Love her, Love her, Love her!!!

I have so much respect for Martina McBride. She is someone that I've followed since the beginning of her career and I really admire her as an artist and as a person. She sings songs that heighten our awareness of things and aspects of life that we don't always find front and center. I heard this song, "Anyway", on the radio this morning when I was coming back from putting my little girl on the bus, so I just had to come in and youtube it...LOL. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Happy Birthday Wrong Way...

I got such a kick out of the look on the girl's face at Dairy Queen when she asked what name I wanted on the birthday cake that I ordered yesterday for my brother. I told her "Wrong Way" and she started to reach for a piece of paper because I believe that she thought I was pronouncing a foreign name or something. She said "can you spell it?" and I said "yeah, it's just like it sounds w-r-o-n-g...w-a-y." She started to giggle and said "oh, you mean wrong way!!!" The other girls thought it was comical too. Hey, it's the man's nickname. What can I say?

I just finished the book that I've been reading about the Hairston family. It is a historical book and I really enjoyed reading it although some parts of it made me sad and some parts infuriated me. Now I'm reading 'Between Sundays' by Karen Kingsbury.

The weather forecast is calling for a terrible storm starting tonight and carrying through til Wednesday morning. I hope that it doesn't shut everything down. I hate for people to have to travel in that kind of weather and that's one thing that I like about subbing. I can refuse the assignment or ever cancel it if I think the roads are too bad. My assignment today was shortened by two hours because of the weather. We had a two hour delay. I didn't mind because I love making the same pay for working two hours less...LOL.

I'm going to go curl up with my book and see what's happening next. I might crochet a little, too. I've been trying to re-learn this long lost hobby and it seems that all I can remember is the really simple stitches. Oh, well, I guess I can't expect this old brain to retain everything, can I?

Be Careful What You Wish For...

I had to go and open my big mouth about having unseasonably warm weather for this time of year in WV. Well, now we are supposed to be down to 0 tomorrow night. I'm sorry Lord! I really wasn't complaining! Merely making an observation! Luckily there isn't any school on Friday anyway. However, that is the day that Carly is scheduled for her first All County Chorus practice, which is at a high school about 45 minutes from here. That'll be fun - trying to drag a grouchy little bear cub out in that kind of weather. Another thing that I'm kind of worried about is that Dylan is supposed to go snowboarding at Winterplace tomorrow evening from 5-10 pm with the Extreme Sports Club. I hope that they cancel or reschedule it. I can't imagine them having a very good time out there on the slopes in single digit weather. He's pretty excited, though, because he has never been before. I would just like to keep everyone inside all bundled up when it's cold out, but I know that is wishful thinking.