Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Memorial Day Weekend

I've decided I should write a post about something so I'm going to write about what an absolutely hysterical time Memorial Day was in the ATL.

The festivities took place at Kingsland, my mother's parents house on Kingsland Court in Vinings, GA, and BaaBee, my grandmother, decided she would invite lots of friends. So who was there? Well, Momma, Daddy, Giles, Margaret, Vivian, and PeggyDee and BaaBee and DanDan, of course. Now the company included Becky, her nurse Shwana, Joan Palmer, who went to high school with BaaBee, her daughter, Gail, who owns the Pottery Shop and Doodlebug in Symrna, and cousin Karen. Let me just say it was quite a crowd. For those of you who have ever asked me how people are in the South, especially women, this was the epitomy of Southern women. Everything relates to a story and oh, did you know so and so and it's the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life, it addition to hoping in some odd way that I'll turn out just the same. A Southern woman who has seen her fair share of history, had some adventures along the way and just happens to know some incredible people and many of them well known, famous or only so in their own mind. :-)

I got to hear about Joan's "home," MLK, Jr.'s secretary, stories from the first female air traffic controller to Hartsfield Airport, learned about some new connections of friends who sing for the MET and conduct, stories of playing for Robert Shaw, discovering penicillin in Alabama before it was discovered in London and the list keeps going. The amazing thing is that it all comes from people in my family. Isn't my family cool?! I love family gatherings, they're so hysterical, you hear great stories and you manage to learn something along the way.

Anyway, that was my weekend in a nutshell, in addition to a voice lesson Saturday, singing in church and several times over again Sunday evening at church and for the lovely Tenney family and getting back to work at NGPC this morning. :-)

I hope everyone's having a wonderful summer!

Monday, May 23, 2005

Procrastination!

Avoiding everything I should be doing right now... :-)

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

The Wonderful Women In My Circle

Adrienne sent this to me. Sorry about the funky text. :-)

THE WONDERFUL WOMEN IN MY CIRCLE

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When I was little, I used to believe in the concept of one best friend, and

then I started to become a woman. And then I found out that if you allow

your heart to open up, God would show you the best in many friends. One

friend's best is needed when you're going through things with your

children. Another friend's best is needed when you're going through things with your mom. Another when you want to shop, share, heal, hurt, joke, or just be. One friend will say let's pray together, another let's cry together, another let's fight together, another let's walk away together. One friend will meet your spiritual need, another your shoe fetish, another your love for movies, another will be with you in

your season of confusion, another will be your clarifier, another the wind beneath your wings. But whatever their assignment in your life, on whatever the occasion, on whatever the day, or where ever you need them to meet you with their gym shoes on and hair pulled back or to hold you back from making a complete fool of yourself... those areyour friends. It may all be wrapped up in one woman, but for many it's wrapped up in several... one from 7th grade, one from high school, several from the college years, a couple from old jobs, several from Church, on some days your mother, on others your sisters, and on some days it's the one that you needed just for that day or week when you needed someone with a fresh perspective, or the one who didn't know all your baggage, or the one who would just listen without judging...those are good girlfriends/best friends. I thank my girlfriends, those who honor intimacy, those who hold trust, and those who hold me up when life is just too heavy! The special bond we share is unique. Thanks for the words we've shared. The prayers we've sent up. The laughs, the tears, thephone calls, the emails, the shopping, the movies, the lunches, the dinners, the talking, talking, talking and the listening, listening, listening.... So whether you've been there 20 minutes or 20 years, you are special to me!


Pass this on to the women that God has placed in your life to make a difference.

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Back in GA!

Hello. Just wanted to say that I'm back in my beautiful home state of Georgia. Don't know that I'll be able to see many people other than my family and co-workers this summer but hopefully that will change. I'm working at the North Georgia Pain Clinic again as a receptionist, making money, saving money. That's about it. Off to work! :-)

Monday, May 09, 2005

Kim Kallianos

I know you'll probably never read this or even know how I found this out, but I'm really proud of you and glad that I'm able to call you a friend, even though we haven't seen each other or talked to each other in forever. Love you!

http://www.distinguishedscholarships.unc.edu/2005_Goldwater_recipients.html

Monday, May 02, 2005

It's been a while...

Hi everyone. So I'm posting something really short just to complain about how many random little things I have to do and I really don't know where to start! So I'm currently avoiding everything and writing a post...okay...1...2...3...here I go!

Junior year is almost over...scary...