February Twenty Third

 

Deuteronomy 26:5-10

Then you shall declare before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous. But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer, putting us to hard labor. Then we cried out to the Lord, the God of our fathers; and the Lord heard our voice and saw our misery, toil and oppression. So the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror and with miraculous signs and wonders. he brought us to this place and gave us the land, a land flowing with milk and honey; and now I bring the first fruits of the soil that you, O Lord, have given me. Place the basket before the Lord your God and bow down before him.

I am so tired tonight, I have a headache and I have to be at work at 6am…

Yesterday when I was making my lunch for work, I realized I did not make son3’s lunch before I sent him off to school… he still had money in his lunch account and was smart enough to buy lunch instead…

Hubby is all ready for his unemployment appointment on Monday… He also has some questions for them…

And for some exciting news!!! Hubby got two calls yesterday about jobs… one was from a temp agency that saw his resume online, after talking with him they are going to contact the company that is posting the job and see if they want him to come in for an interview… and then a company that he applied at called and he now has a phone interview scheduled for Monday afternoon…

I had a very productive day at work today… which is why I am so tired…

When I got home though I ate too much… I had six cookies while I was waiting for dinner to cook… and then I had two sausage hot dogs with chili… and peas & carrots… and a glass of arbor mist mixed with soda… and now cashews…

We are watching Impractical Jokers, Last Man Standing, Ghost Adventures, a show on how chocolate is made and now Game of Thrones…

Going to finish Game of Thrones and then it’s time for sleeping…

Joyce Meyer Ministries

Jesus never said it would be easy, but He said it would be worth it! (Matt 7:13-14)

 

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

you become what you do.

Life molds itself into the shape of your actions, - do something long enough and you become it. Fighting for peace makes more war. Loving for peace makes more peace.

 

Tonight

 

Clear 37° Precip 10%

Tomorrow

 

Sunny 62°

Tomorrow night

 

Clear 37°

Happy Journaling…

February Twenty Second

 

Romans 10:8-13

But what does it say? The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, that is the word of faith we are proclaiming: That if you confess with  your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. As the Scripture says, Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame. For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile – the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

Why does time have to go so quickly… or maybe I really do need to change my routine… I have been up since 7am…

Maple likes to sit above me on the top of my desk on the printer and she just threw up all down the back of the desk…

So as I was saying I have been up since 7am… hubby got son3’s breakfast ready… I helped him study for his spelling and geology tests… hubby got him off to school… I checked email, responded to some emails… checked online banking… sent happy birthday wishes… scanned through Facebook… hubby fixed us leftover dinner breakfast for breakfast… I ran a load of laundry… son2 is now up and on his laptop… and it’s 10:30 already… where does the morning go… where does the time go…

I told hubby we have to treat home like work… if we want to go for a walk or get something done in the house or just go to the grocery store… we have to set a time and treat it like we are going to work and we can’t be late…

We change the clocks on March 10th… there goes another hour… but then the sun will stay up longer… charging our internal batteries and we will have the power to get more done in the day as the day will seem longer…

Time for me to get off this laptop… shower, get dressed, straighten up the house, get ready for work and see how many things I can get done there… receive electronics, continue to set the mega tool sale, help the new shoe lead get ready for her audit and do all the manager store closing duties are on the top of my list…

Hubby will be moving my desk and cleaning up cat throw up today…

 

Joyce Meyer Ministries

You can do without anything, but you cannot do without God.

 

 

Today

 

 Sunny 64°

Tonight

 

 Mostly Clear 40°

Tomorrow

 

Sunny 65° Precip 10%

Happy Journaling…

February Twenty First

 

Luke 4:1-13

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.

The devil said to him, If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.

Jesus answered, It is written: Man does not live on bread alone.

The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And he said to him, I will give you all their authority and splendor, for it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. So if you worship me, it will all be yours.

Jesus answered, It is written: Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.

The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple, If you are the Son of God, he said, throw yourself down from here. For it is written.

He will command his angels concerning you to guard you carefully: they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

Jesus answered, It says: Do not put the Lord your God to the test.

When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time.

I almost left work an hour early today by accident… I was running all day getting things done but not what I had planned to do today… tomorrow starts our Mega Tool Sale and I had planned to work in hardware all day… but I always seem to end up back in Electronics… I did get some things done this morning for the hardware sale, went to lunch and then I had manager phone duty… I was done with the phone at 3pm and had planned to get two more things done for the day, one in hardware and one in electronics… I guess I finished the hardware one quicker then I thought plus I handled a customer situation and I thought it was time to go home already so I thought I would start the electronic project really quick and called hubby to let him know I was till picking up son2 but I was running late… and he said it wasn’t time to pick son2 up yet… I looked at the time and realized it was only 4pm, not 5pm… so I still had forty five minutes before I had to leave so I was able to get a bit more done and still left ten minutes late…

Son3 didn’t have any homework today except studying for spelling test and geology test…

Hubby made breakfast for dinner… scrambled eggs, hash browns, spam, corned beef hash and blueberry pancakes…

We’re watching Guys with Kids, Arrow, Supernatural and The Big Bang Theory…

I’m tired today… I’m sleeping longer through the night but still waking up too early before it’s time to get up and having to get back to sleep…

Tomorrow I close so I can sleep in a bit more even…

Joyce Meyer Ministries

Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. –Joyce

 

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

there are many truths, and they all point to one source - God.

Do not spend energy arguing whose truth is righter, - just like all life springs forth from one source, so are all truths but a reflection of God. Accept another truth as another way of loving God.

Tonight

 

Partly Cloudy 37°

Tomorrow

 

Sunny 64°

Tomorrow night

 

Mostly Clear 41°

Happy Journaling…

February Twentieth

 

Roman 8:31-35

What then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus; who died – more than that, who was raised to life – is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

Just finished watching Family Feud with Steve Harvey… hubby and I have been hooked on that lately…

Son3 just finished homework… at 9pm… it was early day… he showers first and has a snack when he gets home… hubby got him started at 3:30pm on his math… 41 problems… when I got home at 5pm, he was still doing math… hubby had started cleaning son3’s room today and cleared his desk… so while I was making dinner we had son3 go to his room to work on his math… he finished before I was done making dinner… heating up leftovers… so he did his science questions… we had dinner at 7pm… and then back to his room at 8pm to do his history homework… and here we are… so now he still has an hour before bedtime to watch some TV… So that worked out pretty good… he even was having thoughts on how to move his room around…

Having a hot flash… lol… also was thinking of some other symptoms that I’ve noticed lately… adult acne, I was thinking it was just stress but maybe not… and the chin hairs are coming in more and more… but lately I’m feeling fat… but then I’ve not been as active at work or at home… and even though I told myself I was going to work on not eating during lent… it has been a slow process… I just finished the heart shaped box of Whitman chocolates that hubby got me for Valentine… and when I say just finished, I  mean right now… the scale has been going up and down five pounds from day to day… last night I promptly fell asleep and slept better through the night but as we get to the wee hours of the morning, the hot flashes and dreams start… which wake me up and then the thinking starts which effects going back to sleep right away…

I thought of one more thing I forgot to mention when talking about the shoe associates yesterday and that was that the store manager also mentioned their attendance to them… we have a point system in that we are given twelve points a year, however after four write ups and thirteen points you can be terminated… some of the shoe associates have a tendency to get to twelve points every year… last year was my most at five, usually I don’t have more then two… which he mentioned to them how many years would it take me to get to even ten… one of the shoe associates that I considered a close friend finally talked to me today and apologized… I hope now we can move past all this silliness of hurt feelings of me leaving shoes so we can get along again and so I can help out in shoes and help the new supervisor without feeling uncomfortable going into shoes… I have stayed away due to the hostility, but then that has hurt some feelings of others who do miss me and want me to help… which I told them I would still be around, I was only going to hardware, I would still be popping into to help… and yet I haven’t, not that I have had time…

Today was a nice day time wise in that the day didn’t fly by… I still spent more time then I wanted to in Electronics but I got all my projects, scans and reports done… so now I can spend all day tomorrow getting ready for Friday’s MEGA TOOL SALE… and Friday, Saturday and Sunday… Monday I’ll be back in Electronics…

We had another bit of news at work Monday… starting next month they are making a change to the manager schedule… we now have every other weekend off… starting in March we will only have one weekend a month off… we’ll have every other Sunday off but we’ll have to work three Saturdays… I like it for work, cause then I’ll be there to get ready for the weekend sales on Saturday… but for home, not so much…

Hubby was channel surfing and landed on the end of Toy Story… now I’m thinking it’s time for bed… hubby and I have Castle or Hawaii Five-0 to watch…

Back to work and school tomorrow…

And yet we are all still here, as he landed on a stand up comedy show…

I’ll be first… Good Night…

Joyce Meyer Ministries

Remember: God's presence is with you all the time. We don't have to go looking for God, He is there.

 

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

it's ok to ask for help.

You are not here to do it all alone. That would be crazy! Do you know how to grow rice, spin yard or make electricity? No one does it all alone. That's why people have each other. Relying on and supporting each other is what makes the world go round. Don't be shy about asking for help.

Tonight

 

Clear 34°

Tomorrow

 

Sunny 59°

Tomorrow night

 

Clear 36°

Happy Journaling…

February Nineteenth

 

Mark 1:12-15

At  once the Spirit sent him out into the desert, and he was in the desert forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals and angels attended him.

After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. His time has come, he said. The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!

The cat pictures are from my new calendar and all the blooms are from today…

We have waited all day and the rain has finally arrived this evening…

Son3 and son2 are home from school… son3 is doing homework… fifty math problems and two language pages…

I am making dinner… a recipe that I found on the side of the corn flakes box this morning at breakfast… I had most of the ingredients so thought I would give it a try…

Easy Chicken Casserole

1 can condensed cream of chicken soup

1/2 cup of milk

dash white pepper (I used black)

3 cups frozen mixed vegetables, thawed and drained

1 can mushroom pieces and stems, undrained ( I didn’t have any mushrooms)

3 cups Sunny Select Corn Flakes cereal, crushed to 1 1/2 cup (I crushed a bit but was making a mess)

2 Tbsp margarine or butter, melted

1/4 tsp ground thyme (I used rosemary, didn’t have any thyme)

Preheat oven to 350F. Lightly grease 2=quart baking dish. Combine soup, milk and pepper. Stir in chicken, vegetables and mushrooms. Pour into prepared dish. Combine cereal, margarine and thyme,. Sprinkle over top of chicken mixture. Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until brown and bubbly.

Makes 6 servings.

Today started with hubby getting the boys to school…

And spending time on the computer…

I spent a lot of time talking to hubby today…

Discussing, motivating, planning…

I want him to feel good about himself while still not working…

I want him to find something to do for himself…

I want him to get lots of things done in the house…

I want him to get the boys to clean their rooms…

Since hubby is all done being sick, I washed all the bedding, blankets, pillow covers from the bed to the couch… I used the fancy attachment on my new vacuum and vacuumed the couch and the chairs… I hooverd the house a bit, I can say that because I have a Hoover again… I cleaned both bathrooms… I washed five loads of laundry… I helped son3 with his homework… I made dinner… and set up this entry…

Dinner was very good…

We’re watching Mike & Molly, 2 Broke Girls, How I Met Your Mother and Raising Hope…

I have a headache now… don’t know why… I feel like I’m forgetting something… I didn’t sleep well last night… the night before I slept great and then found out in the morning that hubby had slept on the couch since he wasn’t feeling good, meaning I had the whole bed to myself… last night not so much… lol… of course I kept waking up every other hour… hot, then cold, hot then cold… so now I’m tired…

You did remind me to tell you about work yesterday…

I’m wondering if I would have stayed in shoes if I would have gotten the compliments then that I have been getting now… Nah… I like my new job… and the associates in shoes are still being manipulative to the new supervisor…

I feel bad for the new supervisor and even though I have no time I need to help her out once in a while…

She went out after work the other night with the shoe supervisor that I replaced… and unloaded how overwhelmed she is right now… they talked for four hours, stopping only because it was almost midnight…

She showed me an email she got from little orange man, shoe district manager, that told her that her reports were only at 70% when my reports were at 90% and to get with me for some training… I wondered if he was going to miss me since I was gone, since he never seemed happy that I replaced the last supervisor…

I think I told you that my store manager told the new district manager the other day that I was an on task manager and he wished that more of his managers were like me…

And then yesterday he told me that another one of the associates from shoes came to him to complain about the new supervisor and he told them that I worked harder and supported them and cleaned up after them and maybe if they would have worked harder maybe I wouldn’t have wanted to leave shoes… and he asked them if they ever worked hard enough to sweat like I did before they went home… wow… I guess he does notice what I do… even though when I was in shoes I was all on my own…

And the drama continues in the shoe department…

Meanwhile yesterday I got a bit of work done… had lunch… went to a couple of meetings… and ran out of day to get everything done I wanted to… I have this weeks work to do and still a bit of work from last week that I haven’t finished… and the meetings we had were to make a plan for the work to do next week…

Time to get the boys to bed… and me too, I’m so tired… and thirsty… and hot… but it’s 42 outside and 65 inside…

 

Joyce Meyer Ministries

Make good choices right now. Discipline doesn't always feel good but later on it yields a harvest in our lives if we make right choices.

 

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

when you are unsure how to proceed, stop.

Be still and enter into the silence. Allow your mind to cease its restless thinking. Wait. Let the answer come in its time.

 

Tonight

 

Rain 35° Precip 80%

Tomorrow

 

Partly Cloudy 53° Precip 10%

Tomorrow night

 

Clear 35° Precip 10%

Happy Journaling…

February Eighteenth

 

Romans 5:12-19

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned- for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come.

But the gift is not like the trespass for if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man’s sin; The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. For if, by the trespass of the one man , death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

 

Good day at work today…

Remind me to tell you about it tomorrow…

Came home to hubby feeling better…

We got caught up watching Poltergeist while I was telling him about my day…

Leftovers for dinner…

Watching a bit of The Big Bang Theory, The Simpsons and Family Guy…

Time to get the boys to bed, back to school tomorrow…

I have the day off tomorrow…

Very windy outside…

It’s supposed to rain tomorrow…

 

Joyce Meyer Ministries

A relationship with Christ isn't about a Sunday morning event, it's about letting Him into every single area of our lives.

 

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

you have to pass through a dark night of the soul.

Everyone does, including you. A time comes when what you have always believed is true melts away underneath you. When you cast in doubt even the most obvious, the most simple. When it seems that dark night is all around, and you are all alone. Take heart, this journey through abyss is the final barrier before your emergence into the heavenly light of a new synthesis of your being. God is waiting for you on the other side.

 

Tonight

 

Partly Cloudy 43° Precip 20%

Tomorrow

 

Rain 52° Precip 70%

Tomorrow night

 

Rain 36° Precip 80%

Happy Journaling…

February Seventeenth

 

Matthew 4:1-11

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.

Jesus answered, It is written: Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God

Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. If you are the Son of God, he said, throw yourself down, for it is written: He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

Jesus answered him, It is also written: Do not put the Lord our God to the test.

Again the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. All this I will give you, he said, If you will bow down and worship me.

Jesus said to him, Away from me, Satan? For it is written: Worship the Lord your God and serve him only!

Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.

Today was a very fast day…

Hubby and I were up at 8am watching Joyce Meyer… into the shower and only yogurt for breakfast so we could go to the grocery store early… and it was still 11am by time we got there… noon when we got home… put away all the groceries… hubby isn’t feeling too well today with a bit of some tummy thing… so he has been resting on the couch watching TV and napping… and I have been on the laptop… and here it is 5pm already…

And of course the boys are on their games and computers…

I sorted through some paper piles… and got all the papers together to do taxes…

Set up this entry, checked email, Facebook and read blogs…

I had some lasagna for lunch and crackers for a snack… 

And that’s it…

I’ve noticed that I’ve been quite happy lately…

Maybe having the new position and not being in shoes…

Maybe having a deeper faith in God…

Maybe I’m finally starting menopause and it is easier then peri-menopause…

I have not had chuck (you know chuck, he comes once a month and brings his own luggage) again since September… I read that if you go at least six months then it’s a good chance you are in menopause… I’ve been as far as five months before in the last two years and then chuck comes… so maybe this time he won’t… after 38 years of having chuck I’m ready to be done with it…

And I’ve been having actual hot flashes… breaking out in a sweat for no reason… so the ears and head burning that I have is something else and not hot flashes…

I’ve put some Gorton fish fillets in the oven… going to add some shoestring french fries, black eyed peas, zucchini, macaroni & cheese and fruit salad…

Dinner’s now ready…

What to watch after dinner…

Still need to make hubby’s honey do list…

Work tomorrow…

Joyce Meyer Ministries

If you’re going to do anything great for God, you have to take chances. You have to be courageous!

 

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

God will give you everything you need once you are ready to receive.

God is abundant and is only waiting for you to make yourself ready to receive what you truly need. Think now what can you do to make yourself ready?

Today

 

Sunny 69°

Tonight

 

Clear 40°

Tomorrow

 

Mostly Sunny 69° Precip 10%