Glenda’s NACC Blog

On a lighter note! Don’t you just love people that lift you up without even trying? They’re just fun to be around. There is a young man that sits behind me in class, and I’m not going to call his name, because I wouldn’t want to embarrass him. Alright, I admit it, I don’t know how to pronounce or spell his name. He is of a different nationality. Every time he talks to me I end up laughing. I’m not laughing at him, but rather with him. He is a VERY intelligent person, and so likable.

Don’t you just love people like that? He has no idea of how much I enjoy his company, and no idea of how uplifting his personality is. I don’t know if he realizes it, but he has a gift of making people laugh even when their down just by being around him. What an amazing gift!

One thing for certain in nursing, well really in any goals that you’re trying to reach, surround yourself with positive people. Sorry girls, he’s married, and he’s going to remain that way—that is the mother coming out in me.

Speaking of laughter and making you feel good, my aunt shared this story with me, and I laughed my head off. She said that she always tries her best not to get up during the church service so as not to disturb the order of things. However Sunday she just couldn’t put it off. She got up and went to the ladies room and when she came back the children’s choir was up singing “This little light of mine.” Her grandson is in the choir so of course she was smiling and making hand gestures toward him as she was returning to her seat. The song goes like this, “This little light of mine I’m going to let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine. She was singing real low with them, and as she began to sit down, the woman sitting beside her reached up and gave her skirt one big yank. She had walked all the way up the aisle letting her light shine, (tail that is) her skirt was stuck inside her panty hose. I laughed until I about died.  I don’t think she will ever get up in church again. After church, several people went up to say goodbye and they were all singing. Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

One more and I promise to stop. When my dad was growing up they didn’t have a lot of money, in fact, they were about as poor as one can get and still be able to eat. He was sharing this story with me about when he and mom first married. He explained that every day going to work that all he had to carry for lunch was a cold biscuit and a bowl of turnips. He said that he had eaten turnips until he couldn’t eat them anymore. He was working in a lumber yard and he told his boss that he had to leave early for lunch, but that he would return back as soon as possible. Dad told me that he just wanted to get to the lunches before everyone else.  He said he looked around to make sure that no one was looking and reached in and grabbed the biggest and heaviest sack. The whole time thinking Lord forgive me, but I just can’t eat turnip greens anymore, and of course he thought, I’m not really stealing, I’m just exchanging. He had left his bowl of turnips.  He grabbed him a sack and went off into the woods to eat. He sat down on a stump and opened the bag. Dad said on the inside was a hammer and a sack of walnuts. He said he spent his whole lunch cracking walnuts and starving to death. I still laugh when I think about this. You would just have to know my dad. I imagine whoever got those turnips was singing, thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus. They probably couldn’t stand the thought of having to crack one more walnut. This just goes to show that there is ALWAYS somebody that would trade places with us.

I hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful day and is looking forward to the weekend.

Glenda