Archives for August 2007

OMG, my hair is BLACK!

August 22, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

When the package said Soft Black, for some reason in my head, I wasn’t thinking it would actually be BLACK. It sounded so noncommittal to the color black. Like brown with a little bit of spice. My hair is as dark as that black shirt I have on and THAT was what my face looked like when I finished rinsing it. If you look a few posts back, you’ll see my hair was definitely brown and not BLACK. Oh my. I hope this wears off a little.

Picture comments below are below/beside the picture (depending on site or RSS), not above. This stupid theme will not work with pictures!! I AM a programmer you would think I could handle a little formatting. Sorry, it’s the best I could do!

Can you see the patch of brown on the side that didn’t get done??

Do you know how hard it is to get a decent picture of yourself at 11:30 at night??

OK, I’m getting the hang of this, I think this picture is really cute..it’s headed to myspace after this. Seriously. Check it.

Oh, and look what a mess I made! I had an old t-shirt of Scott’s on and it got on the shirt which I wiped off with a towel and apparently the dye soaked through and I am a mess. You can see on my arm where I swiped the spot on my shirt. Part of my hairline on my skin is dyed too. Ay caramba! This is why the professionals should handle this.

I’m a sock

August 21, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

I was looking at the picture of this sock the other night and Lexi walks up to the computer and says “That’s me!” as she normally does when she sees a picture of herself but obviously this is clearly not a picture of her. So here went the conversation:

Lexi (excitedly) : that’s me

Me (decidedly) : that’s not you. that’s a sock
Lexi (emphatically): that’s not a sock that’s me.
Me (certainly): no, it’s a sock.
Lexi: (confusedly): I’m a sock??
Me : i start laughing
Lexi: that’s not punny

Sophia Bush

August 21, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Scott and I were having a conversation on the way to church Sunday night about the movie The Hitcher. It had come in from Blockbuster from our list and he had started watching it while I had napped and he was asking if I realized that “that girl from that show you watch is in it”. Of course I had realized Sophia Bush was in it. But what was funny is he says

Sophia Bush (pronouncing it normally like SoPHEEah. Her name sounds like the name of a bush. Like, hey, there’s a SOphia bush.

What was even funnier (it was funny at the time, this isn’t sounding so funny to me typing it out) is I try to relay this story to my sister last night. We were in a giggly mood and for some reason I start the to tell her what Scott said with a random valley girl tone and for some reason say “This guy-ah…uh, I mean, Scott said…”. Heather cracks up and was like “Yeah, you know, that guy I live with…my husband..yeah, him. I was talking to him and he says Sophia Bush’s name sounds like a bush name.”

Trust me.

It was funny last night.

Paid work…

August 21, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

So St called me today confirming he wanted me to work on the new church’s youth group web site. And he won’t let me do it for free as long as I attend there. I did our current youth group’s web site but that was free of charge….I also did my mom’s web site but that was free of charge as well. So I had no idea what a fair price of a custom web site was. I’ve asked some people in-the-know and it seems $600 seems to be a fair, minimum price for a package deal. I don’t feel comfortable charging the full price as I feel like it is a ministry thing for me as well as St is a friend and it’s for a church AND I don’t know Flash, which is what he wants to do. So I’m not sure what I’ll tell him. I’m excited to learn Flash, which I’ve been wanting to do for years now but never got a copy of the software and never really had any reason to learn it. So I’m thinking I’m going to be pretty busy in the near future and knowing St, we’ll be working on it heads down and until it’s EXACTLY how he wants it.

Good day

August 20, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Today was a good day. I went into the office and got several things accomplished. Had a nice lunch (and breakfast and afternoon snack). Got my monitor (see previous post). But got some bad news too. ‘Member that little (read big) raise I got? Yeah, well my contracting company is not wanting to play nice. My manager’s manager is getting involved. And I’m guessing I may move contracting companies in the near future. Hopefully nothing will change about my position or work at home/part-time status. ‘Cause we can’t be havin’ that.

Tonight I took the girls to eat at McD’s. I wasn’t hungry yet so I helped them eat by making lots of train/plane/helicopter/car sounds to make them eat. And no, I have no clue how to do any of those sounds. The grandma/grandpa next to me with their 8ish/10ish grandchildren kept looking at me like I had 3 heads. But I firmly did not make eye contact and was just happy my kids were actually eating the kids’ meal I bought them.

We made a stop at Wal-Mart on the way home and got some groceries. Nothing else exciting. We’re home now and the girls are watching HSM2 (again) while I sit staring at my new monitor. Doesn’t seem like work/McD’s/Wal-Mart/computer time would all add up to a good day but it has been.

Yay, look what I got

August 20, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

OK, so they say it’s sometimes as simple as ask and you shall receive and today it was. I went into the office today and mentioned in passing about taking home a flat screen monitor to my manager. Within about 2 minutes I had a brand new one on my desk to take home. And if you notice in the pictures…there it is. And there’s me staring at it. That’s how I spend most of my day every day. And I love it.

It’s just so pretty and modern and big and little all at the same time. I know I’m like 5 years behind everyone else and most people have been staring at flat screen for years and think what’s the big deal. But if you notice in the pictures of the dining room from my House Tour, I had a really big monitor. And now this. It looks so much better. And now I have room for my laptop AND papers.

** Sorry the pictures are so dark. I’m just realizing it and now I don’t want to edit them. You get the idea…

Power Team

August 19, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Our youth group scheduled a last minute visit to a nearby high school to see John Jac0bs’ Next Generation Power Team tonight. Their main focus is to perform/speak at schools. In fact, I saw a previous Power Team at my high school years ago.

I have to admit I was a little skeptical. I have seen them twice before and although it’s amazing every time, it seemed a little bit corny to go see a third time. But let me tell you, they were amazing. And let me also tell you, it wasn’t simply the water bottle busting, the phone book tearing or the breaking of a baseball bat over one’s leg by shear power but their testimony was simply moving. There were close to 100 people that went forward to accept Christ at the end. I was moved simply by the movement of the Holy Spirit in the others. Their presentation was so clear and direct yet said in a way that an 8 year old could understand. In fact, I would say a good 10-20 of the people were under 12.

There are two stories, one true and one not, that they told that were excellent pictures of what Christ does for us that I hope I remember for a long time.

One is a (imaginary) story of a man that gets a speeding ticket. He knows he’s guilty and admits so to the police officer. The police officer says ok, you pay $2 million or you go to jail for life. The guilty man knows even if he called everyone and every bank he knows, he could not come up with $2 million. So he has resigned himself to spending life in jail. A man pulls up, walks up to the car and says he will pay for the ticket, every ticket he’s every had and also any ticket that he may get in the future. So the guilty man just has to decide whether the guy is crazy or to accept his gift and let the officer put it toward his account.

Now this story is false but in a sense it is quite a realistic picture of us and Christ. We are all sinners, unfit to enter into Heaven and unable to repay any debt of sin we have. Christ died on the cross for us and became our payment for our debt of sin. All we have to do is decide to let him be our payment. It is a choice we make.

Isn’t that a story that makes it so easy for even a child to understand? They learn the idea of doing “bad stuff” and going to jail so early and then to be able to apply it to what Christ did for us is amazing.

The next story is a true story. It is of a man that goes to a barn sale and buys a Harley for $800. It doesn’t run but he wants it for a keepsake. One day he decides to get it running and takes it to a local Harley shop to get an estimate. That afternoon the shop calls the guy and offers $50,000 for the bike. The guy is confused, but realizes something is important about the bike and declines the offer. They call him back that night and offer $75,000, no questions asked. He again, realizing there is something up, declines. The next morning he gets a call from Jay Leno, yes, THE Jay Leno and he offers $200,000 for the bike. He declines again. Leno then offers $250,000. The guy confused says, the bike is not for sale but please tell me what is going on with the bike. Leno explains and says Well, apparently, Harleys have a serial number under the seat and when the Harley shop had pulled the seat up, it said something to the effect of Sold Property of EP. They looked up the serial number and it was previously owned by Elvis Presley. So John Jac0bs at this point asks us what makes the difference between a bike yesterday being worth $800 and then the next the same bike being worth $250 million. Simply, knowing the owner. We find our worth when we decide to accept the payment Christ offers and live our life knowing who owns us. Knowing the God of the universe has our best interest at heart and leads us to the life He has planned for us. We can stand tall and know we are worth something.

That message, as simple as it is, the simple gospel was more powerful than any sermon I’ve heard recently.

Check out their web site, invite them into your schools. They do it all for free on donations given by churches. It could change your schools, your city, maybe even your life.

At home this morning

August 19, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Instead of embarrassing Lexi and myself by letting her scratch her herself all morning in Sunday School, I opted to stay home with her. Her rash does seem to be improving in the slightest way as I didn’t have to wake up through the night with her even though she slept with us. I’ve also learned to change her as soon as she wets and wipe her with water and then dry her before putting a diaper back on. The dr said it should be improved by tonight so I’m hoping. I’m supposed to go into work tomorrow and I hope I don’t end up having to stay home to run interference. Something about sick kids always wanting their mommy.

So today is the first Sunday service without St leading choir/worship. I’m wondering how many people will sing in the choir and how the praise and worship will go. Scott is not the best at giving scoop and J is not going to be there this morning either so we’ll see how much info I get.

Crap – just a call that C is leaking fluid and she is in Wisconsin visiting family and was supposed to fly home today. She’s only 23 weeks pregnant and had E at 28 weeks. Please pray hard!