Until today, I have all but abstained from all personal social media. I mean, yes, I have a facebook account, which I check (poorly) for messages, wall posts... the occasional photo. I keep up with my sister's blog (mostly just to look at pictures of my adorable nephew) and I follow Ericka's (mostly to look at pictures of her adorable orphans and the amazing mission work that God is doing through her) But I have been missing out! I HATE losing touch with people. It keeps me up at night. Girl talk is good for my soul as I RE-learned today. While I've kept up with the surface things, important life moves and mission fields of my friends... I've missed just hearing their thoughts on Auburn and the death of the Soffee short more than words can express.
Katie has once again inspired me to start something new and exciting. The first time, she changed my life by helping me realize I was supposed to go into the Public Relations program at Auburn. There have been OH so many fantastic life discoveries that Katie has helped me see... this is just an addition to the list. I need to blog! I need to write-- even if it's about nothing essentially. I have this need to express my thoughts. Lately, I have become so engrossed in the amazing work that I get to do everyday; our incredible business opportunity that I've been blessed with getting to build; and I am still trying to get a grasp on the whole "being a good wife" thing. I've been so caught up in big important things of life, that I've totally missed the balance of triviality and true quality time! I was born an EXTREME extrovert, and although I am pretty good at getting to these to-do lists of my life... I NEED PERSONAL EXPRESSION like my poor newly-planted flowers need water to avoid their demise. So here it is... no promises of any spectacular, life-altering news and insight... just me. A warm, open place to share my opinions... AHH refreshing!
And really... it's not for you that I plan to post, although, I hope you will read and enjoy my wandering thoughts and share in my life with me. My sweet husband is great, but I often crave a bigger stage. I have been homesick lately... missing my awesome girlfriends from home... missing my family... missing Auburn, where my heart will always be. I think blogging is just the medicine I've been needing because it allows me an opportunity to talk selfishly about the unimportant things and not force any of my dear friends to listen when they are bogged down with their own busy lives. Blogging allows us to "hear" those "unimportant" things in our own time and stay connected in the simple things! So HOORAY!! I'm back to blogging.
Not to mention, I firmly believe that if you don't use it... you'll lose it. Please bear with me as I try to regain any creative writing skills I may have had as I'm knocking off some MAJOR rust right now!
A bit of randomness to get this thing started out right:
While thinking of rust, I started thinking... "man, I love WD40!" Did you know that it has 2,000+ uses? (my mind works in mysterious, rabbit-chasing ways!)
A few of my the most interesting uses I found from the WD40 website--
- getting Christmas tree sap off ornaments
Use the WD-40 Smart Straw to help clean frets on guitars and prevent strings from rusting
- keeps reptile skins pliable during taxidermy
- get fingerprints and smudges from your martial arts sword
So hey... the next time that you're making a snake skin belt or cleaning your martial art sword-- don't say I never gave you anything!
Thanks for reading. Much love to you all!! I'm off to watch some football! War Eagle!!
