randomness....

more random things....

1. I love shoes but I would almost rather go barefoot all the time.
2. I, however, can't stand other people's feet.
3. I don't believe that there is good in everyone....some people are just plain evil....like child molesters and serial killers....they get pure joy out of the evil they do and no matter what made them that way...screwed up childhood or abusive parents or social class or whatever....I don't believe they can be saved or rehabilitated from twisted lives they lead, therefore....
4. I do believe in the death penalty...I do not think we should over crowd jails and waste taxpayers money on people that are so evil they shouldn't be using our oxygen.... (of course #3 and #4 are my own opinion and they are why I'm not God)
5. I love driving through the country, seeing old barns and rolled hay....
6. I plan to go on a wonderful vacation or mini-vacation with Danny every year. I love getting away somewhere with him and exploring new places.
7. I hate having to go in the office and crawl under the desk 5 times a day to reset the router that constantly goes offline....(I just had to go do this again!)
8. I am very passionate about the sanctity of marriage....It is a covenant, it is a commitment....and it really upsets me when people don't honor the commitment they made.
9. I miss having my mammaw here to pray for me....I know she is praying for me in heaven and I know one person's prayers aren't necessarily better than anothers...but she was so close to God...and the Bible says "the prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective."
10. I hate it when parents dress their twins (or multiples) exactly alike. (Thanks mom for not doing that to us!) We may have had the same clothes at times, but at least they were different colors. Twins are not the same person...dressing exactly alike treats them like they are (to me anyways).
11. I am addicted to Breathe Right strips....I have to sleep with one on every night or I will wake up not being able to breathe.
12. I hate subdivisions. I plan to live in a big house someday....hopefully a victorian....and have at least a few acres.
13. I have a horrible habit of not turning the lights off. It drives Danny crazy.
14. It totally makes my day when I walk into my sister's house and I hear my 2 neices and my nephew yell "Aunt Beka" as they run to give me hugs.
15. I love, more than anything else, spending time with my cousins, playing games, talking about growing up years, eating brownies, and just enjoying time together.
16. I wish I was wealthy....I'm not greedy, I just hate having to leave beneath my means....plus I would be able to share so much of it with family and my church

The end of 2008

Let me try to sum up the last 2 months of 2008. We started off November with a wonderful vacation to Tennessee in the Gatlinburrg/Pigeon Forge area. This is a great time to go! Not too crowded because it is in between the fall and winter seasons. The colors are wonderful, just slighly past peak. The weather was perfect! It made me never want to leave. Check out the video I made of our vacation.

I've been working all the holidays for some extra pay, but it hasn't really affected my time to spend with my family. I worked Thanksgiving day then we went to Danny's parent's house for dinner. Then on Black Friday we had our family dinner at Kristi's house. I made my yummy pumpkin ice cream pies!

I also got to help Jacquelyn and Nicole write their letters to Santa! So cute!

Danny and I moved in with Rachel in early December. We are still trying to get things organized and some stuff unpacked....it's so hard having a houseful of stuff and having to decide what can stay in a box indefinitely and what few things can go in our one room. I've pretty overwhelmed and feeling like a fish out of water this month trying to get used to the transition. I have never handled change well. In the middle of all this I have had to find time to finish a cross stitch of Nicole that I was making for Kristi for Christmas and also find time to study for my CMT test. I took the test on Dec 22 and I passed! So I now carry the CMT credentials behind my name (which means that I am a certified medical transcriptionist....only about 3000 in the country!)

I went with Rachel to a Christmas party downtown at the Mills House that the Spine doctors throw every year. It was pretty nice....at least we got to dress up!

Mack loved to nap underneath the Christmas Tree on my homemade tree skirt. Our Christmas was pretty normal. We went to my aunts house on Christmas Eve Eve for the reading of the christmas story and singing carols by candlelight. We also watched videos of different family members' vacations.

Christmas Eve was spent at mom and dad's. Dad made chili for dinner then we opened stockings and gifts. Here is a picture of Kristi holding the shadow box and cross stitch of Nicole that I made for her .

I worked on Christmas Day, but then Danny and I went to his parent's house for dinner and presents and to hang out. They got a Wii, so we had a ball playing on that.



We rang in the new year at our friends Kim and Josh's house. I've never really been to a New Year's party with friends....usually just hang out at home or with family....so that was fun. I wasn't in the best of moods but I tried to make the best of it and I did have a good time. We played cornhole and warmed up by the fire pit, we watched Josh set the lawn on fire with faulty fireworks, and we all toasted strawberry wine at the stroke of midnight. It was a great little party!