I have come around again to realizing my life is running me instead of the other way around. So last weekend I pretty much cleaned out Barnes and Noble of their self help/motivational books. "Getting rid of your bananas" is a good one. An easy read. I have also listend to one of the cd's I won the bid on lately - Key's to Success. It all is the same stuff that every other motivational speaker/writer says but it at least gets me thinking again and realizing how out of control things are. So I feel my motivation as well as my self esteem rise. I realized too that change is indeed uncomfortable - scarey even -but if I'm going to change for the better, I need to be uncomfortable for a while - then that becomes the new "normal".
Speaking of Barnes and Noble - my hubby went on his anual "guy" trip chasing the Norfolk Southern RR. Used to be a camping trip but they are all too old for that and traded in their mummy sleeping bags for the comfort of a b&b set up for railfans down near Altoona, Pa. That left the kid and I for our anual girls' weekend. The scarey part for Bill was that he left us with the truck and took the car - knowing we were headed out shopping! Good thing we had it too - wouldn't have been able to get the new set of wooden tray tables AND the kitty tower into the car along with all our bags! We had a great weekend, shopping, watching movies and shopping again.
That leaves me to talk about the Carbondale Chamber Celebrating Commerce dinner on Tuesday. It was a great time. Almost 200 people attended. Community volunteers and new business owners were acknowledged. There was also a silent auction. Well, I haven't done too much of that - I've always been working these things so I tend to not really bid on anything. WELL - I can say with complete confidence that if there was a prize for the most bids won and the most money spent - I'd get it. But I won lots of great things, tickets, etc. and it was for a good cause so it was money well spent (I just keep telling myself that anyway).
So this weekend is our car club party in NJ so that is where we are heading tomorrow. Have a great weekend!
