May 29, 2008

Last Day of Work


Well, tomorrow is my last day of work. It has been quite a ride. I have worked there(CandyBlast.com) for 3 1/2 years. Not my longest running job but still long enough. Today my boss took all the girls out to lunch. We ate at the Chop House. Yummy!!! The lunch ended up taking an hour and a half and she only had us clock out for 30 minutes. That was nice. Of course, as Murphy would have it I had one last big custom jobber to do today. Someone ordered 7 bouquets as table center pieces. Normally we build the bouquets in the front only but a center piece has to be viewable from every angle. I never would have made it in time if everyone did not help out(including the boss). So this starts a new time for me. I am now jobless. Only God knows if and when I will work again. I would love to not work for a while if ever. It will be interesting to see what direction God takes me in the next year or few years.

I needed to sell some of our older furniture so I placed ads on Craigslist this past weekend. All I can say is WOW!!! I was getting emails even while I was still trying to place ads. I sold a bunch of stuff but still have some to sell. If you need to sell anything be sure to utilize Saturday morning. I'm sure other days do well too but Sat is when people are doing the yard sell thing(or craigslist). That is all that is going on in my world right now. 3 weeks left till I'm a Californian!!!

May 18, 2008

Ode to Choir

I have been in the Chilhowee Hills Baptist Church Celebration Choir for 3 1/2 years. Today was my last time to sing with them. It was sad. I feel like an era is ending. I loved being in choir and I know I have been spoiled for all other choirs. David did not let us become lazy or dependent on lead singers. We all had to carry our load equally. Most choirs are very choral. David's choir will never be choral. I'll miss you guys. I have loved every concert and special we did not to mention Sunday mornings. Sitting in a pew will never be the same for me.


May 17, 2008

Innocence of Children

1) NUDITY I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when a woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year- old shout from the back seat, "Mom, that lady isn't wearing a seat belt!"

2) OPINIONS On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a note from his mother. The note read, "The opinions expressed by this child are not necessarily those of his parents."

3) KETCHUP A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the jar. During her struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer the phone. "Mommy can't come to the phone to talk to you right now. She's hitting the bottle."

4) MORE NUDITY A little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the women's locker room. When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with ladies grabbing towels and running for cover. The little boy watched in amazement and then asked, "What's the matter, haven't you ever seen a little boy before?"

5) POLICE # 1 While taking a routine vandalism report at an elementary school, I was interrupted by a little girl about 6 years old. Looking up and down at my uniform, she asked, "Are you a cop?" "Yes," I answered and continued writing the report. "My mother said if I ever needed help I should ask the police. Is that right?" "Yes, that's right," I told her. "Well, then," she said as she extended her foot toward me, "would you please tie my shoe?"

6) POLICE # 2 It was the end of the day when I parked my police van in front of the station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Scout, was barking, and I saw a little boy staring in at me. Is that a dog you got back there?" he asked. "It sure is," I replied. Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the back of the van. Finally he said, "What'd he do?"

7) ELDERLY While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. She was unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs. One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered, "The tooth fairy will never believe this!"

8) DRESS-UP A little girl was watching her parents dress for a party. When she saw her dad donning his tuxedo, she warned, "Daddy, you shouldn't wear that suit." "And why not, darling?" "You know that it always gives you a headache the next morning. "

9) DEATH While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased. The minister's son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always said: "Glory be unto the Faaather, and unto the Sonnn, and into the hole he goooes." (I want this line used at my funeral!)

10) SCHOOL A little girl had just finished her first week of school. "I'm just wasting my time," she said to her mother. "I can't read, I can't write, and they won't let me talk!"

11) BIBLE A little boy opened the big family Bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages. "Mama, look what I found," the boy called out. "What have you got there, dear?" With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered, "I think it's Adam's underwear!"

May 7, 2008

Sold

2003-Fall, when we were buying it.
2006-spring, looking good a few years later.
2008-early spring, after the fence was put up.

Our house got a contract today. God is so good. We should close around the 3rd week of June.