It's That Time Of Year

The time has come once again that I plan a special day to go....SCHOOL SUPPLY SHOPPING. When I was a kid, it was the special day that signified the summer was coming to an end and a new school year was about to begin. I would look forward to this special day every single year. What new kind of folders will I get? What kind of lunch boxes will they have? What will be the new trend in locker decor? New pencils! New pens! Wheee! And the way each aisle smelled of that new school supply smell. Heaven!

Every year my mom would ask, "Why do you need a new pencil box, use the one from last year." GASP. Ummm, who wants to do that? That takes all the FUN out of school supply shopping. Now that I think of it, I had quite the collection of lunch boxes over the years:

Strawberry Shortcake
Care Bears
Rainbow Bright
The Muppets
Pac-Man
Barbie

So here I am, all grown up....but I still look forward to SCHOOL SUPPLY SHOPPING DAY! My son starts school in a week but is with his dad this week. I have been given the rightous task of shopping for him. All he said to me before he left was - "Just make sure you get me a cool binder." With my 'too cool for school' supply shopping expertise, oh son, I won't let you down!

Scrabble Me This

I have officially become addicted to Facebook Scrabble. It happened in a blink (twitch) of an eye. One day I didn't know about it, the next...I am wanting to play it all day long. And now, tonight....I have hooked my cousin into playing with me. She lives in Arizona and I LOVE IT because it's a way to stay in touch AND have fun at the same time. But really - I needed someone to feed my addiction. She was online and it was HOOK, LINE and SCABBLICIOUS...she was hooked as well!

Game on. HDGOBSW

Those Three Words

It doesn't matter how they are said....they could be whispered in an ear or yelled across a crowded airport terminal - the fact that they are said at all creates a warmth and comfort that no three other words put together can accomplish. I - Love - You. It doesn't take much to say them, but once said everything at that moment changes.

Tonight my son was sitting on the couch, engrossed in watching a show when out of the blue he jumped up, did some strange fist pumping action (closely resembling if he scored a touchdown) and then looked at me, pointed and said, "I love you." He's such a boy...but he's my boy and I am so happy that he's not afraid or ashamed to jump up and tell me how he feels. I wouldn't have it any other way. Weird fist action and all.

I Hate Not Having Headphones

Things I hear at work when I forget my headphones:

- The clicking of everyone's keyboard
- The nagging voices of the customer service reps
- The toilet paper roll in the bathroom that we apparently share a wall with
- The air conditioning fan
- The factory's in/out/break bell
- A train when it passes by the building
- My eyes blinking

....this is the 2nd day in a row that I have forgotten them. I need to remind myself to never forget them again. My twitching eye has returned, maybe I am stressed about having to listen to all of these sounds all day long. Click. Click. Click....