Kick Ass Small Towns

Hello Internets,

I would like to share a story my friend recently told me. One of my dearest friends who grew up in a relatively large city had to move to a very small town about just under a year ago for work and is discovering some of the wonderful things all us small town folks can sometimes just take for granted. An excellent example of this is recently she made an appointment to get her car fixed, on what should have been her day off, but she got called into work so she simply dropped her car off before the shop opened and intended to call and let them know what she had done. The universe however had other plans as she proceeded to be run off her feet at work and only remembered about her car as she realized she was going to have to walk home, by now it was much to late to call the shop so she just walked home. She was finally able to get in touch with the shop about 30 hours after she had dropped the car off and what did she discover when she got in touch with the shop? They had simply assumed that they were supposed to do the work previously discussed and that she would come back and get the car when she was ready. This blew my friend away, the shop didn't even have a number to call her on to let her know her car was fixed, but they just did the work and waited. I should mention at this point she has used this shop for parts and work before, but still it was pretty amazing. So I would like to take a moment to say thank you kick ass small towns for continuing to help people out and for the quiet faith you put in your community it is truly a wonderful thing to be a part of and absolutely the best thing I have heard this week.

Keep finding the joy,
B

Sleeping Pug

Hello Internets,

I took this video a while ago and found it again this morning so I thought I would share it with all of you. For his blog debut please welcome my pug Monster!!! Yay! Woohoo! Much clapping, etc etc etc.

Re-establishing Old Friendships

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Hello again Internets :D,

I know I have been away for a while and could spend a lot of time explaining where I have been, but that really isn't the point of the blog is it? So I shall just say sometimes life gets away from us and now I have returned. Now into this entry's joy re-establishing old friendships.

Recently I had the privilege of going on vacation and firmly believe I could not have used this time better if I tried as I used it to spend two wonderful weeks re-establishing friendships with many old friends from many different times in my life. I marvel every time I see these friends because even though we now live far apart and don't get to talk to each other as often as we would like (forget about even seeing each other as much as we like) once we do get together it is like no time has passed and we are able to step right back into our friendships. I have been back from this 2 week visiting blitz for about 10 days now and am still feeling the wonderful calming effects that only come from spending time with good friends. So while I am still feeling the effects I would like to take this time remind everyone of a few things that we all know we should do, but do not do often enough:

• when you find yourself thinking of someone let them know, this can be with something as small as a quick letter or e-mail or as big as a surprise party I will leave it to you to decide what is appropriate
• friendships are like hardy plants sometimes they can survive if you neglect them, but if you really want them to flourish you have to give them attention
• do not say we need to do this more often, if you find your self saying this stop yourself and pick a date a time, everyone agrees friends should get together more often, but if no one takes the initiative it will never happen
• finally sometimes friendships change do not be afraid of these changes face them head on if the friendship is meant to last everyone will adjust if it is not you will always have those many wonderful memories

(The cabin I spent half of my vacation squirreled away in, with about 10 other people)

Keep finding the joy,
B