stuck in an airport

So, I write this from Bloomington/Normal IL....

Yesterday my flight was suppose to leave at 1:25. I get to my gate at 12:55 and realize I have a delay. I am partially confused cause I had called 3 times to make sure i was on time and check the monitors. well, what i thought was a 35 minute delay turned into a 7 hour delay. i was in the airport till 7:15.

So, while waiting on concourse A at DIA -- I was intrigued by a couple who had a little girl. MInd you she was the prettiest lil girl ever. So, anyhow... they spoke no english and were from mexico. they were my ageish. the lil girl (1 1/2)was there for atleast 4 hours and never cried or slept. We played and the family and I spoke soomewhat. it was so convicting that i was so selfish in never learning spanish. now, i have no idea what i will do about it.. but, it made me very sad.

anyhow, sonya had a student die at her school so she is tending to business while i got to sleep. so-- i hope to never be in DIA for 7 hours again.

i hear i am missing fabulous weather (icy and snow) in Colorado.

love, rhonda

the freaking snow never quits.

Okay, so i really should be packing but, i wanted to say hey. So, it snowed 12 inches on sunday and today it snowed. What the heck. i don't get it. Wait I live at 9,200 feet that's the problem. Okay, so I have had a busy week.

Tuesday night-- amber and i went "church shopping" again. It was called TNL. It was a nice "church". i was hoping amber would write about it.. but, since she hasn't i will.. First off, it's big like bigger than 100. second off, its very much a younger church.. though, we were not the oldest there. I think ages went from 16-50. Mostly 20 somethings. It feels like the right fit for us since amber works on sundays. so, i am excited about going next week and i need this whole church thing for sure.

Also, this week my CPU fan went out. that was fun. anyways, it was fixed without a lot of problem.

I am leaving for chicago tomorrow and i am not even packed. So, this is a prime situation for me to over pack. As my friend stephen simpson says... don't all southern belles over pack??? ... it's nice to be called that. :)

well, i should type a lot more about my life but i have to go pack. so you have a good weekend. hey and i hope it snows everywhere but in Chicago. haha. i am so evil!

R

**the wonderful and grand weekend**

So, as everyone is the free world knows that Sarah came to visit. (check out her blog for all the details.. http://chicasencilla.blogspot.com/) We had a blast!!! I totally enjoyed it!! It was the best girls weekend i ever had in colorado! Amber made it fun too!!

So she arrived on Friday.. which was the busiest day ever.. then we shopped on Saturday and went to down town denver that night. Then she left on Sunday! It was so short and I was gettin really sad when I realized that I am going to Chicago next weekend! So, in 2 days (Thursday) I fly to Chicago to see my sweet friend SOnya. Then when i return I will be leaving for Arkansas in less than a month. SO, i have a lot to look forward too..

So, after driving home from the airport it started to rain in Denver.. it then started to snow when i drove up the mountain. Yeah, it snowed around 10 inches.. I am like how is the possible. You wear flip flops one day and winter clothes the next.. this is really getting old. seriously. oh well, who cares? what good will it do to gripe??

Well, congrats to my friend Sheri, who had a baby girl Abby Marie last wednesday! she is a doll!! i will post a pic later. i iwll also post a pic of me and sarah. it's hot! :)

Oh my gratefulness post! I am grateful sunshine and for girlfriends!

thanks for reading. have a good week.

an odd but grand ol day

well, it was a good day here in colorado. but, the weirdest thing happen. I knew it would happen it was just a matter of time..

(some bad words used beware)

the nanny who formerly worked here stopped by. She was different--- It made me think okay, why did they hire her? Anyhow, she just walked into the house (No knocking) and said hey.. I was like hey. and looked weird. and she kinda had that I am the ex wife and I'm in charge feeling. She wanted to know if she had mail here. (couldn't she call?) so, she is like do you like being a slave here. I said umm I am not. She goes well, you sure don't keep house. Mind you it's like 1 pm. I am doing laundry in the living room and have paper work across the table. I said no, I refuse to clean. I was a smarty pants. I really wanted to use foul words if truth be told. She goes you must be easy on the kids. I was like not really. Actually I have been told I am too hard. then she starts well, now I make about 3 times what I used to and I have a really big living area. i said oh wonderful. she goes so you really like it. I said oh yeah. she *rolls* her eyes. so it's been 15 minutes. she goes umm I have a 2 year in the car. I was like what. who leaves a 2 year old in the car. I thought oh I bet he is sleeping. nope. I walked outside and heard him crying. I was like oh my gosh. she was straight up annoying. so, I joke with the kids that J-Rat (Jalene) is wanting her old job back. Billy as serious as he could says I rather put my dick in a meat grinder. I laughed. Apparently she only worked here 2 weeks. I just thought okay, I have leverage now. (Billy told me tonight I am a lot more stricter than J-rat ever was). That put a smile on my face..

anyways, on to better things..
I bought a digital camera. This whole process was crazy and I may have made a mistake. So I decide to use office max cause I have a coupon to Office max and its cheaper and they have what I need-- so I decide on Olympus cause the lens are well known for being great.. well, I am about to check out and I see they have a cheaper camera from an off brand. so I request manager to ask questions. its made by Mecury Cyber pix. It's 5.0 mega pixels. digital zoom of 2x and optical of 3. it has a camcorder. I bought a 516 MB card and Before discounts it was drum roll please $165.00. So I win. I have 2 weeks to try it. If it's a POS I can take it back.. so, I can practice with sarah and take it to chicago. SO, life is good. I win!!!

alrighty well I just had to share my excitement. thanks for reading.

pictures of the animals...

SO today, i was in my room cleaning and there was a deer looking at me in the window.... so, i went and found a camera and took pictures. there were several deer. it was really fun. the deer had some personailty. Then there was chipmunk eating some sunflower seeds-- the chipmunks are so cute.. I love feeding them-- i am not even a big wildlife person... but, when i see a heard of deer or elk it always makes me smile and remember how God is good!

Enjoy the pictures.. :)

I am eating! 

Rhonda, what are you doing?? 

Look at these cute animals!!! 

Can you see me? 

its been monday in a good way

So, it's been monday and today has been a big blur. i could write pages of stuff that you probably don't care about.. so i will just hit the highlights.......

working out. i don't hate it but, i don't dream of it. But, i know its healthy. and here is the real deal.. so i was talking with dwan about having babies. and i started doing research and realized how important it was to be in some sort of shape before having a baby. well, i am not close to being in shape.. so, i am lucky cause i live in bailey, colorado. there is umm ZERO fast food restaurants here. well, there is subway. but that's healthy. anyhow, Littleton (Denver) is the closest to fast food. So, naturally i am eating more healthy since moving here. so why not work out. so i am swimming 45 minutes ** 3 days a week. I am going to try to be dedicated till I go to arkansas memorial day. so we will see. the reason i wrote about it here is so i feel obligated. oh the mind games i am playing with myself.

old friends. so, today my mama rita emailed me and caught me up old people from high school. some have blogs.. some are just having bad luck in life right now and i thought man, i am really lucky. anyhow, it was just neat to read about and hear about what people are doing. honestly. most of they are having babies. i want to post their babies pics on here just to brag.. i should ask them first hummm.......

cool single mom. so my friend lisa is a single mom. a really good single mom. her daughter is dating my brother. but, our connection goes way before my brother came into the picture. anyways, lisa and i have this thing where we can call or email and say is it 5 o'clock. which means life is rough today. anyhow, she has raised a good daughter and made a good life for themselves. i admire people who raise kids by themselves. i am not sure if i would be that strong. anyhow, as a single mom i feel like people 2nd guess your decisions more so than people who have a 2 parent home. maybe not. that's just an observation.

so i cooked dinner tonight. i made this yummy fish platter and a whole spread of food. like i seriously started cooking the dinner at 2 and we ate at 5. i mean i had chocolate cover strawberries, salad, potatoes, cake, cornbread. yeah, anyway, i like cooking i just am amazed how i can spend 3 hours cooking.

so i cleaned my room last thursday, right? well, sarah is coming to town on friday and i want to have it clean again! so i worked on that tonight. i also realized that i have a shopping problem. tomorrow i am calling 2nd hand stores. and see if i can resale some clothes. i mean its really sad. seriously. maybe i need therapy.

today, i learned one of my friends, dad is really sick with cancer. and it made me angry. cause cancer is evil. and this guys dad is young.

so, i not big on bible quoting. Okay, in this blog i have never done it but while swimming today this came to mind.

I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. (from Philippians 4)

i am trying to learn this being content thing. no matter what.

so i also decided that in every blog i am going to tell you one thing i am grateful for.. cause i don't want to be a gripping negative old lady. I am grateful for my dad. i am also grateful for blogs. good releases.


alrighty, i bored u long enough. thanks for listening.

the way life is............

so, i write to you on this sunday afternoon thinking how life is okay-- i think i am going to survive!

Thursday I had -- all i could take of the tornado that had hit my room. the damage was done and i needed to repair or clean it up. So, i get started..... Let me first say that Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper is my favorite drink and up until like a month ago it was impossible to find in COlorado. So, my dad for my birthday sent me half dozen or so.. well, because i wanted to make them last i kept them in my room.. well, they were sitting about a foot off the ground and i knocked one off and it EXPLODED. I had what look like Big Red on my nice EXPENSIVE carpet, on my mini blind (also pricey babies) on my tv and even in my closet. So, even though i was going to clean my room, I guess God was going to make dang sure that I was going to clean my room. So, now i have a newly arranged room and everything has been throughly cleaned. that was exciting.

anyhow, i made this list of goals in january and this weekend i looked to see how i was doing on completing them and i am not a failure but, not 100% yet. one of my goals was to either find a church or a singles like group where i can meet people but more importantly have a place that provides events that have people in my walk of life there. so, i joined a place in denver a while back.. we will see. but like the people are "screened" and you meet with the coodinator who knows people your age and such -- so, it's like organized dating haha! only i am not looking for my husband.. i am really looking for people to be friends with..

work has been okay. my family truley love me. we are actually now considering hiring a person who does all the cooking and cleaning. therefore i would be more free. i am all about that i think. anyhow, you probably wonder what i do all day. i don't know but, i do know i work a lot of hours. i never have been the cleaning lady though. everyone who knows me knows that i would suck at that job. haha

so, i went to denver and stayed in a hotel last night. i took 4 projects with me. i got 2 done. so that was good... i can't talk about them on here cause a few are gifts. but, i have these things called creative projects-- that i do to occupy my time. anyhow, amber and i went to dinner after she got off work. so, it was overall a good weekend.

next weekend will be the best. sarah felts is coming to visit and that make me happy.........

well, hope your weekend was a blast!!!

peace out--

somewhere out here.....

well, i was reading my friend, ambers blog today and made me think.. (http://ambersilverstar.blogspot.com/)... amber is my only real friend in colorado. and i have decided to always always be honest with amber because if i live in fantasy world all the time then i will become this unhealthy problem. we gotta enough people out there that i don't need to be another one and i really don't want to be. i think amber and i are good for each other in so many ways. haha. anyhow, yesterday while camera shopping we were talking about being happy and how you judge your own happiness. and it was hard for me cause i am happy about 73% of the time. about 10% of the time i am annoyed and the rest i wonder why am i here? Amber and my friend sarah get to hear more negativity than positiveness from me cause i have chosen not to be open about the fact that colorado and my job sucks somedays. i get annoyed by people being all power happy or defiant acting.i know that everyone knows that life is not this great wonderful thing and you are happy 101% of the time. but to me happiness is a choice you make. i chose to be happy most of the time. :) So, i have learned that i have to phsically take a break from -where i am. i mean there is many weekends i am home by my self but, i mean it's like living at work. i don't know i gotta find that balance. i may spend the rest o fmy life trying to do I mean actually leave my house with a suitcase and go nowhere that i might encounter the 5 people i live with. I do it as often as i can. it always makes me feel refreshed and ready for another 6-8 weeks. I haven't been "away" since i went to arkansas in January and I can feel it taking a toll on my attitude. I have considered just going to denver and getting a hotel for a night and being totallly away for 24 hours. Though, i have a full life up head. Sarah is coming from arknasas and then i am going to chicago to visit friends. so, i keep thinking just one more week. wait it out. but, i am too the point to where i know i need the get away. is there way to make that better???? does anyone even began to understand what i am saying?

so, amber and i changed my background for my blog cause i stole hers. haha. she has this kickbutt drawing board and she can write funny things and do really cool stuff. she wrote a message to everyone on my blog using her art board. hope you enjoy it.

well, i hope this wasn't depressing for ya.. it was just my random thoughts running through my brain on this wednesday...

love-

the weekend is g-o-n-e

well, the weekend is almost over for most people... we though have over 13 1/2 inches of snow!! So, NO school for the kiddos! so that's fun.. anyhow, the weekend was cool.. Friday night I wasted away talking on IM. then on Saturday, I went to lunch with Amber and her dad. That was cool. We then went to Dicks Sporting Goods. It was a good time. THen amber and i went and shopped at Bath and Body works. We then watched Spanglish. We rented movies from those machines at McDonalds.. It was really cool.. anyhow, amber and i had a blast.. then i return home and chatted online to my friend Sara who lives in China!

my free friend, Sarah Felts and i had our own version of a girls weekend. where we cleaned our rooms and organized stuff and talked 33 times a day. that was cool.

So, i am secretly hoping that this is the last snow we have until next fall. Of course, I am probably dreaming.. Its just snow is annoying. driving, clearing off 27 steps, cleaning off your car. blah blah blah. but its pretty....

so i gotta a couple friends having babies this week. it's making me feel reallly old... you know that's the way it happens.

so i really thought i would be able to sit down here and write a lot of cool stuff come to find out i don't have anything cool to write. so, oh well. sorry i just wasted your time.

<3

ready for the sunshine and for summer

greetings from the mountains!! This week might have been one of the most bizarre weeks since moving to Colorado.

So, we celebrate mine and Bill's birthday on Monday night.. We went to dinner and had some kick butt cake then we open gifts.. They got me 1/2 caret diamond cross necklace. I was like wow, this is really nice..

I also had my first 'date' since being here. It was actually kinda of funny.. and I couldn't decide if I was going to post it but, I thought you know why not.. Just my friends reading this.. So, I promise you I get the weirdest things to happen to me in all of my life. this proves to be no different. so, once while amber and I were wal mart this guy totally was hitting on me -- it was funny to me but, a lil embarrassing cause my friend amber was with me... So anyways, this was no different. I was driving to the cell phone store and when I got there this guy was like oh my gosh I totally saw you in your car and I had to meet you. I was like what. I was in the car with Billy. So, I tell Billy hey stay in the car.. So we stand outside and make small talk and he asks for my number basically. Okay, I am really skeptical.. I thought this guy will never call. 2 1/2 hours later he calls and asks for a date. I was like what the crap. So, now, I have to be all careful about meeting up with guys and such. And I know what you are thinking, RHonda you can't go out with strangers well, if I am going to date a guy here it will be a stranger.. anyhow, we saw each other last night.. but, I am not going to be bringing him home to meet friends and family. that was a one time thing for sure. But, hey it's a story to add to the book I need to be writing about my crazy life.

so, also we have been talking about adding some responsibilities to my job out here. I am having mixed emotions about it all.. You know more responsibilities means more money and such.. So, I am not sure what is going to happen but, it's all exciting! So, Dwan and Bill are real estate investors who teach others how to do what they have learned. Dwan has started filming her informercial.. This is like a really big step. Right, now she speaks 3-4 times a year with Donald Trump and now, she has her own TV show.. It's pretty cool. they travel a lot speaking at events and such.

We have started doing some more work on the house again. It's been a slow process in my opinion but, I suppose all remodeling projects are slow. And considering we are doubling the size I guess I could be more patient.

well friends hope life is treating you well. wherever you are.

the weekend

well, not much has been happening over here in nanny land. My weekend was okay. I should have spent more time outside. But, I thought shopping sounded like more fun. I have like 3 creative projects going on and I am wishing that I could work on that outside and work on my tan.. yeah, so we had enough snow last week that I was really getting sorta moody about it. Then my dad tells me we are having perfect 10 days here in arkansas. I was like ahh.. I wish I was there.. I saw "guess who" this weekend. funny movie.. I have seen a lot of movies lately.. the pacifier with Vin diesel.. who is such a hottie in that movie.. I saw Diary of a Mad Black Woman.. Funny but, extremely girl. Oh then I saw miss cong ( i don't know how to spell it) 2.. so, yeah, good times.

so, my cousin linda had a baby this past week. I hear she is a cutie!

so, I am really getting excited cause my friend sarah from fayetteville is coming to visit in 2 weeks. it should be a pimping time for us chicks. I think my kids will be at their other parents house so we can run around like crazy people for a few days.. I am really working on making new friends out here but, let me tell ya this is going to take a lot more effort than ever before.

another interesting thing happening is that Kris and Ayla are driving and let me tell you I think it's gonna turn me gray. not cause they are bad. they really aren't I just don't feel comfortable.. and I ridden with lot of teenagers. a lot of bad driving teens.... so I guess I am getting really old or something. cause it used not bother me.. like I think I just get irritable with it all. I don't know.. I need to really work on that for sure.

well nothing new with the digital camera thing. I learned everyone has an opinion about it and I think I am going to wait till next week when Amber can go with me.

well, I am kinda feeling affected by this time change.. so, I am gong to sign off. hope your weekend was fun and april fool's was nice to ya--