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AND...13 days till my birthday :)

It's an open door, to live for something better....

OK, so a few posts ago I mentioned that I was considering starting tutoring with autistic kids.

Well I considered.

I went in last week in order to fill out an application at CNC access for a job. Then of course I waited. Then yesterday I got the call from Jolene saying that she had been authorized to hire me! YAY

So pending the results of a TB test, which I went and took this morning, I will be starting training soon. I can't wait. I have a client as of now but, I am not expecting the hours to be very much, so I am just praying that they will have another client that I can work with also. So that I don't have to remain part-time at Goody's and I can fully step away from there.

But at any rate just knowing I will be getting the one position is marvelous. I am so excited and I can't wait to get my paperwork done and start training.

On another subject I have been praying for a "new to me" vehicle and I almost have enough money to be able to fully pay for one and not have to make payments (or at least not very many) which is something I would really appreciate. Now it's just where am I getting the car from.

So many things are changing right now and it both scary and exciting. Mostly exciting.

End of school is coming and it is possible that I will be able to be finished at ICC after the fall semester. Which is sooner than I thought! That will put me starting at Limestone in the spring of 08 and that would rock!

So that is the update for those keeping up! thanks for any and all prayers.
OK homework is calling.

"Livin' life is fun and we've just begun to get our share...."

I have to say that I love my family...

We had a great time this weekend together. We had this chicken wing eating contest. There is this really good wing place in Columbia and they have this one flavor that is so hot, no joke, that you have to sign a waiver, when you buy them. Oh man they were Hot.
Then of course there is the usual family banter and joking. All the memories and good times.
Lately every time I get together with my family we get closer. It's such a cool thing.

Booyah!

This is an update from our missionaries in Mexico.....

Dear All,

Good news from El Monte! You may remember our shock when three men showed up on the doorstep and claimed that our property belonged to their community. You may not know that they later informed us that we had twenty days to cough up $250,000 U.S. dollars or they would send in squatters. You may recall our relief when our Christian lawyer found iron-clad evidence in the national land registry that the property did not, and never had belonged to them. And now...the rest of the story!

The other day we made an appointment with goverment officials at the state level to help arbitrate the matter. Shortly after we got to the office, the official called downstairs to the main desk to see if the men had arrived. Yes, he was told, they'd signed in and asked if we were really there. The official then asked that they be sent up for the meeting. After a few moments the guard called upstairs to explain that the men couldn't be found. Our enemies had run away! Hooray!

Psalm 37:9 says, "Evil men will be cut off, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land." Amen. Thank you for your continued prayers!

yap

Tell ya what's fun...

Talking in like 4 different accents at once

bring back these days in my mind like an eight track non-stop

That's still a yes on the Betty Ford

Still all around one of my fave vidoes had to share

all the above

Well I told God I was bored and He changed that. Now it's just the waiting. Waiting for Caroline to call about the job, that I really hope I can get. It's so tempting to just go and give Peggy my two weeks notice. Though Momma always said never count your chickens before they hatch. It also hard not to get cocky and prideful. Because I really do feel that this is a road that God is leading me down. Knowing that and then having to wait for it, just makes my attitude change to "I'm gonna be bustin' out of this joint." Doing my job the the best of my abilities becomes even harder. I want to tell people at work that I am leaving, partly because I am excited about it. Though it's also partly because I want them to be jealous of me and say ooooh and aaaaah. It's so Ironic that that in about 3 weeks time I have gone from being totally against the thought of doing things like ABA therapy to being completely set on doing it and even having to fight off the temptations that surround it. All night at work yesterday i found my thoughts going places thy shouldn't. For example Stephanie was showing me how to measure for tuxedos for the the first time in the 2 years since started working there. I kept saying to myself "oh yea great timing to start showing me this stuff" and "Why do I even need to pay attention to this?" I had to correct myself many times. But i am learning i believe that this waiting period is a test for me as well. Actually I know it is. I have been reading on being a "Lady in waiting" and controlling my thoughts instead of vice-versa is one thing that I have to work on. I can be very quiet in my speech, but when it comes to my thoughts they are very out going.

I can say though that I am feeling closer and closer to God everyday and I love it. I find myself being bolder and more willing. I was talking to Julia the other day and she was telling me about someone she has tried to witness to. I said that I hurt more now that ever not just for those that aren't saved but for those that are not living out there potential in Christ.

Well, in other news i am going to be in the market for a "new to me" vehicle pretty soon. I don't want to give up the truck, but even if i was able to pay for another vehicle with out getting some money off of it i would not be able to afford the insurance of both vehicles. So therefor it would just sit in the yard. And that would jut not be fair for a great truck such as that. I think that i am gonna for for something like a Honda or small Nissan car. So that if i do get this new job when i have to drive with kids they can be safe in a back seat. plus i just need something with better gas mileage that a truck right now.

OK so that is it for at the present time.

What's my direction?

Well, much has happened over the last couple weeks. I am heavily considering starting work in ABA therapy. In fact here in about an hour I will be on my way with Nicki to go to her clients house so that I can get my feet wet and really get a feel for what I could be doing.

ABA therapy has always been something that has scared me a bunch and therefore I have stayed as far away from it as possible. Though over the passed couple weeks since I was seriously approached about it I really have taken it into consideration. I have really thought about what the job involves and I actually worked through my fear with God instead of just shrugging it off.

I had gotten way behind on my biology. Instead of taking the losers way out i faced it and got the job done! that was a first for me.

I am now "doubting my doubts and believing my beliefs"
I am facing things in my self that I have always turned ways from and said "oh
I will deal with that later. and when I say later I mean never"

I am truly excited about where I am going and what God is showing me. He truly is amazing.

"This is the bomb that I've been waiting for living for. You finally lit the fuse that's in my head"

count em 1..2..10

How many people can say they rocked out with their Mom at a A switchfoot concert???

Goodnight

Good morningblue bird

Oh so early. Oh so little sleep. today we go to the Switchfooot but not tilll after we are awake all-day in asheville. pray for us (the drama team) at the Elida house this morning. Lot's oh warfare

Oh my.....

...God?

Back to a simpler place and food.

OK.
So its not that I don't like Hunting. I actually really don't have a problem with the activity itself. It's just something I choose not to participate in. I am thankful for those that are able to do that to provide for families and there nutrition needs.

THOUGH, I do have a problem with these hunters that go out and kill animals just because they can. They have no regard for rules and regulations, and if a population were to be extinct because of their overzealous trigger finger, the only thing that would bother them would be that they didn't have anything to do on the weekend. Never mind the fact that these are beautiful creatures of God.

Now while humans are meant to "rule" over nature, we can also have respect for it.

We as humans, including myself, waste SO much.

I think I have become some what of a Hippie over the past couple of years. Of course, minus the acid trips and such. It just amazes me the things that people will do just so they don't have to slow down. Innocent creatures get tortured just so we can have mass food intakes. Grocery stores lower the prices that they pay growers for their produce. In turn the growers have to lower the quality of the food they grow in order to be able to afford to grow it. We end up with less variety and

I don't plan on becoming a Vegan or a fruitarian or a Jainist, and I don't mean anything of this in a psycho Peta way. It's just one of my issues. I just want to make people more aware of what is happening around then. So many people some with out even knowing it buy into the "ignorance is bliss" hole. Just because something CAN be done doesn't mean that it SHOULD be done.

OK this Hunting "article" completely evolved into something else but, none the less that is a piece of my mind. Which, by the way, has NOT been chemically altered.

It's a drama thing..

I came home from class this morning, ate some breakfast and was getting ready to sit down and do some biology. I walked past the counter and i see my bible laying there, and I think to myself, "Hmm, I have not read in a few days." Then just walked by. I walked by it a couple times.
Then a few minuted later I walk by it. I hear a voice in my head. You know what it said....

"Read my word"

You Are: 60% Dog, 40% Cat

You are a nice blend of cat and dog. You're playful but not too needy. And you're friendly but careful. And while you have your moody moments, you're too happy to stay upset for long.

Are You More Cat or Dog?

Punch it...

"What is more Impotant?"


"Get Over it!"


"To be a teacher you must first be a student"


"Failing is not at Option"


"Gumption: Courage and initiative"

That is a sample of the things I have to to "Post-it" myself today......
I'm coming through!

"No more shackles, No more chains, no more Bondage....I AM FREEEEEEEEE! YEA!!!"

Wiki Wiki

I could literally spend hours getting lost in the Wikipedia Links.....

It is starting to become a new favorite hobby.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Happy Birthday

10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1....MOM is 51!!!

smiles and sighs

I felt myself mature today.

Today it was easy.

I hold no preconceived ideas that tomorrow will bring the same.

But that is tomorrow.

I will celebrate today.

I keep the ends out for the TIE that binds.....

I learned how to tie a tie today.
CHECK THIS

Can I get a woot woot!

just thoughs....

Love between a man and a woman is not just gazing into each other eyes. It is both looking forward together at the same goal.

people have so many expectations for all this passion and excitement that is supposed to saturate a marriage. then when it's not there it is said that you have fallen out of love. This is all been said before I just find it sad that there more people divorcing in the past few years than actually getting married. I don't mean sad in a sarcastic joking way I really mean it is heart-breaking.