Someone told me today that Elav had great potential, to which I said, thank you, I know.  (What?  He’s my husband, of all people I should know.  Besides, I wouldn’t have married someone without potential… another topic for another day.)  But it caused me to think about a person’s “potential” in life.  When does a person not have potential?  At what age in life is there no longer the “potential” to go places in life?

Elav said that when a person is fulfilling their job at the highest level and has given or is giving everything in their power to do it, that is when someone would not say anything about their potential.  So one day that person had potential and the next day they had fulfilled their potential?  I guess.

i love the feeling of sore muscles!

back home from convention…  it takes quite a bit more effort to get settled at convention when i just got there on friday after the last meeting.  but it’s a luxury to get a full convention these days.

Today I bought my SPI belt on the internet, so I can’t wait for it to get shipped here so I can try it out.  There was one situation where I could not get off the sidewalk because of tummy pain and a nice middle-aged woman picked me up and drove me home.  I was half a block away from home.

So the SPI belt has a reflective pouch that will carry my phone and my house key, which will be handy because all I do right now is lock the door and then hang the key on the lantern screw literally 2 feet from the door nob. ( I really hope no one reads this blog before I get my SPI belt.)

Ok, off to pack for Brownstown convention!

Elav and I finished watching Taken and now I’m thinking back to the times I’ve traveled out of the country by myself or with another girl… I feel lucky to be alive.

One of the most important things to learn is that the world is not yours for the taking.  In other words, you don’t need everything you see.

its not so much that i dislike southern illinois, i guess i’m just afraid of being forgotten… or perhaps that i didn’t make an impression to begin with.  i am 1 of 2 professing kids in the whole southern illinois area, as far as anyone else is worried about, i’ve disappeared off the face of the earth.  it’s not so much that i’ve left and therefore have left a hole where i used to be. i’ve left and no one seems to care.

Well, after a hot day and a long workout (read: bike and rollerblade around town) we have caved in and are starting the a/c in our bedroom.

I was hoping, and still am for the future, to keep it off.  So what if I have seriously have sweat rolling down my spine at this moment in time?  I like this temperature.  :-)

Tom and Liz visited us Sunday/Monday and we had a wonderful time, although we didn’t get to do the camping we wanted to do.  It didn’t end up raining last night, but if we HAD decided to go camping, it would have.

As it is, we grilled out and then made smores under the broiler in our oven.  They turn out quite nice, actually.  We toured Carbondale, the campus and the airport then bought and played a new game, Party Pooper, which was hilarious!  It is similar to Apples to Apples, but funnier and more personal.

This morning we had breakfast then hopped in the car to go the Giant City State Park to hike around.  Liz and I were nearly swallowed whole by a Copperhead snake (this may or may not be embellished information).

The four of us ate at Jimmy Johns (I am in love with the Unwhich) and then Liz and Tom headed back to St. Louis, Elav took a long nap and I was forced indoors to read because of the rain.  All in all, a very enjoyable couple days!