before I say anything else i have to say a special thank you to a fellow blogger "according to the book" for helping me get a few gadgets set up on my blog.   & to both "according to the book" and  "A Christian View"  for my first follows!  THANK YOU!!  (& thank you to "A Christian View" for following my story blog also! "Lost Child Found")

 
so, on with the .....   whatever this is today....

I saw a new picture on face book today, 

I love this idea except for one problem, I prefer to my experience my quiet time with God first thing in the morning, so now I'm stuck.   LOL, just kidding, God always comes first in my life!  

that being said, i want to clarify something, I'm not a NUT!  I try to make sure everything I do is something God would approve of, but I'm not perfect, OBVIOUSLY!   I have very strong feelings about the path our country is now on, and sometimes, especially when it comes to family, my emotions get in the way of my brain and things come out of my mouth that I wish had been said a different way, or not at all.   I also believe that we need to live BALANCED lives.  we have to have some fun, get some work done to pay bills, clean house (yuck), have some quiet time, etc etc.  Contrary to what some believe, I do NOT worship & praise God in church or at home 24 hours a day 7 days a week.  

I guess what I'm trying to say is, while i want my life to be stamped with God's approval, I also am learning to balance my life around Him & His plans for my life.  Not everyone approves or agrees with where my life has taken me, sometimes I don't even like it, but, I trust Him & have made a choice to just enjoy the journey, wherever & however He takes me!

hmmmmmm, seems a like I'm rambling a bit.   If you haven't figured it out yet, mostly i just write, not always with a specific point i want to make to start with, it just happens along the way.  

speaking of the housework i supposedly do?  time to get busy, it' unfortunately won't go anywhere without me!

think'n out loud cuz i can: You reached out to me & reminded me that You miss ...

think'n out loud cuz i can: You reached out to me & reminded me that You miss ...: WHAT A WEEK!  UP DOWN TURNAROUND KRAZY!  I haven't written anything all week i don't think, and i've missed it!  even if no one reads this...

You reached out to me & reminded me that You miss me even more than i miss You!

WHAT A WEEK!  UP DOWN TURNAROUND KRAZY! 

I haven't written anything all week i don't think, and i've missed it!  even if no one reads this, i'm writing this more for me than anyone else.  after all was said & done this week, one thing really hit hard tonight.  i was sitting in my car, waiting in at wattaburger to get a sandwich & fries for one of our security guards.  2 of our security guards have been out sick this week and this poor guy was pulling a double shift.  So as i was leaving work i asked if he'd like me to make a coffee run for him, & he asked if i could get him a cheeseburger & fries.  Soooo, as i was sitting in line listening to KLOVE RADIO i realized just how long it had been since i'd really spent any quality time with God, Jesus & Holy Spirit.  i mean REAL quality time!  with no tv, no radio, just me praising & worshipping, as best i can with my untalented voice, & then just talking to Him & listening for His voice!  to be honest, i don't remember the last time i went to church (because i usually stay up too late saturday night & can't get my lazy hiney up Sunday morning!).  I miss Pastors Tom & Mary, i used to be able to really connect with God at church when they were there.  But Pastor Tom always said for us to be careful & not depend on them for our *connection* to God, but that we should be able to *connect* with God on our own.  I did pretty good for a long time after they retired, but i've somehow allowed myself to drift away from that precious time i used to spend with God.  and i've used plenty of excuses too!   I have to run errands, clean house, get busy & get ready for work, etc etc etc.   

Sitting there in the car listening to the radio, I remembered the joy & peace i used to find in spending time with Him, sometimes for no reason at all other than just to find that joy and peace & know that i was spending time with HIM, my best Friend, Saviour, Lover of my soul, my Creator, Protector, Provider, Healer, Comforter, Keeper of my secrets, Heavenly Father, Brother & Holy Spirit.  and these *titles* don't begin to explain the peace I find in His presence.  

So thank You God, for speaking to me tonight, even though i wasn't reaching out to You, You reached out to me & reminded me that You miss me even more than i miss You!  Thank You for loving me, not giving up on me and drawing me close, drawing me back to You!  

sounding like a frog who swallowed sand paper!

cleaning house.......   so much fun, NOT.  but it does give a sense of fulfillment, i've been 'under the weather' all week. thank goodness for dr. g.f., i called her on friday morning, when my 2 weeks of allergies, took a turn for the worst & my slime started turning green & my left ear & sinus's started hurting.  She called in a prescription to the pharmacy & had a couple suggestions for me.  I still can't talk much, at least not without sounding like a frog who swallowed sand paper, but i'm feeling better little by little.  

now if someone would just find a maid & pay her for about 2 weeks worth of cleaning.........  

:)

I'm so tired right now my mind feels like it's totally void of anything other than fog.  For a change I'm both physically and mentally exhausted, though emotionally I'm good.  But tonight’s post will be short anyway because tomorrow I get to enjoy the company of 3 of my grand-kids and I have a lot to do before the fun starts!  I'm going to need lots of energy tomorrow.  And as much as I am enjoying my new adventure in blogging, my grand-kids come first!  
As any good grama will tell you, "WHAT HAPPENS AT GRAMA'S STAYS AT GRAMA'S!"  LOL   LET THE FUN BEGIN!    :-D

GOOD NIGHT, GOD BLESS & SWEET DREAMS!



*********  just a note to my readers (i know you're out there even if you don't say anything!  :)  i'll be off line until sunday night.   C U THEN!   please, feel free to leave a comment anytime!  this is my first venture of this sort,  i could use a few helpful comments!  *********

ahhhhhh, the sound of silence.....   I WISH!!!!  

since i got up this morning i've been bombarded with different noises.  my neighbor has a new motorcycle and apparently had to test how loud the engine is at a VERY EARLY hour!  then there's the regular alarms, my dog thought i wasn't getting him outside fast enough so the howling began! (he also nudges me with his nose when i don't move fast enough!)  Then of course I had to turn on the tv to catch up on the news, UGH, so instead i changed it to a recorded episode of castle (actually maybe 2 episodes?).  talking to mom on my cell, the radio in the car, and once i got to work there were the 50 people talking at once, phone calls, elevator dings, more phone calls, more people talking.......   and what did i do when i got off, yep, turned the radio on in the car & the tv on when i got home!   in my defense i just had to get a duck dynasty fix!  justy say'n!  and if you haven't watched duck dynasty you just don't know what you're missing!  

....  where was i going with this?  oh yea, NOISE!!!!

 the one noise i didn't hear all day long was one of PRAISE, you know as in make a joyful NOISE unto the LORD!  it was in my head a few seconds here and there, but somehow it never made it outside of my head as in singing praise or maybe even just talking to HIM and saying thank You for all You do!!   So I get home from work & open my YouVersion Bible app on my phone & guess what the verse of the day is?  
Psalm 95: 1-2! 

¹ Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;
    let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
² Let us come before him with thanksgiving
    and extol him with music and song.

I'm thinking God may be trying to tell me something!   

Why do we let ourselves get so busy we forget about the most important connection we can possibly make?  connecting with our Lord & Savior!  and part of connecting with Him is PRAISE!  soooooo,  tonight, as i go to bed i will be filled with happiness and peace as i MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE UNTO THE LORD!

GOODNIGHT Y'ALL

BLESSINGS & PEACE!!!

 

3:30 in the morning?  really?  

ok, just a few quick words then i'm off to snoozeville.

i'm so excited to get to spend a whole weekend playing with my grandkids, (i'm supposed to be *babysitting*, hahahaha)  i wish i could spend weekends with ALL my grandkids & maybe someday when i'm rich and famous, i will. in the mean time, i plan on enjoying every moment i can with the grandkids that i can spend time with.  it's not that i love the others less, it's just they live so far away and as a working woman, i can only get off so much time, and as a single woman, i don't have a lot of extra $$ to spend, and i hope my kids understand,  but some day, some day soon i hope, i'll be able to spend as much time as i want with any of them!    

in the mean time, it's snoozeville for me!

blessings & peace y'all !!!

On new years resolutions & last years reflections:   stop all this beating ourselves up please, the world is angry enough without our being angry with ourselves to add to to it!


You know, it was amazing but i didn't check twitter or facebook even once on Sunday!  guess what?  the world didn't end!  my world didn't fall apart.  when i got home from work (put in some extra hours to make up for the time i'll get off later this week) i shuffled around a bit, made something to eat, talked on the phone with my friend Nancy for a little bit, and finally decided i'd check out fb.  but then......  i hesitated, the first 3 posts i saw, didn't look that much different then anything else i'd seen previously, thought to myself, 'so what if i miss something, i'll just be reposting a lot of things people have already seen, so what......'   so i stopped and didn't scroll down any further.  made a comment on my daughters post about the weather (brrrrrr), then searched for what  a few of my *likes* posted, paula white, joseph prince, jesse duplantis, & joel osteen, to see what nuggets of encouragement & wisdom i could find.  that was worth the time for sure!  stop all this beating ourselves up please, the world is angry enough without our being angry with ourselves to add to to it!


I'm currently watching 'ratatouille', while i write this, should be going to bed and i will, soon, but i just feel like i have something on my mind that i want to share, and watching this delightful childrens cartoon movie helps me to relax & 'sort things out'.  

we're rapidly approaching the end of 2012. i'm not talking about the mayan & nostradamas supposed prophecies, or that thing about the extra planet, or the alignment of all the planets with the center of our galaxy, and all the things that are supposed to happen because of this nonsense.  

No, i'm talking about the whole 12 months of the year 2012.  what happened to it?  it just seems to have gone by so fast?  

what did i accomplish? what should have i accomplished?  i know we're supposed to look back and come to grips with our *mistakes*, learn from them & make new year resolutions for the year 2013.  WHY?  where in God's word does it say to do that?  why do we beat ourselves up over this, EVERY YEAR?

I'll be honest, i made mistakes, there are things i wish i'd said or done differently, things i wish i hadn't said or done, and some things i wish i HAD done, some things i'm glad i did or didn't do.   so what?  that's life!  just exactly who came up with this stupid idea about *new years resolutions* and examing the year we just completed?  I really don't want to beat myself up over past mistakes any more, or set (unrealistic) expectations that i might or might not achieve.

that doesn't mean i don't have goals, but they are mostly the same goals i'm always trying to achieve, spend more time with God, my family & friends, lose some weight, pay bills & save $$, & do a better job cleaning house (which the last 2 would be a whole lot easier if i were rich & had a maid! LOL).     but i'm not going to beat myself up if i didn't do everything EXACTLY how i wanted to do it this last year, and i'm not going to make some long list of expectations for next year.  i'm going to just do what i can, to do as much as i can, and enjoy my life. 

Life is just too short to spend it worrying about what we didn't do or should do.  i mean, c'mon, we all know what we're supposed to be doing!  I'm not saying don't set goals, of course we have goals, but one of those goals should be to enjoy life while we try to reach the other goals!   and that's my goal for next year: enjoy my life while i try to do the best i can!  

so let's stop all this beating ourselves up please, the world is angry enough without our being angry with ourselves to add to to it!

blessings & peace
y'all have a great week!

So i have a question,  does anyone else have days where you just can't get anything done & you don't really care?  I want to go to church in the morning so i'll say goodnight for now.  I hope someone out there had a better day than me!  i'm not sad or mad or anything, just feel yucky!
i'll try again tomorrow, too tired to think......

blessings and peace

a little bit here & there......

I'm not getting a lot done.....  a little bit here & there, feeling yucky from what i'm assuming (for now) is allergies?  i ran out of Duck Dynasty episodes on TVo, now it's on to 'Bones' & 'Castle'   hmmmmm, wonder why i'm not getting anythng accomplished? (LOL)  and on top of it all, i knocked my Christmas tree over (at least i didn't have any of the breakable decorations on it yet)  and the neighbor has put her cat oustide again, causing the cat to meow & wail at her door, which means my dog is going nuts...  oh goodee 

i really don't like doing dishes & cleaning house.  but it needs to be done 

ok, here i go again, wonder where i put my timer at, i think i'm going at this all wrong, need to use the flylady approach!  well, wish me luck

blessing & peace,
ttyl8r

Hi Y'all !!
ok, here it is, my first entry in my first blog.  what i hope to achieve is to just be real and at the same time, encourage others.  but to start off, here's a little bit about who i am.  

i'm just about to turn 58.  i'm a spirit filled Christian woman.  i love my 3 kids & 3 bonus kids  (my kids spouses) & my 8 grandchildren!  my *day* job is coaching a team of 15-20 agents in a customer service company, which i enjoy doing....  most days.....   
i have a mind of my own and i'm not really impressed with people who want me (or others) to *shut up* just because they don't like what's being said.  i'm also not impressed with bully's (physical, mental or emotional), or people who criticize things that don't matter.
what i am impressed with is people who help others without expecting anything in return, people who are honest and hard working and aren't afraid or *too good* to get their hands dirty.   i'm impressed with people who can have a discussion, even if we disagree, without trying to make the other side *look stupid* just so they can say they are winning & without trying to use big words to prove how smart they are, etc.  you know what i mean?
i'm sure you'll find out more about who i am as time goes on..... (providing anyone reads my blog, LOL)  if you want to know more, you're welcome to check out my profile info! :)

THAT BEING SAID, LET THE BLOGGING BEGIN!

As i write my first blog, I'm watching Duck Dynasty.  I just love this show!  I really like how Phil & his sons respect & adore his wife (& their mom) Miss Kay.  I'm not saying they are perfect & there was one episode when Phil describes how he can *tune  out*  Miss Kay when she *babbles*.  But he did so with respect.   I also like how they aren't afraid to talk about the Bible & God!  now that's my idea of reality tv.  one time Phil said something to the effect of 'if you can find a woman who can cook and knows and lives her Bible, you got a keeper'  he didn't say anything about her being good looking, skinny, rich, etc.  just she needed to be a good cook, and know and LIVE her Bible! 
I'm not the best cook, and I can't say I'm anywhere close to a perfect Christian (hahahahaha), but I do my best to live my Bible.  some days i do better & some days......  well thank goodness for God's Grace!

Now, i realize, this first blog is pretty basic, nothing exciting, please be patience as i learn how to do this.  
i do want to give a shout out to Flylady, Oh SoShabby, Duck Dynasty & the Nebraska Cornhusker football team, some of my favourite likes on fb.  
I also follow Joseph Prince, Paula White, Joel Osteen & Jesse Duplantis, I love posts that encourage and bring joy & peace to my life!

Time for me to get busy with cleaning house, after putting in 10 hours a day at work, at least 2 days of my 5 at work, not getting to bed on time & getting up late, my place is a WRECK!  I'll try to add some more when i get the living room & kitchen cleaned up......   

I hope y'all are have a blessed day & a great weekend!