Archives for 2007
i’m bored so i blog
Pretty bored over here working waiting on some jobs to run before the real fun begins. Had a little photo op with my camera a few minutes ago (see flickr). Too bad my camera stinks. Would have REALLY liked to have seen that picture of the cube in high-res. Geez, I need something to do.
Interrupting my work to bring you bad news
My grandmother did not get a good report from her tests. Even though it wasn’t spelled out in the email I suppose that means my grandmother is added to the list of breast cancer fighters. She meets with a surgeon on Monday. Please pray for her and my family. We just lost my grandfather to cancer a few years ago. My aunt seems to think my grandmother may not accept help from the doctors.
Work, work, work
I have had absolutely nothing interesting to say today because all I’ve done is WORK. I worked 10 hours as of 7pm tonight and still need to put another hour in and some of that includes at 12:45 in the morning when we receive a file. I guess it could wait until the morning and that’s fine if I fall asleep and don’t wake up to do it but if I’m up, I won’t be able to sleep knowing it’s not taken care of. I’m just anal like that I guess.
Tomorrow I had planned on going into the office at lunch and then working really late tomorrow night for an implementation—as in maybe until midnight–but today I just found out some things I had planned on doing next week are due tomorrow. So looks like tomorrow is going to be an extremely long work day for me.
Entertaining angels
Tonight Scott taught the lesson at youth. He told a (true) story a preacher once told him. It was regarding the verse:
Hebrews 13:2 2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
This preacher was walking along in town and saw a man he did not know around town (the same town I live in now which 20 years ago was very small). He was dressed like a homeless man and stopped the preacher to ask for $1 to get something to eat. The preacher waved him off saying he didn’t have time. About four steps past the man, he realized what he had done and that he shouldn’t have acted that way. He turned around to give him the dollar and the man was gone. He said there was nowhere he could have gotten that quickly, nowhere to hide anywhere around him. He insists to this day it was an angel sent to test how he would react.
There were two instances just this week where I felt led to give two people money or at least offer help and I didn’t. One was in the grocery store. A man was buying some very cheap meals in front of us and he gave the cashier all change and then was scrounging for the rest. I almost offered to pay the rest as I had a $10 bill right in front of me. He ended up producing some $20s out of his pocket so I didn’t say anything but still, I still felt like I should have offered. Those $20s may have been rent or mortgage money.
The second was of a man walkin on an Interstate ramp near my house. He had a hiking backpack on, was young and didn’t look homeless exactly but seemed on a trip in some way. He wasn’t really going anywhere and even after my van passed him and no cars were behind him, he didn’t attempt to cross the road on the ramp and wasn’t really going anywhere. Scott and the girls were with me and it wasn’t really feasible to take him anywhere but I still felt led to stop and ask if we needed to call someone or even if he needed money. And yet, I kept driving.
Opportunities missed that I’ll never get back and probably have to answer for in heaven. It saddens and disappoints me that I can’t listen to His voice even in the simplest of things.
Lexi in pageant garb
Looky, looky
Our local paper printed an article on the front page about the pageant. And they mentioned my little Lexi!
Some basked in the glory of the event, while others were a bit shy. Soon to be crowned Wee Miss Tiny Tot Tega Cay, Lexi xxx, twirled with gusto and waved, her adorably infectious smile wowing the crowd.
Awwww
Good new/bad news day
First some good news:
- Scott’s appointment today went really well. He said it is healing great and will be on the road probably in 2 weeks instead of 3.
Unfortunately the rest of the news I have for today is bad. Some very serious:
- Scott has been put on light duty for 2 weeks so he’ll have to sit in the office at work M-F for that amount of time. He’s not real happy about that.
- Scott moved my desk to the playroom and I have no Internet on my main computer because the cable company hasn’t come to move my wire yet and I can’t get a USB wireless adapter I have to work on my computer. To check my email/reader, I have to use Scott’s laptop. Oh the pain of it all.
- And finally, in the worst news of all and on a serious note, my grandmother may have breast cancer. We’ll know something by Monday but so far the doctors don’t sound hopeful.