According to Cindy

I just spent the morning playing with the little strange girl. No, she's not strange. She's Steve Strange's little girl. Now he is strange, but I think youth ministers have to be. It was a fun way to spend the morning. More fun than what I am usually working on all morning. I printed out some Disney pictures for her and then went to Yahooligans and found some Nick, Jr. games for her to play and an online coloring book. She is younger than Brandi, but acts so grown-eeee! Like a little bitty 20 year-old. I wished I had brought Brandi with me today, they could have played together this morning.
I had a bit of success with something yesterday. It is a bit too private to write about on a public blog, but I'll probably tell my friends about it if I see them online. Just say, something I had thought was impossible seems possible now. That is if I don't get a phone call saying they did a check on me and now won't let it go through. If it does work out, it's definately God's doing. Luck could never have done this for me. Now I am thinking I have a lot of things to straighten out. I'm starting to think maybe I can, instead of there's no way.
March is here as of Monday. I have been so lazy all of February, due to getting used to some new medicines and generally feeling under the weather a lot. In fact, this dreary weather may be part of the cause. BUT the lazy bum time is OVER. Time to get it together and get some things done. Seriously!! Someone come and kick my hiney if I don't get myself motivated.
I don't have any concrete plans for the weekend. This morning I told my son Paul that we need to get out and do something other than just laying around the house vegetating. If the weather is good we could go to the park. If not, maybe go bowling. We need to do something to get our blood moving. It feels really stagnated right now!!! Cabin fever. I think everyone has it!

Just so you're never embarrassed to admit you don't know about Lent....

http://www.kencollins.com/holy-04.htm

Today is Ash Wednesday, the day that begins Lent. I was embarrassed, because this morning my son asked me precisely what Lent was and I couldn't really explain it to him.
Every year when Ash Wednesday rolls around, I can't help but remember either last year or the year before when one pastor gave me his sermon title for the bulletin that night. It was: "On Making an Ash of Yourself." I thought it was funny. The senior pastor didn't think it was funny, however and he wound up asking him to change the title.
It's still raining. I was nearly an hour late for work this morning. People can't drive around here when it rains. There were 11 wrecks this morning that were reported. It's a nightmare getting to work when the roads are like that.

Monday.
Blue Monday.
Rainy drizzley blue Monday.
Big Yawn.
I'm ready to go home.
(I wonder if that could be Haiku? I doubt it)
I don't know why I want to go home...I'll just have to come back in the morning.
I went to Firehouse Subs today for lunch. It is Seth's birthday. He is our new Minister for Middle schoolers. I think he just turned 24. Real old guy.... LOL.
I had never been to Firehouse Subs before. I had imagined it was like Subway. I think they have more hot sandwiches and what's-his-name probably wouldn't have lost 150 lbs eating there. It was very good though. Debra picked up a bottle of their hot sauce. She didn't open it or anything, just picked up the bottle and looked at it. Later on she had her fingers near her eyes and they started burning and watering really bad.
Lesson for today: Watch out for strange hot sauce bottles!!!

TGIF once again. Thankfully I finished my work and am just sitting here wating to go home.
I am going to go get Brandi and let her play at the playfort while I read and relax. I got my sweatpants and my book and I'm ready!
My goals include getting the cat story ready to send to FMAM and Space and Time and getting Satan's Sister ready to send in for Assignment 7. Only one more to go and I will be an official graduate of LRWG! I think I may write something short for Happy and work on my Sci fi story. If I rent NO movies this weekend, I may be able to accomplish all that.
Paul is gone to Georgia this weekend. It will probably be quiet, since it is cold and drizzly.
Last night a little girl, 4 years old, came over to play with Brandi. When she came in the door, I asked if her mother knew she was at my house and she of course said yes. I had my doubts, since it was already dark and I would never let Brandi roam around like that after it got dark. She said her name was Hailey and I thought she was the Hailey that lives a few doors down upstairs from me. I sent Paul up there to tell them that Hailey was at my house and see if it was ok for her to be there. Paul went and told them, and they looked at him real funny and said Hailey is right here! Poor boy, felt very embarrassed. It turned out THIS Hailey lived across the driveway at the other apartments.

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Valentines Day went well. I got a steak and flowers and cards. The kids got balloons and a huge floppy puppy. Paul may be 12 but he still loves stuffed animals. It's his well kept secret (well, ok, maybe not NOW) that he still sleeps with stuffed animals. I think it is the most adorable thing ever. Me, I'm not complaining. I love a good steak on the grill.
We rented a few movies, but neither of which were worth talking about. Le Divorce was a dissapointment.
At work, we've been dealing with a serious computer problem. Thankfully not my computer. Unfortunately it looks like we're going to have to do some major work to fix it. Possibly re-format the hard drive, if adding new ram doesn't fix the problem.
This day began horribly. Paul showed me his mid-term progress report. This one is no better than previous ones. I got upset with him. Not only for continuing to not live up to his potential, but for not showing me the darn thing until this morning. This is not the first time that has happened. I believe he shows it to me the last minute before time to go, in hope that I will just sign it and send it on and not look at his grades and just take his excuses as to why they are not where they should be. I know he can do better. This evening I have to take his Yu-gi-oh cards away again. And to think, Doug was ready to let him have his Playstartion back this past weekend. I just don't know. Then I almost cried on the way to work on account of I felt bad for yelling at him this morning.
I'm going to get my hair cut today at lunch time. Doug told me I better not come home with a "January chop-off." He's referring to the girl next door who just got her hair cut super-short. I think it's cute on her. But I don't think I will be getting mine cut that short anytime soon, if ever. I like my hair a bit longer. I will just have about 2 inches cut off. I want to get all this hair color cut off, so I can see for once what my real haircolor is before it turns gray. At the rate I'm going, (worrying) that is not going to be too long from now...
Bulletin day. I hate bulletin day. I have to get them done before 11:30 today because my hair appointment is at 12.
Goals for February. Ok, what the heck are goals anyway? I have become a bum. I do have a story ready to send to FMAM and Space and Time. I am thinking of something to send to happy and sent off for sample issues of 3 magazines. Pretty good for a BUM (like me)!

I has been a rough week this week!

My son got sick at school Wednesday and I had to go get him. I have been home with him the past 2 days. He had the stomach virus, throwing up thing. I am not sure if it was a virus or food poison. I will know in the next few days, if we all come down with it or not.

In spite of the fact that he was sick, I think he enjoyed his 2 days off and the time we spent together. We watched a Lifetime movie together yesterday and it was the first Lifetime movie he's ever liked. It was "Children of the Bride." It's a hilarious movie. One of the daughter's is a nun. In one scene her brother tells her (the nun) to go try to seduce this guy who just got home. She says she doesn't know how but their other brother is in the house with the man's wife. So, the nun acts ridiculous and before long everyone is staring at her. When she sees her brothers come out of the man's house she excuses her self to go take her "medication." Later there is a bar room type brawl and everyone jumps in, including the nun and everything comes to a screeching halt when the nun's sister screams for the man not to hit her (the nun, of course) because she's pregnant. You can't beat a bar room brawl with a pregnant nun in the middle of it all. I wish I could come up with stuff like that!

Valentines day weekend. Oh yes, and today is Friday the 13th. I'm not sure if I should rent romantic movies or horror movies. Fortunately this Friday the 13th has not been too bad. For the weekend we will probably rent movies, grill steaks and I promised Brandi a small party tomorrow, since I was unable to be at her party at her school. I have big guilt about missing her party. I couldn't take off again today though because I have missed 2 days already this week. But it is so hard when your 5 year old looks up at you with huge blue eyes and says, "You can come to my party tomorrow momma, if you wants to." So now I wonder does she think that I just don't "wants" to? MOMMY GUILT! Oh no, make it go away. This will haunt me for years..............

Ok, Tiff wants me to post something humorous to cheer her up. It's Monday and I am not awake yet. Only funny thing that has happened so far is that in my groggy state, I opened a can of roast beef this morning to put into the beans in my crock pot. I got mad and started cussing the can and the can opener. My husband came over to see what was wrong. I yelled at him that I thought he had fixed the crappy thing and he said, "Well, I did, but you're opening the can from the bottom!"
One of those cans with the rounded bottoms. The can opener wouldn't hold on to it. I had just opened the can enough to make it leak all over the counter while Doug opened the can the RIGHT way.
Is that funny or just THUPID???? HA HA

Testing - Testing - This is only a test....

The firetruck came even though I told them this morning that our alarm was messed up. They were supposed to ignore it one more week.

I finished my bio and sent it in. I also finished my devotion for the Lenten Devotional book and turned it in. All this in spite of the fact that I have only written 100 words this week, beginning Monday.

Not a lot has been going on. Doug bought a truck. I need to buy the car I'm driving, or give it back. I've felt like bees buzzing in my brain because of some medicine I have been taking, so I didn't do much writing over the weekend. I couldn't even concentrate enough to read and comprehend what I was reading. Or maybe the book is just boring to me. It is kind of slow.
I watched American Marriage Saturday. It wasn't that great.
I sent in my goals for February and my revision of goals in January.
I have to go home and write a bio tonight. I don't know what to say in it!!!
Yikes.