Today has been the best Monday I have had in a long time. First off, it is raining and gloomy outside! I can hardly contain my excitement. Truly! I love rainy days. It is always so sunny and hot down here, and I just love to feel like I am in a "normal" place that actually has weather besides SUNNY. So, it is dreary and dark outside. I feel like God is giving me a big hug with the clouds. It is great.
Also, I was able to go to the gym after dropping the kids off this morning. I got in the full workout that I wanted, and just as I pushed the "off" button on the treadmill, my phone rang. It was my dear sweet husband!!!! He just wanted to tell me hi and that he loves me and to have a great Monday! How sweet is that???!!!! All the way from over there to tell me that.
I decided to rent a couple movies to watch while I do Brandon's invitations. Oh, so nice, sitting in the house, with the scent of Sharpie marker in the air and a tongue that tastes like envelope, watching a funny movie with dark clouds outside.
IT DOESN'T GET BETTER THAN THIS FOLKS!
(I do believe that the day I see Jesus will be better than this..... but that is about all that could be better than today!)
Monday, October 6, 2008
A Glorious Day!
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Weird People
People down here are a little weird..... well, some of them are a lot weird and some are normal, but overall they are all a little weird!
We pay for garbage collection every month. The only other place I have paid for it is in Idaho, and in Idaho it was a set rate. Well, here, the rate depends on a number of different things; the size of your can and the weight are just two things they go by. You get charge extra if your lid is open, even a little, because it is too full. They also charge you by the bag for any bags they have to pick up that are not in your can.
Ok....that was a long explanation, but all that to say that I have tried to be really careful about not putting to much in, so that we won't be charged extra. WELL.... I went to take some trach out to the big can last week, and I noticed two boxes in it that weren't ours. I knew they weren't because they were some foods that we have never eaten. I thought, "oh well, maybe they were in the street and someone just put them in there." Then I went to put the can out on Thursday morning, and I noticed it was really really heavy. I looked in it, and there were 2 more boxes and 3 bags of garbage in it!!!! NOT our garbage. At first I thought I was going crazy, and I went inside to see what color drawstrings our bags had, and sure enough, they were red. The ones in the can were blue!
This is just so weird to me. Do people not have any morals here? I mean really... who would go so low as to walk to the side of my house and put their trash in my can, that I will have to pay for based upon the weight??????
So, after the garbage man came, I pulled the can around to the backyard, where it can't be seen, and closed the gate. Maybe I need to get a garbage can guard dog!
Crazy Texans!!!!
Things I am thankful to God for:
His mercy on me and His grace
a husband that works hard for his family
a comfortable house to live in
money to pay bills
a father that listens to me
a mother that would do anything for me and my kids
a foodsaver to use on cookies for Tony
the sunsets
water
the Bible
a good friend who always listens (even when she has no running water and mosquitoes are giving her malaria while we talk) - Shelley
Praying friends
a swimming pool
Hope because the Hokie Pokie isn't what it is all about
His healing powers
the time I had in Minnesota
a little sister who is devoted to my brother
in-laws who don't make me crazy
love
I could go on and on. I am so very thankful.
