That's me 3rd from the right (the one with the bad tan line)at my son's wedding.
My what lovely flowers!
In the past few years I have learned about 1200 new things. This should not be happening to an over 40 person. Over 40's should know everything there is to know out there. From here on in it should be only sharing the wisdom we have, whether anyone wants to hear it or not. Nonetheless, since hitting the big 40 (which was a few years ago) I started a business with a friend, got a part-time job, started taking piano lessons and in just the last 2 hours started a blog and joined Facebook. All modern day miracles in my world. So here I am reaching out to all of you to finally have the chance to share all that wisdom I’ve been storing up. OK, maybe I’ll just dole it out one nugget at a time. Here is nugget of wisdom #1. You are NEVER too old to learn new things. You may not be very good at them, but you can learn. It’s good for you to reach out beyond your comfort zone and try something that is way out there. About 6 years ago my friend and I were busy helping out at a church function. Our job was officially “Table Centerpiece Committee Members”. Well, let me tell you, that got the ball rolling and 2 years and 5 or so freebie weddings later, we decided we needed to get paid for arranging flowers. We started a business called Our Perfect arrangement, which it is. We learned how to register our name and get a tax ID #. We enlisted the help of family and friends to guide us though excel spreadsheet invoices and accounting. We bought vases, snippers, floral tape, and wire. We worked every prom and Memorial Day. We took pictures of everything and now we have a full design book and are as busy as we want to be. It was a pretty bold move for us to make without years of schooling or millions in investors, but we figured we didn’t have a lot to lose and darn it, we do have style! Yeah, so don’t be afraid to learn…and hey blogging isn’t too hard either.