So once again, I'm going to try to do some blogging regularly. We'll see. That's NOT one of my resolutions! However, I do really enjoy reading my old blog posts and seeing the everyday events of our lives.
Today was a good day. I got to sleep in til around 10am and then Nicky wanted me and the boys to go with him to Home Depot to see how he could spend the gift card he got for his birthday from his parents. He ended up buying a tape measure. Go figure. By then it was nearly lunch time so the boys asked him if we could go to Burger King for lunch and we did. Ugh. The first "official" meal for 2012 and it's BK. Yuck. Oh well, at least it was with the family and I'm pretty sure family time will be in high commodity this year since Nicky will be working a lot of overtime this year. So, I guess it was ok after all. :-)
Once I got home, I started taking down the Christmas decorations and spent the rest of the day doing that. Thankfully they seem to come down faster than they go up. I was sad to see them go, but boy, the house looks so much roomier now with the tree gone! Tomorrow I'll finish putting away the lights and getting things back to where they belong. I love to put the decorations up, but I like when they're gone, too. It's nice to have them to enjoy, but it's nice to get things back to normal. So, I'm feeling pretty good tonight. Nicky was in a good mood all day and hung around the house doing stuff here and there and generally puttering, which is good for him to have some time to relax. He's off tomorrow, too, which means we'll be doing minimal of the regular activities tomorrow.
Ok, so about my "resolutions". One thing I got for Christmas was an iTouch iPod, which I've been wanting forever! I put a Bible app on it and now I can read the Bible anytime I'm where there's a WiFi connection. I'm very excited about that, though I wish it didn't have to wait for WiFi. Argh. On the Bible app, they have reading plans, so I picked one and every day it will take me to my scheduled passage/chapter. I'm very excited about that! That will make my resolution of reading my Bible everyday easier. Yay! :-) I also set my ipod up to give me reminders to 1-read my Bible, 2-take my vitamins, 3-walk/exercise, 4 -eat at least 1 fruit per day, and 5 -blog. Those are pretty much my main "resolutions". Not too much to it, right? I think I've come to realize that it's easy to make resolutions and not so easy to keep them, so I try to make resolutions of things I really, really want to work on. I have some other more personal ones, which I will also work on and the final one is that I'd really like to finish reading the many, many books I have started over the years and never finished. It galls me to no end when I see books sitting around that I've started, but then forgotten about and never finished. So, I'm determined to finish these books this year. I will make a stack of them and present them to you at a later date and then as I finish them, hopefully, I will add them to the list on the sidebar of this blog (if I can get it to work properly!).
So, here's the run-down of my list....
1 - Read my Bible daily
2 - Walk or exercise regularly
3 - Eat at least one piece of fruit daily
4 - Take vitamins regularly
5 - Blog as often as possible
6 - Personal item
7 - Be more kind and gentle & smile and laugh more often, especially with my boys
8 - Finish reading the many books I've started.
I guess that's it. At least for now. I'm sure I'll think of more, which makes me really glad that the Lord gives me a fresh start and a new beginning every day!
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Sunday, January 1, 2012
Monday, January 10, 2011
Trust
I've been thinking the last few days, about "trust" as it relates to me and God. It's funny how something will strike a thought in your mind about something and one thought will lead to another and then another and then another. Then, pretty soon you have this whole conversation (or speech) going on in your head about a topic. Well, at least that's how I think a lot of times. I don't have time (nor desire, I guess), to talk out all my thoughts with an actual person, so I end up doing these thought "trains" in my mind as I go about my daily life. Is that weird??
Anyway, about trust.... I was praying about a particular thing that I'm trying very desperately to let go of and let God handle. I keep handing it over to Him and then taking it back. (I think I do that a lot!!) I was so upset that I'd taken it back once again that I cried out to Him asking "Why?? Why do I take it back over and over?? Why can't I just let it go??" I reasoned that I have worries about my kids and I let them go easy enough, why not this?? Then I realized that with the kids, I KNOW I have no control. I KNOW God is the only one who can handle that. But, with this other thing, I have this illusion that I have some control, so I continually take it back. I realized that it's easier to trust God with stuff I know I have no control over anyway, so why not just hand it over. But, with the stuff that I think I have some control of , I keep trying to take it back again and again.
So, what's the upshot of this thought train, you ask? Well, frankly, I don't know. I guess it's just me rambling and thinking aloud. Is there an answer? Of course! Just trust God. But, alas, it's easier said than done. So I will continue to hand my issue over to Him again and again until I can get it right and maybe I'll trust Him a little more each time until I finally let go. I guess that should be another New Year's resolution! :-)
Anyway, about trust.... I was praying about a particular thing that I'm trying very desperately to let go of and let God handle. I keep handing it over to Him and then taking it back. (I think I do that a lot!!) I was so upset that I'd taken it back once again that I cried out to Him asking "Why?? Why do I take it back over and over?? Why can't I just let it go??" I reasoned that I have worries about my kids and I let them go easy enough, why not this?? Then I realized that with the kids, I KNOW I have no control. I KNOW God is the only one who can handle that. But, with this other thing, I have this illusion that I have some control, so I continually take it back. I realized that it's easier to trust God with stuff I know I have no control over anyway, so why not just hand it over. But, with the stuff that I think I have some control of , I keep trying to take it back again and again.
So, what's the upshot of this thought train, you ask? Well, frankly, I don't know. I guess it's just me rambling and thinking aloud. Is there an answer? Of course! Just trust God. But, alas, it's easier said than done. So I will continue to hand my issue over to Him again and again until I can get it right and maybe I'll trust Him a little more each time until I finally let go. I guess that should be another New Year's resolution! :-)
Saturday, January 1, 2011
New Year, New Goals
Happy New Year!
I have been playing on Facebook for a year now. It's ok, but man, do I miss blogging. So, one of my New Year's resolutions, I'm going to try to blog more often. I really love doing it and love looking back on my daily life, but it's so easy to get sucked into FB when all your friends hang out there. So..... I'm going to try very hard to start blogging again. We'll see...... :-)
I have been playing on Facebook for a year now. It's ok, but man, do I miss blogging. So, one of my New Year's resolutions, I'm going to try to blog more often. I really love doing it and love looking back on my daily life, but it's so easy to get sucked into FB when all your friends hang out there. So..... I'm going to try very hard to start blogging again. We'll see...... :-)
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Feeling Yucky...
Today (Wednesday) I went to the dermatologist and I feel yucky. I had some pre-cancerous sun spots on my hand frozen. He told me he was going to do it then he did the first spot and I jumped. He said, "Oh sorry. Yeah, it's a little cold." A little cold? A little cold?!? Is he kidding?? He shouldn't say "a little cold". He should say "It'll feel like a thousand tiny needles poking into your hand," that's what he should say! "A little cold", hmph! Anyway, now I have blisters on each of those frozen spots and I guess I just have to wait until they pop and scab...sorry, gross details.
Then he removed two small harmless mole thingies from my neck and thigh. Thirdly, he took a biopsy of a spot on my left arm, which he believes is cancer just from looking at it. He says he wants to do the biopsy to see what kind of cancer it is so he can treat it correctly. Finally, he took two "suspicious" moles from my back to biopsy. Those two spots needed a stitch or two each and I have to go back next week to have the stitches removed. Hopefully, they'll have the biopsy results by then. We'll see.
The weirdest thing that happened was that after they did my back, which I was laying on my stomach for, I turned over to sit up and the harmless mole thing on my leg had bled through the bandaid and left blood all over both my legs. Yuck. So, the nurse cleaned it up and turned around to get another bandage. While she had her back turned, I looked at the spot, which was a deep, cored hole, and somehow it just hit me wrong and all of a sudden I felt nauseous. I put my hand over my eyes and about that time the nurse turned around and asked if I was ok. I pulled my hand away to see only black and literally had to fight to keep consciousness. I told her I felt like I was going to pass out, so she laid me down quickly. She got me a lollypop and some water and I cold compress for my head. She said I looked pale, then she made me lay there for about 15 minutes more. I felt ok then.
By the late afternoon, the anesthesia was wearing off my back and the two on my back and the blisters on my hand were all feeling achey. By the late evening, I was feeling very tired and run down. I took some Tylenol for the pain and I'm sure by tomorrow I'll feel better.
Then he removed two small harmless mole thingies from my neck and thigh. Thirdly, he took a biopsy of a spot on my left arm, which he believes is cancer just from looking at it. He says he wants to do the biopsy to see what kind of cancer it is so he can treat it correctly. Finally, he took two "suspicious" moles from my back to biopsy. Those two spots needed a stitch or two each and I have to go back next week to have the stitches removed. Hopefully, they'll have the biopsy results by then. We'll see.
The weirdest thing that happened was that after they did my back, which I was laying on my stomach for, I turned over to sit up and the harmless mole thing on my leg had bled through the bandaid and left blood all over both my legs. Yuck. So, the nurse cleaned it up and turned around to get another bandage. While she had her back turned, I looked at the spot, which was a deep, cored hole, and somehow it just hit me wrong and all of a sudden I felt nauseous. I put my hand over my eyes and about that time the nurse turned around and asked if I was ok. I pulled my hand away to see only black and literally had to fight to keep consciousness. I told her I felt like I was going to pass out, so she laid me down quickly. She got me a lollypop and some water and I cold compress for my head. She said I looked pale, then she made me lay there for about 15 minutes more. I felt ok then.
By the late afternoon, the anesthesia was wearing off my back and the two on my back and the blisters on my hand were all feeling achey. By the late evening, I was feeling very tired and run down. I took some Tylenol for the pain and I'm sure by tomorrow I'll feel better.
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