Sorry!

I've been really busy and it was impossible to find time to blog- sorry! I hope you are all happy and feeling good!!

Since there was that ONE complaint that all of my music is to be despised on the last poll, I have added some new songs!! Please take the poll today, because I strive to bring you guys great customer service and your satisfaction is key.... By the way, I love every single song on my player!!

We had a fantastic vacation, the perfect way to end the summer. I am not ready to go back to work, but in a way, I'm prepared. Does that make sense?

I broke my toe at the beach in an unfortunate and ridiculous accident! I fell getting off a lounge chair on our deck. Now, does that sound like a Paris Hilton injury or what? No sporting disaster, no harrowing tale of an animal chasing me, or fighting to survive in a blizzard, just a lounge chair accident. Anyway, it was cracked at the tip and sprained, as well, and it hurts pretty badly!! Competition next weekend- PRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This weekend marks my parents' 37th wedding anniversary!!! Congrats to them!!

I want to share something with you. One of my co-workers passed away last week of cancer. Here's the thing- I didn't even know she was sick! It wasn't a topic of conversation at work, apparently, because she had been fighting it for 8 years and people who had worked with her a long time assumed everyone knew. All last school year, she received chemo and radiation off and on, without ever acting as if anything were wrong. My co-workers explained to me that she requested for her chemo to be scheduled on Fridays, so that she could leave work a little early, take her chemo, recuperate over the weekend, and be back bright and early Monday morning. I was in shock at the bravery and strength of this woman.

Looking back and fitting it all together, I realized that during one round of her chemo, she and I had been working at the band rehearsal supervising rowdy children at Winston- Salem State together. We were the only teachers there to supervise, and there was plenty to complain about together- and we did! Looking back, I feel ridiculous that I stood there and acted to her like it was the end of the world that I had to give up my planning period or take a ten minute lunch.

She was dying.

On the other hand, maybe it was nice for her to be able to have a conversation with the one person in the school who didn't know, didn't look at her in pity, and could just stand there and simply be a couple of ticked- off teachers together!!

At her funeral, I learned that Joyce was a Christian who touched many lives in her 50 short years. Wake Forest's Wait Chapel was packed with people who came to honor her. She had been a point guard for the very first professional women's basketball league, from which she retired to get married, and her husband, Jeff, is the Associate Head Coach for Wake Forest Men's basketball!

It is sad that I didn't know Joyce better when she was alive, but I am glad I know about her now. By all accounts at her funeral, and many were given, Joyce was a godly woman and she is now with our Lord. Please pray for her family, especially her 14 year old son.

RIP Joyce Battle