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Our Daily Thread 1-25-13

Good Morning!

It’s finally Friday. 🙂

Quote of the Day

“I  think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are  created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, starting  with life.”

Mike  Huckabee

Anyone have a QoD?

54 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-25-13”

  2. You’re right Ann. It’s Friday! You know what that means?
    Not much around here. A winter storm is on the way and some sleet already.
    That means no Y for today.
    and schools are closed, that means no Lions.
    I may work on income tax today.
    😦

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  5. Whar are your weekend plans? Tomorrow I have the Vestry retreat with church. People are elected to the vestry for two years. I have done one year and have another. Those cycling on and those cycling off and those staying all meet and discuss what it means to be on the vestry, the direct of the church, goals and plans etc. I am looking forward to it. It will be at a lovely home on the Bay with a gracious southern hostess taking care of us. We will talk and pray together and generally get to know each other better.

    It will be funny for me. Just last year at the Vestry retreat I explained to my priest that I did not date and had no interest in remarrying—I might start dating when BG left for college, blah, blah, blah…. Yep, everytime I have said what I will and won’t do and what my plans are look what happens!

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  9. The Kid’s school delayed opening until 9 this morning for some winter storm that was suppose to hit last night but is 45 degrees and dry as a bone.

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  11. It’s raining here! We even had a thunderstorm. This is supposed to be the dry season, and when I say dry, I mean dry-wind-from-the-Sahara-bringing-sandstorms dry. So a thunderstorm is a bit unusual. Also, the clouds get in the way of the solar power a bit – which generally works very well in the dry season. I tell you, I have become truly grateful for the people who were crazy enough to try to capture the sun’s energy. Missionaries have been the beneficiaries.

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  12. Ricky, those Braziian missionaries are wonderful people, with a true heart for the Gospel. It is amazing as Brazil becomes an economic power, how God has moved in its churches to bring out the next generation of evangelists. The Lord will build His Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it!

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  13. Loved hearing the good news about Brazil!

    We may/may not have freezing rain. I went to the grocery store early just in case there is a problem later. Early is the time to shop. It was almost empty of shoppers. As I drove to the store there was a little sprinkle, but it had stopped by the time I was driving home. I did the old umbrella trick. I carried it into the store in case the sprinkle turned to rain. That made it go away!

    Since the heat is on more now, my skin is getting a bit itchy from the dryness. What do others use to help with that in the winter? For my hands I like to use the Burt’s Bees Wax Almond cream in the jar which reminds me of my mother using Jergen’s Lotion when I was a child. Then I put on a layer of Neutragena Norwegian Formula thick cream. That works well on the hands. Other suggestions?

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  14. It took me this long to get around to learn what 6Arrows crash was. Fluorescent covering should be easy to fix. The reason I don’t look like Burt Lancaster this morning is because I woke up about 2 a.m. and couldn’t go back to sleep. Then, when I finally did, I slept to 6:30. I got up raring to go to the Y, but the weather looked so bad, and the temperature was 21 degrees, so we didn’t go today. But the promised mess of sleet and snow hasn’t happened yet.
    I feel sorry for school superintendents; they have to make decisions based on forecasts, but it may not happen.
    We are still under a winter storm warning.

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  16. Love hearing from roscuro!

    Working on publicity and related blog writing for my book launch. Bridging Two Hearts comes out Feb 5.

    I’m very uncomfortable with the publicity end, please forgive me when I mention it. It makes me feel pushy, and like I’m self-centered taking advantage of everyone.

    I’d rather go on the retreat with Kim. 🙂

    BUT, I love this story about a Navy SEAL’s “domestic life,” and how he and Amy learn to deal with fear. It was fun to write and terrific to research in Coronado.

    My husband is now asking me to write a book set in Hawai’i.

    I like the idea myself! 🙂

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  17. Janice, when we lived in Annandale, I used to itch all winter. But then I learned it was because of dryness. So, I had a humidifier installed and that solved the problem. I was sensitive to dryness. I must have developed the sensitivity as I aged because it wasn’t a problem in Arabia or Fort Worth.
    It isn’t as bad in Hendersonville, but I eventually had one installed here also.
    It saves somewhat on the heating bills because you’re more comfortable at lower temperatures when the humidity is good.

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  18. Michelle, your book has been pre-ordered here for a month or so. . . .

    It’s snowing here. It’s a fine snow, but it is accumulating a little. We’ve missed a snow or two we were “supposed” to get, so I’m OK with it. I prefer downtimes between snow, and we’ve had it.

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  19. Dry skin: we oil ourselves with olive oil and then cover it with any kind of lotion. Seems to work very well. Works on dried cracked feet, itchy backs, whatever.

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  20. Hey, for those of you with children, I’m rewriting a children’s book to make the little girl 12 instead of 10, and that now puts her in sixth grade. I have two questions about sixth grade: My hunch is that they wouldn’t have class drawings or papers on bulletin boards at that grade, but does anyone know? Also, would sixth graders in the South still have recess, and if so, what games would girls play as a small group? (Hopscotch is my “placeholder” game in the story, but I don’t really know what they’d play today. The point of the scene is that other girls won’t let her play.)

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  22. Congratulations Michelle, what fun! 🙂 A story that’s set in Hawaii sounds like a pretty good plan …

    It’s been dry here, too (when it’s not raining) so I’ve been using extra creams and lotions, too (Aveeno makes some good formulas).

    Enjoy the rain, Roscuro. 🙂

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  23. My gas bill shot way up this month. 😦 Typical, it happens every year of course, but it’s always a bit of a shock as I’m used to a gas bill that’s usually no more than $15 a month during much of the year.

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  31. Michelle,

    I’d be happy to help if I can. Send me a link when it’s ready and I’ll put it up for those who might be interested. You’re among friends here, so no need to be embarrassed about promoting your work. And we all know you’re not pushy. So don’t be shy about sharing with the group.

    🙂

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  32. Children no longer get recess and 6th grade girls are much, much too mature to play such childish games if they were allowed a recess. They go to PE and an adult tells them what to do. It is all very well organized and there is no talking or goofing off…this is why so much talking and goofing off happens in class.

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  34. no recess, that’s cruel and unusual.
    Grade six girls usually gossip although a few play soccer with the guys or “virus” a type of tag game in which one person starts being “it” and each person tagged also become it so that at the end of the game, there’s only one person remaining who’s not it. And they usually play together (boys and girls). If you want a bullying scene forget about games and focus on gossip or exclusion from socializing.

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  35. No recess for 6th graders? After 15 years of teaching, I think even 12th graders need recess! Schools try and cram so much into the day that lunch is 30 minutes from bell to bell with little time for “chilling out”.

    And at our school, there is a 17 minute “home room” before lunch. It used to be a free period but now they are saying we’ll have to teach the “7 Habits for Highly Effective People” psychobabble during that time. I’m thinking of finding another job.

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  38. update on my son Nicholas, we are getting some meds that will help him to focus and to help cut down on the out burst. The Dct wants to run more test to ensure that there is nothing else happen to him. Please keep us in pray.

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  39. AJ- I have considered adding a class at the community college, making ten semester hours (2/3 time) and offering to teach at a Christian high school in the morning hours. I could also work the cave until November and start again in March each year. It would be a major cut in pay (about 2/3 of what I currently earn), but the heradaches may be fewer.

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  40. or you could take a more substantial cut in pay, load up the family, and move to Idaho and teach a bunch of willing but challenged children.

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  41. Roy, feel free to contact me if you want to have some ideas that might help, short of medication. I don’t know your son but I know mine. Most of my children arrived on medication. Through changes in diet and activities, none of them are now medicated. All are able to focus and no outbursts. It may or may not help.

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  45. Plans for the weekend: try to summon up some energy to get things done around home. There’s so much to do, I don’t know where to begin. Tomorrow I’ll make my list, after a (hopefully) good night’s sleep, when I’ll be more clearheaded (again, *hopefully*).

    I’ve been so tired and not functioning very well trying to adjust family life around my husband’s overnight work schedule. We’re all on a go-to-bed-later/get-up-later schedule so that there is less chance that we’ll wake hubby with our activities too soon after he’s gone to sleep for the day. But they say the hours before midnight are the ones where you get the best quality sleep (not entirely sure I believe that as I’ve always been something of a night owl, and not able to sleep soundly going to bed much before 10:00), but most night’s lately, I haven’t been getting to bed before midnight, and it’s all catching up with me, even though I’m sleeping close to 8 hours most nights.

    THE GOOD NEWS is that, reportedly, today is hubby’s last overnight shift! On Monday he starts a noon-to-midnight shift, and that will be so much better! 🙂 Then in a few weeks supposedly he will go to first shift permanently. (All these “supposedly”s and “reportedly”s are because of the past unreliability of anyone’s word at his workplace about schedules, duties, and any other information of pertinence.)

    Anything will be better than these overnights, though, and I’m hoping that that is the end of that!

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  46. 6 arrows, that’s great about the long crazy schedules being over with for your husband (hopefully/reportedly/supposedly 😉 )

    I’m looking forward to a 3-day weekend during which I will mostly probably collapse, although I may try to get the dogs out to the dog beach tomorrow and have lunch with friends on Monday (I’m taking Monday off in exchange for having worked an extra day, Saturday, last week).

    The big story is in and it’s a good feeling to have it all behind me. Whew.

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  49. AJ, you’re very kind. 🙂

    It actually is up online now at dailybreeze.com — it’s running in the print edition Sunday (in — I think — all 9 of our papers throughout LA & San Bernardino counties).

    Loved doing the story, but it definitely took a lot of work setting up interviews, etc. (One of my best contact was a dog park pal who has been a VP for cable networks and managed to provide me with a much needed number for the producer).

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  53. Thank you, Mumsee.

    Hillenbrand’s book is really incredible. It’s been more than a year since I read it on my Kindle (he’s long been a local legend, but I’ve never personally covered Louie & his story floated around only in outline form in my mind; the book was incredible and I think of him daily now — I drive by his boyhood neighborhood & old high school every day on my way in to work).

    It was such a privilege to talk to him & to Hillenbrand (and the producer). Can’t wait to see the movie. 🙂

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  54. Wonderful article, Donna, that has spawned a lot of comment on my FB page. Even Sawgunner saw it and liked it–then realized it was you and was very proud of “our Donna.” 🙂

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