Archives for November 2007

Terrific Tuesday

November 27, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Well, I don’t know if today will be terrific but I’m feeling better today. Scott tossed and turned all night but ended up going to work today. He said he’s not feeling great but it takes a lot for him to miss work so he’s out there. Emma is at home with me this morning. Her class went to the tree farm and I didn’t plan for us to go. So she’s painting and playing around me now. She says it’s going to be a great day today because today’s the day she gets to pick up her pottery and it’s the DWTS finale.

I’m actually hoping Scott gets to feeling better for the very selfish reason that I have plans to go to the movies to see August Rush with S, M, J and who knows who else tonight. I love going to the movies but don’t get to go too often and I love Keri Russell so it should be a great night. House and the DWTS finale will just have to be watched on TIVO. After the dancing last night, I’m not quite as psyched about watching who wins.

Feeling better but not great

November 26, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

This evening Scott came home and took over while I crashed in bed. He went and got me some soup and Ginger Ale and it helped to get some food in me. By this afternoon, I could barely walk around. Of course right around the time the kids went to bed, I started to feel better. Wink, wink, right? No really, I’m still not feeling great. I still have a bit of headache, my stomach isn’t great and I get whoozy when I walk around but it’s a lot better than it was.

As for Scott, right about the time I started feeling better, he started feeling really bad. He was stuck on the couch until he crawled back to bed and has been there since. He even called his supervisor and said he might not be in tomorrow if he comes down with what I had. So lovely, the sickies finally hit the house. But let’s just pray the kids don’t get it because that I can not handle. I’ll take another round before I have to clean up that from someone else.

The Hills November 26, 2007

November 26, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Wow, that was a fantabulous episode. Let’s hit the highlights

Audrina and Justin Bobby – First off, why does Justin Bobby have to look so bad all the time? And I can’t believe how he was acting at the bar. Kissing her and then groping her coming out. And THEN laughing at Audrina. Apparently the alcohol and drugs didn’t cloud his brain too much to sweet talk Audrina though. He was pretty good at that. And she fell for it. I could not believe she got in that car with him. She should have left his butt there. But I was quite proud she held her ground the next day and broke it off with him. Finally. I can’t believe he had the nerve to deny anything happened. But then again, maybe he truly doesn’t remember what happened. Although let’s remark on the fact that Justin Bobby had cleaned and sobered himself up for this last meeting and actually looked dare I say quite rugged and handsome. Still. I’m glad it’s over. Finito.
Spencer’s sister – I don’t like Stephanie just about as much as I don’t like Spencer. You can tell they were cut from the same cloth. Lauren and Brody handled her confrontation well and made Stephanie and Roxy look stupid. They had to tuck their tails and run from that one.
Heidi and Spencer – I think Heidi is finally seeing the light with Spencer. His sister didn’t help her brother in that regard. In fact, don’t you think Spencer and Stephanie should just get married?? They seem to agree on everything.

As for scenes for next week, they look just as great if not better than this week. I may just get my wish and not only have Justin Bobby gone but also have Heidi dump Spencer for good. I can’t believe she actually yelled at Spencer. I didn’t think it was in Heidi. I’ll be surprised if she doesn’t give into his apologies once again but I feel like she’s at least starting to see he’s not the be all end all.

tags: audrina, brody, justin, justin bobby, lauren, november 26, the hills

Dancing with the Stars Finale

November 26, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

I voted for Helio all 5 times.

It almost seemed like they all forgot to dance tonight. I was very disappointed with the dancing tonight. I thought the dancing last week was much better. It seems they were much too concentrated on those lifts than dancing. Do you think I could say “dancing” one more time?

That doll thing was extremely weird. Mel B’s freestyle was disjointed. Helio freestyle was good but not my favorite freestyle ever.

Up until tonight I couldn’t decide between Mel B. and Helio but it seems after tonight, Helio pulled through for me.

tags: finale, helio, marie, mel b., dancing with the stars

Another Bad Monday

November 26, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

What is with bad Mondays? Today is really bad though. I caught FIL’s stomach virus but seemed to have tamed it by lunchtime with some meds. However, I’ve only eaten some toast and I’m hungry, weak and now I have a headache on top of my stomach ache. The girls are doing ok since I’m letting them watch a lot of TV and I hand fed both of them their lunch just so they wouldn’t be whiny because of hunger the rest of the afternoon. Work is not good though. Another production issue today that is causing me grief. Today is the type of day that makes me want to quit work.

In a ray of hope, I got all the proposals today from the consulting companies and it looks favorable for me. Just need to choose which one.

Sunday School Teacher Vents

November 25, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

I have to say Sunday mornings have been quite draining for me lately. I work hard to make Sunday School good. I feel especially pressured since there is no youth pastor. I want something consistent, something exciting, something deep, something they like coming to.

But there is one girl in my class who just doesn’t get it. She professes to be a Christian and yet seems intent on bucking the system. She’s so needy emotionally it’s not funny so she does everything imaginable to put all the attention on herself. She comes in late, leaves early, makes mean comments to the other kids, gets angry easily, throws papers down, pouts. And really, most of that happened just this morning. I don’t even get mad at her, I just get so let down. I feel like my words are bouncing off a brick wall never to be seen again. Some of the kids will comment if a week is good like today but then there’s that one. The one who wasn’t listening and could have cared less. She’s so wrapped up in her world that she doesn’t care to respect me or the class or even her peers.

At the end of class, I just have this disappointed look on my face and slowly gather all my belongings and really just want to lay down and pout instead of heading up to choir to sing. It’s just so emotionally draining. To give myself…all the way to my core to try to help someone else just for them to basically laugh at it. It hurts some I guess. But really it just makes me sad. Some for me but mostly for her. All I can think about ironically is the verse from Sunday School today…

Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

But as for me,

2 Timothy 4:5 But you, keep your head…endure hardship, do the work…discharge all the duties of your ministry.

Sunday Scripture

November 24, 2007 by Amy 3 Comments

My scripture this week is Matthew 1:18-25

18This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. 19Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.

20But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,because he will save his people from their sins."

22All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23"The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel"—which means, "God with us."

24When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. 25But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.

I’m in such the Christmas spirit this year and now that Thanksgiving is over, I have no reason not to be. But let us never forget what Christmas is for!

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Skating Saturday

November 24, 2007 by Amy Leave a Comment

Today turned out to be pretty busy. It started off well as Scott let me go back to sleep after I had gotten up with the girls around 7:30. When I got up around 9:30, Scott went out to start on the icicle lights–which he ended up not doing because too many strands needed replaced. I worked on getting the girls and myself ready and just hung out…the calm before the storm I guess.

We had SIL and S come over and go out for lunch to Taco Bell with us. Then we headed to the store to get some birthday presents. Remember that birthday party I didn’t really want to go to last weekend? Well, the previous one was thrown by the grandparents I didn’t really know but this one was thrown by the girls’ parents who is Scott’s cousin and his girlfriend. SIL and myself had planned to take S and Emma ice skating today but felt the necessity to go to the party..it’s family and they came to ours kind of thing. It was a roller skating party and I guess it was close enough to ice skating because Emma made the final pick to go to the party.

We had fun and Emma actually did really well. Lexi tried for about 15 minutes and then gave up on it. I think she was frustrated her little wheels were so big and I guess she didn’t feel safe that tall because she kept saying they were too big even after I tried 3 different sizes on her. And yes, I got out there too. I haven’t roller skated in years and years and after a few times around, I picked it back up. I really could have done it a lot longer than I did. As you can see in the picture, Lexi ended up walking around the rink while I skated. Scott says she was insistent on going with me and there was no way I could carry her, so I let her walk. There weren’t many people out and things are very relaxed at that rink.

We headed out after about 2 hours and then headed over to Scott’s parents. Today is MIL’s birthday and although she is still getting over a respiratory infection, we took her out to dinner. FIL is really sick with some stomach thing so he didn’t go. We didn’t stay at the house afterwards either. We came home and I started working on my Sunday School lesson and Scott crashed in the recliner.

Heather ended up coming over with my fabric for the dining room and we worked on what I wanted for the rod and finial. Who knew that was going to be so hard? We still didn’t decide on anything and it’s still a possibility Scott might make something custom for me. Oh the woes of knowing too much about choices and being picky.

So I’ve been pretty busy since this morning. My eyes are heavy and I’m headed to bed…