Whew Wednesday!

Trying to maintain normalcy in my life....
Just what is that? Can someone please explain?
What is normal?
I don't know if I've ever fit into normal.

But I am seriously trying.

This is my next layout with Dream Girls.
This challenge was so much fun!
I had fun mixing the elements and creating this fun page
it shows a lot of me!
I did this one awhile ago too, but I can show it now!

So.. The whole signing?
Didn't happen.
Can you believe that?
But.. Good did come out of it, and actually God's plan is bigger and better
than our own, so you can believe that after the stressful day I needed some great news!

Things that were kind of iffy before, are good to go now! With all the bumps
we've moved it back another week. Amazing stuff.
But I unwound last night..
Whew.

Oh yeah, I found out today I got the Starbucks gig, officially!
And the coolest?
I work today and then not again until the 2nd! And on the 4th I am officially
working for Starbucks.
I am totally stoked.
All of this time off will ensure that I get the house completely done with packing!

So the count down has been changed and we're back to 9 days. Oh well!

I have to share some really cool and great news with you guys!
I had this friend in college.
I know I've scrapped about her a very long time ago and
all these years she's always been on my mind.
I've thought of her often and wondered what she was up to in her life.
Well this past weekend I got a wild hair and signed up for a program that
let's you find people.
She is the first person I looked up and I actually found her number.
I didn't call her straight away because I wasn't sure how she'd feel about
me getting her phone number so I waited two days
before I called her.

I mustard up the courage and dialed her number.
Now there were a lot of hers on that list, so even though it seemed
like it was her, I was truly sure.

So I am dialing.
And I seriously let the phone ring for about 50 times.
I expect that her answering machine will pick up the phone
but it never does.
The phone just keeps ringing and ringing.
I began to think that she doesn't have an answering machine..

Now on the other end of the line, my friend Kellie is with her family
they are watching a TV show and the number that popped up
isn't a number that she knows so she's not going to answer it.
After a bit, she tells me later she got annoyed and finally decides to answer it.

When she does answer, I knew it was her instantly.
Kellie has a voice I would never forget.
However, although elated to actually realize it's her, I also realize that she
is annoyed..
Because of course she tells me later that she thought
I was a telemarketer.

So she snottily says, hello.
I said is this Kellie.
She says, yes who is this.
I said, is this Kellie ________
she said yes again, her annoyance growing.

I said it's me Elizabeth.
Pause.
She said, Elizabeth Paine Carney?
I said yes the very one.
Pause.

Then in a second we were both talking, laughing, and eventually crying!
You can imagine how excited we both were.
It has been 15 years since I've seen her
and almost 10 that I haven't spoken to her.

Even as I write this I smile!
It was so over joyous to talk to her again!
To find out about her life, where she was, how her marriage was,
her two beautiful children...

Full circle!
That is what I feel.
I've had the opportunity as of late to get in contact
with people from my past and seriously I have prayed for years
about doing so.


This is my very best friend in college, Kellie.
I feel so truly blessed to have her back in my life again!
I am very thankful that God brought us back into each others lives.

Today I hope that you find friends that you haven't talked to in years
and are able to reconnect with them too!