Goodbye Mobile, oh how I shall miss you.....

Well Mobile, Van is back and it is time for you to go.

I will always remember the times that we had together. Driving down the road like the Little Engine that Could... Every time I thought you were about to give out you surprised me again surging forth with new vigor. It was often like a automotive dance that we would do together...quick quick sloooow, quick quick sloooow.

I will always remember how proud that I was when we would pull up in the bank drive through and you were so loud that the sound of your engine would echo off of the building. Everyone would stare, full of envy and jealousy wanting to be me. I am sorry for the times that we would have to go to the Walgreens drive-thru and I would have to turn you off so the pharmacist could hear me. They did not understand you as I do.

Please forgive me for when I lost faith in you. That cold night when we were going to get pizza and you just stopped. I was not taking care of you as I should have. You were out of gas. I didn't realize it right away, I just thought that The Little Engine had danced its last dance with me. I walked 4 blocks home, carrying my three pizzas with tears in my eyes. Thinking you would be towed to the cold, dark, lonely junkyard.

Mobile, I hope you find comfort in the fact that Van will be here to take care of us now. I hear that there is another family waiting for you. So tomorrow you go home. Then off again to someone else. I will send you off with a full tank of gas, and a tear in my eye.

I will always remember the lessons that you taught me. How you humbled me. As well as the kindness and generosity your true owners showed me.

Drive on Mobile, drive on.

Just DO it!

I have friends! Yes, it is true, and I know that it is shocking.

For the longest time I would distance myself from others. I would often sit home when I was invited to something. Or if I actually accepted the invite and went I would stand away from everyone and not talk. I was the observer in the crowd.

This got worse when we moved a year ago. Mind you we only moved 10 miles away from where we lived before, but it was far enough. It was like a whole new world. All of these new people to get to know. Think about the overload for a self proclaimed introvert like me.

I started to push myself out of my box that I was in and get out there. I started attending a bible study at our church. I went to a corn maze one night that i was invited to by a client of mine, who I had met once doing her hair 2 days before.

Ok, so while these may sound like small things they are huge things for me. I did not know anyone in either of these situations and was scared to death.

I did it though.......

Since then a year later I now LEAD the Bible study (I'm on my 4th one). I can now call my client my friend, who humbles me with her kindness. I have also met another friend through her that has given me inspiration and courage to do things that I am deathly afraid of.

So it may only be a few friends, but I am continually grateful for them. I put myself out there and have accomplished things that I never thought I could. I have valuable friendships that I never thought I would have again.

If this introvert can get out there, what can you do? As the saying goes "Just DO It" I did!