Its rare in this day to be able to sit at my desk and say that I had a wonderful week. I was in a good mmod every day for an entire week. I wont say that it was all peaches and cream. I had moments of time that were hard to digest. But we all have those moments. Even in the moments I was still able to stay positive and enjoy my week. I have been working so much overtime and though the money is good, it does drain your mental and physical being. I am sure that I have not been a picnic to be around every waking min. I just pray for more good weeks than bad, more good moments than bad and more positive thinking. I pray the same for all my family, friends and even those people who may not like me.
Blessings till I post again.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Wal-Mart
We went to Wal-Mart tonight. It's been some time since we have been to wally world. But I was not let down at all. The number of rude and clueless people that seem to flock to walmart are still shopping there. Where do these people hide? I never run in to the same class of people at other stores. I will say that over the past few years I have encountered more than my fair share of rude shoppers. But am I missing something? Is there a pre-requisite to shop at walmart that you have to be an aggressive and self centered shopper? I guess this is just one of the mysteries of life that I will never understand.
We did find the yogurt pretzels that I have been looking for at other stores with no success. Having known the way that walmart is good at advertising one price only to be scanned another price I did a smart thing. My pretzels were on sale for 2.00 and I scanned them at the convient self scanner located miles apart in the store. And they rang up 2.78. So I went back and took a picture of display showing 2 bucks and when we checked out I handed my phone to the clerk and she was a bit surprised that I had thought ahead and had the info she needed to complete the transaction. No need to send earl to the back 40 to confim that I was not lying to get my product 78 cents cheaper. Gotta love the camera feature on cell phones.
Blessings till I post again.
We did find the yogurt pretzels that I have been looking for at other stores with no success. Having known the way that walmart is good at advertising one price only to be scanned another price I did a smart thing. My pretzels were on sale for 2.00 and I scanned them at the convient self scanner located miles apart in the store. And they rang up 2.78. So I went back and took a picture of display showing 2 bucks and when we checked out I handed my phone to the clerk and she was a bit surprised that I had thought ahead and had the info she needed to complete the transaction. No need to send earl to the back 40 to confim that I was not lying to get my product 78 cents cheaper. Gotta love the camera feature on cell phones.
Blessings till I post again.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Stuff
It was a very good day today. We had a guest speaker at Church and he was very informative. Everything about todays service made me realize just how blessed that I am. I thank God every day for all of the blessings that he has given to me and my wife. But tonight I am even more aware of the blessings that I have. Every breath that I take is a blessing. Waking up in the morning is a blessing. No matter what stuff is going on in my life there are millions of people going to bed dealing with harder stuff that I am dealing with. Praise God that I have stuff to struggle with. Since I was a child I have always been told that God will never put more on me than I can handle. On the days that go by smoothly I believe it. On the days that don't I try to believe it. I know in my mind that it is true but the enemy trys to convince me that it is not. But at the end of the day when the dust settles and I look at the big picture, I see that God was there with me and he helped me to deal with stuff. He brought me through stuff and he is ready to help me deal with tomorrows stuff to. I've said many times before and I'll say many times again that the song Through it all is probably one of my most favorite songs. Because I believe and live by the verse. " I thank him for the mountains, I thank him for the valleys, and I thank him for the storms he's brought me through, For if i never had a problem, I would not know that he could solve them, I would not know what faith in god could do" Lord... Thank you for STUFF.
Blessings till I post again.
Blessings till I post again.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Happy New Year
I started the new year off by going to my mother in law's house this morning and Installed the under the cabinet radio that we got her for Christmas. After we got the old one down (complete with cassette player) it took me all of 10 mins to install. I was able to use the new craftsman drill I got on Black Friday. After that we went home and I installed a new door knob on our pantry that we bought about 2 weeks ago. Keeping the momentum I told Sheila to go to Home Depot and get that Ceiling fan that we spotted right before Christmas. I told her while she was gone I would get the old fan down and tonight we would have that new fan up. So I did just that. Start to finish I did the whole job in 1 hour and 5 mins. I really impressed myself today. 5 years ago I would not have even attempted to pick up a screw driver. Well unless I was handing it off to someone.
I have not mentioned my constant struggle with my weight issue's lately. I've tried to avoid talking so much about it, but I will say that I have been following the doctors orders and I have gained 7 lbs so far. I still have 5 more to go and I will get there. It's been hard to not run to my bike and ride like a crazy man when i see the scale go up. But I think 7 lbs is a major accomplishment on my part and I thnik that I might be on the right track now.
Blessings till I post again.
I have not mentioned my constant struggle with my weight issue's lately. I've tried to avoid talking so much about it, but I will say that I have been following the doctors orders and I have gained 7 lbs so far. I still have 5 more to go and I will get there. It's been hard to not run to my bike and ride like a crazy man when i see the scale go up. But I think 7 lbs is a major accomplishment on my part and I thnik that I might be on the right track now.
Blessings till I post again.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Christmas
Wow, Just a few days away from Christmas. It really is the most wonderful time of the year. I have not had much of a chance to really enjoy it though. I have been working so much over time because of Annual Enrollment. But That should be slowing down in a few weeks. Then might life will get back to normal. Today is the 1st Saturday I have had off in a while. But I have to work tomorrow so I am gonna enjoy my day off today. Some how in the midst of all this over time we were able to put up 5 Christmas trees and some neat decorations for the house that we have collected over the years. The cats have had a ball playing with the tree, and never seem to tire at hearing us yell at them to get out of the tree. I sound like a broken record at times, and they just look at me as if to say "as soon as you leave the room, I'm going back in the tree anyway. Why are you wasting your breath?" They are so funny. I tell Sheila all the time how lucky we are that they allow us to live here. I wouldn't trade them for the world though. Until we are blessed with children of our own, they are all we have. So I will continually be thankful for the joy that they have brought to our lives. I wish every one of you a very happy and blessed Christmas.
Blessings till I post again.
Blessings till I post again.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Black Friday
Once again time has slipped by without me posting. So here is the latest and greatest. Ok maybe greatest is a strong word.
This Black Friday there were a few items that I wanted so I decided to take my chances and head out early to get the good deals. Of course they were not all in the same place, so I had to have a game plan. I got up at 3am and picked up my mom and nephew. Stop one was Sears. We got in line at 3:50 just 10 mins before the store opened. At 4:00 on the dot the doors opened and the line quickly moved into the store. I was a bit surprised becasue Sears actually had their act together. We walked in the door and picked up the 19.2 volt cordless drill for 39.99 that I wanted and proceded to the register. WOW that was easy (shamless staples plug) Our next stop was Target who opened at 5 am. By the time we got to Target it was 4:55 am, and the crowd was wrapped around the building. We had to park in a medical plaza behind Target and walk over. Mom thought I was nuts and she said I would never get what I wanted. Never being one to listen very well I went in anyway. I headed back to the Christmas dept, where I was after a box set of Christmas trees for the front porch. You get 2 3 foot trees, 1 garland and 1 wreath. Well I got back there and true enough they were all gone. I stood there for a moment just hoping that maybe I was wrong and just didn't see them. When out of no where a Target employee pushing a skid of trees comes over. YEAAAAA they had more. I grabbed my box (which I think weighs about as much as I do) and hurried over to the mens clothing dept where I was after my 14.99 microfiber robe. Naturally they had about 60 of them. I figured no one was after that bargin but me. Well me and one other guy who like me could no decide what color to get. So Black Friday was good to me this year.
On top of all that Sheila and Her Mom went to staples (you would think I work for staples) They had laptops for 399.99 and Adah wanted to get one so she could finally get hooked up to the internet. We were not sure if they would get any or not. They walked into line and was there about 30 seconds when an employee stepped outside to hand out vouchers for the laptops. They got one and was able to sit in a warm car until the store opened. Everyone got the bargins they were hunting. But boy was I dragging for the rest of the day. Emmanuel had never experienced anything like this. I asked him if he would do it again and he said. Heck yeah I had a blast. Lets do it again next year.
Blessings till I post again
This Black Friday there were a few items that I wanted so I decided to take my chances and head out early to get the good deals. Of course they were not all in the same place, so I had to have a game plan. I got up at 3am and picked up my mom and nephew. Stop one was Sears. We got in line at 3:50 just 10 mins before the store opened. At 4:00 on the dot the doors opened and the line quickly moved into the store. I was a bit surprised becasue Sears actually had their act together. We walked in the door and picked up the 19.2 volt cordless drill for 39.99 that I wanted and proceded to the register. WOW that was easy (shamless staples plug) Our next stop was Target who opened at 5 am. By the time we got to Target it was 4:55 am, and the crowd was wrapped around the building. We had to park in a medical plaza behind Target and walk over. Mom thought I was nuts and she said I would never get what I wanted. Never being one to listen very well I went in anyway. I headed back to the Christmas dept, where I was after a box set of Christmas trees for the front porch. You get 2 3 foot trees, 1 garland and 1 wreath. Well I got back there and true enough they were all gone. I stood there for a moment just hoping that maybe I was wrong and just didn't see them. When out of no where a Target employee pushing a skid of trees comes over. YEAAAAA they had more. I grabbed my box (which I think weighs about as much as I do) and hurried over to the mens clothing dept where I was after my 14.99 microfiber robe. Naturally they had about 60 of them. I figured no one was after that bargin but me. Well me and one other guy who like me could no decide what color to get. So Black Friday was good to me this year.
On top of all that Sheila and Her Mom went to staples (you would think I work for staples) They had laptops for 399.99 and Adah wanted to get one so she could finally get hooked up to the internet. We were not sure if they would get any or not. They walked into line and was there about 30 seconds when an employee stepped outside to hand out vouchers for the laptops. They got one and was able to sit in a warm car until the store opened. Everyone got the bargins they were hunting. But boy was I dragging for the rest of the day. Emmanuel had never experienced anything like this. I asked him if he would do it again and he said. Heck yeah I had a blast. Lets do it again next year.
Blessings till I post again
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Past due blogging
Its been quite a while since I blogged and thought it was finally due.
This past week has been a blur for me. Mon - Thur I was averaging 2 1/2 hours of sleep each night because I was so congested. Every time I tried to sleep I was coughing my head off and had to end up getting up. Thus spending way to much time on facebook. I guess I was making up for the several months I neglected it.
Sheila and I went to get our physicals on Thursday so we can get the home study update on our adoption. While we were there my doctor got onto me about my weight. She said I HAVE to gain 12 pounds. I'm not gonna say I am thrilled to have to do this, but I have been told by most everyone I know that I look to thin. Being a man who once weighed 300 lbs it is hard for me to get a grasp on all this. I promised my doctor that I would do what she says and I also promised Sheila the same. It's not been easy to eat more food and not want to run down to my bike to burn off the caloris, but so far I have been good. Thursday and Friday I let myself finally enjoy eating what most would consider normal meals for the first time in about 3 years. I know its probably gonna take a few weeks or maybe a month to accomplish, but as of this morning my weight is up 1.5 lbs So I can honestly say that I have made attempts on my part to do what my doctor said. And I have the scale to back me up as well.
Blessings till I post again.
This past week has been a blur for me. Mon - Thur I was averaging 2 1/2 hours of sleep each night because I was so congested. Every time I tried to sleep I was coughing my head off and had to end up getting up. Thus spending way to much time on facebook. I guess I was making up for the several months I neglected it.
Sheila and I went to get our physicals on Thursday so we can get the home study update on our adoption. While we were there my doctor got onto me about my weight. She said I HAVE to gain 12 pounds. I'm not gonna say I am thrilled to have to do this, but I have been told by most everyone I know that I look to thin. Being a man who once weighed 300 lbs it is hard for me to get a grasp on all this. I promised my doctor that I would do what she says and I also promised Sheila the same. It's not been easy to eat more food and not want to run down to my bike to burn off the caloris, but so far I have been good. Thursday and Friday I let myself finally enjoy eating what most would consider normal meals for the first time in about 3 years. I know its probably gonna take a few weeks or maybe a month to accomplish, but as of this morning my weight is up 1.5 lbs So I can honestly say that I have made attempts on my part to do what my doctor said. And I have the scale to back me up as well.
Blessings till I post again.
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