2 New Weekly Scriptures

I know I've been behind in posting my weekly scriptures, and I apologize again. Seems like I'm doing that a lot lately. I have 2 new ones though; Luke chapter 22, and Genesis chapter 1. I have posted links to the left again for those want to just read them on line. I think Genesis Chapter 1 is a good one for this past Thanksgiving just to remind us to be thankful for the fact that God made everything and this world, and that it was good. Reading Genesis 1 you are just in awe of the wondrous powers of God, and don't know how anyone can not look around at the beauties of this world, and not be reminded of Him, and be thankful that we have this wonderful place to live in. Thats just my thoughts anyway. Read both scriptures though, and take time to reflect on them.

Thanksgiving Day

Well all in all I had a really nice Thanksgiving yesterday. I got to sleep in, which is always a good thing. Didn't have to work, and that is even better. Plus I got to cook and eat lots of yummy food. It was just my parents, brother, and I for Thanksgiving at my parents house, but that was okay. It made it nice and relaxing. We didn't have a set schedule or time that we had to eat or do things, and we didn't have to get really dressed up. There is a ton of leftover food, which I happily packed for lunch to bring with me to work today. It was the first Thanksgiving where I cooked almost the entire meal, except for the turkey. Dad is always in charge of the turkey. I did, however, make the cranberries, stuffing, sweet potatoes, corn bread, desert, and even an appetizer. :o) It was all a success, well, except for maybe the corn bread. That wasn't the greatest. It wasn't bad, but not great. So that was our Thanksgiving meal. :o)

We had fun too yesterday with my brother's new little kitty, Dyson. He is so cute, and loves to cuddle. Scott brought him over because he had just gotten him the day before, and didn't want to leave him home all alone all day already, plus I think he wanted to show him off too. He is one talkative, noisy little guy though too. Any time he is on the move, and not being held, he is making noise. It's pretty funny.

This morning mom and I got up to hit as many sales as we could before I had to come in to work at 11:00a.m. We weren't quite as crazy as some people getting up and waiting in line for the stores opening up at 5:00a.m., but we were at the stores by a little after 7:00a.m. Kohls was the first place we hit, and we did quite well there, and got a lot done. Then we braved the mall for a while, and hit a few more stores before I headed in to work. Now I have almost all my Christmas shopping done. I think I have just only like a few other things to get, and that is it! It's nice to have it all done early, and to have been able to get such great bargains on it all, but now I have a month to have to wait tile I can give it all to people. Thats the downer side of it. I get so excited, and want to give it to people right away that it is hard to wait.

Well I guess it's back off to work to go. I'm stuck here tile 8:00p.m. tonight since I switched hours with Tom here, so that I could come in late in order to shop this morning. Oh well. I guess that is the price to pay. Well I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving!!

Here Comes the snow!

So it is supposed to start snowing today, and continue snowing all week. We are even under a lake effect snow advisory tonight and tomorrow. I think they are calling for like 6-12 inches by tomorrow. Who knows though, and who knows how much we will have for sure by the end of the week. Thats northern Indiana weather for you. Wonderful lake effect snow from Lake Michigan. It's gotten cold and windy, or as Laurie would say. . . blowy. Winter is upon us. Not only are we probably going to have white Christmas, but it looks like we are going to have a white Thanksgiving too.

I'm very excited about Thanksgiving because I really am looking forward to cooking the meal this year. I think I'm still going to let dad be in charge of the turkey, but everything else I really want to tackle for the most part on my own. I've got some really yummy recipes to try. It will be nice to have Thanksgiving just my parents, brother, and I, but in some ways I almost wish we were having company, so I had a bigger crowd to cook all this food for! LOL But I'm still happy to cook it just for my family.

We're also celebrating my brother's birthday on Thanksgiving. Happy Birthday Bro!! :o) His birthday is really on Wednesday the 23rd, but he has other plans, so we'll just celebrate as a family on Thanksgiving. I'm bummed because I ordered him some things for his birthday with plenty of time to get them here, and they were supposed to be in stock, but only one of them just got here yesterday, and the 2nd just shipped out yesterday, so it may not get here in time. At least he'll have one of them. I can't say what they are, or where they are from since he reads this blog too much. LOL

Well in case I don't update before Thanksgiving I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy your time with family and friends, and enjoy all the yummy food! :o)

Weekend of Friends

Sorry it's been about a week since I've updated. I know I've slacked off. Hope everyone has had a good weekend, and a nice weekend.

My weekend was very nice as I got to see some friends from college that I have not seen in a very long time. My friend Leah and I get to see each other now and then. Not real often, but more often then I get to see others. She lives just outside of Chicago, so she is not too far away from me right now. My first stop this weekend was meeting her at her boyfriend, Kevin's, Condo. I met her there when she got off work, we all had dinner, and then Leah and I headed out further west, and south a little, towards Macomb, IL. We got in late, so just went straight to our Hotel and crashed for the night. Then we got up in the morning, had breakfast, and head over to our friend Stephanie's house. This was our other friend from college that we were coming to visit. Stephanie had since been married now, to Chad, and they have 2 adorable kids. Ethan is 2 years old and Abigail is 1 year old. We spent the day together getting caught up on things. Leah has seen Stephanie more times then I have, and been able to keep in touch, but it had been many a years since I had seen Stephanie. Saturday night Leah and I cooked a big, sorta mini-thanksgiving meal for everyone, and we had a nice feast. It was all very yummy, and I think Stephanie and Chad really enjoyed it because I'm sure they have a hard time cooking a big meal like that with the little ones. On Sunday Leah and I met Stephanie and the family for church, and went with them. After their service, we got a bonus because they were having a Thanksgiving potluck at the church, so we got another fabulous, big meal, and the double bonus was that it was free! After the meal Leah and I headed out back home, but on our way back we stopped to visit with another friend from college, Sara. She was our Intervarsity Christian Fellowship leader. Sara also not too long ago had gotten married, and they just had a baby girl, Emmalynn. She was so cute, and showing off with us all her toys and how she could drop them them on the floor and make us pick them up for her. LOL It was a lot of fun catching up with Sara as well as I had not seen her in a very long time as well. All in all it was a lot of fun this weekend. I got back home pretty late Sunday night because we stayed later then planned on Sunday, but it was worth it.

I will say the only thing I missed this weekend was my Notre Dame football. :o( LOL

Exciting new things

Well I'm just excited because I could not pass up the opportunity to get a new Dell laptop at an excellent price. It was just too cheap. It's been refurbished, but it's a Pentium III, 1ghz, 512MB, DVD drive, and a wireless internet card with it. It's been all tested out to run perfectly just like a brand new one.

My other exciting thing today was at work I got my very own business cards. It was too cool. The company had ordered them a while ago, but they finally came in today. It was exciting! They have my name, and that I'm a sales and product specialist on them, and then they have the company name and logo on them of course with the address phone number, my direct number and company e-mail address. So cool!!

Thats my exciting stuff for the day. :o)

Thanksgiving & Christmas

You know I've gotten so excited for Christmas with the early Christmas shopping I've done that I've almost forgotten completely about Thanksgiving. Now there is nothing wrong with getting all excited for Christmas to come because I mean it is happy times for most people, time to spend with family, friends, loved ones, etc. You get to shop for the perfect gift for those you care about, and imagine the look on their faces and reactions they will have when they open it. I mean thats my favorite part, getting to watch everyone open the things they receive and see the joy it brings them. I think so many people get wrapped up in lists of who they HAVE to by for and what they HAVE to get that they forget about what the purpose really is, and where the true meaning of Christmas comes from. I've talked to 2 different friends this week, and we've talked about Christmas and how their families didn't have as much money to spend on Christmas this year as usual, so they were maybe not going to exchange gifts, or they were going to make homemade gifts instead. Still that was perfectly fine with them, and makes them happy because they still have their families, and they know it's about love, celebration, thanks, Chirst's birth, and that is what makes them happy. It made me think too, and in a way it's about Thanksgiving, which made me realize that so many people go straight from, and even as Christians we acknowledge it, Halloween, and right into Christmas. We bypass right over Thanksgiving. Well at least taking more then just the day of Thanksgiving, or an hour or two for the meal of Thanksgiving. I mean in the stores you see Halloween decorations and then you see Christmas decorations. It's no wonder people never take time to really give much thought into Thanksgiving. Personally I think it's perfect that Thanksgiving comes shortly before Christmas if we look at the Holiday the way we should it could help give people a new insight on Christmas as well.

Well that is just my insight for the week. I do have the scripture reading from last Sunday finally up. It is Psalm 40. I apologize for being behind on those lately. Take a look though with either the link on the left, or your own Bibles. Have a good weekend. Go Irish . . beat Navy!!

Relaxing Weekend

Oh it was so nice to be able to relax this weekend. I didn't have to work at all for once, and had nothing else to do. My dad was gone Friday and Saturday, which meant my mom and I could sleep in Saturday morning with peace and quiet as long as we liked. It was soooooooo nice. I slept like a baby till 9:00a.m. and then the phone rang. Oh well, I was starting to wake up then any ways. It was a relaxing morning where I could take my time getting up and ready. Then my mom and I went over to the Optical Shoppe to pick up her new glasses. She was so excited because she hadn't had new glasses in so long. They were very cute on her. After that we had brunch at Le Peep's, and then went shopping at JC Penny's because they were having their Biggest Sale of the Year event. It was definitely a good sale too. Mom got an awesome deal on some very nice blinds for their bedroom. I got a little Christmas shopping done too, and was very excited about the deal I got on one item. Of course after shopping we went home to watch the Notre Dame game. They were playing Tennessee, who was supposed to have a pretty good defensive team. They were quite good defensively too, and at one point the game was tied, but in the end Notre Dame totally kicked their butts with a score of 41 to 21. We rule. :o) Notre Dame made some totally awesome plays during that game too, which made it so much fun to watch.

Later Dad came home with his new purchase. Another car. Some old car is about all I can tell you. I think it's a 62, and it's either Chrysler, or Chevy, and it's a convertible. Oh, and it's blue. It is cool looking though, and in really nice shape, and he got a really good deal on it. It's another new toy for him. Now we have this one, a Plymouth, a Studebaker, and a Corvair. Besides the main cars of course. Men and their cars. What can I say.

Sunday was nice and relaxing too. Got up, and dad had made breakfast. Went to church. Mom and I ran to JC Penny's again afterwards since their sale was going on because I wanted to look at a purse for me. Just something very small because all I really need to carry is my wallet, checkbook, and keys. Before, I've just been carrying them individually. I did find a purse that I loved. It's sooooo cute, and for me to find a purse that love and think is really cute is a miracle because I am not a purse person. We came home and just kinda lounged around all afternoon, but then the computer died when mom tried to get on it. It has not been working real well for a while, and we had it in at Best Buy to get fixed a couple of months ago, and so we unhooked it then and took it back. While they were running a diagnostic on it mom and I went back and looked at new computers because we figured we were going to have to replace it, but they got it up and running for us. Mom convinced them not to charge us. She is so good at that. lol We'll see how long it lasts now.

So that was pretty much my weekend. Not really exciting, but very relaxing, and thats what I needed. Hope everyone else enjoyed theirs as well. I hope to be back on later tonight with the weekly scripture to post.

Nothing New

So it's been like over a week, and I have like nothing new or exciting to report. No wonder I haven't updated in a while. Hmmmm. I feel like I should have something to say though. Yet nothing really comes to mind. Thats just craziness coming from me.

I did get to go trick-or-treating with my Emmy though on Halloween, and that was a lot of fun, even though it did rain. Of course it was so nice all day long, and then it starts to rain half way in to our trick-or-treating time. Oh well, we toughed it out anyways, and Emmy cleaned up with a ton of candy. She filled to pumpkins worth. She was so cute in her little Cinderella outfit. Susan even put a little make-up on her. It was so cute, she looked so grown up. At first when we went out, Susan and I had to go up to the doors with her, but then towards the end of the night she was getting pretty brave, and would go up by herself while we waited at the end of the driveways. Afterwards we had dinner at Susan's parents, and her mom had fixed a wonderful meal. It was like having Thanksgiving dinner!

Should be a good game this weekend at Notre Dame. We play Tennessee, and they are ranked pretty well, so I think it should be a good game to watch. I'm looking forward to it since I don't have to work for a change this weekend. Exciting news there too, is that Notre Dame has signed our new coach, coach Weiss for a 10 year contract. I think they saw they had a good thing, and don't want to lose it. Can't say as I blame them, however I will say this is just his first year. May be a little early to make such a large contract. I think it will be good thing though. He seems to have proven himself worthy.

Well I hope you all have been having more of an exciting week then I have, and all have exciting plans for the weekend. I mean other then watching the Notre Dame game of course. LOL