You wanna do what???

So I posted last May regarding my new dream, stand up comedy.  I've watched, admired, laughed, and dreamed for years about it.  I only started admitting to it a few months back.  And I do get a few laughs now and then, but in a classroom type setting.  You see I'm a dance teacher (so much for being completely anonymous on this blog); a 25 year veteran dance teacher.  So I have a few "routine" jokes to get the class relaxed.  After 25 years I can deliver these jokes without too much thought or prep and at least usually get a chuckle or obligatory laugh.  Well, I've just been offered the opportunity to do a stand-up type routine for a ladies group.


HELLO
SCARED
AND
EXCITED
AT
THE
SAME
TIME.

I'm 40 years old, and I didn't even know it was possible to have those emotions at the same time.  This ladies group is at my home church of 14 years.  There are people that know me well, there are people that have never even HEARD of me.  (We go to a fairly large church with average attendance of about 1500). 

So I'd like your advice, do I do it?  Will you help me test my "material"?  Yikes!!  What if I fail??  Worse, what if I'm really good and I have to do it again??  The thoughts swimming in my head barely stay still long enough for me to carry on normal daily life.

Please help me and share your thoughts!!!

Pray for me as I continue to pray for you!!

THANKS!!!  :-)

July 31, 2012

It's been a LONG time since I've blogged.  Can we just ignore that fact and get on with what's on my heart????

Thank you SO much!!

:)

2 years

7/31/12

It’s been a ride in a half.  How you have half a ride I don’t know.  But I know this, just tell my husband and I we can’t and we will find a way too!!  We got married under questionable circumstances, at least according to MY family.  His family may have disagreed as well; however, no one has told me anything about it (until someone decides to open up after reading this post YIKES!).  He was unemployed.  Recent honorable discharge from full time military duty made it difficult to find a job in 2010.  Then under circumstances that no one would fully understand, I chose to leave my job of 9 years just 20 days before the wedding.  Can you say, oops??  Talk about hard!  There was NO money.  There were NO jobs.  We were looking, but we were more importantly learning a lot about each other; how to deal with the real world and still love each other.  You know it’s possible.  We did it!  We have a stronger marriage because of it.  BUT IT WAS HARD!  And we are still struggling; however, we are both working.  And although I’m not working full time, my stress level is LOW and time to take care of our home and our family is there!

I tell you all this to tell you this – I am married to the most wonderful man in the whole entire world.  I truly believe there is no one else on earth that would “complete” me the way he does.  Not that I wasn’t complete on my own, because believe me I was and I would tell you so at every available chance.  He knows how to encourage me.  He knows how to love me unconditionally.  He knows how to make me laugh IN EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE.  (Believe it or not, once upon a time, that was the hardest thing to accomplish!)  Yes, he also knows how to drive me crazy, frustrate me, push all my buttons, and make me angrier than any other human on the planet.  BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT THIS POST IS ABOUT!  J 

Our anniversary yesterday was fantabulously (one of my many original words ;)) wonderful.  He surprised me, gave me flowers, cards (yes plural two cards for two years, his words not mine) gave me gifts (two of those as well) took me to breakfast and dinner, rolled with the punches when the restaurant he made reservations at closed due to no power.  He told me not to get him anything, I didn’t.  I don’t like how that feels.  I am pretty good at buying gifts, but when money is tight I’m not very creative.  So, I’m telling the world via, my little neglected blog what an awesome man he truly is.  You may not believe me, and I’m finally old enough and secure enough not to care.  Just want the world to know, this woman has found her perfect helpmeet.  I pray every woman on the planet gets to feel this way for as long as humanly possible.

I do love you babe, and really hope we live long enough to be married 50 years!!