What I Learned in February

Last day of February! I am thrilled, because March surely means spring, right? (And don't any of you remind me that it also means the time change. I am not ready!!!) But anyway, it's the last day of February, which means it's time to tell you what I learned this month. I should warn you not to over expect this time. LOL!

1. Bob Costas announced he was out of the Olympics...a year ago. 

I wish I would have seen the news then. I needed that year to mentally prepare. Bob was one of my favorite things about the Olympics, and while the new guy did a great job and I ended up liking him a lot, I needed Bob. (Especially with Tara and Johnny announcing skating. I couldn't handle that in any way. Although I do admit they got better as the games progressed. Maybe someone told them to stop being so mean!)

2. Apparently I ate a lot more than I thought back in my college days.

I knew I sailed past the freshman fifteen and went more for the freshman fifty, but good GRIEF! I dug through my college photos in search of some examples I needed for a presentation. Unfortunately I was in worse shape than I thought back in those days, so it turned out to be tough to find a picture I wasn't mortified to put on the big screen!

3. There are two towns named Monroe in the state of Indiana.

When Ryan and I spoke at the Valentine's Day banquet in Berne back on February 10th, we began our day by meeting some friends at a coffee shop in Monroe. I put the town of Monroe in my maps app on my phone to double check the travel time and it told me two hours. That seemed a bit long to me, but close. When we got on the road that morning, Ryan questioned the mileage. He thought it seemed too long. So I zoomed out to look at the bigger picture and discovered the Monroe my map was about to take us to was south of Indianapolis, not up near Fort Wayne. WHAT!? Not until I put in the actual name of the coffee shop did it give me the correct Monroe. That could have been a total disaster!

4. People have a love/hate relationship with sparkly shoes.

I purchased some sparkly shoes from Amazon for the retreat I spoke at last weekend. I quickly learned people either loved them to the point of wanting a pair to match or they hated them and weren't afraid to vocalize the ridiculousness. Doesn't bother me if you hate them. I still think they're cute. But I didn't expect such a wide swing of opinions over shoes!

5. Sometimes an island is not the place to live.

No matter how cute it might be, it's not so great during a flood stage!

6. Two years is too long to go without seeing friends.

Yes, it's been just over two years since we saw Mark and Lynnette. WHAT!?!?!? God gifted the four of us with a "happenstance" of being in the same town at the same time this weekend, and we were able to enjoy coffee and a couple of hours together. Good for the soul. 

I feel like I should have learned more this month, but I guess it was a short month, so that gives me a break, right? Did you learn anything fun in February?