Random Things

The past few weeks our applications and tools at work have been performing very poorly. (this is a huge understatement...) Frustration levels are high on my team. People are bickering all day long. Sending IMs with mad faces and other customized emoticons. We are being inconvenienced big time. I try to refrain from complaining and booing and hissing, but I vent on occassion. It's hard to do your job when your tools don't work. It seems that all I have been doing is working lately. My house is a mess!!! My laundry has piled up! I need to get groceries!

Ok. So then I stop and think. I HAVE a house. I have clothes. I have food in the cupboards. The fridge and freezer are stocked as is the deep freeze. I am blessed. I try not to focus on the inconveniences these tools are presenting me because I HAVE A JOB! There are many out there that do not and are searching for income.

I passed several people while in Pensacola sitting at the big intersections with their cardboard signs "Homeless. Please help." Sad. Very sad. I don't stop. No one stops. Sad. Please pray for these individuals...

I got some alone time this week. Me time. Very much missed. I haven't had alone time in a long time. My time is always spent with someone else in tow. Which doesn't really bother me that much since I love people, but sometimes I just need to breathe!

I had to go to Pensacola on Monday to go to the Field Office to get my new computer setup as it was my first day as full-time employee with the company! Woo!! BUT...tell me this. Why does it take over an hour and a half to drive 5o miles? Crazy. The drive is very boring and seems longer than that. But I got to listen to some radio and blare it and sang really loud. I got some great looks. People were probably thinking "oh, those poor children in that minivan...their mama is crazy!" Well, I was alone so I really didn't care! :) It was nice to do whatever I wanted even if for a few brief hours. The office was completely empty - no one there. It was nice and quiet. I might just have to sneak over there occassionally to get some peace and quiet!

When I got into Pensacola there were cop cars on the sidewalks outside the Civic Center - I was like "what is going on here today?" No one was really coming or going and so I thought nothing of it. The same police officer was outside on his walkie talkie when I left town with the same cars on the sidewalks. Strange.

I learned the next day that the President of the United States was there. Nice! Way to go! I was within parking lot distance of the President and didn't even know it. I totally would have gone if I had known. I need to pay more attention!! I actually almost called Brian to see if he could find out what was going on to see if it was worth stopping by for. Man! What a missed opportunity!

I was totally overwhelmed while driving home from the commissary yesterday. I was listening to the radio and this song came on that I am familiar with, but apparently I was listening differently yesterday. I was listening to the words and just became overwhelmed. I have heard several different recordings of this song - yesterday's particular artist was Avalon.

In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, mystrength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heightsof love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand

In Christ alone, who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save

'Till on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live

There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again

And as He stands in victory
Sin's curse has lost it's grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Brought with the precious blood of Christ
No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life's first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny

No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
'Till He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand

Kasey amazes me! Less than 3 weeks ago he only had 2 teeth with no prospect of new ones and could not crawl. He is now able to crawl EVERYWHERE, able to sit him self up from lying down AND has 2 more teeth poking through.

I put him in his crib with a few toys this morning so I could take a quick shower and when I got out, he was standing in his crib rocking back and forth! So now he can pull himself up to standing with no help and apparently likes to dance. :) He had a big old cheesy grin on his face. Guess it's time to lower the crib mattress...

We had Katie's 3 year appt yesterday. She is so big!! She now weighs 35.5 lbs and is 39.25 inches! She is in the 90th percentile for both height and weight. Wow! I can't believe she is 3 years old already!