Good Friday

Happy Good Friday everyone...I hope everyone has a wonderful day and a blessed Easter holiday spent with family and friends.

As you go about your day today, I pray that your remember the sacrifice that was made for us so many years ago. Have a blessed day loves.

XOXO

Birthday shout out

Today is my baby brothers 19th birthday!!

I can not believe he is 19...I am so proud of the man he is becoming. Such a handsome, caring, and fun young man.

So, Happy Birthday little brother!!

Love you lots and lots and lots!

XOXO

Just a few thoughts

Helllloooooo!!!

Just stopping in to chit chat for a few minutes...I am really good at chit chatting...I just got done doing an interview for my local paper about Relay For Life and I think I talked the poor reporter lady's ear off for the last hour.

What can I say, I have always been good at talking...and I love Relay!

In other news, I am very excited that I finally have INSTAGRAM on my phone. I got an email just now saying that it is now available for Android users. I downloaded that baby in uber speed...now I can take fun photos like everyone else.

One problem, exactly how do I use this Instagram thingy??

The weather here in the Okie state has been won-der-ful...I mean...perfect 70 to 80 degree temps..a girl can get used to this. So, I took advantage of it, and on Sunday I went and got my fishing license. I took my pink fishing pole, my tackle box and my mom(she got a fishing license too) and we went fishing.

The only things I caught were the sticks in the water and the tree next to me...but next time...I am going to catch a big one...I can feel it!

OTH series finale comes on tomorrow night. LOVE that show. I have cried at every single episode this season...I just know I will be a crying fool on the very last one. I can not believe it's actually going to be over. I remember watching OTH in the big room at the sorority house...oh, how those were the days.

Speaking of sorority...just this weekend at least three of my former sister announced they were preggers via facebook...how would we ever know anything if it wasn't for social networking?

My baby brother turns 19 tomorrow...I can not believe it. He's getting old, which in turn makes me old...which makes me sad...which in turn reminds me that I am single and alone...which then probably drives me to drink a glass bottle of wine.

I am absolutely starving and the only thing that sounds good is fried pickles. Of course something fried would sound good, because I am trying NOT to eat fried foods. 

I am trying to think of anything else that y'all need to know, since I haven't blogged in forever...but really my life has been rather boring as of late.

I have decided though, I need to go on a date...but in order to do that, one needs a boy to ask one out...and how does one get that to happen??

Thoughts, ideas? Help a single lady out.

Ok, I think I have rambled and jumped from one topic to the other enough for one day.

TGIF

T.G.I.F.

that is all I have to say.

I have a feeling the days of blogging everyday for the next month are so are going to be few and far between...I apologize.

Relay For Life is fast approaching and it is all consuming.

Take a look at my April calender....oh and because I am leaving for vacation in oh,8 weeks...it's time to get REAL SERIOUS on working out...I need to step up my game on that one.

And finally...a Calender that is free of scheduled events. Except I took this picture yesterday and forgot to blog and already since then I have filled up the first two weekends with more Relay stuff.

In other news, I am quite proud of myself at one of my latest creations on Draw Something..the game that is highly addicting and drains my battery like no other....I give you Lady Gaga...

Beats the heck out of the stick figures I usually draw.

That's it for now...I actually have to day off...so, I am off to do a little browsing for said trip that is coming up.

Have a good weekend!

Thursday thoughts

A few things....

Thought I would share a picture of my baby brother...doing what he does best...Team Roping. My little brother has always had a rope in his hand, I swear, when he was a baby and as soon as her learned to walk he was chasing me around with a rope, trying to rope my legs.

Stray cats didn't stay long at our house...because my brother would rope them, don't worry he didn't hurt them...basically anything that had legs...got roped.

Clearly all that roping must have paid off because he is now on a full rodeo scholarship in college an this picture was taken last weekend at a college rodeo....

 

I'm banking on this kid to take me to the NFR (National Finals Rodeo that is held in Las Vegas)...you know where all the cowboys are.

The other night I was making cinnamon rolls, and sometimes I get a little messy with the flour...well, little did I know that a certain little basset was underneath the table...proof that she was somewhere she was not supposed to be...

Look how skinny she looks, she has been working on her swimsuit figure.

In other news, I just purchased my ticket to the HUNGER GAMES...I have never been more excited about a movie in my entire life...if I didn't go to bed at 9:30, I would so be at the midnight movie...but alas, I am old and need my beauty sleep...so I am going to a matinee instead. 

SO.FREAKING.EXCITED.

Just a few Hunger Games humor...

 

 

 

 

and my favorite...because I am Team Peeta

 

Happy Thursday...and as always...

May the odds be ever in your favor.

Hellllooooo

I feel like I have been MIA from blogger land....probably because I have.

First...I would like to say thank you all for your kind words from my post last Thursday. It is always a hard day, but you all seemed to make it much better.

So, thank you!

Let's see...what's new.

I got my hair did. FINALLY

It's super blonde, I will try and take a picture.

My little brother is home for Spring Break...I have seen him maybe for a total of .2 seconds.

I'm officially addicted to Draw Something...best app ever!

Find me and let's draw LyndseOSU

Let's see...it's a monsoon here in Oklahoma...I will probably need a boat to drive home

I am afraid my short to the ground basset hound might float away out of my backyard if the rain keeps up.

I am on a shopping budget....I think the stores know this because they keep tempting me with their discount coupons in the mail, and there emails for online discounts...but I haven't given in...not yet.

Did I tell y'all I attempted to make spaghetti squash the other day...and the recipe on Pinterest told me to stick it in the microwave to soften it up...well, the damn spaghetti squash apparently explodes in the microwave...as in, door flies open and strings of spaghetti squash are everywhere and I am on the ground because I thought I had been shot.

Yes, this really happened.

I promise I am a good cook...in fact, tonight I am baking cinnamon rolls,homemade, for our patients tomorrow.

I think that is really all that has been happening lately...I lead such an exciting life, y'all...complete with exploding spaghetti squash and all.

I Relay for....

"The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected." Nicholas Sparks

March 15 isn't just another day on the calendar anymore.

It's the day I received a call that deep down I knew would be coming, but couldn't ever bring myself to the realization that it would actually happen.

It's the day that my heart will forever be broken

It's the day that a mother and father lost their daughter

a brother lost his sister

It's the day heaven got an angel

and it's the day I lost my best friend

You would think it get's easier...four years later...and it does to a degree, but no matter where I am or what I am doing...not a second of the day goes by that I don't think about her.

Last year on this day, I wrote a letter to heaven.

I've mentioned it on here before, DonEtta lost her battle to brain cancer exactly 18 months after she was diagnosed. She was only 23, a few months shy of her 24th birthday, when she heard the news...."You have cancer!"

No one ever deserves to hear those three words.

I didn't even want to hear those words when she called me. I didn't believe it...sometimes I still don't believe it. It's weird I know...thinking DonEtta is still here with us, maybe it's because I talk to her often.

Call me crazy.

I am actively involved with Relay For Life, this year I am the co-chair of my Relay.

It's stressful and time consuming and sometimes I lose sight of why I am actually doing this.

Then March 15th rolls around and I am strongly and emotionally reminded that for every phone call that I am making, every email that I am sending, every person that I am hounding for donations, for every story that I hear...and for all my time consumed....I am doing this for her.

I am doing this for the girl I met in college who had those hot pink boots and a swagger that couldn't be matched.

I am doing this for the girl who would become my big sis in the sorority...and in turn become the sister I never had.

I am doing this for all those times spent just driving in the truck, with the windows down, listening to music.

I am doing this for all those crazy days and nights I wish so strongly I could get back.

I am doing this for the struggles that I watched her go through.

I am doing this for the incredible fight that she had....

and for the day she could no longer fight back.

I Relay for her.

My best friend

So, when I am frustrated or just want to give up...because everything seems to be crazy...I remember who I am doing this for...and it's not just for her, it's for everyone who has ever heard those three words. 

I Relay for them and I would Relay for you.

Who do you Relay for?

Visit www.RelayForLife.org for more information on how you can get involved.