That's What I Love About Sunday

That's What I Love About Sunday

Raymond's in his Sunday best,
He's usually up to his chest in oil an' grease.
There's the Martin's walkin' in,
With that mean little freckle-faced kid,
Who broke a window last week.
Sweet Miss Betty likes to sing off key in the pew behind me.

That's what I love about Sunday:
Sing along as the choir sways;
Every verse of Amazin' Grace,
An' then we shake the Preacher's hand.
Go home, into your blue jeans;
Have some chicken an' some baked beans.
Pick a back yard football team,
Not do much of anything:
That's what I love about Sunday.

I stroll to the end of the drive,
Pick up the Sunday Times, grab my coffee cup.
It looks like Sally an' Ron, finally tied the knot,
Well, it's about time.
It's 35 cents off a ground round,
Baby. cut that coupon out!

That's what I love about Sunday:
Cat-napping on the porch swing;
You curled up next to me,
The smell of jasmine wakes us up.
Take a walk down a back road,
Tackle box and a cane pole;
Carve our names in that white oak,
An' steal a kiss as the sun fades,
That's what I love about Sunday,
Oh, yeah.

Ooh, new believers gettin' baptized,
Momma's hands raised up high,
Havin' a Hallelujah good time
A smile on everybody's face.
That's what I love about Sunday,
Oh, yeah.

That's what I love about Sunday,
Oh, yeah.

What a great song by Craig Morgan.  I was fortunate to see Craig Morgan in concert last night.  It was awesome!  I can officially take that one off of my Bucket List.  There is something about a Craig Morgan song that makes you want to sing at the top of your lungs, hug your family and/or grab a cold beer.  However, he inspires you. 


I listen to this song and it makes me inspired.  This is what Sunday's should be about especially in the South. 

• Church
• Family
• Food

Who can argue with that?  I certainly can't, even a pessimistic person.  At some point in my life, my Sunday's changed.  Being that it is a day filled with "duties", who has time to relax on a porch swing?  Everything that you can not do in the week, seems to fall to Saturday and/or Sunday.  My Grandmother would not do a thing on Sunday except church and cook. This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.  I can't actually say when all this changed, but I do believe it had something to do with the stores opening on Sunday.

Now, the day is spent doing laundry, grocery shopping, and trying to spend time with the kids and family.  My goal is to establish some time management.  This is NOT how I spend my weekends.  But, what how am I going to accomplish this task now that Oprah is gone?  Where is Peter Walsh?  I might have to figure that one out for myself.  But certainly today, I'm exhausted.

I must quit blogging now, I have to go to Wal-mart and grocery shop, do the laundry, cook for lunch, etc.  Oh, forget it, I think I will take a nap instead.  Pencil that onto my calendar. 

If only my name began with the letter "K"

As I wrote the About Me stuff for my blog, I was very hesitant to list my name.  It might come as a surprise but my name is really not Nellie. I may not be Nellie, but as I thought about my previous post, I'm most certainly negative.  I do believe that the blog is helping me become aware of all the negativity I think or feel throughout my day.  So maybe this will be a helpful process.

Today at work I spoke to someone on the phone whose name was Tina.  Tina from Arizona.  She got a laugh out of the fact that my name was also Tina.  She asked how old I am and I told her and she was about the same age.  Then she talked about how our name must have been a popular name during that time. 

I began thinking about how many famous people named Tina.  How many can you name?  Tina Turner....that is about it.  That is how I felt growing up.   What if my name started with the letter "K"?  Oh, how my life might have been different, just by having a name that started with the letter "K".  Have you ever met someone named Kellie that you didn't love?

There are some pretty famous people whose name start with the letter "K" -  73 to be exact.  I know this because I can google.  All the Kardashian's names begin with the letter "K", except for Bruce and Rob (I hate that I know that).  There are tons of Kate, Katie, Kim, Kelly, Katherine.  The possibilities are endless!  It is not that I want to be famous, but my name just really didn't make a statement like maybe another name could have.  Or maybe, I was just too shy and blamed it on my poor name.

Once in the 6th grade, I tried to change the spelling of my name to make it a little "cooler".  So, I unofficially changed it to Teena.  How cool is that?  It lasted about 2 days.  Now when I look at my 6th grade yearbook, some autographs are spelled Tina and some are spelled Teena.  Just goes to show that maybe the name Tina was popular in the 1960's but, not so much in the 1970's.  Well, maybe it was only me.  The Tina from Arizona loves her name and loves that there are not that many Tina's in the world.  Just take Ginger from Gilligan's Island - she was a movie star and guess what her name is Tina Louise. 

 I must admit, as I blog about this name issue, my mother may have just liked the name Tina.  And I am who I am.  

So this is bloggin......

Well, here I am.  I am writing my first blog.  my inspiration came from my sweet niece (in-law).  I hate that word.  Does anyone realize how impersonal that in-law word truly is.  Wow! my first negative statement is in the first few sentences.  BTW, that was not planned.  I actually stole the phrase Negative Nellie from the same sweet niece.  However, Debbie Downer would have been a huge mistake.

As I thought about "my blog", many titles came to mind, but this has been a trend in my life.  I could talk about anything, but I hope that this process can be therapeutic and I can come to realize what has made or makes me such a negative person.  So with that, anyone reading this may or may not be interested in my journey.  But it is what it is.

A few other titles were considered, but this seems to be the right fit.  Am I really that negative?  I hope not, but due to recent events in my life, I can say that I'm not overly positive.  Was I born this negative?  I don't remember being negative as a child.  Heck, my Barbies always had great stuff and I was positive that they would have new stuff come Saturday when my mom would take me to K-mart (yes, I was a child before Walmart).  So, when did I become so negative and what exactly makes a person negative?  I'm not sure.  I hope that this blog will help me sort out the many thoughts (negative and positive) inside my head.

I will make one promise - I will try to be positive one day a week and hopefully it will become two, maybe three, four, then maybe - just maybe five - okay that is a stretch but it can happen.  Now, this blog is not going to be like the Julia blog where she cooks everyday for 365 days and blogs about it.  First, I don't like to cook and I really don't like French food.  Honestly, I am a picky eater (even though my body doesn't support that statement) and I hate onions.  Have you ever watched Food Network and seen a recipe that doesn't have onions in it?  Well, I haven't.

So I'm off on this journey and you are welcome to come along.  Comments, suggestions, and criticisms are good.  I welcome all.  But, I don't take criticism well.  Someone tried to put a positive spin on criticism by saying "constructive criticism".  Is constructive the same as positive?  Who came up with that one?  Is there such a thing - it doesn't matter if it is constructive or just criticism, it hurts all the same.  I will save that subject for another day.