jury duty randomness

I am currently sitting in Superior Court of Arizona in downtown Phoenix ~ awaiting jury duty selection. I will be here for 8 long hours. But no worries, I came prepared. In fact, I resembled someone about to embark on a month-long cross-country back-packing trip. My bulging backpack got quite the looks going through security.

Just so you know, I have never done this before. I have either been pregnant or nursing or no babysitter, or my group just never had to appear when I called the day before. And I’ve got to be honest, I’ve been rather anxious about the whole ordeal. But now that I’m here, I’m ok. I mean think about it, I have a whole day to journal, blog, read, do whatever I want, and not feel guilty.

So, I’ll be posting random thoughts throughout the day to keep me entertained, and hopefully you too.

• I ate most of the lunch I packed by 10am
• I’m liking the private cubicles for us laptop-ers
• A friend on Facebook posted about the new Pumpkin Spice M&Ms
• I want them in the worst way
• I reorganized my sewing room over the weekend
• I downsized my wardrobe over the weekend
• I feel pretty good about my weekend
• Koda & I take walks every morning at 5:30
• Koda's our dog and she misses Tyler terribly
• So do I :(
• Dumb vending machine... I pushed the wrong numbers and got a Baby Ruth instead of Peanut M&Ms
• Ok, dumb me
• Most everyone has left for lunch... but not me
• I made a big pot of Ham & Split Peas soup last week
• Perfect for our overcast, rainy weekend
• I don't want to get picked for a trial
• Cuz guess what? I'm starting a part-time job next week!
• The (Fancy) Fry's @ Tatum & Shea hired me!
• I will be working housewares- designing displays and end caps, ordering, stocking, inventory and customer service
• SO excited to get started!
• Hoping to work lots and lots of hours
• We've been without a washing machine for the past 6 weeks
• We were given one two weeks ago, though they weren't sure it worked
• We replaced a few parts and it still wouldn't work
• We're being given another one this week that works ~ yes!
• Thank you Jesus!
• Thankfully I wasn't picked to do the trial 
• My Dad's So God Made a Farmer video reached over 40,000 views this week!

My son Tyler moved to Wisconsin 6 weeks ago.

He recently visited the farm where I grew up and climbed the 90' Harvester Silo.

And that's the house that built me.

Check it out! My sister-in-law took this photo of Tyler

while he was taking pics from the top of the silo. Yikes!