So I think I’ve told you all that I had to go in a non-practising class for my nursing license when I came home from West Africa. This is how the process to get back into the practicing class looks like so far:
😦 Phoned and emailed registering body for application, but no response.
🙂 Finally got hold of registering body and they said they would send application.
😦 Received application, which informed me I needed certain form filled out by registering body in West Africa.
🙂 Former team leader in West Africa agreed to help me get form filled there.
🙂 Sent form three weeks ago from post office, where they weighed and priced envelope.
😦 One week ago, envelope came return to sender, with note that there was insufficient funds for size of envelope.
🙂 😦 Took envelope back to post office and had it sent priority post, which cost a lot of money.
😦 😥 Priority post envelope was returned to me yesterday. When I phoned to ask why, it was explained that post office uses FedEx, and FedEx cannot deliver to a Post Office box. I replied that there were no street addresses where I was sending the envelope. They said I should get a refund.
Phos.
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Each person you encountered there was just doing his job. That doesn’t involve considering the ramifications of his decision. Was this USPS? I think USPS collects insufficient funds on the other end, or it doesn’t get out of the building that sends the package.
My experience is that once it leaves the building, you’re home free.
😦 You all know my rant. I have been ranting all week.
🙂 A lot of people love my child and pray for her,
🙂 Lulabelle is going to Doggie Boot Camp tomorrow for two weeks to learn how to be a good dog.
🙂 Ex-husband is keeping Amos for the weekend. Amos hasn’t had a weekend with the gang at the pool in a long time and his Uncle Petey misses him. They all call him Amos Moses. Ex-husband is dating someone and had to explain to her about Divorce Dog. I am sure she is looking forward to having the guy she is dating drag along his ex-wife’s dog…lol.
Chas, this is our national postal service, a Crown corporation which keeps complaining that fewer and fewer people are sending mail. It never seems to occur to them that might be because their service is getting worse and worse. Remember how that transcript didn’t get there in time for my application for midwifery to be accepted? That transcript was late because a test mailed to the invigilator went missing – same postal service. On the good side, they make some stunning collector’s stamps (I used to collect stamps as a preteen) 🙂 😛
😦 What Kim is going through. My sympathy to you, roscuro, as well. My SIL had so many difficulties with getting his diploma and license for his Master’s Degree. Too many people getting paid who seem to not being doing their jobs. I am not sure if they don’t realize how their actions affect their clients or if they simply don’t care. I do realize some workers are dealing with too much work, but this doesn’t seem to be the case here.
😦 Car dealership that doesn’t seem to know what customer service is all about. I won’t go into all the details, but we have had issues since we bought our car. This week we had to bring in a form for reimbursement for a repair, because it is defective part. True to form we waited over an hour just to get the form to the right person. Then we had some issues with what will be paid. Finally, we left with assurance that we would be called first thing yesterday morning by the latest. No call, so far. This is not a big deal in the realm of all the problems we could have, of course. Still, it seems to be a trend in service everywhere.
😦 My friend’s daughter, Kim, with her cancer. They have other family issues that have piled on have been a real sorrow for them.
🙂 God works miracles and hold us all in His hands.
Phos, you (and others now, it has been a long time and some may not understand.) may be confused by statements on return envelopes that say, “Post Office will not deliver mail without proper postage”
It used to be the case that a person would post a letter without postage. The letter would go through and the recipient would have to pay postage, plus some collection charge.
It never occurred to me to do that, but I learned that some people would send their electric, bill, water bill, insurance payment, etc. in a letter with no postage at all. The other side had to pay to receive the mail.
I suspect there was lots of lobbying, hence the prohibition against sending mail without postage.
OTOH, you have some that say, “No postage necessary if mailed in the United States”. The recipient pays the postage, plus some collection fee. They prefer that you put a stamp on it.
But you can pay on-line now. They all prefer that. Except the minimum wage clerk who used to have a job opening and sorting mail.
Oh Chas, I know what insufficient postage means. I’ve sent fancy cards to people that were too heavy for regular postage and had them returned. But as I mentioned, this envelope had been weighed, priced, and stamped by the postal clerk. I left it with the clerk to mail and two weeks later, it showed up in my mail box, saying insufficient funds for envelope size.
I wonder if the declining postal service is partly the same cycle that’s hit print journalism, especially daily newspapers — the fewer print advertisers we get (our $$ bread and butter), the more layoffs & pay cuts we get (along with more work to do, however).
The product isn’t as good as it used to be as we can’t cover all the government, school districts, features that we used to cover, not even close. Overtime pay is cut back. We have virtually no copy editors left, so more typos and other mistakes get into the paper and online (online is easy to fix quickly, at least).
It’s nearly impossible to reach someone on our now all-automated and lame phone system. I get calls from people wanting to place yard sale notices and have to figure out where to send them. Sometimes our overworked editor (with no assistant) spends long periods of time fielding random, weird phone calls that weren’t meant to come to the newsroom.
So people complain. More old-style print advertising leaves, cutting into our revenues even more. More people get laid off. More people complain.
It’s a downward cycle. And we’re all really sorry about it. 😦
😦 Some people are so stuck in their ideology that they read negative things into what they read, & seem to lack logical thinking, although in other ways, they are very intelligent. (And no, this isn’t all about YF, though some of it applies to her, too. 🙂 )
A couple recent examples:
—A FB friend (not YF) shares an article about the Tennessee state legislature passing a bill to “encourage people to pray for the state’s schoolchildren,” which, as an atheist, she disagrees with.
One commenter writes that it is wrong for the state to “force” people to pray. Another points out that the Bible is against public prayer.
The article said nothing about forcing people to pray or about public prayers, I point out, politely, & also say that I agree with her that the legislature didn’t have to use their time on that, someone could have merely made a speech encouraging people to pray. Even so, friend now thinks I agree with forcing public prayer.
—A FB friend (again, not YF) posts an article about an interview with two of the Duggar sisters. They mention that after Josh’s confession about what he’d done, the parents installed locks on the bedroom doors (of both girls & boys). Friend writes that it is awful that they locked the girls in their bedrooms rather than locking up Josh. Rather than seeing that the parents installed locks on the inside of the bedroom doors for the girls’ protection, she chooses to read that they were locked in, & she misses the part about the boys’ bedrooms also having locks. (And this friend is eligible to join Mensa.)
I’ve found that even touching what I have started calling (to myself) the very fringes of an issue, fringes that don’t even have anything to do with the issue itself, is enough to get on into trouble. Pointing out that an argument in favor of a particular hot button issue is illogical or too broad is taken as being against the whole issue itself.
A couple older examples that still make me shake my head:
—I point out that the argument for same-sex marriage that says, “People should be able to marry who they love” (which should say “whom” or “whomever”, I would think) is too broad, that I have seen a site for “Marriage Equality” for brothers & sisters to wed, using the same statement. And I point out that I have read of pedophiles who claim they “love” little girls & should be able to have relationships with them. Despite my protests that I am not doing so, I am accused of comparing same-sex marriage to incest & pedophilia. (Yes, this was YF, who said she’s seen the same things, but still thinks it’s a logical argument.)
—I write a post saying that a certain FB page (which happens to be pro-gay, but I didn’t mention that part), which claims it is against hate (let’s say it’s called NoH8, but instead of No, there is a bad word) is inconsistent because it expresses a lot of hatred towards those who they disagree with, particularly Christians. I also write that I have also pointed out inconsistencies of conservatives as well, but my post is taken to be anti-gay by a couple people.
Sorry for the ranting, but this is Rants & Raves after all. 🙂
🙂 There is also good stuff on Facebook. I have some friends who have very intelligent, polite-yet-spirited debates on their posts. I have learned a lot from a couple of these very intelligent & intellectual friends. Other friends share a lot of encouraging Christian posts & articles.
Facebook is definitely a mixed bag. Over the years, I’ve cut down on the number of people I follow, because one can get bogged down reading a bunch of mundane things.
🙂 When Elvera makes the brownies for the Lions auction, she cuts off the batch around the edges and then cuts the remainder into squares. I get the edges.
The edges are delicious, and I don’t have to pay anything.
Karen, yep. I’ve come to the conclusion that “most” (?) people don’t really want any genuine dialogue on FB, sadly, they just want to “shout out” their views (that too often also put down others in very unfair ways, of course).
I don’t really understand the point of that, I guess.
Would they walk into a dinner party or other social gathering and shout out some rude, partisan slogan, knowing it would be highly offensive and insulting to at least some of the people there? Most probably wouldn’t. Yet, so many think nothing of being rude (yeah, that’s what it is) on posts (whether FB or in article comments or blogs, doesn’t matter — although FB should be a little more respectful as you’re connected to specific people whom you have called ‘friends’).
But a lot of it is simply the internet culture we live in nowadays. I keep trying to be an example of something different, but I doubt the really rude ones ever notice. 😉 Sigh. 🙄
It would be interesting to see how the historians 100 years from now treat this period in our culture. I suspect it will be seen as a major turning point in many ways, primarily driven by the rise of the Internet and personal computers.
It’s affecting manners, relationships, personal lifestyles & habits, business models and national politics in really big ways. We’re living in interesting times, that’s for sure. Can’t imagine what my grandparents or even my parents, the last of whom died 25 years ago, right before personal computers began to edge their way into the first few homes that could afford them, would even make of all this.
You can’t do all this work by scanning and sending the docs that way, Roscuro? Hill got her Italian visa because she had a copy of the scanned, notarized, etc. document done in Italy and late arriving for her appointment in San Francisco. They took the documentation she had (which included the tracking information showing where it had bogged down) and told her they trusted her to bring in the original document went it arrived.
Not everyone is that helpful, of course, and the woman who did this for Hill was subbing.
😦 Now my computer needs to be connected to my computer all over again since I have a new wifi network. Poking around, can’t find where to do it … maybe I need to use the settings on the printer itself though. Hmmm.
Michelle, the application instructions were very detailed and said to mail the forms. The regulating body has a way of making one feel as if you made the slightest variation from the instructions, that would be it.
That’s where Hill was, too, but she scanned the docs and emailed them, then put everything into the regular mail. On their end when they got them, they filled them out, paid the fees (which were large), got everything notarized and mailed them back. But, of course, that meant they actually arrived in Italy to begin with, which is not what happened to you.
All so very curious. Dare I say, “I wonder what God is up to with this delay?”
You’ve been very patient with all these odd twists and turns. Let’s agree that they’re from God and for his glory and your good–even if we won’t see the answer for some time.
In the meantime, of course, we’re so sorry for this frustration.
Michelle, this form requires special seals to be valid, so I think that is why it has to be the original. Thanks for those words of encouragement. I too, have the feeling that the Lord is up to something. I haven’t added why there is such a sense of urgency to all this. The person who agreed to help me on the other end is due for furlough soon.
Interesting day, I’ve been working on a talk I’m giving tomorrow for the senior high Sunday School class. A one-hour talk I’ve been working on the last couple days. I’m telling a story from my memoir, but when I went to put the talk together, decided another one was a better fit–I was closer to their age and they might be able to relate better.
I’m going to show a couple ridiculous photos of myself at their age–I’m not sure if it will encourage them or not–and then a clip from Fiddler on the Roof where Tevye is talking to God.
I’ve got some quotes on prayer that I “translated” to The Message, which make them sound hipper. We’ll look at the Lord’s Prayer out of The Message and take it apart, and then I’ll tell the story of how learning to pray from Tevye–which is how I still pray, BTW–was challenged when I was in college and madly infatuated with an inappropriate saxophonist in the band.
(Photo of me with a saxophone)
And then how I prayed, how dismayed I was I couldn’t “connect” with God; how I explained I just needed a few weeks to work this out of my system and then I’d be back with him, etc.
God didn’t say anything.
But the next day that Mad Infatuation blatantly ignored me.
Of course I made a fool of myself.
After a couple weeks, humility ran its course and I could once again still praise God and return to fellowship with him in my devotions.
I’m so grateful for how my prayers don’t change God, but prayer changes me–and the Lord loved me enough to remove a temptation I could not control–but which I was honest enough to tell him about.
I think it will go well and I’m jazzed to tell it.
Thanks be to God.
And now maybe I’ll go cook the leftovers for dinner, ha!
Chas – Didn’t I mention sometime this past week (maybe on the prayer thread) that Lee does have another buyer? I think it was last Sunday. But you’re right – I forgot to rave about it. So…….
🙂 🙂 🙂 Lee has a buyer for his route! And this guy is wasting no time in getting all the proper forms filled out & filed.
I volunteered to teach VBS at a former church. We left that church in not really happy circumstances. One of the members asked me to consider filling in, because of several drop-outs due to some difficult circumstances. After some prayer, I just could not say no, although I know it is going to be a rough week. I am no longer into that realm of working with children. We will be in tents. I have a zillion things to do. Still…it is a good program and will be a blessing. Would appreciate prayers to prepare well and do a great job. Mostly for the children to be blessed and touched for the Lord, of course.
Karen’s examples are proof of the vast difference between wisdom and human intelligence. We all know fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Need to pray for some of that fear in some of those lives.
🙂 😦 Planted ⅓ of our vegetable garden today – trying to finish before the thunder storm. Now it’s too wet. Maybe it will dry out tomorrow morning and we’ll be able to finish tomorrow afternoon.
🙂 Last toddler room Sunday of the year tomorrow – looking forward to cuddling all those little ones again
🙂 Our home and property are such a joy to us. We still find it hard to believe that God allowed us purchase this place.
He is a horse who won the Triple crown of racing yesterday. First time a horse has won all three races in 37 years.
See, I’m informed.
Nice to have some light news to cheer for.
Sixth Arrow had something like you had last night, Donna. Stomach-achy around 1 or 2 in the morning last night. I put warm compresses on her tummy, and after maybe a half hour or so, she felt better and went back to sleep.
Today she woke up and was just fine, went to church with us and to a store afterwards with her dad, who reported she was bouncing around there. Then she went on a long walk with her dad and sister a few hours later.
I just steam the asparagus for a few minutes. We also like them grilled on the BBQ – so yummy. We eat very plainly due to allergies so tonight I just added some salt to them on the plate.
Thanks, Kare. Simply steamed sounds good to me. Nice and light for a summer (or almost summer) day. A little bit of sea salt on it would be good, too, I think.
I have a baked asparagus recipe that uses cheese, but it’s a little heavy. Seems like more of a cold weather comfort food.
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So I think I’ve told you all that I had to go in a non-practising class for my nursing license when I came home from West Africa. This is how the process to get back into the practicing class looks like so far:
😦 Phoned and emailed registering body for application, but no response.
🙂 Finally got hold of registering body and they said they would send application.
😦 Received application, which informed me I needed certain form filled out by registering body in West Africa.
🙂 Former team leader in West Africa agreed to help me get form filled there.
🙂 Sent form three weeks ago from post office, where they weighed and priced envelope.
😦 One week ago, envelope came return to sender, with note that there was insufficient funds for size of envelope.
🙂 😦
Took envelope back to post office and had it sent priority post, which cost a lot of money.
😦 😥 Priority post envelope was returned to me yesterday. When I phoned to ask why, it was explained that post office uses FedEx, and FedEx cannot deliver to a Post Office box. I replied that there were no street addresses where I was sending the envelope. They said I should get a refund.
😦 I still need to get that form to West Africa.
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Phos.
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Each person you encountered there was just doing his job. That doesn’t involve considering the ramifications of his decision. Was this USPS? I think USPS collects insufficient funds on the other end, or it doesn’t get out of the building that sends the package.
My experience is that once it leaves the building, you’re home free.
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Elvera’s brownies brought $15.00 at the Lions auction yesterday.
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😦 You all know my rant. I have been ranting all week.
🙂 A lot of people love my child and pray for her,
🙂 Lulabelle is going to Doggie Boot Camp tomorrow for two weeks to learn how to be a good dog.
🙂 Ex-husband is keeping Amos for the weekend. Amos hasn’t had a weekend with the gang at the pool in a long time and his Uncle Petey misses him. They all call him Amos Moses. Ex-husband is dating someone and had to explain to her about Divorce Dog. I am sure she is looking forward to having the guy she is dating drag along his ex-wife’s dog…lol.
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Chas, this is our national postal service, a Crown corporation which keeps complaining that fewer and fewer people are sending mail. It never seems to occur to them that might be because their service is getting worse and worse. Remember how that transcript didn’t get there in time for my application for midwifery to be accepted? That transcript was late because a test mailed to the invigilator went missing – same postal service. On the good side, they make some stunning collector’s stamps (I used to collect stamps as a preteen) 🙂 😛
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😦 What Kim is going through. My sympathy to you, roscuro, as well. My SIL had so many difficulties with getting his diploma and license for his Master’s Degree. Too many people getting paid who seem to not being doing their jobs. I am not sure if they don’t realize how their actions affect their clients or if they simply don’t care. I do realize some workers are dealing with too much work, but this doesn’t seem to be the case here.
😦 Car dealership that doesn’t seem to know what customer service is all about. I won’t go into all the details, but we have had issues since we bought our car. This week we had to bring in a form for reimbursement for a repair, because it is defective part. True to form we waited over an hour just to get the form to the right person. Then we had some issues with what will be paid. Finally, we left with assurance that we would be called first thing yesterday morning by the latest. No call, so far. This is not a big deal in the realm of all the problems we could have, of course. Still, it seems to be a trend in service everywhere.
😦 My friend’s daughter, Kim, with her cancer. They have other family issues that have piled on have been a real sorrow for them.
🙂 God works miracles and hold us all in His hands.
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Phos, you (and others now, it has been a long time and some may not understand.) may be confused by statements on return envelopes that say, “Post Office will not deliver mail without proper postage”
It used to be the case that a person would post a letter without postage. The letter would go through and the recipient would have to pay postage, plus some collection charge.
It never occurred to me to do that, but I learned that some people would send their electric, bill, water bill, insurance payment, etc. in a letter with no postage at all. The other side had to pay to receive the mail.
I suspect there was lots of lobbying, hence the prohibition against sending mail without postage.
OTOH, you have some that say, “No postage necessary if mailed in the United States”. The recipient pays the postage, plus some collection fee. They prefer that you put a stamp on it.
But you can pay on-line now. They all prefer that. Except the minimum wage clerk who used to have a job opening and sorting mail.
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Oh Chas, I know what insufficient postage means. I’ve sent fancy cards to people that were too heavy for regular postage and had them returned. But as I mentioned, this envelope had been weighed, priced, and stamped by the postal clerk. I left it with the clerk to mail and two weeks later, it showed up in my mail box, saying insufficient funds for envelope size.
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I wonder if the declining postal service is partly the same cycle that’s hit print journalism, especially daily newspapers — the fewer print advertisers we get (our $$ bread and butter), the more layoffs & pay cuts we get (along with more work to do, however).
The product isn’t as good as it used to be as we can’t cover all the government, school districts, features that we used to cover, not even close. Overtime pay is cut back. We have virtually no copy editors left, so more typos and other mistakes get into the paper and online (online is easy to fix quickly, at least).
It’s nearly impossible to reach someone on our now all-automated and lame phone system. I get calls from people wanting to place yard sale notices and have to figure out where to send them. Sometimes our overworked editor (with no assistant) spends long periods of time fielding random, weird phone calls that weren’t meant to come to the newsroom.
So people complain. More old-style print advertising leaves, cutting into our revenues even more. More people get laid off. More people complain.
It’s a downward cycle. And we’re all really sorry about it. 😦
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😦 Some people are so stuck in their ideology that they read negative things into what they read, & seem to lack logical thinking, although in other ways, they are very intelligent. (And no, this isn’t all about YF, though some of it applies to her, too. 🙂 )
A couple recent examples:
—A FB friend (not YF) shares an article about the Tennessee state legislature passing a bill to “encourage people to pray for the state’s schoolchildren,” which, as an atheist, she disagrees with.
One commenter writes that it is wrong for the state to “force” people to pray. Another points out that the Bible is against public prayer.
The article said nothing about forcing people to pray or about public prayers, I point out, politely, & also say that I agree with her that the legislature didn’t have to use their time on that, someone could have merely made a speech encouraging people to pray. Even so, friend now thinks I agree with forcing public prayer.
—A FB friend (again, not YF) posts an article about an interview with two of the Duggar sisters. They mention that after Josh’s confession about what he’d done, the parents installed locks on the bedroom doors (of both girls & boys). Friend writes that it is awful that they locked the girls in their bedrooms rather than locking up Josh. Rather than seeing that the parents installed locks on the inside of the bedroom doors for the girls’ protection, she chooses to read that they were locked in, & she misses the part about the boys’ bedrooms also having locks. (And this friend is eligible to join Mensa.)
I’ve found that even touching what I have started calling (to myself) the very fringes of an issue, fringes that don’t even have anything to do with the issue itself, is enough to get on into trouble. Pointing out that an argument in favor of a particular hot button issue is illogical or too broad is taken as being against the whole issue itself.
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A couple older examples that still make me shake my head:
—I point out that the argument for same-sex marriage that says, “People should be able to marry who they love” (which should say “whom” or “whomever”, I would think) is too broad, that I have seen a site for “Marriage Equality” for brothers & sisters to wed, using the same statement. And I point out that I have read of pedophiles who claim they “love” little girls & should be able to have relationships with them. Despite my protests that I am not doing so, I am accused of comparing same-sex marriage to incest & pedophilia. (Yes, this was YF, who said she’s seen the same things, but still thinks it’s a logical argument.)
—I write a post saying that a certain FB page (which happens to be pro-gay, but I didn’t mention that part), which claims it is against hate (let’s say it’s called NoH8, but instead of No, there is a bad word) is inconsistent because it expresses a lot of hatred towards those who they disagree with, particularly Christians. I also write that I have also pointed out inconsistencies of conservatives as well, but my post is taken to be anti-gay by a couple people.
Don’t touch the fringes!
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Sorry for the ranting, but this is Rants & Raves after all. 🙂
🙂 There is also good stuff on Facebook. I have some friends who have very intelligent, polite-yet-spirited debates on their posts. I have learned a lot from a couple of these very intelligent & intellectual friends. Other friends share a lot of encouraging Christian posts & articles.
Facebook is definitely a mixed bag. Over the years, I’ve cut down on the number of people I follow, because one can get bogged down reading a bunch of mundane things.
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🙂 When Elvera makes the brownies for the Lions auction, she cuts off the batch around the edges and then cuts the remainder into squares. I get the edges.
The edges are delicious, and I don’t have to pay anything.
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Karen, yep. I’ve come to the conclusion that “most” (?) people don’t really want any genuine dialogue on FB, sadly, they just want to “shout out” their views (that too often also put down others in very unfair ways, of course).
I don’t really understand the point of that, I guess.
Would they walk into a dinner party or other social gathering and shout out some rude, partisan slogan, knowing it would be highly offensive and insulting to at least some of the people there? Most probably wouldn’t. Yet, so many think nothing of being rude (yeah, that’s what it is) on posts (whether FB or in article comments or blogs, doesn’t matter — although FB should be a little more respectful as you’re connected to specific people whom you have called ‘friends’).
But a lot of it is simply the internet culture we live in nowadays. I keep trying to be an example of something different, but I doubt the really rude ones ever notice. 😉 Sigh. 🙄
It would be interesting to see how the historians 100 years from now treat this period in our culture. I suspect it will be seen as a major turning point in many ways, primarily driven by the rise of the Internet and personal computers.
It’s affecting manners, relationships, personal lifestyles & habits, business models and national politics in really big ways. We’re living in interesting times, that’s for sure. Can’t imagine what my grandparents or even my parents, the last of whom died 25 years ago, right before personal computers began to edge their way into the first few homes that could afford them, would even make of all this.
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You all have convinced me to stay off Facebook.
Karen, I suspect silence means that Lee didn’t sell the route, or you would be raving.
Sorry.
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You can’t do all this work by scanning and sending the docs that way, Roscuro? Hill got her Italian visa because she had a copy of the scanned, notarized, etc. document done in Italy and late arriving for her appointment in San Francisco. They took the documentation she had (which included the tracking information showing where it had bogged down) and told her they trusted her to bring in the original document went it arrived.
Not everyone is that helpful, of course, and the woman who did this for Hill was subbing.
I wonder if she still has her job . . .
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😦 Now my computer needs to be connected to my computer all over again since I have a new wifi network. Poking around, can’t find where to do it … maybe I need to use the settings on the printer itself though. Hmmm.
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I did it! 🙂
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Michelle, the application instructions were very detailed and said to mail the forms. The regulating body has a way of making one feel as if you made the slightest variation from the instructions, that would be it.
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That’s where Hill was, too, but she scanned the docs and emailed them, then put everything into the regular mail. On their end when they got them, they filled them out, paid the fees (which were large), got everything notarized and mailed them back. But, of course, that meant they actually arrived in Italy to begin with, which is not what happened to you.
All so very curious. Dare I say, “I wonder what God is up to with this delay?”
You’ve been very patient with all these odd twists and turns. Let’s agree that they’re from God and for his glory and your good–even if we won’t see the answer for some time.
In the meantime, of course, we’re so sorry for this frustration.
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Michelle, this form requires special seals to be valid, so I think that is why it has to be the original. Thanks for those words of encouragement. I too, have the feeling that the Lord is up to something. I haven’t added why there is such a sense of urgency to all this. The person who agreed to help me on the other end is due for furlough soon.
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Perhaps, then, the furlough will be a better time to get this all done?
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No, the person is acting as a go-between for me to the regulating body in the country.
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Basically, this form is to prove that I was licensed to practise in another country.
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Interesting day, I’ve been working on a talk I’m giving tomorrow for the senior high Sunday School class. A one-hour talk I’ve been working on the last couple days. I’m telling a story from my memoir, but when I went to put the talk together, decided another one was a better fit–I was closer to their age and they might be able to relate better.
I’m going to show a couple ridiculous photos of myself at their age–I’m not sure if it will encourage them or not–and then a clip from Fiddler on the Roof where Tevye is talking to God.
I’ve got some quotes on prayer that I “translated” to The Message, which make them sound hipper. We’ll look at the Lord’s Prayer out of The Message and take it apart, and then I’ll tell the story of how learning to pray from Tevye–which is how I still pray, BTW–was challenged when I was in college and madly infatuated with an inappropriate saxophonist in the band.
(Photo of me with a saxophone)
And then how I prayed, how dismayed I was I couldn’t “connect” with God; how I explained I just needed a few weeks to work this out of my system and then I’d be back with him, etc.
God didn’t say anything.
But the next day that Mad Infatuation blatantly ignored me.
Of course I made a fool of myself.
After a couple weeks, humility ran its course and I could once again still praise God and return to fellowship with him in my devotions.
I’m so grateful for how my prayers don’t change God, but prayer changes me–and the Lord loved me enough to remove a temptation I could not control–but which I was honest enough to tell him about.
I think it will go well and I’m jazzed to tell it.
Thanks be to God.
And now maybe I’ll go cook the leftovers for dinner, ha!
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Chas – Didn’t I mention sometime this past week (maybe on the prayer thread) that Lee does have another buyer? I think it was last Sunday. But you’re right – I forgot to rave about it. So…….
🙂 🙂 🙂 Lee has a buyer for his route! And this guy is wasting no time in getting all the proper forms filled out & filed.
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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I’ll second that! 🙂 🙂 🙂
I volunteered to teach VBS at a former church. We left that church in not really happy circumstances. One of the members asked me to consider filling in, because of several drop-outs due to some difficult circumstances. After some prayer, I just could not say no, although I know it is going to be a rough week. I am no longer into that realm of working with children. We will be in tents. I have a zillion things to do. Still…it is a good program and will be a blessing. Would appreciate prayers to prepare well and do a great job. Mostly for the children to be blessed and touched for the Lord, of course.
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Karen’s examples are proof of the vast difference between wisdom and human intelligence. We all know fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Need to pray for some of that fear in some of those lives.
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🙂 🙂 🙂 Yay, Karen & Lee!
🙂 😦 Planted ⅓ of our vegetable garden today – trying to finish before the thunder storm. Now it’s too wet. Maybe it will dry out tomorrow morning and we’ll be able to finish tomorrow afternoon.
🙂 Last toddler room Sunday of the year tomorrow – looking forward to cuddling all those little ones again
🙂 Our home and property are such a joy to us. We still find it hard to believe that God allowed us purchase this place.
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😦 It’s 2:15 a.m. and I’m up … with some kind of stomach ailment that struck Saturday afternoon. Hoping it’ll be gone by morning.
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😦 Dragging, but stomach for now seems better & I’m determined to get to church as I missed last week. Nap on my schedule this afternoon.
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QoD
Am I the only person in the world who doesn’t care a bit abut Pharoah’s Crown?
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What is Pharoah’s Crown and ought I to care?
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He is a horse who won the Triple crown of racing yesterday. First time a horse has won all three races in 37 years.
See, I’m informed.
Nice to have some light news to cheer for.
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😦 We haven’t heard from HRW in a long time.
She was mostly on the “Politics” thread, but often gave interesting different views.
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Probably gave up on us
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I don’t follow horse racing at all, but I did think it was pretty neat that American Pharaoh won the Triple Crown.
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Sixth Arrow had something like you had last night, Donna. Stomach-achy around 1 or 2 in the morning last night. I put warm compresses on her tummy, and after maybe a half hour or so, she felt better and went back to sleep.
Today she woke up and was just fine, went to church with us and to a store afterwards with her dad, who reported she was bouncing around there. Then she went on a long walk with her dad and sister a few hours later.
Whatever it was, she sure got over it quickly. 🙂
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🙂 Garden is finally planted – looking forward to seeing what we get this year
🙂 Asparagus from our asparagus bed for supper tonight – so yummy
🙂 Toddler room this morning – soooooo much fun!
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How did you fix your asparagus, Kare? I have some that I bought the other day, and could use a different recipe than how I’ve done them before.
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HRW and Ricky Weaver used to be on the news thread a lot, but I haven’t seen either of them around in a while.
And Coyote Blue (CB) was on there a lot way back when. I wonder where she’s been.
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I just steam the asparagus for a few minutes. We also like them grilled on the BBQ – so yummy. We eat very plainly due to allergies so tonight I just added some salt to them on the plate.
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Thanks, Kare. Simply steamed sounds good to me. Nice and light for a summer (or almost summer) day. A little bit of sea salt on it would be good, too, I think.
I have a baked asparagus recipe that uses cheese, but it’s a little heavy. Seems like more of a cold weather comfort food.
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