Country Mouse in the Big City

I'd just like to say thank goodness this week is coming to a closure! This week has been quite overwhelming to say the least. You see it all starts with the fact that my grandfather is already in the hospital, and heartbreakingly isn't doing so well, which has been plaguing my mind already. Sunday my grandmother came down and has been staying with us for her surgery that happened on Wednesday. Unfortunately her surgery couldn't fix the problem and she will instead have to face a ton of painful physical therapy. But for her stay I have been designated "grandma-sitter" which entailed much more energy than I originally thought! She has ten times the energy as me and keeps me going til sundown, which is a loooooong day when I've been waking up at four in the morning to open the coffee shop for the past three days, and she had revoked my privilege of taking a power nap. Then the night of her surgery we get a call that after leaving the hospital visiting my grandma, my aunt was in car accident that broke both axels on her truck and finds herself in the hospital now. She is doing fine and has a sense of humor about the whole thing, just saying that she's finding more and more bruises in places she didn't think was possible. I guess the old saying is true that they come in threes. But thankfully it's my day off today and my mother got to leave early as well! So she took my grandma out and about, allowing me to relax in true Ashleigh style which involved doing the mountains of laundry that have been consuming my bathroom and enjoying an all day Disney channel marathon for the kid inside me that everyone is well aware of. haha Well on that note I'm off for some dinner and headed to see Transformers again tonight. Did I mention I'm a closet nerd as well? :]
Sincerely,
Ashleigh Renay

PS One humorous highlight I forgot to mention was everyone at Saxbys hiring a singing and dancing banana telegram for one of my coworkers! hilarious! I'll put some pics up once I load them. :]

As Promised...

Handprints On My Heart

I'm perfectly fine with the love of my life being shorter than me, and only two years old. Because I sure do love my baby cousin Sienna Marie with all my heart, the way she talks, she's amazingly smart, and soo loving. I just know if you ever do meet her you'll fall in love with her too. :]

Innevitable Amore

"When you are truly happy alone, you are then ready to be happy with someone else." This quote found me today of all days, the day I'm questioning my love life of the past and present. You know those days when you wonder, "what if I would have done that different, would it all be different?" and you simply pick your brain until you find yourself picking well, yourself apart. Hopefully I'm not the first to say STOP. With my fair share of winners and losers, the winners always had one thing in common, they loved me for me, plain, simple, complicated, crazy, undeniable me. This quote is undeniably true. So today of all days, the day I'm questioning men, today the day i realize I'm still sorting through boys, today yet another day I've gotten played by a boy, or treated like a dirty secret.... it's nice to know that I've found a remedy. Find someone who loves you as much as your girls do.. the cousins willing enough to take a girl down with you just off a vibe and gut feeling, no questions asked. Or the best friend you call and ramble your brains out about "this bitch" and her ear is there adding in the occasional appreciated "oh hell no! that skank!"... it's all love and I'm thankful everyday that I have them in my life <3