Jelly Beans

My old blog title is back! I missed it too much. Then I saw a girl at the baseball game with a sweatshirt that said Jelly Beans and I thought... you know, that should be me. It should be me!!

So all of the sudden I am really excited about blogger again as a social networking tool, not just as an archive for my thoughts. It's fun to go around to everyone's blogs and strike up conversations and leave random comments. I think everyone else should get into it too, but I know people are busy and stuff and some really annoying people don't even do online stuff at all. *mutters under breath for a while* Blogs die down during the summer, don't they? Oh well.

For the first time ever this year my mood is being affected by the weather. I walk outside and see the sunshine and it's the most exhilerating thing imaginable! Driving with the windows down, running on the track while kid's soccer games are going on, comming home to a house all fresh-smelling... how did I survive nine months of winter??

Random question: do you think your name fits you? If not, what would you change it to? Do you ever notice patterns with people who have the same name? I think I like my name and it fits me pretty well. It would be horrible if I had been named something like "Reene" which is too regal for me or "Jessica" which is too girlie.

PS. I just found this in my unfinished drafts from when I was working at T-mobile. Stories like this make me SO thankful that God put me where he did in life:

Today at work my co-worker Shaunte told me about a friend of hers who got married at 17. And her response to that was "Don't you realize that's the last person you'll ever be with?" as though it was a bad thing. And she has a boyfriend. That made me really sad because I tend to be pretty oblivious and I thought that everyone WANTED to find just one person they could be with for forever. It's such a weird concept to me that people can actually look at their significant others as purely temporary, like I might look at my phone or my favorite shoes.

Then later we had a customer come in who was buying a 400$ phone for her boyfriend. To me that was a clear sign that they were pretty serious, the kind that WOULD want to stay together forever. And yet at one point during the transaction she mentioned that she didn't trust her boyfriend at all, because men can't be trusted period. So apparently people have no problem just living with broken and messed up relationships. They think that's just the way is, and I'm nieve for beleiving otherwise.

Sad, isn't it?