Some Things You Need To Know About Me....

I've noticed a few things about myself lately--they probably won't be earth shattering to you, but it's interesting to me because these are things I literally NEVER think about, and they are intrinsic to my personality.  

1. I love exclamation points when I write!
2. I also love dashes--they really help me to clear up my thoughts.
3. I resist change.  I think of myself as pretty flexible, but the truth is...I love my routine.  When I'm not in my regular battle rhythm, I'm out of sorts.
4. I need time to stew about things.  Or, as I prefer to call it, THINK about things.  Sometimes it seems like I'm procrastinating, but the thinking really is an essential part of the process for me.
5. I can do difficult things.  Sometimes I think I can't but if I just tell my mind to shut up, I can usually get done with what I need to get done.
6. I'm a huge believer in karma.  This is no secret to me--but it's reaffirmed every day. 
7. Miracles happen.  I KNOW this.  
8. There are angels on earth--I KNOW this too.  Have a little experience with them.
9. I don't make enough time to do the things I love to do.  Take sewing, for example.  I love it, but the only time I actually do it is for other people. Like for Christmas presents.  This goes for knitting too.  I have no small children any more, so I should have time for these things. 
10. I can literally send love out into the universe.  It's not just a hippie phrase.  It's happening.
11. I'm a cheap frugal person.  I don't remember the last time I paid retail for anything.  This goes for food, clothes, shoes, even my car.  I accept this.
12. There are some things about myself that I will never understand.  I can't explain them.  I am a preschool teacher who watches Sons of Anarchy and loves Jax Teller.  I have read the Twilight Series of books more times than I will tell you about.  I love good food, but I hate to cook (usually).  I love compost.  And worms.  And worm castings, which is really poop.  These things are especially unexplainable.
13. I adore my bed.  So much so that I would wash my sheets every day if I didn't think that would make me seem insane.  There is nothing better than clean, fresh sheets, a fresh nightgown (I'm old school--a flannel nightgown is best--none of those newfangled sleep shirts for me!) and a good book.  There's nothing those few things can't cure.  

 Okay, I lied a little bit when I said these are things I never think about--I think about karma a lot.  I mean, A LOT.  It's too bad more people don't think about it enough.  

Kaleigh got a half-dead rose bush (marked down, of course) and I've been babying it back to life.  It actually looks pretty good, and she's gotten a couple of buds on it--it's called a Candy Stripe Rose, and it's pink and white striped.   Very pretty.  We are waiting for another bud to open now.  It's a climber so we really need to choose a spot to plant it and get some kind of trellis going.  I'm thinking of building one with long, straight limbs from a horrible tree thing in my front yard that was planted UNDER the oak tree.  I can only assume that the oak tree was MUCH smaller then....Anyway, this tree thing (it's bigger than a bush, but smaller than a tree) is very long branched because they are reaching for sun.  Looks awful, but good for me since I can cut the branches and use them--for a trellis for the rose bush.  I built a green bean teepee out of them already, but the darn thing has to go.  I hate to be wasteful.

Peace, love, and compost.