I wanted to thank all of you for your prayers! I’m sorry I couldn’t say what for earlier. I’m probably not supposed to really post it on here yet but I’m a firm believer in prayer. I think that God loves it when His people humble themselves and get on their knees and pray. And I feel that the more people that pray, the better. Last week my sister Erin and brother-in-law Mike had a very important Doctor’s appointment. They have been trying to have a baby for some time now and sadly have lost 2. I am VERY happy to report that at the doctor’s appointment they found a healthy heartbeat and everything looks to be on track! God is Great! It also looks like Justin and I will be an aunt and uncle in August. Now that you know the news please keep my sister and Mike and the baby in your prayers. Thank you so much!
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Prayers requested
Hey everyone, I wanted to use the power of blogging to ask a favor. I wondered if you would be willing to say a prayer after reading this. I can’t tell you why just yet but I will find something out around 2 today and even though I can’t tell you yet I know that God will understand your prayers. Don’t worry it isn’t directly about me. I thank you so much for your help and hope to have a good report for you later.
Happy Thanks Christmas Year!
Tonight was our annual (some of the college buddies) Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year party. This year Justin and I were able to host it at our house. Tabitha came and brought her new puppy that is 7 weeks old too. It’s part golden retriever, pit bull, and lab. It’s black with white on her paws and her name is Dakota. Dakota and Java were both the runts of their litter. At first they didn’t get along too well but after awhile they were sniffing each other’s rears and having a good time. They even slept next to each other. Lunsford was going to come but she was unable to make it. (Lunsford stop breaking bones! hehe). We all contributed to bring “pick up” foods and watched “Gone in 60 Seconds” and a little TLC and chatted. It was good to catch up on everyone’s crazy lives. Jessica and Mark got a 97 Expedition. The coolest thing is they have a starter on their keychain to start the car without even being in it. Boy I wish I had one of those for in the cold weather. The car would be nice and toasty before I even got outside.
Poor Java is tuckered out. She’s been sleeping for like 2.5 hours now. I bet we will be in for a fun night of whimpering and whining and scratching to play. She and Justin are asleep on the loveseat as I type this.
I better get to sleep and try to get as much rest as I can while I can. Monday starts my 2 weeks of working 8:30-8 at the Bookstore for rush. Wish me luck! Stop by to see me too. Bring supper 😉
In unrelated news…I went to the chiropractor the other day. Wayne had given me a card to get a free first visit and xrays. He told me he loves it and that it’s almost free with GWU insurance. Unfortunately I went without doing any research. Apparently it’s not a Chiropractor on our plan. I went back for a follow up visit the next day to see my xrays. That’s when they told me I would have to pay a $300 deductible. Somehow they calculated that if I paid it that day I would only owe $410 (this I do not understand how a $300 deductible turns into $410 but I’m not the brightest I guess). When I came in the door I asked if I would have to pay since it was an overlap of the first visit and they lady told me “just a small fee”. That small fee turned out to be $82! I was not happy. I don’t know why Wayne didn’t think to mention any of that to me. He has the same insurance. Then these people wanted to see me everyday next week and then for the following 2 weeks, 3 times each. That is way too much money. I would love to be able to go. They did adjust my back which felt sooo good. I really needed it! I found out I had a sublexation of one my vertebrae in my neck and in my lower back (which I could feel definitely). I’m afraid my back is going back to the way it was before he did anything to it. Someday I’ll have to go to one in my insurance plan but for now it’s too expensive. I ended up cancelling all my appointments with this company. I’m sure they will be calling and bugging me next week.
Ok I’m off to bed before Java gets up. Night all!
A Very Married Christmas
My goodness, talk about busy! I guess I’ll start with the Thursday before Christmas. Justin and I went to Polk County to see Stacey for her Bday! We were able to stay for a little while. Then it was off to Brevard to see Mandy, Buck, Anna, and Matt. We went to Casey Jones to eat and hoped to see at least one person from our high school years. We ended up seeing 4 people we knew. While waiting for our food we all took out our cell phones and were taking pictures of each other. Mine, was what I like to call a “gameboy” rather than everyone elses’ “Sega”. It had the green background as the main color and did not take pictures. I jokingly held mine up and told everyone to say cheese just for fun. After that we went to a place called Dugan’s to get some undrinks as Justin discussed in his blog. Then we went back to the Jones’ and played Catch Phrase (fun game!) til 1 in the morning. It was definitely a good time! I wish it could have been longer. Justin and I had to head back to Shelby to do some much needed laundry and get ready for the late Christmas Eve Service.
The Service was beautiful with all the poinsettias (however you spell it). Justin’s mom was even able to make it. It was nice to have some company while Justin worked the sound. He even had a speaking part. He told the church what the “Light of Christmas” meant to him. He did such a great job!
Then Justin and I headed home (it now being past midnight and technically Christmas) and opened presents. Justin got me a lil lazer level! I’ve been wanting one of those! and the Phil Vassar CD! and yep…a new cell phone! pictures and all. After opening presents we decided to play Justin’s new Atari flashback for a little while. Then we started getting sleepy but knew we couldnt go to sleep if we were going to get to his parents before 5am to surprise them (especially Stacey). We took a 30 minute nap and got up and packed and left.
We parked at the top of the driveway and snuck down and opened the door to see Justin’s mom in the Kitchen frozen with fear and confusion. Then she saw that it was us. Next his dad came down the hall and eventually Stacey. We opened presents. It was so much fun! and I loved all my gifts! Justin and I even got a really nice glider swing (maybe David will come and assemble it for us hehe). Now all we need is a nice deck to go out back someday. It will be nice to have in the front yard too.
I ended up asleep on their couch for about 2 hours and then Chad and Faith came with our present and Justin’s surprise gift to me (us). It was our new baby Java (chocolate lab). She is adorable….yes even at 230am when she is whining to go out. She is so smart too! Before long she will be huge and very well trained. I believe she already knows her name and sometimes what “out” means and “inside” but definitely not the word “no” yet haha. I was so surprised to get her! I kept jokingly bugging Justin about wanting a dog to keep me company and that I could go run with. I’m so happy!!! The boys (apache and pixel) have even found their own way to tolerate her. Pixel is our new babysitter. He just stays about 2 feet away from her most of the time and watches and even sleeps. He is so cute. Apache just watches from afar and periodically gets curious. No biting and attacking yet ….at least on the cats’ part.
Back to our busy time. We headed out to Brevard again this time to see my side of the family. We brought the surprise puppy too (then nameless) . Everyone loved her. Of course I didn’t get sleep again from trying to keep her quiet for the others to sleep. She was so good though. We opened presents and had a great time! All our gifts this year were awesome! Thanks everyone! We watched Blue Collar Comedy and then stayed up (what seemed like til 2am due to lack of sleep but only 11) and played 90s edition trivial pursuit. Then went to bed and the next morning around lunch, headed back to Polk County for the Moore side lunch Christmas party. Fun stuff!
Finally our journey came to an end and we headed home with Java (named on the way home) to see our boys. It was about 7 I think when we made it home. I couldn’t ask for a better husband, cats, and dog. What an awesome family!
Well, I better go for now. Justin is at work today (hehe) and I”m home with Java and the boys. Since I have to watch Java’s every move I can only get things accomplished when she is sleeping. She fell asleep on the desk while I typed this so now is my chance to get motivated.
Happy almost New Year everyone!
closed
Yes, that’s right, Gardner-Webb actually gave us a few days before Christmas off, so I am home and enjoying being away from the iceberg. I actually got up this morning when Justin had to get up for work. I really wanted to go back to sleep but I know myself better than that. I’m not a morning person, but I make a much better person when I just get up and not lay there forever. Today Justin’s mom is coming to pick me up so we can do a little shopping and looking around. I’m excited and hope we can find something good.
Last night Justin and I were going to wait til late to go to wal mart and do some shopping to get away from some of the crowds….well…instead we both ended up falling asleep on the couches.
I absolutely love this time of year…much more than I used to even. In the past few years I’ve realized more and more what Christmas is about. I’m now so much more excited to see others open gifts than me to get any. I smile and am so thankful for the most precious gift God gave us! I couldn’t even imagine giving someone I loved so much away, especially to a hateful, greedy, and ungrateful world. I know that I would want to hold on to them with everything I had. For someone to love me that much is amazing! I know I’ve mentioned this before but I have been thinking and relating a lot about Brandon and Meagan’s new little one. I couldn’t imagine giving something as precious as that away to someone (especially someone who didn’t deserve it). I know they couldn’t imagine it either. And on the flip side…to know that I’m one of the undeserving that God loves so much is sad and awesome at the same time. Justin and I were listening to some Carl Cartee last night and one of the songs just really hit me…it said something along the lines of, “every breath that you take was paid at a cost.” awesome! …just AWESOME!!! Merry Christmas everyone! and I do hope you love the gift you were given over 2000 years ago!
2365 reasons why….
…I hate Courseworks! I just finished manually discontinuing books from our system…how many you say? 2365!!! (approximately) not counting the times I had to rekey mistakes. I tried to call Courseworks’ technical support because our new book log scanning system was bogged down with the ancient books that have ever been ordered in the past through Courseworks. I asked them if there was a way on their end that they could program something to discontinue all the “zero quantities” in our system. They quickly told me no (which is a lie) I guess so they wouldn’t have to program it. So….I took the 70 page report (averaging 43 line items each) and started with the 1st. This meant I would type each individual 10 digit ISBN, then hit enter, then I had to click to a separate tab and then click the “discontinued” box and then save. The first few days I would do a page and get up and do something else and rotate around. That put me at page 20. Today I went to page 55. Allison came and started from 70 and met me at page 56. My head, neck, and fingers are feeling the 35 pages I did today. I’m very proud to have done it this fast but hate that I even had to do it. Now we should be up to speed.
Three blogs in one day wow!
ridiculous
this lady is definitely crazy if she thinks what she did was Godly. I’ll let you decide….
layers…of happiness
Can we say Brrrr? Talk about not wanting to get out of bed in the morning! Pixel came to greet me this morning and sat right by my face. I reached my hand out from under the covers to pet him good morning and then when I went to put my hand back under the covers he thought I was playing with him and swatted his paw. I ended up getting a cut right under my lower lip from his claw. What a way to start the day haha. Now I’m at work and still haven’t taken my jacket off…and it doesn’t look like I will. I have a long sleeve shirt, a pretty thick ladie’s cut sweatshirt, and a jacket on. My toes are still frozen and my legs are a bit chilly. Guess I’ll have to break out the long johns just to come to work. We have pretty much no heat back here in our dungeon. The big back door has cracks gallore so all the cold air is flooding right in. Mandy had ordered us a coffee maker as a necessity for the winter here and it has disappeared in shipping somewhere. Boy it would be nice to have a nice cup of hot chocolate. I don’t think I’m gonna go walk across the street and get one either haha…I’d freeze!
As far as weather news goes…As of this morning the weather channel is saying there is a possibility of snow showers on Sunday and Monday. So, one of 4 things could happen. Either: nothing at all, rain, snow showers like forecasted, or they bump it down a few days and we have a white Christmas 🙂 I guess I’ll take anything but rain 😉 hehe
I hope everyone is getting into or already in the Christmas spirit. Afterall it’s not about the presents!!! Just keep reminding yourself that when you get stressed or annoyed. I have been reminded this year about how special Christmas is. Recently our friends Brandon and Meagan had a baby (Thanksgiving Day) and I’ve been thinking about how excited I was just waiting for that special moment when we heard the news. I remember the anticipation and just pure joy when we found out Ethan had finally come and was healthy! It makes me think about what it would have been like long ago with the birth of Jesus. How exciting it was and still is! Don’t forget that this season! Thank God for all the loved ones you have and have had and will have and that God loves you so much that He gave you the best thing possible! His son! Don’t you feel loved?
Merry Christmas everyone…..everyday!
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