I plumb forgot.....or is that, I pumpkin forgot.
Can't (shouldn't) eat candy anymore.
Have trouble finding clothes to wear every morning, why deliberate over a costume for just today?
Yeah, I was even sitting here with my front door open, lights on in the house, but not on out front, when these noodle-brains pounded on my screen door and hollered, "Trick or Treat!" Can you believe it? (Yes, probably). I didn't even flinch. I just yelled back, "Ain't no trickertreats here!"
They just stood there, probably for 30 seconds. LOL Okay so after they left I got up and shut the front door.
Killjoy. I know.
Even the A called to see if we were celebrating. AEURNT nope we are not. Laid down at 6 to take a power nap. Mr. is still powernapping and its after 8.
But don't be too upset. I went blogging and looked at every Halloween pic posted tonight ~ and believe me there are a ton of them. From princesses to potatoes. And Sarah Palin said she was being Tina Fey. Yeah!
VOTE
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
The Empty House
They're gone.
They only come 'home' when they can and/or want to.
I miss them. I find myself wondering all the time what they are up to.
I still have Lu Lu, the bird that won't shut-up, and Muffins, the cat that won't die. Oh yeah, and there's always Wayne.
Yes indeedy....life is good
Vote.
They only come 'home' when they can and/or want to.
I miss them. I find myself wondering all the time what they are up to.
I still have Lu Lu, the bird that won't shut-up, and Muffins, the cat that won't die. Oh yeah, and there's always Wayne.
Yes indeedy....life is good
Vote.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
As Simple as Pie
The good Lord does answer prayers. Some of them even before you have figured out you need to say a prayer!
I have been reading everything I can find online regarding Word:MAC including the Help within the software program itself. Searching and searching again to find out "how" to do it more efficiently. Formatting bulletins line by line really is not very productive at all and certainly not efficient. But today....ah today....my world changed. One of the other ladies at the office said, "Here, let me show you how." Fifteen minutes later, I am by no means an expert, but I got exactly what I needed to do this job. I advanced 1 million times today over the advances I have made in the last two weeks. I could hardly break myself away from the blind bulletin I was working on and I can hardly wait to wake up and go to work in the morning.
Oh...lol...(I just just love chuckling to my self as I write these blogs)....I volunteered last week to take over the job of burning the sermon message to CD and making copies for those who make such requests. But yesterday, I stalled out, explaining to Pastor that apparently my MAC doesn't have a CD/DVD drive. I looked all over that "machine" and the only slot I found that looked like a drive appeared to be filled in with hard plastic, you know like the kind you would pop out if you put a drive in. That was until this morning when I spoke with my boss about it. The slot is not filled with plastic. It is for the CD/DVD that is in the machine....if you take your glasses off and look closer you can easily see those little "hair thingies" they put in slots to keep dust out. Go figure. In the end, I successfully burned a sermon message to a CD....with no help at all. Yay!
I am tellin' ya, this job has got to be a slice of Heaven. I have never even thought it could be this good.
G'night, sleep tight.
I have been reading everything I can find online regarding Word:MAC including the Help within the software program itself. Searching and searching again to find out "how" to do it more efficiently. Formatting bulletins line by line really is not very productive at all and certainly not efficient. But today....ah today....my world changed. One of the other ladies at the office said, "Here, let me show you how." Fifteen minutes later, I am by no means an expert, but I got exactly what I needed to do this job. I advanced 1 million times today over the advances I have made in the last two weeks. I could hardly break myself away from the blind bulletin I was working on and I can hardly wait to wake up and go to work in the morning.
Oh...lol...(I just just love chuckling to my self as I write these blogs)....I volunteered last week to take over the job of burning the sermon message to CD and making copies for those who make such requests. But yesterday, I stalled out, explaining to Pastor that apparently my MAC doesn't have a CD/DVD drive. I looked all over that "machine" and the only slot I found that looked like a drive appeared to be filled in with hard plastic, you know like the kind you would pop out if you put a drive in. That was until this morning when I spoke with my boss about it. The slot is not filled with plastic. It is for the CD/DVD that is in the machine....if you take your glasses off and look closer you can easily see those little "hair thingies" they put in slots to keep dust out. Go figure. In the end, I successfully burned a sermon message to a CD....with no help at all. Yay!
I am tellin' ya, this job has got to be a slice of Heaven. I have never even thought it could be this good.
G'night, sleep tight.
Monday, October 20, 2008
It Just Quietly Slips By
Lessons continue to be learned.
Don't sit and wait for things you need to meet your deadlines, even if "they" told you not to bother the person that is supposed to get you the stuff, regardless of who ever the person may be, and what ever it may be that they are supposed to give you. Bother the person.
PROOF everything. Even when you don't want to. And if just doesn't sit right, go ask,,,,go tell the person,,,,,that it just doesn't sit right.
Contemporary music has no punctuation. Why is that? Laziness? Creative license? I don't mind it myself, however, everyone should know the rule so that they are not "proofing" stuff the don't need to proof.
Copyrights are not necessarily easy to find. Even when you have a license that gives you access to just about every song in the world. Copyrights are even harder to type. Tabs and hanging indents are not my forte'.
I love LARGE Print bulletins aka "The Blind Bulletins". LOL When I was sitting being trained a couple of weeks ago, I bit my tongue bloody from calling them that. But they are mine now...and I call them "The Blind Bulletins". Did you know when you increase the font 6x's you lose all sense of tabs and centers. I think it is because the size of the column itself has not increased. But who can increase the column 6x's? More practice coming is all I can say.
Practice. That is what I call a weeks worth of creating and recreating for the grand finale. This last week, in closing our 40 Days of Purpose campaign, I chose a lovely lizard green paper. Quite bright. (No, the blind bulletins stayed white...much too much contrast, the green was.)
This coming weekend is Reformation Sunday. It's actually a pretty big deal in the Lutheran Church ~ (if only Martin Luther knew)...... I think I will shop for some light-wine colored, perhaps "unobtrusively dappled" paper.
And in the end, measure twice cut once.....
Don't sit and wait for things you need to meet your deadlines, even if "they" told you not to bother the person that is supposed to get you the stuff, regardless of who ever the person may be, and what ever it may be that they are supposed to give you. Bother the person.
PROOF everything. Even when you don't want to. And if just doesn't sit right, go ask,,,,go tell the person,,,,,that it just doesn't sit right.
Contemporary music has no punctuation. Why is that? Laziness? Creative license? I don't mind it myself, however, everyone should know the rule so that they are not "proofing" stuff the don't need to proof.
Copyrights are not necessarily easy to find. Even when you have a license that gives you access to just about every song in the world. Copyrights are even harder to type. Tabs and hanging indents are not my forte'.
I love LARGE Print bulletins aka "The Blind Bulletins". LOL When I was sitting being trained a couple of weeks ago, I bit my tongue bloody from calling them that. But they are mine now...and I call them "The Blind Bulletins". Did you know when you increase the font 6x's you lose all sense of tabs and centers. I think it is because the size of the column itself has not increased. But who can increase the column 6x's? More practice coming is all I can say.
Practice. That is what I call a weeks worth of creating and recreating for the grand finale. This last week, in closing our 40 Days of Purpose campaign, I chose a lovely lizard green paper. Quite bright. (No, the blind bulletins stayed white...much too much contrast, the green was.)
This coming weekend is Reformation Sunday. It's actually a pretty big deal in the Lutheran Church ~ (if only Martin Luther knew)...... I think I will shop for some light-wine colored, perhaps "unobtrusively dappled" paper.
And in the end, measure twice cut once.....
Friday, October 17, 2008
5045 + Y = X
Baffling isn't it.
At one time I had learned math so well I could actually figure out equations of X and Y. But this one, THIS one, has always left me wondering. What in the heck does this mean?
If I plug in Y with any number, X could be anything.
So is this an equation of potential possibilities with no right or wrong answer? More like a personality test or some other philosophical question. Perhaps even a Microsoft question. Does this mean all things are linked to math? I never thought that was true, but now I am beginning to think.....
Think? UmmmmmmNO.
Here's to all the C-A-P-I-T-A-L-S of the world.
Love ya's.
At one time I had learned math so well I could actually figure out equations of X and Y. But this one, THIS one, has always left me wondering. What in the heck does this mean?
If I plug in Y with any number, X could be anything.
So is this an equation of potential possibilities with no right or wrong answer? More like a personality test or some other philosophical question. Perhaps even a Microsoft question. Does this mean all things are linked to math? I never thought that was true, but now I am beginning to think.....
Think? UmmmmmmNO.
Here's to all the C-A-P-I-T-A-L-S of the world.
Love ya's.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Two weeks ago
i stayed after bible study to talk with a buddy of mine and her mother. let me tell you about her mom. last year, the side of her face and neck were swollen say 3x's the size of normal with lymphoma. it had been like that for a long time. she finally broke down and went to a doctor. chemo. but while all that was going on the prayers started...and the continue to this day in praise to God the Healer. she is completely free of the problem. free like it was never there in the first place. miracle. she's getting her hair back now, its short and just as curly as can be. her story is so very encouraging..... well we were joined by a third buddy of mine. this lady is the head of the quilting ministry. and let me tell ya, she is a prayer warrior that knows no bounds. we were all about ready to go, but my buddy's mom insisted that she pray over the prayer warrior for thyroid issues that were popping up. nodules. and she was due an ultra sound withing the next couple of days. when we were done praying, she just kind of sat back in her chair and said she began feeling tingling in the thyroid area about the time the prayer started. and she said she believed that what ever had been there was gone. check this out now....hold on to your chairs. i just got an email from her. her ultra sound and other assorted tests that she had done....all negative. no thyroid issues. totally normal. no nodules. miracle
i saw it happen. amazing.
i saw it happen. amazing.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Come, let us worship and bow down.....
You turned my waiting into dancing:
you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy
that my heart may sing to you and not be silent.
O LORD my God, I will give you thanks forever.
Psalm 30: 11 - 12
Thursday, October 9, 2008
The Bulletins
Approaching the last day of my first full week. I can only chuckle at it all. God ~ He is something else!
Monday, I was on my own. My boss was out of town until Wednesday. So I played with the MAC. I even set up my own desk top. I got all my little Monday tasks done by 5:00.
Word:Mac. We are talking no PC here. MAC itself is upside down and backwards to any PC I have hugged in the last 20 years or so. I love my MAC. One of these days when I know it better, I am probably going to get one. Maybe.
Tuesday, office dynamics, interesting. Bulletins done by 5pm. All three of them. I figured i was about 4 hours ahead of schedule. And for the first draft, they weren't so bad. So I thought.
Wednesday bossman is back. Only I was to "inherit" the former desk top, not start out on my own. Long story short, about 2:30 pm, I lost everything I had done on Monday and Tuesday, including my Email and my bulletins. Good practice. So I started over and by 5, I had the bulletins rebuilt. Formatting is quite the challenge. Especially when one doesn't know the short cut keys. But one is learning pretty fast. One is getting a lot of practice.
Thursday, tonight I went home at 5:15. The boss has approved the final cuts. Tomorrow print jobs. We just may very well have bulletins this weekend. I hope.
What an experience to have a job where it is so very evident that it came from God. Peace. Comfort. Quiet. Satisfaction that far outweighs any and all stress incurred along the way.
I have long ago forgotten even that I have dimple. Yes I do. It is located in the right cheek of my FACE. About the time I said yes to this job I saw it for the first time in about 20 years. I have smiled so much and for so long over these past two weeks my dimple hurts. I think that is about the best confirmation of happiness I have ever experienced.
This job really is better than retirement, even.
adieu
Monday, I was on my own. My boss was out of town until Wednesday. So I played with the MAC. I even set up my own desk top. I got all my little Monday tasks done by 5:00.
Word:Mac. We are talking no PC here. MAC itself is upside down and backwards to any PC I have hugged in the last 20 years or so. I love my MAC. One of these days when I know it better, I am probably going to get one. Maybe.
Tuesday, office dynamics, interesting. Bulletins done by 5pm. All three of them. I figured i was about 4 hours ahead of schedule. And for the first draft, they weren't so bad. So I thought.
Wednesday bossman is back. Only I was to "inherit" the former desk top, not start out on my own. Long story short, about 2:30 pm, I lost everything I had done on Monday and Tuesday, including my Email and my bulletins. Good practice. So I started over and by 5, I had the bulletins rebuilt. Formatting is quite the challenge. Especially when one doesn't know the short cut keys. But one is learning pretty fast. One is getting a lot of practice.
Thursday, tonight I went home at 5:15. The boss has approved the final cuts. Tomorrow print jobs. We just may very well have bulletins this weekend. I hope.
What an experience to have a job where it is so very evident that it came from God. Peace. Comfort. Quiet. Satisfaction that far outweighs any and all stress incurred along the way.
I have long ago forgotten even that I have dimple. Yes I do. It is located in the right cheek of my FACE. About the time I said yes to this job I saw it for the first time in about 20 years. I have smiled so much and for so long over these past two weeks my dimple hurts. I think that is about the best confirmation of happiness I have ever experienced.
This job really is better than retirement, even.
adieu
Sunday, October 5, 2008
shouts of reds, yellows, and gold
permeate the air as Fall approaches. even here in the high desert it is changing colors. mostly from golden dry to leafless brown. but 'tis still Fall, none-the-less, and time to get ready to hunker down for a long winter comin'.
the end of summer. day dreaming through the window's as classes resumed. the warmth of the cloak room and smell of sweaty little bodies. remember raking the fall leaves? one good jump to spread them out and rake them up again. and then the cracklin' of the fire as the smoke filled the air for miles around. guess we can't do that any more. but it was good while it lasted.
so today, i trimmed out the branches of the trees in the front yard. someday i suppose i'll make it to the back and trim out the chinese elm. these trees look like "bad hair day" trees anyway and without trimming, well, they look like they just got up. good shade on hot summer days.
tomorrow i start my first full week at St. John's. training is over. there are lots of things to do. the biggest challenge will to gracefully transistion from PC to MAC. now i understand the secret of that eternal love affair....and yes, MAC does get my vote. LET ME AT IT.
the bulletins we printed for the weekend looked great. but 9:30 service was missing the installation announcement of a new ministry staff member. i think we were so busy editing from one another's desktops, the wrong one was sent for printing. the new Mac I have is less than two weeks out of the box and even L was struggling with it as she attempted to transfer 17 years of knowledge to me. not to worry. tomorrow brings opens the door for more learning....... but it is really great to go home each night with square, not bowled over, shoulders. it even beats retirement.
the end of summer. day dreaming through the window's as classes resumed. the warmth of the cloak room and smell of sweaty little bodies. remember raking the fall leaves? one good jump to spread them out and rake them up again. and then the cracklin' of the fire as the smoke filled the air for miles around. guess we can't do that any more. but it was good while it lasted.
so today, i trimmed out the branches of the trees in the front yard. someday i suppose i'll make it to the back and trim out the chinese elm. these trees look like "bad hair day" trees anyway and without trimming, well, they look like they just got up. good shade on hot summer days.
tomorrow i start my first full week at St. John's. training is over. there are lots of things to do. the biggest challenge will to gracefully transistion from PC to MAC. now i understand the secret of that eternal love affair....and yes, MAC does get my vote. LET ME AT IT.
the bulletins we printed for the weekend looked great. but 9:30 service was missing the installation announcement of a new ministry staff member. i think we were so busy editing from one another's desktops, the wrong one was sent for printing. the new Mac I have is less than two weeks out of the box and even L was struggling with it as she attempted to transfer 17 years of knowledge to me. not to worry. tomorrow brings opens the door for more learning....... but it is really great to go home each night with square, not bowled over, shoulders. it even beats retirement.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Okay, I'm Singing
And it isn't Kareoke.
What fun this day has turned out to be! I believe I have had nothing but fun for about a week running, now. Frightening. I am even smiling just around town. Seriously, I must look like I have not a care in the world and if I do, its out of control anyways.
So today, right in the middle of filling my head with all this stuff, we stopped for Staff Devotions. Don't get me wrong, we didn't sit around telling each other how devoted we are to the cause. No, we did BIBLE study! And we get to do it every Wednesday. I have a feeling I am not going to miss a Wednesday for the next however many years I'll be working.
There are tons and tons of things to do. This office does this stuff so nicely that when you are sitting in the pews you have no idea how much work goes into the process.
Truly, I am so very excited. God is good. He is very good.
BTW, I did eat lunch by myself...and thats okay. I ate it at home and had time to spare getting back.
g'nite
What fun this day has turned out to be! I believe I have had nothing but fun for about a week running, now. Frightening. I am even smiling just around town. Seriously, I must look like I have not a care in the world and if I do, its out of control anyways.
So today, right in the middle of filling my head with all this stuff, we stopped for Staff Devotions. Don't get me wrong, we didn't sit around telling each other how devoted we are to the cause. No, we did BIBLE study! And we get to do it every Wednesday. I have a feeling I am not going to miss a Wednesday for the next however many years I'll be working.
There are tons and tons of things to do. This office does this stuff so nicely that when you are sitting in the pews you have no idea how much work goes into the process.
Truly, I am so very excited. God is good. He is very good.
BTW, I did eat lunch by myself...and thats okay. I ate it at home and had time to spare getting back.
g'nite
panic....no calm
"hello, this is St. John's. How may I help you?" I don't even know how to answer the phone anymore!!!!!! Okay, let me try again. "Good Morning, St. John's". How's that? And have you noticed my typing. Practice. Caps. Commas. Periods. gee.....semi-colons!!!! Oh Lord, help me. It's kind of nice to know I only have to whisper, He is so near. At that other place, I had to yell, to get any attention. LOL
Okay....count down. I have to be there at 8:00 am. Its 7:10 right now. It is no more than 7 minutes away, probably closer to 3. I don't want to be late. But I can not be earlier. Oh I am working myself up. I am going to be nutz by the time I get there. I can hear the whine in my thoughts.
I am oh so over it. Here we go.
............................................................I wonder what we'll do for lunch today. ACK!!! What if it is not "we". What if they leave me stranded. Do I come home? Do I just go do some fast food and run the risk of it dripping down my shirt? Maybe we will take the lady whose place I am slipping into out to lunch today. Maybe they baked her a cake! Oh, should I take a coffee cup? I should have planned this out better.
Not to worry....He has the plan. :))
im out.....ttyl *X*X*X*X
oh i am just so nervous
Okay....count down. I have to be there at 8:00 am. Its 7:10 right now. It is no more than 7 minutes away, probably closer to 3. I don't want to be late. But I can not be earlier. Oh I am working myself up. I am going to be nutz by the time I get there. I can hear the whine in my thoughts.
I am oh so over it. Here we go.
............................................................I wonder what we'll do for lunch today. ACK!!! What if it is not "we". What if they leave me stranded. Do I come home? Do I just go do some fast food and run the risk of it dripping down my shirt? Maybe we will take the lady whose place I am slipping into out to lunch today. Maybe they baked her a cake! Oh, should I take a coffee cup? I should have planned this out better.
Not to worry....He has the plan. :))
im out.....ttyl *X*X*X*X
oh i am just so nervous
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