The year of 2020 will go down the history as one of the loneliest and most tragic years for many people all over the world. The thing is it is ok to be alone but loneliness is not a good feeling. My husband and I built our retirement home in Northern Alabama and we moved in the end of October 2019 and in March Covid 19 shut down almost every type of activities. We moved here because Huntsville has about any type of activity a person would want. None of the things we wanted to do have happened. I went to church with a neighbor but did not get to go again (Covid 19 ) strikes again. So many of my ..read more

This weekend my oldest niece came to visit me. We hung out and did a little shopping and we had pizza for lunch before heading home. The whole time we were together I was enjoying us being together. I have so many memories of her childhood. My niece is a single mom she raised to boys to be very responsible young men. Her oldest son is serving our country as a Marine and her youngest is in his first year of college. She has done an excellent job with her sons. She is an RN and in a few months she will be finished with Nurse Practitioner school. I am so proud of her. I love my family each a ..read more

The Meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose is to give it away. Many people go through life not ever finding what their gift is. I do not want to leave life and not know the meaning of my life. Without finding my gift I will not be able to give it away. I say give it away but what I really mean is to bless another soul by giving away my gift. OH ..read more

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It is hard to kill a spider and run from it at the same time. I bet you said after reading that sentence (What the heck is this post about)? This post is about bullying. When I was a kid I got bullied. I was bullied all through grade school and junior high. School was a dreaded place for me, I was painfully shy.  I had very few friends sometimes I look back and I wonder how in the world I made it through and to graduation. I credit my 5th grade teacher with much of the reason I made it. Mrs. Rash was a protector and a teacher. As an adult I have served in the military for 20 years, completed m ..read more

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I know I have been away for a little while. I AM BACK. I had some losses since I last posted. I got pushed down and kicked to the back of the line, but I am back.  Hurricane Florence is still causing so much pain and loss it is hard to be ObnoxiouslyHappy, but I digress. I started thinking about all the people who have been misplaced and it really made me sad. Then I thought about all the people who are stepping forward to help those in need. It seems that when bad things happen, it is like God is giving us a chance to how much love we have for each other. There will always be people that harb ..read more

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Ok people. Bad things happen to good people and the same thing happens to bad people too. I have a question I have asked myself lately. When bad things happen, who do I turn to? I want you to ask yourself, who do you turn to???  Do you have some one to turn to when life gets hard?  Or when you just need someone to listen that cares about you and your issues?  If you think you don’t have anyone, take a good look around and take inventory of the people in your life and the role they play or fail to play. I have spent most of my adult life away from home with no family nearby. When life got hard ..read more

Hello all my ObnoxiouslyHappy people. I was at work today and I got to thinking about true friendships and family relationships.  I decided that true friendship is not forced. True friendship builds up both people in the relationship or everyone in the circle of friends. True friends do not have to worry about being betrayed or let down. This does not mean everything will be all peaches and cream, life is just not like that. If you find yourself surrounded by toxic people, plan your exit . Sometimes we have to prune the branches just to save the tree. True friendship never goes away.  True fri ..read more