Ramblin post....

Well it has been a million months of Sundays since I last journaled…I won’t even try to recap my exciting life…lol…hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Years…mine was wonderful! I got to spend lots of time with my family…we did do more compromising this year and spent lots of time with husband’s family too…that has got to be one of the hardest parts of being married…trying to find a balance of time spent with various people….the selfish thing to do (and my totally first instinct!!) would be to insist that we spend all the time with my family…and I’d probably get my way…but that isn’t the right thing to do (blah being mature stinks sometimes!) Anyway…I’m sure you all feel my pain…I did ok…I did tear up a little when we had to leave sister’s on New Years Eve to go to his families party (which was lame by the way! Lol)…anyway…enough of that…

I do want to update ya’ll on a prayer request. The last time I journaled it was to request prayer for my friend Pretty Chick and her son and family. I’m happy to report that later that week her son had a biopsy and the doc also removed a few of the larger growths. Pretty Chick said that she didn’t hear much of what the doc said after he said the magical word BENIGN (non cancerous)!! So Praise God!!! Thank you all for praying!

So um what else is happening…well I guess I need to request that ya’ll keep us in your prayers. Husband’s company lost a huge contract with LG&E (Louisville Gas & Electric) and will most likely soon be getting out of the branch of business that he is in. It was generally announced that since the business with LG&E ends on January 31, that will be the last day for most of the employees in husband’s area. Now his immediate boss keeps telling husband that they have plans to keep him but the company president has yet to talk to husband about any such plan. His boss and the president are considering making a go of finding other business and basically rebuilding the high voltage electric end of the business (which is what husband does). But husband has learned that the company that won the contract is going to be branching to our area, with a huge local contact, which means they would effectively zap any attempts for a “new” company to make a go at smaller contracts….blah blah blah…I’m confusing (and boring) myself…bottom line is that husband is seeking a position with the company that won the contract. We’ll call the company PDS because I can’t remember it’s real name right now, but it’s significant because when my husband first started working in high voltage electric, he worked for these people before they were bought out by Square D, and then he worked for Square D when we moved down to KY and then he took the job at OPS, which is the company that he now works for and will probably be leaving soon. I’m sorry to ramble…lol…the problem is this…if he goes back to Square D – waaayyyyy too much traveling….the best scenario from where we sit right now is if PDS would hire him…that would be a smooth transition and he’d be a key player because the strong local contact is one of his good friends so basically they’d be running the show…however, it’s been a couple of weeks and he hasn’t heard anything from PDS….of course they’ve got some time to get their ducks in a row…he did hear from Square D this morning and they aren’t hiring except since it’s husband they are looking into creating a position for him. I’m afraid since husband is feeling sort of desperate that he’ll just take whatever is offered to him first, and since he’s acting so needy to them, he’ll also go to the “lowest bidder”…Square D is the company that was “courting” him a few months ago and was willing to meet his salary requirements, but now that he’s “begging” for work…argh….it’s just a little bit of an up in the air time for us. I truly have a peace that everything is going to work out the way it’s supposed to but it’s just a little nerve racking because husband is pretty rattled by all of this…and he doesn’t get rattled easily…. But basically, we need prayers for direction and I think prayers for keeping an open mind and letting God direct and move in this situation…

That being said, husband is still also dreaming of that farm…lol…he’s also made a few contacts and gotten some side work, so this may just be the kick in the pants he needed to get his handy man business organized and operational…

Being his wife is a full time job!! Lol

So not much else really going on…I love the holidays and I really did enjoy the holidays this year…but it’s kind of nice that it’s over and things can kinda get back to normal…

Ok this is a character flaw that I’m about to share with you…one of the presents that I bought for husband and I was a Monopoly….he and I love to play board games together and I hadn’t played Monopoly in years…so a few days after Christmas we sat down to play a game of Monopoly and it got to the point where all the properties were bought and husband is just way better at the game than I am…he had hotels and houses galore! And I was having to mortgage everything I owned just to pay rent and I finally just threw all my stuff in the middle and announced that I was DONE…I really wanted to flip the board across the room…but I kept my cool…I just got so angry and frustrated and it wasn’t fun…and games are supposed to be fun right??!! ARGH!

So New Year’s Day night we decided to try to play again…husband had cleaned out a huge closet that day and he found his old monopoly game so we had double the money! So he had a made a few house rules and we started playing…things were going fine until once again all the properties were divvied up and we both had hotels and houses galore but he just did not land on any of my properties and I hit every single one of his! ARGH…it wasn’t long at all before I had to sell houses and mortgage everything and it got to that not fun point real fast and I threw in the towel again!!! I was nicer and not nearly as angry that time though and I even helped put the game up…lol…I’m sure we’ll play again because it is kinda fun…I just have never gotten so mad at a game…lol…I even cried a little I was so mad…ridiculous! Lol

Well I’ve rambled on and on….I really better try and get some work done…I’m tired today because I stayed up wayyyy too late watching the Orange Bowl…U of L played and won!! Wahoo…I don’t even really get football at all but it was fun to watch…hope Ohio State has the same luck when they play!! Go Buckeyes!

Talk to you all later!

Happy New Year!!