Me, Myself, and What's-His-Name

Umm...for some reason Blooger wouldn't let me put a title, which is usually ok cuz sometimes I don't do titles anyway but this time I wanted to do a title that was sort of a warning...I'm in a funky mood and this entry is one random ramble....so anyways...there ya go...be warned...lol

Ok what is up with me not bloggin much in the summer…it’s been a while since my last entry…blah blah blah…here I am now though….

Umm I just don’t where to begin. I’m in the mood to blog but not really sure what I want to blog about. Ok the word Blog is getting on my nerves….I’m in a weird mood can ya tell.

Ok so Saturday we went up to Faith Anne’s Princess Party and I’m telling you what, I’m not sure I’ve seen anything that cute in a long time. When we got there Faith Anne came out to greet us…in her little pink princess dress complete with plastic necklace and earrings and those plastic dress up shoes! I just can’t believe how much she has changed since we saw her two weeks ago. We got there about an hour early which was good because once her friends started getting there, we were chopped liver…lol…but then when other princesses arrived…oh my heavens…it was just so cute to see all the little girls running around in their princess costumes!

Anyways, it was HOT outside but Missy and Scott’s backyard is so shady that it was pretty pleasant plus I really love the gazebo thingy they have put up. It really changes the look of their patio – in a dressy sort of way. But anyway I think everyone had a great time and it was really great visiting with everyone.

Ok so this past week in my Joy Breaks Devotional (written by the Women of Faith ladies) I read one by Barbara Johnson that was about serving the Lord and the prayer at the end was just simply I will serve you in any way that I can Lord. That devotional really stuck with me and convicted me that I have not prayed that prayer. Like, I’m so focused on me time that I don’t make my time God time and serve Him. So I got to thinking and praying for God to give me an opportunity to serve Him. Well yesterday morning at church right before Sunday School the VBS leader came up to me and asked if I would be willing to help with VBS. She said they needed one more teacher or someone to help with crafts…my eyes lit up….I love crafts! So I said I’d help with crafts. So it’s next week in the evenings – a serving opportunity if I ever heard of one huh! Lol…It’s funny cuz Jimmie had been saying that I should volunteer to help and I hadn’t volunteered but then I read this devotional and got convicted and got asked to help…God is the original inventor of irony isn’t He! Lol

Also, another thing that God has really been working with me on is my attitude problem toward people I don’t like. Like instead of having negative thoughts about someone, when the negative thought pops into my head I’ve been trying to instead pray for that person. There is a girl at church who really gets on my nerves (well there are several but this one in particular has been an issue for me) and so I’ve been really practicing hard on this praying for her instead of thinking bad thoughts about her thing and yesterday at church she and I actually spoke to one another in a friendly manner about Women of Faith. She just went for the first time this year to the one on Missouri back in June. So, baby steps but I really do recommend the whole praying for your “enemies” thing and I plan to do it some more! Now that doesn’t mean that the bad thoughts are automatically gone because like I said, a negative thought is what prompts the whole prayer thing…

So umm what else…last week my dad came to stay with us for a little bit while he was working at Ford during their shutdown – he’s doing like contract work for them. Well Jimmie was also out of town so it was just me and dad in the evenings. It was a lot like having Jimmie home though because Jimmie goes to bed at like 9:00 and so did dad. Actually Jimmie sometimes goes to be as early as 7:00. And dad fell asleep on the couch every evening after dinner, which was around 7:00…so it was almost like I had the house to myself and I actually got a lot of laundry done and put away…lol…but then on the 4th of July mom came down and Jimmie came home so the 4 of us went out to dinner (on Ford’s dime) oh wait…first, Jimmie and dad fixed my car…yeah my car – the umm catalytic converter went out. We took it to a dealer to find out what was wrong with it and they told us and they said they’d fix it for us for $750.00. Umm, we said we’d pick up the car and fix it later. So Jimmie called around for the part and it was like an $80.00 part. So we bought the part and that’s what dad and Jimmie fixed on the 4th. Anyway, so after the guys fixed the car and we all went to dinner, we came home and played Rook…so much fun! Well, after that Jimmie wasn’t feeling well so he went to bed and I wasn’t feeling great either and I was exhausted because the day before I had the TOM from HELL – a person just shouldn’t lose that much “fluid” in one day. It left me very weak….but I wonder if that means the fertility drugs are working as far as getting my cycles back on track? I dunno…I don’t want to be more graphic than I should but it was realllyy really bad…I think ya’ll get my drift and if you don’t, I’m not explaining it any better than that! Lol

Anyways, so Jimmie went to bed, I watched the Capital Fourth on PBS and mom and dad went to the fireworks in LA. As they were leaving after the fireworks, a whale of a storm started up. So God put on His own fireworks display most of the night because it was a heck of a lightening and thunder type storm. But mom and dad got home safely. The next morning, I had court so I had to leave early. They left later to go home. Before they left they put away dishes that were in the dishwasher. We’re still finding dishes in weird places. I thought husband did it at first and I thought he was losing his mind because I was like, why did he put this here? But then I realized that dad or mom had unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher, so now I just chuckle when I find something where it doesn’t go….lol…

Well I’m sure there are more fascinating things that I could ramble on and on about but I think I’ve rambled enough for now…we are finally having a few tomatoes starting to turn red in our garden!! YUMM! But my experiment of planting pole beans this year instead of bush beans was a flop. I doubt we have any green beans from our garden this year. That’s a bummer but sometimes I think that green beans might be more work than they are worth anyways. But we will be having sweet corn this year. The best crop we’ve had yet of corn! I’m so sick of squash I’ve stopped picking it. I told Jimmie that he was the one that planted so much of it so that’s his responsibility to pick it…I really think one or two squash plants is plenty, but he for some reason planted a whole stinkin row of squash! Argh!

Ok really…I’m going to stop with the rambling…hope everyone has a great week!!