Happy Halloween!

This is sooo me.... Happy Halloween!

Work Sux but God is Great

Ok--so it's Saturday--the best day of the week. But I can't stop thinking about how I have to go into work tomorrow morning. I am soooo fed up with this crap at work that I'm about ready to tell them to stick it where the sun don't shine. I run the entire dept by myself and volume has picked up so much that I can barely keep up. And there's no hope of it letting up--we will continue to get busier and busier. I'm constantly being paged when I'm not at work and called in on the weekends although I trained a person specifically to cover weekends! And believe me when I say that I do NOT get paid enough to deal with this shit. I let my bosses and the COO know that I needed help about 6 weeks ago and they provided me with "weekend girl" 2-4 hours a week. Now that is so helpful. She's actually only helped a total of 4 times in the last 6 weeks because, of course, her car was in the shop for 2 weeks and she had no way of getting to work. So, I'm left wondering--do I stick it out and wait for something to happen or start looking for a job??? OK--enough venting.

On a lighter note-- Last Sunday at church was amazing! This young guy had come to church several times before and told us about how he lives in his car and has been homeless for about a year. He said he had fallen away from God and had been heavy into drugs. He said he was now clean and had stopped hanging out with all his old druggie friends. I had prayed for him. He seemed lost. Then last Sunday, at the morning service (I don't go in the morning, but my sister & her family does) he was suppossed to get Baptized and he didn't show. As my sister tells it, it was a little awkward--the water was filled and ready to go and the pastor had to say a few words to the congregation to smooth it over. Well, the guy showed up last Sunday evening and came forward and confessed his faith in front of us all. The evening service is a pretty small group--there were about 15-20 of us there that night. My Uncle was visiting from San Fran so he and my Mom were also there. The guy said that he couldn't bring himself to walk into the church that morning. He had too much self-doubt. So he went back to his car and began crying--sobbing even. Asking God what he should do. He said he cried for almost 2 hours. Then his hands and arms went numb. He got out of the car and ran into the church, into the sanctuary, to the alter area. He stood crying and trembling and he heard in his head "Submit, Submit." It was then he knew he was ready to get baptized. He didn't expect any of us to believe this story, but he told it anyway. So last Sunday evening as he stood in front of us--still crying and trembling, he decided that he'd like to go ahead and get baptized right then. We made our way to the dark sanctuary--turned on the lights and filled the water. There were 10 of us and we sang "Amazing Grace" for him and he was baptized. I was crying like a baby. AMEN!

Grandma Update

My Grandma had surgery today and they removed the 2 cancerous tumors. They did some exploring and came up with nothing else--thank goodness. Hopefully all of our prayers came true. She will still have to have chemo :( but it could be worse. I'm pooped--going to bed. ZZZZZ

5 FIVE 5 FIVE 5

Stole this from April's blog (don't know her but she's got a cool blog!) But I added a few of my own catagories. Here's my answers:
5 songs of right now: Kanye West "Gold Digger", Gorillaz "Dare", Rob Thomas "This is how a Heart Breaks", Mercy Me "Homesick", Cyndi Lauper "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" (threw that in to see if you're paying attention)
5 snacks: buttery popcorn, caramel apples with nuts (it's fall!), cereal, pretzels, gummy worms
5 things I'd do with a million $'s: share it with family, new cars & a big house, save some, donate some, new wardrobe
5 places I'd run away to: Paris, Italy, Hawaii, New York, Australia
5 things I'd never wear: Blue eyeshadow, legwarmers, real fur, lots of big jewelry, my birthday suit (in public!)
5 greatest joys: my family, my faith, my employment, my husband, scrapbooking :)
5 current reads: Application Study Bible, Wake Up Laughing (women's devotional), Creating Keepsakes mag, Memory Makers mag, O mag (gotta have my Oprah!)
5 things I can't stand: inconsiderate people, chicken fried steak, tailgaters (the driving kind...heehee), stress, too little time
That's all for now! I hope to get off work early tomorrow and go to a few craft fairs with Mom. Traffic will be just wonderful. It's been a terrible week and I'm so glad it's almost over!!
Viva la Friday! (whatever that means)

The "C" Word and more

Well, tomorrow we will find out if my grandma is having surgery or what. She got cancer in 1992, then again in 1997. Now I guess it's back. What a terrible feeling to have to deal with. Knowing that you've put your All into fighting off something that's trying to kill you and after throwing up, being weak, staying at home instead of going out so you won't catch something, loosing all of your hair---and finally succeeding--beating it--for it to come back to haunt you. Not once, but twice. She needs our prayers. We find out tomorrow what exactly is up--on her 76th birthday!

Ok, so that was depressing. I've been meaning to get that out, but was procrastinating. I like to post cheery things usually. Here's some things I'm thankful for right now: the crisp Autumn weather, my new Church experience, reading my study Bible, my creative outlet--scrapbooking, new friends, old friends, my wonderful husband, my furbaby Bianca, getting back in touch with my family.

Which reminds me...I've been thinking about coordinating a monthly or bimonthly "Family Night." I just had a thought that my calendar is always full of events with friends and Junior League obligations and that it would be great to have a planned night where everyone drops everything and comes together and plays a board game or watches a movie or something. Since we all live really close together now, it would be easy (although we should have been doing it when we lived further apart) Anyway, thinking about it...
Have a good week.

.....BREATHE.....

The Week In Review

Since I know you've been in suspense since my last post whether RHS won against rival BHS, (haha) I just wanted to let you know that Rogers Won! Unfortunatly, Rogers lost this Friday to Fort Smith Northside. :( And it was Homecoming!
I went to a cooking class in Wed night with the chef at Copeland's New Orleans Restaurant and it was pretty neat. I'm not much of a cook (my meals usually come out of a box in the freezer) but we learned how to make Shrimp Creole and Bananas Foster. I don't even like bananas, but I could have eaten 5 plates of that stuff!! I tasted more like rum & caramel. Doubt I'll ever make it at home, but you never know...

I'd like to congratulate my best friend, Victoria, for getting hitched this week!!!! I'm so happy for them and wish them the best! My Uncle is visiting in a couple weeks from San Fran and I can't wait! We have such a great time when he's here. It'll be my Mom's b-day also, so I'm sure we'll have fun! I took off work so I'll have a 3 day weekend when he's here. Yeah!
Can you even believe it is OCTOBER??? It's too crazy. I have no idea if we're all dressing up this year for Halloween (my FAV holiday!) because all of our friends either have newborns or will have in a few weeks. Or are very pregnant. (not exactly the partying type) Not that we're big partiers, but we love to get into costumes! So I don't know if I need to be looking for a costume or not. ugg. Maybe I'll see if my sister wants to go look at the Costume store today. that's sounds fun. byebye