Posts tagged Life is good
Bridesmaid stuff.
05 years ago
by Erin
Well, yesterday was an eventful bridesmaid day! I went to David’s Bridal and picked up the final version my dress, with all the alterations done and everything. By the way, it’s this dress (Style # 8660 in Apple). I’m SO glad that’s out of the way. The alterations I had to do on it cost the same as the dress itself, weep. My damned big ass.
After that, Teresa and I headed over to a little bridal shop pretty much a couple blocks away so I could try on some bridesmaid dresses (again). Teresa is letting her bridesmaids pick pretty much any dress they want, as long as it’s in the right color and material. The first time I went I thought I liked this dress (style #369 in Pomegranate), but when I went back again I realized that I didn’t really care for that dress at all because the detail at the waist was in a weird place and made my waist look… well, weird haha. When I went back I tried on this dress (style # A6242 in claret) and decided to go with that one. You can’t really tell in the picture but it’s just below the knee and has an option for straps, which I may go with, I haven’t decided yet. I’m really excited that I finally ordered the dress!! Hopefully Teresa’s other bridesmaids will get on the bandwagon now, hehe. The maid of honor is most likely getting this dress (style #442 in Pomegranate), one of the other maids is probably getting my first choice, and the last maid is probably getting a shorter length one like mine.
I really like how she’s letting us choose our own dresses. Since all of her bridesmaids live all over the country (one in San Francisco, one in Portland, one in Boston, and me in Orange County) it would have been too hard to order them all from the same store so we could all get our dresses from the same dye lot, so we might as well have different dresses, too. Plus this way we’ll all have the dress we like the best and feel the most comfortable in. I’ll probably do the same thing if I ever get married. 
Only two weeks until Greg’s wedding and 5 months and 2 weeks until Teresa’s wedding! I can’t wait!
School’s Out for Summer
25 years ago
by Erin
School’s out for summer and the biggest dilemma on my mind is:
Should I read The Da Vinci Code? Or should I play Zelda?
I love summer
Fwds are Lame, but I Liked This One.
05 years ago
by Erin
My friend Amber ({Maz}’s girlfriend, not my neice :dorkygrin: ) sent me this email yesterday. Kind of lame, but it helped me anyway. I got lots of calls and emails yesterday, thanks everyone. :smile:
John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood
and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him
how he was doing, he would reply, “If I were any better, I would be
twins!”He was a natural motivator.
If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the
employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and
asked him, “I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?”He replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two
choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or … you can
choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood.”Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or…I
can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept
their complaining or… I can point out the positive side of life. I
choose the positive side of life.“Yeah, right, it’s not that easy,” I protested.
“Yes, it is,” he said. “Life is all about choices. When you cut away
all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to
situations. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It’s your choice how you live your life.”I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry
to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him
when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious
accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released
from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw him about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, “If I were any better, I’d be twins…Wanna see my scars?”I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through
his mind as the accident took place.“The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my
soon-to-be born daughter,” he replied. “Then, as I lay on the ground,
I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or…I
could choose to die. I chose to live.”“Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?” I asked.
He continued, “..the paramedics were great.
They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me
into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and
nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read ‘he’s a dead man’.
I knew I needed to take action.”“What did you do?” I asked.
“Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,” said
John. “She asked if I was allergic to anything. ‘Yes, I replied.’ The
doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took
a deep breath and yelled, ‘Gravity’.”Over their laughter, I told them, “I am choosing to live. Operate on
me as if I am alive, not dead.”He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his
amazing attitude… I learned from him that every day we have the
choice to live fully.Attitude, after all, is everything .
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about
itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:34.After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
I’m choosing not to be a victim.
