Posted on 01/07/2005 8:04:37 PM PST by MoJo2001
1100??
Yeah..
I can't stand that "Holier than Thou" stuff
That really fries my buns, ya know?
Ms.B
I DO know what you mean!
Ms. POOHBEAR!!!!!
How ya feeling? Why CAN'T you sit an do nothing? I do! Honest! I am The Queen Of Lazy. My throne has room for another friend...come, join me! :)
It is SO nice to see you posting!!!! Queen(s) of Lazy can post at FR, btw, ANYTIME, ALL the time. It is our dooty!
Its definitely an acquired taste...
I just haven't acquired it yet!
;0)
Ms.B
Ms Poohbear..
You know I love ya..
But if you DON'T take it easy..
I'm only 15 minutes from your house..
I'll drive over there and tan your hide, got that?
Good!
Don't you make me put on my high heels and come down there!
Love,
Ms.B
I'm going to refer to my older daughter as SB in the following story:
SB has a friend named Jenny who went to college with her. She let SB park her car at her apartment in D.C. when SB was flying to NYC for New Year's and took her to the airport then picked her back up. Jenny emailed SB this week asking for pictures of her hair. SB had no clue why, but emailed her pics that I had taken (love the cut...looks so good on her). SB came home today JUST to get her hair cut by this gal, Angelique (abbreviated Ang. some down below). When we went to the mall to get SB's haircut we were a little early so decided to go across the hallway to get a coffee....the line was long and eventually I suggested SB go on and I'd bring hers to her. So she did. Well going out as she was going in was a lady...the lady did a double-take, turned to SB and started crying. It was Jenny's mom. It took SB a few minutes but she finally figured out who she was. She looked so different from when she last saw her.
Jenny's mom had a bad accident several years ago and had a full body cast and is in major pain all the time...is turning 50 the end of this month, and has had a very, very rough time. She has felt so bad about herself, her looks, and her life in general. Jenny called her this week and told her to go to where SB gets her hair done and sent her pics of SB's hair! Told her to go there and get it done! (I think she paid for it...Jenny's mom is having a rough time financially, too). She was in pain this morning, but decided to try anyhow. She decided to check Ang. out. She wandered in and Angelique (the hairdresser) asked if she could help her. She told her why she was there and pulled out SB's picture. Angelique told Jenny's mom they had a 2:00 apt. open (I had called earlier and scheduled SB for 3...they had offered 2 o'clock, but I thought SB would be too rushed)...Angelique didn't take the call so didn't realize WHO was coming at 3, but knew the 2 was open. Ang. decided to call her friend upstairs in a mall store and ask her to do a total makeover (make-up) with Jenny's mom (Joyce) while she waited on the hair appt. She had no clue about the whole situation...but did that anyhow. She sensed Joyce needed it.
Joyce has some veins and problems from the accident on her face (I couldn't tell, but she said so) and the make-up totally hid that! Now, she got the make-over, got the hair done, and SB walked in (I came soon after). She broke down in tears...sobbing...and finally pulled herself together enough to talk. We went back in the little room where Ang. cuts the hair. She got Joyce some tissues. Joyce told us how down she'd been, how rough it had been, and how turning 50 with no bright hopes was really dragging her down. She told us how Jenny called and pushed her to get a simple haircut just because she had seen SB's. She told us how different she felt with a new haircut (which was gorgeous) and a make-over and the for the first time she could remember she'd been free from much of her pain while there. Then to run into SB was icing on the cake...it just overwhelmed her. While she was telling us all that, SB called Jenny on her cell, put the phone to Joyce's ear, and Joyce lost it all over again...had to tell Jenny the whole tale. We were all crying...SB, me, Joyce, Ang., and then the lady who did the make-up (I think Ang. called her to come down). Joyce had a hard time leaving. She said that she felt such a power and peace there, and "good". My daughter was such a joy to watch and see through all this. If I hadn't made the 3 instead of 2 appt....if I hadn't told SB to go on over from the coffee shop...if SB had chosen to park at the airport (like she'd planned to do originally)....so many "if's", this would never have happened. I'd never met this lady, but she lives just a few miles from me. We exchanged phone numbers and email addresses. I can never express in words the emotion, the "feeling", the miracle that happened today, but I do know that I am so blessed and don't even realize JUST HOW MUCH I am. So blessed.
speaking of aquired taste....My snm made me go to the viet market...got a pile of MAE PLOY curry and coconut milk
Yummers....
Thank ya kindly, my!
Hugs!
Ms.B
LOL!! I DO use "Shucky Darns" too!! And I also am guilty of "DANG!"
WOW. Just Wow.
Thank you for sharing Gummy...
There are no coincidences, are there?
Thank you for sharing this touching story. Jenny's mom will never forget the part you played in her day, nor your kindness!
Yummers indeed!!
Watcha gonna make us, huh? Huh?
That buffet at that party tonight?
Mostly good..
But, I love a good presentation, their stuffed mushrooms looked like someone had sat on them..
They had them sitting on paper doilies..that had soaked up the grease.. it just looked awful..
Tsk Tsk
Ms.B
I didn't do a thing...not one thing. If anyone did anything, it was her own daughter. I just was a bystander, really. But God still works.
Every little bit matters!
Isn't it lovely..
When Creator lights your path for you?
He led you to someone who needed you...
God touches our lives in the sweetest ways..
Ms.B
Been the wilds of the NE many times yet The Moxie experience eludes me L0L
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