more is said than done.
Lou Holtz

Isn't that generally the case? Lou Holtz had lots of good quotes here are some of my favorites...

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

"I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions."

"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."

"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."

I like these because they all deal with everyday life. In case you may have missed it, I am in a job I absolutely abhor 99% of the time. Yesterday however was one of those days where I actually enjoyed myself. I got to open so I had to be at work at 6 am... and pretty much had everything to myself for the first hour before the store opened. I had great opening cashiers and plenty of them since I had trainees in addition to my regular staff so we got a LOT done. We were slow enough that we were actually able to really spend some time with our members and help them get just what they needed. I got to see my regular business folks that I have been missing since I became a COS and no longer get to work the business hours. I also got to leave at 1 PM so I still had a good amount of the day left too. It is a day like that which allows you to get through the next one.

The other night I got to watch a part of the American Film Institutes' 100 Greatest Movies. I was surprised at how many I have seen but also how many I have not. I went and printed off the list AFI and I want to see how many of them I can find to watch. There are a lot I haven't seen since I was a kid (like the Alfred Hitchcock stuff) and some I saw but either don't remember or maybe didn't see all of. It will be an interesting adventure for sure since I just love movies.

On Monday I got to go see my niece Liz. She and her BF Kevin are traveling to Pa from Montana. If you will go back in my blogs a couple of years you will see that she is the niece that was in foster care. Well she turned 18 in April and graduated in May so she is now officially on her own. I am so very proud of here. She is a wonderful, determined young woman. She is going to attend Kutztown State this fall and received TONS of scholarship money through her hard work. I cannot wait to see what she becomes.

I guess that's it for now. I have to go sew patches on my son's Civil Air Patrol BDU's as he is leaving for CAP encampment in the morning. If I am lucky I can get in some of my own sewing too before I have to go to work. It looks like we are going to get some rain today which is good news because we are so far into this drought!

Oh! The picture I am posting is of a quilt my mother made for my brother and his wife. It took 9 months and has more than 200 hours of hand quilting in it. The picture does not do the colors justice at all! It really just glows.