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About This Author
A changeling spirit,
constantly evolving,
revolving around an inner core,
spinning forth legend and lore,
stories and lives
as I come to grips
with who and what I am,
have been and may be.
I am a phoenix:
rising ever above and beyond!
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The White Board
The White Board
 
For meandering thoughts, and mindful walks...for rants and pouts, and blowing off steam. For happy days and sad days, for crazy adventures and delightful victories! :)
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Lovely, beautiful day! Especially in small village America! This was what it was like in front of my store 1/2 hour before the parade started!
Inside, all decorated for the holiday. We have only one register and we had lines curling halfway around the store at one point. But it all looked beautiful and later on i gave the balloons to the kids out front. Big hit with both the kids and their parents.
Here's one of the front of the store and one of my faithful and stalwart employees taking a well deserved break!
See the brown box over on the right? That's a box for the donuts my other half built for me :) You can also see the huge flower pots i planted with geraniums!
Another pic taken in front of the store during the parade. This is our entire downtown area. (Got to love tiny towns!!!) The parade lasted maaaybe 20 minutes! Town was messed up traffic wise for 2 hours! See the red, white and blue balloons? Those are the ones i gave out! What a day *big smile* The high school and middle school bands were in the parade along with all the Boy and girl Scout troups, LOTS of veterans, horses, clowns, old cars and the entire police, fire and emergency response departments. Lots of fun, kids, noise and laughter! Pretty sure this pic is of the middle school band playing 'It's a grand Old Flag' and "God bless America.'
Between the first and last picture, you've now seen all of 'downtown Pinckney, Michigan, USA!
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1st and foremost...today is Memorial Day in the United States. Unofficial start of summer, day of bbqs and picnics, family get togethers and parties aside...today is the day to remember all our veterans.
As the granddaughter, daughter, mom and mom-in-law to American Soldiers/Veterans, as a Veteran myself and for all the heros who have served and/or fallen in defense of this great country, I remember! Today the flag should fly at half staff (unless you are on a ship--then it is half mast) until noon. At 3 pm your local time there is a National Remembrance for One minute...One minute to stop all the things we are freely able to do and to take that moment to remember and appreciate all our military have done for this country over the years!
If you go to a parade today...Please remember it is a Memorial Day Parade. For God's sake, STAND UP and SALUTE THE FLAG when it passes by!!! That is Official protocal for when the flag passes by. Remember you (if you are, of course) are an American. Set the example for showing you are proud to be one!!!!! Set the example for those who may not know. Show everyone YOU know and appreciate what it means to live freely in this country!
Nothing drives me more crazy than people being too lazy to salute our flag.
*steps off her soap box--end of rant*
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I am so psyched!!! Check out what i had made from "Invalid Item"  !!!!! Lexi and i have become friends since IamMark's Auction and when i saw this, I had to get one!!!!! |
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Last night after a last minute dash to the store to get some stuff for dinner, I came outside and basically stopped in my tracks. Now you need to understand that I live in a VERY small village. Seriously small. We have 1 stoplight. Smalltown america...complete with a small park in the middle of town with gazebo and green lawns. It is the sort of small town where everyone knows everyone, where kids behave because everyone knows their dad or mom and where no one feels the keen need to lock up doors and stuff. We have movies in the park on Thursday nights and everyone comes with chairs and kids/grandkids/dogs and lawnchairs and sits out in the dark watching movies we've all seen a hundred times before. Kids trick or treat allll over town and everyone decorates for Christmas. Take a step back in time to the fifties here in Pinckney, Michigan.
ANYway, I was leaving our local food store and walking by the flagpole. This flagpole has a HUGE, MONGO-GIGANTIC flag flying. The sky was blue and people were smiling and well, it sortof just hit me. I LOVE living here! Someone asked me last week how i felt about coming back to the state I once swore I'd never come back to. Well, I LOVE IT! I really just realized how very happy I am to be living here, in this place, in this moment. It isn't just the job or any one thing, but a conglomeration of a zillion little things all of which add up to I love it here, in small village america. Yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Ter helped me get the new whiteboard photo to work. She said it should be updated! The jade BUTTERFLY was my birthday present from my daughter...mind-slip writing jade heart...because i call her 'dearheart' lol.... |
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and I can't sleep. My mind just won't shut down...worse part is that there isn't even anything bothering me...my mind is in overdrive on a zillion non connected nothings.
Store's doing good, I won 2nd in the Themed Port Contest (whooo-hoooo) and my son is coming for a visit in June. OTHER THAN THAT, LIFE'S THE SAME OLD, SAME OLD NORMAL LIFE. hOW BORING! LOL
I need sleep tho.....tried all my normal 'go to sleep' things...nope....wide eyed...and yawning....even tried (sorry, Ter) counting flying pigs...no luck.
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inside as well! Here's some pics of the mobil On The Run that I'm managing! The first one is the inside of the store! Looking all so new and clean and shiny. Pics taken a year from now BEST look this way too!
Here's the outside on opening day...well, it was just barely getting light as we opened!
And the best part of all...my sweetie sent me flowers....roses even!!!!! Made a very special day even better. he said i was beaming that morning...he should have seen me when the flowers arrived!!!!!!!!!
Over all it is going....um...well, I suppose. Had some problems employee wise as we've been working long hours with only 3 of us, thus one of them quit. But I've hired 2 more and possibly 2 more tomorrow and perhaps then we can get organized and get shifts down to something resembling normal!!! I worked almost 70 hours last week and this week promises (for me at any rate) to be the same...ohhhh boy is THAT ever going to be a killer paycheck!
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I'm a tired, but happy camper :) Today, the store's opening went well....Got there at 4 am and left at 6:30 PM. I think i sat down once all day! Our gas prices were 20 cents below everyone else and we closed at 10 cents below everyone! So we were busy! That and all the curiosity about the new store. Ken sent me roses!!! And he thought I was beaming when he stopped by in the morning on his way to work! He shoulda seen me then!!! LOL
All the top brass was there (and, frankly) underfoot...but it all went pretty well, only a few glitches. I'm tired, wiped, exhausted and happy :) *huge grin*
Flowers, he got me flowers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Tomorrow is the BIG day! Whoooohooooo....my store finally opens! Yayyyyyyyyyyyy Excited and a little nervous and psyched and exhausted!! Can't wait!!!!!! |
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. But I also am at the point where I don't know how to feel or act. I hope you are doing well, and I also hope to see you around the community soon.
Remember, 60 is the new 40. I consider age to be really reverse logarithmic. 
I am beyond excited for you and can't wait to get my hands on a copy for niece and nephews .... 
umm .. okay ... and ...errr ... for myself because I'm just a big kid at heart. 
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