These last couple of days of my life have been a little weird and crazy! Sunday when I was leaving from church I fell down 3 steps and hurt my foot. One of the guys came out to see about me but me being the stubborn person I am I said I was fine and didn't need any help. Well I was WRONG!!!
See I have this extra bone in both of my feet (The doctor called it something special with this really long name but I couldn't tell ya what that is). Well when I fell I tore some cartilage between my foot bone and the extra bone and also pulled some muscles. Now I have to wear a boot for 2 weeks and be on crutches for about a week.
This is very hard for me to do because I'm a very outgoing and busy person. I'm always on the go and always doing things. Through all of this I'm having to learn that I need to rely on people and that I can't do things on my own. I need to slow down and enjoy life.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Its that little things
With everything that is going on in my life right now I have forgotten about the little things in my life that make me happy. I get up in the mornings and either go to work or school, come home, do homework, visit with the family some and then go to bed. But this past weekend my grandparents came up from Alabama.
Earlier in the week I had asked Granddad if he would bring me some Lacy's Ham and Cheese Sandwiches and of course he said YES. Lacy's is a little hole in the wall place in my hometown that has the BEST ham and cheese sandwiches and pizza in the world! I have missed it a lot since we moved up here. I know its sad, but if you ever have one you will understand where I'm coming from.
Thursday when I got home from classes I was showing Mawmaw my bathroom that I had painted all by myself and she asked what the quote was that was on my wall.
When I wake up in the mornings and are getting ready in my bathroom I see this but hadn't really looked at in a while. Mawmaw saying something about it really triggered something with me. You know it really is the truth. You can't live your life having regrets or wishing that you would or could do something. Get out there and be the person you want to be and do what you want to do. After everything that I have gone through in the last month I'm really living by this now.
Earlier in the week I had asked Granddad if he would bring me some Lacy's Ham and Cheese Sandwiches and of course he said YES. Lacy's is a little hole in the wall place in my hometown that has the BEST ham and cheese sandwiches and pizza in the world! I have missed it a lot since we moved up here. I know its sad, but if you ever have one you will understand where I'm coming from.
Thursday when I got home from classes I was showing Mawmaw my bathroom that I had painted all by myself and she asked what the quote was that was on my wall.
When I wake up in the mornings and are getting ready in my bathroom I see this but hadn't really looked at in a while. Mawmaw saying something about it really triggered something with me. You know it really is the truth. You can't live your life having regrets or wishing that you would or could do something. Get out there and be the person you want to be and do what you want to do. After everything that I have gone through in the last month I'm really living by this now.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Need a Break?
Ever feel like you just run and run and run and then you finally crash? Well that's me right now. BIG TIME!
These past couple of weeks have been very stressful and full of decisions that I haven't wanted to make. Some of them turned out good but some turned out bad. Why can't life be easier? Oh that's right if it were easier it would be boring.
A couple of weeks ago was my spring break but I really didn't get one because I was working so much, like I do every week. Yes it was nice working and making the money but I'm kind of regretting it now. I wish I would have taken a day or two to do nothing at all.
Right now I'm really wanting to get away for here and go to Alabama to my little small hometown and sit on my grandfather's pier and go fishing. Just to slow down and be lazy for a couple of days would be so amazing right now.
Oh the joys of life!
These past couple of weeks have been very stressful and full of decisions that I haven't wanted to make. Some of them turned out good but some turned out bad. Why can't life be easier? Oh that's right if it were easier it would be boring.
A couple of weeks ago was my spring break but I really didn't get one because I was working so much, like I do every week. Yes it was nice working and making the money but I'm kind of regretting it now. I wish I would have taken a day or two to do nothing at all.
Right now I'm really wanting to get away for here and go to Alabama to my little small hometown and sit on my grandfather's pier and go fishing. Just to slow down and be lazy for a couple of days would be so amazing right now.
Oh the joys of life!
Monday, March 15, 2010
Old Navy: Project ONE
I have been at Old Navy for about a month and a half and I LOVE IT!!! It is so different from working in the restaurant business but I actually like it a lot more. I have met some amazing people that I get to work with.
Last week we started out Project ONE (Old Navy Evolution) remodeling and it will last for about 8 weeks. The first week was cleaning and painting and this week started the actual remodeling. Not all of the Old Navy stores are getting to go to Project ONE and our store was almost cut from the list. Our store is the only one in this area that is going tothis. Here are some of the things that are going to be happening:
*the registers are going to be moving from the side to the middle
*fitting rooms are going to be moved to the center in front of the registers
*all of our fixtures are going to be lowered to 6 ft tall and all white
*kid area is going to be more kid friendly (more to come later)
*things are going to be a lot more open and shop-able
*fitting rooms are going to be moved to the center in front of the registers
*all of our fixtures are going to be lowered to 6 ft tall and all white
*kid area is going to be more kid friendly (more to come later)
*things are going to be a lot more open and shop-able
I was asked to help out this week with the major part of remodeling. I got my schedule for this week and I saw I was scheduled to work 9PM-6AM Sunday, yesterday. I have never ever worked an overnight shift before and I'm not much of a night person. I had no idea what I was going to be doing during this shift or how I was going to make it through the night.
When I arrived at work I was a little overwhelmed by all of the people who were there working. All total I think we had about 20-25 Old Navy employees, some from our store and some from the Rivergate store and then about 15 construction workers. We all got assigned different task and got started working for a while. I didn't get sleepy but did get a little tired when I didn't have a lot of things to do. We moved booths and cleaned them, rearranged product, cleaned the whole store, and did visuals with product. Also Clezey, one of our workers found $5 and then lots of change. So Clezey and Paul went to GADS and got us donuts. Those were much needed! We also had Subway and cookies from The Cookie Store. I had no clue that Subway at 2 AM would be that good.
About 4 AM everyone but 6 of us left and for me this was the most fun of the whole night! I finally got to finish my visuals for the girls shop and got to interact on more of a personal level with my co-workers. We sang lots of Disney songs, quoted lines from movies, and played a little soccer/football. We all also got a little slap happy and had some sugar highs. It was amazing! After all of it was said and done I really did like working the overnight shifts.
Here is a little preview of how things are going to look when it gets finished:
When I arrived at work I was a little overwhelmed by all of the people who were there working. All total I think we had about 20-25 Old Navy employees, some from our store and some from the Rivergate store and then about 15 construction workers. We all got assigned different task and got started working for a while. I didn't get sleepy but did get a little tired when I didn't have a lot of things to do. We moved booths and cleaned them, rearranged product, cleaned the whole store, and did visuals with product. Also Clezey, one of our workers found $5 and then lots of change. So Clezey and Paul went to GADS and got us donuts. Those were much needed! We also had Subway and cookies from The Cookie Store. I had no clue that Subway at 2 AM would be that good.
About 4 AM everyone but 6 of us left and for me this was the most fun of the whole night! I finally got to finish my visuals for the girls shop and got to interact on more of a personal level with my co-workers. We sang lots of Disney songs, quoted lines from movies, and played a little soccer/football. We all also got a little slap happy and had some sugar highs. It was amazing! After all of it was said and done I really did like working the overnight shifts.
Here is a little preview of how things are going to look when it gets finished:
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Happy 101
I was reading on Jen's blog and someone had challenged her to write down the 10 things that made her happen and then challenged me. So here is my list of 10 things
1. My loving family
2. Wonderful friends
3. The wonderful love that I feel from God
4. Brian
5. the D-group I'm involved in
6. Working at Old Navy
7. My wonderful church family and Church; Woodburn Baptist
8. Singing
9. Being outside
10. LIFE
Now I challenge
1. Pate Life
2. Count it all Joy
3. Bright Young Things....
4. Amy's Adventures
5. God is teaching....
6. Grace
7. Journey to Our Little Girl
8. Kathryn Meryl
9. My Reverie
10. Hind's Feet
Friday, February 26, 2010
I don't do this much
So I don't brag much but I have to just this once on my brother, Trent McKinnley Norris.
Trent is 4 years younger than I am and we haven't always gotten along. You know those annoying little brothers you see on TV shows that but the big sister all the time? Well that's Trent for ya, but I wouldn't trade him for anything.
Since Trent has gotten into high school (he is a junior now) he has really grown up and found who he is. He plays lacrosse for Greenwood, is a boy scout working on his Eagle Scout and a lifeguard during the summer time. I love my brother to death and I'm very proud of him for everything he is accomplishing. I would have to say that I have the best brother in the world!
Trent and I don't talk a whole lot but when he does come to me for help or does want to talk I cherish those times. He knows that I'm always here for him no matter what kind of trouble he might get into, how much he wants to vent about something, or if he needs help with girls.
The reason that I'm most proud of him is because he as stepped up and become a leader on the lacrosse team and he is going for his Eagle Scout Honor. Trent is taking both of this very random things very serious. He will come home from practice and stay outside and practice for another 2 hours. He is very dedicated to winning and also to getting a lacrosse scholarship to somewhere big. But his Eagle Scout project is what gets me the most.
After the passing of our grandfather, Pop, I didn't realize how much it affected Trent. I remember seeing this 12 year old boy standing beside his grandfathers burial plot and laying a Dr. Pepper can inside the plot right before they closed it up and then turning and crying into Dad's chest. That's the first time I realized how much it affected him. When it came time for Trent to pick what his project was going to be, he decided on doing a Memorial Garden in memory of Pop at the local hospice center. He planned it all out himself. He raised money and got donations from friends and family to get a gazebo to place out there, plant flowers that have been donated and then to let people create stones with the name of their family member who has passed away but had help from hospice.
When Trent told me this is what he was doing I couldn't have been any happier for him or more proud of him. He is truly the best brother in the world!!!
Trent is 4 years younger than I am and we haven't always gotten along. You know those annoying little brothers you see on TV shows that but the big sister all the time? Well that's Trent for ya, but I wouldn't trade him for anything.
Since Trent has gotten into high school (he is a junior now) he has really grown up and found who he is. He plays lacrosse for Greenwood, is a boy scout working on his Eagle Scout and a lifeguard during the summer time. I love my brother to death and I'm very proud of him for everything he is accomplishing. I would have to say that I have the best brother in the world!
Trent and I don't talk a whole lot but when he does come to me for help or does want to talk I cherish those times. He knows that I'm always here for him no matter what kind of trouble he might get into, how much he wants to vent about something, or if he needs help with girls.
The reason that I'm most proud of him is because he as stepped up and become a leader on the lacrosse team and he is going for his Eagle Scout Honor. Trent is taking both of this very random things very serious. He will come home from practice and stay outside and practice for another 2 hours. He is very dedicated to winning and also to getting a lacrosse scholarship to somewhere big. But his Eagle Scout project is what gets me the most.
After the passing of our grandfather, Pop, I didn't realize how much it affected Trent. I remember seeing this 12 year old boy standing beside his grandfathers burial plot and laying a Dr. Pepper can inside the plot right before they closed it up and then turning and crying into Dad's chest. That's the first time I realized how much it affected him. When it came time for Trent to pick what his project was going to be, he decided on doing a Memorial Garden in memory of Pop at the local hospice center. He planned it all out himself. He raised money and got donations from friends and family to get a gazebo to place out there, plant flowers that have been donated and then to let people create stones with the name of their family member who has passed away but had help from hospice.
When Trent told me this is what he was doing I couldn't have been any happier for him or more proud of him. He is truly the best brother in the world!!!
Friday, February 12, 2010
Temporary Home
The first time that Carrie Underwood was on American Idol I told my parent's that she was going to be the new American Idol. Well who called it?? Yup that would be me :)
Ever since AI, I have been a big fan of her's. I would love to see her sometime in concert but that's not the point to this post. On her new album, Play On, she has a song called "Temporary Home". It is a very sweet and sad song to a degree. I heard an interview with her once saying that she decided to write it after readying The Purpose Driven Life (which I'm reading right now and love). But the first time I heard this song it just spoke to me BIG time! I don't know what it was but I just loved it!
In the song she sings about 3 different people in 3 different stages of their lives.
1) a little boy who goes from foster home to foster home
2) a woman and her small child who are living in a half-way house trying to make it on their own
3) a old man who is in the hospital dieing and surrounded by people he loves
After each of these verses the chorus starts and says that this life we are living is just a temporary home and that we have a better place we are going one day. This is so true! You know we are just on this earth for a short time and one day we will be in Heaven with God. Its so amazing to think about that!
Here is the video.... tell me what you think?
Ever since AI, I have been a big fan of her's. I would love to see her sometime in concert but that's not the point to this post. On her new album, Play On, she has a song called "Temporary Home". It is a very sweet and sad song to a degree. I heard an interview with her once saying that she decided to write it after readying The Purpose Driven Life (which I'm reading right now and love). But the first time I heard this song it just spoke to me BIG time! I don't know what it was but I just loved it!
In the song she sings about 3 different people in 3 different stages of their lives.
1) a little boy who goes from foster home to foster home
2) a woman and her small child who are living in a half-way house trying to make it on their own
3) a old man who is in the hospital dieing and surrounded by people he loves
After each of these verses the chorus starts and says that this life we are living is just a temporary home and that we have a better place we are going one day. This is so true! You know we are just on this earth for a short time and one day we will be in Heaven with God. Its so amazing to think about that!
Here is the video.... tell me what you think?
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