42 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-27-17”

  4. So you remember that in July of 2013 there was a person on the team with me that wrote an email to the owner of that team stating that I had taken part of a commission and he did not feel I had been involved in that sale nor did I deserve the 10% of the commission that I was paid? Remember how he told the office to release the check to me, so I thought he and I were square before I went out of town? Remember how since it was our first deal together after 10 months of me giving him leads that I gave him all the leads that weekend? THEN how he stabbed me in the back? Remember how for 2 or 3 years I wondered why anyone would question my integrity and how I stayed awake at night wondering what was wrong with me? Remember how I questioned everything and started not trusting anyone? Remember how the whole ordeal made me feel and I talked about it constantly on this blog? Remember how ultimately I had to go back to work for Guy? Remember how I told you that had I remained with that team I would have earned $72,000!!!!!! that year?
    Well, that man was in my class yesterday–ALL DAY!
    I was able to feel sorry for him. He had had to put his dog down the night before. The dog had a tumor on his liver and with his age and the advanced stage it was better to let him go to the Rainbow Bridge. Because I knew this man I was able to call on him for certain points I wanted to make in the class. I have been negative about his “Christianity” in the past stating that he hid behind religion while he stabbed me in the back. I asked him to bless our meal before lunch.

    All that hurt and anger went away. It just isn’t there anymore.

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  10. I am going to argue with you Linda. I have this conversation with myself all the time. I cannot be a S/M and a Size “x” and BE as fat as I look in a photo.
    I think you all look fine. It’s the camera angle.

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  12. i’m so glad Linda and AJ could be with Kizzie. Sad occasion, but so encouraging to see the fellowship that I’m sure provided much appreciated support to the family on that day.

    I was up early to get the trash cans hauled out & the Jeep parked in the street to make way for foundation workers who should be here within the hour. It’s still dark outside and I hear the fog horns in the harbor, so our heat is leaving us, thankfully.

    My editor, meanwhile, denied my request for time off on 11/9 and 10 (window guys come 11/9 and I am thinking, just in case they can’t finish in 1 day, I should have the following day off too). He didn’t tell me, I just noticed the denial status on our workday website when I was filling out my online time card last night.

    Not sure why he turned requests for those days down, maybe someone else is off that week & he hates having more than 1 person off at a time since we’re so short-staffed, which I understand. But … I really do need to be home at least on the 9th so I will have to send him an email appeal today. It’s an appointment (the windows) that can’t be changed. And even if I could, I wouldn’t! Maybe I can get all the reporting on a story done and write it while I’m at home, that might satisfy him. Sometimes I look forward to the day when I’ll not have to deal with all the day-to-day work schedule conflicts. But that day isn’t today so I’ll have to work *something* out.

    I was telling a friend last night how stressful this house thing has been for the past year and a half, it really does become all-consuming. And being locked into a 40-hour work schedule that I constantly have to work around — and having to juggle everything on my own — hasn’t helped.

    grumble grumble, murmur murmur. Which way back to Egypt?

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  14. Kim, isn’t forgiveness grand? And that whole love and pray for your enemy thing? Jesus prayed to God that we would be living in unity, we would be one just as He and His Father are one. God is wonderful.

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  15. Beautiful header picture. Echoing everyone else on how glad I was to know AJ and Linda were able to be there with Kizzie and family.

    Speaking of pics, AJ, did my daughter’s email yesterday with Jo’s and my meet-up picture attached come through and work okay? If not, I hear my tech son is coming home tonight for the weekend, so, if need be, we can try, try again. 🙂

    BTW, AJ, how is Liz doing?

    Kim, 7:32, that’s wonderful!

    Kizzie, your 4:27 pm on yesterday’s daily thread moved me so much. I am glad you are sharing your thoughts as you grieve. Mourning with you.

    This week has been appointment week for our family — five of them in four days, all related to teeth except one. Two cleanings, one to get fillings, and one oral surgery appt. So I am not surprised that last night I had a dream that I had a baby, and she was born with a full set of teeth in her mouth! 😀

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  20. Morning! What a beautiful photo to see upon opening this site…brought tears to my eyes and a smile….
    We awakened to a slight inch of snow covering the forest floor…patchy ice here and there on the drive but the sun is shining, sky is blue…lovely is this day!
    Thanks for sharing your breakthrough Kim…the Lord has been working something very similar deep within me as well…I lay in bed praying for this person last evening and this morning it felt as though a huge weight had been lifted…now when I see her walking her dog in the neighborhood I believe I will see her with new eyes and heart…thankful ❤️

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  21. I was thinking about how Kim has enlightened the man about true Christianity in action. I don’t think we have seen the end of the story yet!

    Glad for you Nancyjill! I once was dealing with something like that and imagined putting all my grievances against the lady on a boat that set sail never to return to shore (my heart) again. That helped bunches. ❤

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  23. I see some of you commented on parent/teacher conferences. I had to chuckle with Pauline saying the one teacher emailed everyone so some would show up. If that was in Illinois (I know Pauline used to live in Illinois) then I can understand why that teacher did that. We are required to have so many parents contacts. I think it is an average of ten per teacher per year. We have to turn in our parent contact list at the end of the year for the auditors.

    Most of us at the high school think this is a waste of time, but I look at it as an opportunity to get caught up on grading and planning. Like having an entire school day without students.

    And there are goodies in the teacher’s lounge.

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  24. I go to the meeting. The teacher tells me how wonderful the student is doing and what a wonderful congenial person he is, loving to help everybody. But there is room for improvement….And the student says that sounds like a good idea, I will do that. And I say these are our expectations: treat the other students and the teachers and any other staff with respect. Treat this as your job. The teacher says that’s good. The student says hurrah. And we part. And the student continues to misuse the computers, even though a teacher is supposed to be watching the screen any time the computer is open (their rule) and the student continues to not participate and not give any effort and gets D’s and F’s and I wonder why I went to the conference.

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  26. there may be bonbons in the teachers’ lounge.

    Foundation workers’ truck broke down on the way in this morning, so looks like another day’s delay. Hope it’s not a huge fix for them though, the truck looked pretty vintage 😦

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  27. Knowing how AJ & Linda really look, I would say that the camera certainly did add some weight to us, although I’m certainly no Skinny Minnie even without the camera adding on any pounds.

    I don’t know if it’s due to the lighting or what, but my hair looks a lot greyer in those photos than it does in my bathroom mirror. It also looks greyer in sunlight I’ve noticed. That’s okay, though. I don’t have a problem with having grey hair now. I actually like it.

    We were so very touched by AJ & his family & Linda coming all the way up here for Hubby’s memorial. It was lovely to meet & hug them all. This blog family is the best!

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  28. Today I got my first smart phone. Last year, Hubby had replaced an old decrepit flip phone I had used for a short period of time (I’m relatively new to cell phones) with a non-smart cell phone, as he thought that would be easier for me.

    Nightingale said she could get me a better deal on her Boost Mobile account than what we’d been paying for the Verizon account. So we are cancelling Verizon, & she took me to get a phone at the Boost place. She is going to order me a cover from Amazon, so we were looking at the pretty ones online as we waited. I am going for something glittery. 🙂

    We had to come up with the PIN Hubby had on the account. We tried the last four of his SS number, & then another number, but they weren’t it. Then I remembered that he had told me that he often used a particular number (corresponding to certain letters on a phone dial), so Nightingale brought up a phone dial on her phone to find the numbers. That was it! Phew!

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  29. Verizon doesn’t seem to want to let us go. On the phone, they told us that we have to visit a corporate store to cancel. Today, at the corporate store, we were told that they can’t cancel an account there, that we have to call.

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  30. I seem to look younger and thinner in my mirror at home. 🙂

    Kizzie, every time I watch Criminal Minds now I think of you when “Baby Girl” Penelope Garcia comes on 🙂

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  32. PeterL,
    Actually that was here in Iowa. But I wonder if maybe the school (or the district) has some kind of requirement, because the teachers have sign-in sheets for parent-teacher conferences, like they need some kind of documentation of who came. I don’t remember ever seeing that until my younger son was in middle school. Do they do that at your school?

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  33. Just gave our dog her insulin shot. My husband is away on an overnight retreat for pastors, and my son is at a Trunk or Treat, so I have a quiet evening to myself. Of course, being by myself means I’m the one to walk the dog, feed the dog, and give her the shot. (Usually my son walks and feeds her, and my husband does the shots.) Fortunately she’s very good about sitting (mostly) still for the shots.

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  34. I found out the funeral will be Sunday. What a conflict. That is a tremendously important day at church morning, noon and night. I will probably not go to the funeral. My brother will be a pall bearer. But I carry the name (former middle name before I got married) of the woman who died who was like a sister to my mom.

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  35. Anon=Janice

    I had an eye exam at Sam’s. I have a problem with one eye that can be fixed with surgery. I will wait until I have a better insurance situation. My cataracts have not progressed enough to need surgery according to the doctor. I am getting some new glasses so I can see the screen at church to be able to sing the right words. It has been a guessing game lately. Pity the people who sit near enough to think I am singing from an alternative hymn book.

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  36. I used to give my dog insulin shots while he was eating and was distracted (since the instructions also said to give it to him at mealtime). I’d put his bowl down (having already ‘loaded’ the dose) and pull up the scruff of his neck, stab, and we were done. He’d only issue a little growl under his breath while he was still munching away.

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  38. Pauline- We had sign in sheets in the past, but this year they only had to check in at the office and the teachers had a list of who was coming to see us.

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  39. Long day, late night at work, 2 stories, one fun, one more complicated & serious. But I’m home.

    Real Estate Guy texted me tonight that he heard from the foundation guys and that they’ll be coming tomorrow (making up for today’s lost work), which is so nice of them to do — working on a Saturday. They’re such a good, hard-working father-son-workers. I’m blessed.

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  40. Meanwhile, co-worker had a foundation estimate today come in at $75,000.

    Sheesh. She’s in despair, I don’t blame her. But I assured her that’s just her starting point, something to go on, to keep gathering info and trying to find workers who will do it for less.

    I’m sure those foundation companies to a fine and thorough job, but most of us common folk simply can’t afford the rates.

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