The Family

Tootsie is sung as a bug in a blanket uh... I mean rug.









Winafrid (Winnie) just loves reading & Harry Potter is her FAV! She also enjoys electronic gaming or surfing the net w/ Mom




Mona is not a fan of sharing the camera! Hello? Where is her close up Mr. Nate (Dad)????

Earth quake anyone?

So earth quake here in Indiana! Who knew? I mean really, Who knew?
I don't know why but in my mind I just assumed that we wouldn't ever have one. I was sound asleep in my bed with the cold AC blowing on me and never missed a beat of sleep. Other people woke up and thought the world was coming to an end. How does this happen? Rumor is that the 5.4 earth quake was felt in 5 states! And I slept through it! HA

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now I'm found
Was blind but now I see so clearly

Hallelujah, grace like rain falls down on me
Hallelujah, all my stains are washed away, washed away

'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believe

Hallelujah, grace like rain falls down on me
Hallelujah, all my stains are washed away, washed away

When we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun
We've no less days to sing Your praise
Than when we first begun

Hallelujah, grace like rain falls down on me
Hallelujah, all my stains are washed away, washed away

Hallelujah, grace like rain falls down on me
Hallelujah, all my stains are washed away, washed away

Crap!

Holy crap I just had someone who knows nothing about me JUDGE me on their blog and yes she threw down the God Card! Who does that?
We have a mutual friend who has a problem, a problem that most of us have experienced at one time or another, some people are late bloomers. Instead of reaching out to us to help or just talking to our friend about the issue, she spits trash to an acquaintance pretending to be "concerned" (you know what I am talking about)! Then she throws in her blog... "some people who are supposed to be good God fearing people encourage this behavior"
WHAT????
1. We have NEVER encouraged bad behavior out of this individual, might I add ever.
2. I have never been a "cloud Christan", never claimed to be perfect, never have thrown down the God card, (I admit there have been a few times I have wanted too), and I have never claimed to be good.
3. I work really hard at trying not to judge people and yet this week I have been judged on my Christianity twice (out loud anyway)! What the crap dude, what the crap?
4. Why do I let ignorant comments get to me? I know who I am and I know my relationship with my heavenly father, what does it matter what dumb dumb :0) people think?

The worst part of this whole thing is that I fell and I fell far. Things came out of my mouth that haven't came out in LONG time, I judged and I wanted to hurt her (emotionally) I became the person that people who judge wanted me to be. Fortunately it was in the privacy of my own home and I did not take out my hurt and anger on those who I felt at the time deserved it. Now I hurt and it is not because silly people make snide remarks but because I said things that I know made my father hurt. Somehow an apology doesn't do it. Why am I so weak in times like this, I should be a stronger Christan and wait just wait and turn it over to God, let him guide me?
Right now I feel like I am struggling with things that new Christan's struggle with, things that they don't understand yet. Why why why do I have such a hard time sometimes?
Think before you speak,
Think before you react,
Just stop to think,
and WAIT,
Wait for guidance from God,
Wait for him to take the pain,
Wait before you make a rash decision.
So simple, yet so hard to apply.

Answered Prayer

So they can't fix the AC until next week :0(
But there is an answered prayer... the weather is cooler! Wooohooo Praise Jesus!
Silver lining in every cloud and what not!!!!!

Torture!

So had English class last night and it was torture.
I did get my poetry explication done but no research paper. I did have an outline though so I'm good.
It was peer editing night... need I say more?
I love being able to help people out, reading papers is not a big deal making a few marks and suggestions here and there, but reading 20 something papers ranging from 1 to 7 pages each, Ow!
I was reading and I thought "Really?, are you really thinking about turning this in? There is no paragraphs it is just one giant run-on sentence, Yes you need punctuation, No every sentence can not start with the same word, yes there is spelled correctly however you mean their, Can I get some chronological order here?, We have an outline for this paper....whadda ya think about using it?, The war in America today has absolutely nothing to do with oranges in Britain!!! WHAT? No you can not plagiarize someones work".....etc.
Normally I would not judge and be critical of other people but COME ON BECKY! This is college. So if it was just a few papers it may have been funny "Hahaha oops you forgot your quotes"
I developed a headache it was not pretty.
Some of the papers were really good just needed a tweaking here and there, that is what I expected for peer editing, just some tweaking.
I sound like a hag, really I'm not I just want people to actually put forth an effort before they bombard people with junk!

Wooohooo I updated my music thingy to the right! I added Ingrid Michaelson, you should click on her song, she is super cool! I really like her style of music.

So HaHa guess who overslept today? Me! Which means Nathan over slept too. I will blog about why I wake him up at a later date, it is for my own benefit. So we have a fan in our bedroom window, normally this time of year the air is on and blasting however it isn't working. :0( Nathan and I HATE to be hot it is usually 66 degrees in our house year round and today it was 82 degrees. I was talking to Nathan on the phone and he said "Is it really 82 or is it more like 76?" God bless him for trying to be positive. :0) But no I looked and it was 82 on our thermostat. There is no coolant in our AC and they somehow didn't make it back yesterday or today to put some in. Side disclaimer... if our heat breaks "Who cares" throw on some extra clothes/blankets we won't complain, get to it when you can but the AC needs fixed STAT! So anyway back to oversleeping, it was freezing in our room this morning and I turned off my alarm and threw back the covers only to throw them right back on and tucked under my chin. I thought I will just lay here a minute and brace my self for the frigid blast. OOPS I woke up at 8:47 which is when I should be walking out the door...... so Haha I blogged about jumping right out of bed every morning and it came home to me. I can not even remember when the last time was that I overslept.
Moral of the story... Be careful what you blog!

Yea and Boo

So wooohooo I got my poetry explication done but I don't have a start on my research outline but.. I can do that tomorrow on my lunch besides peer editing is over rated :0)
After my shower I got back on the computer to email my paper to myself at work (our printer is on the fritz and I haven't had time to figure it out) and I logged on to blogger to update my blog and one of my songs started playing. I really like it and was listening to it when Nathan said "Can you turn it down a little bit hunny?" BOO! I playfully asked "Why you aren't sleeping yet :0) and he said "No but I am in my night time mode" :0( Night time mode??? Who has that? EVERYBODY, everybody except me that is. I apparently don't have a morning mode either. Nate says I go from 0 to 60 and from 60 to 0, nothing in between! Then he chuckled and said our kids are going to be like me, wake up and jump out of bed ready to go!
At night when I lay down if I am not reading I usually fall asleep in 1 minute and 37 seconds according to my husband! God just gave me the ability to get right down to business, no "beating around the bush" if you will. I also refuse to snooze. My alarm goes off and it's down to business as usual no pounding the snooze 6,7,8 times. After work I go and go and go until it is time for a shower and bed, no stopping. Unless I am reading, there should always be time for reading, ALWAYS! One day Nathan and I were in the mall and he stopped and looked at me, I turned around and was like "Whatta ya dooing?" He said "Do you ever stop?" HUM.... that is a thought, I shall think on it over some tasks that I am sure need to get done. :0)
So at last I want to know.....
What are you modes? Do you go from 0 to 60 or do ya got some spots in between? And what about this morning and night time business???

Fried brain anyone???

So last night I finally settled down and fried my brain. Haha not with drugs, drugs are bad! But with homework. I typed and I typed and I typed. I was going to blog about how my brain was shutting down but it shut down before I could blog about it. The funny thing is that I didn't even do the papers that I have been writing about, ya know my dead chick! I did my monday night homework so `voila I am doing my tuesday night homework tonight (monday) I work well under pressure! So once again I am settled down and am going to fry my brain again!

Sucker

So I wanna know... What makes you a sucker?
For me it is music. I love music but it gets me. ALL THE TIME
When listening to a sermon I always feel connected to God but in worship I weep because the connection is so strong. It used to bother me because I thought "What is everybody thinking of me as I stand her in worship to our Marvelous God and cry uncontrollably" The tears are unrestrained as they run down my cheeks silently. It is usually the slow songs, you know the ones I am talking about! During the more upbeat times like The Enemy has been defeated song I am PUMPED and ready to take on the world with Jesus at my side. But slow it down and I'm a sucker, I just can't help it. Now I give in to it because that is what worship is about right? Who says you can't cry like a baby or jump and shout in jubilee for our great and wonderful savior. I dance my own jig to my own tune. Why? Because I can!
So at last I'm a sucker when it comes to music, What makes you a sucker?

Ok I changed my mind again

So I changed my mind yet again, I decided to read a book for some inspiration to do my papers, then Nathan, Lori and I went to her mom's to watch Sweeny Todd and eat some Papa John's. It is now 1:03 am and I have not started my papers. I have a plan though...
Tomorrow we will skip doing laundry, and come home and I will work on my papers after church. After all what gives you more inspiration than Jesus? :0)

Ok Already Ok

So it has been almost 1 hour since my last blog post.....are you wondering why I am posting again so soon?
An hour ago I sat out to start my papers (yes that is multiple) but I thought "Oh I'll do the blog thing first" so I did then I checked all my peeps blogs and now it is one hour later and I have yet to start my papers let alone finish them.
So here I go... one 3 page explication coming up on poetry and one 10 page paper coming up on some dead chick from the 1800's who only wrote one book.

So it was time for Nathan and I to upgrade our cell phones. Nathan opted for a black chocolate because it was free for him. I have really been wanting the new LG Envy in orange but it was $50.00 if I upgraded last week. I decided to wait because maybe a better deal would come along. And `Voila it did! I checked one week later and lo and behold the LG Envy in Orange was FREE!
I did not let my greed get the best of me, I waited and let God sort it out. So now thanks to waiting I scored a super sweet phone for free! It doesn't get much better than that.
Now I know that this is a fun silly example of things God does for us but just think, he helped me score a great phone for nothing except my patience. If he takes the time to do something that simple what is in store for us if we really do wait and put all things in God's hands?

To My Homies

This post is to my homies because they both read my blog....I love you guys but.....
Clean the house! Wash your own cereal bowls and glasses, vacuum once in a while contrary to popular belief it will not hurt you.

Bigger and Better

Have you ever had that feeling that you really want to upgrade something but when you do it just never seems to be enough, it could always be bigger and better???
I have a HUGE goldfish who is swimming in a tiny 10 gallon tank and someone -Joe- gave us a 20/25 gallon(we are not sure) tank. SWEET! But I set it up tonight to let it filter so I could bring Kitty home (that is my fishes name) :0) and I thought "aw man, I wish I could have scored the 40 gallon!"
How crude am I?
I am sure Kitty won't be complaining... so why am I?
I thought about it and I am thrilled with the tank, I guess I can chalk my thoughts up to greed.... or wishful thinking if ya want to put a positive spin on it.
To top it all off the tank is really too big to have it where it is now but... there really is no where else we would like it, ya know we would like to be able to see it on a regular basis!
LOL what funny creatures we are.

Lessons of Life

So it happened! Last night in class I got knocked down a few notches.
I have had a blessed semester this school year. I am the top student in both of my classes and in my Interviewing and Assessment class we are doing interviews with each other like we are actually interviewing a client for counseling. The first interview we did in class I was the shining star! The only thing I did wrong was ask too many closed ended questions. We had an extreme midterm that took me 4 hours to do and I asked the teacher to grade on a curve because it was so brutal. Well we got back our midterm and guess who screwed up the curve???? Me! I got a 98 out of 100 on the midterm, so yeah I set the curve at 98! Everyone wanted to share their grades and I stuffed my midterm away and when they were like "Hey I got a 75 and she got a 86 and blah blah blah, what did you get?" I was like "Um ya know I'm not really sure I will look later" I was saved by the bell because we had to start our interviews so no one knows that I set the curve. *whew*
Well I went first on our second interviews last night and I bombed it. Bill (my teacher) ripped me apart it seems like I did EVERYTHING wrong. The only thing I did great was my SOLER -Square facing the client, Open posture, Lean forward, Eye contact, Relaxed-
I can take constructive criticism but geezee come one people you don't pick someone apart and call it "constructive" I wanted to cry, but I was a champ and I held it in.
After class I talked to Bill and he said "You remember the 2 steps forward 1 step back theory?" and I was like "Yes but that does not apply to me" Don't get me wrong I am not conceited and I have not let my head get big just because I got some skillz this semester.
Anyway I called my dad who is usually not graceful with making you feel better but he hit a home run last night. He gave me his famous speech "Successful people are only successful because they failed many times and learned from their mistakes"
I felt much better after talking to him, I realize that I can't be the best at everything I do but it is still hard to swallow.
So pick your moral of the story/life....
Ya can't win them all
The higher you are the farther you fall
If at first you don't succeed then try try again
When one door closes another opens.....

Do you have any insightful life morals you live by and would like to share??????