AGAPE

FRIDAY: Everything starts out great. I’m all packed and ready to go. My brother and sister-in-law (from this point on I will reefer to her has my sister or Kristi) come and pick me up and we’re all off to Dallas. Time 5:30pm. I’m lying in the back-seat. Tired because I woke up at 5:30 in the morning. Moving on…I have this problem whenever I go on long road trips I have to go to the bathroom ALOT. I think this might some psychological thing. Within an hour we stopped four times…yes I know…I said it was a problem. Anyway going to the bathroom for the 4th time I think I have no more liquids in my body. So we’re back on the road again. Then my ohhh so lovely sister says something about my brother only driving 60mph…WHAT!!! Only 60mph. The speed limit is 70. I get just a LITTLE irritated to say the least. First, I don’t like being in a car. I’m in my car all day for my job, driving my clients around. Second, the speed limit is 70. I’m like this is going to take us FOREVER to get there. I’m the type of person that likes to get on the road and go. My brother said that is helps on gas…okay….whatever. I just sit in the back seat and listen to my music. 12:00am we arrive in Dallas..yes 6and half hours later. Mind you when I drove to Dallas I got there in 5and half hours. Finally, we arrive and I get to see my mom’s new dog…very ugly but so cute and soft. I get to go to sleep. I don’t sleep very well. I never sleep that well in strange places. Anywho, I go to sleep…zzzzzzzzz

Saturday: I wake up at…let me rephrase this I was woken at 7:30am( I didn’t get to sleep till sometime after 2am) by my brother. I just love my brother so much…..but maybe just little less at 7:30 in the morning J Anywho, I try to go back to sleep for about an hour…then at 8:30 I get up and start my day. We lounge around the town home(which is so nice!!!) till about 12:30. Then we’re all of  to SMU..for the biggest tailgate party I have ever seen. I mean there had to be over a thousand people and it was just crazy fun. After eating lunch Don and my brother go to the football game…SMU vs. Michigan…by the way SMU won..whoop whoop!!! The girls go shopping. of course. I was on a hunt to help Kristi find a new pair of shoes. Two hours later and three stores Kristi finds a pair of shoes…thanks to my mom. It’s about that time for dinner after all that shopping who wouldn’t be hungry. We all go to Chyw’s or however you spell it. My mom..did I tell you my mom is a singer. We get a corner booth and my mom starts to sing…Fiddler and the Roof then Kristi chimes in “if I were a rich man” Don and I just sit there. I can’t believe we weren’t thrown out…just kidding they weren’t that loud. And I thought the night couldn’t get more embarrassing…but I was so WRONG!! After eating dinner we all go for ice cream at Wild about Harry’s. Harry happens to be there sitting talking to this young man in his late twenties and ohhh so cute(his name Neil). My mom and Don Know Harry so they start talking and catching. I go order ice cream. Then I hear my name….”and that’s my daughter over there she is very single and looking.” I turn around and my mom and Don are talking to Neil..about me. I felt like Elisabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice. I go over and apologize to Neil for my mom and Don. I thought ok ok they’ll stop talking about me. I walk outside(trying to get away). BUT mom and Don continue to talk with Neil. At this point I’m passed embossment. I try to stay far away from Neil as possible. But I have to say Neil was cute and a lawyer..so I guess my mom and Don have good taste..since they seem to be little match makers. I still want to leave. Finally it’s time to go….thank goodness. We all go back home and it’s time for bed…zzzzzzz

Sunday: I didn’t sleep well at all…But I get up and start my day. It’s Sunday so of course I go to church. It always good to be with Jesus at least once a week at church. After church it’s time for lunch. After lunch it’s time to go back to Kansas. Of course we are only going 60mph. Time 3:15pm. I don’t have to go to the bathroom as much…which is a good thing b/c by this time I just want to get back home; I have to work in the morning. So we’re cruising along at 60mph(I’m over this whole 60mph thing-can’t you tell? J South of Oklahoma City we get stopped in road construction for 45mintues. It took us 45mins to go 4 miles. But I keep a level head…not really. I’m irritated beyond anything. I try…I try so hard to be good…and I was once we got out of the road constructionJ Finally we make it back home in one piece. TIME 11:45pm…Yes ladies and gentlemen 7hours and 45 minutes.  I’m glad to back home.

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With all my little trials and tribulations…I have never yet 

met with anyone with whom I would exchange places.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

I’m going to Dallas tonight to see my mom and her husband…yep yep I going. I think/believe I should have a good time. I hate the driving part. For the last three weeks I’ve gone out of town. I would just like to stay home..besides the fact I’m going to be in a car with a couple for 5and half hours. Ohhh..yeah I’m going with my brother and sister-in-law. I kinda of like Dallas…if I didn’t live in Wichita or KC Dallas would be my third choice.

 Moving on…My job is going along splendly(if that’s a word). Everyday is new and always exciting. I have so many stories I could tell but it would take to long. But I will tell one or two. Yestarday I accompanied one of my clients to the County court house so she could get a PFA(Protection From Abuse). I didn’t realize how long the process was to get a PFA. We were there for two hours. She had to fill out about 10 pages of information, then a judge had to sign documents, and finally we had to go upstairs and have someone plug all the information in the computer. So if anyone ever needs to get a PFA…just an FYI it might take awhile. 

I didn’t realize how hard it would be to be a social worker until this job. I see children and that breaks my heart. Yestarday when my client was filling out paper work the cutest little boy came and sat down next to me. It broke my heart so much…to know that this child was in a bad situation. Then his mom came and grabbed him away..she probably was afaird for her child,talking to someone he doesen’t know. It just broke my heart. Also, when I have to take one of my clients to the food bank and I see children that are dirty and hungery…ohhhh,that would break anyone’s heart.

 I’m off to work….I hope everyone has a God filled weekend….

You can’t expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking
down on them.

- Anonymous