Amy J. Bennett

Extraordinary Faith for Everyday Life

On sock computing

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I’ve been known in the past to substitute regular words with technical words.

Like one time I opened my refrigerator and saw something out of date and said out loud, "I need to delete that."

Yes, wouldn’t it be nice just to click a button for the fridge to be cleaned?

Well, yesterday I think Emma was trying to use a big word and ended up doing the same thing.  She was folding socks and she was SO PROUD that she can finally put the socks together.  Lexi was wanting her to go play and Emma didn’t want to and said, "Leave me alone, I’m busy computing socks!"

10/21 CVS and Walgreens deals

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This week I really racked up on the deals because of the ECBs/Register Rewards I earned last week.

At CVS:

2 8 pack AA Energizer batteries

3 100 count Tylenol Rapid Release

 

$45.98 with no sale or coupon

$5.40 in store sales

$11 in store coupons

$12 manufacturers coupons

$15.68 in ECBs

My total taken out of my bank account: $2.97

ECBs printed out for next week: $18, plus a $10/$50 and free shipping for online

WOW.  And I could have gotten more off if I had printed that 3rd Tylenol coupon.  I thought they were over $10 so I only needed to buy 2 to get the $10 ECB but I had to buy 3 since it was only $9.99.

 

At Walgreens:

Venus Breeze Razor

Cetaphil face cleanser (I really NEEDED this)

 

$21.98 with no sale or coupon

$7 in store sales

$2 in manufacturers coupons

$10 in Register Rewards

My total taken out of my bank account: $4.03

RR printed out for next week: $4

Summary for the week: I got paid $15 to take home $67.96 worth of merchandise.

Oh well

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OK, well, that Carnival was a bust.  Even MisterLinky wouldn’t play along and was down.  I guess I’ll try it one more time and if there are no participants next week, we’ll forget about a Sunday Scripture Carnival.

Sunday Scripture Carnival – #1

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So I’ve decided to jump on a bandwagon and host my own carnival. I’m starting out small, I know. The blogosphere seems to be quiet on the weekends, especially Sunday. So part of the reason for this carnival is to encourage weekend reading/posting. And part of it is it’s the beginning of a new week and what better what to start fresh than to concentrate on Scripture? Especially to see how it’s touching someone else.

So, for this weekly carnival, simply post a verse, a set of verses or even just a reference to a verse that means something to you now or maybe even in the past. Explain why it’s important or don’t. It’s up to you.

My scripture this week is Galatians 5:22-23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

With all the stuff going on with our youth group, I’m having to use every ounce of every one of these God will give me to hang on.

So how about you? Go now and post and then come back. Post your name and then a direct link to you blog entry. If you don’t have a blog, feel free to leave yours in the comments.

Favor

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I need a favor from all you bloggers.  Pretty, pretty please add a Subscribe link to your blog’s RSS feed if it’s not already there.  Reader addicted folks like me need life as easy as possible.  Thank you.

PTL – the visit

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Today my sister and I had a notion to go around my town and take pictures. It is growing SO FAST that at times, we hardly recognize it ourselves if we visit a part of town we haven’t been to in awhile. So we went to Blockbuster, rented two movies for the girls and hauled them around in the van for almost three hours. Scott was working so we were in no hurry and I also had fed the girls right before we left. I can’t believe it went by so quickly.

I have about over 200 pictures. A lot of the pictures were where things are going to be developed or are just being developed. We did end up taking some landmark pictures as well.

In all that, we were taking a picture of our new high school in town and you can see the tower from PTL in the background. We both agreed we should visit there and take pictures. I have mentioned in a previous post how much PTL meant to me and my family. But in short, we stayed on the campgrounds in a pup tent there when we moved down South when I was 3 and Heather was 1. My dad ended up getting a job there. When I was 12, we moved into a house in the residential part of the grounds for one year. And then, after all that, when I was 15, I ended up working on Main Street at the ice cream shop.

Our visit today turned out to be another world all on its own. We kept taking so many pictures, I kept having to delete not-so-good ones of the town just to squeeze one or two more of PTL.

The visit was quite simply surreal. And somewhat sad. A few times I had tears well up and had to stop them. I kept saying to Heather it was like living in a real Back to the Future movie.

So. What I’ve done is uploaded the pictures to my picasa site and made a slideshow and posted it below. It was going to take forever if I did it all manually on here. I suggest you pause the slideshow and click the captions on and off on the bottom left of the screen as you need to. Some of them are very long, so I know it’s hard to see the pictures and read.

You can also visit the Picasa album and flip through manually if you like.

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Chris Sligh – new music

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So it looks like Chris Sligh from American Idol is going the Christian route with his record.  Yay for that because Christian radio sure needs some good music.  He posted tonight on some lyrics he wrote and I just love them.  The last line sort of "hits you".  I can definitely hear this one playing on the radio…

Somehow the night finds the day
Fall finds the spring, the rain finds the sea
And just as the wind finds its way
Jesus, each day
Somehow your grace finds me

Sunday Scripture – Intro

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So I’ve decided to jump on the bandwagon and host my own carnival. I’m starting out small, I know.  The blogosphere seems to be quiet on the weekends, especially Sunday.  So part of the reason for this carnival is to encourage weekend reading/posting.  And part of it is it’s the beginning of a new week and what better what to start fresh than to concentrate on Scripture?  Especially to see how it’s touching someone else.

So, for this carnival, simply post a verse, a set of verses or even just a reference to a verse that means something to you now or maybe even in the past.  Explain why it’s important or don’t.  It’s up to you.  And then COME BACK HERE and post your link and comment.

I’m starting the first one tomorrow so I’ll hopefully put out the MrLinky stuff to another post so you can join in.