September 7, 2010

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So, For Today...Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Outside my window..it is shady in the front of the house looking out of my office window and the American flag is blowing gently in the breeze. Our neighbor just came home from work. I am late in getting to my daybook this week. The best laid plans of mice and men...it has been one of those days.

I am thinking...about something I saw on my friend's blog yesterday. When Plan A fails, don't worry you still have BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY & Z! Thanks Marianne!

I am thankful for...the richness and complexities of life. You can be feeling so blue one minute and something will happen to make you laugh so hard (see my post below this one.) You can be worrying yourself sick about someone or something, only to discover God took care of it or them and your faith increases. Great excitements and total boredom and everything in between. I am thankful to be alive. I am thankful you are alive and that we are all in this together.

From the learning room..I would not like to be a travel agent. Still not done working on the trip to New England. Shooting for tomorrow...but then I was shooting for today too.

I am reading...books and Internet about all the lovely possibilities in New England. Too much information. Too many choices. It reminds me of trying to buy diapers at Walmart.

I am wondering...how Jim is feeling. He has a hip problem or back problem manifesting itself in his hip and leg. He is working at his mom's remodeling the bathroom this week but I know it is twice as hard as it would be if he were pain free.

I am hearing...my microwave buzzing as I am trying to thaw out some cooked steak left over from a BBQ we had. Then I can dump it into some chili I am making in the crockpot. We decided it is time to tackle the UFO's (Unidentified Frozen Objects) in our freezer.

Today if I could change one thing...it would be for good health and prosperity for all the people I have on my prayer list right now. Oh boy, that would be nice!

I am quoting..."How little permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue." Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1811. I ♥ ♥ ♥ that!

I am going...to watch a movie tonight. I am feeling the need to just kick back and do over today, tomorrow since I am now a day behind this week. (I had to do some work today that I was not planning on. But I was happy to be of service to Jim and his mom, getting paint squared away and buying bathroom fixtures.)

I am missing...a family reunion, we need one. Our whole family has not been together since Christmas of 2006. Laura has never seen Hazel or Owen in person and neither have the boys. Robert came by briefly one afternoon when he was on Navy business in their area. Hazel will be three this month and Owen was three in June. Too sad! We need to all be together under one roof and soon.

I am hoping...I can figure out how to use a PC again as we just bought a laptop so we can take it on trips and not have to use the kids' computers all the time. It is my new blogging machine while away. It is like driving in England to switch back to a PC after hanging out with a Mac. Turns my brain inside out, upside down and backwards. Ouch!

One of my guilty pleasures....oh, I hate to say it, true confessions...Grey's Anatomy. I don't know why I like it because it really is a seedy, weird TV show, but I do. I can watch it on the computer one day after it airs on abcgo.com. The people and situations are totally ridiculous on it but it is intriguing to see what they will come up with next.

Pet Peeves...(new this week) People that text on their iPhones while they are talking to you! Excuse me...rudeness. We need a book on Electronic Etiquette.

One of my favorite things...dinner in the crockpot so I don't have to think about food for a few days. When Apple comes out with something that dreams up, procures and cooks dinner, I am getting it. They could call it the iCrock!

An enjoyable movie I have watched lately...Becoming Jane. Any Jane Austen lover must see it. Ah, so bittersweet! Anne Hathaway is so brilliant in it. It is romantic and beautifully filmed. Treat yourself! Dave Hoppie...you would love it!

I am curious about...the people that just stop blogging and never come back. They just kind of fade away. I miss some of them.

A few plans for the rest of the week...tonight get out the Relief Society calender for the month, watch a movie, wait for Jim to come home from mutual (church Young Men's activity) , tomorrow drive my brother and Emily and her mom to the airport in San Francisco so they can fly off to a European cruise for a couple of weeks, haircut and visiting teaching tomorrow night, a trip to Good Will with some clothes (I cleaned out of my postage stamp closet yesterday), clean house and work on the itinerary, Friday a funeral on the coast for a distant cousin of Jim's (we are driving his mom over), Friday night date, Saturday...just breathe..hopefully.

A picture and thought I am sharing with you.

Hazel Jo...How can one little girl
with spina bifada bring such joy
to so many people
with her tiny little smile?

Answer: She chooses happiness!

One of the sixteen reasons
we jump out of bed happy each morning,
ignoring all the aches and pains,
trials and tribulations
and praising God!