I went to a women's conference at our church today. It was really good. As always...before I go I have this dread that goes through me...selfishness on my part actually, that tells me this is intruding on my time and I don't want to go. But, as always I go and come away glad that I did...because it is always good and worthwhile. I always learn something and it is a blessing. When Lizardbreath and Rock lived with us she would say. "Oh Mom, just suck it up. You know you always enjoy it. Just go and quit being so negative!" Can you imagine her talking to me like that!!!! Well, this morning, last night actually, as I began with the dread (especially now that I am working again and Saturday is my only day off) her words rang in my head! They haven't lived with us for several years now and I can still hear her saying that to me. But then I guess turn about is fair play...both of my children tell me they often hear me saying things to them.
But that is not the point.
As we were waiting in line for the restroom, which is common at women's conferences, we began to talk about how we could go to the men's restroom. But there were a few men there so we dared not. Well, of course that led to stories of when women did dare, out of desperation, go to the men's restroom....and it reminded me of something that happened to me a few months ago.
I was in Kohl's shopping when the urge hit me. I went back to the customer service area where the restrooms are located and the men's and women's restrooms are directly across from each other. Well, I looked to the left and saw the sign for the women's restroom and turned right and went into the restroom. Yep, your read correctly...I said "I looked to the left at the women's restroom and turned "right" and went into the restroom. Well, there I sat minding my own business when in comes someone. HE clears HIS throat and I froze! There I sat, undies at my knees and praying he would not notice my shoes under the stall. To make it worse I was in the first stall right next to the urinals! Which....No, I did NOT see when I came in! I could hear him doing his business and had thoughts of racehorses running through my head! OH MY! What if he does see my shoes?!... or worse yet...sees ME through the crack where the door never quite meets the privacy walls. OR....OK, just quit thinking and figure out how you are going to get out of here without being seen...if he ever does leave....my goodness, he must have had a whole pitcher of tea for lunch! FINALLY... he leaves and now to get out without being seen. But how is that possible! This bathroom is right there by customer service. The counter actually goes around the corner and the people who work behind it face the bathrooms! And what if when I am coming out of the men's bathroom a woman is coming out of the women's restroom. Well, quit stalling for pete's sake (no pun intended) before another man comes into the bathroom....what a terrible thought! That thought took me fairly running out the door and into the space between the two bathrooms hoping that if anyone did see me they would think I was coming out of the women's bathroom and not the men's! Made it! And what do you know....not a soul noticed me at all.
With heart pounding wildly, redfaced, but relieved (again, no pun intended)....I took a deep breath and walked off like nothing had happened.
I wonder if that man did see my shoes and was waiting somewhere just out of sight watching to see what I did when I came out?
Come to think of it...it would have made a great Candid Camera or America's Funniest Home Video clip! Oh no! What if my coming out was caught on a security camera! I just now thought of that!
Saturday, November 15, 2008
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CHA-CHING!
For those of you who are too young to remember....this is all Doogie Houser's fault...all this blogging! Doogie Houser was young doctor, just a boy really. He graduated from High School at too young an age and then attended medical school graduating at the top of his class. But genius had nothing to do with how he related to the world socially so he suffered the same things that "normal" teenagers did. He would come home from his work at the hospitol and put his words to computer keys and keep track of his daily thoughts and happenings much like most teenagers did in diaries or journals. So...here we are.
I have been contemplating this blog thing for awhile, but just today finally decided to make it a reality.
Much of life is changing right now, so why not try some new things along with all the other changes.
I don't really like change very much. They say that becomes more common the older you get, and I suppose it is true. I like routine, status quo, the way things used to be. And yet, one of my favorite quotes is, "If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got!" That means if you don't want what you always got....you have to change!
So, change we do. Right now, Thor, the love of my life, is going through change on his job. What he is doing he has done before, but not for almost a decade. At first, when he told me he felt like an old dinosaur and would have to learn "how to" all over again I thought he was being silly. Until I was interviewing for jobs after 16 years and had to learn "how to" all over again. He was not being silly at all. He was being honest. There is a great deal of difference in approaching a task when you are fresh out of college and ready to take on the world idealistically and doing so when you are aware of reality. But...I am happy to say, Thor has come through with flying colors, as I knew he would, and doing a great job...at his "new" old job!
Our son, the Bohemian, has just taken a new job assignment in a new town. He has been struggling with living without his family until they can sell their house or at least rent it and move to his new location with him. It has been difficult and is getting really tiresome after five months. But, there does seem to be some parting of the clouds. The Bohemian, the Busy Bee, Mr. Golden Curls, and the Lil' Spitfire are all looking forward to the one change that will bring them all under one roof!
Our daughter, Lizardbreath, and her husband, the Rock have just returned home after being gone for nearly a month attending a business convention in Nevada and visiting Thor and I in Oklahoma. Today they are having a Princess Birthday Party for The Princess. She will be six on Tuesday! That does not seem possible. And yet another change is occuring....we are not able to be there! This is the first birthday we have missed for any of our 6 grandchildren....and I hope it will be the last. But gas prices and the fact that I will be leaving for Colorado with Tickle Sister on Tuesday made the trip impractical, especially since they were just here last week. But, we called her today and the Princess said it was alright, she got the present we sent her.
Well, time for another change. I must leave this computer and go keep Thor company....I know he is just waiting for me to add conversation and comments to his television viewing pleasure.....What?!
I have been contemplating this blog thing for awhile, but just today finally decided to make it a reality.
Much of life is changing right now, so why not try some new things along with all the other changes.
I don't really like change very much. They say that becomes more common the older you get, and I suppose it is true. I like routine, status quo, the way things used to be. And yet, one of my favorite quotes is, "If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got!" That means if you don't want what you always got....you have to change!
So, change we do. Right now, Thor, the love of my life, is going through change on his job. What he is doing he has done before, but not for almost a decade. At first, when he told me he felt like an old dinosaur and would have to learn "how to" all over again I thought he was being silly. Until I was interviewing for jobs after 16 years and had to learn "how to" all over again. He was not being silly at all. He was being honest. There is a great deal of difference in approaching a task when you are fresh out of college and ready to take on the world idealistically and doing so when you are aware of reality. But...I am happy to say, Thor has come through with flying colors, as I knew he would, and doing a great job...at his "new" old job!
Our son, the Bohemian, has just taken a new job assignment in a new town. He has been struggling with living without his family until they can sell their house or at least rent it and move to his new location with him. It has been difficult and is getting really tiresome after five months. But, there does seem to be some parting of the clouds. The Bohemian, the Busy Bee, Mr. Golden Curls, and the Lil' Spitfire are all looking forward to the one change that will bring them all under one roof!
Our daughter, Lizardbreath, and her husband, the Rock have just returned home after being gone for nearly a month attending a business convention in Nevada and visiting Thor and I in Oklahoma. Today they are having a Princess Birthday Party for The Princess. She will be six on Tuesday! That does not seem possible. And yet another change is occuring....we are not able to be there! This is the first birthday we have missed for any of our 6 grandchildren....and I hope it will be the last. But gas prices and the fact that I will be leaving for Colorado with Tickle Sister on Tuesday made the trip impractical, especially since they were just here last week. But, we called her today and the Princess said it was alright, she got the present we sent her.
Well, time for another change. I must leave this computer and go keep Thor company....I know he is just waiting for me to add conversation and comments to his television viewing pleasure.....What?!
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hehe.
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