🙂 Daughter’s fiance got a job in his field! (He has been working full-time while he trained to do something else, and he just got hired for the “something else.”)
😦 This week was the funeral of a stillborn child born to one of my nephews and his wife, married two years, their first child.
🙂 The girls bought me a beautiful arrangement of flowers and some fancy chocolate. The note included with the flowers instructs me not to give their dad any of the chocolate. 🙂 He’ll get the mocha one, though.
😦 I was unable to have lunch with a friend yesterday because of being ill.
🙂 I’m feeling better after being sick yesterday.
😦 My husband has been sick all week.
🙂 I got to have lunch this week with my oldest brother and his wife.
😦 I agreed to take a project for a book I’ve never wanted to read (a new edition) and it’s actually even worse than I expected. (Bad theology.) Whether it’s good or bad that it’s only a proofing and I won’t be expected to deal with the theology, I don’t know. If I come on here lisping because I’ve been biting my tongue too hard, you’ll know why.
🙂 God’s in His heaven, all’s right with the world!
🙂 We were finally able to reconcile the paperwork we needed. It took over a month, numerous phone calls (several 3 way) and an inch and a half of paperwork. So, so glad to be done. A very, very small error at some point in the past made for all this extra work. I suppose that is a good analogy for how sin can affect us.
😦 Fires in our area. We went from wet and rainy to hot and dry in a very short time. Wind gusts have been terrible.
Saw a TERRIFIC version of TWelfth Night last night, but oh, so hard to get up this morning!
Running a website means a lot of work–don’t let anyone tell you writers have it easy. I’ve spent the last two hours examining Google Analytics on my website–finally found it!
I’ve discovered that 1/3 of my daily visitors are hackers from Russia, Kazakhstan or even the Ukraine. My numbers are so-so, but to discover so few are really interested in me is crushing.
I’ve learned new SEO tricks to improve my visibility on the web–but that means I have to go through 572 posts and update. Do you know how long that takes?
Aggravating and so discouraging. One post at a time, one a day for the next–two years? Yikes!
Meanwhile, Bible study is calling and I do have to write more blog posts.
I’m also giving talks on May 21 (6 Things we can learn from Bible mothers) and June 18 (45 minutes–the value of personal devotions, with many nods toward My Utmost for His Highest).
And of course, I was trying to finish my first draft by June 1. Not going to happen now. 😦
And I have a book releasing, the final novella collection, on June 1. Few of my co-authors are “free” enough to do much marketing.
……………………………………………… that is me biting my tongue.
Done complaining! Back to work. Daughter is here but they’re going to see Captain America. After the violence of Jungle Book, I’m staying home.
I have volunteered my spaghetti sauce for Mother’s Day, but they are not saying much.
The whole website thing sounds horrible, michelle.
We took my mom for lunch. This is difficult for us for a variety of reasons, so we were happy it all went well. My mom is doing great and keeping busy doing miniature rooms again. She has made four of them so far this year. It is good to see her creating again.
SEO … Now that we reporters have to write our own headlines (shudder), SEO is part of our psyche.
🙂 Beautiful day today with isolated rain, amazing clouds and blue skies in between. And our purple jacarandas are in bloom all over the city.
🙂 Took Carol to return 30 library books and while she was doing that I went outside to the front of the library where there seemed to be a team of homeless outreach folks from the Dream Centre — lots of homeless are a permanent fixture in the front of the library off of Hollywood Boulevard.
Talked to a young man named Dustin who’s on a one-year mission to work with the Dream Center; he was from Georgia (Brunswick?) but goes to a church on an island St. Simon’s church? Janice, sound familiar? I think he also lived in Atlanta at one point. Anyway, nice conversation — and it allowed me to avoid feeling guilty for not paying Carol’s $5+ in late fees she owed. They let her slide and she’ll have to pay it next month.
😦 Of course, she renewed about 15 of her books and found another 15 to take home. 😦 Sigh.
🙂 We took a drive before ending the visit, up through the Cahuenga Pass and by Warner Bros., Disney, NBC, ABC studios — before that, it was up the narrow winding roads toward the Hollywood sign and down again. Lots of tour buses out already along Hollywood Boulevard and the sidewalks were packed, I guess tourist season has officially launched.
🙂 Had to laugh, too, because I’m reading a crime novel set in LA/Hollywood/Echo Park and one of the locations featured prominently in the story line is the Hollywood Tower apartment building — across the street from Carol’s facility. And Beachwood Canyon, the road we took up into the hills today — toward Sunset Ranch where some of the bodies were buried. 🙂
🙂 Passed up a chance to cover Bill Clinton this morning (he was making a speech at a local college — we got one of our weekly reporters to go). We are so short staffed, and we already have people working OT this weekend on Mothers’ Day assignments.
Yup. Which is (partly) why I wandered outdoors, if I’m not there when they tell her what she owes, I won’t feel guilty! She told them she’d pay them next month when she gets paid.
I’ve mentioned it’s a strange library … As Carol and I were headed for the (very old, rickety, graffiti-ridden) elevator, I noted that among the many down-and-out folks on the library’s computers was a guy hunched way over, he apparently couldn’t see well, he was young & thin & had a swastika tattooed on his hand …
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🙂 Daughter’s fiance got a job in his field! (He has been working full-time while he trained to do something else, and he just got hired for the “something else.”)
😦 This week was the funeral of a stillborn child born to one of my nephews and his wife, married two years, their first child.
🙂 The girls bought me a beautiful arrangement of flowers and some fancy chocolate. The note included with the flowers instructs me not to give their dad any of the chocolate. 🙂 He’ll get the mocha one, though.
😦 I was unable to have lunch with a friend yesterday because of being ill.
🙂 I’m feeling better after being sick yesterday.
😦 My husband has been sick all week.
🙂 I got to have lunch this week with my oldest brother and his wife.
😦 I agreed to take a project for a book I’ve never wanted to read (a new edition) and it’s actually even worse than I expected. (Bad theology.) Whether it’s good or bad that it’s only a proofing and I won’t be expected to deal with the theology, I don’t know. If I come on here lisping because I’ve been biting my tongue too hard, you’ll know why.
🙂 God’s in His heaven, all’s right with the world!
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🙂 We were finally able to reconcile the paperwork we needed. It took over a month, numerous phone calls (several 3 way) and an inch and a half of paperwork. So, so glad to be done. A very, very small error at some point in the past made for all this extra work. I suppose that is a good analogy for how sin can affect us.
😦 Fires in our area. We went from wet and rainy to hot and dry in a very short time. Wind gusts have been terrible.
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Today, middle GD turns 31.
I finished my lesson on Acts 9, Saul’s conversion.
Chuck and Linda were lots of help.
Chas is tired.
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We worked around the house today. It has been nice.
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It’s raining here!
Saw a TERRIFIC version of TWelfth Night last night, but oh, so hard to get up this morning!
Running a website means a lot of work–don’t let anyone tell you writers have it easy. I’ve spent the last two hours examining Google Analytics on my website–finally found it!
I’ve discovered that 1/3 of my daily visitors are hackers from Russia, Kazakhstan or even the Ukraine. My numbers are so-so, but to discover so few are really interested in me is crushing.
I’ve learned new SEO tricks to improve my visibility on the web–but that means I have to go through 572 posts and update. Do you know how long that takes?
Aggravating and so discouraging. One post at a time, one a day for the next–two years? Yikes!
Meanwhile, Bible study is calling and I do have to write more blog posts.
I’m also giving talks on May 21 (6 Things we can learn from Bible mothers) and June 18 (45 minutes–the value of personal devotions, with many nods toward My Utmost for His Highest).
And of course, I was trying to finish my first draft by June 1. Not going to happen now. 😦
And I have a book releasing, the final novella collection, on June 1. Few of my co-authors are “free” enough to do much marketing.
……………………………………………… that is me biting my tongue.
Done complaining! Back to work. Daughter is here but they’re going to see Captain America. After the violence of Jungle Book, I’m staying home.
I have volunteered my spaghetti sauce for Mother’s Day, but they are not saying much.
Whatever.
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The whole website thing sounds horrible, michelle.
We took my mom for lunch. This is difficult for us for a variety of reasons, so we were happy it all went well. My mom is doing great and keeping busy doing miniature rooms again. She has made four of them so far this year. It is good to see her creating again.
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SEO … Now that we reporters have to write our own headlines (shudder), SEO is part of our psyche.
🙂 Beautiful day today with isolated rain, amazing clouds and blue skies in between. And our purple jacarandas are in bloom all over the city.
🙂 Took Carol to return 30 library books and while she was doing that I went outside to the front of the library where there seemed to be a team of homeless outreach folks from the Dream Centre — lots of homeless are a permanent fixture in the front of the library off of Hollywood Boulevard.
Talked to a young man named Dustin who’s on a one-year mission to work with the Dream Center; he was from Georgia (Brunswick?) but goes to a church on an island St. Simon’s church? Janice, sound familiar? I think he also lived in Atlanta at one point. Anyway, nice conversation — and it allowed me to avoid feeling guilty for not paying Carol’s $5+ in late fees she owed. They let her slide and she’ll have to pay it next month.
😦 Of course, she renewed about 15 of her books and found another 15 to take home. 😦 Sigh.
🙂 We took a drive before ending the visit, up through the Cahuenga Pass and by Warner Bros., Disney, NBC, ABC studios — before that, it was up the narrow winding roads toward the Hollywood sign and down again. Lots of tour buses out already along Hollywood Boulevard and the sidewalks were packed, I guess tourist season has officially launched.
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🙂 Had to laugh, too, because I’m reading a crime novel set in LA/Hollywood/Echo Park and one of the locations featured prominently in the story line is the Hollywood Tower apartment building — across the street from Carol’s facility. And Beachwood Canyon, the road we took up into the hills today — toward Sunset Ranch where some of the bodies were buried. 🙂
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🙂 Passed up a chance to cover Bill Clinton this morning (he was making a speech at a local college — we got one of our weekly reporters to go). We are so short staffed, and we already have people working OT this weekend on Mothers’ Day assignments.
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Donna, I hope you are making her pay her own fines. It does no good to subsidize and cover up for laziness, and thoughtlessness
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Yup. Which is (partly) why I wandered outdoors, if I’m not there when they tell her what she owes, I won’t feel guilty! She told them she’d pay them next month when she gets paid.
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I’ve mentioned it’s a strange library … As Carol and I were headed for the (very old, rickety, graffiti-ridden) elevator, I noted that among the many down-and-out folks on the library’s computers was a guy hunched way over, he apparently couldn’t see well, he was young & thin & had a swastika tattooed on his hand …
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