44 posts tagged “life”

Well, anytime I go to the mailbox to get the mail I either get thrills or chills... and almost definitely at least one bill. At leas they aren't all over the top of my budget. I am so thankful that I was able to find car insurance that is cheap. I don't spend more than 200 dollars on my electric bill right now. I just hate checking the mail anymore due to that random forgotten bill that pops up every so often. If I could remember to keep money in the bank, I would just make them take it out of there every month so I wouldn't forget. Ah well... such is adulthood.

We have a lot of things coming up...I feel them churning and ready to break forth.

1. New job for the Man
2. Moving back closer to where we came from
   
3. Ministry opportunities opening up
   
4. Changing jiu jitsu schools

There is more but that's all I can manage to talk about right now. At the end of it all, I think we are going to take advantage of one of the local cruises and get away from everything. It is going to be a while before we are "settled" again... though with God, you are never really settled into anything.

Thank God the stress levels in my life are finally starting to go down. I didn't know if I was going to survive for a while there. God is really moving in great ways in my life. I am really glad that I don't have to resort to acne treatment due to all the stress breakouts I was having! My skin is all cleared up, I am feeling a whole lot better, and life is finally getting manageable. Thank you, Jesus! Now I pray that it lasts for a while so I can get a grip and recuperate from all the trauma and drama of the last year or so.

The Boy aka my son decided it would be fun to hop into my room rapid firing PL PL PL PL PLeeeeease at me at 8:30 in the morning so he could watch TV in the living room.

Uh

NO.

You don't come up in my room squirming and squiggling asking for me to get out of my comfortable sleep zone to change the channel on the TV in the living so you can watch it when you have a perfectly good setup for that IN YOUR OWN ROOM >__<

Needless to say, my sleep was ruined but he also never got what he wanted. He did come and apologize for waking me up that way. He knows full well that however you wake me up is how my day is going to go. *GROWL*

I made him french toast for breakfast and sipped on my mood juice aka coffee. I am in a little bit of a better mood, but that's only because I am more alert now. *grumble grumble humph*

Caribbean cruises take me away!

Who helped make you the cool person you are today?
Submitted by Amy - Sister Brown Hair Surprise.

Obvious answer: my family.

Expanded answer: Every encounter and experience that I have had with a vast number of people over the last 28 years of my life have made me who I am today. I cannot list them all. Some of them...I never even knew their names.

What do you do with the cards and letters you receive?  Do you keep them all, just keep the photos, throw them away? 
Inspired by jacolily.

Depends on the card and who it's from, I would say. My husband keeps every card he gets (except for the ones from his job at Christmastime). I am more choosy. I will keep cards from family and close friends that are really pretty, funny, or remind me of them specifically.

The QOTD got me thinking about the way I used to be compared to who I am now. Due to some pretty heavy performance management on the Holy Spirit's part, I have become a different person...or "Creature in Christ", if you will. There are a number of things I no longer do or can be ascribed to me. Smoking weed, whoring myself out, and being an alcoholic, just to name a few. These are the things that I used to do that don't even sound right coming out of my mouth. I don't look like that type of person. I don't feel that she was ever me. It's weird how you can have an out of body experience of sorts. It's like something else has taken over your body and you are watching from the sidelines as it corrupts you. What things are like that in your own lives? What things have changed you to make you nowhere near that person that you used to be? I would love to know.

Who is ringing in the New Year with you? 

P1010011

and maybe (if he can get off work early) :

husby and his new shirts

Who do you wish could be with you, but isn't there?

grandandfam

Oh Lord take me on the stair lift to Heaven. Rapture, NOW! UGH I am just a bundle of nerv...I mean joy today. I am thinking about what the next podcast will cover. I don't even know what I can talk about. Maybe it's the drain of the weary world killing me right now. The sky needs to brighten. I need to be lifted from this funk. ERGH ERGH UGH I can't wait for winter to be over.

which means I am "off" today. What kind of off? You tell me. I have no motivation or gumption to do anything. I am supposed to be working on a scarf *knitted* and I'm not. I am supposed to be getting my blogs in order and I'm not. What did I do? Some dishes, fed some people. The clothes I washed are still in the basket in which they came back from the dryer. I am not feeling this today AT ALL. But, I do love that my husband is home. *sigh*