😦 Vertigo. I’ve got it back a little bit today, though nothing like I had Thursday.
🙂 A craft site I order from occasionally that always throws in a freebie, and the order I received today included (as its freebie) something I’d considered ordering, and that was about the same value as the cost of shipping. (Their site doesn’t mention they include a freebie, so it’s always a fun surprise to see what they’ve added.)
😦 Several weeks of having snow on the ground. It’s nothing like last winter, but so far February has probably already received as much snow as all of January, and we’re only a week in!
🙂 Misten thinks it’s glorious. She also likes it that we have a bunny visiting our backyard to find sunflower seed. And she likes it that her master lifted her up to the kitchen window so she could look out and see the bunny. (Usually it’s long gone by the time she gets outside and she can only smell it. But he lifted her up once or twice last time, and she got super excited when she saw it, and he said that he could tell she knew why he was picking her up today as soon as he picked her up.)
I was plagued with vertigo for about a year, off and on, a few years ago — doctor says it’s very common, usually resolves itself on its own. But it can take a while.
🙂 Finished yet another rewrite on Poppy . . . I’m so tired of this story!
🙂 What appeared to be the beginnings of the flu last weekend . . . didn’t happen but I spent about five days being exhausted and lying around–which is why Poppy’s finish went to 2/5 instead of 1/30
🙂 Rain, windy, dark, stormy night. Delicious! I’ll take another one or two. 🙂
🙂 😦 Praying for a decision about an adult child–whether a blessing could instead be a trap. Actually, make that two kids I keep being tempted to save.
🙂 Really good family travel/reuniting with sweet long-time Christian friends coming up. Feeling blessed.
😦 Feeling guilty about laughing so hard I was crying last night over Twitter’s Brian Williams situation. But those memes were really funny. Still . . . do I need to confess this as sin? I’m actually a little puzzled . . .
🙂 Through it all, God’s in his heaven and there is so much right with my world, I’m thankful.
😦 got home around midnight on Thursday to find four calls from social security trying to reschedule my appointment. What to do??
🙂 One of the messages mentioned if I came there would be someone to meet with me so decided to just go at scheduled time.
🙂 went and got in quickly with a sweet gal, she told me first we had to change my name, because for some reason they had me down by just initials
😦 I had all my papers, but she told me that I would be receiving less than the amount that they had sent me info on in December, makes no sense.
🙂 I had all the official documents and told her I wanted to file on my ex husbands benefits as we were married 22 years She said that that would make a difference and even if I waited until age 70 I wouldn’t receive as much as from his benefits.
😦 she kept typing and copying forms and working on all of it, but never mentioned how much that would be.
🙂 🙂 Finally at the end, she told me the amount. It was over twice what I would receive and even 10% more than the amount I had been praying over!!!
😦 still have to wait two months to receive anything and it will be even later as it ties to his birthday not mine. Can’t wait to use the funds to pay off my home.
🙂 New kitchen window installed this week! Tim took the week off of work to do this – I so appreciate that. The larger window is lovely!
🙂 Husband broke through the ceiling while running wiring for the new outlets – sigh – stuff happens
🙂 We had to gut the whole wall, but drywall is up and just waiting the mudding and taping – then we get to install the dishwasher and some of the base cabinets. We’re doing it piecemeal as we can afford it. Looking forward to a higher countertop to work on!
🙂 Our new director arrived this week – so nice to have someone making the big decisions again – he seems quite wise and ready to lead us.
🙂 Lots of new snow this week – Tim will probably be out ploughing for 4-6 hours today!
Jo, I don’t understand none of that, but it sounds good.
I must have told you this before, but it bugs me every time I see it.
When you go into SC on I-26, you see a sign saying, “Welcome Center one mile”
Then you come to the welcome center and rest area.
Then you go on down I-26 a couple of miles. And you se a sign. It says”
“Next rest area 55 miles”
Now they tell me!
It would make more sense for the first sign to say” Welcome Center one mile, Next welcome center 57 miles.”
But the same person didn’t put up both signs. And they don’t talk to each other.
I know.
I’m too technical.
😦 Wasn’t written in time for the application deadline
😦 Don’t know if the application will be accepted. Waiting to hear.
🙂 Waiting to hear about youngest sibling, who may be in labour.
😦 😥 Supreme court decision yesterday. The baby boomer generation, having demanded, and got, free love, divorce, abortion, and gay marriage, have had their final wish granted: doctor assisted suicide, so they can end their lives as they have lived them, by their own rules, regardless of who might be collateral damage. The Court has given the government one year to rewrite the law. Praying for wisdom for the legislators.
Phos, wisdom is hard to come by when you’re dealing with a corrupt culture.
When Ricky and others say that God will bring judgment on America like He did to Sodom, I always said, “There are still ten good men in Sodom.” But it getting fewer and fewer. Our pastor in teaching Genesis, reminded us that the generations had crossed the line, hence the flood. Sodom had crossed the line, The inhabitants had crossed the line and God brought in the Israelis. They crossed the line and were taken into captivity.
The US was the greatest nation on Earth, all counts. Military, production, prosperity, Spiritual: on all counts. But we legalized abortion on demand, we took God out of schools and common culture, then we started allowing drugs to proliferate, now we’re celebrating homosexuality and will permit them to marry.
I wonder where the line is?
Or was, as the case may be.
😦 It occurs to me that is perhaps our country’s very “success” — the affluence and material comfort that led to our becoming prideful and full of ourselves, no longer in need of God, that led to our downfall.
🙂 God often most effectively reaches & teaches His people through their failures and sins. There is always the hope of redemption.
🙂 Productive Saturday — 2 animals got in for their rabies boosters, which allowed me to stop by the shelter and renew Cowboy’s dog license for the year; then I got the car smogged (it passed) so now I can pay my car registration.
🙂 A first in a long time (since no one reads papers anymore) — grocery clerk tonight recognized my name as I was checking out, asked if I was a writer for one of the newspapers around. That used to happen a lot, but hardly ever anymore, which is OK. But it reminds me how few people read newspapers anymore. 😦
Chas & Donna, there are way more than 10 good men left in Canada, nay, even in Toronto (the stereotype for strongholds of Canadian wickedness). I have attended churches all over my province and been very encouraged with what I saw. Today, I read this piece on what God may very well be doing right now: http://www.eganvillebaptist.org/follower/rebuildingintheoffseason
I tend to agree with the author. Perhaps God is allowing the culture to crumble in order to wake the church from its comfort with the culture. We are called to be strangers and pilgrims, even in the ideal conservative, free market, moral society that many claim the 1950s to have been the epitome. Perhaps, the church has, like Jonah, ignored the call of God to the point where God has to make a storm and get the culture to dump the church overboard in order to make us follow Him.
Donna, I read newspapers. When you move to Idaho, I will be able to say, “Aren’t you that famous writer who writes for the Nezperce Herald?” Or, “Aren’t you that famous writer who writes for the Clearwater Progress?” Or, “Aren’t you that famous writer who writes for the Lewiston Tribune?”
When Donna moves to Hendersonville, I’m going to ask, “Are you the author of the article that was a puff piece on a restaurant and didn’t tell where it is?”
🙂 Well I can’t wait to be a famous Idaho writer of puff pieces. 🙂 I will eat free at all the finest restaurants, along with mumsee, my special assistant and camera lady, and all her children carrying various writer gear like extra notebooks and pens and recorders. We will have to buy our own traveling news van, of course.
🙂 Sunday — I’m so looking forward to church after missing last week (when I was still sick with the flu). Just heard the church bells from a few blocks away.
🙂 Romans. Came away again feeling amazed — amazed! — at God’s choosing me in all my natural rebellion.
😦 I must have forgotten and left the half can of dog food on the counter this morning with the snap on plastic lid. I just looked out at the backyard and I can see the can lying in the bushes. I’m sure it’s cleaned out enough for the recycle bin now.
🙂 Mother and baby were able to go home after a couple of hours, so we got to see Baby Niece’s reaction to her little sister. Baby Niece is just eighteen months, so she looked in the baby seat and said, in a sweet little voice, “Bee!” and began to rock the seat. She gives hugs by laying her little head on the object of affection, so she bent her curly little head to show she liked the baby. She looked a little perplexed when her mommy started feeding the baby, but she wanted to hold the baby after so I think she’ll adjust fine. 🙂
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😦 Vertigo. I’ve got it back a little bit today, though nothing like I had Thursday.
🙂 A craft site I order from occasionally that always throws in a freebie, and the order I received today included (as its freebie) something I’d considered ordering, and that was about the same value as the cost of shipping. (Their site doesn’t mention they include a freebie, so it’s always a fun surprise to see what they’ve added.)
😦 Several weeks of having snow on the ground. It’s nothing like last winter, but so far February has probably already received as much snow as all of January, and we’re only a week in!
🙂 Misten thinks it’s glorious. She also likes it that we have a bunny visiting our backyard to find sunflower seed. And she likes it that her master lifted her up to the kitchen window so she could look out and see the bunny. (Usually it’s long gone by the time she gets outside and she can only smell it. But he lifted her up once or twice last time, and she got super excited when she saw it, and he said that he could tell she knew why he was picking her up today as soon as he picked her up.)
😦 Vertigo. It really is a hideous thing.
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I was plagued with vertigo for about a year, off and on, a few years ago — doctor says it’s very common, usually resolves itself on its own. But it can take a while.
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🙂 Finished yet another rewrite on Poppy . . . I’m so tired of this story!
🙂 What appeared to be the beginnings of the flu last weekend . . . didn’t happen but I spent about five days being exhausted and lying around–which is why Poppy’s finish went to 2/5 instead of 1/30
🙂 Rain, windy, dark, stormy night. Delicious! I’ll take another one or two. 🙂
🙂 😦 Praying for a decision about an adult child–whether a blessing could instead be a trap. Actually, make that two kids I keep being tempted to save.
🙂 Really good family travel/reuniting with sweet long-time Christian friends coming up. Feeling blessed.
😦 Feeling guilty about laughing so hard I was crying last night over Twitter’s Brian Williams situation. But those memes were really funny. Still . . . do I need to confess this as sin? I’m actually a little puzzled . . .
🙂 Through it all, God’s in his heaven and there is so much right with my world, I’m thankful.
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😦 head hurts with this cold
😦 got home around midnight on Thursday to find four calls from social security trying to reschedule my appointment. What to do??
🙂 One of the messages mentioned if I came there would be someone to meet with me so decided to just go at scheduled time.
🙂 went and got in quickly with a sweet gal, she told me first we had to change my name, because for some reason they had me down by just initials
😦 I had all my papers, but she told me that I would be receiving less than the amount that they had sent me info on in December, makes no sense.
🙂 I had all the official documents and told her I wanted to file on my ex husbands benefits as we were married 22 years She said that that would make a difference and even if I waited until age 70 I wouldn’t receive as much as from his benefits.
😦 she kept typing and copying forms and working on all of it, but never mentioned how much that would be.
🙂 🙂 Finally at the end, she told me the amount. It was over twice what I would receive and even 10% more than the amount I had been praying over!!!
😦 still have to wait two months to receive anything and it will be even later as it ties to his birthday not mine. Can’t wait to use the funds to pay off my home.
Anyone know how much they charge for medicare A?
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🙂 New kitchen window installed this week! Tim took the week off of work to do this – I so appreciate that. The larger window is lovely!
🙂 Husband broke through the ceiling while running wiring for the new outlets – sigh – stuff happens
🙂 We had to gut the whole wall, but drywall is up and just waiting the mudding and taping – then we get to install the dishwasher and some of the base cabinets. We’re doing it piecemeal as we can afford it. Looking forward to a higher countertop to work on!
🙂 Our new director arrived this week – so nice to have someone making the big decisions again – he seems quite wise and ready to lead us.
🙂 Lots of new snow this week – Tim will probably be out ploughing for 4-6 hours today!
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Jo, I don’t understand none of that, but it sounds good.
I must have told you this before, but it bugs me every time I see it.
When you go into SC on I-26, you see a sign saying, “Welcome Center one mile”
Then you come to the welcome center and rest area.
Then you go on down I-26 a couple of miles. And you se a sign. It says”
“Next rest area 55 miles”
Now they tell me!
It would make more sense for the first sign to say” Welcome Center one mile, Next welcome center 57 miles.”
But the same person didn’t put up both signs. And they don’t talk to each other.
I know.
I’m too technical.
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Welcome to Idaho: next rest area- five hundred miles.
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🙂 Finally was able to write the last exam.
😦 Wasn’t written in time for the application deadline
😦 Don’t know if the application will be accepted. Waiting to hear.
🙂 Waiting to hear about youngest sibling, who may be in labour.
😦 😥 Supreme court decision yesterday. The baby boomer generation, having demanded, and got, free love, divorce, abortion, and gay marriage, have had their final wish granted: doctor assisted suicide, so they can end their lives as they have lived them, by their own rules, regardless of who might be collateral damage. The Court has given the government one year to rewrite the law. Praying for wisdom for the legislators.
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Phos, wisdom is hard to come by when you’re dealing with a corrupt culture.
When Ricky and others say that God will bring judgment on America like He did to Sodom, I always said, “There are still ten good men in Sodom.” But it getting fewer and fewer. Our pastor in teaching Genesis, reminded us that the generations had crossed the line, hence the flood. Sodom had crossed the line, The inhabitants had crossed the line and God brought in the Israelis. They crossed the line and were taken into captivity.
The US was the greatest nation on Earth, all counts. Military, production, prosperity, Spiritual: on all counts. But we legalized abortion on demand, we took God out of schools and common culture, then we started allowing drugs to proliferate, now we’re celebrating homosexuality and will permit them to marry.
I wonder where the line is?
Or was, as the case may be.
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😦 It occurs to me that is perhaps our country’s very “success” — the affluence and material comfort that led to our becoming prideful and full of ourselves, no longer in need of God, that led to our downfall.
🙂 God often most effectively reaches & teaches His people through their failures and sins. There is always the hope of redemption.
🙂 Productive Saturday — 2 animals got in for their rabies boosters, which allowed me to stop by the shelter and renew Cowboy’s dog license for the year; then I got the car smogged (it passed) so now I can pay my car registration.
🙂 A first in a long time (since no one reads papers anymore) — grocery clerk tonight recognized my name as I was checking out, asked if I was a writer for one of the newspapers around. That used to happen a lot, but hardly ever anymore, which is OK. But it reminds me how few people read newspapers anymore. 😦
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Chas & Donna, there are way more than 10 good men left in Canada, nay, even in Toronto (the stereotype for strongholds of Canadian wickedness). I have attended churches all over my province and been very encouraged with what I saw. Today, I read this piece on what God may very well be doing right now: http://www.eganvillebaptist.org/follower/rebuildingintheoffseason
I tend to agree with the author. Perhaps God is allowing the culture to crumble in order to wake the church from its comfort with the culture. We are called to be strangers and pilgrims, even in the ideal conservative, free market, moral society that many claim the 1950s to have been the epitome. Perhaps, the church has, like Jonah, ignored the call of God to the point where God has to make a storm and get the culture to dump the church overboard in order to make us follow Him.
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God is always doing something. 🙂
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😦 I think I got Jo’s cold.
🙂 Weather warmed up. We had 50° today, so Cheryl should be getting that tomorrow. Lots of our snow melted, but we only had about 6″ total.
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Donna, I read newspapers. When you move to Idaho, I will be able to say, “Aren’t you that famous writer who writes for the Nezperce Herald?” Or, “Aren’t you that famous writer who writes for the Clearwater Progress?” Or, “Aren’t you that famous writer who writes for the Lewiston Tribune?”
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When Donna moves to Hendersonville, I’m going to ask, “Are you the author of the article that was a puff piece on a restaurant and didn’t tell where it is?”
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🙂 Going to help with the delivery 🙂
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Roscuro – so exciting 🙂
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🙂 Well I can’t wait to be a famous Idaho writer of puff pieces. 🙂 I will eat free at all the finest restaurants, along with mumsee, my special assistant and camera lady, and all her children carrying various writer gear like extra notebooks and pens and recorders. We will have to buy our own traveling news van, of course.
🙂 Sunday — I’m so looking forward to church after missing last week (when I was still sick with the flu). Just heard the church bells from a few blocks away.
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Pastor Steve preached a good sermon on Philippians 2:9-10. Subject was the Name of Jesus.
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So excited about the rain, it’s hard to do anything but look out the window!
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🙂 Romans. Came away again feeling amazed — amazed! — at God’s choosing me in all my natural rebellion.
😦 I must have forgotten and left the half can of dog food on the counter this morning with the snap on plastic lid. I just looked out at the backyard and I can see the can lying in the bushes. I’m sure it’s cleaned out enough for the recycle bin now.
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😦 Sunsine here. Lots of it. Blinding.
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🙂 Little ones in the toddler room
😦 Little one who would NOT stop crying, poor guy -even when his mommy came to get him – probably ear infection she said
🙂 Time for my massage!
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🙂 Got there just in time. Baby was born about 20 minutes after I got there. Another girl. Baby Niece has a younger sister. She was over 10 pounds 🙂
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🙂 Mother and baby were able to go home after a couple of hours, so we got to see Baby Niece’s reaction to her little sister. Baby Niece is just eighteen months, so she looked in the baby seat and said, in a sweet little voice, “Bee!” and began to rock the seat. She gives hugs by laying her little head on the object of affection, so she bent her curly little head to show she liked the baby. She looked a little perplexed when her mommy started feeding the baby, but she wanted to hold the baby after so I think she’ll adjust fine. 🙂
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No small thing.
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