Blondes and Communicating

Blondes and communicating.  A very interesting topic.  

For instance, one night my friend, D and I decided to meet for dinner and drinks.  We decided on a nice restaurant, the time was 5pm.  Oh, did I mention she is a brunette?

I get there and sit at the bar, order a glass of chardonnay and begin to read the newspaper that was lying on the counter.  Time gets away and I look at my watch, 20 minutes has now gone by!  "That's strange," I think to myself, because her and I are very punctual people.  We both had high stress, fast- paced careers and were used to being very prompt for any meeting, anywhere.  I waited a few more minutes thinking maybe rush hour was holding her up.  But no phone call either!?  

Alas, I called her.  Maybe I got the name of the restaurant wrong, or the time wrong.  Anyway, she answers her phone.  "Where are you?", I ask.  "I'm here", she replied.  "Where?", I ask.   D. mentions the name and we are at the same restaurant!  She had been sitting at a table waiting for me!  Now, I ask you.  Who got the directions correct?  Well, being a blonde, I just assumed it was me!  

I look around and there at this table she was waving at me!  Duh!  We had a good laugh!

Thoughts on Today

Today I sit at my desk in my home office thinking...  What is it that I can do today that will make me feel as though I've lived today and for today.  You see, I've been recently laid off from my full time job.  As we all know, where ever we hold down a full time career position at any company, we wear many hats to make things flow.  I too, toted the many hat thing at my old job.  I could handle them all very well, not one mistake.  Also being the most educated there, one would think I was probably also the most paid besides the owners.  NOT!

Well, that is in the past now.  Time to move on to bigger and better things.  I once heard a favorite pastor say "You cannot move forward if you're staring in the rear view mirror!"  How true is that statement.  We need to only dwell on past situations to learn from them.  After all, hindsight is twenty-twenty.

Back to today,  my accomplishments will vary from cleaning up my loaded desk here at home to cleaning the house from top to bottom, Fall cleaning time.  I'll rearrange my living furniture for the Fall season.  This always gives me a lift, maybe a little control over some things in my life.  I hand over, or at least try to hand over the big things to God to control.  He knows what I need and when I need it.  Maybe my faith is being tested, maybe I need to find a local church to go to.

There are so many things I will be writing about on my blog.  Hope you come back and visit again!