Intermission...You Know, When You Take A Break from the Main Event?

I guess by now you've noticed that when I'm bored, or have nothing new to say, I post music videos.

That being said, this intermission is brought to you by

Our Lady, PINK

First, a favorite

Don't Let Me Get Me - Missundaztood 2002 (Arista)

Then there is this one (snicker)



 

U + Ur Hand - I'm Not Dead 2006 (Laface -Zomba)

 

~En-JOY!

 

 

Lovely Lakeside View

...only this is not a lake. This is the street in front of my house, draining into the lot across the street.

Pray for Central Alabama, currently facing record flooding.

Great Day!

I had the best time at Opening Day!

It was so great to see all our players today, as well as meet the new ones.

Miss Mary signed up several new players and they are all precious, especially the little ones!

I came home beat and burnt! I can barely move enough to type this.

Oh and an even brighter note, someone thinks that I am worth crossing the state line for! How do you meet someone nearly 30 years ago and make such an impression on them, that they never forget you? I wouldn't let him, of course, because I had so much to do today, but the fact that he was willing to do so and all the prospects that brings, is nothing short of thrilling!

Can't wait to see where that goes.

Another blog buddy to nickname...LOL!

Until then,

~En-JOY!

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Yep....tomorrow is opening day at Moody's Miracle League!

 

The Miracle League is a baseball organization for individuals with special needs. We are all winners! Everyone gets a homerun and all games end in a tie. Baseball as it was meant to be....FUN!



I look forward to ball season at Miracle Field One all year long. No where else on earth do I experience unconditional love in it's purest form!  It didn't matter what crap I had going on at the office. It didn't matter what crap was going on at home. I know that I could step out on that field and the people are genuinely happy to see me. Tomorrow, I know that they will all embrace me, and I will truly be loved. Not  for any material things I can buy them, or what I can do to cater to their whims, or because I'm shelling out money.  They really love me, just for being there.

Tomorrow I will begin my ninth season with this organization.

Wanna be blessed beyond measure? Check out a Miracle League near you.  Trust me, if you only volunteer once and you will be hooked for life.


I leave you will a little something for the weekend

Here Comes The Weekend - Pink, featuring Eminem

(The Truth About Love = RCA Records 2012)

Nothing's Gonna Steal My Joy!

¹² Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. ¹³ Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.

Colossians 3:12-13

New International Version (NIV)

All Good Things Must Come To An End

Spoiler Alert: If you haven't watched this yet, don't go any further.



Well, it's finally over.

After nine seasons, How I Met Your Mother has come to an end. Nine Seasons.....wow.

 

 

After following Ted's meandering story for these last several years, I am a little disappointed. 

 

 

I can't believe after all that buildup, The Mother, (who we finally find out, thanks to a lost-then-found-again yellow umbrella, is named Tracy) dies in the end.  We don't know from what, but we know they were together for seven years before they marry, and he is telling the story six years after she is gone.  And he's telling it in 2030.

 

Lily and Marshall wind up with three children (though they didn't tell us what the last one was) and Marshall runs for state supreme court.

 

Interesting plot twist. Karma catches up to Barney, the old tail chaser, and one of his conquests winds up pregnant.  Months later we see that Barney unwittingly becomes the proud papa to, of all things, a baby girl. Then we get to see a more mature, settle Barney. At Last! Who hasn't had children and was suddenly changed forever?  But one moment, almost brought me to tears, and not out of the sweetness of the moment. When he meets "Ellie" for the very first time, he says to her " All that I am and all that I have,  is yours forever." and he kisses her little forehead. But I wasn't thinking about that.

 

That had been part of our vows.  I remember standing in the church, looking into D/H's beautiful chocolate brown eyes, tears still glistening on his cheek from my walk down the aisle, and hearing our preacher say it.  I had been sick that day and was on all kinds of sinus medicine, and cough medicine and overcome by happiness, lost in that moment, and not quite hearing what he had said.  "All that I am, and all that I have, I give to you." Simple enough. I can say it now, but at the time it had sounded like a big ol' tongue twister. It may has well been Sally sells seashells by the sea shore right then. I turned to the preacher and said in my best Southern English "Do what?" The whole congregation had laughed.   And here I was, fifteen years later, reliving that split-second in time.  I couldn't breathe.

 

Funny how the littlest things bring up the biggest heartache. It was hard enough to just watch these last few months, knowing that it had been something that we had shared and enjoyed together. Recording it and watching it together each week. Trying to deduce from all the clues who the mother might be.  Little things.

 

But enough about that.

 

There were some great moments over the years and who hasn't incorporated some catch-phrases and other quirky little thoughts to their everyday lives. The Bro-Code, Pause, son of a beesh, The Slap, and of course,  It's gonna be legen...wait for it...dary!

 

But predictably enough, Ted winds up on Robin's doorstep, carrying the Blue French Horn, from their very first date.  These past nine seasons were getting to the fact that he was actually telling them the reasons he was thinking about Robin.  And the kids kinda knew it all along.

 

It was obvious throughout the years that Ted really held a torch for Robin, so I guess it was fate that we end the show almost where it had started.

 

And all good things must come to an end.

 

Now what am I going to do with my Mondays?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



No Foolin'

Today was my grandfather's birthday.  Had he lived, he would have been 93.

Yes, April 1st for the rest of the world is April Fools Day. But for my family, it was Grandaddy's birthday.  And he deserved to enjoy his birthday, with all the respect and fun due anyone else on their birthday.

And for that reason, out of respect for him, we do not play April Fool's jokes.

Now Grandaddy enjoyed a good joke as much as anyone, but this day seemed to bring out the comedian in everyone, good, bad, or otherwise. 

Over the years, we had all heard the stories of bad practical jokes that he would endure on his birthday.  Like the pilot , on a trip back home from California,  who told a plane full of passengers that my grandfather would get to fly the plane, just because it was his birthday.  But the joke would have been on him, as my grandfather actually could fly the plane, having been a mechanic in the US Army Air Corp in World War II.  "Just like test driving a car" he used to say, " how do you think we knew we'd fixed 'em."

Grandaddy also loved a good toe-tapper, so when I heard this song this morning on The Rick and Bubba Show, I thought it'd be perfect for today.

Happy Birthday Grandaddy!

 

Mission Temple Fireworks Stand ~ Paul Thorn - 

(Mission Temple Fireworks Stand - Perpetual Obscurity2002)