I can’t believe how quickly that time has seemed to pass lately.  It seems like I can’t get anything done!  Anyway, here’s what’s going on with me…..

Hurricane Update

Last night, I met some really sweet kids at church that had been bused from one of the shelters.  Well, not really a shelter…it’s a state park facility with cabins and stuff, so a lot better than just a normal old shelter.  Anyway, point being, these kids were so sweet!  One boy kept thanking everyone for inviting him and picking him up.  He said that it was nice to get away.  All they have to do over there is play basketball.  And, he likes my little cousin Taylor…so maybe a little romance.  LOL!  Another girl told me that she was excited because her family had decided to stay in our town after everything was over with.  She said that they had been so touched by everyone’s generosity that they wanted to live somewhere like that.  I thought that was odd until my aunt Sarah told me her shelter-working experience from last week.

She said that she had went to Metarie and worked.  She is a really loud, smiling, boisterous person.  The type that you don’t want around when you need peace and quiet.  LOL!  Anyway…she was talking to a man who told her that he was shocked at how nice all of the state workers from the northern part of the state were.  He told her that he was so surprised at how generous and helping everyone was.  She blew it off by telling him that he would have done the same had the situation been turned.  He told her that he definitely would not have.  He talked about how people in his town (not sure where) never helped their neighbors out in times of trouble and this was a totally foreign concept to most of them.  He said that anyone who would have had probably been ripped off enough that they had quit doing things like that.  So, I guess these people in our town see a group of people that care about one another and want to be part of that.  We are like that with each other as well.  A childhood friend of mine has a father who is basically a vegetable in a rehabilitation hospital after a massive heart attack 3 weeks ago.  He worked at the paper mill that LuckyHusband works at.  All of the guys from this man’s area have been pitching in and paying for his insurance so that his wife won’t have to worry.  They are going to continue to do this indefinitely.  They also raised hundreds of dollars by worker donations to give to the family for expenses.  I can’t imagine living somewhere where this isn’t the norm.  I know that if anything ever happened to me where I was unable to care for my husband and child, there would be tons of people pitching in to help.  I can see why these people want to stay. 

There are so many ways that our town has changed in the past 2 weeks.  The local high school got a star quarterback from Slidell and also is a possible love interest for Hooker. Apparently he’s pretty cute, of course she claims that she doesn’t want a boyfriend.  LOL!  I’ll have to go to a game and check him out.  Supposedly a man who has relocated and plans on staying is going to open a restaurant.  I can’t wait.  I bet the food will be unbelievable!  And I know personally, it has made so many people take time to think of others instead of themselves. 

Okay…onto something else…

My office is about to institute a new dress code.  I’m so distressed about this.  Formerly, any day of the week, I could be found in jeans, usually some form of flip flops, and a comfortable shirt.  Now, no flip flops and no jeans except on Fridays!  I had to go clothes shopping this weekend (a huge source of dread for me!) and I bought a couple of pairs of dress pants and a couple of dressier shirts.  Today, I’m dressed in khakis, a dressy tunic-type shirt and some really large platform like sandals.  They are killing my feet already!  This is going to take a TON of getting used to.  I just really, really, really hate dressing up.  And this is dressed up for me.  Grrrrr…..  If they don’t specify anything other than no jeans, I’m tempted to find a nice comfy pair of jogging pants.  Hmmm…or yoga pants..those look really comfy.  And if I ever decide to take up yoga (yeah right) I’ll have them.

Books

I read There’s No Place Like Home by Mary Higgins Clark this weekend.  Great book.  I was really shocked by the ending.  Usually I have it semi-figured out by the end.  That’s what happens when you grow up with a detective for a dad and then you get to talk to your cop brother about his cases.  So, I’m always glad for one that kind of fools me.  I ordered some new books from the book club I joined (which by the way isn’t so bad…I kinda like it).  So, I can’t wait until they come in!  I also should have a hold book in at the library to read today.  Yippee!!!

Random Crap

I read in this month’s Glamour that if you sleep with your face on the pillow it will give you wrinkles.  If you sleep on one side instead of the other, that side will have more wrinkles.  Now I’m sure I will be constantly obsessed with not sleeping on my face.  Great…something else to keep me up at night.

Have a great week!

Melissa