Today's List of things to do:

1) Feed the horses. DONE! (I know, I'm one of THOSE people...put things on my list that I've ALREADY done, so I can have the satisfaction of crossing it off!) Hehehe!!

2) Do laundry; put clothes on hangers; put away. Fun, fun, fun....

3) Clean that fridge out!! UGH!!!

4) Go to Lowe's; buy gift card for Ashly!

5) Go to Habitat for Humanity house dedication at 2:00!! So excited for my friend, Ashly, and her son!! I was privileged to help paint the outside of her new house and storage building earlier this year!! I want to help actually BUILD a house next time!! That's on my Bucket List!

6) Hopefully, go visit my grandbaby on my way home!!

7) Cross off something else from YESTERDAY'S list!!

8) R & R for the rest of the day!!


On another note.....I have new neighbors!! I think I'm going to LOVE them. They are a sweet little family from Texas, with two small children. The mom LOVES horses, and asked permission to pet Charlie and Brock, and even offered to feed/water them if I'm ever gone or just need help with them. She grew up around horses and loves to ride!! She also loves to garden, just like me!! They are Christians! Thank you, Lord, for sending such a sweet family to live next door!! I'm so thankful!! :)

To Do List, for today:

1) Mow two lawns, one lot, and one pasture. It's time. I've been putting it off. Need to mow before it turns into a baling hay job.

2) Clean the kitchen. Clean the fridge out. Too many science projects in there. ;)

3) Vacuum and shampoo carpet. I forgot what color my carpet is SUPPOSED to be!

4) Start packing for next weekend's trip!! :)

5) Purchase birthday gift and goodies for next weekend's trip!

6) Decide which of the above to do first.....where's that set of dice?

7) Drink glass of mint iced tea first, in order to make the right decision....

SUMMER BUCKET LIST:

(I can do that, right? A bucket list for summer only? Yes, my vote is YES, I can do that!)

1. Read at least five of the books on my "To Read" list! (currently reading two books, I can never just read one at a time.)

2. FINISH cleaning my house SOON!!

3. Go on a solo road trip. Wait, I've already done that! Went to Canton, Texas, a couple of weekends ago!! First Monday Trade Days!! DONE!!!

4. Go on a road trip with friends. On the schedule for NEXT weekend!! :) Can't wait!

5. Go to at least one movie in the theater.

6. Go to at least one play at the PAC, haven't been to one in a while.

7. Go to a Driller's game. Haven't been to one of those in a while either.

8. Get caught up on my painting projects!

9. Write, write, write!!!

10. Go for a hot air balloon ride.

11. Lose 20 more pounds!

12. After losing 20 more pounds, go skydiving!

13. Go swimming!!

14. Meet the man of my dreams.....hahaha!! Yeah, right! Then,

15. Dance in the rain.

16. Go to the new Admiral Twin Drive-In Theater!

17. Go to a rodeo.

18. Go fishing.

19. Shampoo my carpet.

20. Visit friends and family more.

21. Oh, almost forgot!! Go camping!! I miss camping so much!! It's been YEARS!!

Don't want much, do I?? :) Let's see how many of these items I get accomplished!

Please, summer, slow down. I want this break to last a LOOONNNGGG time!!! I have been busy every day since school let out. I have to get everything done soon, so I can actually start enjoying my summer break.

Once again, I feel like I'm in limbo. I hate that feeling. I don't like not knowing all the details of what's going to happen. I NEED to know the details, the facts, the plan. However, God has different ideas about that. :)

I know we're supposed to take "one day at a time". But, that's even too much right now. I'm taking one second at a time. One moment at a time.

Do we ever get to a point in our lives where everything is calm, ordered, and planned out? Do we ever get to experience peace? One would think that since I am in this house all by myself, with my kiddos living in different towns, I would be experiencing some nice, quiet, "peace". I now feel the need to go see them, go help them, go visit them. I feel the need to take multiple road trips to here, there, and everywhere. Why am I not happy just staying in this house and cleaning, organizing, and just experiencing peace and quiet?

I'm ready for order. I'm ready for calm. I'm ready to know what HIS plan is for me. I'm ready to know if I'm going to be in this house all by myself forever. :(

I'm so confused. Why does life have to be so hard? Choices. Too many options. Not enough information. Not enough time. Dear, Lord, please help.

Went to Claremore today; got my hair cut; met a friend; visited with her, THEN, went to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore shop. I took my friend, C., who had never been to a ReStore shop. This was my first time to go to the one in Claremore. I wasn't impressed. I like the one in Tulsa MUCH more! It's ten times bigger!! However, I did find an old blue and white speckled coffee pot for $7.00, with all the perculator parts!! LOVE!

Then.....I went to a new little crafty/antique mall. Found quite a few interesting things at reasonable prices. I only bought one thing though. It's a gorgeous, old raggedy door, with a missing glass pane on the top half of the door. Someone had the generosity to sand the door completely down. In fact, I can see just a few tiny specks of white paint that they missed. There is just a bit of carving on the bottom half of the door, nothing elaborate, just very simple lines. I love it. I'm thinking I'll do either a white wash or do the exact opposite end of the extreme spectrum and paint it a lovely shade of turquoise, add a screen where the glass once was, then sand some paint off and antique it. After that, it may become a prop for Morgan's jewelry at our next craft show, or I may just lean it up against the wall and let it look pretty! Oh!! The best part of this purchase? It was $15.00!

I went to school bright and early this morning to help my friend move her classroom down to the basement. I know, basement? But, it's a good thing. It's a HUGE room with tons of storage. One of our other special education teachers is leaving, so her classroom was up for grabs. My friend, C., is taking that room, which leaves her room up for grabs. Since my friend's room is available, I'm going to be taking her room. So....I helped her move all of her classroom belongings down to the basement, and may I just say....she has a LOT of things! When we finished moving all of her things, we moved all of my classroom goods to her old room. Now, I have a much bigger room!! Yeah!!! I'm so excited to have a bigger, better room(just around the corner and down the hall from my old room)!!! The walls are freshly painted, well, at least they were a year ago, but, that's fresh enough for me. I love the color. It's between a sky blue and turquoise-ish, minty, color. This is one happy chica!!! :)

I arrived at school about 8:15 this morning, and left about 4:50. We took a short lunch break, but, other than that, we were packing, loading the dolly, the flat bed, riding the elevator up and down, and moving boxes, furniture, etc., all day long. I hope I can move in the morning!! My body is ready for bed. But, it feels good to be finished with moving absolutely EVERYTHING. Now, the next project will be to UNPACK all of those umpteen boxes this summer. Hopefully, while doing that, I can throw some of it away and de-clutter as I go. We didn't have time for that today; we just needed to get everything moved while we had each other's help. What a relief to get this much done to my classroom so early in the summer!! :)

We have to wait until after the custodians go in to clean and wax the beautiful wood floors before we can go back in and start unpacking our boxes. Our building is old and I love it. Others think we need a newer, modern building. Not me. I love old buildings, and this one especially reminds me of my old junior high and high school buildings back home. These older buildings have great bones, beautiful exterior character, and who couldn't love the wood floors and huge windows? Granted newer bathrooms, a more reliable heating and cooling system, and a bigger cafeteria would be nice, but, they're still performing their intended functions. Oh, and did I mention, there are several ghost stories floating around (no pun intended) about our wonderful building? I've never been one to believe in ghosts or the supernatural, nevertheless, I really wouldn't want to be in this building by myself, after dark. But, that describes any school I've ever been in after hours. They're always spooky to me (and I don't really spook easily) when it's late and you're alone in one. Oh, well, more on the ghost stories later.

Goodnight.

I'm trying really hard to fight the urge to ask you to call me. I need to know that you are okay. I heard about the man that lost his life, and that there were three others injured, as well. I need to know that you are okay, that you weren't one of the three that was injured. This is killing me. I hate this. I'm praying that you were no where near this accident. I'm praying that none of these people were friends of yours. Mostly, I'm just praying that you are okay. You are alive. Please be alive.

Oh, wow! I just realized that last post of mine was post number 300!! I had no clue. Now, if only I had been using all this time and energy toward my first book! Hehehe! Hmmmm.....oh, well, I love blogging. It's good for the soul, and my sanity!

I did three massages yesterday and three today. Actually, one of the three today was a baby massage! My little grandson, Jakob, watched me give his mom one, then commenced to taking his shirt off and wanting on the table for a "sawge" as he called it!! He likes his back massaged, but, he's a little ticklish around the neck. He's such a sweetie! I went to watch him and take pictures of his swimming lesson this morning, then, on to his new house to give his mom a massage.

After not doing any massages for a couple of weeks, three massages both yesterday and today, has worn me out!! I'm ready for bed, and it's just 6:31 p.m.! However, I need to go feed and water the horses first, then, I think I'll take my shower and get in bed early tonight.

Tomorrow, I'm driving to Stillwater to take some things to Morgan. I just made some chicken and rice to take to her. I'm sure she's getting tired of "microwave food". Yuck! I'm sure that would get old really fast. I won't spend the night this time. I need to get back home and get some more cleaning done, plus, I GET my massage on Thursday! I definitely DON'T want to miss that.
I've missed way too many of my massages here this past month or so. I can really tell it too.

Also, I need to get back to the gym!! I haven't gone in almost two weeks! EGADS!! I normally go at least three or four times every week. I've been doing that since last June or July. I'm addicted. I just had too many things going on the last few weeks of school, and didn't get to go as often as normal, then, when school was out, it all just came to a dead halt! Ugh. I can really tell I haven't been doing my workout OR getting my massages. I don't like it! I feel much better when I'm doing the gym and massage thing on a regular basis. My gym time is also my reading time! I read while walking on the treadmill. I'm also having withdrawal from the reading thing. I just started a new book, then, when I finish that one, I'm going to tackle as many of the new books on my Kindle as possible this summer. My cousin's daughter, H., just downloaded over 300 new (and even better, FREE) books onto my Kindle. Mostly, murder/mystery...all of John Grisham's books, all of James Patterson's, J.D. Robb, and many other collections, as well as, a new "spicy" little collection that is totally NOT in my preferred genre, but, highly recommended by several. Hmmm....can't wait to get started on my summer reading list! :)

Hoping this works. For some reason, the last few days when I try to post, I'm not able to type in the compose box. It acts like it's "loading up", but won't ever stop "loading up" to let me type. I got into my "settings" and changed back to the "old editor" or something like that(?). I've never had this problem before. Are these problems caused because I haven't updated to the new Blogger interface? Someone please help!! I've even read all the "Help" areas. What am I doing wrong? I tried posting from my phone. It worked once, then, not the next time. I'm clueless, and really going through "writing withdrawal"!!! Help!!

Testing, again.....