Just do It!

Ok...face it folks, Toyota is going to run with their tails between their legs here pretty soon. With the fact that Mikey can't make a race and the ol' UPS Camry is nearly last every race he gets in on his provisionals (and he is almost out of them)
So I have come to one major conclusion
Dale just race the damn truck...
Its gonna be the ONLY way you will be competitive...and besides, it drives better...

Step 1- Gratitude

My gratitude's

The first step in The Secret is to recognize what you are grateful for. By showing thanks for the blessing in your life you can in turn receive even bigger blessings. Here are my beginning list of blessings. I am sure that I have forgotten something, but that doesn't mean I am not grateful for it, it just means I am human and had a momentary lapse of reason.


I am grateful for the very breath I take and the fact that I can wake every morning. I am grateful for my health, wealth and knowledge.


I am blessed in having a wonderful husband, amazing children and the family that I have both through marriage and through birth.


I am grateful for the time I have had with those who are no longer of this earth. May the rest in peace and know how much then meant to me.


Everyday I thank God for the beauty of nature. I love the world around me and marvel in its grandness. I am in awe of creatures great and small and all that they achieve.


I am thankful for my home and my possessions. I have so many blessings of things both material and immaterial that they are too great to name here.


I am thankful for myspace for it has brought me in touch with people I haven't seen or spoken to in some cases decades. It has shortened the space of time and miles between friends both old and new.


I am grateful for the fact that I was fired from the law office in North Carolina because it gave me the motivation to pursue my dream of writing. With the time off I wrote many wonderful stories and was published many times.


I am thankful that I was let go from Women's Health Center. In this potential heartache, I was given the opportunity to work a temporary assignment with a amazing company which lead me to the job I was offered and accepted this week. This position is not a job but a career and I wouldn't have found it without being released from the job I had prior.


I am blessed in my life with my two cats that I adore. They are like children to me. They soothe a stressed day by loving me unconditionally.


There are so many things that I am grateful for and those are just a few of them.
I challenge you to look at what you are grateful for instead of what you are frustrated with. By doing so you will surprise yourself with how relaxed you become. Stop concentrating on the things you hate about your life and start being thankful and you life will change instantly.

The coolest thing happened!!!

Ok I have a great job and a great family...but tonight when I came home the coolest thing happened....

Let me back story a bit...

I am a HUGE Kevin Harvick fan and am a memebr of his fan club (duh of course I am ) and there was a package on my porch. I was tired today after fighting a nasty cold the last 3 days, so I ignored it until about ten minutes ago.

Well, I could't remember buying anything on ebay (my usual reason for packages) and saw the return label was from "Happy's EShop" In Kernesville, NC. I figured it was this years fan club stuff since I ordered it when my income tax refund came in last month.

I open it up and its a 1:24 scale 2007 Reeses #21 car!! At first I though it was a mistake, that they messed up my order and sent me the car instead of my memebrship pack. There was no packing slip in the box. I thought maybe it was a fan's car they wanted autographed, but no packing slip. I looked on the label gain and it read: Fan Club Winner 3/5 1 Car packed.
A winner me?? So I ran to the computer and looked it up...I indeed was the winner of the March Fan Club drawing!!! I am soooooo excited!!!

The only thing better would have been Kevin in the box covered in Reeses..but wait that is another story...
.

Update :)

Well, I did it! I found a great new job!!

After many long days of submitting resumes to literally hundreds of ads and
enduring hours of interviews I found the perfect job, or should I say it found me.

Let me back track for you. In early January I got a fabulous temp assignment at this amazing not-for-profit foundation. They do amazing things and are even more amazing people to work for. They were kind, generous and offered to help me in my job search.

They taught me tricks of resume writing and interviewing skills and even offered to be references. At one point they told me that if they hadn't already filled the position I was subbing for they would have hired me. I was touched because it was the first time in a very long time I felt like I had done something good at work. I worked hard for the Foundation and it paid off in the respect I earned.

Weekly, during my time there, I picked up the local neighborhood paper. I saw an ad that looked promising and applied. A few weeks later I get a call to come in for an interview.

The interview went swimmingly! And it is such a small world that the creators of this not-for-profit company that I am interviewing for were the same people from my temp assignment. The office manager and I hit it off immediately. I was asked to come back the next day for a second interview.

That went well too. I filled out the necessary paperwork for background checks and such and headed hope, praying they would call me back.

They did. I started yesterday. I love it!

I am working for a place that promotes education in our community. I am not saying their name yet because I want to clear it with the boss first. I would hate to overstep my welcome by flashing their name all over the world when they aren't ready for that yet. But I promise I will keep you posted.

I can finally give a sigh of relief that I won't have to live in a box next month. And with the stress of not having a job over I can go back to doing what I love, whining about life, writing abut stuff and chatting with all of you!

Lots of love,
Shannon