I meant to get to this entry sooner, but had a busy day of chatting online!

Yesterday, I had an amazing day!

First, I spent nearly 3 hours talking to my best friend, Rosemarie. I can't believe she's 36 now! WOW!

When I got off the phone with her, I worked out instead of blowing it off. (yay, me!) Then I decided to get online. I was going to wait until after I had taken a shower and changed out of my workout clothes, but something told me not to.

So, I went online.

Right before I logged off, I got a curious piece of email. I wasn't sure if it was a piece of porn mail, but decided to take a chance and open it anyway. I'm glad I did!

It was an email from a friend of mine from highschool. He and I were in 9th grade together in Northern Virginia. Talk about mind-blowing. It was fun to go down memory lane with him. I felt so special--almost like a celebrity that he had tracked me down.

Someone had tracked ME down for once. If you recall, I found Kayce, Melissa, C.C. and Ted via the internet. It was a great feeling to have someone want to find me after all these years.

We've been emailing back and forth and sending more instant messages. I am so excited. I'm looking forward to renewing our friendship and not losing contact again!!!!

I don't want to bring ya'll down when you read this, but I feel I have to share.

What would you have done in my "shoes"?

Here is the scenario:

I'm in line at Super Wal-Mart. Of course, it's taking forever to get through the line and get checked out, but that's par for the course. The lady in front of me is there with her 5 yr. old daughter who mentions to Mommy that she needs to use the bathroom. The mom doesn't want to lose her place in line so she politely tells her daughter that she's going to have to wait.

I pipe up with a smile, "As slow as this line is moving, you probably DO have enough time to take her to the bathroom and get back before the line moves." Just as the last word tumbled out of my mouth, the lady's husband came up. She nervously told him that she had to take the little girl to the bathroom and could he check out? She asks him if he has his check card. He nods yes.

While the lady is in the bathroom with her daughter, the husband is unloading the cart and putting the items onto the conveyer belt. He pulls out the usual food items, household cleaners, toiletries, etc. But then he comes across a book.

It's a children's bible story. The front of the book says, "Jonah" with an illustration of a cartoon whale under the title. He glances disgustingly down at the book and places it on the rack above the conveyor belt where they sell the National Enquirer, Star, Woman's World, People and other such magazines.

For a moment, I cannot believe my eyes. I was thinking to myself, "What a JERK!" Then I wanted to ask him why he did that and why can't his little girl have the book?

A few more items he places on the conveyer belt. He then picks up a leather bound book with gilded edges. It's title is something along the lines of "100 Bedtime Bible Stories For Children". He walks over two aisles and puts it down on the shelf underneath the candybars and gum.

I'm seething at this point. My heart is racing because I'm so angry that this guy obviously doesn't want his child to read and much less Bible stories. The wife comes back with the little girl just as the last items are being bagged by the cashier. I wanted to pick up the purple Jonah book, hand it to her and say, "Oh, you forgot this!" But I didn't. I just feel sorry that she's married to such an asshole!!!

But I didn't let that ruin my day... I was still on Cloud 9 about being tracked down by my friend, Steve and I still am!

Thought Of The Day:"Don't allow the grass to grow on the path of friendship."--American Proverb

Thought Of The Day #2:"Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half."--Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) English philosopher, statesman, essayist

Until next time... peace, love & HEALTH!!!