Monday musings.....

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I’ve decided that I don’t think I’m rooting for any particular person on BB at this point…it’s fun to watch the twists and turns…but I have to say that it’s goofy at this point for Howie and Janie to be doing jumping jacks for small victories like her winning HOH…she’s got to realize that she is only making the target on her back even bigger!!

Also, my first thought when I found out that they had to re-do the HOH comp was that that really makes it appear as if they are bending comps to Janie’s favor, however, someone on a message board had a really good point…EVERYONE had a second chance to win HOH…anyways…although I’d be wanting to do jumping jacks when I thought I’d saved my head from the chopping block like she did, I don’t think that’s a good move….but blah blah blah…the show definitely leaves you wanting more all the time!!

I told husband last night that really the only person that I particularly wanted to win it went out last week (Kaysar)…there’s always the hope that we’ll get a chance to vote him for a third time though!! Actually, I think if someone else goes in, it will be one of the people that didn’t get to go in at the beginning…but anyway, at this point I don’t really care who wins…boy James really changed his tune this week though didn’t he? Lol…I think he’s a sneakier snake that Will!

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So anyways…I had a wonderful stomach virus last week…that was tons of fun man…I think it was pay backs because on Wednesday mom mentioned that since FAB and I-man were here on Friday they were thinking of taking them to Holiday World (think Kings Island on a smaller scale but with free all you can drink pop and/or fruit drinks) on Friday…so I joked that maybe I’d call in sick to work so I could go with them…and then I actually got sick so I missed out…blah…

So by Friday evening I was feeling semi-normal again so husband and I went to our church picnic…I wore a pair of oh so comfy linen pants that I had to mend a while back because the *ahem* seat had worn out…the pants are pretty baggy so there was plenty to work with in fixing the seat….well after dinner a few of us went over to play volleyball….first of all, I’m old and it has been years but husband and I used to play on a team…so it took a little bit but I was getting in a good playing groove…well, I made a really good move followed by a ripping sensation….yup…the seat of the pants ripped in a new area…the pants are just old and the material was just so thin…I didn’t realize how thin…but so I had to quickly excuse myself from play…luckily it was a chilly evening so I hastily put on my jacket…thankfully I had worn a long jacket…I’m not sure if anyone but my husband saw my underwear…but he said he saw skin too…how embarrassing!! Lol

So Saturday husband and I went over to mom and dad’s and visited for a little bit and we decided to take the kids to the Buffalo Fun Farm…only we realized that dad had taken the car seats with him to work…so we all headed to flea market to see if we could find a cheap car seat…ordinarily we would have seen ten, but since that’s what we were looking for we saw none…so we headed to Walmart because I figured it wouldn’t hurt to own one….well dad called while we were in Walmart and he headed home for lunch so we didn’t need to purchase a car seat afterall…

So we all had lunch and then we headed off to the Buffalo ranch...neither husband nor I had ever been so we didn’t know where to go once we got there…there’s also a restaurant and gift shop there…but we finally figured out the destination…and we had fun!! It was a petting zoo of sorts…there were all kinds of farm animals and the kids were so cute with all of them…there were lots of goats…and camels and llamas and emus and there were of course buffalo and there was even a white buffalo…I told I-man how Indians believed a white buffalo is good luck…we came upon this very vocal camel and so we all took to imitating him…we imitated him so much on Sunday that husband and I had sore throats lol….but he was funny…good times…fun memories! I-man talked non-stop on the way there and FAB slept and on the way home I-man slept while FAB talked non-stop to no one in particular…lol but we had a good day…

we got back to mom and dad’s and had dinner and then husband and I went home…

Sunday school was good on Sunday…we had a really good, interesting discussion about Islam and the whole scene right now…and then church was wonderful….Preacher P preached an excellent sermon about how to know you are saved…does anyone else struggle with knowing you’re saved sometimes? I mean…I know in my heart that I love God and I KNOW all the right things…but I don’t know how to explain it…I know what I’m trying to say! Lol…the knowing part comes not because you FEEL saved…the Bible doesn’t really talk a lot about how you are FEELING….you KNOW you are saved because you BELIEVE and ACCEPT God’s promise that if you believe that if you “confess with your mouth and believe in your heart in the Lord Jesus Christ you shall be saved”….so even when you know that you’ve slipped into sin for the bazillionth time and you don’t FEEL so saved at the point that you are struggling with your own sinful nature, if you BELIEVE the promise of forgiveness from God, you are saved by His Grace…am I making sense? It amazes me how simple and yet profound the Gospel is…I am always overcomplicating my Faith…looking for loopholes in God
s love and forgiveness because I feel so unworthy…but it’s just simple and plain and with belief, faith, and trust…it is because of Him and His love and forgivness are unconditional and unfailing...why is that so hard to comprehend at times???!!!….anyways…that is basically what his sermon was about and my thoughts that the sermon provoked…it’s so good to be reminded of these things from time to time…it was a sermon I really needed to hear and need to get a tape of and play regularly!!

After church we headed to mom’s house where sister and BIL were on their way to as well…we all had Sunday dinner together (minus dad cuz he had to work) but we had a nice visit over dinner….

Oh man..I had an interview this morning…and it’s been a longgggg time since I had an interview man…lol…I found out that it’s a managerial position and since I’ve never been anyone’s boss, I doubt that I have the experience that they are looking for…it does make the job more intriguing though…and after having the interview I’m a bit more interested in the position and if they do offer me the job, I’ll definatly have some praying and decision making ahead of me…husband and I talked about the interview all weekend…I kept waffling and thinking why am I putting myself through this…I’m perfectly happy where I’m at??!! And husband kept encouraging me to go into this with an open mind…and who knows this may be my dream job…so I did go in with an open mind and I was very honest with the lady that interviewed me, which is who would be my boss…and it seemed to go well and we seemed to hit it off…so we’ll see…I was the first of 21 interviews and this is the second time they advertised the position because the first time around they just didn’t find anyone that popped out at them…so we’ll see…I’m not sure I want to be anyone’s boss! Lol…I’d be the boss of two people…but it is in a town near my home and I’d really like to work close to home and be involved in the community there…so there are a ton of pros and cons and I could babble on…but I need to get some work done…so I’ll bring this book to an end…

Thank you for your continued prayers! And I really need to do some serious journal catching up on…but I’m thinking of you all and praying for each of you…I do have a huge question about why there’s been so much journal changing etc…isn’t there a way to just make your current journal private? Anyways…nosy neighbors want to know!! Lol

Ok…hope I didn’t open up a whole can of worms with that one…seriously, I’m going to stop typing now!!!! Bye!

Oh one more thing though…Josy asked what the book title “Up to 20” means….the book is an autobiography about Josephine M. Turner from her earliest childhood memories through about age 20…she is a very good author…really keeps your interest in her stories and antics…she’s also written a book about the daughters of the civil war if anyone is a civil war buff…I think maybe me and Braintwin are the only history nerds…er buffs…as sister says lol…

Ok toodles!