I haven’t “viewed” since My Best Friend lost her Sister…

I choose to remember my way.

To my Friend Lois, this is how I celebrate your life…

 

    

 

We “ALL” made this friendship bowl together.

 

You are in my heart my Friend…

Our dinner tonight in your honor.

 

 

Fresh basil because you would have wanted it that way….

 

I will always Love You and You will always be with me.

 

Thank You My Friend.

 

Lori

 

 

So often people come and go from our lives as time passes.   We create beautiful friendships that lift us up and brighten our lives.

I had a beautiful friend that shared her life with me.   Her stories, her recipes, her love of  life.

I wanted to grow old to be just like her.

It’s a shame that life moves so fast, and sometimes unfortunately we let those friendships fall by the wayside.

If only that didn’t happen….

Then perhaps your heart wouldn’t be broken with guilt when you find out that you’ve already shared your last glass of wine with that friend.

I’m so sorry that I failed you as a friend,

I’m so stupid for being so damn stupid!!!

I love you so much and I know you would be proud of me now.

There is a forever scar on my heart for letting you go without you knowing how much I love you and how much you made me who I am now.  How you guided me and helped me when I needed it.

I am forever in debt to you my Dear Friend, and I will always love you.

Even as you are gone, you are teaching me and I will do better, I promise…  I promise!!!

I am SO SO SORRY!!!!

I Love You Always My Dear Friend Lois!!!

Heaven received a lovely Angel today.

Rest In Peace Lois.

 

 

These are your wings My Friend Lois….. These are Your Wings To Heaven!!!

 

We Should All Take Care Of What’s Important, Because Nothing Else Matters!

 

Lori

I’ve had something on my mind lately and I can’t shake it. I keep thinking about living life slower. Taking my time to do the things that I’m doing. Such as making dinner or even taking a walk. I mean does every dang walk have to be a power walk. Sure I need the exercise, but I think slowing down and enjoying the scenery is just as important. And, honestly it should be more than just the scenery from my front porch with a glass of wine in my hand. Yes, it’s true that I have no problem taking my time doing that.
I just keep thinking that the first 40 years of my life lived me and now it’s time for me to live life. Actually walk slower, talk slower, be more patient and enjoy the sound of a laugh or the sound of a song and actually hear the words. As for laughing the ZMan takes care of that for me on a daily basis. I often tell him he should do stand up comedy. He is by far the funniest person I know. I hope one day I can get him to try it, because I know he would rock at it. He can take the simplest story and turn it into a great hilarious adventure.
I know (now) that the early years of life (god I sound old) being the 20’s and 30’s, they are supposed to be busy with new jobs, new homes, new spouses (a couple of times) and babies. So, it’s perfectly understandable that you feel like life is living you. Which also makes sense to reason that after the kids have grown and doing their things, after you’ve worked 20 years or so and realize now that what’s most important about the job is benefits and retirement, settling into your home and realizing that you don’t need a new set of living room furniture every 3 years, just finding your style of living.
I don’t remember having big dreams of becoming…. Anything. I knew I would become something, but I wasn’t one of these people who knew early on she wanted to be a scientist or a doctor or an astronaut.   All I ever wanted was to be happy.   I always liked to write.   I’ve been putting words on paper for many years.   About a month ago, shortly after I started ZLifeBlog my Mother gave me a homemade booklet of poems that I had made her when I was a young child.
So it makes sense to me that I feel like after all these years I’m finally living my life.   I’m married to the love of my life and we share similar interest and goals.   Yes, I finally have goals for life that include more than just making the mortgage and car payment.   It feels good to enjoy life so much now that I want to slow it down and really take it all in.   I want to smell all the flowers and watch all the stars in the summer night sky with the ZMan.

This is life. This is the life I’m living, laughing and loving. The Z Way.

 

 

Y’all Take Care!

Lori

 

The winner of the giveaway is Patti.  Thanks for taking the time to read my blog Patti!!!   You’ve been e-mailed.

 

NOW….

 

*** Alert ***   A bit of a rant to follow….

Sometimes people / companies just take advantage of you!!!

Maybe you remember that a little over a month ago I purchased a workout video program that I can do at home in 25 minutes.

I do like the videos and the work outs, but let me tell you I was this  close to sending the whole thing back last week.

When I placed my order, I did it over the phone.  I didn’t order it on line I actually called and spoke to a real person.  And I remember very specifically declining all the additional things she tried to sell me.

I specifically said to her, “I only want the workout videos, nothing else”

No vitamins, no memberships, nothing additional, just the workout videos.

So, imagine my surprise when I got in the mail last week a 90 day supply of vitamins from this company.  I immediately went and checked my online statement and yep, I was charged $39.92 for vitamins and $40.93 for a membership fee.

WHAT A SCAM!!!!  They kept my card number on file and continued to make unauthorized charges to it without my consent!!!    I’m sorry, but that to me is very bad business practices.

When I called I was told that with a purchase you automatically get enrolled into the membership program and vitamin supplement program.

Imagine at that point my head almost blowing off.  GGGRRRRRR!!!!

Ultimately, I was able to have all the charges removed from my card but only after spending about 20 minutes on hold and learning that the refund will take about 3 days to process.

So I have the added bonus of monitoring my account waiting for the refund.    You know, because I have nothing better to do with my time.

I’m still on the fence about this company having any of my business at all,  and I still may return the original product.  I’ll keep you posted, ’cause I know you want to know 😉

Has anything like this ever happened to you?    How did you handle it?

I wonder how many people don’t realize they have been charged, or don’t take the time to correct the issue?  I’ll bet that’s what the company is counting on, that people wont take the time to complain.         GGGRRRR again.

OK, I’m gonna stop ranting now nut lesson learned.  The thing to take away from this is to always check your statements and make sure you’re not being charged for something you didn’t authorize.  Check your cable and internet bills, all of them and make sure you’re not being overcharged.

It’s our money, they don’t get to take it from us without our consent.  Make those calls if needed.  We can’t step over pennies for dollars.  Pennies add up to dollars.

Y’all Take Care!

Lori