Must Not Be....

So I must not be a real blogger.  I just have had more than a few reasons to not post.  None of which are very important.  None of them are very significant.  Most include some form of "I don't have anything much to say."

Forget the fact that I have new television shows to watch.  Oh my goodness, we have had new episodes of Desperate Housewives, and Castle, and Oprah, not to mention that most late night shows have all new big guests and no reruns.  And as a personal highlight, Anderson Cooper has guest-hosted on Regis and Kelly more than a few times.  Mike knows he is my boyfriend.  I mean boyfriend, as in, he is way cute and super smart and lives about 2000 miles away from my happily married self.  And then I saw that I could start watching Friday Night Lights from the very beginning on ABC Family.  More good news!

And maybe the biggest news of all -- the return of fall college football!!!  Woo hoo!  I can watch nearly any team.  I love Love LOVE college football.  And yesterday I watched about two days full, all in one.  Okay, I just watched a bunch.  In fact, I was a bum.  Yep.  Laid on the chair all day.  Well, I finally just gave in and decided to be sick, since I was anyway.  Much to the family's glee, I have not had a voice to speak with for the better part of 4 days.  Yeah, well, and I am better now, and autumn is here, so life is good. 

Ended the day with a freshly mowed yard.  No, not due to any effort on my part.  Mike spent the biggest part of the day mowing, weed-eating and watering the orchard.  A big bunch of trees planted in and around the yard.  And I shouldn't have called it that, because there isn't a fruit-bearing tree in the bunch. 

And regarding the "new" Carlos on Desperate -- there isn't a "new" Carlos!  That's the 'original' Carlos, he just lost some weight!  Sorry for the spoiler!

Just a Regular Day

Yesterday was a day I had been really looking forward to.....  because it was time to start the new Bible study!  And it was so great!  Do you know Beth Moore?  She is the queen of Biblical studies.  My little Thursday morning group is repeating a study we did about 3 years ago, and after watching the first DVD presentation yesterday, it is like I have never seen it before.  Good gosh, I am losing it.  No doubt, every other part of it will be equally as new to me.

Then I ended up running errands all day.  I don't know how I can fill up a day with basically doing nothing, but I am capable.  Washed my car, but before I did, I put some magic stuff on the grill and windshield to remove the bugs, then I filled it with gas, ran to the grocery store, did some laundry, steamed some of it, watered the plants, decided they needed some Miracle Gro, gave them that, went to the post office, went to the eye doctor, made some phone calls and plans for a wedding shower soon to be held at my house -- then I fixed supper and took a shower before settling in for my evening computer time.  I'm really not even tired.  It's just almost time for bed. 

Oh, and another thing I did was go on a golf ball hunt.  This is an almost nightly ritual that we have started.  We take the razor and go down in the pasture behind the house, looking for golf balls.  Don't ask me why.  We don't golf.  We just enjoy the hunt for the stray golf balls.  Oh, the excitement of a small town!

Which reminds me.... a couple of days ago, there was a small airplane crash out at the airport.  The airplane was piled up, not damaged too badly, at the end of the runway.  Call me crazy, but I wanted to know more about it.  I have been watching the newspaper, and so far, there has been not one word about it.  Really?  Did I say it's a small town?  I mean really small.  This kind of stuff doesn't happen that people don't know what is going on.  Apparently, everyone knows but me.

Whew!  Now I am in my bed, counting the days to the time change, watching a bigtime Division II football game on tv, waiting for the 10:00 pm local news.  I simply had to share with you the details of my busy day.  Hope I didn't scare you away forever.

Something Borrowed

Today's post I am borrowing from the late Kyle Lake, Pastor of University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas.  This is an excerpt from one of his final sermons.

“Live.  And Live Well.  BREATHE.  Breathe in and Breathe deeply.  Be PRESENT.  Do not be past.  Do not be future.  Be now.  On a crystal clear, breezy 70 degree day, roll down the windows and FEEL the wind against your skin.  Feel the warmth of the sun.  If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to FREEZE your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE.  Get knee-deep in a novel and LOSE track of time.  If you bike, pedal HARD… and if you crash, then crash well.  Feel the SATISFACTION of a job well done—a paper well-written, a project thoroughly completed, a play well-performed.  If you must wipe the snot from your 3-year old’s nose, don’t be disgusted if the Kleenex didn’t catch it all… because soon he’ll be wiping his own.  If you’ve recently experienced loss, then GRIEVE.  And grieve well.  At the table with friends and family, LAUGH.  If you’re eating and laughing at the same time, then might as well laugh until you puke.  And if you eat, then SMELL.  The aromas are not impediments to your day.  Steak on the grill, coffee beans freshly ground, cookies in the oven.  And TASTE.  Taste every ounce of flavor.  Taste every ounce of friendship.  Taste every ounce of Life.  Because-it-is-most-definitely-a-Gift.”

I love the part about being present.  Being now.

The whole thing was just too good not to share...