Extraordinary Faith for Everyday Life
I don’t know why I haven’t searched or found it before, but Beth Moore has a blog. I just love her stuff so much. In all honesty, I would love to have a ministry like hers. I know I’m not called to be Beth Moore, but the Amy God created Amy to be. But still. I think I’d enjoy it. For now, I’m going to soak up whatever she has to say over there.
Emma has always liked to take pictures with my camera. I’ve realized she’s actually progressed. It all started when she was around 2 and the pictures were all fuzzy and seem to be a result of Emma just being curious and pushing the button in her face.
Just now finished watching the finale on TIVO and YAY!!! He picked Jess! Heather never looked so skanky as she did last night. She looked pretty, yes, but skanky, double yes. I can’t believe she was really mad that she had that tattoo after he dumped her. Did she really think she was going to be with him forever??
I’m not sure Bret and Jess are made to be together forever either but they do seem like they can make a go of it. She stayed true to herself and ended up winning him over with her concern, compassion and loyalty. See, that stuff still matters. And yes, we come out with a moral lesson from Rock of Love!
I just joined. I figured I usually post every day anyway so why not?
Another trooper’s wife sent me this chat today:
Hello Amy! I went to the post office on Saturday to mail [another trooper] a package and there was this guy in the line behind me. we started talking and I said something about [the other trooper] being a Trooper. WELL he says that one of his favorite students from Winthrop married a trooper and moved to columbia. I said do you by chance remember her last name. He says he has to think b/c she got married close to graduation from Winthrop. He then went into how smart this girl was and that he was the department head at the time and everybody just loved this girl… He told me that his department was computer Science. I was this girls name wouldn’t by chance be Amy Bennett would it? He said YES that was it! His name was Dr. [name]??ANYWAY he says HI and that he would love to talk to you and catch up sometime! He just thought the world of you!!! I did tell him that you were back now.
Every time I read this it makes me want to cry. College kicked my butt but I did well. Graduated with a 3.8 something and with Honors. Looking back, I probably worked so hard because I did get a lot of praise from my professors. I was a sweet little girl in a sea of boys in Computer Science. And my little people-pleasing personality kicked in and I guess I worked hard. I don’t know, maybe I worked hard because I’m a perfectionist. Who knows. But gosh, how I miss that feeling.
I loved that professor. He was my counselor person who I went to to plan my classes. I remember sitting in his office that first August before my first year just a chattin’ away. Well, should I take this or this and I was thinking about this one but then it wouldn’t work with that and do you think this is too much and just help me pleeaase! He just sat back with an amused, but loving smirk. By the time I was a senior and planning my last semester, we talked about that first meeting and laughed at how nervous I was and how much I had changed. And I had changed in a lot of ways. I was so much more confident and so ready to take on the working world.
I took a couple classes from him. Actually, his class I took is the reason I didn’t get straight A’s for the entire last two years of college after Scott and I were married between Sophmore and Junior year. He was a tough teacher.
I remember one particular day. His wife was terminally ill and Dr. C watched me put on my lipstick. Something I always did in my first class because I kept it in my green Eastpack bookbag. It was a Mary Kay lipstick if I remember right. A maroon type color. He watched me put it on without a mirror and he sort of laughed and said, "How do you get that on so straight?" I said, "I don’t know, I guess practice." I really should have said my lips are so big, it’d be hard to miss. Anyway, he said, "I try to put it on my wife and can never get it right." That broke my heart and still does today. This man was taking care of his ill wife and cared enough about her to put her makeup on for her. Still brings me to tears. Geez, I must have PMS.
I’m not sure how to get in touch with him today but I hope to. I could use a little piece of humble pie.
Last night Scott and I had to get ready for Sunday School and youth bible study tonight. I normally teach Sunday School but was really tired last night and not up to studying. I asked Scott to do Sunday School and he said sure as long as I did the bible study. No other leaders were going to be there so it was up to us. Fine, that gave me another afternoon to prepare. Lately we’ve been using the Youth Link song sermons. I stopped by the youth room this morning to look through the book and pick a CD to take home. I mentioned hearing the song East to West last week on the way home and was pleasantly surprised to see this song as one of my options. I barely looked to see how the lesson was laid out and took it home. Honestly, I didn’t think the lesson did justice to the song and taking what’s been on my heart lately and tying in what our speaker from Wednesday spoke about, I came up with my own thing. I’d like to share it but it’s going to be long…it took about 45 minutes to get through. So if you’re up for it…read on.
I’ve been thinking a whole lot about this advertising/blog monetizing stuff. Hundreds of dollars a month would be quite nice. I could pay off our van in less than a year or so (and so many more things I want to do). But with pay per post, you actually have to do something. A whole lot of something. Like, at $10/post, that’d be a post a day. Which is obviously not a problem for me since lately I’ve been posting 3 or 4 times a day (by the way, is that driving you crazy??). But it’s still a lot ("a lot" is used loosely) of work to get the opps and submit them and do them. Where with more passive ads, I don’t have to do a darn thing but wait for the money to come in. Except that check is very small in comparison.
But then this evening I was reading about some people who have had much success with Google Adsense and have a five figure income. That’s insane. Sort of regretting taking that down yesterday. Maybe I’ll put it back up differently. But honestly, I don’t think I have the content for a large audience. It’s just me. Lil ‘ol Amy chatting about life. So that leads me to believe that I’ll never have the traffic necessary for the more passive advertising. So I may as well take a step to generate my own income instead of relying on traffic generation.
At the same time, I realize there are bloggers that have lots of traffic and make a decent income blogging on very similar topics as mine.
I feel almost greedy even thinking about all this so much but it’s one of those things where I feel like I’m missing out. If I’m doing this blogging thing anyway and I can make money doing it then why should it be someone else doing it and not me? I’m just not sure the best way to do it.
I don’t want to be wishy-washy and opt out of BlogHer, realize PPP is not for me, opt back in and so forth. I’m not even sure on the rules on that.
I think I’ve braindumped enough on this subject. I’m looking forward to Allison’s post this week about it. Maybe it will help.