It's alive......sorta

For those of you who were waiting with bated breath for an update on my Blackberry, please feel free to breath normally again. She's working fine, most of the time anyway. Just sometimes folks on the other end of the line have to shout a bit to be heard. No problem. And Connor is happy to have his phone back so that he can drive me crazy listening to Miley Cyrus sing the "Climb". Happy Tuesday everyone.

Blackberry takes a dive

Happy Monday All!
I managed to drop my Blackberry into my tea glass last night. Yep, just call me Clumserella. But that's what I get for trying to carry a stack of folded towels, my tea glass and the cell phone on top of the towels. And it didn't help that I was carrying it all while walking with my cane. At least it wasn't the toilet.....again. LOL In the last 10 years I have managed to drop 3 pagers and 4 cell phones in the ol' crapper. Thankfully they were company issue and I could request a new one free of charge. But the Blackberry is mine and I don't want to pay to replace it since I got it free with the new service. It's separate pieces are now resting on a towel to dry out. Hopefully it won't short-out anything when I do turn it back on. Meanwhile I borrowed my son's simple flip phone and inserted my SIM card. He's not happy with that but it's not like he ever gets any calls from anyone but me anyway. Kids!

How I Met My Husband

I didn't have many boyfriends while in school. In fifth grade (Joshua, TX) I did pair up with a boy for a field trip 'cause my best friend Greg Robertson had paired up with another girl. He had a crush on her big time. I can't even remember the boy's name so I don't think he would really count as a boyfriend. And Greg was just a friend who happened to be a boy. Now I did "go with" our preacher's son Benji for a while my freshman year in high school (Mesquite, TX) but that mainly consisted of sitting together during church services and on the bus when we went on trips.

My sophomore year I took drivers ed. We spent a couple of weeks driving "simulators" housed inside a portable building. Then we graduated to actual cars! Brand new Monte Carlos if I remember correctly. There were four kids assigned to each car. In my car there was a crazy guy who ate my hair spray, a senior girl who wore only dresses, a cute blond guy who was "going with" the senior girl, and then me. Later on in the semester, I got a note from a girl friend who was also in my drivers ed class. In the note she asked me if I liked the blond guy who was in my car group. Well, of course I said yes. He was really cute, funny too. And it was the first (and only) time I got that kind of note. After class the cute guy came up to me, handed me a note and walked away. The note asked me if I would "go with him". He and the senior girl had broken up. The next day he came up to me after class again and asked for my answer. I said yes. He asked me to close my eyes and hold out my hand. He hung something from my finger - a cute little puffball animal. From then on, we were a couple. The cute blond guys name was David. We hung out together at school and then he started attending our church. So of course we sat together during church and on youth trips. We had our ups and downs dating and breaking up. We married August 4, 1985, had three kids, and experienced many more ups and downs.

David died from a heart attack on May 6, 2005. We'd been married for nearly 20 years and had been friends for 25, more than half my life. It's been 4 years and I still miss him.