Update from my World...

I've been a little hit or miss with blogging lately. It simply has been BUSY around here. I go back to work (officially) on Monday, but this week has been filled with conferences and preparations for it. I love this time of year, but it is also a time when I find myself a bit rattled with my job.

As I mentioned earlier, DS 1 enlisted in the National Guard this week. He was officially sworn in yesterday. DH was able to go and watch it. DS 1 promised me a picture I could put on my blog...and I'll do so as soon as I get it. He's excited and at peace with his decision which is all I could ask. He ships out in October for basic training in Missouri. From there, he'll spend time in Texas. Then, he'll return home for school. He'll get to come home for a week at Christmas...thank goodness.

I had an interesting thing happen yesterday. I was driving to work and noticed cars hitting a book and papers flying out of it. As I passed it, I realized it was someone's Daytimer. Now, I'd be SUNK if I lost mine, so I turned my car around and recovered what I could from the street. Unfortunately, I had to stand there and watch cars and trucks run over this thing and occasionally take receipts and papers with them (via their grills).

Anyway, the book contained a ton of business cards, some insurance cards and some important numbers from some business transactions, but no REAL contact information for the owner. I was able to find a name via the insurance card, but still not contact number. I called information with no luck. Finally, I found this man's name on one of the business cards inside and called that number--only to find out that he didn't work there!

They did, however, give me another contact and I tried that. Still without success. Finally, I called the first number back and was told that this person was a friend of the boss. They took my information and it wasn't long until this frantic man called me.

He said he had cancelled all his credit cards and he couldn't believe that someone would actually return the book. I explained that, unfortunately, there were no credit cards in there that I saw...but that I'd be happy to return the book to him.

I don't know if it was worth saving his business card contacts or not. I felt horrible that there were more valuable things (like credit cards) missing. I hoped that he didn't think that I took them...actually I told him it was a good thing that he cancelled them.

Last night, I dropped it off at a restaurant nearby for him to pick up. I talked to him on the phone one more time and he said, "I'm a landscaper...if you ever need any landscaping, I'll give you a really good deal!" It's funny because I REALLY DO need a landscaper!

I don't know if we'll be able to use this business or not...but I do know that I felt better knowing that I didn't just leave someone's things in the middle of a road to get scattered about like junk.

I'm off to work for a while then out to do some "family stuff". I'll check back in tomorrow.