I can't believe its May already!!

Wow--I really cannot believe it is May...doesn't it just feel like this year is speeding by??  At work I keep trying to date everything for March...  The summer is coming up so fast!  I don't have a lot of big plans this summer...we're running very short staffed at work, so I'm not able to take a lot of vacation...which is OK, every 3 or 4 weeks I take a day off here and there and it really does help!

I've been thinking a bit lately about being "depressed" and what exactly that means....I think maybe that there's quite a lot of difference between being depressed and being upset or down over a certain set of circumstances....I think depression supercedes your circumstances, kind of like its counterpart...joy.  When you're depressed no set of circumstances can really pull you out of this, even an incredibly good day only makes you smile half-way.  But I've noticed something else about depression...you tend to focus a lot on yourself.  Its like you can't get over, around, or out of yourself.   And I think that's the key, in part, to getting over depression....climbing out of yourself and beginning to focus on others....depression is a sort of selfishness in some ways.....I can't say this is something fast and hard for all aspects of depression, b/c I think there is some physiological component to some forms of depression--chemical imbalances.  But as I've been thinking about it, it seems maybe we should stop focusing so much on ourselves.... (because goodness knows for me that's pretty depressing) and start focusing on Him and helping others, praying for them, and doing for them.  What do you think?

Happiness is....

Frisbee golf

Homemade pizza

and Speak and Spell....

What a great Saturday

Is it possible to eat your body weight in chocolate?

Yes, yes it is........Happy Valentine's day!!!

Fwunky fwesh!!!

So tonight on the van picking up kids for Awana--one of the younger boys laid back in the seat of the van waved his arms and kicked his legs and yelled "fwunky fwesh! I'm fwunky fwesh!"  I wish you could have heard him!!!   It may have totally made my night--I'm not sure the exact pronunciation, but there were a lot of "f's" and "w's" and a lot of giggling.  My sister made him repeat it and made it into my "ringtone" . . . or "wingtone" as he would say, then I made her keep calling me so I could hear it.  Keep it weal and fwesh guys!  Latew!

It didn't look that difficult . . .

Seriously, I think I had even done it before . . . the recipe for Cool Whip's Heavenly Chocolate pie . . . how hard could that be?  Well, thanks for asking, I'll tell you--first of all, do not go to the grocery store on Saturday afternoon ~ 2:30 expecting to get out of there in 30 minutes . . . especially when there's 2, yes 2, lanes open for 31 people checking out.  They didn't have any chocolate whipped cream, "oh, that's ok" I think, "I can just make chocolate whip cream myself" buy a thing of Cool Whip and chocolate syrup . . . . riiiiiiiight.  Get home put the ingredients together and seriously the thing looks like the mud pies I used to make when I was little . . . We're having a pot luck tonight at church, and unfortunately the Heavenly Chocolate pie will not be making an appearence . . .

You know when one thing goes a little off, then another thing goes a little bit more off, and you start feeling like everything's a LOT off . . . yes, that has been my day so far.  I'm trying to pull myself out of this mood, but I haven't been real successful yet.  Instead of just getting in a good mood, I'm now looking to see what else is going to go wrong today . . . there's chicken casserole in the oven . . . we'll see how that turns out . . .