Pearl of Little Price

Whether "chance" and "fate" have any real effect or consequence on our lives is more than I care to ponder, but occasionally I like to look back from any moment in time to remember how I got to that specific point. Kinda a brief flashback to realize how random things are and how much the odds are against us to have arrived at our current place and time. Deep, huh? Well I had the opportunity (free time and totally bored) to flashback to a recent occurrence which was quite amusing to Kim and I, and I would like to share that with you in the hopes to amuse you as well.

Just recently one of our dear friends from church moved away and they decided to have a girls only, going-away for her at a local Regina's Pizza. I wanted to drive Kim there so I could hold onto the car and do some Costco shopping while they were doing girl stuff (and I don't care to guess what girl stuff is, its a deep and mysterious realm which no guy has ever returned from).
So I drop her off at Regina's and the sight of that awesome pizzeria drove me into a fit of hunger that had to be sated. So as I was pulling out of that shopping area I remembered that there was a Kelly's Roast Beef restaurant just there on the corner, Hooray! I can dig into some Kelly's like nobodys business. So I park the car, go inside, get in line, order my usual. The usual is a cup of their amazing Clam Chowder and a Garden salad with Greek dressing and slab of feta on the side (yes, I'm aware that Kelly's had a Greek salad, but for two bucks less you only loose the olives. Some how they haven't caught onto my scheme yet). So I'm chillin, enjoying my salad and "chowda" when i bit something hard. That always throws me off, when the texture isn't quite what I expected from what I'm eating. After about 5 seconds of being dazed I fished out the small bead. As I starred at it for about a minute it occurred to me just what I was eating (I know, a whole minute when you all probably saw this coming a mile away, well I'm slow at these things), turns out it was a small, imperfect pearl. No big deal, but for me at the time it was pretty cool. The rest of my night was not nearly as eventful, went shopping for the upcoming camping trip and picked up Kim after they were done. I showed her the pearl which she was amazed at especially by the method of obtaining it. It may have been a small pearl, very much an imperfect pearl, but it was a pearl none the less. Now it sits in the cup holder of our car to remind us every now and again of that day and that friend that moved away.



And now the moral of the story. You never know what events will take place in your life that will lead you to finding that perfect ending, but its the small pearls along the way that make all those events worth it. I look back on our rather short, but amazing life together and remember all the awesome surprises and celebrations, but the parts I love the most are the uneventful evenings curled up on the couch watching a movie or reading a book.

Sunday Funny 2

{walking down the hall of my building eating a Dora, as in the explorer, Popsicle}
Gaspar, adorable little boy that lives down the hall: Hi, Miss Kim!
Me: Hi, Gaspar!
Gaspar: Are you going somewhere?
Me: Yes!
Gaspar: Where? {Gaspar asks LOTS of questions}
Me: To my friend's house for dinner.
Gaspar: Oh!
{I'm getting in to the elevator and Gaspar and his mother keep walking}
Gaspar: Hey!  I have those Popsicles at my house!
Me: You do!?
Gaspar: Yeah..the Dora Popsicles!
Me: Yep. I love Dora Popsicles!
Gaspar: {looking so surprised}That's cool.  OK. Bye!
{Elevator closing}
Gaspar: Mom, so grown ups eat Dora Popsicles too?
{Smiling to myself happily finishing off my glorious popsicle}

Love It With Me Wednesday: Hair Edition

So....

Yeah...

Its been awhile.

But...

I'm back!!

We have been busy camping and playing with or friends and enjoying this gorgeous weather. You heard right...Boston has gifted us with an amazing  summer! 

I have also been a reading fool...it has been glorious!

Anywho...I also won a giveaway!!  Holla!! 

My friend Annie Cristina hosted a fabulous giveaway and I was the lucky winner of a new piece of jewelry. When it arrives I will blog about it...don't you worry!

On with what I want you to love...

See that Pantene container?

Yeah, that one.

The stuff in that container helped me fall back in love with my hair.

For the last few years I have sorta been on a hair roller coaster.  

Love it! Hate it. Like it. Wanna shave it.

I used to love my hair. It was long and healthy.  Not to be vain...it was gorgeous!

There was even a time that it was short and I still loved it.

I have had several bad cuts as of late and my hair has been so dry.

It has been refusing to cooperate so therefore I don't bother fixing it.

On Monday I decided that something must be done so I stood in the hair product isle at Target FOREVER and choose the Pantene hair treatment. 

When I say transformed...I mean it.

I let my hair air dry before going to bed and it looked like it had just been blown and straighten...no lie.

I actually enjoyed doing my hair Tuesday morning. I literally bounced in to the office with my shiny happy hair!

Do yourself a favor and trust me on this one!  Well cared for hair behaves better and dry hair will retaliate!

That is all!

Love It With Me Wednesday: Meet nOoKiE

I never thought I would take the eReader plunge...

But I did and I love it!!

Love it like....bad.

I highly recommend the nook. If you are an avid reader you need one in you life. Especially if you travel.

Did you know you could name your nook? Yeah. Cool right? Mine is Nookie! Original. I know!

Anyway, I'm in love! It has so many cool features. Such a fun toy.

Next time you are lurking around a B & N or Best Buy play with one. They are awesome!

Off to play with my Nookie...get your mind out the gutter.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Sunday Funny

We have a winner!!

Time to announce the Giveaway Winner!!!

Big Big Big Thank You to Urban Walls for giving me such a glorious prize!

Comment #6 belongs to...

Brandon and Rachel Odom said...

Kim, how do you have this sweet hook-up?!!? I LOVE all of their stuff, but mostly the frame it and the framed flowers ones. But I would seriously use anything gladly!

July 29, 2010 10:26 AM

Yay Rachel! Shoot me and email or Facebook message with your address so I can send your Chandelier!

Thank you all for entering. I hope you all had a lovely weekend!