Traveling Adventures

I was not planning on doing a Vacation tell all because knowing me it would be one really long blog so I am going to spread out my vacation experience in more than 1 blog. I am sure since most of you are linked to Trish's blog that you will hear about a lot of the same things, but I am sure that me and Trish might each tell the story from a different point of view..LOL.

We left for Vacation on Friday the 14th, our plan was leaving out of Indianapolis at 6:00pm and we made it to the airport in plenty of time. We boarded the plan 30 minutes before take off. I had the window seat which I really enjoyed. Many of you may know that I am or well was really really afraid of falling lets just say that was before this trip. Well I am still not completely cured, but I have a better outlook on it. While the plane was in the air me and God talked and I just let him have it all. If the plane was meant to fall from the sky then so be it, but I was trusting that God would take care of me and I felt so much better about the plane ride after that. That doesn't mean I still didn't freak out a little before take off and landing.

We landed in Phoenix, AZ for our layover at almost 8pm Arizona time. We were scheduled to take the same plane to California, but it wasn't going to leave for another 45 minutes so we got out to stretch our legs. When we came back from the restroom and getting something to drink at Starbucks we heard that our flight was delayed. We asked one of the employee's what was going on and they said that the brakes needed changed on the plane and that they were hoping to have it done soon because the Santa Ana, CA airport that we were flying into had a flying curfew and planes were not allowed in the air after 11pm California time. If our flight didn't leave in time then we were going to be stuck in Phoenix for the night. I was a little freaked out that the plane we were just on needed its brakes changed because if it was that bad to not even be able to make one more flight then what were they doing flying us to Phoenix on those brakes? They kept upping our estimated departure by 15 minutes every 15 minutes. The airport finally decided to get all of our luggage off the plane and put it on a new plane for us to take to California. We landed in California at 10:50pm California time...10 minutes before the flying curfew was in place.

We then went downstairs to get our luggage and pick up our rental car. When we got to the Hertz counter it had a sign that said "were closed" on it. At that point I will admit that I freak out ALOT! But level headed Trish got closer to the sign and noticed that the print under the closed sign said to go to the Hertz counter on the ground floor of the parking garage. We managed to get our rental car....lol. We were very tired and it was so difficult to understand the guy behind the counter. He was going over the terms & conditions and all he got out of his mouth was "if your car disappears" I told him that it will not disappear, and he said it happens. I guess disappears is another way of saying stolen. We chose the economy class car and were very pleased with our Mazda 3 rental car. On the way out of the garage with our rental car we saw this little matchbox looking rental car, and I told Trish that if we were not chatty and nice with the guy then we may have ended up with that car for our rental...lol

Okay that is all I am going to write about for now because this is getting to be longer than I expected so I will just say to be continued.........

My 2008 Bucket List

At the very end of 2007 me and Trish #2 wrote out a list of everything that we had wanted to accomplish in 2008. The start of the 30 days to live series at Center Pointe got me thinking that we did not have a single thing on our list of things to accomplish in 2008 that pertained to God or Church, or about leading people to Jesus, or about even attending church because at the end of 2007 me and Trish had not been to church in at least a year or more. How would things have been different if our list would have been different? I honestly don't know, but to be honest with everyone I am glad that things turned out the way that they did. Had our list included finding a Church then me and Trish may have ended up in separate churches because she grew up in a Nazarene church and I grew up in a Baptist church. Center Pointe feels like home...all of the people are amazing. When I attended church before Center Pointe that's all it was just attending church, but now I want to be a part of something wonderful and life changing. Before when I just attending church I would wake up some Sunday's and just not feel like going to church and I would make excuses and then more weeks would pass with me missing church. But now I actually want to go to church, headache or no sleep I'm there. Since I have started at Center Pointe something has changed in me at least. Well when me and Trish first started going we missed a couple of Sunday's because of pre arranged plans, one of them being us going up to our friends house in Columbus. Well last Saturday night me and Trish visited our friends up in Columbus and stayed the night, and instead of making excuses as to why we can't go to church Sunday we were both discussing the reasons why we CANT miss church Sunday. Therefore me and Trish got up early and hit the road at 7:45am on Sunday to make the drive from Columbus so that we did not miss church on Sunday. We sure were tired but it was definitely worth it.

Anyway the point to all this is that I am really glad that me and Trish did not put anything God or Church related on our 2008 list, because I really do not think that things would have turned out the way that they have if we had included it on our list. I didn't put God by my side before like I do now, and if I had then he would have been on my list. He will definitely be on my list from now on.

2008 has been a really great year for me! Me and Trish have made this year about things that we have never done before, such as trying new things and stepping out of our box and our comfort zone.

Oh and I also wanted to add about Ray's message from this past Sunday and all of his talk about riding the drop zone at King's Island. I have a huge fear of falling. I have ridden the drop zone twice, the first time was because Trish told me that her Mom rode it and I figured that if her Mom did it then it shouldn't be that bad. I didn't like it at all and I am always afraid on those rides that the ride is going to break and my feet are going to go smashing into the crowd. I know I know its a little crazy of me to think like that. Well me and Trish are going to Disneyland on vacation and there is this elevator ride that drops you straight down picks you up again and repeatedly drops you again. I told Trish that there was no way she was getting me on it, but from listening to Ray I think I am going to live a little and face my fears and just do it! Yes yes Trish you heard me correctly.

Pray About Everything

I just got a new CD and I really like one of the songs so I thought that I would share the lyrics with everyone. The CD is a country singer Luke Bryan. Oh and I must add that I got it for $3.20 on ebay, plus a couple bucks for shipping but still an awesome deal for a brand new CD. I would love to hear everyone's thoughts on the lyrics.

Time is tight and money's short
River's up and the weatherman
He's calling for another storm
Pressure's on, the margins thin
Gotta figure out a fix for this awful fix I'm in
Oh Mama, what am I gonna do
She said, "Child there's only one thing you can do"
Chorus:
Don't worry 'bout nothing
Let it go, see what tomorrow brings
Don't worry 'bout nothing
Pray about everything
Pray about everything

Love is blind, fate don't care
Lose your grip
And your balloons go sailing off into the air
Oh Mama, what am I gonna do
She said,"Child, there's only one thing you can do"

(Repeat Chorus)

Yeah take a walk, take a breath, oh give it all a rest
Take a cane pole to the fishing hole and catch a couple fish
And just like that toss 'em back and make a little wish

Don't worry 'bout nothing
Let it go, see what tomorrow brings
Don't worry 'bout it stress about it, fret about it
Don't worry 'bout nothing
Let it go, see what tomorrow brings
Don't worry 'bout nothing
Pray about everything
Yeah, pray about everything

Movie night at Center Pointe!!!!

Hey everyone! I am sure that you already saw Robin and Diana's blog about our movie night immediately following the youth spaghetti dinner next Sunday, but we all figured that if everyone in our small group wrote a blog announcing our movie night then chances are more people are going to see at least 1 person's blog and decide to come.
We decided to have our small group today right after Church at Larosa's. I was very disappointed that there was literally no one else in the restaurant to hear our excitement. We all were talking about what we would do if we had 30 days to live and the discussion of our own personal bucket lists came up; therefore we decided that we had to host a movie night at the church as soon as possible so that we all could watch The Bucket List movie since it fits in with the current series. I personally have never seen it which is surprising because I love movies and try to see all the new ones that seem good. The movie night is going to be immediately following the youth spaghetti dinner next Sunday the 9th. It will be a long day at Church, but I guarantee that everyone that comes will have an awesome time! The Smith small group will be providing snacks such as chips and soft drinks. I hope that everyone plans to come! Bring a friend or 10!

HOW RUDE!!!!

Diana, Holly, and I went to lunch today at Max & Ermas. Our jobs are very demanding so we do not get the luxury of not bringing work to lunch with us, but we still like to get out of the office every now and again for lunch. Well at one point I think that me, Diana, and Holly were all on our cell phones dealing with work and I have no doubt that we may have gotten a little loud. Diana had a technician on the phone that she could barely hear so she said a little louder, "Can you hear me?" Well at that very moment another restaurant patron who was seated 2 booths behind us with his girlfriend turned around and said very loudly, "YES THEY CAN HEAR YOU, I CAN HEAR YOU, AND THE WHOLE RESTAURANT CAN HEAR YOU. YOU ARE BEING VERY LOUD AND RUDE AND ARE BOTHERING EVERYONE IN THIS RESTAURANT. YOU SHOULD NOT BRING WORK TO A RESTAURANT. RESTAURANTS ARE FOR PEOPLE TO EAT AND ENJOY." I proceedeed to apologize and told him that I didn't realize that we were being too loud and the rude guy proceeded to chew out all 3 of us. He told us that we should stay at the office instead of taking work to lunch because we should not be conducting business at a restaurant. At this point I was pretty upset. The guy said some other rude things that I can't remember and Diana said, "That was very rude of you, some of us don't have the luxury of not bringing work to lunch with us"
I could not believe that this guy talked to us the way that he did. We tried to finish the rest of our meal, but at this point all 3 of us were ticked off. The guy's girlfriend was shooting Holly some pretty dirty looks whenever she would get too loud on a phone call after that. There are seriously better ways to handle a situation like that. If he would have politely told us that we are being too loud then that would have been different, but he didn't. He was really rude. I have seen lots of people with lap tops out and on cell phones when I go out to lunch. What would make someone act so rudely to perfect strangers? I wonder if one of the guys from the office had joined us for lunch if that guy would have still been rude like that? When we were getting ready to leave Diana and Holly wanted to walk the other way out of the restaurant so that we didn't pass their table, and I told them that we were all 3 going to walk right by them on our way out. We all ignored them, except for Diana who said, "Have a nice night" but the guy said something about us shouting out clients phone numbers and that people could write the number down and call our clients. First of all we didn't give out any client phone numbers while on lunch, and secondly if we did what is he going to do tell our client that we were being too loud and that we took our work to lunch?

Has anyone ever been in a situation like this or similar to this? How did you handle it? What did you say?

Reminder: Jewelry Party This Sunday at 2:00pm

I am posting this as a reminder to all of the ladies. Me and Trish are having a Premier Jewelry Party at 2:00pm this Sunday the 26th at the Church. Everyone is invited so please come. We made it at 2:00pm so that everyone has time to go get lunch and come back. There will however be snacks and refreshments at the jewelry party. Oh and for those of you that have kids please don't hesitate to bring them with you to the party. Robin and Erin will be looking after all of the kids while the adults try on jewelry. I'm sure that everyone saw the flyers at church, but I just wanted to post this blog as a reminder for everyone to make plans to come. Mine and Trish's Family and friends will be there as well so don't hesitate to invite them to come back and visit Center Pointe =).

Wowy Wow!!!!!!

Okay so its only 26 days left until me and Trish leave for California, and it just keeps getting better and better. As you read in my other blog I was worried about money, but Trish made me realize that we did not spend a lot of money out of our regular paycheck earnings on our trip. Over $200 was money we got off of selling some of our unwanted stuff at a yard sale. Some of the money was from selling stuff on Ebay, and the rest of the money was from mine and Trish's bonus money that we get quarterly at work. So we did good! =) Oh but the reason for my blog is mine and Trish's internet surfing adventure. We both absolutely love game shows, and decided to look on the internet to see about getting tickets to watch one of the game shows while we were in California and well we found great stuff! We are going to watch a live taping of Wheel of Fortune while in California (free tickets...yay!) We also have tickets for the Price is Right! We are so going to try to get on the Price is Right!!!!! (Oh those were free tickets too!!!!) We just have to wait in line for a really long time to try to get in the audience and then hope that one of or both of our names get called to be on the show!!! I so can't wait! Wish us luck!!!!