Birthday Weekend 2012

The birthday weekend started out pretty uneventful.

I took Friday off to go play with my girlfriends at Career Conference in Duluth GA.

We ate lunch at Chipotle on Friday and ALL of us got ill.  UGH.

Saturday's lunch was a nice linen affair.

Cheesecake

Flower arrangement that I should have stolen.

Me looking kinda tired.

Bracelet I won! Yay!

Sunday morning was really NICE.  I slept in, didn't go to church, didn't watch tv.  Went outside for some air and found this iris in the backyard.  I thought the dog dug up all my bulbs I planted.  Obviously she missed about 3 of them.  Yay AGAIN! I thought it was a lovely sight after that storm on Saturday. A sweet birthday present to wake up to.

Sunday I had to get boys from their dad.  I went to Christina's to get my gift & a glass of merlot.  Company with friends you love is always a treat. I had some birthday cake there and enjoyed the girls.

Sunday night my youngest brother and his wife came over with lilies and a birthday cake.  How sweet.

I didn't party this year like I did last year, but this birthday was so sweet to me.  I felt loved, special and extremely blessed.

So grateful for March 25, 2012.

Old School William

Happy Birthday to my middle son William Harrison Jacobs. Today he turns 13 years old. WOW! As soon as one leaves the teen years the next one enters the teen years.
William has been my guilty pleasure for years. He is charming, outgoing, loving, incredibly intelligent and an all out JOY to be around. When people meet William they automatically love him. You just have to meet him to know what I'm talking about.

My Handsome Son

He will be 20 soon.
It's amazing he smiled for this photo because he can be camera shy with MOMMY.
I'm so proud of him.

He's grown so much since taking these photos. He went away to training back in February a mixture of a man and a teen. He was already quite mature but after being stripped and rebuilt he called me. When I answered the phone I had to ask, "Who is this MAN who stole my son's deep voice?" You could hear authority, confidence, and strength in his voice. I thoroughly enjoyed the past 20 years being his mom. I'm tearing up as I type this because I love him so much and I am STILL very proud of my young man.

Happy Birthday to My First Born Son, Anthony Clifton Louis Jacobs, Jr. Momma loves you so much dear!

Happy Anniversary to Tony & Quan Brown

Happy 14th Anniversary to my loving brother and his beautiful wifey. I love both of yall with all my heart. I pray for yall EVERYDAY since you have been tasked with the daunting duty of raising Brenda The Remix. Life with Brenda The Remix is full of joy, fun, challenges, and can be difficult.

I'd also like to wish Brenda The Remix (Kiera Monet Brown) a happy 8th birthday. I love that little girl. She is quite charming and lovely herself (she made me type that).

If you are reading this and feeling the love, visit Tony's web page and see his God given talent, http://tabrownartwork.com. You won't be disappointed.

~~Namaste~~

Week In Review

Warning: This entry is just a bunch of my ramblings during my boring down time. Please don't take it too seriously.

I think I may start playing with HTML again. Get serious about my skills. Something has to change in my life.

Add http://www.distancehealer.net/index.htm to stumble. Susan is a wonderful and beautiful person. She lived about 3 houses down from me for at least 3 to 4 years before I moved into my own home.

Today is a good day. I am enjoying my work and the space I reside in. Life is good. Life is damn GREAT!

The Truth by India.Arie reminds me of Doug. I love that song and I love that man.

Add http://www.pandora.com/ to stumble as well.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zenhabits/~3/260984681/

http://sharonhurleyhall.com/

It's 3:10 pm and I am sleepy. I guess those Emerald Nuts commercials are true. Yall better be careful with that 3pm energy zapper. I went to the vending machine to get some nuts but sadly they were not Emerald's. I guess I'll just have to quietly find a place to go snooze and pray nobody misses me.

I had a cube visitor and the visit woke me up. Feeling much better now.

Last week was my birthday and it was beautiful. Doug took me to Ruth's Chris on Tuesday. I had a party on Friday. Herman bought both of my cakes: a red velvet and a rainbow sheet cake. My friends and family came out to help celebrate. We had fun.

On Saturday I had the Cloud Nine treatment at Urban Nirvana thanks to wonderful Doug. God I appreciate that man. He's coming to fix my bathroom plumbing tonight. Literally, not figuratively.

I know I have only been blogging on a weekly basis, but I'm trying to get back to my normal schedule. My schedule got messed up when I decided to blog only on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and weekends. Big mistake. That schedule did not work out well for me. So, I am back to testing which schedule will suit my life better. I have been diligently avoiding feature creep on my life and I love the results.

Some friends invited me to dinner tonight. I am not sure if it's for me or them. They called the day of my birthday to say they wanted to take me to dinner that night. Well, if you know me, you know I already had plans and I hate last minute invites like that. Ugh. So they asked me to pencil them in my schedule. (I went to all you can eat crab legs with those people. I'm not talking to them anymore because I hurt myself with those crab legs. They didn't even warn me that the legs were that good.....*scratching my arms wanting more*)

The baby shower for my grandbaby is April 26^th. It is suppose to be at my home, but I may change that location. I'll be sending out the invitations this week. I need to double check with my mom because she's sending out invites as well.

I remember writing a review about a site that helps with showers and special occasions. I may have to dig that site back up to get some help with our shower. We shall see. For those of you care, we are registered at Target. You can go to Target.com and look up the gift registry for father Anthony Jacobs in SC and Mother Christina Macon in SC. Go on and buy them a gift from Target and have it delivered to the address in the registry.

Happy Birthday To Me

March 25 was my birthday. I feel internally beautiful and at peace. I love this feeling. All of my needs are met. I want for nothing. I feel like the 23rd Psalm. I feel at rest. I want to bottle this feeling and sell it. Naw. I would like to bottle it up for when I am not as rational as I should be. Trash that. I'm holding on to this feeling for as long as possible.

Doug offered to take me to the restaurant of my choice for my birthday. I was torn between Dianne's on Devine and Ruth's Chris. I finally chose Dianne's. I appreciate him. I was trippin over him this weekend, but I'm better now. My little episode this weekend confirmed that I am a spoiled little one and at times bratty. Not going into any more details about that one. We finally went to Ruth's Chris instead.

Back to my birthday. I am 38 today and feel great. I've lost 8 lbs since I started working closer to home with less traffic stress.

I have wonderful friends who really do love me and love them back. Life is great. I'm loving it.

And yes, I am spoiled.

Happy Birthday To Me!

For Mom and Marvin

Happy Birthday Mom!

Happy Belated Birthday Marvin!

The Gift of Laughter

My BFF Christina took me to see Steve Harvey for my birthday 2007. He came to The Township and he was funnier than I expected.

I was in stitches the entire night. I thought Christina was gonna fall on the floor and stay there a few times.

Yes, Christina gave me the gift of laughter for my birthday 2007 by taking me to see Steve Harvey.

He truly is the King of Comedy.

I swear he would have looked much better with me as the accessory on his arm. teeheehee

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The Gift of Life

I would say this is by far the most significant gift I have ever received. Otherwise I would be writing this and you would not be reading this. Every day I awake I am re-gifted this gift. Life is beautiful, wonderful, painful, joyful, a rollercoaster, exciting, full of lessons, the best gift ever and every adjective you can think of.

The day was March 25, 1970. I was the first born to my parents John and Brenda. They did their best to give me a good life. They both love me dearly and I am happy to have received the gift of life through them. I am grateful to have them as parents.

Life is a precious gift. Live it to the fullest. Enjoy it. Revel in it. Appreciate it. Treat it like the gift it is.

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Today is Saturday, November 10, 2007

and I am thankful for:

• the care and love of a wonderful man. I know I've said this before, but every moment I spend with him I see it. We went to celebrate the birthday of a dear friend last night. He was tired, but he came out anyway. AND we had a great time.
• My lovely sister friend Christina. She just turned 40 and we celebrated her birthday last night. I always enjoy her.
• The fact that I could take a long nap in the middle of the day today and have NOBODY bother me. It was beautiful.
• it's 7:30 on a Saturday night and William and Allan are KNOCKED OUT. They played hard today. After playtime I put those little buggers to WORK. Housework and chores never killed anybody. They did great. I am proud of their mental and emotional growth.
• PEACE. Internal Peace and the much coveted external Peace. Today was very peaceful for us. I love it.
• Today. I am thankful for today. This day was a beautiful gift.

Have a great weekend.