Back when I was about 10 years old I went away to summer camp and had a blast.  I made several friends while I was at camp and wrote to a few of them over the years.  One girl in particular I wrote to well into high school and even some in college.  I guess we eventually drifted apart and stopped writing to each other.  I often wonder where she is and what she is doing.

I moved about 5 years ago to the area we are living in now.  I live about a half hour from where my pen-pal grew up.  There has been a couple of times at church when I thought I saw someone who looked like her and I wondered if it could be her.

Yesterday at church when I was dropping Peanut off in the nursery there was a new mom checking the kids in.  It was the lady that I think looks like my old pen-pal.  So, I thought to myself, “Well, if her name is Becky then it must be her.”  And I saw her name tag and it said Becky.  Did I say anything to her to find out if she could be my old pen-pal?

Nope.

Why not?  I guess you could say I’m shy- although that’s not really the truth.  I am shy in a way, it’s hard for me to talk to people I don’t know.  But the reason I don’t like to talk to people I don’t know is because I know in a situation like that- if I had asked her if she could have been my old penpal- my face would have turned all red.  Why?  I don’t know.  There isn’t anything embarassing about it, there is no reason for my face to get all red.  But that’s why I didn’t say anything to her- I knew my face would end up turning all red.  And I hate it.

…has the time gone?  Oh where oh where could it be?

I can’t believe I haven’t posted in a couple of weeks.  I’ve been so busy preparing for our move.  And now I’m still busy preparing for our move.  Plus I’m busy being obsessed with Facebook. 

And I’m also busy being obsessively worried about the swine flu.  And since worrying tends to help matters I’ll just keep worrying some more.  If we weren’t so close to some of the suspected cases I wouldn’t be too worried.  But we are close.  Very, very close.  And if I weren’t a mommy I probably wouldn’t be worried at all. 

What have you been up to?

… I woke up in the morning just like everyday.  I turned my laptop on and started breakfast for Peanut.  Once I had her sitting down to eat her breakfast I checked my email.  Odd, there weren’t any new comments for any of my blogs.  That does not ever happen.

So, I checked my sites.  None of them were loading.  I knew they had been out for a while because I didn’t get any comments during the night.  Then I got an email on my personal account from my mother-in-law wanting to know why I had blocked her from my blogs.  (Not this blog, she doesn’t know about this one!) 

George tried to contact our hosting company with no response.  Know how long this went on?  DAYS!  I couldn’t stand it.  Not only do I need my blogs for fun, but we have other sites we run to make our living.  No one would respond.  Fortunately George had backed up all of our sites.  And after looking into reviews on various website hosting companies George was able to get us all set up.

It was a HUGE headache!  Make sure you use a company like Web Hosting Geeks to get information about the various choices you have before making a decision.  The time you spend researching is well worth it.

The End.

I very rarely stress over money.  I think there are so many other things in life that are so much more important than money.  If everyone in my family is healthy- then I am happy.  When something terrible happens it just shows how unimportant money really is.

But lately I find myself getting a little worried over money.  We are in the midst of trying to buy a house.  Everything seems to be incredibly over-priced.  I thought this was buyers market but the choices are slim and what is available is terrible.  It’s frustrating.  In order to get the house we want I’m afraid we’re going to have stretch our already tight budget.  We’ll probably get enough from the sale of our house to live off of for a year.  So, I know we have a year to get ourselves situated and get our business running better.  But I am just stressing over it.

Also, I’m stressing over our taxes.  This is the first year we have had our business and I used a tax program but I am so worried about our taxes.

I know there are things in life that are much, much worse.  I am thankful to have a healthy family and know that is the only thing that matters.