- I have several links throughout my blog to different parts of Creative Ladies Ministry. I just got an e-mail from the owner, Julia, that she will be down-sizing and removing a lot of content starting next month. I’d encourage you to look around and save anything you could use — she has a lot of great things there and I am sorry so much of it will have to go. Her permissions policies are spelled out there, but many of her things can be reprinted for church or ministry use (but not online use).
- Our furnace is still out, but thankfully we’ve had great weather. A little chilly some mornings and evenings, but a sweater has been pretty much all that was needed. We’re scheduled to get it replaced Friday. Yay!
- I don’t know if I have mentioned that Jesse made the JV basketball team again this year. I’m happy for him! I have to say I have mixed emotions about all the games, especially the away ones. The older I get, the more I want to just be home at night, especially dark, cold winter nights. But I did enjoy fellowshipping with other parents last year once I did get out of the house. I can tend to be too much of a hermit sometimes.
- We really enjoyed some good family time and fellowship this weekend. Not that we don’t always enjoy family. But we all got together at assorted times both Saturday and Sunday, and nothing extraordinary happened, but I just enjoyed the food and fellowship.
- One of the things we did was watch the movie “Up.” Very cute! And very sweet ending. It had some sad and wistful moments, though — more so than usual for a Pixar film. I have to say I don’t think the trailers or commercials did much for it: I had no idea what it was about and wasn’t really drawn in by them, but Pixar is pretty much always good, so we wanted to see it. We weren’t disappointed.
- Today started out well — but by 8:3o I was getting very frustrated by assorted things, like the grocery store not having the grapes that I like or the Eggo chocolate chip waffles that I like (no store I’ve visited in the last week has had the latter!), hitting seemingly every.single.red.light just as it turned red and having to wait through the entire cycle, then waiting on people running their red lights before I could go, stopping at Jack In The Box for a Breakfast Jack and root beer (some of you may remember I love their root beer, though I don’t usually have it with breakfast…) only to have it not taste right, causing me to have to go in and then wait while they changed the machine, then spilling root beer onto the car floor and into my shoe when I turned the first corner, etc., etc. — this was all within the space of about 45 minutes. But as I sat at the next red light recounting my morning so far, I reminded myself that all of those were really petty things. So many people have so much more serious issues in their lives right now. I had to remind myself again of some of what I wrote in a post about little things. It’s funny how some lessons are learned immediately and others take continual reminding — but thank God for His patience in both teaching and review. At least it was a much shorter time from first frustration to reminder this time around.
- And then just after writing that I got a note of encouragement from someone who found my blog through a search about city buses, then clicked on my testimony and read it. To my knowledge I have only one post that had anything to do with buses, and I am amazed it came up in a Google search. Thank you, Lord!
- I have officially declared this the week of Getting Things Done. I tend to fritter away too much time here and there (mostly here on the computer…), or else things come up at such times that it is hard to get certain tasks done around and in-between them. But — this week there are no unusual outside demands on my time, and we got the basic housework pretty much done over the weekend. Toward the end of last week I had made two separate to-do lists: one involved errands outside the home, and I got most of that done. The other consisted of tasks in the home. There is more on there that can possibly be done in a week, but I’ll never get finished if I don’t get started. I do tend to flounder away in indecision about where to start — but I am going to just PICK ONE and get going! II Corinthians 8: 11 has been coming to mind: “Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.” So I am going to go perform some doing. I’ll let you know how it goes!
- One last thing: I mentioned on Friday a baby boy named Gaberiel (that is the actual spelling) in the hospital fighting for his life with an infection in his lungs called PCP (Pneumocystis pneumonia) after having had a heart transplant and a host of other problems in the past several months. Last I heard his x-ray was a little better than last week, but otherwise there has been no change. I appreciate those who are praying for him and will update you as I hear of anything.
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I’ll have to try out Up. So far, I’ve missed that one.
Sorry about the baby boy, but I’ll pray.
I had a little laugh at your day starting out. To the one it happens to it seems huge but then as you say you step back and think and they are so minor … Congrats on Jesse and the JV team. I’m also glad to hear about Gaberiel. I’ll continue to keep him in my thoughts 🙂
Thank you for that update — sorry about misspelling his name! I am still praying for them.
I think we all tend to become more hermit-like as we get older. We just live a quieter lifestyle… which is why I am SO surprised you were up and out today AND to the grocery store by 8:30 in the morning!!! But… I was too back when I was still driving kids to school. You’re a few years behind me in the process! That’s all! NOW I’m lucky to make it to the store by noon! LOL!
I’m back to hope that you do the Microfiction Monday. You are so good at that. 🙂 hint hint push push Oh yeah, your busy Getting Things Done…well MM needs to be done ROFLMAO
Well, thank you, Thom! I went over last night and looked at the picture for today, but I just couldn’t think of anything. I’ve enjoyed seeing the funny things other people have written for it, but to me it was a tragic picture, and I didn’t want to go all “tragic” with it.
Luckily, God knows who we mean even if we can’t spell. Gaberiel and his family are in my prayers.
UP was a touching movie and I was quite pleasantly surprised by it. There was much depth and thought there — and what a wonderful love stories — still the Pixar comedy sparkled through.
I enjoyed reading your post. Sometimes it seems that we get more frustrated over little annoyances that at other times. I think it has nothing to do with what is happening but more with the way we’re feeling at the time.
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I have ‘Up’ in my Netflix queue, and it says “Long wait.” Maybe now that you’ve seen it the wait will shorten… 🙂
There was a sign up in Kroger saying that Kellogg’s is having a shortage on Eggo products so that might be why you couldn’t find your favorite kind – I hope they haven’t stopped producing it. 🙂
Flooding in Atlanta damaged the plant where the Eggos are made-from what I’ve read and heard, they expect to be back in full production by mid-2010.
I need to watch UP.
I’ve also read your latest post about baby Gaberiel. I’m sorry to hear about the loss and my heart goes out to the family…
I get frustrated over the little things. This past week with the death of our friend was a reminder that the little things don’t really matter. I’m working on letting that frustration go, but it’s going to be a long journey for me.
We haven’t seen UP but I know 2 boys that are getting it as a Christmas present. I heard good things about it.
Have a wonderful week 🙂
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