48 thoughts on “Rants and Raves 11-10-12”

  1. Chuck and all the family but Jenn and Jeremy are in Orlando. Looking forward to doing Disney and a wedding. Mary and Tom are running in a “half Marathon” at Epcot tonight.
    We had a nice 3-day trip to Pigeon Forge. That’s more than enough time.

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  2. 🙂 Brand new grandbaby yesterday!

    🙂 Mother and baby are doing fine!

    🙂 Headed to Orlando for a weeklong sports ministry conference with incredible beleivers from 120 different countries.

    🙂 We are getting a much need rain in So Cal.

    🙂 USC is should be able to beat the Sun Devils today!

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  3. 🙂 Beautiful weather after the rain — sunny but windy & cool.

    😦 Off to the doggie dentist with Cowboy and his broken tooth this morning. He’s enjoying getting soft/canned food in the meantime, though (he can’t chew his hard kibble). I’m sure this will neither be cheap for me or pleasant for Cowboy, but you’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do.

    😦 The election. Major. Bummer.

    🙂 There’s always another election coming.

    🙂 And reigning over it all is our faithful God, come what may. We never lose heart.

    🙂 Congratulations on the new grandbaby, Adios!

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  4. 😦 The election.

    😦 Had to postpone again our already-postponed anniversary dinner since I ended up not feeling well.

    😦 Some unpleasant words directed at me by rude people (online) that rather stressed me out this week.

    🙂 A very kind, patient husband who helps make it better.

    😦 A fairly unproductive week.

    🙂 Many reminders God is sovereign and good. My heart needs reminding.

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  5. 🙂 I woke up this morning feeling good, for the first time in weeks. (Yesterday I might have felt good, if I hadn’t been prepping for the colonoscopy.)

    🙂 Procedures for colon cleansing have certainly improved over the years. (I hadn’t had a colonoscopy before but I had a barium enema about 20 years ago.) It was unpleasant, but never painful.

    😦 Flea problem still not resolved. Now that I’m feeling better, I’m starting to do a more thorough house cleaning – I think the piles of clutter kept the spray my husband used from being effective enough. I just have to be sure I don’t overdo it – I think I might have been starting to get better a couple weeks ago and then I went to the Y and worked out – going easy compared to usual but pushing it a little for how I felt – and came home feeling the nausea again, which just got worse from then on.

    🙂 Going to lunch Monday with some friends from where I used to work. I get the day off for Veterans Day, they don’t, so I can go meet up with them at their office.

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  6. 🙂 My SIL who has been working for years with a bad back trying to make her 35 year milestone so she can get a good retirement package made it. We are going to her retirement party next Friday.

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  7. 🙂 More snow this week.

    🙂 Bible study last night with a very diverse group. People we would not likely have ‘chosen’ to be our friends. God knows best!

    🙂 Husband reconnected the heating ducts into our bedroom (in time for -16C)

    😦 Friends who are pregnant and previously miscarried several times – she has been in and out of hospital for dehydration (she’s so sick).

    🙂 She’s now about 3 months – the longest she’s carried a baby.

    🙂 Statistically the sicker the woman the less likely to miscarry.

    🙂 Our small group who doesn’t know them, praying for them each week.

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  8. 🙂 Feeling better
    🙂 Have successfully used my tiny bit of the new language on more than one occasion
    😦 Learning a new language always takes too long
    🙂 All the new experiences
    😦 The mood of my Christian friends from America – listening to/reading all the defeated language is discouraging. Living in a culture that is filled with animistic practices and the accompanying Satanic oppression (sometimes almost palpable) makes one realize of how little significance those who carry political power are. Only the light of Jesus Christ can dispel such darkness and His Church will continue forever.

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  11. 😦 Not knowing what my husband will be doing for work after Thanksgiving week. And our health insurance ended at the beginning of November.

    🙂 But I know that God knows what’s in store for us.

    😦 Forrest is at an age where he’s getting into everything.

    🙂 But he’s so cute & so sweet, & he’s a joy & delight to have in our home.

    😦 The results of the election.

    🙂 But God is sovereign over it all!

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  13. 🙂 Finally got a chance to visit my brother and his wife. She is a Philippina and just passed her citizenship test. She will be sworn in before they return to the Philippines. He sold his home, which was my grandparents. It was a craftsmen type home. It had very beautiful woodwork and even a dumbwaiter, since the kitchen was originally in the basement. He has remodeled it beautifully. I am sorry to see it pass from the family. 😦

    😦 Matt is still missing. He never voted and has not been heard from for several weeks now. I feel so bad for his family and friends.

    🙂 A friend of ours, who we asked for prayer for quite awhile back, is now able to get out and about. He caused a car accident when his diabetes made him unable to think straight. He still has a lot of health issues and walks with a cane. He recently walked next door to welcome in the new neighbors who will live, literally, feet from his own door. When they came to the door, he welcomed them to the neighborhood. Then warned them that the last people left because of him, so he was sorry for them. (He is related to the last neighbors and came to live there partly due to their generosity.) That was a unique way to welcome a new neighbor. Apparently, they also had a good sense of humor. It is wonderful to see him up and about and his sense of humor back.

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  15. praise to God that the election is over and that God puts who He wants in those positions. Hopefully, this will open the eyes of the people to our need for God. Good piece, PeterL .

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  20. 🙂 Cowboy’s getting his tooth fixed as we speak. Doggie dentist appeared to be about 15 years old. He was unnaturally cheerful throughout the consultation. Almost giddy. Me & Cowboy, not so much.

    🙂 Beautiful day with snow again on our mountain tops, visible from the freeway that goes around the port. Love that view with ships and cranes in the foreground.

    🙂 OK, time to turn on the heater is coming soon, I can’t get the house thermostat above 57 degrees today. Still need to swap out the filter first, though.

    🙂 Good to hear from Roscuro. Good to hear Pauline’s good health report.

    Karen, praying for yours and Lee’s situation. Our health insurance costs at work are taking about a 13% hike (again) for next year — but I am grateful I have it.

    Cheryl, I hope the rude remarks weren’t on this blog — I sometimes don’t get through all the comments every day.

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  22. Cheryl – Many couples, Lee & I included, seldom celebrate their anniversary on the actual date. The important thing is that you do celebrate, even if it’s just sharing a moment or two of appreciation for each other.

    We had plans for a romantic dinner for our 25th anniversary last year. We never got around to it, although we did have some take-out Chinese with our daughters. For our 26th, earlier this year, we thought we’d get around to that special dinner sometime soon. But after an expensive dinner out with the girls (or maybe it was when we took Chrissy & her friend out), I told Lee I wouldn’t mind forgoing our planned dinner, which would have been another expense.

    I know that eventually, probably spontaneously, we will have a lovely dinner out, just the two of us. 🙂

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  24. 🙂 I am married to a man who TiVo ed the Alabama game today and went sailing with my friends.

    😦 I have a feeling he isn’t going to be happy when he sees the final score.

    🙂 He will probably be glad he had such a good day on the Bay

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  26. KBells, did you ever see the movie Diner? I had to take an Alabama football quiz before P and I got married. One of the questions I missed was what was the mascot’s name!!!!! I also didn’t know who was the Heisman Trophy winner. Oh well I scraped by with 80% and he married me anyway.

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  28. The Kid used to have a stuffed Big Al and a stuffed Aubie. When Hubby’s wasn’t home I would make the Kid laugh by having Big Al beat Aubie up. 🙂

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  31. Donna, I think your cat would be much too cold! Ours are snuggled in an old sweater (and hubby built a fire in the stove for them), but they came from a farm where they’ve been outside since birth.

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  32. Oh, but she SO loves mice.

    And she’s such an accomplished and driven huntress! (She also used to be a stray before I adopted her; she knows her way around a mouse or two.) 🙂

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  33. Well, she’d be more than welcome at our place – it would be like heaven for her! At least we don’t have mice in the house – they just keep getting into the Jeep when we park it in the shop.

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  34. Well, Annie has a weird take on hunting, actually, which I should probably warn you about.

    She finds critters outside and then brings them INSIDE (still alive) to play with. What fun!

    Sometimes they escape and thus become residents (for a short time, anyway; she is diligent and will hunt them down; I still remember the dead rat she left in the hall closet, yuk!!).

    So it might not be a good fit after all. Sigh.

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  39. 🙂 My dad used to share his last piece of peanut butter and honey toast with our pomeranian every day when I was growing up. He’d carefully give it to her and make sure it was firmly stuck to the roof of her mouth. He always got a good laugh and she always got her treat.

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  40. It is funny to watch them try to eat peanut butter. 🙂

    The other good semi-food substance (I don’t think it probably qualifies as real food) to disguise doggie pills is that canned spray cheddar cheese whiz.

    You can nozzle it right over whatever you want them to eat and they’ll gobble the stuff down in a heart beat, begging for more.

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  42. Keva tastes everything very carefully. He tends to find the pill so we have to be very devious. He’s been known to carefully take a soda cracker gently over to his bed and place it on his paws before nibbling it like a mouse until it’s gone. We have a weird dog.

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  43. My pet feeding problem is that when I try to share a leftover between Chasey the dog and Katy the cat, Chasey wolfs down 90% of it in about 3 seconds. Then I have to guard Katy for five minutes while she sniffs, picks and nibbles her one bite to keep Chasey from inhaling that too.

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  46. 🙂 News from NJL.

    😦 🙂 After a rough start to the week (Sunday and Monday) regarding family relationships, things went so much better after a good heart-to-heart with hubby.

    🙂 Having a husband who loves me.

    🙂 Many answers in the affirmative to our prayers.

    😦 Stepped on the bathroom scale this morning and saw that I’ve lost weight in recent weeks. I’m too thin for that. My weight is tied for the lowest it’s ever been as an adult. I don’t normally worry too much about what the scale says as long as I feel healthy, but lately I haven’t been feeling the greatest. Hoping it’s only a temporary thing; probably just stress-related, and since a lot of my stress was relieved starting in the middle of this past week, I’m hopeful for an upswing in my health. 🙂

    🙂 Went to visit 2nd Arrow yesterday and had a nice time. She’s enjoying school, and LOVES dissecting animal stomachs and intestines!

    🙂 Bible verse written on an index card and attached to her full-length mirror: Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as if working for the Lord. Amen!

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  47. We had to dissect frogs, I remember cringing … The prospect of dissecting a cat in the advanced classes sufficiently deterred me from pursuing the sciences (which I was pretty bad at, anyway!). 😦

    Oh, I wish I were too thin. 🙂 Prayers, though, for your health, 6 Arrows. Lots of folks depending on you. 😉

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  48. I didn’t like dissecting frogs, either, or fetal pigs. It wasn’t so much what I saw that bothered me, but the smell of the formaldehyde…yuck.

    Thanks for all the prayers you offered up for me lately, Donna. It feels like I dominated the prayer thread last week, but you’ve been faithful in praying, and I really appreciate that.

    Blessings on your week. 🙂

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