🙂 Bryan had his graduation ceremony yesterday.
He is now Dr. Muller (actually was a couple of months ago.)
But it’s good that it’s all over now.
Linda sent some pictures.
🙂
😦 Feeling irritated & down about some situations here at home.
😦 The sale of Lee’s route has been dragging on for at least a couple months. Lee was very much hoping that he wouldn’t have to deal with Memorial Day weekend (lots of extra work the days before & the days after, not worth the day off). A couple days ago, he learned that the guy who has been interested is looking at another route, so the sale may be off.
🙂 Looks like two other guys may be interested.
🙂 A couple evenings ago, Lee was kind of emotional, telling me how important I am to him, & that he wishes he could spoil me. He lavished me with compliments about how wonderful he thinks I am. Boy, have I got him fooled!
Sweet, Karen, God giving you a blessing in the midst of an extremely trying situation. Our prayers are with you, always.
🙂 Fun with a new story idea–I promise, I’ll tell you soon.
😦 Consternation about another publishing opportunity but the money is so little. Real debating going on between “this would be easy to write and easy to market,” and “a workwoman is worthy of her hire.”
2.5 out of 3 of my advisors are telling me No. I should probably listen. 🙂
🙂 wonderful conversation with our surrogate Navy parents in CT. But Liz’s Parkinson is getting in the way of her speaking. I really need to get back to visit, but can’t until later in the summer, which means I also won’t be able to get back to visit our old church before our pastor retires.
When I pray, it seems to me that later in the summer is a better plan–and a longer visit is possible.
I probably should listen to that. 🙂
😦 Airline tickets are extremely expensive and disgustingly complicated. Why can’t I fly between San Francisco and New England at a reasonable time????? My red-eye days are long over, but . . . you know, if I don’t sleep anyway, why not fly all night? Hmmmmmm.
Maybe I should listen to reason.
Book launch June 1 for last contracted novella, The Sunbonnet Bride.
Lecture on Oswald Chambers May 31, at a local church. Talk is arranged by one of the at-large editors for Christianity Today. I’m hoping to do well enough and have a big enough crowd that I can pitch an article to CT on Oswald Chambers.
(Want to come, Jo? You can spend the night here. 🙂 )
Life is rich, God is good, I am grateful. Now I REALLY need to get the angels under control for Tuesday’s Bible study. Ciao.
🙂 😦 Three gigs this week for husband. Two are good, fun visiting opportunities. The other was not one we chose or wanted. Looking forward to today’s though.
🙂 Green green! We finally have green.
😦 Family members who want to make everything more complicated than necessary. Dealing with it all and trying to know the right thing to do. Determining between real guilt and false guilt, as a facebook friend recently wrote about. 🙂
🙂 😦 that turkey Michelle, I was already planning on showing up at her talk on Oswald Chambers, but it would be a long drive home that night, so invitation accepted.
Whoops, just realized that that certainly didn’t sound very gracious of me! Just my reaction since I had this clever plan to surprise Michelle.
Michelle, I would be delighted to have a visit with you. 🙂
🙂 May Gray (yes, that’s a 🙂 from me, we get way more than our share of endless summer/sun year-round) and even some new snow in our mountains this week. And right when the ski resorts were getting set to open their spring-summer mountain bike trails. Everyone’s very confused.
🙂 Saturday at last
🙂 Still have some other chores & shopping to do, but I’m thinking that crawling into bed with a good book sure sounds appealing this afternoon
🙂 Fun when online friendships show themselves to be genuine friendships.
🙂 My family loves me. Flowers “just because” from my husband a few weeks ago, from my girls for Mother’s Day.
🙂 Younger daughter turns 21 today. She has been looking forward to this birthday for more than a year because in Indiana you aren’t supposed to give alcohol to underage children, even your own offspring in your own home. (A “none of their business” type of law, but it’s the law.) We have two nice (sweet, not too strong) bottles of wine in the fridge, and a couple of small bottles of moscato, so she can choose what we open for the occasion.
🙂 Spring is really and truly here. (I know, I probably said that last week. But I exult in the season when everything is finally green, when we see blossoms everywhere, and when birds are singing again.)
🙂 Got some really fun photos this week on a “field trip” my husband and I took.
😦 My cell phone got left outside in the rain this week. (We really aren’t sure whose “fault” it is, if anyone’s, so I’m not using the passive voice to avoid accepting blame.) It was too wet for too long for treatments to work.
🙂 I’ve always hated that phone, and a friend has one she says she can send me, which is more like my husband’s and thus one I should be able to hear on. To be honest, I’ve been sort of willing the other one to break for four years. . . .
😦 Continuing health issues with my father-in-law. We want him to at least “hang on” till the 60th anniversary in June. (Mom and Dad are the youngest in their families, and the only one alive in their generation on either side, so it would be good for their nieces and nephews, if no one else, to have one nice family event worth traveling for before they come back for a funeral. But even more so for Mom, and I think the rest of us could find some “closure in a life well lived” with that event to honor them, too. They had a 50th party, but I wasn’t around yet for that one.)
🙂 My girls are moving forward into adulthood, with several steps toward maturity. One bought her first car this week, for example. (They’ve had use of the second family car, but it isn’t always easy to coordinate schedules and they aren’t allowed to drive their dad’s car.)
I don’t always have time to comment on the weekends, and it seemed like an especially long time since I’ve done any rants or raves on this thread. (I sometimes respond to others’ rants and raves, though.)
Anyway, I thought I would look back to see when the last time was I put my little 🙂 or 😦 in front of anything on this thread.
January 3, 2015!
Time to get back at it. 😉
🙂 Back to ranting and raving!
🙂 Just finished enjoying a glass of wine in honor of Cheryl’s daughter’s birthday.
🙂 Am tackling a fairly big job (about 1-2 hours per day), broken into 14 days, and got yesterday’s and the day before’s segments done — days 1 & 2.
😦 It is almost 5:00 pm, and I haven’t started day 3 yet.
🙂 I can do this, yes I can!
🙂 Nice quiet time sitting in our woods the other day, praying for and receiving the Spirit’s guidance when I was feeling overwhelmed.
🙂 Email from piano show organizer, saying she would like to put me on her list of recommended piano teachers when she retires next month.
🙂 Phone call the next day from someone inquiring about piano lessons. She had heard about me through another friend of mine, and passed along some lovely comments my friend had spoken to her about me.
🙂 Loyal friends who regularly do good deeds and speak kind words.
Donna, it may well have been “me” who left it out. But what happened is that I don’t usually take it outside–in fact, I never do unless it happens to be in my pocket. Apparently my husband took it outside, because he was doing a task on it for me. We sat at the table on the deck and chatted, and then we came inside, but neither of us saw the phone on the table or took possession of it. If that’s what happened, it’s not really anyone’s “fault” but it’s also on both of us.
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🙂 Bryan had his graduation ceremony yesterday.
He is now Dr. Muller (actually was a couple of months ago.)
But it’s good that it’s all over now.
Linda sent some pictures.
🙂
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😦 Feeling irritated & down about some situations here at home.
😦 The sale of Lee’s route has been dragging on for at least a couple months. Lee was very much hoping that he wouldn’t have to deal with Memorial Day weekend (lots of extra work the days before & the days after, not worth the day off). A couple days ago, he learned that the guy who has been interested is looking at another route, so the sale may be off.
🙂 Looks like two other guys may be interested.
🙂 A couple evenings ago, Lee was kind of emotional, telling me how important I am to him, & that he wishes he could spoil me. He lavished me with compliments about how wonderful he thinks I am. Boy, have I got him fooled!
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Sweet, Karen, God giving you a blessing in the midst of an extremely trying situation. Our prayers are with you, always.
🙂 Fun with a new story idea–I promise, I’ll tell you soon.
😦 Consternation about another publishing opportunity but the money is so little. Real debating going on between “this would be easy to write and easy to market,” and “a workwoman is worthy of her hire.”
2.5 out of 3 of my advisors are telling me No. I should probably listen. 🙂
🙂 wonderful conversation with our surrogate Navy parents in CT. But Liz’s Parkinson is getting in the way of her speaking. I really need to get back to visit, but can’t until later in the summer, which means I also won’t be able to get back to visit our old church before our pastor retires.
When I pray, it seems to me that later in the summer is a better plan–and a longer visit is possible.
I probably should listen to that. 🙂
😦 Airline tickets are extremely expensive and disgustingly complicated. Why can’t I fly between San Francisco and New England at a reasonable time????? My red-eye days are long over, but . . . you know, if I don’t sleep anyway, why not fly all night? Hmmmmmm.
Maybe I should listen to reason.
Book launch June 1 for last contracted novella, The Sunbonnet Bride.
Lecture on Oswald Chambers May 31, at a local church. Talk is arranged by one of the at-large editors for Christianity Today. I’m hoping to do well enough and have a big enough crowd that I can pitch an article to CT on Oswald Chambers.
(Want to come, Jo? You can spend the night here. 🙂 )
Life is rich, God is good, I am grateful. Now I REALLY need to get the angels under control for Tuesday’s Bible study. Ciao.
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🙂 😦 Three gigs this week for husband. Two are good, fun visiting opportunities. The other was not one we chose or wanted. Looking forward to today’s though.
🙂 Green green! We finally have green.
😦 Family members who want to make everything more complicated than necessary. Dealing with it all and trying to know the right thing to do. Determining between real guilt and false guilt, as a facebook friend recently wrote about. 🙂
🙂 Good friends who understand.
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🙂 😦 that turkey Michelle, I was already planning on showing up at her talk on Oswald Chambers, but it would be a long drive home that night, so invitation accepted.
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Whoops, just realized that that certainly didn’t sound very gracious of me! Just my reaction since I had this clever plan to surprise Michelle.
Michelle, I would be delighted to have a visit with you. 🙂
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🙂 Hair cut!
🙂 May Gray (yes, that’s a 🙂 from me, we get way more than our share of endless summer/sun year-round) and even some new snow in our mountains this week. And right when the ski resorts were getting set to open their spring-summer mountain bike trails. Everyone’s very confused.
🙂 Saturday at last
🙂 Still have some other chores & shopping to do, but I’m thinking that crawling into bed with a good book sure sounds appealing this afternoon
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🙂 Fun when online friendships show themselves to be genuine friendships.
🙂 My family loves me. Flowers “just because” from my husband a few weeks ago, from my girls for Mother’s Day.
🙂 Younger daughter turns 21 today. She has been looking forward to this birthday for more than a year because in Indiana you aren’t supposed to give alcohol to underage children, even your own offspring in your own home. (A “none of their business” type of law, but it’s the law.) We have two nice (sweet, not too strong) bottles of wine in the fridge, and a couple of small bottles of moscato, so she can choose what we open for the occasion.
🙂 Spring is really and truly here. (I know, I probably said that last week. But I exult in the season when everything is finally green, when we see blossoms everywhere, and when birds are singing again.)
🙂 Got some really fun photos this week on a “field trip” my husband and I took.
😦 My cell phone got left outside in the rain this week. (We really aren’t sure whose “fault” it is, if anyone’s, so I’m not using the passive voice to avoid accepting blame.) It was too wet for too long for treatments to work.
🙂 I’ve always hated that phone, and a friend has one she says she can send me, which is more like my husband’s and thus one I should be able to hear on. To be honest, I’ve been sort of willing the other one to break for four years. . . .
😦 Continuing health issues with my father-in-law. We want him to at least “hang on” till the 60th anniversary in June. (Mom and Dad are the youngest in their families, and the only one alive in their generation on either side, so it would be good for their nieces and nephews, if no one else, to have one nice family event worth traveling for before they come back for a funeral. But even more so for Mom, and I think the rest of us could find some “closure in a life well lived” with that event to honor them, too. They had a 50th party, but I wasn’t around yet for that one.)
🙂 My girls are moving forward into adulthood, with several steps toward maturity. One bought her first car this week, for example. (They’ve had use of the second family car, but it isn’t always easy to coordinate schedules and they aren’t allowed to drive their dad’s car.)
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So you’re really saying it was you, after all, who left that phone out in the rain, cheryl?
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I don’t always have time to comment on the weekends, and it seemed like an especially long time since I’ve done any rants or raves on this thread. (I sometimes respond to others’ rants and raves, though.)
Anyway, I thought I would look back to see when the last time was I put my little 🙂 or 😦 in front of anything on this thread.
January 3, 2015!
Time to get back at it. 😉
🙂 Back to ranting and raving!
🙂 Just finished enjoying a glass of wine in honor of Cheryl’s daughter’s birthday.
🙂 Am tackling a fairly big job (about 1-2 hours per day), broken into 14 days, and got yesterday’s and the day before’s segments done — days 1 & 2.
😦 It is almost 5:00 pm, and I haven’t started day 3 yet.
🙂 I can do this, yes I can!
🙂 Nice quiet time sitting in our woods the other day, praying for and receiving the Spirit’s guidance when I was feeling overwhelmed.
🙂 Email from piano show organizer, saying she would like to put me on her list of recommended piano teachers when she retires next month.
🙂 Phone call the next day from someone inquiring about piano lessons. She had heard about me through another friend of mine, and passed along some lovely comments my friend had spoken to her about me.
🙂 Loyal friends who regularly do good deeds and speak kind words.
🙂 🙂 🙂 SPRING!! GREEN!! GROSBEAKS!! 😉
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🙂 Get to perform my Bartok Rumanian Folk Dances again! One week from tonight.
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Donna, it may well have been “me” who left it out. But what happened is that I don’t usually take it outside–in fact, I never do unless it happens to be in my pocket. Apparently my husband took it outside, because he was doing a task on it for me. We sat at the table on the deck and chatted, and then we came inside, but neither of us saw the phone on the table or took possession of it. If that’s what happened, it’s not really anyone’s “fault” but it’s also on both of us.
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