only needs two quarters

How has the year started for you? I see all theses boot camp photos and gym shots and I hope it's working for you. What I don't see are the ones where you gave up carbs, or sweets. You don't have to explain I'm just speaking to myself. Keep it up I expect slimmer photos come June. What I'm trying to do myself is just eat earlier and sleep more. Getting more sleep I find out helps you be more energetic.

Have you ever had a wonderful day? No, I don't mean just four hours of the day being the best. I hadn't realized how bad my days are until I actually had a good one. My wonderful day was Friday, I'll explain...I didn't encounter any roughness or cursing at work and everything went smoothly, which never happiness. Got off work and had my car inspected and it passed with flying colors. I don't know if you had ever had the feeling of waiting to see if you car passes the EXAM and praying for your little revving engine to keep you on the road. So when the guy comes to you and tells you how much the inspection is your sigh of relief is really a thank you JESUS. I wanted to reward my car for passing so I went ahead and took it to get an oil change. Came home and a few short hours my father n law with Becky and Emma came over and fixed our shower. See how many more little blessings I'm talking about. After that they treated us to dinner. What more could I ask for. I like hanging out with them I think it's because after knowing them for so long I can actually act like myself around them. They even know the moment I'm about to cry when watching a sad movie. Enough about my wonderful day. I mean I know I wont get many of those days. Think about it, how many wonderful days have you had that didn't involve doing something spectacular?

There are small angels in disguise around us we just don't realize who they are because we don't take time to see. I spotted an angel Sunday. Someone I work with had two stuffed animals that he had just won from the claw machine (a glass see through big box that you put quarters in to have a big claw come down and try to win something inside). He saw me and was going to give me one but I said that's okay not really a big fan of stuffed animals. Two other people approached him and asked for them instead. He went ahead and gave them away. He said he wins them all the time. I asked who he gives them too, maybe he was going to give them to someone at home. He told me he gives them to the hospital for the children with cancer. So before he gave those two away I said well keep them don't give them away. He replied and said "that's okay I'll get more tomorrow". He let them accumulate once and ended up taking four trash bags of stuffed animals.  They put a big smile on those kid's faces. My view of this man changed and I told him he had a gift. He said "I never thought of it that way. Imagine fifty cents buying happiness to a child that has cancer. The small things in life that bring joy are priceless. We often see people and don't realize what they have offered this world. Here is an angel disguised as just a working man that doesn't bother anyone and just goes about his daily routine not realizing how many children he gets to make happy.

I ended bringing one of the two stuffed animals home anyways, to my stuffed animal lover. How you may ask? One of the lovely ladies that wanted one ended up with one that she couldn't quite give to her little nephew so she ended up
giving it to me. What ever it says on it is what I really mean with all my heart.  

I Love You

pay phone

Have I told you how not to break a pay phone? Wait do you know what a pay phone is? I've used them in my lifetime even checked them for quarters left in the slots before.

I'm trying to enjoy a break away from work but it's hard when you sit down and the couple next to you are speaking loudly. They have two little girls and an older little boy. He keeps his little sisters entertained as the adults are speaking. You can tell just by the boys reactions to his sisters that he has had to be an adult at times. Next thing you hear is the man getting loud and yelling at his lady. I'm going to say they are married just so that I can get some justification for myself. He then slams his fist on the table and I stop what I'm doing to look at them. I think everyone there practically froze to see what his problem was. At this point the lady gets embarrassed and immediately gets up. He blocks her from passing so she pushes her way through. Anger comes over me and my eyes won't stop drilling his back as he walks away. He leads the way then her and the children. As they walk out he continues to curse, using fowl language, towards everyone that just witnessed what he had done. I believe it to be over at this point.

As I continue to grasp what is going through my mind as to why things like this happen to women, or why they don't realize how bad it can be, I hear the boy yelling for his mommy. When they left the area I could hear along with others the boy calling for his mother and the two little girls start to cry. He had his hand around the lady's neck pinned up against the wall.  People started coming in and leaving yelling to call security. All they knew was to call security. I heard a big noise and the guy had let go and walked out leaving her there with the children.

When I got to her I saw him leave, she was okay but I immediately called 911. I figured I wanted him to pay so I just assumed to call them. When I dialed the number I had to pause because I was trying to fight back tears. So she asked me again "what is your emergency" I apologized and told her what had happened and told her what needed to be said. By this time the lady had left with her babies. When I got off the phone she had sent a signal to my phone when I didn't answer. That I learned that day. Learned that if I was really in danger and called 911 and was unable to speak that they would come to my aid regardless. When I got of the phone it told me to deactivate the signal.

I know you are probably wondering why I choked when I called 911, I guess it would be the children calling for their mommy. Picture a six year old, four year old, and three year old yelling mommy mommy mommy while they are crying knowing she is being harmed. Innocent bystanders to their parents not knowing how it affects the little ones. Not knowing that one day things will get really bad and wonder where there mommy is and why it may look like their father left them.  I use to think that things like this happen behind closed doors but I'm seeing it more out in the open. There has to be a way out.

A woman is a delicate being, why not treat her that way. A mother's love is like no other so why not protect her babies. Why is it so hard to get help? It's never easy but why not try? Take a minute to step outside yourself and look in and see if you like what you see.

My question, how do you break a pay phone? Remember that big noise? Picture a man letting the hand holding the neck of the mother of his children go, and knowing he is being watched. So instead of his wife he grabs the phone next to him and breaks it. That is how mad a mad man can get.