
-L