I hope this comes out the right way

I've been thinking a lot lately about where I'm suppose to be.
Am I suppose to be a Mom?
Am I suppose to live in this house?
Am I suppose to have this job?
This has all come full circle in the past few weeks where I've come to realize that yes, this is exactly where I'm suppose to be. That every single solitary decision I have made has led me to this place right here.
But then this led me to question why? Why am I in this place right here right now? Is it for a bigger reason that I don't know about?
Like what if I decided to not go online that one night while babysitting sisters kids and poke around on that Internet dating website and had that one fleeting little 'why not' moment and sign up? If I hadn't, I never would have met Husband. Would I have met him in some other capacity? But if I didn't, I wouldn't have perfect daughter right now. Isn't that weird? That one little tiny decision led me to her.
And that could be the answer of why. Why am I here? Because if I wasn't here, then I wouldn't have her. And maybe she is going to bring me someone else in the far off future that will impact my life in some grand way. I guess it's a little bit of a snowball effect.
So, it is a little early for New Years resolutions, but I think I know mine already (and this could just be life teaching me an odd lesson of revelations after 33 years): I am going to be confident in every decision I make. I am not going to question it because it will lead me to things that are suppose to happen.
Yes, that's what I'm going to do.

Clearly,
JSC

Ok fine

And the winner of the contest is (drum roll please)...

NOBODY!

Nobody guessed it dead on but KG was the closest. I did find out that she formed a posse of lurkers who checked out the photo to try and help her out so because she CHEATED (although I never stated any rules about getting help because I didn't think anyone would actually try to guess so in future contests you cannot have your friends check out the picture and help you so you can win) she didn't win fairly.

But she was almost right.

I have another picture that was taken right after the contest pic, maybe it will shed some light on what it is:

Does this help?

It's our front window. If you've ever looked at my Flickr photo's you'll see that I took the scary storm cloud picture out the same window. Or, if you've ever been to my house, you know that there is a chair sitting in front of the window. I was sitting there, I tilted the camera sideways, and snapped a shot of the snow that was stuck to it during our most recent snow storm.

See it now?

So KG was almost there with her guess of snow on the blacktop or snow on the camera lens. But I can't verify that she actually guessed it. So if the person who guessed it would like to come forward, I will gladly send you a useless prize. Or, KG, if it was you, I need proof from your helpers that it wasn't them. See what happens when you cheat?!?!??!?!!

I am going to start something new on Paper Castles in the next couple of days so stay tuned friends!

That's just rude

So yesterday I went to a really big chain pet store. I can't remember the last time I was in one,

I'm almost positive it was in OR visiting Sister when super smart nephew wanted to buy something for his rabbit. Or maybe it was his hamster. I don't know, anyway, it was probably about 3 years ago that I entered one. We usually get french kitties food at the Target because it's just more convenient, so again, no reason to go there.

Moving along, yesterday I went there because a co-worker, who has a fish tank in his office, went on vacation this week and forgot to buy more food for his fish. He called and asked if I could go get some and feed them this week. No problem I say. I needed to go out on my lunch break anyway to do some other errands.

I go there, find the food and discover that there is one register open with about 6 people waiting in line. The cashier lady kept calling for back up but she was really hard to understand so I'm guessing that's why nobody rushed to her aid. I'm the last one in line and think oh well, I guess I'll just space out. I'm really good at that. The line is not moving because customer number one had like a zillion questions about her dog food that the cashier was indeed answering, just not very clearly so there was a lot of 'what was that?' 'huh?' and 'can you say that again'. I was STILL IN LINE mind you but looking at a display about 10 feet to my right about dog training classes when the line moved, just a little. And then it happened. I was butted. Some lady, who I am sure seen me, just slid right in line in front of me. It was really strange. I just looked at the back of her head, sortof in disbelief, because how often do you get butted in front of? Isn't it the cardinal rule starting in like 2nd grade to never butt in front of someone?

So I'm standing there, wondering if I should say something, but can't really think of anything to say without sounding like a...well...2nd grader. So I say nothing and just remember that karma is a bitch. And then you know what happened? The back up cashier shows up, taps the butter lady on the shoulder and says 'Ma'am, I can help you over here.' WHAT???? I am the last one in line, wasn't she supposed to tap me on the shoulder?

On a brighter note, mama loves you.