Real estate drama. It's what is on my mind, and apparently upsetting my stomach and dreams, as was evidenced last night. So here I am, at 4:59 am, having just woken up from a true nightmare, and I'm sipping a ginger ale, ready to Hodgepodge, do my Bible study, and get this morning started off on a better note! (Though I may be sleepy later today, thats for sure!) Ooh, but here's something awesome - last night I was attempting to log in to my blog (to do the Hodgepodge), and for some reason Google wasn't having it... nope, DE-NIED! I even enlisted the help of my awesome-sauce teen boy to help me, to no avail. So finally I gave up and just went to bed... but when I woke up this morning was hit with the brilliant idea to clear all my history browsers and sign-in data, and try it that way. And voila, it worked! Who says you can't be brilliant at 4:51am?! That may be the end of my brilliance after such a long night, but on that note, lets Hodgepodge!
1. When did someone last suggest you 'chill out'? Or, when did you last tell someone (or want to tell someone) to 'chill out'? Or, when did you last tell yourself to 'chill out'?
hahaha! Just this last Saturday, I was running around like crazy trying to clean up the house before some realtors came over to do a showing (mind you, this house doesn't even BELONG to me - it's my landlords who are selling the house... but I'm going to do the right thing and make it presentable) So anyway, I was cleaning up before taking my daughter to her soccer game, and she finally came in, stood in the door with her hand on her hip, and said "Mom, you really need to chill out - the house looks good, you are obsessing, it's FINE! Now lets GO!" And I laughed, because you know, she was totally right. Since then, I've been chilling out a bit... or trying to anyway...
2. What most recently caused your heart to melt?
Yesterday I had a long 3-hour training session, much needed, but my brain was mush afterwards and I was exhausted. I went to the back part of the office and muttered under my breath "I need chocolate!" But alas, there was none to be found. A few minutes later, my co-worker appeared with a piece of chocolate cheesecake - she had gone to the freezer and thawed a dessert that was supposed to be for last night's session meeting, just so I could have chocolate! I was so touched... and oh man, did it hit the spot! I do have wonderful co-workers, thats for sure!
3. "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." G.K. Chesterton
Your thoughts? When did you last experience either an adventure or an inconvenience? How did you see it at first, as an adventure or an inconvenience? Does it feel the same in hindsight?
A couple of weeks ago I had a few extra minutes before I had to be at work, so I got some coffee and went down to the beach for a few minutes. As I sat there, I prayed and sighed and enjoyed the warm sun, and took a picture to post on Facebook.
4. A Wendy's Frosty, root beer in a frosty mug, or a frosted chocolate cupcake...of these three, which one is your favorite 'frosty' treat?
Root beer in a frosty mug, with a scoop of Tillamook vanilla ice cream if you don't mind! yummy!!
5. Would you say your life so far this year has been more like a circus or a symphony? Explain why.
BAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!! Oh Joyce, you make me laugh. It's full on circus! Hubby working 2000 miles away while also still trying to get his business out here going, 3 kids- school, soccer, band, church youth groups, working full time at a church that is currently in search of a new senior pastor, my landlord is selling our house, and we are putting our own rental property in North Carolina on the market in the next couple of weeks. Circus Circus Circus...
6. Since it's a 'snow day' here, what's your favorite song containing the word 'white'?
This one - "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" by Toby Keith... as a military family, after the attacks on 9/11 and all of the emotions that went along with it, sending my husband off to fight overseas, all of it... this song was a great morale booster!
7. If you had to leave the city you currently live in, what would you find the hardest to leave behind?
Um, did you SEE my picture on question #3? Yeah, I love watching the sunsets over the ocean, the surfers, the smell of sea water... love love love it.
8. Insert your own random thought here
So yeah, the real estate drama is getting to me a bit, as evidenced by my dream last night. I dreamt that I flew to North Carolina just to see what needed to be done to get the house ready to put on the market. (Our realtor had suggested we get the walls repainted and the carpets cleaned) And in my dream, when I arrived the yard was overgrown with weeds 4 feet tall, the trees were all overgrown and in different locations in the yard, and as I peeked in the windows, the walls were all torn down to the particle board, you could see the wood framing in some places, and where there WAS still paint it looked like the previous renters had hired a youth group to paint! Meanwhile, our current renter was there (a single guy, good friend of ours) and he had pizza boxes all over the place and beer steins all over the mantle, and he said "Yeah, I told you the previous renters didn't treat the place right, but I didn't want to worry you!" Just then my co-worker Diana came in and said that the particle board was all wrong, and then my NC friend Erika (HI friend!!) drove up and was surprised to see me, but said her hubby and son would help reframe the walls with the right particle board. And then i woke up... heart pounding... sheesh!
So friends... please pray that our house in NC sells quickly, pray for guidance as we get it prepared long distance, and pray that the house we are living in NOW does not sell and we can stay here! Just saying... that would be wonderful.
have a good day!
1. When did someone last suggest you 'chill out'? Or, when did you last tell someone (or want to tell someone) to 'chill out'? Or, when did you last tell yourself to 'chill out'?
hahaha! Just this last Saturday, I was running around like crazy trying to clean up the house before some realtors came over to do a showing (mind you, this house doesn't even BELONG to me - it's my landlords who are selling the house... but I'm going to do the right thing and make it presentable) So anyway, I was cleaning up before taking my daughter to her soccer game, and she finally came in, stood in the door with her hand on her hip, and said "Mom, you really need to chill out - the house looks good, you are obsessing, it's FINE! Now lets GO!" And I laughed, because you know, she was totally right. Since then, I've been chilling out a bit... or trying to anyway...
2. What most recently caused your heart to melt?
Yesterday I had a long 3-hour training session, much needed, but my brain was mush afterwards and I was exhausted. I went to the back part of the office and muttered under my breath "I need chocolate!" But alas, there was none to be found. A few minutes later, my co-worker appeared with a piece of chocolate cheesecake - she had gone to the freezer and thawed a dessert that was supposed to be for last night's session meeting, just so I could have chocolate! I was so touched... and oh man, did it hit the spot! I do have wonderful co-workers, thats for sure!
3. "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." G.K. Chesterton
Your thoughts? When did you last experience either an adventure or an inconvenience? How did you see it at first, as an adventure or an inconvenience? Does it feel the same in hindsight?
A couple of weeks ago I had a few extra minutes before I had to be at work, so I got some coffee and went down to the beach for a few minutes. As I sat there, I prayed and sighed and enjoyed the warm sun, and took a picture to post on Facebook.
No sooner had I posted it to FB, with the somewhat braggy post of "Just because I can!" (knowing full well that many of my friends were currently snowbound), when I heard a sound of something dropping on the wood, and felt like someone had thrown a splatter of mud at me. It was a seagull, who had just pooped on me (and my breakfast). I had to laugh and say "Karma's a *!tch" yes, my breakfast was ruined, but the bird didn't get that much poop on me - it came off easily and didn't ruin my blouse- and I was grateful it was a gull and not a pelican (because those things... their poop is NASTY!)
So maybe not an adventure, a minor inconvenience... but I still got my coffee on the beach!
4. A Wendy's Frosty, root beer in a frosty mug, or a frosted chocolate cupcake...of these three, which one is your favorite 'frosty' treat?
Root beer in a frosty mug, with a scoop of Tillamook vanilla ice cream if you don't mind! yummy!!
5. Would you say your life so far this year has been more like a circus or a symphony? Explain why.
BAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!! Oh Joyce, you make me laugh. It's full on circus! Hubby working 2000 miles away while also still trying to get his business out here going, 3 kids- school, soccer, band, church youth groups, working full time at a church that is currently in search of a new senior pastor, my landlord is selling our house, and we are putting our own rental property in North Carolina on the market in the next couple of weeks. Circus Circus Circus...
6. Since it's a 'snow day' here, what's your favorite song containing the word 'white'?
This one - "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" by Toby Keith... as a military family, after the attacks on 9/11 and all of the emotions that went along with it, sending my husband off to fight overseas, all of it... this song was a great morale booster!
7. If you had to leave the city you currently live in, what would you find the hardest to leave behind?
Um, did you SEE my picture on question #3? Yeah, I love watching the sunsets over the ocean, the surfers, the smell of sea water... love love love it.
8. Insert your own random thought here
So yeah, the real estate drama is getting to me a bit, as evidenced by my dream last night. I dreamt that I flew to North Carolina just to see what needed to be done to get the house ready to put on the market. (Our realtor had suggested we get the walls repainted and the carpets cleaned) And in my dream, when I arrived the yard was overgrown with weeds 4 feet tall, the trees were all overgrown and in different locations in the yard, and as I peeked in the windows, the walls were all torn down to the particle board, you could see the wood framing in some places, and where there WAS still paint it looked like the previous renters had hired a youth group to paint! Meanwhile, our current renter was there (a single guy, good friend of ours) and he had pizza boxes all over the place and beer steins all over the mantle, and he said "Yeah, I told you the previous renters didn't treat the place right, but I didn't want to worry you!" Just then my co-worker Diana came in and said that the particle board was all wrong, and then my NC friend Erika (HI friend!!) drove up and was surprised to see me, but said her hubby and son would help reframe the walls with the right particle board. And then i woke up... heart pounding... sheesh!
So friends... please pray that our house in NC sells quickly, pray for guidance as we get it prepared long distance, and pray that the house we are living in NOW does not sell and we can stay here! Just saying... that would be wonderful.
have a good day!
