R is for REASONS

Have you ever really thought about your Reasons for being here? Your purpose, what you are meant to do and accomplish in this life?  I honestly do not question that, as my life's path has pretty much shown me the way, and I just roll with it.  Now please bare with me my writing skills, as I was that kid in HS that was sleeping every chance a movie came on BORING!~ NAP time for Debbiedoos.  The only interest In HS I had was boys,  typing, shorthand, and general business where you learned to file and index.Now do not get me wrong, I am by no means proud of this behavior I HAD, and regret it very much. I am just being honest here.  Now if my boys ever exhibited such....let's just say RUN, RUN, RUN as fast as you can! ( I can hear little bro saying that to Alex!
This is a pretty good picture I found, I always made sure I had my pencil in hand, made it look like I was taking notes.  Basically, I was a rebel without a cause, so you would have thought.   Some teachers loved me, some teachers hated me. I knew they hated me because they more or less told me ( I was thrown out a few two, three, four of classrooms)  The principal knew me well, he liked me though so that was a good thing. The teachers I did have that liked me, saw there was some deep potential in me, and they wanted to help and guide me in the right direction.  I still remember them fondly. I made it through HS and just wanted out.  I wanted to get an office job.  College really was not in the cards for me.  Again, not because I had no potential, I had no drive, I had not a care or concern.  My Mom encouraged me, but I just would not hear of it...again REBEL! I did go on in life and succeed, by my definition of success. I was happy with what I was doing and still am. My life could not be  more blessed.  Thankfully because of the business classes I did take and love, I was able to get decent jobs.  I started off part time in a 5 physician practice. I had very strong work ethic, and learned that from my Mom, who worked very hard to take care of two daughters on a waitress job.  I loved what I was doing, and before you knew it, I was full time.  One thing about me, is I have a Type A personality so If I am driven toward something I love, I will succeed at anything I put my mind to. I worked there for 5 years.  In between there I worked for an attorney...not sure what my reason or purpose was with that job.  The Man was nuts! However, I did learn a lot, and in the process managed one of his 4 offices.  The first Doctors office actually called me to return, and I did, but with a matching salary, they agreed.  From there I went on to work for a Female Oncologist for 8 years, and managed her practice.  I basically did everything but inject the chemo, we of course had a nurse.   Whewwwww......you want to talk about a hard job~! My first year there I spent many days leaving there crying.  By this time in my life, the Rebel was gone and I had developed more compassion for people.  Not that I did not before, but I never gave it too much thought. I was young.  Many of patients touched my life.  When I got married, the kindness was overflowing between gifts and cards.  Then when I got pregnant...I had a patient start making me a blanket, while receiving her treatments.  Let me put it this way, those patients became friends of mine, many of them and they forever touched my life.  After the birth of Alex,  Mike was still in College, I seriously could not wait to stop working, but had to for 10 short Months,  I worked two 10 hour days. We had no money, but managed just fine. I received the WIC program because of our income and I had a baby, let me tell you it was a life saver. Once I  became  a mother, that was my first and foremost priority in life, still is, nothing has changed. That was 13 years ago, and I have never returned to the work force since.  I have been very proactive with my boys and their educations. I am very driven for them, I want them truly to have the education, that I so lacked, through much fault of my own.   I have also mentioned to you all, my boys will never know the true Rebel I was.  I was a straight A and B honor roll student LMAO ( Laugh my ass off on that one)  Since I do not work I have found Blogging this past 4 months such a creative outlet that I am now tapping into.  I have always loved to decorate, have dabbled here in there with some small jobs, have always helped my friends, and pretty much change my own home every other day with something small.  Aside from being creative, I have always been very much a people person.  Love to be social, love to be part of the crowd.  My friends are kind and loving, and always have nice things to say to me and about me to others.  I have always been what you can say a sounding board for many.  SOmeone has a problem, they call me.  I usually do not have an answer, but I will listen, and sometimes that is all people need. Now onto my real REASON for this post.  Sorry it is long winded, did I mention I can talk, and as fast as I can talk I can type just as fast......
Now onto the real story....I had to preempt you with my  early teenage years background, I don't know why, just wanted to I guess!Really is not RELEVANT to this post.
There is someone out here in this virtual world that touched me dearly. And she is the REASON I posted this as  it is because of her I started this blog. There was a reason she came to me, a reason she encouraged me, and I want to thank her.
It started on a decorating site called RMS, I met many of women there, some have come and gone, some are here with me in this blogging World, and I treasure their friendships.
   Well RMS  was fun and I learned a lot in the process. There where at times some negativity on there.  I am not at all a negative person, and really do not do well with negativity around me or in my life....it's not in my life because I do not allow it.  Anyhow, this very special woman,  her user name was Glorify God.  Her first post was a garage door project that I just loved.  I went over to it, commented and from there her and I built a very short lived virtual friendship.  I remember the first time I visited her she and her daughter where at the computer reading my comment, she made me feel like I was  rock star or something.  She said her daughter jumped up and down and said that pretty girl came to our page.  You will never know how that touched me...seriously it was awesome~! Glorify God quickly started encouraging me to start a blog.  She is the one who actually came up with my name.  I would see her comments on many other posts, and she would tell everyone of her idea, and to please encourage me to start a blog.  I was no where near ready, or had even the slight bit of confidence that I could do it.  I would always thank her and tell her Oh maybe someday but not now.  Time had passed, she left the site, and I am guessing from someone who was unkind to her.  I talked about her often to my husband....I talked about a post that she had on her blog about dancing in a water fountain with her daughter. She really influenced me.  One day I mustered up the courage and started a blog, hence here I am.  I went to her existing posts and told her so.  I never did hear from her again.  I do believe she served her purpose and reason for coming into my life.  I just want her to know I think of her, and I appreciate everything she said and the seed she planted.  I am growing and learning, and really  do Love it! There was a time in the beginning I almost quit, as there where many posts on the jealousies amongst bloggers, bloggers who quit never to be seen again.  I had experienced my own share of  problems on the RMS site (mean spirited people, jealousy, etc)  and really did not want to go there again.  I decided NO, that was not going to happen here, I would not allow it, and to make it all that I wanted it to be...hence, I am, and I did!~  Do I want to reach and touch and inspire as many people as I can?  You bet I do...because that is who I am, and those are the REASONS I blog. I am in the process of making my audition tape for Oprah's new show! If you want to read about that go HERE~ Let me just say, right now, I hate doing videos, they seem unnatural to me, when I have to try so hard.  I will be taking a different approach...we shall see how it turns out. I can see why some movie stars hate to see themselves on screen....it is weird to watch yourself talk, you really critique yourself.  The one thing I know for sure, and my husband always tells me...I have a really small sized pea HEAD!
I will be linking this post to Jenny Matlocks, Alphabet Thursday.  Her weekly party always inspires me to write a  little more.  As you can see, I am not the best, but I can tell a pretty good story....now for all you teachers out there that read it and quiver over my grammar, punctuation and sometimes spelling, I do apologize and can only tell you, if I could change one thing about myself, it truly would be to care more about EDUCATION the first go at it. No I am not going back to school, so forget that....moving on to the Oprah show!~
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I just found this linky party too and thought I would link up...thank you:)


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