40 thoughts on “Rants and Raves 3-2-13”

  1. 😦 Squirrels – I wish we had a ferret – the pestiferous rodents hide in the ceiling, where even a cat couldn’t get them and they will not be caught or poisoned.

    🙂 Just because – I have so much to be thankful for. I was going through files on my computer yesterday and came across my old resumes and cover letters for job applications. I had to laugh, thinking of the job that I ended up getting. It is much more interesting (challenging, amazing, exhilirating, frustrating, hair-raising…) than anything for which I applied!

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  2. 🙂 We have about a half inch of snow in Hendersonville. Most we’ve had all year. The temp. is 32.8 at my house and the streets are just wet.

    🙂 Daffodils are up. Can forsythia be far behind?

    🙂 Middle GD, Mary and her new husband are in Asheville and we plan to meet at O’Charley’s tomorrow for lunch.

    Otherwise things are fine here. Elvera is fixing some eggs and ham for breakfast and I’m just waiting around.

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  3. 🙂 I am so blessed and God is so good! \o/
    🙂 Lovely morning here in NOVA
    😦 Daughter sick with a stomack bug this week. She was here for dinner on Wed and sick the next day.
    🙂 no one else came down with it, not even her roommate.
    🙂 The much ado with bi-polar brother, his wife, mother and step-dad seems to have settled down now that bi-polar brother is back on his meds.
    🙂 Sister and I were able to enjoy some crisis free conversations this week.
    🙂 😦 got my tax stuff all in to the tax preparer.
    😦 I need a tax preparer because doing taxes is so complicated.
    🙂 New CDs of The Piano Guys’ beautiful music.

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  4. :’-) Our son has gone over two weeks without s serious incident at school. I’m hoping this is a breakthrough and not just a lull before the next strom.

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  6. I’m voting breakthrough. 🙂

    😦 Way too much to do in the next three weeks.

    🙂 Terrific husband, great kids, adorable grandchildren.

    🙂 I suspect the sun will come up eventually . . .

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  7. 🙂 D1, SIL and grandchildren should be here in about an hour.

    🙂 It finally stopped snowing! After a 5″ last week, we got another 5″ Tuesday. And it has been snowing since, except that it has been light snow that doesn’t accumulate much. Makes everything pretty though.

    😦 Broke the camera and need a new one, as this isn’t covered by the warranty.

    😦 Surgery Wednesday on my right hand.

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  8. 😦 Feeling blah this morning, but I am determined to look for the good today and let the rest of my commentary on this post be raves 🙂

    🙂 Glad to be back to Rants & Raves, as I didn’t post anything on the February R&Rs.

    🙂 Hubby was home from work last night before 10:30!

    🙂 Thankful for a hard-working husband. He is dead tired by the end of the week, but he still makes time to serve others. He went to his brother’s early this morning to help him cut wood, then he’s giving his brother a ride here so that BIL can get one of our cars to use, as the engine went out on his, and his friend who is going to fix his vehicle hasn’t had time to get to it yet.

    🙂 Thankful for the Lord’s tender mercies, new every morning.

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  9. Oh, and by the way, my decision to not post any more of these — 😦 — today is not a statement to any of you about posting rants. 😉 I’ve been filled with too many negative thoughts lately, so it is an exercise strictly for me in learning to see the good when all I want to think about is the bad. Nothing more. Hope that makes sense.

    Carry on. 🙂

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  10. 🙂 Saturday.

    😦 More layoffs at work. I am grateful I have a job.

    🙂 Today will be busy — I’m picking my friend up at the assisted living facility, then we’ll go cash her government check, go spend it (she likes to go to Walmart), have lunch somewhere and then go to the library where she has either some books due or waiting to be picked up (probably both).

    😦 But before I leave I need to clean up some cuttings off the driveway from the trim job on my bouganvilla.

    🙂 The birds are chirping and the sun is shining. We’ve had a big warm-up this week, into the low 80s, but it’s supposed to start cooling down again starting today.

    🙂 Next week we go back on daylight savings time. Yay. While I hate “losing” an hour of sleep on that first weekend, I love the fact that we’ll have some longer daylight hours.

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  11. I don’t get the whole savings time thing. You get up in the morning and go to bed at night. In the winter it is shorter, in the summer, the days are longer.

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  15. 🙂 Becca turns 8 tomorrow! I cannot believe my baby is already 8. It seems like it was just yesterday that she was born in the emergency room because no one would believe me that my water broke at home. (The nurses told me I must have “had an accident” and just thought my water had broken). Scott and I were in a room alone when Becca started crowning. I told him that if he didn’t want to catch this baby, he’d better get a nurse. 30 minutes after I’d arrived at the hospital, Becca Ann Strawn was born, six weeks early, just five pounds, with zero anesthesia. She was in the NICU for two incredibly long weeks. It was a worrisome time. Today, she is healthy and happy. I’m so thankful for my “bonus baby”!

    🙂 Party for Becca today. Weather is beautiful with no rain in the forecast.

    🙂 Eight of my best friends from high school are planning a reunion in April in San Diego. I booked my flights this week. Some of these girls I haven’t seen in a decade. What fun it will be!

    🙂 I love daylight savings time!

    🙂 Becca has been asking lots of questions about God and has wanted to read her Bible almost every day this week. Her prayers are heartfelt and beautiful. Praise God!

    🙂 Lindsey (13) continues to be a delightful child with no signs of teenage angst. I am so proud of the young woman she’s becoming. She has a strong faith and a hunger to know God more intimately. She is such a blessing to our family.

    🙂 No Rants!

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  17. 😦 I’ll pay someone to come clear away my big pile of bougainvillea cuttings in the driveway. 😦

    No takers?

    OK, back to it for me, then. Gloves, bags and determination.

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  19. Why, yes, I would.

    There’s a herd of goats on some property nearby, maybe I can go put leashes on a couple of them and bring them home. Do they walk on leashes well? I’m guessing not … But I do have a border collie.

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  20. Many of you may remember that when Forrest was first born, & Emily & R were still together, we were told that we were not allowed to talk to Forrest about God. Well, I’m not sure how Emily feels about that now, & Lee & I are open to gentle ways to share our faith without “pushing”.

    🙂 We’ve been watching our DVD of Fiddler on the Roof lately. Forrest loves the songs, & dances around to them.

    🙂 There are a lot of mentions of God & ” the Good Book” in that movie. Someday, Forrest will want to know what that’s all about. 🙂

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  23. AJ, the annual library book sale does the same thing.
    These are not old library books, but books people have donated to the library.
    I have donated several.

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  24. 🙂 I checked out the Friends of the Library book sale shelf today, I didn’t buy anything, but you could get hardbacks for $1 each, quite a steal.

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  25. Somebody gave us one of those library boxes the other day. All hard backs with names like: Tom Sawyer, Call of the Wild, Prince and the Pauper. There are about thirty of them, I believe. We are enjoying them.

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  26. Mumsee, I liked Zane Gray books when I was the age of some of your boys.

    🙂 We had lunch with middle GD and her husband.
    Mary will be 28 this year. It’s still hard to imagine she is a grown woman with all her own things going. I am thankful for the way she turned out. Really thankful. She was the “problem child”. Chuck used to say, “Mary, I hope someday you have one just like you.” I hope so too.

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  27. Chas – 🙂

    Emily once said that she didn’t want any children, for fear that one would be just like her. 🙂

    But she seems to be pretty fond of Forrest. 😉

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  28. 🙂 Being able to help in the nursery this morning. Such cute children, even the ones crying for their mommies.

    😦 Detour on the way for a fatality

    🙂 Nice warm day

    😦 Migraine, so can’t really enjoy it

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  30. 😦 The misuse of the word “apocalypse” in the news.

    Apocalypse means an unveiling, as in revelation. It does not mean disaster as in the “sequestration is the apocalypse”.
    There has to be a better word. Maybe “disaster” would work just as well.

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  32. 🙂 e-bay and Amazon purchases:
    🙂 got a new $250 camera on Amazon for $60 after discounts and gift card that came with the Amazon credit card.
    🙂 Just got a Kindle 2 on ebay for less than $20. Yeah, it’s the older version, but all I want is the reader. But this one comes with 3G wireless access. Cool! And it has the voice reader, so I can listen to books in the car that I don’t have time to read.

    🙂 Time with grandchildren. he oldest is finally comfortable playing with grandpa. For a long time she didn’t want to be around me or the other grandpa. But now that she is 3 she is more friendly. And the grandson is the happiest 1 1/2 year old I have ever seen. Then there is the 3 month old granddaughter- so content and quiet!

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  33. 🙂 Emily is out for a late-ish dinner with some young ladies she works with. Ryan has Forrest.

    🙂 Which means that I can have the living room to myself for much of the evening, & can watch The Good Wife while it’s on.

    🙂 😦 I also have the loveliness of the Christmas tree lights to enjoy. (Yes, I know it’s March. The girls will take it down soon. I hope. 🙂 )

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  35. I am listening to Christmas music. But then I usually am listening to Christmas music.

    Had a rather tough day today, with some of my children and with a woman who comes by here sometimes for advice. She is in an abusive relationship which is becoming more so as he is getting back into the drug scene. It is hard to see people in such situations and see them unwilling to get out of it.

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  37. I checked out a recording of Handel’s Messiah from the library on Thursday, a work most often performed around (and therefore associated with) Christmas in modern times, though it was first performed in April 1742, a little after Easter. I like listening to it any time of year, but especially during Lent.

    Mumsee, sorry about your rough day. I saw your prayer request for the woman seeking your advice, and have prayed. I’ll add prayers for your children tonight, too.

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  39. Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way…

    Oops, that’s not a Christmas song; it’s a winter song.

    17 days until winter is done!! 😀

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