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Mankato, MN, Minnesota, United States
I am an adventure seeking cross between a Biker Chick & Sailing Beach Bum. Watch out for Mamma Bear because my family and friends mean the world to me! I love to wear high-heeled boots and flip-flops in the same day. Watching the sunset on a beach or sunrise over the mountains brings out my inner peace. The smell of Lilacs in the spring, sun shimmering on a calm lake in the summer and crisp afternoon air in October, makes living in MN tolerable, but I have to travel. People say that they can hear my laugh from across the room. I work until my eyes can’t be pried open with toothpicks or my body gives out, but play just as hard. I love meeting new people. A room full of strangers, truly are just a bunch of friends that I haven’t been blessed to meet yet. OH… and I say it like it is!

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Learning to accept help!

So those of you who know me will understand that I don't like to accept help from anyone. "I've got it. No worries!" is my mantra. Well... now comes a life learning experience. I have for the first time broken my leg and have to take it easy? What does that mean? I don't know how to do that? However, as I was thinking about the groceries that we need and another blog I need to finish, I realized that I can't do it on my own. Humbling. I have to actually make a shopping list for my husband. What is that? You mean that I actually have to plan ahead? My idea of grocery shopping is wandering the isles and throwing whatever looks good in the cart. The goal in mind is to have enough purchased to mix and match in order to actually come up with meals when I get home. Now, my kids (ages 8 and 4) have to retrieve anything that I drop, which happens often. My clients have been rescheduled. My editing seems to be slower and driving is a new task all its own. While asking for help has proven to be difficult, I am blessed with friends and family who are both willing and able.


By the way, did I mention how I broke my leg? The episode was entirely stupid!  I wasn't paying attention and boom! There I was coming home from a friends cabin without really realizing that I was back from the other bay so quickly. DUMB! I came in on the wave runner too fast and jumped off at the shoreline thinking that I could slow it down. Uhmm?  Not really going to happen when you are coming in entirely too fast. Wave runners do not have breaks and the shoreline wasn't long enough to catch the bottom. So... Hercules here thought that she could stop it herself? I couldn't have done it while water skiing or sky diving or even hiking somewhere? Nope! A waver runner!


Whatever the cause, as stupid as it is, I am chalking it up to another life learning experience:


  1. Accept help once in a while. It is okay and you would do it in a heart beat for them.
  2. Keep your desk semi clean so that people can find your stuff for you!
  3. Pay attention while driving the wave runner!
Thank You to all who have expressed concern and offered to help. I should be up an running within a month! I'm very blessed to have all in my life.

Sincerely,

Nissa
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Unknown said...

I have seen the way you cook, it goes something like this...Oh crap it's 6:30 and the kids are going to be hungry soon. Let’s look in the cupboard, Ok there are some noodles, oh and some canned chicken, I think I can cook the noodles, and mix the chicken in a big bowel...that smells funny, let’s add some garlic, and maybe that Alfredo sauce that has been in my cupboard for a year. Meanwhile the kids come in from outside and yell "I'm hungry"! You yell back "Supper will be done in a minute". You give it another smell test, it's not good, you wonder if the sauce is old.."How long has it been in there?" you ask yourself. A couple more seasonings and you are brave enough to taste it. Ok not bad..."Kids time for dinner" you call. They sit down to their plates, turn their noses up at it, and eat the bananas in the bowel in the middle of the table instead. We mothers are so appreciated!

August 25, 2010 at 10:12 AM

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