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Saturday, January 25, 2014

January Twenty Fifth

 

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Look who turns 20 today…

He’s off house/dog sitting for son1…

Son1 said he could have a couple of friends over as long as they don’t burn down the house…

Tomorrow hubby will make hamburgers and pudding cake and we have a couple of presents for him…

His actual gift was supposed to be money for gas/car insurance/registration… but first he has to take his driving test and buy a car… He promises next month…

Twenty years ago son2 was five weeks early… the first and last time he has ever been early for anything… He’s usually putting on his shoes ten minutes before he has to be any where…

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Son2…

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Hubby’s been at work all day…

Son3 is gaming it up on XBox with his friends and son2 via XBox Live…

They both have homework this weekend…

I have been entertaining myself…

  • reading blogs
  • Facebook
  • putting up birthday decorations
  • wrapping presents
  • papers from work
  • laundry
  • dishes
  • breakfast
  • lunch
  • snacks
  • watching TV: The Neighbors, Sean Saves the World, Spooksville, Goosebumps, R.L.Stine’s The Haunting Hour…

Leftover pea soup and cornbread for dinner…

Hubby and I have Grimm and Bones to watch…

 

Joyce Meyer Ministries

If you put your trust in God, you don't have to live uptight, anxious, upset & worried all the time.

All we're guaranteed is this moment. So we need to enjoy this moment, because it's the greatest gift that God has given us right now.

If you want to know what to do, get with God and get some real wisdom.

 

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Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

worshipping God is good for you.

In a world where there are many things competing for your devotion and worship, God is the only one that delivers and doesn't disappoint. Putting anything above God will ultimately let you down and leave you feeling empty. So sing praises, lift your hands in the air and give glory to God. It's good for you!

 

Tonight

 

Mostly Clear 40°

Tomorrow

 

Partly Cloudy 72°

Tomorrow night

 

Partly Cloudy 40°

Happy Journaling…

Thursday, January 23, 2014

January Twenty Third

 

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I called out of work today…

I think it has been a year since I have called out…

My car has been leaking brake fluid…

There is a big black stain on my side of the driveway…

I finally made hubby check it for me today… He filled it but can’t find where the leak is coming from…

I also needed a day just to have a moment to catch up to the new year…

I am having a bad week at work too…

I am ready for next week so I can start over… I have a visit next week but also my full timer starts finally… the person that I was a lead with in hardware…

Being January we have had light hours… so getting anything done has been trying… not to mention the herd of elephants (customers) that come through and mess up everything that we do get done so we spend all our time cleaning… and we have to cover the registers when lines get long at the main checkout… some of my associates have spent their whole shifts there the last couple of weeks… So I’m sure the district manager will not be pleased with the way my floor looks…

Other things were frustrating at work this week too but I still can’t seem to write everything I want in my blog… of course this is my happy place so maybe It’s good that I try to stick to mostly positive things in the blog…

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Here’s the new manual treadmill that I got… It doesn’t take up too much room and easy to move around… This is the upright, not being used position…

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Here it is down for use in exercising… I walked on it for 25 minutes today… Phew it was hard work, as being manual you have to walk a little harder and hold on so as not to roll off… It said I walked a mile and had my heart rate between 127 and 165, if it keeps track accurately… It also said I burned 78 calories… I was trying to keep a slow steady walk, but you start to walk fast just to keep up with the belt… I was sweating when I was done…

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Remember the clock hubby made me for my birthday, last June… he finally finished it and hung it up this week… I was so missing having a clock in the master bath…

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Today I cleaned the whole kitchen, washed all the pots and pans, son2 had done half of them last night, washed the counters, the island, dining room table… I vacuumed the house… I cleaned the cat litter box and wiped down the boy’s bathroom… Walked on the treadmill while watching a Joyce Meyer episode… I thought her shows were only about twenty minutes but I got to twenty five minutes and I had to stop and she was still talking… lol… I washed a load of rugs/towels… watered the houseplants… and made pea soup out of the ham bone from the ham I made this week…

I still have a pile of paperwork from work to go through and make a game plan for work that I have been bringing home everyday and not doing… maybe I’ll get it done in the morning… As I close tomorrow…

Hubby made cornbread to go with the soup… the boys want sandwiches instead of soup…

Son2 is helping son3 with his pre algebra… son2 is taking intermediate algebra in college… they are pretty much doing the same thing right now… son3’s problem with getting the problems wrong is not entirely that he doesn’t understand it but that he doesn’t pay attention and writes the problem wrong or can’t read his handwriting, because we sure can’t read his writing… he’ll do ten problems all in half a piece of paper… son2 once again is going over the assignment with him and he is missing them because he forgot to put the negative signs because he rushes through his homework… son2 is also showing him once again how to write on the lines that the paper provides and using a ruler for his graph lines… and that it is ok to use the back of the paper or even a second sheet of paper instead of cramming it all in half a piece of paper…

And don’t get us started on his backpack… He doesn’t put anything in folders… doesn’t remember to turn things in or isn’t paying attention when the teacher asks them to turn things in… We have tried since fifth grade to help him be organized and focused at school…

I have left him to do things on his own and haven’t helped with homework or his backpack since before Halloween… I do track his grades at the parent site at the school website…

And son2 tries to help him every so often like now…

The timer is beeping for the corn bread… Dinner is ready…

Hubby and I have shows to watch tonight on the DVR… Supernatural, Castle, Haven…

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Joyce Meyer Ministries

God wants us to enjoy where we are on the way to where we're going.

As long as we keep looking to somebody else to make us happy and we don't take responsibility for our own joy with God's help, we're always going to have a lacking in our life and always be sad.

If you cannot please God and people – always choose God! –Joyce

It is not possible to thoroughly enjoy your life and be content if you're not going to totally trust God for the right timing in your life and the right provision.

Simple faith means we believe for no reason other than we believe. We believe because we've decided to believe.

Through God’s grace we can live "upright instead of uptight." –Joyce

Instead of saying, “Lord I don’t know how I am going to do this,” say, “Lord, I can’t wait to see how you do this.” –Joyce

 

One of the reasons why we get disappointed and discontent is because we have our expectation in the wrong place. The Bible tells us to expect God.

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Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

you need to stop comparing yourself to other people.

Some people are great singers, some are really smart and others are great athletes. But none of them are, or ever could be you. You are one of a kind. So stop comparing yourself to other people. You can't be them any more than they can be you.

 

Tonight

 

Mostly Cloudy 43°

Tomorrow

 

Partly Cloudy 75° Precip 20%

Tomorrow night

 

Partly Cloudy 41°

Happy Journaling…

Sunday, January 19, 2014

January Nineteenth

 

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Today was a fast day…

Got up about 9am, showered, went to the grocery store, put away the groceries and it was 2pm…

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Heated up the snacks for the 49er game… Chips & bean dip, taquitos, mini tacos, popcorn chicken and the ham from last night’s dinner…

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Son3 didn’t want to watch the game… He is on his Xbox, not with his friends though as they are not on, probably watching the game…

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Hubby and son2 watching the game… Son2 is using the new treadmill still in the box as a table for his snacks…

Third quarter of the game… Score is 10-3, 49ers… Hubby and son2 are now putting the treadmill together…

I have spent the time reading blogs and catching up on Facebook while they were watching the game… and eating…

But my eating and emotions are under control today… I’m thinking it was hormones and I forget the first two weeks of the month are my grumpy time… then this is my good week… although I have been nagging hubby today, in a joking way though…

I have been doing laundry, now it is waiting for me to put it away…

I still need to fill out the cards for the month and go through the paper pile I brought home from work… but then I have tomorrow night as son3 does not have school and will not have homework, hubby will be at work and the mailman does not come til Tuesday…

Oops, now it is a tie game… Seahawks just scored a touchdown…

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Now that son3 doesn’t use the white board for homework, I have made it into a chore list for the boys… son3 read it today and did his chores… we’ll see if it inspires son2…

I need to put away the laundry, wash some dishes, pick out a book to read at work and finish watching Castle-I fell asleep last night…

Another touchdown by the 49ers, 17-10…

 

Joyce Meyer Ministries

Misery is an option. If you want to continue to be miserable, then keep thinking things that make you miserable. Or you can learn to think the way God thinks about you and talks about you in His Word.

 

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Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

circumstances don't make you, they reveal you.

How you respond to the life God offers you is what makes you.

 

Tonight

 

Partly Cloudy 36°

Tomorrow

 

Sunny 73°

Tomorrow night

 

Clear 39°

Happy Journaling…