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First night

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So tonight was the first night at youth without St & Sh.  And 3 other leaders weren’t there either so it was a lot of work but I think it went over well. I think the comment by one of them was “well that wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.”  And coming from a teenager I think that meant it went well.  We really need a good singer to lead the band, otherwise it’s a little bit of struggle.  And our drum player won’t be back until next week so that will help. 

Our guest speaker tonight was our former youth pastor.  He’s really good and I think the kids enjoyed it.  In fact, I’ll probably post one of the videos he played tonight, it was really good.  So I think we’re going to make it until we get another pastor.  We had probably at least 20-25 kids there which is decent for the summer and the way the numbers have been going lately. 

We’re having Mark Rodenhauser, a former Carolina Panthers player, come in next week to talk.  So I really hope they enjoy that and the numbers are up since school will be back in.

Unisom is my friend

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I still was out of it last evening and determined I hadn’t done two things well in awhile and that was to go the gym and go to bed at a reasonable time.  So I did both last night. 

We ate dinner at IL’s house and I immediately came home and went to the gym for about 45 minutes.  Then immediately came home and took a Unisom.  I think I was actually asleep by 10.  I’m feeling much better today.

House Tour

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I got my house really clean on Saturday.  So clean I took pictures.  The house isn’t done as far as decorating…still need curtains in the living room and kitchen.  I want to new countertops/floors in the kitchen.  Kids rooms are sort of half done.  In any case, thought I’d share.  For some reason I started in the back of the house…and fyi, for some reason this theme WILL NOT let me center graphics although it is centered in my editor.

Our bedroom:

Our bathroom:

Emma’s room, where both girls have been sleeping lately:

Down the hall…

to Lexi’s room:

And the hall bath:

The entryway:

The living room:

Dining room:

Play room that I would like to one day be an actual sunroom:

Kitchen:

 

Is it tax return season yet?

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So it turns out we are gathering a long list of large purchases we need to make.  Namely, replacing our fridge.  I think the thing is really on its last leg now.  At this point in time, everything is freezing in the refrigerator.  I try to pour tea and a large tea cube slams to the top.  Yeah, it’s not good.  And we keep turning the thingy down and it doesn’t help.  So that’s at least 1K that we are going to have to spend.  And then other things like..

new bed for Emma and Lexi…maybe bunk beds

Elliptical

Bowflex (thinking of cancelling gym membership and buying)

possibly matching stove and dishwasher (while we don’t need them sometimes you get a better deal buying all 3 and apparently Mr. OCD wants them all to match exactly)

new countertop and kitchen floor (i don’t want to put all new appliances and keep the crappy looking floor and countertop we have)

I’m sure there is more but all that will take several thousand dollars which we don’t have right now.  So we’re having to prioritize and figure out what can possibly wait until mid Feb for tax season and what we can possibly do 12 month, same as cash type thing.  It’s so depressing Scott and I make decent money and can’t make ourselves save anything long enough to pay for things like this.

Premonition

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 *spoilers*

I’m a Sandra Bullock fan so instead of heeding a warning not to watch this movie, I picked it up.  Sandra was good in it as well as the guy from Nip/Tuck.  The movie was thought-provoking as far as trying to figure out what in the heck was going on.  But there wasn’t a big enough pay off at the end. 

After watching Deja Vu this weekend, you kind of hoped by the time Wednesday got there, she could save him.  And then she didn’t and then it didn’t really make sense because what was the point of the premonition if what she ended up doing killed him anyway?  And does that even make sense that she knew about it before hand and then what she does causes his death?  Her having a baby of her dead husband and realizing what really mattered certainly wasn’t payoff enough for that craziness she went through.  They were supposed to end up together.  It’s the movies and that’s what’s supposed to happen darnit.

off day

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I think I’m having an off-day.  We stayed up last night to watch Premonition…I’ll post a separate review next.  Then I stayed up and watched VH1 hoping to catch a rerun of Scott Baio’s show I missed last night.  But no, I ended up watching the Hogan show and part of the Pick up artist show until some time after midnight, I don’t really remember.  Then Lexi fell out of bed last night and then was in bed with me early this morning.  My eyes hurt and I’m tired.  Scott had to go to some training today and I didn’t schedule L to come today so I’m fielding requests for things like eggs and bacon and tearing out coloring sheets all while trying to work on something I don’t really care to be working on right now.  So here I am complaining instead of doing any of it.

August 17, 1994

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I think I’ve finally gotten a grip on the fact that M is leaving here.  It has really upset me.  I feel like there’s goign to be no one there for me in school; no one to tell everything to; no one to go everywhere with.  It’s like she’s going to be in a whole new world.  Talking to new people; riding with new people; dating different guys; different girls will be spending the night; a whole new crowd of people to put up with her stupid self.  I just feel like I’m being abandoned.  My friend S might be moving, M is, Scott won’t be with me in school, MF is in only to of my classes.  I don’t know what to do!

What you should know now:

Don’t you love my use of semi-colons?  Yes, that was really written like that in my journal.  I was even a dork then. 

M is the same M that is on my P2P players list and we are still friends.  We’ve been friends since 3rd grade and still are.  She ended up moving for a year (or two, can’t remember) and she did find new friends and did a bunch of new things with them that we never did together and we did grow apart some that year.  But we got back on track when she got home.  I think it’s interesting I found this one though, while going through St and Sh leaving the church.  Apparently I don’t handle people “leaving me” very well.