Some of you know my love for panda bears.... well, I ran across this story at MSNBC.com and thought it was too cute to pass up... a san diego born panda, Hua Mei, is in China to see if she can find a mate... how sweet!!! I love pandas, they are the most beautiful animals, so cute, so cuddly, and adorable... they just LOOK so HUGGABLE!!! :o) Anyways, I thought it was a cute Valentine story for the weekend. I still have not seen pandas, and would LOVE to. We tried for a weekend trip to Memphis, TN to see them and have not been able to work it out yet. My hubby went to the DC zoo to see them for me and took a whole role of pics of them for me, of course I appreciate it a ton, but it was not the same :o) Anyways, cute story that I had to share....
I also read an interesting story about a 15 yr old that was in Guantanamo Bay Cuba being held prisoner cause he was thought to be Taliban.... part of the story is harsh, since he was questioned about being a part of the Taliban then he goes on to say how much he thought the prison in Cuba was like a "tropical boarding school" he learned to read and do math.... to live somewhere where there was electricity and air conditioning. I find it so very amazing what we take for granted every day. I could not imagine living in the heat that they have with NO air conditioning or electricity... I am sure that there were some hard times for them before they went to Cuba and I am sure that it was horrible being away from your family and not being able to communicate with them. It had to be horrible for the family to not to know where their son was.
Yesterday afternoon my hubby calls me and says my dad needs help out at the store and it could be a long night... my mom is willing to come watch the kids while I labor up at the office.... being the sucker that I am and wanting to help my dad out, I went up to the store and helped out....I was there from 6 til midnight... we worked our butts off! It was great :o) I have to say that I enjoy doing the work, I enjoy helping my dad out with the store and enjoy being around others. What we did turned out great and managed to get everything else caught up too. There are defienetely times that I wish I had a job, being out with people, enjoying lunches with associates, I love my children and LOVE being home with them... but there are those few moments when my children are driving me nuts that I wish I were anywhere but here :o) I have worked many places and I have to say that I LOVED debt collecting, I did that in OK for a while (before the place went bankrupt bcuz our founder was a scammer) I also did debt collecting in TX, both times I did a great job at what I did, the things I heard coming out of people's mouths was unbelievable... I was proposed to one more than one occasion, one guy wanted to go to Hawaii with me (he hung up on me when I told him I did not go anywhere with someone that did not pay their bills) I have been called every bad word in the book and a few originals ones that make you blush :o) But overall I LOVED it...when I first started I took it personally after about a week, I learned that it is not ME they did not like but their debt... and then it became FUN :o) Then I was a church secretary... for some of you I am sure that it is hard to see me as a church secretary, but that was an awesome job, I LOVED the guys I worked for, they were the best bunch of down to earth guys that were a riot to work with. It was great to see our church grow and prosper while I was there. We went from about 1000 people to about 3000 in the time that I was there. Of course I had to learn a LOT of names and learn a lot about the people that went to our church... everyone knew who I was and if I did not know them it was insulting, so I had to become REALLY good at recognizing people and knowing their names, their families names and a little something about them... which is really hard for me because for the most part I could care less :o) But overall it was the best job I had and the most close knit bunch of ppl that I have ever worked with and of course now we do not live in TX and I have not been able to see our church built (we were meeting in a school while we got everything together to build our church) how our plans had turned out, how the baby room (which I ran and helped design the area for) turned out and so many other things...how I miss it... We will go back one day that is for sure!! :o)