2009 it's almost gone!

This place is a ghost town again. Or it seems that way because all the quiet ones are here. All the gossipers aren't. It's been so wonderful. :)



Christmas was ok. Christmas day was not very easy to get through and I had myself a nice little mini melt down. But, I picked myself up (literally) and made myself get better because I didn't want Shael seeing me like that. Though when Mike got there with Shael, he said he could tell I'd been crying. Shael and he were both polite enough not to mention it.



The day after Christmas was the day that my family did our thing. It was weird to not go out to Grandma Dinwiddie's. To have only one Christmas to go to, besides watching Shael open her things. No Wilkinsons. No Uncle Dave & Kathy's. No stopping by Granny Go's if she wasn't already over at the Wilkinson's. And no Grandma Dinwiddie's. Life just moves right along.



I'm finally getting moving right along with getting my butt back in school. It's about time, right? My classes will be Rural Sociology, Infant & Toddler Development, Infant & Toddler Lab, Adolescent Development and one on line course called On Death & Dying. Not one of those classes am I dreading. I'm looking forward to each and every one of them with this giddy anticipation I can't even begin to describe. The story will change, I'm sure, in about a month. lol. I will have to come back this post and read it to remind myself of the hope I had going into the semester. The good news, my last class is over at 1:50 in the afternoon. The bad news, my first one starts at 8:00 in the morning. But, no evening classes,which I am ever so grateful.



I lost one coworker about 15 minutes ago. Didn't say a word about leaving, just walked out and left. Now I'm losing another. But she at least said something. Now it's only three of us in this building. Last week I was the only one here for the last hour of the work day on Monday and Tuesday. People just didn't want to stay. And I don't blame them. I didn't either, but I had to. Somebody had to.



About two months ago, I got a prophesy from someone during communion. My brain has a few swiss cheese moments, and this is one of them. I can't remember if it was Della or Pastor David who said these words to me. But I remember the words clearly. "Stacie, you will have a great influence on people in your circle. Your circle is going to broaden even into the past. Even people you went to high school with and haven't seen since high school will be influenced by you. They will see Jesus in you" These words keep ringing in my head like a bell when I talk to an ever broadening circle of friends from my past. Thanks to facebook. Weird. It's not even people I was particularly friends with in high school, but have become friends with now. I know I influence one, in particular. How many people out there get to hear the words "You saved my life last night? I had the gun in my mouth before you came over. I made up my mind that I would ask you to come over. If you came over, I would put the gun away. If you said you couldn't, I would pull the trigger" I thank GOD I went over there that night. That was one of the longest nights of my life. I knew it was bad so I slept in his bed with him. And I use the term slept very loosely. I was awake with every move or noise he made all night long. So, yes, that is influence. And I knew him when I was in high school.

There's others that I knew when I was in high school, but didn't go to high school with. I don't know if I'll have much, if any, influence on them, but who knows.



Shael turns 15-1/2 a week from today. Which means permit time! She's so excited she can hardly stand it. She had drivers ed for the fall semester so now she's gung ho for that permit. I'm a little mixed between happiness and trepidation. I know that for a while, anyway, I'm going to be chauffeured as often as weather permits. The weather better start cleaning up her act or Shael's going to be disappointed.

I got interrupted during that last paragraph by my Dad/boss sticking his head in the door saying "Let's go". He didn't have to tell me twice, so I saved this post and now I'm finishing it the next day. Last night when I got home, there was another friend request from someone I went to high school with. Hmm. Doesn't that just make you feel so popular? I'm sure everybody feels that way. :)

Only one hour and 40 minutes until the end of this short day. I hope the snow stays away until I get done with everything I wanted to do. I'm going to go to the hated Walgreen's and buy some perfume and fuzzy britches that I wanted for Christmas but didn't get. Walgreen's is the only place I can find this perfume, so I will bite the bullet and go. LOL

That's about it for now. My news of the month.