Amy J. Bennett

Extraordinary Faith for Everyday Life

Finally Friday

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Wow, this has been a busy last 7 days.  And tonight I’m feeling it.  I’ve been vegging out on the couch, Interneting and watching TV.  I really meant to clean last night but we ended up at J&J’s after getting the girls to sleep at Mom’s.  I really was going to clean tonight but this past week just sort of hit me.

Today I went to work (hence the lack of posts today).  After I got home the girls, Heather and I ate at IHOP and then made a quick stop at Target.  I had all intentions of getting the girls to bed, hopping on the elliptical and cleaning the house but I have done none of that.  I’ve done the dishes and switched the laundry but that’s as far as I got.  I think I may wait to switch the laundry once more and call it a night.

As of the rest of the weekend, I just have to help set up and close up the concession stand at the church tomorrow and the rest of it should be pretty open.

She sounded just like her mother

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You know it’s bad when there is a 3 and 4 year old in the bathroom and you hear the 5 year old walk in on them and say:

“Oh, what a mess. I am SO tattletelling on both of y’all.  Whose idea was this??  Yours, S?  And you Lexi, you’re going to have to get a bath. “

What was the mess you ask?  Lexi decided it was a good idea to “refill” a red stamp pad with water.  When I walked in, their hands were covered, red stained water was all over the counter and dripping onto Lexi’s shirt and socks.

I actually stayed calm.  Sometimes in the worst of messes, I stay the calmest. Otherwise I would lose it.  And really, Lexi was trying to be do-it-yourself and refill her ink.  I can’t really punish that.

Thankful Thursday

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  • Nice weather the past few days.  It’s been a nice break and the kids have been able to get outside some.
  • Have I mentioned I’m thankful for our tax return coming next week?
  • My new elliptical.  Hopefully this one won’t spaz.
  • CVS.  I’ve gone at least 3 times this week and it’s saving us so much money and I’m able to give so much away.  It’s been great.
  • Our former mayor was not more seriously hurt during our local robbery.

Arbonne update

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I got all my Arbonne products yesterday…a day earlier than expected.  I hadn’t gotten a shower by the afternoon so I got to use all the products then and then some of them again at bedtime (plus I’ve been using samples on my face for two weeks).  And I actually got a shower this morning while Scott took the kids to school.  And I don’t have any dramatic results to show yet but I can tell you my skin is as soft as it’s ever been.  My face feels so smooth.  I LOVE the mineral powder foundation stuff along with the new foundation primer they came out with.  To me, my face looks so finished and yet it feels like I have nothing on.

I’m going tonight to a meeting where their national regional area VP something or other is attending.  I don’t think I’m ready to go do my own shows, but if these products continue to change my skin like they have already, I’m going to want everyone to know about it and I wouldn’t mind hosting a few more shows just for that and they tell me I can make a little bit of money too.  And we know I’m all for that.

More Elliptical Drama

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Wow, so did you know our second replacement elliptical broke too??  It made this horrible grinding, squeaking, nails on chalkboard sort of sound that hurt your ears.  Do not ever, ever buy a Horizon elliptical.  In fact, Scott took it up to Dick’s today and they recalled both of the ones we had.  Surprise, surprise.

Unfortunately the guy we’ve been working with wasn’t up there so the guy there made us pay the difference between the first one we had and a Sole one which is another step higher than the second Horizon we had.  Thank goodness for that tax refund coming next week is all I can say.

I will flip my lid if this ones breaks too.

Blogged Down

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Lately I have felt blogged down.  That’s hopefully a phrase that someone else hasn’t come up with.  It’s definition is closely related to the definition of bog as used in bogged down..getting slowed down or stuck.  Except in this case, it means specifically by blogs.

I have definitely been blogged down lately.  This morning, I think I had almost 90 blogs in my reader and I simply can not handle it saying I have more than 1 post to read.  I HAVE to at least look at it and check it off my list.  I have never blindly clicked Mark All Read just because my curiosity would kill me not knowing what someone posted.

So where does that put me?  A lot of reading to do and little time to do it.  And I do get stuck in a rut of reading.  And as much as I love everyone I read, I simply had to pare it down.  With my personal sites and some entertainment feeds I subscribe to for my OTH site’s purposes, I now only have a total of 50 feeds in my reader.  I kept all the ones where I knew I’d read every single post and be excited about every single post.  

So far it feels very freeing except I don’t think it will be long before I miss my reader not having tons of bolded (1)’s beside them.

They say I shouldn’t post when I have nothing to talk about…

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..and yet I still do.

This morning I got the kids ready for school only to drive them over there to see zero people or cars in the parking lot.  Crap!  I forgot it was a workday with a makeup day on Friday.  To make up for it, we stopped at Dunkin Donuts on the way home.  Sugar makes it all better.

Scott is at a funeral at the moment for a trooper that got killed last week.  It’s an hour away so he’ll probably be gone most of the day.

The girls will be heading to MIL’s soon for the evening.

I’ll finish up work today and may actually have a break until 6 for youth since the band isn’t practicing early.  I have an implementation tonight so I’ll be up late taking care of that.

In other very unrelated news, we had a robbery and shooting in the gas station that is right beside my church.  One of the persons that was shot is our former mayor.  He was shot in the face but was released from the hospital this morning in fair condition.  My phones and txt messages were abuzz last night as it unfolded.  Very unsettling though to think our town is not safe from things like that.  I’m just glad they weren’t more seriously injured.

Good day, busy evening again

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Today has been a pretty good day.  The kids got off to school fine.  We ate lunch at home afterwards instead of stopping for fast food.  It’s beautiful out.  The kids are outside playing and I’ve got the doors open.  I’m on a conference call now (dutifully paying attention, can’t you tell?).  It’s all the calm before the storm though.

As soon as I’m off I have to get a shower, take S to Scott’s gm, go to band practice, grab something for dinner with the girls and come home and settle in for American Idol and One Tree Hill.  Whew.