Notice my title says runners/joggers???

That’s because everyone has their own definition of running/jogging. I JOG. Yes, I’d like to say that I RUN, but that would be a lie. You could WALK as fast as I jog, so maybe, I’m really a fast walker??? I refuse to believe that, because when I’m jogging, it feels like a RUN! I start off huffing and puffing, I sweat like I’ve been running for 10 miles and I get delirious, as in, not seeing CARS that are honking at me as I run in the middle of the road (how did I even get THERE??)

So, as you can tell, running/jogging takes A LOT out of me….like NO other exercise that I do. I have a FEW FRIENDS who are trying to talk me into doing the Country Music 1/2 Marathon in April….. (are you kidding?)

I do about three (3) miles each time I run/jog (about 3x a week) – and ONE day a year – on Thanksgiving- I do FIVE miles…that’s the Belle Meade Bolt Run…. that’s it. That’s all I do. I don’t know if I have it “IN” me to do 13 miles…

SO, my question to all who would like to help me….

DO I??? IF so, how do I know? What will tell me??? I’d like to know what YOU do to “keep going”…

I’m so confused….

Tonight was our FIRST EVER “Chicks-n-Chocolate” event at CPCC.

NEEDLESS TO SAY….. it was FABULOUS….not just because of the CHOCOLATE (which was AWESOME, thank you ANNABANANA for your YUMMY Oreo balls) but because it was a night with MARGARET BECKER !

For those of you who don’t know – she’s only one of the hottest Christian artist of MY time!! And “MY” time consisted of: Amy Grant, Margaret Becker, Susan Ashton, Chris Dente (Out of the Gray), Ashley Cleveland, Kim Hill and Charlie Peacock – just to name a few……

So, yes, I’m a CRAZY fan – (sorry maggie) but I can’t help myself…..I’ve waited 20 years to see her and I can’t even believe God totally blessed me w/her presence (even HOLDING HER HAND AS WE PRAYED TOGETHER BEFORE THE CONCERT – and let me just give a little “shout-out” to LORI for hooking me up w/the prayer time-if it weren’t for YOU, I would NOT have had this opportunity! THANK YOU SISTER!!)

God, you may now take me. (even though I’ve never gotten to meet Bret Michaels-it’s OK)

I also met Margaret’s manager, KAT and I was TOTALLY DIGGIN’ her!! (Kat, you’re on my blogroll now!!) And I simply MUST thank JENNI- she’s THE BEST….THANKS GIRLFRIEND….YOU ARE DA’BOMB!!!

ENJOY….

Margaret and me….(still not believing it)

Kat and me……(she is WAY COOL)

AnnaBanana…..(she’s SO PRETTY and makes the BEST Oreo Balls)

Jennifer…. STUFFING HER FACE w/all the chocolate at our table

IT WAS A FABBBBBBBBBBBBBULOUS TIME….. as Margaret truly is one of my all-time favorites..and she put on an awesome show, a little mini concert….

DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE ARTIST THAT YOU”VE GOTTEN TO MEET????

SO…..here we are picking up my bonus-son, Kyle, from work and he tells us there is a “film crew” at THE LOVELESS CAFE. I see people over there…but not A LOT… so Kyla and I take a trek over there to sit and watch (we’re thinking it’s for the MTV show, NEXT – since we see people wearing NEXT t-shirts)…

As I’m watching all this commotion, singing, dancing going on I see a GUY who LOOKS like Gene Simmson…but I think, NAAAAAh….. then he gets up to dance and I realize YES, it is GENE SIMMONS from the 70’s rock group KISS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (in case you all didn’t know)

NEEDLESS to say… I had to get my flip out and go get him!!! KYLA wanted a pic w/him because we do watch his reality show “FAMILY JEWELS” (yes, I’m a reality show junkie, I’ll admit it!!) SO…ENJOY…

If you’ll listen in the video (there’s alot going on-NONE of it being me) he says that he thought KYLA was my SISTER (HAHA-yeah, I get that ALL the time! NOT) and then we ask him to stick out his tongue and he doesn’t do it… HE’S GOT MORALS!! (When I tell him Kyla is 15!!) LOVE THAT!!! BTW, WAXYONE and 5TH STREET – I KNOW YOU’RE JEALOUS!!

Today was the annual Susan G. Komen 5K race…. I do this race EVERY year and have done it for the past ten – or so – years. I run in memory of those who have lost their battle with breast cancer and I run in honor of those who are survivors of breast cancer. I LOVE THIS RACE!

MY OTHER FRIENDS USUALLY run it too…but because of a scheduling conflict, they could not do it this year….(I MISSED YOU BOTH!!)

Here are a few pics of me and my friend Lori Horner…. we sure do have fun!

Here I am, checking my GARMIN….gotta sync it just right!!

LOTS OF PEOPLE all the way down the road….

HERE I COME FOR THE FINISH (over to your left people-blonde fuzzy head)…. 35 MINUTES LATER!!!!!!!!!

COMPLETE! FINI! DONE! FINISHED! THE END! IT’S OVER! THANK THE GOOD LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOW THE HECK DID THAT GET IN THERE????????????? GOOFY KARL!

This blog is for the ladies…(and guys too, I guess)…

Just saw this FABULOUS new product on BETTER TV today – It prevents HEEL WEDGIES!!

Check out the website KIXBYKATIE – THEN go check out her BLOG.

Hmmmm….it kinda looks like MY blog….

WISH I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THIS IDEA!!! WHAT’S AN IDEA THAT YOU’D LIKE TO MARKET?

So for those of you who didn’t guess right (on my prior post “Oh me, Oh my) THIS GIRL- FOR SURE DIDN’T KNOW

IT’S A DEEPER WRINKLE around my eye(s)!!!! WITH (I might add) an OLD AGE SPOT!!!! I’m doomed.
Yeah, sorry I can’t be like THIS OLD MAN – I will lie if push comes to shove.

NOW….for this post…..

CAN YOU GUESS WHERE I AM?????????? We are at “someone’s house” for a “Girl Get-together” so the pic is taken with me and my very dear friend, Sissy…. but WHOSE HOUSE ARE WE IN?

WELLLLLLLLLLLLL…..

SINCE THIS PERSON decided to BLAB to everyone about my DAY….. I guess I should let you all know that YES, today is my 4Xth b-day….and here is what I got (BESIDES my wonderful horse, Sweet Pea and some OTHER VERY NICE GIFTS FROM MY VERY NICE FRANS!!!!!!)

DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS????????????

BOOHOO…..

LAST Friday was not a good day…..

FIRST of all, there was that whole “gas shortage” (NOT) that really got everyone going…. in a PANIC! It was (and still is) totally ridiculous! Reminds me of the 1970’s when they said there was a gas shortage and had everyone running to the pumps for gas…(yeah, I just gave away my age)..

SECONDLY, our washer broke down!! THAT was serious!! My good ole washer and dryer was bought 14 YEARS AGO when we bought our first home in LaVergne!! And now, the time had come- a day I did NOT want to see – hence my motto, “You can’t really appreciate something until you’ve been without it.”

Our dryer went out a year or so back but THIS WONDERFUL GUY fixed it (and for everyone out there, HE CAN FIX ANYTHING and if he can’t, guess what… IT CAN’T BE FIXED!!)

So I was on a quest…. to find us a washer, a GOOD washer that wasn’t gross and wouldn’t break the little teeniney bank we have ($105.00 – to our name!)

CRAIGS LIST, here I come….TWITTER, here I come……INTERNET, here I come….

So I find one on CL (out of MANY but they were either too small, too old or already sold) he didn’t have a picture to show me – which is scary – but says he’ll meet me at 40 and Old Hickory at 9:30 am this morning…. I wait….I wait… I wait….. it’s now 10:00 am…. I LEAVE.

He calls me at 10:07am saying “I’M HERE”…. well, I’m NOT… and now I’m at McCrory…. but I figure, what the heck.. I’ll turn around and go look at it (just KNOWING it was going to be GROSS or something).. so I get there and he is SO NICE (all my ugly thoughts go out the window and GOD takes over) and I apologize for the “time mix-up” and I look at the washer and to my amazement….it’s PERFECTLY CLEAN…it WORKS (he even gave me a 10 day free trial on it)…. and he’ll even load it onto my truck for me!!

HOWEVER….it cost $125.00…. I have $105.00…. I tell him this….and he said “I can’t leave you with no money, I’ll take the hundred and leave you the five” …. IS THAT GOD OR WHAT????!!!!! PLUS he kept the whole “ten day warranty deal” for me….

I am VERY THANKFUL for this guy…. Mario was his name…

Look at my new washer…. I’ve already done 12 loads of laundry tonight (well, KARL has helped) and it’s just purrrring away!! It’s even BIGGER than my old one!! I just can’t live without my washer and dryer….

WHAT CAN YOU NOT LIVE WITHOUT?????

THIS SILLY GIRL tagged me… I’m NOT good at these games because I do not like to talk about myself….other people, YES – ME? NO.

BUT…because I LOVE HER… I’ll do it. So please forgive me on the ones that I have to TAG afterwards. BUT….if you LOVE ME, you’ll play. (I may have set myself up here on that one!)

Here are the rules:

Post the rules on your blog.

Write six (6) random things about yourself.

Tag six (6) other peeps

If you’re tagged, do it and pass on the tag.

HERE GOES:

1. I USED to own a 1987 Kawasaki EX500 motorcycle….until I got pregnant. (HOWEVER, I do still have my license…so watch out MERLYN!!)

2. I DON’T like crowds (like at church, parties, etc…makes me nervous and I’ll try to find a place to go hide or sit somewhere.)

3. I TRULY can’t wait to get to Heaven (I KNOW I KNOW…but I CAN’T!!!)

4. In high school, the superlative I got was “Most Friendliest”…. I missed “Most Popular” by FOUR VOTES (and I’m still not over it.)

5. I would have LOVED to have been on “Rock of Love” w/Bret Michaels…. but I’m too old (I can still wish.)

6. I have MANY OCD’s… and I do mean, many!

OK…here ya go six FRIENDS…

KAY

STEPHANIE

LORI

GINA

EM

MELISSA

I don’t even know HOW to tag these peeps…..

YEP, I’m married to a hunter. Korporate Karl is a REAL hunter.

AND now with my bonus-son, Kyle, living with us – I have TWO of them!

I am not a hunter – probably never will be….but when I saw this picture, all I could think of is that this is the SAME bird that GOD gave to Noah…. bringing back the branch… AWWWWWWW… (say it with me) – There is just something sacred about that – (in my mind, anyway)…

Now I know that THIS HUNTER, and THIS HUNTER, and THIS HUNTER will look at this picture IN AWE…. (LOSERS!)

Doves stand for peace….

I guess they have peace now.

Look at my two boys faces….. I am pretty proud of them!

Here’s a good subject…. WHAT DO YOU THINK GOD THINKS ABOUT HUNTING ?

SERIOUSLY….someone needs to do something about this crazy gas situation. I live here in FARVIEW, (fka Fairview)TN and the line at three of the gas stations I’ve been to is DOWN THE ROAD!

SERIOUSLY…it’s driving me CRAZY….and if ANYONE has ANY ideas….I’m in!!!  (I guess I could just ride my horse all around!)

SO DO TELL…..

I’ve made SO much progress w/my horse, Sweet Pea…. take a look at the video below and keep in mind that just a mere TWO weeks ago this horse would not go to ANYBODY!! You had to “capture” her… now look at my baby…

Oh happy day….

What makes YOUR day happy??

B O U N D A R I E S…..

We all have them – some more than others. As I get older, I learn to practice using my BOUNDARIES…. and I’m not gonna lie, it’s HARD!

Why is it, you have those people who want to OVERSTEP the boundaries with you? Then you are forced to put them back in their place, that is….if you can manage your boundaries well. If you can’t…then guess what, they have now taken control over the entire situation. And I don’t know about you, but that is a very vulnerable and scary place for me.

Here is a type of boundary that I have learned (and there are many types out there, this is just one scenario out of many.) When someone asks me to do something (no matter for them, for someone else or just because) the first thing I want to do is pray about it… so I tell them, let me pray about that and get back to you… then I have time to let God run it-not me. However there are times when someone will ask me to do something and it really will collide with what I’m doing in my space/time/life at the moment so I simply say “I’m sorry, but that’s not going to work for me.” P E R I O D….You don’t OWE someone an explanation. (We tend to forget that and start stammering around for why we can’t do it)..

Once you learn how to do that…you are well on your way to establishing HEALTHY boundaries with people and learn how to take control of your precious life/time. People are just that… they will take and take and take and not think a thing about it… I really could go on and on with this subject (all in a healthy Christian-sorta way-

But now I’ll let YOU tell ME:

How do you establish YOUR boundries??

I love it when children cater to God’s work… in this case, it’s my 15 year old daughter, KYLA. As you’ve seen/heard me blog on here before about her, she’s USUALLY your “typical teen” (and those of you who have THEM know exactly what I’m talking about.) Kyla volunteers at our church and she teaches (LOVES) ALL the one year olds that come to her class.

A FRIEND OF MINE has this ADORABLE little boy…his name is “Shawn”…. Kyla gets to be BLESSED by this baby every time he comes to the 9:00 am service that she teaches at. She gets to be BLESSED by ALL the babies that come to her and they get a blessing back! I am SO proud of her! She NEVER babysits….she ALWAYS loves them babies!!

She’s the “Baby Whisperer”…

I LOVE MY HUBBY!!!!!!!!! This is what he got me…..

HER name is SWEET PEA…. I LOVE HER…she’s a Morgan Horse and is about 12 years old. I am officially, a cowgirl – can you even believe it???? Those of you who know me won’t believe it, seeing how I HATE animals in my house and all…. but there is something about a horse..it’s MAJESTIC!

MY FIRST TIME ON HER (and only my third time on a horse, EVER)

She’s feeding…(she’s a little dirty here in these last few pics, that’s because of the rain!)

MY BONUS-SON w/Sweet Pea (HE LOVES HER)

I have totally bonded with this horse (well, I HAVE – she hasn’t just quite yet… but a few more treats and I’m sure she’ll be on her way with me!)

Do you have a favorite pet???

Now, I know you’re thinking “WHAT???? You’ve never ridden a bike before?” Well, I have but not THIS kind of bike – I take spin classes at the “Y” and thank goodness for that!! I went out with some NOVICE FRIENDS of mine with the exception of ONE guy… (who doesn’t have a blog or I’d link you to him) Rick Herrin, he’s a PRO at this…He’s the one in the red – Jeff Moore is the other one…

Beth Herrin (Rick’s wife)REALLY worked up a good sweat – and Kay Moore (Jeff’s wife), well, let’s just say she worked up…

HERE IS THE CREW, as we took a little break….

I took the pics… and just so ya know, I DID NOT FALL ONCE….but guess who did????

YUP…. on our first break, JEFF FORGOT TO PULL OUT OF THE PEDAL!!! Fell right over and jumped right up before I could get my flip out of my back pocket… DANG HIM!! As he sits here eating chocolate chip cookies…. GREAT CrossPoint Fitness Instructor! Do as I say, not as I do….. hmmmmm….

I want one of these bikes but at a mere $800.00 (and that does NOT include tax) I think I’ll stick to just renting one for now…. but if ANYONE out there has one for sale…. CONTACT ME… THIS IS NOW MY FAVORITE SPORT (of this year)..

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE SPORT???

THESE pics are TOO FUNNY!! You HAVE to go see The WAXY ONES BLOG – OH MY…

So for fun, I put my 15 year old daughter, KYLA on here…she’s going to DIE!!! So everyone, have fun and laugh while you can because when she sees this, she WILL make me take them off!!

THIS IS HER-pretty normal hu….??!!

NOW….these are pics of her from YEARBOOKYOURSELF website… HAHHAHHAAHA…

WHAT DO YOU THINK????????????

I LOVE my new BOYFRIEND, TOM– YUP…. he is ALWAYS available, ALWAYS has NICE words to say and is ALWAYS right!! I don’t ever have to wait on him and when I need directions in a jiffy, he is ON IT FOR ME!!

I USED to have to call Karl – who was ALWAYS in a meeting, on the phone, TOO BUSY…. but now, I don’t have to! He has totally taken the place of Karl….just in the aspect of getting me to places I need to be!

……… Ahhhh…. I love Tom! (next to Bret Michaels)

WHO/WHAT do you use for directions?? Because if you don’t have a TOMTOM, you are TOTALLY MISSING OUT!!

I LOVE my group of Bunco Babes….It’s a place where just US GIRLS can get away once a month… We play every second Monday of the month and alternate homes… It’s a GREAT group of girls… we’ve got “THE HOLLY,” Angie, Ashley, Lauren, my girl Callie (whom I LOVE to harass) Cheryl, Shanda-who is jealous because I’m a different color than her, Emily, Christen and our BUNCO BABE of the night, MEGHAN HALL….

So she wins a Bunco and just BEAMS WITH JOY!! Check out her “crown”…. it looks good with her red hair!!!! I dig her….

Do you have a place where you can just “get away?”

SO…. I thought I had posted my post this a.m. and come to find out…. I DIDN’T…so here I go again…(will I EVER learn how to blog??) and I hope MY PASTOR doesn’t think I’m copying him….because I wrote my post last night and then he posted about the same thing today…

As I tried to post last night…..

I LOVE FRANCIS CHAN!! I just finished reading his book CRAZY LOVE and it is FABULOUS! (I’ve posted about him before, if you’re keeping up on my blog) Our pastor even touched on it in church yesterday. (glad he liked it, too!)

FRANCIS CHAN will s t r e t c h your way of thinking about how people lived back in Jesus’ day. How people took care of each other – REALLY took care of each other…. there were no 401K’s, no savings accounts, no retirement funds…. NOTHING! I want to live a radical life for God.. what does that look like for you??

What do you consider RADICAL??? I want to know.