So, I missed it due to my new schedule, but...
Nate made Yellow Belt in ADULT karate class last night! He has only been in the class for seven months, so this is quite a feat. I am very proud of him!
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Birthday Girls
My birthday was yesterday. Li'l Sis' birthday is tomorrow. My lovely stepmother took birthday photos for us. Aren't we cute?
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Balm For My Spirit: Third Day
Months ago I bought Third Day's newest album, Revelation. It arrived and promptly got lost. I have NO idea where it went. I even went to the library and made them look through their basket of accidental returns (it would not have been the first time, trust me!). Anyway, the car I am currently borrowing has a CD player in it, and, needing something to listen to, I opened the media closet. Lo and behold...there is my Revelation CD. Honest, I had searched that closet many times before without finding it. I think it was being kept for this past week.
So, Thursday morning, after the accident and several hours before the 'goodbye Raoul' thing, I popped that baby into the CD player and began to soak up the kind of lyrics that are truly comforting. I will include a few meaningful examples below, but encourage you to listen to the album for yourself (especially the title track, which I am not including below)
Oh, I don't want to let go of all the things that I know
are keeping me away from my life
Oh, I don't want to slow down, no I don't want to look around
But I can't seem to work it out
So help me God
It's been so long since you felt like you were loved
So what went wrong
But do you know there's a place where you belong, here in my arms?
Ever since the world around you shattered, you've been looking everywhere for something more
Sometimes you feel like your life doesn't matter, But it does, I tell you it does.
All the promises I've broken,
all the times I've let you down
You've forgot them but still I hold on
to the pain that makes me drown.
Now I'm ready to let it go, to give it away.
Take it all 'cause I can't take it any longer,
All I have I can't make it on my own.
Take the first, take the last, take the good and take the rest.
Here I am, all I have, take it all.
All the roads that lie before me, all the struggles I go through
Every second I'm reminded that it all belongs to you.
Now I'm ready to let it go, to give it away
Ever since I died to myself, you gave a better life to me
I give you my finest moment, I give you the last breath I breathe.
So, Thursday morning, after the accident and several hours before the 'goodbye Raoul' thing, I popped that baby into the CD player and began to soak up the kind of lyrics that are truly comforting. I will include a few meaningful examples below, but encourage you to listen to the album for yourself (especially the title track, which I am not including below)
Oh, I don't want to let go of all the things that I know
are keeping me away from my life
Oh, I don't want to slow down, no I don't want to look around
But I can't seem to work it out
So help me God
It's been so long since you felt like you were loved
So what went wrong
But do you know there's a place where you belong, here in my arms?
Ever since the world around you shattered, you've been looking everywhere for something more
Sometimes you feel like your life doesn't matter, But it does, I tell you it does.
All the promises I've broken,
all the times I've let you down
You've forgot them but still I hold on
to the pain that makes me drown.
Now I'm ready to let it go, to give it away.
Take it all 'cause I can't take it any longer,
All I have I can't make it on my own.
Take the first, take the last, take the good and take the rest.
Here I am, all I have, take it all.
All the roads that lie before me, all the struggles I go through
Every second I'm reminded that it all belongs to you.
Now I'm ready to let it go, to give it away
Ever since I died to myself, you gave a better life to me
I give you my finest moment, I give you the last breath I breathe.
Monday, June 22, 2009
What I Want For My Birthday: Take Two
I actually felt slightly guilty about the first edition of this post...wanting to get away from my kids being immediately followed by nearly losing one and all. Although, by the next day I wanted to get away even more! I thought, in any case, that I would come up with a slightly more realistic birthday list. Here goes!
A Kayak
A new car
A pedicure each month for a year
A piano repairman/tuner. If he's cute and single, even better. But really, I just want my piano fixed and tuned.
A magic wand.
A good man.
An iPod touch. Yeah, I know, I know...ok, an mp3 player.
The newest Newsboys album
A bed (daybed or futon with an innerspring mattress)
Once, I asked for a new car and a good man and you know what I got? Jumper cables and flannel sheets. Close, but not quite. Since both items are on this list, as well, along with the magic wand (these three items appear on all my lists), I just thought I should point out that I already have jumper cables and flannel sheets.
A Kayak
A new car
A pedicure each month for a year
A piano repairman/tuner. If he's cute and single, even better. But really, I just want my piano fixed and tuned.
A magic wand.
A good man.
An iPod touch. Yeah, I know, I know...ok, an mp3 player.
The newest Newsboys album
A bed (daybed or futon with an innerspring mattress)
Once, I asked for a new car and a good man and you know what I got? Jumper cables and flannel sheets. Close, but not quite. Since both items are on this list, as well, along with the magic wand (these three items appear on all my lists), I just thought I should point out that I already have jumper cables and flannel sheets.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Tips From Tech Support
Because I love my readers, I decided to share some tips that I have gathered during my time of pretending to be a geek. (My mom says I am not pretending, that I just haven't embraced my inner geek yet, but some days I wonder.) Anyway, here you go:
1. Remember that there is ONE reason that you call Tech Support. It is because we know more than you do. So please don't argue with me when I tell you to do something.
2. Please do not call about a problem you are having with a device when you don't have the device with you. No, really.
3. If you do not know how to use your computer, if, for instance, the only desktop you know of is the one your computer sits on, I am going to have trouble helping you. And please, please don't be offended if we ask to speak to the teenagers in your home because you don't know what a joystick is.
4. If you are having trouble with an iPhone...please do not call tech support from the same iPhone. "Could you please try x?" "Um....I will have to call you back." Sigh.
5. And, finally, do not be offended when we ask you what seem to be very stupid questions. Just the other day a nice man called to say that the button on his device was not working. He said no matter how hard he pushed, it just didn't do anything.
"Sir, have you removed the protective plastic covering?"
"Ahhhh! A ha ha ha ha ha! I have a MASTER'S DEGREE FOR PETE'S SAKE!!! Hahahahahaha! A master's degree! Ahem. Thank you. That is all I need this evening."
1. Remember that there is ONE reason that you call Tech Support. It is because we know more than you do. So please don't argue with me when I tell you to do something.
2. Please do not call about a problem you are having with a device when you don't have the device with you. No, really.
3. If you do not know how to use your computer, if, for instance, the only desktop you know of is the one your computer sits on, I am going to have trouble helping you. And please, please don't be offended if we ask to speak to the teenagers in your home because you don't know what a joystick is.
4. If you are having trouble with an iPhone...please do not call tech support from the same iPhone. "Could you please try x?" "Um....I will have to call you back." Sigh.
5. And, finally, do not be offended when we ask you what seem to be very stupid questions. Just the other day a nice man called to say that the button on his device was not working. He said no matter how hard he pushed, it just didn't do anything.
"Sir, have you removed the protective plastic covering?"
"Ahhhh! A ha ha ha ha ha! I have a MASTER'S DEGREE FOR PETE'S SAKE!!! Hahahahahaha! A master's degree! Ahem. Thank you. That is all I need this evening."
Friday, June 19, 2009
Say Goodbye to Raoul
Capping off one of the worst weeks of my life, Raoul and I decided last night not to see each other anymore. He was unwilling to compromise on his lifestyle and I was unwilling to compromise on my beliefs and all in all, it seemed time to let go. I had told him in the beginning that I wanted this relationship to be something we could both look back on without regret, knowing we both gained something in the process, if not in the end. I am not sure I can do that quite yet. I think, though, that my regrets are the kind I can live with. I loved too quickly, I hoped too strongly, I believed too easily. I can live with that.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Another Update
Brandon was, amazingly enough, discharged today. He will be staying with my mom for a while. He still can't feel his little finger-please pray for complete healing of the nerve. Also, he is getting antsy, which is not a good thing for either him OR my mother. Idleness has never worked well for him, and mom's cable TV is clearly not enough to battle it, LOL. Thank you all for your prayers-they are much appreciated! I was too busy and tired to answer them all but I did read every one, and I know they were heard. Everything went perfectly, in retrospect, this situation could not have gone better (other than, you know, not having happened to begin with!).
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