Under His Wings

Compare & Contrast Essay from March 1st 2011

2011-03-16T14:27:00.003-04:00

Is a Digital Friendship Worth Having?

One of my favorite memories is from 1985. My best friend Sarah and I were seven and nine, and we had created a time capsule using a tin box, a few toys, and notes. We buried the box near the base of a sweet gum tree. Afterward, we climbed up the tree on the wooden planks driven in with nails and relaxed on the wooden platform. The last thought on each of our minds was, “What did she write on her note?” We were always doing crafts together, going to the park, attending birthday parties, or playing with Barbie dolls. But, a year later my parents decided to move to California. This move changed our relationship on our friendship. We made an effort over the years to write and call each other, but eventually life’s responsibilities became more important. I felt more awkward when texting or the Internet was introduced. It was fun for the first time being in the crowd, but now I feel lonelier than ever. Although texting and the Internet help people stay in touch, both are powerless when it comes to making true friends.

I have to admit my childhood relationship with Sarah was wonderful compared to what little friendship we have today. One of the best feelings is when you truly know the other friend on a personal level. I am five again and the world is larger through my eyes with no worries. Sarah is like me, a child who is loved and cared for. My eyes do not lie because we had very little or no problems with communication. Back then, we had a house phone to call each other. Occasionally, we would share my brothers Commodore 64 and Atari games and we called it, “Personal Game Time.” However, this appears to be only time we loved the current technology together.

Sarah and I wrote many letters, dotting our I’s with hearts, adding smiley faces and creating squiggly drawings bordering our stationary. We would write about the kid who sat next to us during class or what we were doing for the weekend coming up. Most of the time, I would cherish her memories by stashing the letters away in a pretty box adorned with little fake flowers. I still write to her occasionally these days, but I have not yet seen a note from her in return.

We spent a lot of time together as kids in Crestview growing up until I had to move away with the family. I remember riding my pink banana seat bicycle clear across town to her house one day to go visit. When my parents heard about it, I was in trouble for cycling all the way from Bowers Ave, through the downtown area and past the Hot Wheels skating rink. Normally, we would visit on weekends switching off at each other’s house. We always had a blast playing together, whether it was tag, dolls, digging up mud, food fights or climbing up to the fort in the tree.

In this current decade, my friendship with Sarah has changed dramatically due to adult responsibilities and the use of texting and the Internet. We both live a busy life with family, school, and work. Sarah married not long ago and is now pregnant. We are both failing to communicate because of these adult choices. I still think of her, and when school is out I plan on making a better effort to stay in touch. It takes two people to make a friendship work, so I do not know how long this one will last.

I have strong opinions about texting in general, and when Sarah texts me these days, I do not know how her messages are coming across. I can’t hear the tone in her voice; there are only words on a screen. When her text is all in small lettering, bad grammar or a long run on sentence, this sometimes leads to misunderstandings. I enjoy hearing how she doing, but I find text messages to be impersonal. I want to hear Sarah’s voice in my ear, rather than looking at a small screen. Because there is no physical contact at all, the message sent created a brick wall between us. When I have my phone with me, I would call her rather than texting in return.

The Internet is another way to stay in touch with Sarah, as well as an endless supply of information, emails and games. However, I can see those bricks being built higher than before. There are Facebook shout-outs, instant messengers on Yahoo and MSN, Tweets… the list goes on. Instead of meeting each other in person, we are typing a quick “Hello, how are you doing?” and logging off. I find this quick and easy, but again impersonal. I am looking at a monitor screen instead of going to the beach, shopping or visiting with her. Unless we both make the time for each other, I don’t see where this friendship is going.

How can we break this vicious cycle of technology taking over our lives? In the end, we can’t because technology is everywhere we go. We have TV’s, internet, phones, and video game systems at home. There is technology in shopping stores, libraries and even at a concert hall. True friends are built from the ground up the way a house is built. There is a foundation that is laid, but it’s being eroded by technology. Sending a text on the phone or a shout-out on Facebook will not help the construction grow. Friendships need to be built face to face, not through today’s technology. This is a choice we make, and I choose to find out what was written on Sarah’s note that we had planted years ago that built up our foundation. Perhaps, the smiley face on her letter will create a new window on the wall - hope for a new beginning.

Cause & Effect Essay

2011-03-16T13:49:00.002-04:00

School of Life

Adventure was my middle name growing up in Tehachapi, California. I had set my ambitions high and was college bound to study Biblical Archaeology. Attending College has been a good impact in my life. My sister took four years to complete her Masters in English, and I may end up taking just as long to finish my undergraduate degree. I have attended five different colleges and finally returned to my education after a six year hiatus. Some people may see this way of doing school as haphazard. After delving into my own past however, I’ve realized this gap between school years has created a positive effect. I’ve been learning more about who I am, something that doesn’t happen in a classroom. Due to self discovery, I’ve gained more confidence, set more realistic goals for a career, and learned new skills because my plans for college changed course.
To start, I’ve learned to build more confidence using life’s experiences and applying that confidence towards homework or class participation. River rafting has been one of my biggest dreams. In Montana, my husband and I went rafting down the Blackfoot River with a large group of people. The trip took us past the beautiful green Cascade Mountains still capped with snow. Manipulating the raft down the river gave me an exquisite feeling of rush and confidence. Every time I face a new challenge each day, all I have to do is remember how I felt when rafting down the river and apply that confidence.
Secondly, I’ve altered my perspectives higher with the aid of setting new goals and standards towards a degree in school. My husband and I bought our first home in Shreveport, Louisiana in 2002 and lived there for three and half years. I shattered my wrist from a fall shortly after I had started working at the local Base Exchange. There were metal prongs to hold up the middle bone at the wrist and a custom sling made up from five bars to connect everything. My supervisor wanted me to come in the next day to work. This event changed my perspective on my working life and helped me set higher standards. I remember thinking; I can do better than this! After a few months of healing, I was hired to work as a purchasing agent and secretary at Metro Aviation. I was making twelve dollars an hour with benefits. With confidence and the aid of setting new goals, I feel that I can achieve any degree or good grades in college with or without a gap in my education.
Most of all, I have gained new skills in writing, secretarial and personal finances that I can use to my benefit during college. A good example would be in Paso Robles, California when I was working at a chemical plant called Lubrizol. My job entailed purchasing equipment, corresponding with vendors, and much more. A lot of money had to be accounted for with different programs such as MS Money and Quicken. Business letters had to be typed, emails had to be sent, and phone calls had to be made in order to correspond with other companies. Doing these new tasks on the job made me dream of dollar signs. The experience gave me fresh confidence, new eyes for bigger goals, and use of my skills for tracking personal finances for my return to college.
The real adventure begins when the sun comes out to play because every day brings joys and sorrows. I’ve learned to accept life in any direction because tomorrow may bring rain instead of a cheerful warm day. I cannot control how my college life fluctuates but I can accept and handle how much capacity is plugged into an empty ravine. I’ve decided not to go to college the traditional way because there are more opportunities in life to learn from; such as fishing or camping. Over the years, I’m happy that I’ve set new hopes and dreams, learned new skills that will boost my confidence and if I don’t there will be no room to grow; whether I am in college or not.

Random good stuff

2010-07-10T23:55:00.003-04:00

Catching up on my reading this summer. Well at least a good portion of it.
Sewing has been on my top priorities this summer with several SCA events that have come and gone. Thank God, it is now July and the sewing is now slowing down.
I'm hoping that a friend will call to help her with a bodice. I might sew up a one pair of pantaloons for the hubby. I'm almost ready for the big project of my nice dress for feast. This dress will reflect the persona I am aiming for. It is a toss up between Belgian or Flemish since both are actually in my blood. But who knows.
Tomorrow is a church day, yeah! I miss church often since the camping we have done falls on the weekends.
Either way, I will apply for NWFS (North West Florida State this coming week and have to sit down and get transcripts together.
Better run for now and get some sleep.

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2010-06-18T10:23:00.003-04:00

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2010

2010-06-18T09:30:00.002-04:00

Can you believe its already 2010? Out of the 3 decades I have already lived through, scenes change every day and sometimes dramatically.
I am amazed to see where we grew up has become worse even in the old house as children.
For 2010, I think about what has already happened.
The economy is bad! I certainly did not vote for the person who is the president.
There is a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico effecting not only tourism but for different animals as well.
Unemployment is at a high point this year everywhere!
I've learned if I'm going to drink alcohol do it in portions and limits at parties.
Even with trusted friends being careful is important. People do stupid things when they are drunk!
Shaving is a good idea in the summer specially for that bathing suit!
Time to wrap things up for now.
I'm going to back to my sewing project.

Weekend trip 9-19-09

2009-09-22T15:18:00.005-04:00

I had a lot of fun over the weekend. I went to the Haunted Pensacola Lighthouse and Fort Pickens with my sis! We had a lot of fun together. I did the driving there and back while letting Sissi relax. She does enough for us. ^_^
They are hosting for a group called the Texas Ghost Seekers coming on October 9, 10th and 11th. Here is the link with more info:
Pensacola Lighthouse
It falls under October on the calender. If you want to have a night of being a ghost hunter for a night then this is the event! You get to be with a real team "Ghost Seekers" and you do bring your own equipment. Camera, video, emf detector, recorder...you name it! There is a fee of $15.00 a person but it is worth the trip!today I'm putting 4 people down for a reservation.
The fort was really cool to see. There are many tunnels that are so dark you will need a flashlight to check them out.
There is a lot to explore! Yet at the lighthouse its just limited to the house and the actual stairway up! I'm not sure if the grounds are haunted.
TAPS was just there not long ago so be looking forward to the episode in the near future.

Food is great!

2009-09-06T20:01:00.004-04:00

I watched Julie and Julia with my sister tonight in a small Niceville Theater over by Perry's. I really liked the movie and felt a little inspired this evening to read a bit of "The Joy of Cooking." Now I'm thinking of making either Baked Macaroni and Cheese or make Dumplings and Rice. But now that I think about that one, perhaps that is all bread. It may be too much carbohydrates.
Besides lately, I feel the need to fill the void with something in my life. Things have gone really blah at this moment. Probably because I'm feeling exhausted. And here I am thinking "Need to get more into cooking."
Anyway, I would recommend this movie to all food lovers!

Traveling

2009-08-10T09:33:00.001-04:00

Tonight we are staying in Arkansas. We took a nice sleep in Dave's house here in Little Rock last night and we were invited to stay one more night.

Same Sex Marriage

2009-07-16T11:37:00.004-04:00

This morning a thought came across my mind about something I've prayed before in the past. The task at hand was about how to handle a situation when you are up against talking about Gay and Lesbian Marriages. I know this is a complex subject and very touchy with some people. This message came through now and I think its time to speak up.
I am Christian, raised to believe in God and his people. Christians and others have been bashed just because of their name and now even Gays and Lesbians are being bashed as well. The same goes for anyone who are differently nationalities. It is all discrimination.
Besides reading the bible, I was taught to LOVE your neighbor, Love those who need to be loved and LOVE those who we do not even know. And yes, LOVE yourself.
I cannot sit here and judge another person based on color, or what they do, or who they choice to partner with!
Besides, I am not the Judger whom is God, he is someone who watches over us constantly. He Loves us and he wants us to love others like he has done for us.
Only you choose what path you want to take, even for non-believers; I will keep you in my heart.

A Real Friend

2009-06-19T18:00:00.001-04:00

A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest.
A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps
himself and doesn't feel even the least bit weird shutting your
'Pepsi drawer' with her foot!
A simple friend has never seen you cry.
A real friend shoulder is soggy from your tears..
A simple friend doesn't know your parents' first names.
A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book.
A simple friend brings a bottle of wine to your party.
A real friend comes early to help you cook and stays late to help you
clean.
A simple friend hates it when you call after they've gone to bed.
A real friend asks you why you took so long to call.
A simple friend seeks to talk with you about your problems.
A real friend seeks to help you with your problems.
A simple friend wonders about your romantic history.
A real friend could blackmail you with it!
A simple friend thinks the friendship is over when you have an
argument.
A real friend calls you after you had a fight.
A simple friend expects you to always be there for them.
A real friend expects to always be there for you!

Hallelujah, Grace like Rain
Falls down on me
Hallelujah, All my sins are washed away
Their washed away! Hallelujah!
Yeah!
~Todd Agnew

Friday Fun

2009-06-19T17:53:00.001-04:00

I’ve been thinking of something to write for today. I have not blogged too much this week.

Today has been actually busy for a change of pace. As Randy returns to work for the weekend today, I am working as well this morning and I’m sort of still doing some. Lompoc is pretty warm today; I even stopped by the local pool a little while ago to get hours and prices. I went to bed early last night close to 10pm and woke up about 7:30am. I figured it would be best to get as much done in the morning and try to relax by the afternoon. I still plan on relaxing in a few. I just busted out items from the fridge for tonight’s dinner. Even though we just got paid today, I am going to wait for our nice night out on Monday. Tonight’s meal is a roast with onion, mushrooms, carrots and potatoes.

Today is a little crazy. I went to do laundry and went for a grocery shop at the same time! We are lucky that one of the Von’s in town is next to the Laundromat.
I soon as I got back, I just put away the food and ran back out to Michaels for a sale they are having on photo/craft boxes. Three for five is a pretty good deal if you know what you want to use them for. I needed them to organize all the stuff in the bathroom cabinets. I still have one left.

I just heard on the radio that we may need a prescription now just to pick up a box of Cheerios! How stupid is that!!!!!!! Why, because FDA has approved that the box actually states the truth on the box. (DUH)
It lowers cholesterol and reduces heart rate or something of the sort. I say SO WHAT! It’s been like that forever and now they are being idiots!

Also heard something else , now I can’t remember what it was.
Anyway, after Michaels I went Wal-Mart and found a new pair of ten dollar shorts. Fits perfectly! Picked up a new bath rug, found a nice Ren Fair pattern in Simplicity and bought four yards of muslin material. I’m thinking of making a long shift so I can use as the under dress. Eventually I’ll make a tartan skirt that will go over it. Anyway, I dropped off a couple books at the library and headed home. I was thinking of going to Orcutt to pick up our mail but having second thoughts. I’m pretty tired now. Soon I will get to rest! I’ve already organized the bathroom cabinets and cleaned up the toilet and around the shower. I got to get up now and get that food in the crock pot.

I will write again soon when I’m not so wrapped up with things.

Friends & Family Slideshow

2009-06-11T19:41:00.003-04:00

Fleming Line

2009-06-06T19:38:00.001-04:00

For those into geneaology, i have finally posted up a website for the Fleming's.

Fleming Line

New Review - The Ancient Omen - Elijah Creek & The Armor of God

2009-06-02T16:13:00.000-04:00

The Ancient Omen by Lena Wood

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is the 2nd book in the Elijah Creek & The Armor of God series.

I enjoyed every bit of it! I was able to fit in to each different character and follow the story well. By the end of each book so far, the story keeps you hanging on and waiting when, when, when!?

So I decided to order the next book online through Amazon.

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Pics from South Lake Tahoe

2009-06-01T16:31:00.005-04:00

This man actually got down in sand on one knee and proposed to his new fiancee.

Summer Jobs

2009-05-28T10:56:00.002-04:00

I found an article on sumer jobs through msn.com and picked a few that I like. These are just a few that sound interesting to me.

1. Amusement park worker - Salary: $21,758
Summer sizzle: Amusement parks are a prime summer-job hub, mainly because your options are endless in terms of jobs. Just a few of the positions that need to be filled include performers, ride operators, customer service, mascots, game workers and food staff. (Did I mention the discounts on entry and funnel cakes?)

2. Day-camp counselor - Salary: $20,493
Summer sizzle: Rise and shine! It's true that your days of sleeping in will be short-lived as a camp counselor, but working with kids is never short of pure entertainment and you'll enjoy organizing group activities, like crafts or outings to the pool. Plus, you'll get evenings and weekends off.

3. Executive assistant - Salary: $49,270
Summer sizzle: Although you'll have to trade your bikini for office attire, the chances of finding administrative work are in your favor during the summer. As employees take summer vacation, many companies bring on extra staff to cover their projects. Plus, getting your foot in the door by helping companies tackle projects will do only good things for your résumé.

4. Lifeguard - Salary: $16,782
Summer sizzle: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. That is, if you can't afford to spend your days poolside for the fun of it, soak up some rays and get paid for it by keeping tabs on swimmers from your guard chair.

5. Resort desk clerk - Salary: $17,585

Summer sizzle: Every resort vacationer is looking for a little R and R, so you'll work to ensure guest's needs are met. On your downtime, you can spend your time enjoying some of the luxuries of the resort yourself.

9. Tour guide - Salary: $22,545

Summer sizzle: While living near a tourist trap or in a vacation town can be annoying at times, it can also work to your advantage. Options are endless when it comes to the things people want to see. You can find a job leading boat tours, bus tours, architecture tours, haunted mansion tours, museum tours ... the list goes on. This summer gig is a great way to learn more about the city in which you live and get paid doing it.

Book Review - The Prophet of Yonwood - City of Ember Series Book 3

2009-05-05T01:06:00.001-04:00

The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne Duprau

My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars
I finished the audio of the book today and honestly at the end I could not stop to go outside and start dinner.

Nicki is introduced along with her (sister) I think and they go into Yonwood to fix up the old family house. Nicki is one that loves to explore and learn about so many things and loved going out on her own. I can relate to her just because of that. Yonwood is full of people. From McCoy whom everyone thinks is just an old geezer up to no good or Mrs. Brenda who takes things from the Prophet and twists the words. The prophet they claim of the town is only on old lady who needs a caretaker most of the time. I kept waiting and waiting to see how this book ties into the last book and it certainly surprised me at the end!

You will find out that Nicki loves the world so much and its people of the world that she leaves a green notebook behind for someone to find - Lina with as much information she knows about the world.

The main story of the book I really liked. It was more surprising to find out Nicki's father dreams finally are realized in the future.

He is a builder!

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FAIRES TO ATTEND

2009-05-04T14:18:00.006-04:00

The fairs that I do go to are with a guild - Hounds Haven

1. ~~Valhalla Ren Faire - Valhalla, CA~~
May 30 & 31st 09
Had a lot of fun! Randy went with and he spent close to 400 bucks on a matching dagger and sword.

3. Big Bear Pirate Fair - Pedersen's Mill 39115 Rim of the World Fawnskin, CA 92333
June 6th & 7th
Sounds like fun yet Randy is working these days and I have not heard anyone talking of this particular fair yet in the group. It may be a no go?

4. Scottish Ren Fest - Watsonville, CA
June 20
This may be a day trip and depending if Ashley wants to go or not. I invited her to go with but still have not heard from her. Its a bit of a long drive - 4 hours? Valhalla is longer....I'd like someone to go with.

5. Fair Oaks Tudor Fayre - Fair Oaks, CA
June 27th & 28th
I am unsure where Fair Oaks is but with Randy's schedule he is open for this weekend for a faire. I'd like to go but have not heard from anyone about this fair.

5. Big Bear Ren Fair
August 8, 9, 15 & 16th
http://www.bigbearrenfair.com/

Saturday Adventure

2009-04-25T21:31:00.003-04:00

It was almost 11am when I left this morning out of town. I took a map that was printed out a while back to find my way to find the so called Chumash Indian Rock Art Cave in the Santa Barbara mountains. I've been putting it off for a while now and decided this was going to be the day!
Honestly, it was not a long trip. I think I found it in about an hour. It is some what high on a side of a mountain and the road is only big enough for one car. I will be posting pictures of the place as soon they load up from the camera. When I was there a group of students from an Archaeology class was taking place. Been there, done that! Mr. Robinson was my teacher and he taught well for an old perverted man. (No offense) He's a cool guy.
The art was a small hike up the side off the road and nestled inside a cave. There was also two more drawings that were outside of the cave and higher up on the side of the cliff.
After this, I headed back towards Solvang on the 154 going North. I noticed a sign for Cachuma Lake and Campgrounds, so I pulled over and checked it out. The place is pretty large. They have many full pull ins for RVs and have areas for tents and those tepee tents too. They also have a pool and lot of activities to do! I could only spend 15 min in the park and had to leave or else I would have been charged 8 dollars for a day use pass.

After that, I went into Solvang, parked and walked around. There were many shops! The Dutch Village has a lot to offer any type of shopper. I even saw performers dressed up as gypsy bellydancers giving a show and a small car show off to the side. I ate a light lunch at the Belgain Cafe and found an awesome antique store that was two stories high. I picked up an old 1908 postcard that had a Franklin perforated postal stamp on it. I was hoping it was the one that was worth $50 but after looking it was only worth 15 cents. I kept it anyway. There was a superb bookstore and lots of niknak things. I picked up something for my mother in law and my mom.
I did check out a Cheese and Chocolate shop. I was very tempted to pick up some real Danish Gouda. After about shopping and walking around for about 2-3 hours, I walked over to the Santa Inez Mission dated 1802. I took several pictures around it but they do not allow flash inside the building. I did not get to go inside the church area since Mass was about the start at 5.
I left at 5 so I could get back on time to get dinner started. It was nice. Randy grilled up the steak for me while I fixed up some broccoli.
I'm looking forward to next weekend!

Current Projects

2009-04-23T11:43:00.003-04:00

1. Still collecting postal stamps - I finally bought a 3 volume heirloom book set to put my stamps in. The nice thing is that Mystic sent me about 100 free stamps to go with it.

2. Drawing - I've picked up the pencil again and lately changed perspective. I'm trying out mermaids. One of my favorite fantasy creatures.

3. Good Reads - I've been reading a lot more this year and finally added some older books as well. I have a box full of new books from Florida to add and read.

Whats going on for the past months.....

2009-04-21T10:55:00.007-04:00

Just for the record, I will be blogging a little bit more since I have a tendency for having memory failure from time to time. The memories are there but I have trouble remembering the details and sometimes I miss an entire memory. I have to have someone tell me the things I have done as a child. I used to have great memory and stranger yet is when I remember things that other people don't remember.

From the 16th through the 30th of March, I spent time with my sister and her husband in Florida! I had a Grand time and of course did not want to leave. I mean who would want to leave Florida! Hahaha! If you were a person who was born and raised there and moved half way through your life, it is still called Home. I am a absolute water baby. The ocean there in the peninsula and further south is all warm. I got in and stayed in for a long time! Just a playing in the surf, pretending to be Superman letting the waves carry you and send you flying forward. And then your butt hits the sand floor and sand gets in places you didn't know you had!
Destin was pretty awesome. I ate at Hard Rock Cafe with Sarah and ate at The Bread place with my sister. I don't remember the name of it. I went to several antique shops, a few books stores, and even to a flea market.

Crestview (the place I grew up in) has grown very much so. Ed and I went for a drive one day and he treated me to lunch and we drove around some. At first, I didn't recognize the streets nor the area because over 20 some odd years the city is going to change. The old house I used to live in is now trashed and the area is the bad side of town now. I remember my friend Sarah and I used to play at the house with Barbie dolls and once we buried a time capsule under the tree in the side yard. I do not know if it is still there. Building a time capsule sounds like fun, I'd like to do it again. We drove by Grandma Orene's house that we used to visit a lot. Her house is over by Crestview High School. I have a lot of good memories from that house. It was upsetting to see that a Realtor lady had the place remodeled. The shape is the same in general but you can tell the difference and from the orange paint job. That house used to be brick with cute little bushes running down the sides off a paved little walkway to the road. There were pecan and fruit trees in the back and a huge gate section on the side of the house that had vines crawling all over it. It had roses and grapes covering it.

My favorite memory though was when Grandma and one of my mom's sister had steamed a large amount of shrimp that looked like to me at the time were the size of baseballs. I knew then shrimp is going to stick to my four food groups always. I loved to hear Grandma talk and she always called me Jenny. I still can hear her sometimes calling my name kind of like a tape recorder repeating itself. Sometimes, I feel like she comes back to visit and to see how her family is doing. I don't know if God allows them to come back and visit us but only he knows.

My sister and Ed cook quite a bit in their new home he had built. Most of the meals are healthy and tasty. Ed took me fishing a couple times and I love doing that. I love fishing! In the front of the house is a pretty good size lake with a Bass, trout and brim. Ed says he has seen some gator in there too but they are about 4 foot long. I caught two bass and Ed caught two as well and we all ate them for dinner one night. He showed me how to clean them too. I just need to learn to cook them now. We talked about going to the movies to see "Coraline" but are plans changed. We ended up watching American Idol, a lot of House shows and a movie called, "Carnival of Souls."
One weekend we had a storm. At one point, lightening came down the chimney while we were trying to watch TV. It was a quick flash and a boom and we were surprised it came down that close to us. We were sitting on the couch and the fireplace was in front of that.

Sarah and I got together a few times. We either had lunch together, went shopping at The Commons in Destin and went to the beach. We went into Crestview one day and spent time eating pizza, checking out both of our old houses and the places we used to go to as a kid. That has been one of my favorite memories I made with her that day. It was nice to catch up on old times. That evening we went to a gathering that Sally Yozviak invited is to. It was a great memory too! We had went to a church potluck at the Jordan's house and was able to see people I haven't seen in ages. People like Mrs. Philpot, Steve and Sally, Margie and her husband. There was another couple but can't remember their names. It was nice to find out what happened to my old buddies that I grew up with are doing ok and living in other areas of Florida. But it would have been more memorable if they were there such as Sam Yozviak and Maleah Jordan.

Another great memory was with Aunt Lottie. My sister, Ed and me all set up time to go see her. It ended up being a happier reunion than I expected. It was a wonderful surprise to see she planned out a potluck and invited others to come over. I was able to see my cousin Winston and his wife and 2 kids, Aunt Polly and her daughter Pollyanne and uncle Brenton and his wife. I hope I didn't forget anyone else. The food was great! They had the best green bean casserole I've ever had. And all the deserts were delish! The next day I spent time with Lottie and she took me all over place and went to visit several cemeteries, including Grandma and Grandpa's. It was neat to see Yellow river Cemetery since some of Grandma's mother and her family was buried there. I had taken a ton of pictures of the Barrow family until I tried to recently move them into my mini SD card in my cell phone. I learned the hard way even if you move them and thinking that deleting them from the cell phone that they would would be in the SD Card by then right? Not! So I lost almost all of my pictures! The only surviving ones are on the waterproof camera which are now in Walmart being processed. A few survived that are left in my cell. I've been after Randy to get a new camera for a while. Our current digital is big and bulky and getting old. It is having problems keeping the batteries charged and with that the pictures are unable to load using Vista on the computer. Anyway, Thank you to Lottie for just being there. It is so nice to get to know family again I have not seen in a long time. They show true southern hospitality.

Lets see....For Easter, I went to several practices for choir and we performed on Saturday night prior to Easter and we also performed on Easter morning for 4 different service times. After such, I ended up with a sore throat leading some kind of allergy - running nose, nasal drip backwards creates mucus and phlem....goes into chest area and creates some kind of yucky cough and hacks.
Well, I have had this problem for about a week and a half now. It is not as bad right now and is slowly dying off. Thank God!But I'd say that is my main reason why I did not go to the Easter gathering this year at the Grandparents beach house.

Recent events take us to Yosemite National Park this past weekend with Randy's mom Jeannie and her husband Ken. Lil and Todd went with us as well. I've posted pictures on my MSN Live Spaces and on Facebook. That was a fun trip. Me and Randy stayed the weekend with his mom and step dad in Coarsegold. It is about an hour to Yosemite. We spent the Saturday all day in the park walking around seeing the waterfalls and famous points of intrests and the tall trees. We had dinner in a nice restraunt with a large window view of Lower Falls. I ate swordfish for the first with cuscus and a type of tomato sauce with pilaf rice. Jeannie and Ken bought everyone us dinner. Thank you!!!! That was an awesome meal. I bought a few small things at their shops. A book, a new green hook with a compass on it, some postcards and a new link for my Italian charm braclet. It is almost complete, just need two more to go. I'd like to find one that has an "I love fishing" kind of thing to it. I'm hoping to return to Yosemite to do some real hiking and camping sometime!

Well it is time for me to close. I've been typing this up for a few hours and have to stop for now. Laundry has to be done, lunch time is coming soon which means Randy will be back for lunch in 40 minutes. Currently, we are staying on the Vandenberg FamCamp. We had to leave Lompoc for a week since they shut down RiverPark RV Campground to RVers for a Wine Festival. We are returning there by this Wednesday. Got to run now!

Dreaming!

2009-04-15T11:18:00.004-04:00

The room was pretty dark but not super dense. I could see a ton of rubbish that created mountains and small hills. Upon closer inspection, these mountains and hills were only made out of people's things like bikes, dolls, an old car and much more of the sort.
My husband and I were in a truck and driving through this maze of ugliness as if we were on a quest for treasure. He found old ramps that were half way buried in some of these heaps and upon looking up at the point of where we were there was no ceiling. We reached some sort of open old building and the only way to get up there was to climb on the hills of trash. Randy spotted an opportunity with one old ramp ahead of him and gunned the truck! We only flew a few meters but it sure felt like we were flying. The exhilaration had not ended yet. We both got our of the truck as it landed on an old floor being barely supported. We could have easily fallen over the old wooden planks. Surprisingly, the truck landed on a portion of the floor where a pedestal was holding it up. We both walked around and we had to climb a little higher and found rooms with more junk all over the place. He took one side of the room and I had taken the other. I finally stumbled upon a larger pile of books and thingimabobs and climbed as far it would go. This room we could not see a ceiling because it was the same color as the room blending in its own colors high above. I finally found a landing above this mountain and pushed myself to sit for a moment. I could below Randy was in some far corner looking for what we thought to have come for. Maybe we could follow an old legend and come across some secret money or a hidden stash of gold but instead we listened to an old wives tale about the place.
It was unbelievable where the story had lead us to. This stinking old place with junk piled high as the eyes can see. We heard of treasures but did not know what to expect. I stood back up and found a small path that lead to a giant chest of drawers and a room full of antiques. I had to push away a pile of junk to find this entrance! I saw things of all sorts on the table top of the dresser and most of it glittered. There were old indian relics, some sparkling diamond jewelry, some gold doubloons ( not many) below in the drawers there were money bills halfly crunched sticking out. There were much more than that just from looking at the antique dresser. You can see smaller drawers on the top of the desk. Each one had some kind of treasure sitting inside. The mirror that sat behind it all was filthy and everything sitting on the desk was dusty as if left to disentigrate.
My eyes widened from all the goodness that laid upon there and nearly fell backwards of shock.
I stepped back to the doorway and called down to my husband.
"It's here! It's here!" I knew he was down there and heard his say ok and after that was a tumbling of books and things being strewn everywhere. He was making his way to where I was up top. All I could find was a bag of cloth and started tossing the trove of assetts in the bag, carefully for the older items. Randy finally joins me and finds a cloth bag as well. We both are smiling as we had found a massive amount of riches.

The next scene appears as though we have returned to someone house and my husband has disappeared. I am on the run with my bag of goodies in one hand and fear sweeping through my body. There are men on the other side of the house talking.
"Find her! She can't be too far. Ya better hope they didn't find the Crown we've been looking for." Then the feet shuffled off. I thought I could hide the bag under the porch but one could see it from the angle I was at. So I picked up the bag again just in time as one of the men was rounding the corner. I darted around a rustic 50's GMC Truck and peered around. Coast was clear so I hopped in truck and put my bag beside and tore out of the property. The men came around the the front of the house as they watched turn up dirt revving out into desert country.

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Archaeology Colleges and some Christian Colleges

2009-03-01T02:54:00.003-05:00

Referencing College Link:
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-abr/abr-a025.html
How to be a Biblical Archaeologist

I don't know why I even bother sometimes looking at these websites. I look in hopes maybe I can go one of these days or dream about the perfect college. Archaeology has been one of my biggest dreams since I was little. I've had some courses with it already from a couple colleges and that is as much I have achieved. Transcripts are a pain to get with 5 colleges behind my belt. Someone told me today I could get unofficial scripts and have them sent to me and then fax them over. That might be cheaper? I should not be wallowing in self pity. And I need to stop crying... Getting married I feel sets me back for my dream. It may not be true but ever since we married my dreams just keep getting pushed further back. Besides it will be harder, as a married couple and I'm trying to go overseas for biblical digs. On a good note, being married has opened up the many different colleges I have attended so far. There may still be a possibility in archaeology studies through Lycoming College. But that requires to move to Pennsylvania. And we may still be going there around April time to visit. Who knows, only God. We both agree we want to get away from CA and make a new life somewhere else. Even Archaeology is number 1 on my list for studies, I'm really unsure what else I may like to do for a career. I need some other ideas that way I don't take away my marriage just because of science.
Now I did find this one college - http://www.nwc.edu/display/81 They offer some archaeology/ history classes online! Plus they have other possibilities for degrees especially if I do fall back for something else.
I ask for Prayer big time and any advice!

Commit your actions to the lord and your actions will succeed - Proverbs 16:3 NLT

Need a blanket?

2009-02-15T18:25:00.002-05:00

Ok, a little inspiration had hit me today while I was watching Anthony Bourdains Bizarre Foods on Travel Channel. I love chrochet and sometimes I wonder why it is an addicting hobby and why I do it. Just to suffice for boredom? Or is it because I need to be doing it to be helping others out. Anthony is in Ethiopa today and that reminded me that Africa/Ethiopia area could always use the help.

Besides I usually make a bunch of different blankets that I have no room for or where to put them. Most of the time I'm giving them away anyhow.

God gave me a great skill and I truly need to use my talents to help others.
I feel that way about singing but thats a different story.
So I am on the lookout on how or what address I need to send people there some of my blankets or anything else for that matter.
If anyone knows where I can get this information, that would be awesome! Thanks!

Day plans

2009-02-09T12:25:00.004-05:00

Wow! How time flies! Today is a Monday Feb. 9th of 2009.
Seems like every year becomes faster to go through.
Well, today I have a few plans to do.
Barney is going in to the vet this morning at 10:30 to get his stitches out. It has been 2 weeks already since he had his surgery to get an ugly tumor off his leg.
He seems to be alright, sleeps a lot! His thyroid is very low which causes a dog to not want to do much at all. But what do you expect from a 15 year old dog who does not care for playing any more. This morning I riled him up a bit. He loves towels! Especially after it rains and he gets a little wet from being outside. Bring out the towel, say "Towel" really loud and gets excited. It's funny and cute. He comes bounces up and rubs his head all over towel against your legs and I'm all rubbing him down from the rain and he just eats it up! He sometimes makes funny noises like he is enjoying the massage of the towel on his back.

I just realized I can't lift the dog up into the truck! Big dog, bad back....Called back ..rescheduled for tomorrow at 9am.

Randy is coming home later today so I know I need to pick up a few grocery items for his dinner meal at work. I have to hunt down my good boots. They have been missing for a while. That would not be good to go waste money on a new pair right away when they could be hiding in the trunk of the car.
Hey, the sun is coming out for a while! Maybe I'll go to the beach later on if it stays up!
I heard lightening this morning at 8am. Well food is done and I'll be back later.
^_^

God works miracles

2009-02-08T16:36:00.002-05:00

We are not alone in our quest for life. Be thankful for all circumstances!
God supplies all our needs. It is his grace that has freed us. - Micheal W Smith
Arise, let the church arise! Let the song arise!

In the midst of cleaning this aftnernoon, I'm in thought of how blessed we are.
Living in the circumstances we have now, we meet people everyday.
I am thankful, thankful for new people to come in our lives. Great people who touch our lives for the better. Thankful for neighbors who have God in their lives and are able to share with others. Those are Gods People, people with a mission to share what they have and hope to give to others.
I know there are more people like that in our world. It is amazing and touching to know they are that close to us. We just need to reach out and touch that hand.

New updates

2009-01-31T02:15:00.004-05:00

A few new notes:

1. My car window was smashed in by a flying rock, which was slinged by a mower this morning.

(front passenger side) Jan 30th 09

I'm filing a claim with the city and they are paying for damages.

2. Pennsylvania is a maybe still for the summer. We may be going out there to visit in April depending on Father in law and his wife.

3. March is pretty busy! One week I'll be house sitting for parents and right after I'll be in Florida for almost 2 weeks. Looking forward to that!

4. I'm not liking my new haircut. May need styling differently to get it look right.

5. Made a new friend - Shawn (Its a girl) Our neighbor. We have some things in common. I invited her to Thursday morning prayer walks with the other girls. We both listen to KLove, she is a born again Christian and has a pretty 17 month old girl. She is interested in going to Foursquare church with me.

College awaits!

2009-01-07T01:31:00.004-05:00

With recent news, we may be moving to PA within a couple months due to some family business on Randy's dads wife side. We have been offered a house big and beatiful by the river in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania with Rent Free! We would be taking care of the maintenance, our utilities and food. To do it all, we will need to find work too.
Tonight, I've been looking at colleges in the area.
I think it is meant to be! perhaps Fate....
My dream degree lays in archaeology and I found it at Lycoming College. Its 40 minutes away from the house!
Please pray if it truly is meant to be! ^_^

Christmas Time

2008-12-10T11:52:00.005-05:00

Well, I have not been playing much on the internet or even facebook. There have been other things going on and with Christmas coming up! This year has flown fast.

I'm looking forward to Christmas this year and seeing family. Randy tries to frown upon Christmas now. His whole problem is about being negative and saying he does not look forward to Christmas at all.

"It's just another holiday where people want to spend money and the stores seem to get worse every year packing in and hurting everyone else in the process." Quoteth the husband.

I can see his point there but it does not give him the assumption that everyone does this and I'm sure he realizes not everyone does. Yea, it may be his opinion and in a way I can agree that every year there are more people in the stores these days mostly doing what....SPENDING! If they want to do it, it's their thing and its something nor him or me need to worry about.

Growing up in a family with Christ in our lives and every year with Christmas rolling around, to me that is what it means. A time for family to get together and share about Jesus's birth. Gifts were given to Jesus as Frankensince, myre and something else by the sheperds LOVE. And it was only one gift from each sheperd. The sheperds did not go out to buy these. (They could have in their land) They came forth bringing their gifts showing Jesus how much they care.

Sometimes I wonder if my husband has forgotten what the true meaning of Christmas really means.

My hubby grew up as military brat and he claims Episcoplian. I just truly do not know if he has been born again. He gives off partly of his persona that he does not care about God or where he goes after death. He is a very laid back type of guy who loves different things and gets bored after a while. There is a lot more to him that makes him lovable.

All I can can do is create an environment in an place where we live comfortable for him and truly show him what Christmas means to me. I can always put up lights and have a small little tree but nothing really can change his attitude. So I am having to show him what needs to be remembered.

A little love can go a long way.

Fall Frenzy

2008-11-05T23:44:00.006-05:00

2 Corinthians 4:17
"Our troubles are small. They last only for a short time. But they are earning for us a glory that will last forever. It is greater than all our troubles."

New Goal:
I'm thinking of reading the bible to see how many of the word "praise" is listed. That would be an interesting goal. This will remind me to give "Praise" to the Lord instead of wallowing in my problems and guilt.

Whats going on now?
I'm having Rasberry Tea tonight and currently trying to pick a verse that really sticks out.
I went to the Foursquare Church of Lompoc tonight for a meeting. I am part of a team that is helping out with the 15th Annual Big Game Post Game Party on November 14th.

Past Recent Events
I volunteered at the Church Halloween Street Party as a way to serve the Lord and his children. I loved being there and getting to see all the kids come and play. I worked with another guy doing Ballon Bust. For some reason, it is the biggest game the past few years. Yes, we were ambushed! We ran out of ballons for a while. It was pretty hard for the smaller kids aiming for the last one or two that were left on the board for 30 minutes. But someone finally brought out more.

Upcoming Events
Christmas Choir practice starts on November 16th

Praise
I think I made a new friend named Sarah from church. She is a leader for Try your skills which is a game at the Post Game coming up. (Nov. 5th 08) Thank God for friends! I miss everyone!

Thoughts for Prayer
No matter how hard it is for employment right now, I really feel like I want to explode. I've tried everything almost around the area and I just want to cry and cry. I hate the fact that I had to leave my last job because of the husband getting a great job on the Air Force Base nearby. Sometimes, I really wish I could let him stay here while I go back home to my parents for a while. But that would be abandoning him. That would be very selfish of me to do so.
God help me!
I am sticking through it all and trying to help him where its needed. That is what Love is for.

I've been going through the Archaeological Bible some and finding some really neat things and much more. I would love to get back into studying Hebrew and Aramaic language.

For the love of anime

2008-09-17T18:58:00.001-04:00

Monday Morning

2008-09-15T12:26:00.003-04:00

Do you know what fog can do to your hair? It makes my hair curly and frizy. Maybe you are not the type that fog actually bothers you in general. Let me say this. I'm living in a 5Th wheel temporarily until December when we plan on buying a house. This morning I'm hopping out the door with the dog and almost every morning we have fog and it can be pretty dense at times. I'm waiting for Barney to do his business and of course I'm not looking down at all times.
Suddenly, my left foot sinks fast into the ground. I'm not panicking since I've been told there were holes everywhere on the base. This place is ground squirell haven! I was smart not to try and bend forward or my leg would have broken. The hole had come all the way up to my knee.
I just pulled my self out gently and kept walking with the dog, just slightly shaken up.

Vandenberg usually stays at 62 degrees and sometimes no higher than 80 during the day. We seem to have a constant little breeze here. In the evening and early mornings, it is very chilly. The beach is about a few miles away from where we are.

Moving Period

2008-09-03T01:38:00.004-04:00

Since no one really reads this blog, I decided to go ahead and update for myself.
Summer has mostly been about work. We did a little bit of fun things like go to Family events and only go to visit the beach once or twice. And that too was for family events inside a building. I managed to escape a little and walk around the sands of time. The ocean was very inviting in Cayucos even though it was slightly cold.
We did go to the Mid State Fair a few times and did not go see any concerts. I'm hoping to go visit a few graveyards that are in the Jardine area of Paso. There is a tiny little church with a white picket fence around it and in the back of it, you can see the head stones pop over the fence even while driving by. This would make a great black and white photo. I miss not having my camera with me. A little bit further down the road is another graveyard that just sits there on a corner where the roads bends down. Further down is Star Farms. I'll be there on the coming Saturday which I still need to hunt down a Hawaiin dish for.
Yea, it is getting late right now and probably should go to bed. I'm thinking of getting new software for Family Tree that will handle Vista. The current one I have does not support it.

Labor day weekened was nice! Spent Sunday going down to Vandenberg AFB and picked up honey and we drove not much around in his necck of the woods. Instead we relaxed together in the morning time and went for lunch. Went to San luis and he bought me a brand new laptop!
I'm using it right now! This is a HP Pavillion dv5. Has webcam built in and reads Blue Ray as well. That was a shock to both of us. The price was great. Came out to $810. I'm trying to get used to using Vista. It is different but I'm liking it.

Well, we spent Sunday evening playing some Guild Wars with Lill and Todd and then came back to Paso. Did some laundry, relaxing and hoped to use the spa. It was not working at the time.

I'm pet and house sitting for a while. Until Margaret and her hubby come home from their vacation. My last day of work is Sept. 12th and I have been bad and not worked on my resume lately. They have an addicting game here in the Wii. Mario Galaxy!

We are now covered with Medical Insurance through Randy's new job. Took us a long while to get it! I will have start looking for a new job soon too. I have not seen anything much that interests me in the Santa Maria area.
Time to go, getting late!

Changes are in the air!

2007-09-01T11:47:00.000-04:00

I've noticed Blogger is more quieter than myspace and will probably blog away on here more often. I will be changing up the layout pretty soon, this one is getting pretty old. Besides Mypace is much to populated and I had to change the privacy settings to public for some friends/family who wanted to read it. These people do not actaully have an account with Myspace and with the previous settings on it, only friends with an account can read it. I will be changing up the settings!
I will continue to post blogs there but they will be copied over to here. I do not garuantee to continue blogging at Myspace, I may just come back to blogger completely.
Ok. Besides letting you know about that, today is Saturday September 1st 2007 Labor Day weekend! I can't believe it is already September. My Birthday is coming up in 2 months and Thanksgiving and Christmas will be here soon as well.
Some of the changes I made this summer where taking down my domain name through Go Daddy. Gekkani does not exist anymore. The site is still there, a one pager apologizing to everyone. I was paying maybe 10 bucks for 2 years for it, which is worth it. However, with us moving we may not have the time nor the internet for a while to mess with it. I thought it was not worth working on the site for a while. Lately I've been wanting to start working on bits of it when there is time available. Of course, it would be "Why?" and "What would I put on it?" Nevermind my babbling, I'm still thinking about it.
These days I'm currently thinking about the Pure Romance Party I will be hosting for Danielle on the 21st. So far I've had many positive notes from people wanting to come. It may be a nice success! Today I'm suppose to finish up laundry cleaning and maybe some picking up in the kitchen. It is a must! Then I can plan the decorations and what to bring out for food.
Randy is in the shower and I'm sitting at the computer starving. LOL
Other future things include us preparing for the move in October. We have heard from Sheperd AFB and they are now past the first phase. That was all about making corrections. Now the 2nd phase is the last and I don't know what that includes. We know we should hear back what the verdict is in 3 weeks whats to happen. We could be out of here sooner.
My current plays: Neverwinter Nights
Tomb Raider Lost Artifact has been back burned again. I was playing it for a while until recently. Waiting for Sims: Cruise!
Current Reads: Mandy Series: The Talking Snowman
The 3rd book in the series.
Current Projects: A lapghan for Jeannie. It has 2 different purples.
Fav Current Shows: Stuff on Disney, Ghost Hunters.....
Current Netflix Movies: Dead Like Me Season 2 Disc 1 & 2, Escaflowne and Mermaid Forest
How is Work? Morning shifts. 7-330 most days or 11-7 on a couple days and once a week it's 6am-130
That is about it for now. I have pancakes cooking!

Reading the Bible ~Changing it to the way I can understand it

2007-02-26T12:00:00.000-05:00

Leviticus 19:4
"Do not turn to Idols, nor make for yourself molded gods: I am the Lord your God."
English version:He is a Jealous God. He wants to be number in your life. Why do we put other things before him in the first place? Because we are human! It is a choice we make, good or bad ones at that. We just have to decide who or what is more important. Like he says, you either "Walk in the Flesh or Walk in Spirit."

Lev 19:3
"Honor your father and mother."
English version:
This is a very simple commandment. Notice the Bible says nothing about "Honor your parents if you think they deserve it." Your parents are human too and may have had many mistakes. You cannot just say, "I was their mistake." This does not make you any better. God still expects you to honor them anyway. Young people who hate their parents and do not respect them have allowed a rebellious attitude (spirit) to enter their lives. This is ultimatly not against their parents but against God who gave them their parents. This sin leads right into deep psychological problems and other tragedies.

Lev 19:13
"You shall not cheat your neighbor, nor rob him."
Lev 19:18
You shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord."

English Version:
People who are healthy naturally take care of themselves and do those things that are in their own interest. This is how God wants us to think about and care for others close to us. In a sense, if you steal from neighbor, your stealing from yourself. If you are friends with that person, things can make matters worse. What if your not friends with them? Well, you don't seem to care at all ~ meaning you dont seem to care nor respect Yourself. A person who does this literally, they dont love themselves. God wants us to love ourselves first before we can love others. Meaning, take care of yourself!

Lev. 19:16
"You shall not go about as a talebearer among your people, nor shall you take a stand against the life of your neighbor. I am the Lord."
English Version:
Hello Gossipers! This goes for those who also are critical or judgemental, backstabber ones as well. Well this is how I am understanding this verse. Hmm. What exactly is a talebearer? They tell Tales, go around maybe spread some rumors or even mock others because we look, smell, believe in something you don't like. The second half of this...I misunderstood at first. I thought it should be ok to stand up for those you love. I'm thinking if you love your neighbor as yourself and someone else pops in the picture to hurt them of any sort, wouldn't you stand up for them? Or try to protect them? Then again this may also be saying, "Do not rise up and be against this person just because they are human." We tend to be critical or judgemetal about any issue with anyone just because. You could say they don't like this person because they suddenly change and we don't know how to take it. So we automatically click into "safe mode" and guard against it. Then you will be wondering what happened to "Love thy neighbor as yourself" and you will be going "huh." What happened? Where is the peson I used to know? We are all humans! If you love or care for someone, we should not be critical or judgemental towards them. If you are good person, why not get to know someone for who they are. Not for what they do, believe in or have. Now that is true friendship.

There are many other quotes I can pick out but these were a few that were interesting.

Dreaming

2007-01-25T14:26:00.000-05:00

Ok, I'm still waking up and it's almost 9 in the morning. Contiplating shower....or coffee sounds good too. I remember one of my dreams the other night. I actually thought yarn had wrapped itself around our bedroom fan and it was everywhere. The faster the fan went the higher the yarn would wrap up so I became scared that something would happen. I woke up and sat in bed and looked at the fan. But I thought I was still subconsiously under a dream since I thought I was seeing the yarn going up still. ~WEIRD~
So I remember getting out of bed and going down the hall grabbed a pair of scissors came back laid them down on the dresser and realized there was no yarn at all in our bedroom. So I went back to sleep. What is up with that?
Conclusion:
What ever I tend to do during the day it tends to sneak into my very vivid dreams.
On this day in particular I began to self teach myself on knitting and did not succeed. However, It inspired me to start working on a crochet blanket.

I also remember one in particular when we were on our way back here and sleeping at Uncle Dennis's house in Idaho. The dream seemed very real. And it took place in the same room we were staying in. It started out feeling awkward as if someone was staring at you in the same room. You can feel their presence but could not see them at all. Something was in the same room with me. Just like a rushing wind, I was blasted to another place as if Time traveling was possible. I found myself in a huge cemetary with marbalized columns for a monumental building. I could see the shadows of people everywhere in the building, some looked like children, some elders. But when you try to chase them down to speak to them, they disapear. I found a larger room that looked like the upside down stairways you would see in the movie "Labyrinth." I could not see the person but they spoke to me loud and clear. Frantically I looked around and saw no one. The voice just told me to stop and calm down. I looked in one spot upon one of the high stairawys and saw a vivid haze. Kind of like what you would see from heat rising from a car but this took shape of a person.
He spoke kindly and I did not feel too afraid but my heart was still pounding. He said to me,"Do not be afraid, we are all the same here. I am your father's father. The Father, the son and the Holy Ghost."
Why did I see this? And now?! Jesus has arosen?
He slowly appeared before me as a human but still seemed fuzzy. He walked closer towards and told me something special.
"You have a talent, use it wisely. You have the ability for a sixth sense. You can see them clear as day. I love you."
Then he disapeared before my eyes. At first I was not sure what he meant by sixth sense until I walked outside of the building.
For miles over the headstones and right by the doorway to the open grassy knolls on the other side of the fence where people. They looked pale to the touch and icy when you touch them. To my surpise, as I walked through a mess of them, they would slip right through my hand when I tried to touch the shoulder of an elder. I knew right then I was going to go see my grandparents below figuring they would be walking around too beside their graves. My dream ends there as I'm walking away to find them.
~WEIRD~
Conclusion:
No clue! This dream had me spooked. I've had a few personal experience in my life with ghosts and spirits and through what I was raised upon with Christianity. It reminded me of a scripture that talked about God letting Saul or someone look into a Supernatural Occurance. He has opened a window briefly to let the other guy see what was going on. There was a great war or a giant supernatural battle going on between good and evil. And they guy actually saw it breifly. I thought this may relate to it but don't know. Maybe God can show us things in our dreams....and if he can that means Evil Satan can do the same.
Other than than I can think of the few times I have actually seen spirits/ghosts neadering in places at times. I have felt their presence and heard footsteps and knocking...you name it. I have tried to debunk the attempts many times. Well it could also mean that I saw a vision of what may happen when the Lord is coming back and he raieses the dead. But who knows.....Any thoughts?

In the long run, I have always had vivid dreams and sometimes I reanacte some of those dreams or nightmares. My husband has caught me several times from jumping over him, springing up in bed and screaming. In the mornings I don't remember a thing unless I actually fell on the floor, I will feel the pain the next moring. If you ever see my right wrist I have scars from where I had shattered my wrist. That was from diving off the bed. I am not crazy it is things I cannot really control when my body is asleep and my brain gettting creative. Time for me to get up and eat breakfast.
~Chow

Whats going on?

2006-11-15T11:21:00.000-05:00

These days I'm tired a lot and enjoying my days off. Work is work and sometimes it can get pretty bad with customers when you are in retail. That is why I am glad to come home everyday and relax. I received a game yesterday in the mail. I was surprised at first to see a box thats said Amazon on it sitting by the door. I thought it was an order I had placed just a couple days ago. Inside, I tore that box apart and had a huge smile finding out it was Legends the new Tombraider game I've been drooling over. My parents had sent it to me for my Birthday. Yesh! Thanks!
Recently I has won a $50 gift certificate at the BX for best Halloween Costume.

It was pretty fun putting together and it was my husbands idea! But I spent the money towards presents for family. We still have another Birthday coming up for this month and Christmas is just around the corner.
I'm really missing some friends back in Louisiana. I have not been able to use my talents here with a church and I'm sure missing out with the Band back there. The group finally came up a Band Name: LionsBait. This is the group with Erin, Dallas, Kenny, Kat....
I've been adding some new friends to myspace.com/jenni_chan
Ryan joined in recently. Other than that it is morning time and I have to get up and get ready for work. Blah! And I'm sleepy still. Another Blog soon to come! Chow~

Back to basics

2006-09-27T10:56:00.000-04:00

Well, I'm back online finally and we have moved into our base house. And boy, have I missed the internet at will! I also started playing Xbox Game Fable lately. It is a very fun RPG that may get addicting, lol. I do have work today from 1130 to 7. Long hour day which means I have to pack a lunch.
Also I've been thinking about my brother. I know that he is having a hard time with some things and I've called him a few times. I just hope he doing alright.
The new movie we just picked up is Tokyo Drift - Fast and the Furious. It came out on the 26th Sept. 06. It was a fun movie and with a last minute surprise guest star Vin Diesel!
I'm also waiting to buy Legends-Tombraider for our Xbox 360. Its still a pretty penny, hoping price will go down over the year. It is prety sad though. We bought the 360 not long ago, maybe a few months back and we still have not bought any games for it.
Well, I need to run for now and probably still work on cleaning up and organizing the kitchen from all the boxes. The house is very messy with boxes everywhere. I wil try to write some more later on.
Also I did put up a new layout for blogspot, I like it. I do collect Collector Barbie Dolls on occasion.

Back to Blogger for a while

2006-08-11T18:23:00.000-04:00

Ok, I'm finally able to get online at Randy's supervisors house. Well we made it to Montana and the view's here are nice! I finally got a job with Aafes AGAIN! I'll be working in Powerzone for about 30 hours a week. At least it is something.
Otherwise things are ok here. We are staying in a nice 5th wheel at the FamCamp next to the base. I miss the internet! I started beading again. Already bored, got to run and finish up some other things. Miss everyone!

Rainy days ahead

2006-04-25T09:11:00.000-04:00

I am plenty tired still. Another strange dream last night. I hardly write much in this blog, I'm writing more over at myspace.
http://www.myspace.com/40573879
I will be getting a new name for it soon instead of the numbers. This is a temp.
Randy's ticker on the computer said he has 16 days left till he is out of AGE and leaves for tech. However he leaves May 14th for Tech school.
The weather is like a fog today just lots of overcast grey clouds. Its going to be one of those blah days. I hope everyone is doing ok. Spiritually, I've been battling things of this world that I can't understand. I actually thought it was a harmless game. I honestly didn't think Tarot was a form of divination until I looked at a book that came with it. Immediatly, I did remember something in the bible pulled it out and surprisingly the way I had opened it was open to the Ten Commandments. I dont remember what number it was but it was in there. Thou shall not PRACTICE any art of divination. Honestly God had intervined immediatly and saw that I needed to see it now. It scared the holy living crap our of me and took the items and locked them up for good! Serves me right for nosing into something like that. I asked for forgiveness and even had the associate pastor pray with me this past weekend. This way I can fight any temptations.

Other than that, things have not changed much. The house has been hard to keep up with. It looks like a tornado rammed through scattering stuff all over. I'm tired a lot when coming home and then spend time with the honeys or cook dinner. Its been difficult living in a constant mess. I seem to get depressed easily some days because of the condition the house is in and every once ina while I want to stay home and sort through things which is nearly impossible with this full time job. I would love a miracle right now and could need some patience until he leaves and when I'm out of work. My last day is not until June 15th, wish it was earlier than that. Keep us in prayer from the insanity of our house mess! ARGH!

Back to work for me!

Dreaming

2006-03-17T11:23:00.000-05:00

I had the strangest dream last night. This is what I can remember and its kind of in peices. If you can understand it that would be great because I would love a translation! ^_^
I was on the cell talking to my husband and driving a long stretch of road...a very long road. Last thing I told him...I have to do this on my own...I will be back. And he stayed put where he was and supported me while I was gone..........blank for a while...........

Then I came to a building. It kind of looked like a church. I met some new people inside and one female just glared as if she was facing competition. It was funny because it was for singing in a group or band for a new church and here I was already feeling welcomed except for that one person. Eventually in one of the scenes we almost had a mud slinging fight but I left her in the dust running towards the exit. I came to a barred door got on the other side of it and slammed it shut.

Up came running I could have sworn was her! She transformed into a cute black dog with big eyes. .....................I just left her behind the gated door looking at her sadly the dog just sat there panting with a grin. I turned around and against the wall was an old fashioned piano. My dream ended as I began to play by ear on the piano.

MOVING

2006-03-10T12:07:00.000-05:00

Dear Friends!
We are soon to have a change of address. Military is now moving us to Maelstrom AFB, Great Falls, Montana. We have to be there no later date than July 31st 06. I am planning to quit my job around Mid-May, hoping my husband will agree to it. That is the best news I have gotten in the last 30 minutes while being at work. Thank you God!

Weekender

2006-03-06T16:47:00.000-05:00

Well, the weekend went pretty nice. Saturday, Randy and I went out together when he got home from work. He was lucky to get home that day early probably around 3 or 4. I had Rick and his wife come over. Rick does yard service for a career right now. He had his wife come and help a little since our backyard is pretty big. She is not allowed to do to much since they just found out she is 9 weeks pregnant. (I can’t wait to stop taking the pill) Well anyway, right now our backyard is sooo much nicer now. I was surprised to see we had green grass still underneath the cover of leaves, pine straw and mostly gum balls! He will be helping me again after next payday to help me with the front yard.
I can now enjoy the trampoline again too. I’m looking at buying a sun chair for the back porch since I’m not sure where the hammocks are at.
Well, me and the honeys went out that afternoon some hoping to find a leather cover for our new Creative Zen Mp3 player. Of course, we had no luck at either Circuit City or Best Buy. He also wanted to find a case for the 17 inch laptop. We had a little trouble finding the one he wanted. He gave his previous laptop and he bought a different one for himself. At least we both have one now for classes and such. They both have internet!
Now I’m just trying to get motivated to work on my website……
We went to Chef Lee’s that afternoon for lunch, yummm!
We spent some of the day together watching a few movies and I cleaned up the kitchen table and some. I also played with some stickers Lisa had sent me. Church was interesting on Sunday. We had a Russian preacher lady and her translator. At times the spoke at the same time and it was hard to catch on to what she was saying. I did enjoy her sermon though. It reminded to open the bible more these days and look more into Corinthians. One of my favorite scriptures is Psalms139. Psalms is mostly poems, writings and songs. This is one I’d say is writing about how God created us from the mother’s womb and knows every single hair on our head. He knows when we are getting up and sitting down; he knows so much about us. And we as his children sometimes forget about how God needs to be our first priority in our lives. Either way it is a really nice chapter!
Well, it is almost break time and I’m at work anyway with not much going on. I’m going to search for some online quizzes to put on myspace and blogger sometime today. I’d like to work on my website but really when I start to I get distracted. And it is a rather difficult to do that kind of thing during work hours, bad me! LOL I have to find some html to fit in links to the different pages. Chow for now!

Short term memory loss

2006-03-03T11:23:00.000-05:00

I am having a terrible time with short time memory. It seems to affect my work at times which is bad. I need help any advice would be great! Help!

Food

2006-02-27T14:20:00.000-05:00

I have not blogged much and really have not had any motivation. But I finally have a few photos to post up. We had went Shoguns last Saturday for honey's birthday and our anniversary. It was still good food but bad service this time. There are 2 photos. One from this year and one from last year. Jillian went to both and this year, Rita went to last years and Myles went with us this year. He just hates being in photos. Strange boy, lol.

My honey is now back on day shift! That is something to be happy about. This years photo is with him in the white t-shirt.

Update

2006-02-15T11:29:00.000-05:00

Just wanting to update a little. I put up a new layout from Cazz's place. I love her style! I wrote a new story, well the beginning of one. It is posted below. Nothing really new here at home. I'm waiting for changes in our sleep schedules. Thank God his Mid-shift ends this Thursday! I received a Valentines card from my sister yesterday. Very pretty, I love it! Thanks! I have been working on cards actually since the past weekend so our eating table is covered in scraps and junk. The only time I get to work on cards is before work and a little in the evening. I'll be lucky to finish these this week. I have one day off coming up on the 24th. Feb is going fast. Pray we will get out of this state! My hands have been acting up with excema.

Old Manor Road

2006-02-14T15:46:00.000-05:00

Prologue

Dust had not settled on the long straight road ahead. Weeping willow trees hung close to the road grieving their long branches into the slight breeze. The temperature dropped to a frigid coldness leaving a damp touch to the surrounding area. A fog rolls in quickly and everything changes into a cloudy pillow billowing at the seams. Patches of fog lift to reveal a clear area and out yonder; one can see a river with more fog raised off the water creeping outward. A covered bridge lies ahead as darkness engulfs underneath its hood.

You see there is a mystery, an unsolved murder perhaps that befalls on this road. Even the scent of this place is well known for its musky breathes. But further on down the road there is a large estate, known as Dallons Manor. Not many people venture to the place since they do not know what could be inside. Is the house just as creepy as the long walk down its driveway?

Military-good or bad?

2006-02-09T14:53:00.000-05:00

If you have someone in the military, you already know what kind of life they bring home.
I really do not talk much about my husband's career at all, which is best if I did not. These days however bring unhappiness that surrounds his schedule with work. This also affects my schedule as well. For some who do not understand mid-shift is short for the graveyard shift. Work usually begins either at 11pm or 12pm and does not end until 7 or 8 am. When he gets home he mostly goes straight to bed and sleeps until 5pm. Some days he will come in and stay up some either watching TV or work on the computers.
The tricky part is spending times with him. I have a full time job as well; however I am on days. Normal hours for me last 8am till 5pm, except on Fridays it is till 3pm. Regularly, I wake him at 5 so that we can eat and do something together until he starts to get ready for work at 10pm. Most of this time it is about sacrificing my free time or hobby time to spend it with him. I don’t look at it as a bad thing; it’s just a time of less activity in something I really enjoy doing. Yes, it really does make me feel depressed often, I am hoping for the better when this schedule is over. I have heard recently he will soon be off the mid-shift by the 18th of this month of February. The next thing we hope to hear is good news that we get to leave Louisiana and to a different base. That would be great! I look at is if you love him enough you have to stick with him. It would go the other way as well. I’m just trying to be there and support him. When he comes home or wakes up, I will have at least made him dinner and ready to spend time with that person. Even some nights he will go into the computer room to watch one of his shows, those are the nights he tells me to relax and join him or take some free time. The moral of this story love goes a long way. Stick to the ones who have it rougher than you and just be there for them, even if takes away some of your free time. Besides when that type of schedule is over, you will soon be able to enjoy time together so much, you will want space away!

Neo-referall program

2006-01-27T15:47:00.000-05:00

Click on the fairie doll to join neopets! It's fun and addictive!

Newest things

2006-01-23T19:07:00.000-05:00

Yes, I am finally blogging and it has been a while. I've been to see the new Narnia movie and King Kong twice. Plus work has been very rough and stressfull the last week. The newest anime I am in to is Full Moon O Sagashite. I've seen the anime and now I'm starting to read the manga.

Defenitly a favorite. You can always go to Ebay.com and check it out under Full Moon wo Sagashite. I bout the whole dvd collection there for a good price.
Other than that my hubby is on mid-shift this month and I'm on days and the time we see each other is evening for a few hours and maybe some on weekends. We are both looking forward to getting out of Lousiana.

Crime rates have literally grown higher because of the Hurricane in the south. A lot of the New Orleans evacuees have come here. Most recently I have heard the mayor (of Orleans) has stated that they will start re-building New Orleans for the African American's only apparently. This is totally is bogus and is racist! Belive me I am grumbling! All the hatred and pride people need to let go or they will be comsumed by their own hatred.
Chow for now.

Weekend

2006-01-17T12:09:00.000-05:00

Busy days at work ahead. I bought new bathroom cabinet doors this past weekend. They were on clearance. They were originally $257 for the smaller and the 60 by 22 was around $400. However the manager for that area wanted to get rid of them pretty badly so he sold them to me for $100 for the smaller and $111. for the bigger one. The bad part is waiting for a weekend to install them. For the time being the small is in the master bath in the corner and the big one sits in the front door hallway. Well its time for lunch, soyonara!

Sims Floorplans

2006-01-09T14:21:00.000-05:00

I really haven't blogged much lately. It has actually been busy for a Monday at work, even though the other guys have not been here much. I started playing the Sims again last night and I'm enjoying just building right now more than playing characters. I'm working on the floorplans that Randy and I picked out for our house. It was on a modular home floorplan website and we loved it so we picked it out. So I'm just trying to play with it some on the Sims game to see what it would actually look like for fun. Of course, as soon as I got to the second floor, Randy tells me the front door is actually on a different side and I have been looking at the floorplans differently. Dear Lord, now I got to undo most of the house and re-change things around. I will post up a picture of it later on tonight. Great, I got to run and try to fix the stupid scanner. Its acting up.

Holidays

2006-01-04T09:39:00.000-05:00

I have not talked much since before Christmas. It is the holidays and things sometimes get rough. Most of the holidays I've been kind of sick. Christmas weekend I had such a bad head cold plus what seems to be a fever. I havent felt like that in a long time. I layed down most of the time and Randy piled blankets on me to sweat it out. But we enjoyed each others company and we still made a little dinner. He got me Kay's Jewelry - quarter karat stud diamonds earrings and a metal detector. I plan on having fun with that. I also received a few things from my brother and sister and the parents. That was really nice of them! We ended up sending Chrstmas presents a little late and most of them this year were those gift packages from Walmart and a dvd to go. We try to not spend too much on the holidays this year since the news of the year comes in May.
We are just waiting to hear back from Military where exactly they are sending us. It will either be Luke AFB or somewhere in Florida. I'd love to go to Arizona! Its closer to my grandparents and cousins.
For New Years we ended up watching "Fun with Dick and Jane." Now things are getting a littl normal. Back to work as usual and this time no school to worry about. I still need to call everyone and thank them for the gifts. ^_^

Garfield

2005-12-14T07:50:00.000-05:00

Added a new Garfield strip. Thought this was cute! I'm getting ready for work this morning. I'm feeling some better just a a very hurtful scratchy throat now. I am hungry! Got to run and get some food! Yum!!!

Christmas cheer

2005-12-08T14:42:00.000-05:00

This is a good one. Since right now I feel kind of sick and some cheering up some do me some good.

Gone Neo

2005-12-07T15:20:00.000-05:00

It is pretty bad when your hooked on to something. Lately I can't seem to put down neopets. It took me a while to earn enough neo-points to put my pet through Mystery Island's 1st course in levels training. You need like 5,000 so neopoints to buy the codestone they require for payment.
I plan on buying that sweater today at Stage this evening before they close. I still need to clean house some more. I got some help from Randy last night with putting dvd's in the large box. That corner unit of the house is now dvd case-free. Bored as I may be, just can't write too much. Still at work.

Plans for today

2005-12-06T08:25:00.000-05:00

I have not blogged in a while. Guess there has been some things going on. There is no college to worry about now except the that Randy is home now when I get home from work. I like to be home when he is home. I had a little too much freedom when he was gone, did some work around the house but not enough. I took advantage most nights to play Neopoets and even forgot to do the dishes for a whole week. The house is semi-messy. It will need to be cleaned this week before any company comes over this weekend.
Today is some what planned. Bill is out for another day out of the office so today may slow down at work. Jay will keep me busy which is good and I will find some kind of project. I will need to hit a 99cent store today after work. I want to make my my own paper box rather than spend 20 dollars on one at Hobby Lobby. Randy thought it would be cheaper and he told me to get creative and me make my own. I'd like to find all the parts then.
The weather is freezing in the morning too. Imagine Louisiana, getting cold! I actually need to get a new soft cap (snow hat) to keep the cold breeze from hitting the ears. Then I also would like to get a few new sweaters. I noticed a few old ones are falling apart and besides I've had them since Jr. High. That's nuts! I better go for now. Grab a little bit of coffee and play a little. Hugs!

How do Rumors really get started?

2005-11-30T14:46:00.000-05:00

This one time I played a game at a baby shower about a how rumors get started. The host will think of a simple sentence and pass it to the first person in line. The host can only say it once. Then that person who they told will have to tell it to the next person sitting to them. And so on and so on....At the end the last person has to say it out-loud what was said. Most of the time, the sentence will come out so funny and different from what the original was said.
You could say that I've heard my fair share of rumors and there is one going around my workplace which is really stupid. I just thought it was funny to hear someone say today that "She's a medium of some-sort, into ghosts." That kind of blew me a new fuse. I am not into that kind of thing at all, in fact it was twisted wording, lol.
There is very little interest in ghosty phenomena now. On occasion it's maybe playing with a voice recorder and maybe capturing funky photos and that is it! I would love to find the starter of the trouble maker and poke his eye out. Or at least give him a good talking to. I am sure of and positive I am no freaking Medium! As a Christian, I just can't do that kind of thing, nor can I go around and poke the guy's eye out. But I will not be pushed over either by some stupid rumor. For those who want to say something about someone, please go to the persons mouth and get it from them! Otherwise you will have quite a time dealing with embarassement and other people's stupidity.
Other than that, today has been fine with work. I'm keeping busy updating vendors and such.
It is almost CHRISTMAS! I did pretty up the house some. I have red garland around the poles and made a christmas table and put up a small tree. I did some shopping already but just not done. We are looking at gift sets this year for presents. We have to watch what we soend if we are getting things ready for a move. Better go for now. Byee.

Japanese food!

2005-11-22T13:08:00.000-05:00

Shoguns was great and with a friends even better! This was Jill's first time at a Japanese Grill. She loved every little bit especially the teriyaki chicken! Rita enjoyed the food as well! I love the fact we can share moments like this with friends.

Birthday!

2005-11-18T07:47:00.000-05:00

My sis told me when brother hit 30 he had a crisis. I hope I don't do the same. Today is just another ordinary day, besides the fact I just turned 29 this morning. What will next year bring? No big plans at all for today. I have to work full hours till 5pm, meaning I'll have to do grocery shopping tomorow. Commisary closes early. So I'll be at home with this sinus head cold while Randy is at work. He is on Mid-shift, which is 3pm to 12pm. He does not like the hours but the work he doesn't mind. It keeps him away from the jerks from day shift.
Tonight is a no brainer, no plans except to pick up house and get it ready for Saturday's Stampin Up party. We have about 8 people showing up, then afterwards we are eating at Shogun's for a birthday dinner at 6pm. So this weekend won't be so bad. I booked tickets for Sunday's 5:10 showing for Harry Potter's 4 movie! I can't wait to see it! I better go and get to work.

Pics from this year

2005-11-16T23:06:00.000-05:00

Nov 15th 2005
Auburn Red hair!

2005 Halloween outift

Garfield swallows a fly

2005-11-16T08:25:00.000-05:00

My morning with Garfield! Garfield.com is the best place if you want Garfield in your morning inbox to make you smile!

To some phenomenal women

2005-11-15T23:47:00.000-05:00

Don't Break the Elastic
In April, Oprah interviewed Maya Angelou on her 70+ birthday. Oprah asked her what she thought of growing older. And, there on television, she said it was "exciting."
Regarding body changes, she said there were many, occurring every day...like her breasts. They seem to be in a race to see which will reach her waist, first. The audience laughed so hard they cried.
She is such a simple and honest woman, with so much wisdom in her words!
Maya Angelou said this:
- "I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."
- "I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights."
- "I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life."
- "I've learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as "making a life."
- "I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance."
- "I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back"
- "I've learned that when ever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision."
- "I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one."
-"I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back."
- "I've learned that I still have a lot to learn."
- "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Please send this to five phenomenal women today. If you do, something good will happen: You will boost another woman's self-esteem. If you don't...the elastic will break and your underpants will fall down around your ankles!

Help! Pray for peace and a maid!

2005-11-13T15:30:00.000-05:00

I really like it when people leave comments but I really do not appreciate people leaving advertisement (credit, viagra stuff...) in them. If you want to talk business send it to my email, thank you!

On another note, I've been so moody today. I'm aggravated at things around the house mainly. I blame myself for not thinking if we had all the equipment for our projects. I should have thought about a detailed sander beforehand. We looked in a lot of places today to find and now I'm waiting on an idiot online to answer my question before I buy it from him. I really need a sander within 2-3 days. We have company coming saturday and I'm worrying about this house so much right now. I'm upset that every single room is a mess or a disaster. Yea, we can only do so much in one day but I have a husband that is more concerned with his own project than helping me out around here. If he gets that done he better help me out some when he's done. Sorry I need to get things off my chest.

Teacher's Musicbox

2005-11-12T17:49:00.000-05:00

Teacher's Musicbox

One busy saturday

2005-11-12T16:40:00.000-05:00

Reconstruction of the small bethroom has begun. Today I'm sanding all the old paint of the cabinets and this is taking quite a while. It has 2 layers of paint. I am hoping that by tomorow I'll be able to stain it. With how time consuming it all is, this project will take a few days. When Randy was looking for nails he started complaining and I pretty much told him he leaves things out so much I end up cleaning up. He took it as I had called him a slob bluntly. Looks like we will need to make amends tonight. I was nice though when I went to get a few knobs and holders for the cabinets, I came back with lunch for him.
He too is working outside today building a speaker box. I better not complain, preferably it woul dbe nice if he was working on the bathroom. Lately, I've been feeling that work around the house is my job, mainly picking up and cleaning after both of us. I just aggravated when it seems like he does not pull some of the weight around the house. He does help on occasion but I have to give him a push sometimes, especially if we are going to have company. It is nice to have things finished and feel that accomplishment. For me I have a hard time with patience, always trying to get things done or picked up. Lord, I need patience and strength to keep me cool. Please keep us in your prayers. Thanks everyone!

What is in your name?

2005-11-10T16:28:00.000-05:00

You can take a look at what is in your name at: http://www.paulsadowski.com/Numbers.asp
It's just a fun little game and it reads your name and it can tell you some pretty accurate things. Even the birthday one, which I like better: http://www.paulsadowski.com/birthday.asp

This is what it said about my name though:

There are 18 letters in your name.Those 18 letters total to 83There are 5 vowels and 13 consonants in your name.
Your number is: 11
The characteristics of #11 are: High spiritual plane, intuitive, illumination, idealist, a dreamer.
The expression or destiny for #11:Your Expression number is 11. The number 11 is the first of the master numbers. It is associated with idealistic concepts and rather spiritual issues. Accordingly, it is a number with potentials that are somewhat more difficult to live up to. You have the capacity to be inspirational, and the ability to lead merely by your own example. An inborn inner strength and awareness can make you an excellent teacher, social worker, philosopher, or advisor. No matter what area of work you pursue, you are very aware and sensitive to the highest sense of your environment. Your intuition is very strong; in fact, many psychic people and those involved in occult studies have the number 11 expression. You possess a good mind with keen analytical ability. Because of this you can probably succeed in most lines of work, however, you will do better and be happier outside of the business world. Oddly enough, even here you generally succeed, owing to your often original and unusual approach. Nonetheless, you are more content working with your ideals, rather than dollars and cents.
The positive aspect of the number 11 expression is an always idealistic attitude. Your thinking is long term, and you are able to grasp the far-reaching effects of actions and plans. You are disappointed by the shortsighted views of many of your contemporaries. You are deeply concerned and supportive of art, music, or of beauty in any form.
The negative attitudes associated with the number 11 expression include a continuous sense of nervous tension; you may be too sensitive and temperamental. You tend to dream a lot and may be more of a dreamer than a doer. Fantasy and reality sometimes become intermingled and you are sometimes very impractical. You tend to want to spread the illumination of your knowledge to others irrespective of their desire or need.
Your Soul Urge number is: 8
A Soul Urge number of 8 means: With an 8 soul urge, you have a natural flare for big business and the challenges imposed by the commercial world. Power, status and success are very important to you. You have strong urges to supervise, organize and lead. Material desires are also very pronounced. You have good executive abilities, and with these, confidence, energy and ambition.
Your mind is analytical and judgment sound; you're a good judge of material values and also human character. Self-controlled, you rarely let emotions cloud judgment. You are somewhat of an organizer at heart, and you like to keep those beneath you organized and on a proper track. This is a personality that wants to lead, not follow. You want to be known for your planning ability and solid judgment.
The negative aspects of the 8 soul urge are the often dominating and exacting attitude. You may have a tendency to be very rigid, sometimes stubborn.
Your Inner Dream number is: 3
An Inner Dream number of 3 means: You dream of artistic expression; writing, painting, music. You would seek to more freely express your inner feeling and obtain more enjoyment from life. You also dream of being more popular, likable, and appreciated.

Bury the Burdens

2005-11-07T07:33:00.000-05:00

I finally buried one of my burdens this weekend. After talking with Sis, a lot of questions and answers were made clear. I took the item literally and buried it in the backyard and then said a small prayer. Lord, forgive me.
But it was amazing that I actually felt better afterwards. I don't want to personally have to deal with the situation again or face a temptation that is hard to bury. Literally it helps yourself to see what that item that has become an addiction and to bury it deep in the earth where it belongs. There are way to many things that may consume us that keeps us away from seeing God the way he wants us to be. He wants to be in full control in our lives and us up to us to let him in our hearts.
So when we bury that burden, God is lifting us up and we can feel that burden being lifted off. We may not be able to bury a big tv, lets says its an addiction to a tv maybe the best bet is to cancel the subscription. lol Till next time...
Thanks sis.

Surgery

2005-11-04T23:02:00.000-05:00

After yesterday I really do not want to get my the one left over wisdom tooth pulled. It's fine where its at. My right cheek is the size of a baseball but my left is ok, a little puffy but the other one is huge. they probably had more trouble with it. Besides that was the one tooth that did not cut through.
Jill told me I was so drugged up yesterday I was dancing in her car while she was taking me to get prescriptions. I barely remember being on the base hospital and seeing an old friend there. I remember sleeping a lot, dozing off and on all day. They gave me Lortab again! I was sick yesterday, throwing up and that sort of thing. They even gave me a suporatory. Blah! I don't care I'm sticking to the Penniclin for now. For pain I'm taking advil or Ibuprofen. Today it's just pain. Well better go for now.

November already?

2005-11-02T16:47:00.000-05:00

November! Where did October go! Let's see my birthday is coming up in 2 weeks. And I also want to give shout-outs to all my buds! Jessica, Sarah, hubby-hubb-hubb-Randy, my brother Andy, My sis - Melinda, MY mom and dad, Rob and Faye, Rita, Erin, Jillian, grandparents who I hope to see soon, Sheryl @ Electro, Steven and many more!
Get smileys at smileys.com Great smiles to cheer someone up!

But yes November is here already and Thanksgiving is coming up. Any plans, we don't even know either! Till laters.

Time flys when you are having fun

2005-10-26T14:52:00.000-04:00

Again its a hump day, Wednesday. Waiting for the weekend to get here and lately time has been flying pretty fast. Thanksgiving is not far and then Christmas. This weekend I think me and Jillian and Randy will be heading over to Calhoun to check out Edge of Madness. It's a large theme park held over year during the Halloween season. Just a fun good scare for us instead of going out and getting caught for trespassing on someone's land just to see if it's haunted. I'm not doing that again. About this time frame of last year, I went with some old friends to see the Pea Patch tower here in Shreveport. Imagine it all dark and spooky. All you have is a flashlight, camera and your friend. The closest thing we have is pictures of strange light anomolies on photo and that was it, along with a lot of different creepy sounds in the middle of a forest. Thats enough for me not to go back there again. Other than that, I like being scared but in a forest, NO.
Finally my scores are going up math some. From 48 to 51 to 56. Teacher says I am improving, just need to keep at it and go over sections more.
Husband thinks we may settle down in Arizona. We both have talked about it and pricing isnt too bad with houses. We don't mind the heat, normally I like the cold. I like the atmosphere there. Its dry heat, not wet heat like here in Louisiana. Its like I don't have excema anymore right now hands are doing fine now. They occasionally break out during stressful changes.
Better run! Talk later!

garfield

2005-10-26T12:56:00.000-04:00

New joke!
Writing up a quick blog spot.

Liking it

2005-10-20T09:46:00.000-04:00

I'm actually feeling comfortable with work now, more of the I feel at home feeling. I read up on Melinda's blog yesterday and surprised me with a call last night. Sherry came over and we watched the season finale of Ghosthunters. We like to get spooked on occasion. If you ever think I got scared of monsters at a younger age, that phase is gone. Jason and Grant last night went to the Crescent Hotel in Arkansas and what better place to go to for the finale. You can actually see the body/apparition standing in front of the locker and his head is moving down some. I'm gonna leave it at that. I honestly believe there is a spirit dimension, in fact I came upon a scripture in the bible about it. Where a man is given the ability for a while to see into this dimension and he sees thousands of horses and there is a great war between good and bad.
Anyway, I will have to find that scripture again and post it up.
Other than getting amazed with that, I'll be taking the make-up quiz tonight in class and learning about division with polynomials. My good friend already showed me how to, a little ahead with that. I'm getting nervouse already, there is a test on Monday that will cover our previous chapters. Please God, just need at least a 60-70 and I'll be happy! lol! After school is done for this holiday, I'll be going back to gym. I do not want to know how much gain there is. All that halloween candy!
Well I'm now alomst over a head cold with sniffles still. The surgeon did not want to pull the wisdom teeth on Monday because of that so we did reschedule for a re-try for Nov 17th. O boy, I get to be drugged up for my birthday, lol. Bad thing is Finals in class is that night! Teacher says I can come in during the 15th, 16th between 8-4 to take it there, That means taking an hour out of work or so to take the test at the school. I need prayer for wisdom and understanding of the math lingo. I better go for now before some work does come in.
Arigato'

Japanese Lesson

2005-10-19T15:08:00.000-04:00

oHayoo GozaiMAsu. (Good Morning)
oGEn'ki desu ka? (How are you?)
GEn'ki desu . (I'm fine.) or oKAGE SAMA DE (I'm fine, thank you.)
goKAzoku wa iKAga desu KA? (How is your family?)
KON'NICHI WA. (Good afternoon)
KON'BAN WA. (Goof evening)
oYASUMI NASAi. Good night.
BAKA (fool)
jaA MAta aTO de. (See you later)
saYANOORA (Goodbye)
Japanese language is great! I now more but have to cut this short for now. Back to work!

GREAT NEWS

2005-10-11T20:10:00.000-04:00

What is better than the worlds biggest ice cream? Or even having a house full of cute animals?

Thank God for change! My hubby heard this morning that his cross-training has been approved.

He will be going to Kessler, Mississippi for a month, tech-school starts May 15th 2006.

The job: Computer Planning and Implementation Management.

By next summer we will be moving out of this state. We just don't know where we are going yet. We will find out in about a month, maybe in a couple weeks. I will keep an update on that!

I love Fridays

2005-10-07T10:51:00.000-04:00

JOKE OF THE WEEK
I love Garfield!
This is how my morning went so far for today. I left on time for work and I chose to head to the right for an escape to the backroad. That was my first mistake! I had to wait for the parents to move to get into the school that sits right at the end of our road. Then I waited on someone because the lady stoped in the road to let her child out! After that when I finally reached the back road I had to ride behind a school bus most of the way. About now I wanted to scream! A few minutes to 8, I went to go check in at the time clock. Of course, someone had their time clock right below mine, I accidently grabed his and reclocked his instead. Ooops! So I ended up writing on his (Mistake, sorry) I found mine and noticed yesterday on the way to school time frame the clock numbers were not there! I know I had run the sheet through the timeclock before I left and it was saying I didn't! Annoying! I was about to have a fit. So I had to write in the numbers personally and write on the side that the clock did not print it out from yesterday and that I did run it through. I hope the person who gets these cards will be understanding, lol. I better call her and let her know what happened too. But I refuse to let this Friday be ruined because of a bad morning it has been!

My sister is on her way now to come up and visit today. Looking forward to seeing her! Study some too this weekend. Test on Monday on consecutives, inequalites, I=PRT, mainly 2.3 through 2.9. Better run for now, there is some work to do.

A Day in the Life of Stinky

2005-10-05T17:00:00.000-04:00

A Day in the Life of Stinky
By Jenn H (aka Patch)
Corrected by: Stinky

I adore the outdoors no matter what my master says. “Ha! My left paw!” She says, “No, bad kitty.” But I don’t care because I got cat-attitude! Even if I did get stuck outside sometimes, when she opens the door I just walk right back in with my tail high in the air. Sometimes though, I like to play and eat the tall grass and she will come running out to get me, so I munch as fast as I can. This is bad for me later on when my stomach starts to hurt and I’ll just throw up on the carpet. “Yuk, there’s a hairball with that too.”

I also love to rub all into the carpet with my paws and legs stretched out completely sideways, great stretch. Then I’ll just sit there like that for a while and wait for my mom to walk by. As she looks at me thinking I am sooo cute, I’ll eat up the attention she gives me for a moment and then I’ll attack. “Ha, ha!” Surprise, nibble the hand! “Move that foot and I’ll paw at it too!”

One of my most common parts of the day is liter time! I will go potty at any given time of the day when I want. The best time is right after when mommy likes to clean out the box completely with new sand. I can hear her in background yelling something obscene with my name it. “Ha, ha!” She hates it worse when I leave a bomb that smells up the entire room, I don’t care really, I may even like the smell. It’s funny to watch the humans leave the room after that. They just point at me and say my name really loud and say some strange S* word I’ve never heard of.

I especially like to take naps mainly during the afternoons. If I am not lying on the kitchen wooden chairs soaking in some sun rays, you can find me literally sprawled out on top of the couch. Now those are some fluffy cushion tops! I also love it when my parents do the laundry and they are still nice and warm. When mom or dad walks back in the room they usually see me all curled on top of the clothes and one of them would say, “Brat! Those are clean!” Of course, I don’t care, I got cat-attitude, besides I’m sleepy…..yawn! And it feels so warm! At one time though, I woke up out of a dream and found some panties curled up on my head.

Now if you want to talk warm places how about those laps! My daddy lounges around the couch as bad as me, so on occasion I like to lay right on top of him sometimes. I stretch out on his chest and lap and just snooze for about an hour if he does not move.

I really love cleaning. Well I like being very vain for the most part. All the petting, scratches and meals, overall I just love to clean my fur and look nice most of the time. Only on days when I escape to the backyard I will go roll in dirt and get really filthy. But later on I’ll clean up. Boy, it is the greatest feeling just to sprint in grass and roll in fresh dirt!
I do have spurts at night sometimes where I have to run so fast almost colliding with THE DOG. I even like to swipe at him sometimes for fun or even if he gets way to close to me, it is a bit unnerving and get a little grumpy. Believe me I claim whatever place I can get, even if it’s to kick THE DOG off his own bed. Besides his bed is comfy and he just cowers by the couch.
Well by bed time for the humans I am usually awake and eating food or waiting in the hallway for the main door to open. But when I’m tired I’ll actually get comfortable at the end of the bed right at my daddy’s feet. So he has to normally move both his legs around my body, I am pretty big for my age, and at least I stay fit. Well, that is all I can think of for now. There are many days that are different and I get lots of loving, so I am very happy where I am. I hope they don’t move again because I absolutely hate car rides. I will just keep pooping in the back are every time! Bye for now!

Depression is over-rated these days.

2005-10-05T10:19:00.000-04:00

That so made me mad! I had written a whole lot on here and everything disapeared! I had written a whole paragraph on what was going on. In short, I'll be in the choir for the Billy Graham festival in November. I was thinking too much this morning and worrying how there is work and school and I remembered mom reminding me about God is in control last night on the phone. Maybe I do pile things on myself on purpose to keep busy. Hubby wants me slow down anyway. I don't understand this math right now, need help!

Down week

2005-09-30T12:25:00.000-04:00

At the beginning of the week it was pretty depressing. Then in the middle things became a little less rough and stressful and calmed down by Thursday. I failed my first math test and on the quiz I made a 10 out of 20. The test was a 47 out of 100. That is pretty pathetic. I'm just gonna have to try harder to understand it. I mean the first few days of finding out plus there was a work load on those days so it has been stressful to the point of crying and feeling like an idiot. One way to put math in my terms, it takes minutes for me to figure out one problem, sometimes longer. Or even they way she teaches a problem it takes me a little longer. I've asked her to show the work on some of them.
I am glad it is friday! Last nights class was a little better, more linear equations practice, chapter 2.3, and 2.4 and 2.5. The quiz on Monday will cover mainly 2.3 and 2.4. I needed to go to practice and went after class last night. They were surprised to see me and even had prayer for the many of us. I felt I needed to go and its a good thing I did. I have not had much interaction lately this whole month with other christians. I feel a lot better today with changes. I think I can do it, pass this class and more. Got to run and do lunch! bye

Best souviner from Alabama

2005-09-21T20:58:00.000-04:00

I may get the chance to really talk about my recent trip to Alabama however it won't be tonight. Trust me, it will take me time to write it all out. But I want to show you something that was well worth getting while I was there!
Ok family please don't freak out because it really is nice and I don't plan on getting any others.

This was my first time getting a tatoo and yes it does hurt some. Kind of like a bee stinging you rapidly over and over in the same spot. It was more irratating about half way through.
It was the best souviner I have ever gotten.

Back to math 99

2005-09-19T12:51:00.000-04:00

Less than an hour to go for lunch! I would love to watch some of the recorded shows from this past weekend but won't be able to today. I'm only allowed 45 minutes for lunch on school nights, so it's a rush home, take dog and feed cat, then feed myself while usually in front of the tv. I have to study today for a quiz tonight at class. What had happened was last week was too much and I was having a hard time in Math 100, so I went ahead and droped out of 100 and went into Math 99 instead. I even started 99 last wednesday and I was still a little lost with that one. But with all the help so far with Jill, tonight's quiz will not be so bad. I think I'm better prepared for it now, just a little more.
Let's see how much you can remember back in the day? =>
This is one I'm actually stuck on:
Word Problem:
Inheritance. Marie is entitled to 1/6 of an estate because of one relationship to the deceased and one thirty-second of the estate because of another relationship to the deceased. What is the total portion of the estate that she will receive?
My trip to Montgomery, AL was great! I'll be posting pics soon. Got to the Selma Bridge and go see a little of Vicksburg, Miss. There was a cool cemetery there that we were unable to visit. It was late last night and hard to find the road to it. So many things to see there and lots of history! Better go for now, back to work! I'll write more about AL later.

Great photos

2005-09-15T11:14:00.000-04:00

My friend Erin sent me most of the photos except the Garfield's. The come in daily email newsletters from Garfield.com
These are just a few of my favorite shots lately!

2005-09-14T16:30:00.000-04:00

4:25 in the afternoon and my head keeps bobbing up and down. This place could really use longer breaks for naps, lol. I am already butt tired, plus tonight is when Jill and the girls meet at her house for study session over homework. I did maybe a few problems, I really don't have the time for homework with so much work-work and it's 40 hours a week. I mean I'm now trying to figure out where is any chance to relax at all, sometimes even at lunch.
Maybe I just need to get used to the change and figure a way to get the important things first and just organize to fit my needs.
Honey buns is doing fine, he does not like that Texas AFB for 7 level school. He is already wanting to leave. Better run for now, at least the day is almost over and plenty of homework to do still. I really don't think I'll have time to go tonight. Help is needed but its 3 different chapters and not enough time. I feel I won't be ready for thursday night class since the teacher is going into the next 3 sections.
Please pray for me to get things situated! Thank you to anyone! God, I love you and now I need you more.

New class College Algebra

2005-09-13T15:49:00.000-04:00

For me Algebra is overwhelming, class last night was not a breeze. I almost cried a couple times just trying to remember, "How in the world did she get that number from that fraction, when my answer is totally off!" The good thing is that someone here at work helped me out a little. My good friend Jill said she would help me a lot for the class since we are taking the same class.
This week will be a little stressful. New state sticker is needed for the car, you have to get the car inspected. The lights must work, general things and a person froma gas station does it. Then after that I still got to drop off a check at the bank and head to a new friends house to pick up my stampin' up order. I am having a Stampin' Up/Scrapbook Demo party Saturday, Oct 15th at 2pm at my home. Not sure on what kind of card/item we will make yet. The lady who is showing us how to make it is real nice.
http://stampinup.com
Thank you for the previous comment, who ever did write it. ^_^
The day is almost over. Finally put up a new template for blogger today, found some nice ones at this place under affiliates. Ain't it cute! Bye for now.

Family Tree

2005-09-01T16:55:00.000-04:00

Go to this page and type in my name and my maiden name:
http://www.genealogy.com/users/index.html
Or find a page that says you can search for a Family Home Page search.
Well here is the page if you have trouble finding it. I had some trouble going through the searches, trying to figure out why is my family page not showing up?
http://www.genealogy.com/users/h/e/a/Jennifer-Heaton/

Just a little down

2005-08-30T08:42:00.000-04:00

I'm still pretty tired this morning. I remember waking up at 3am and going to the bathroom, but someting else woke me. One night I actually felt the bed shaking on my side as if a child were tugging the side to get my attention. That woke me up, everyone was still and quiet. Lord knows what that was. Too tired to even think.
I woke up this morning with interesting dreams to remember. I did not want to wake. Part of the dream was I actually found a real love in a man that did not look at all like Randy. In fact he had darker hair and when we met for the first time, it had vibrant sparks. As if we know we were meant for each other. I guess I have been worrying a little on the relationship with Randy lately. We both get distracted with other things other than being together sometimes. I would really like for us to take time away from TV, electronics and actually get away together such as camping or even a walk. He has had a lot of bad days lately at work getting more upset with things. The only time we can speak is to interupt his Stargates or 7th Heavens.
Oh well, I hope things will work out. I better go and fix these problems with helicopter parts. They are not reading in the system and I need help with it.
I hope everyone is doing well.

Pulling hair!

2005-08-25T09:53:00.000-04:00

Well, as of this morning our carpet is sogging up for the 3-4 day in a row this time it seems be growing bigger in the general area. I thought it was us with extremely wet feet out of a bath, but no this seemed different. I’m thinking that our Jacuzzi tub pipes can only take so much pressure wondering if those are the right pipes. Well it looks like the doorway in front of the bath area under the cement may have a slow leaking pipe or the pipe is busted. The carpet is wet every morning even when we try to dry it! What would you do?
Randy told me the way to turn off the water was outside and I couldn’t find it, argh! Anyway, maybe we should have gone for a Jacuzzi that sits outside.
I ended up calling him at work and letting him know we have concluded it’s a pipe. He was just saying last night he hoped that they will have to condem the house and the insurance would move us into a new place! That’s just wild! I doubt it but it would be great.

Second, Randy called a minute ago on the cell and he was at home. He said he hda gotten in touch with our plumber friend Jack and Jack gave him instructions on reading the gauge. So we will see whats going on. It does look like a slow leak in the pipes so far.
Thirdly, Randy mentioned that the cross-training paperwork he worked hard to get has now gone missing in military hands! This is like the 2nd time this has happened and we're both getting frustrated over this. It seems like they love to do this or they are doing it on purpose.
Please pray for us that Randy paperwork will be found and processed! We are both desperate to get off this base.
Fourthly work has been pretty busy this week and sometimes feel like going insane or true blonde for that matter! Lol. Besides some how today I'm missing my period, it may be the change in pills for all I know and its time to make that yearly exam "gyno."

Well I better run before something happens. I'm hoping to hear from Jess, no word in a while.

Geneology

2005-08-17T08:58:00.000-04:00

Before college really had begun this summer I had started doing research on the Barrow's originally. This is Mom's grandmother's side. Now that I have some free time in between classes I found out yesterday it is a lot harder than it seems. I did learn that there are more Barrows out there, it is just finding the right one connecting to certain events. I feel we are connected to a William Ruffin Barrow somehow but of course it is tracing the correct lineage.
Example, if you go to: http://greenwoodplantation.com/ I'm hoping there is a connection considering the plantation itself was built by a Barrow.
Well I better run for now and hope to talk about this later. There is a little bit of work to do. It has only been an hour into the day and things are pretty boring. When Jay is sick there is not much to do.

Beginning of August

2005-08-01T16:50:00.000-04:00

I am surprised how quickly August is already here! This is Birthday month! Shout-outs go to brother, sister and mom. Andrew I'll call u later tonight! Decided to do my persuasive speech about "Driving Dangerously - Saftey Issues." It will probably be a common speech but I am at the point creativity is not on mind. Time to get it done and ready for finals. Finals are on the 8th. Downloaded the college schedule and classes, jusat don't know what to take. Early registration starts tomorow. I will need to get financial aid somehow for this fall. I'd like to take 2 night classes. It will still be night classes. Prices are crazy here. In Cali it ran about 12. to 13. per semester hour. So if you pick a 3 credit class it going to cost maybe 39. to 40. for that one class. However here, it's $112.00 per semester hour. I paid out of my own pocket for speech class around $336.00. Imagine 2 classes, yikes!
Well I better run and get some work done before time to leave from work. Class tonight.
Hugs!

Demonstrative Speech - Decorating Cakes

2005-08-01T16:13:00.000-04:00

How to Make a Basic Decoration for Professional Cakes.
Jennifer L Heaton
July 6th 05
I.Fundamentals
A. Choosing your decorating bag
1. Featherweights, disposables or parchment
2. Couplers
3. Filling and holding the bag
B. Three main essentials of decorating
a) Icing Consistency
(1) Thin-For writing, making vines, leaves and icing the cake. 2 Teaspoons-water
(2) Med-Stars, figure piping, borders and flowers with petals that lies flat. – 1 Teaspoon-water
(3) Thick- Decorations such as roses and upright petals and sweet peas. Has to be stiff enough or they will droop. Cracking – too stiff/Droop – not enough
b) Correct Bag Position
(1) Angel 90 degrees, 45degrees Right Hand
(2) Same angles just opposite Left Hand
c) Pressure Control
(1)Light, Med, and Heavy
C. Color
1. Do not use regular food coloring
2. Icing colors

II.Procedures
A. Shell border
1. Tip 21, Med icing, 45 degrees at 6:00, Hold tip slightly above surface
2. Hold the bag in the 6:00 position so that you can pull the bag toward you. The tip should be slightly above the surface.
3. Squeeze hard, letting the icing fan out generously as it lifts the tip – do not lift the bag. Gradually relax your pressure as you lower the tip until it touches the surface.
4. Stop pressure and pull the tip away, without lifting it off the surface, to draw the shell to a point.
5. To make a shell border, start the end of your next shell so that the fanned end covers the tail of the preceding shell to form and even chain.
B. Sweet peas
1. Bag: 45° angle 6:00Tip: wide end touching surface, narrow end straight up
2. Squeeze, raising tip slightly
3. Stop squeezing, lower tip
4. Pull away
a) Calyx
(1) Thin consistency, tip 3, position bag 45 degrees at 6:00, tip needs to be in the base of the center petal.
(2) Squeeze, letting icing build up
(3) Relax pressure, drawing down and away.
(4) Stop squeezing, pull away.

(a) Credentials go to Wilton.com for the actual procedure for the shell

III. REVIEW
A. Questions
B. Reference: Wilton, Michael’s, Hobby Lobby etc…classes

Visiting World Wide

2005-07-29T09:28:00.000-04:00

If you have not heard the latest on how to travel world wide in seconds, let me show you.Go to http://earth.google.com then Download either one. I picked the first one since the second one shut down my computer completly on its own on the one at home. It may have a glitch, don't know.
Anyway, pick one and download it! You will not regret it! This uses a high tech satelittle imagery of the world from space and angles it at places you want to go. Now, on some places you pick you will still get patches that are hard to see a little but for the most part you can get pretty clear imagery depending on where you go! say you want to go the Grand Canyon because you have never seen it before! See below. It takes a little patience it takes a few seconds or so to let the resolution unpatch. You can even see my house, well underneath the big tree! Today I visited Austraulia, the Philipines, the Icecaps, Iceland and the Grand Canyon. And you can say you have, lol!
This is probably one of the best programs also for directions. Just type in your address and types in another and it routes out the roads for you. And this time you can actually see the roads for the most part. To me this is better than mapquest, which sometimes leads you to getting lost. Please check the place out. I better run, litteraly, the porcelion god calls.

Weekend 23-24th

2005-07-25T11:14:00.000-04:00

I'm looking forward to seeing Ed and Sis soon. Another week I think. I'm at work and I heard the Japanese are coming today, maybe a nice lunch is in mind. I'd like to go with them, lol. Randy's dad had some tests done recently. He seems ok, just a heart murmer and maybe a couple of other things.
We did get to see Charlie and the Choclate Factory over at the new Regal. Nice seating! Saturday I went to Forest Park Cemetery and took Sherri and Jill. I did get some interesting EVP for class. Some strange entity seemed to be following us and recorded it on the recorder. It was not only whistling right into the recorder it also said "hiii" clear as a bell.
I better go, there are some things coming up. Don't worry we are not meddling into some strange force that is out there, some things just happen. Its pretty neat to know that I can go visit a cemetery and get live feedback from those who have passed on. It's not likely I'll be doing this every weekend, just this once. If anyone would like to hear some of the recordings, let me know. I'm trying to find a way to upload it to the computer.
I hear the Japanese are here already and Bill went to a meeting. Better go.
Hugs~

Speech class

2005-07-15T10:45:00.000-04:00

Not a heck of lot going on. I'll be giving a speech on EVP coming up in a couple weeks. I'm just doing research on it. (Electronic Voice Phenomena) But hey its different from what a lot of people are doing and it will perk their interest, lol. I may go out and try it myself to see of I can get anything on tape for testing so that I have some kind of proof on tape for class. Best time is when solar flares are active, crazy ain't it. I don't plan on getting to involved, may not be a good idea.
Other than that, we are doing well. Tonight we are going to hit Tokyo Restraunt for some Japanese food. We will see how expensive it gets. Today will be a cleaning/pick up day before company arrives. Rita, Sherri, and Jillian should be coming over Saturday afternoon for a free crop day together at the house. Kitchen is a little messy. I am eager to do some new pages. I bought some new glitter and regular stickers that are used for bordering.
On the 31st, Erin and I will be doing a duet in Church for Sunday morning. The song is called Power of Your Love. She called last night to tell me good news that her friend will be playing the violin for us as well. I better run and find something to do since I'm at work.

Solar X-rays:

Geomagnetic Field:

From n3kl.org

My First Scrapbook* Kept Updated!

2005-07-12T11:31:00.000-04:00

This is a recent photo, but if you want more go here: http://photos.yahoo.com/gennrie
Since Blogger can only take so many pictures per entry go ahead and see them in my photo book at yahoo.
Take a peek and enjoy! All comments are welcome. Thanks!

July 10th Weekend

2005-07-12T10:15:00.000-04:00

Sadness has shown its ugly face on Sunday. At least it was a closed casket and the look on Pastor Tom Dungan and his wife seemed sadder at the minute. I remember looking at the card a man passed out to us. Thomas Dungan, son of Pastor Tom it read on the top. It is so terrible to lose your own children, no matter what age. Thomas was their black sheep of their family, always getting into trouble. He was married and had a couple of kids and then he decides to commit suicide. Not a pleasent death at all. I've met their younger son but not Thomas.
We are keeping this family in our prayers this week.
On a better note, this may cheer us up:

I gave my demonstrative speech last week wednesday on how to make buttercream. It went along ok and then in the middle of it, I lost some wording and refound it. Pretty bad but it sounded ok. Next is finding a topic on a Informative Speech which I'm still looking for. Any ideas would be great! Maybe something along the lines of Archaeology or history....I hope everyone is doing alright.

Health

2005-06-30T11:19:00.000-04:00

A little report regarding skin tags. I guess they do run in our family. I'm noticing one that has discolored recently, time for a visit to the healthcare this coming week. Mom called yesterday letting me know about her visit from the doctor. She has rhumetoid arthiritis. It is a common thing in the US and a little in her side of the family. It's not a good thing but at least I'm not too worried about it. Just glad to know what it is now.
Everyone needs to have a great 4th of July time off! Go have some fun! We will probably stay home again like last year. I'd like to go to the river at least. Hang in there mom! Love ya!

What is it!

2005-06-24T14:46:00.000-04:00

I absolutely hate spiders!!!!!!
What kind is this?

Helicopter Rides

2005-06-24T14:17:00.000-04:00

1500 Feet high in the air and when you look down all you see is what is on the ground. There are different roads going on for miles. Just being able to see what looks like the backyard from our house was unbelievable. Now if you want to be more technical here is more info on the A/C that I did ride up in: http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N304PH.html
This one has the colors of a bumblebee. So far it has been my fav copter here at Metro. I am already looking into Flight School! Sounds so neat!
got to run! Almost lunch time!
Dated: June 16th 2005

Bible Links

2005-06-24T09:09:00.000-04:00

Favorite Online Bible Links will be added here:
http://www.bible-history.com/

Grace is Born

2005-06-23T16:15:00.000-04:00

Aimee' just gave birth to Grace. She is 7lbs and 29'ounces and 21 inches long! She decided to leave early today to start her maternity leave and was pretty lucky to give birth the day she decides to leave. This is a good day! It happened around 3'oclock.
Other than that it is a hot day at around 94 degrees! We went swimming on the base pool last saturday, we may go again this coming saturday. The pool is pretty big right around 10 foot.
We are doing good, we bought a dinning room table and chairs set. It looks very close to the one Randy's mom had. I'll have to post up a photo. Better run!