Remember to breath

WOW! What an unbelievable last couple of days this has been! I had something going on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, possibly tonight and Refuge on Wednesday. On Friday I hung out at Jaimie's with Brecka, Vida, Liz and Liz. Saturday I worked until five then needed to go home and get ready for picture taking at Walmart. The photographer was running behind and we found that there were restrictions on the photo package we were buying but it all turned okay. On Sunday I worked from nine a.m. until 6 pm with a half hour break. That proved a crazy day because nobody knew there was a 1 pm birthday party and they ended up getting there b-day for free. Then we found out somebody doubled booked us for the four p.m. birthday part. Fortunately, there was another person besides me trained on birthday parties and he did one and I did the other. Both parties left happy! After that I went to see King Kong. Awesome movie. And Josh managed to stay awake the entire time! LOL
So on Monday, I had go to small group where we would carpool to Walmart and buy gifts for the family we had adopted from the Gospel Mission. We bought so much stuff. I was determined that the children would have books and was astounded when my purchase rang up over fifty dollars! Yikes. I ended up taking two back. So anyway, I have finely stopped to breath. But tonight I might help my friend Angela move stuff into her new house and tomorrow night go to Refuge.
The real icing on the cake came yesterday evening before I left for small group. My mom is not going to make me give up our-well, my dog-Chloe. I have won her apreiv; lets pray it last.
evie

I failed miserably

This test was forwared to me by e-mail. I took it and got a nineteen.

My $2,000 miracle

It has recently come to my attention that may simple, narrow minded and self-absorbed. Also known as a sinner.

Wednesday night Pastor Rob told the story about how somehow gave him an envalop stuff with money for a couple having financial troubles. I think he said it contained about two-thousand dollars. I sat there thinking, Man why doesn't Lord give us two-thousand dollars. After all, between my dad being laid off for most of the year, medical bills totaling over $5,000 that mom's insurance want pay for, its not like we couldn't use some cash flowing our way. And would you believe what Pastor said. In went something like this:

"I know what you might be thinking, why doesn't the Lord give you two-thousand dolloars. Its possible he has answered your prayers just not the way you thought he would."

Man I hate it when he does that! Almost as if he had a window to my brain and was picking it apart . I instanlty felt convicted! God was trying to tell me something but if you read my last blog it didn't quite settle in until this morning when God came through-as he always does-and gave me that $2,000 miracle I had been asking for. When I opened my check from a new job, there was more money than what I had been expecting. Also, how many hours I am expecting is looking for next week as well. I was scheduled to work from eleven am until two pm but ended working almost four hours. So I also got more hours today than what I was expecting. My boss is sounding upbeat for how many hours he expects me to be able to get so I am still trusting the Lord for that oen recognizing that he knows what I need and will provide it. God was trying to tell me: Relax. I got it undercontrol. The extra money means being able to buy all the wrapping paper we will need for Gospel Mission Project on Monday. I am so excited. Sometimes it takes awhile for us to see and understand that God is good; all the time.

grr

Fox News often has a Grr posting so here is my grr for the day. First of all, my day started bad before the dya even officialy starting. I had beent talking to my mom about having the car. She then went to my dad and said, "Evie would like to have the car tomorrow because she wantst to go help out on Third Thursday at Apex." Well my mom then comes stomping down stairs. He was muttering somethign to himself and was clearly mad about something. He then said to me in an arritated voice, "You can have the car tomorrow."

Now, why was he so mad about having to give me the car? Who knows. Who cars. The point is he lashed out at me and left me wondering what I had done that was so horribly wrong that he snapped at me. I then went up stairs so he wouldn't see my cry; hurt and confused about the big deal abpit my having the car. Granted, we only have two cars between the two of us. With the winter storm comming, mom and dad start getting ants about giving me the car, worried to death I might get hurt or at the very lease total the car. Now, today what was suppose to happen was I was suppose to drive to work six, come home, go pick-up mom from work and then head on over to Apex for Third Thursday. By the time I left work four hours later, there were two messages on my cell and a written message left for me on the driver's side seat of the car telling met to go straight home and not drive anywhere unless I absolutely had to. So, though I am a twenty-four year old adult, I still have no say in life about how I am going to spend my time and must have my parents blessing to volunteer my time however I see fit.

Normally, I would have walked home. The problem: the roads are always more cleared than what the sidewalks are and it can be almost dangerouse if not more dangerous for me to walk home than to drive. My dad doesn't seem to understand this. I just hope that nobody else is staying home from Third Thursday because of the weather. Atleast I have the luxury of not having to worry about where my next meal comes from. The people who depend on Apex to deliver that food can't afford for everyone to wimp out. We made a commitment to these people and we need to keep it.

In other news:

-I found out that when you take previously owned videos and sell them back to the video stores, atleast some of the stores only give you in store credit, not cash. I decided that was better than nothing because after all, I will have a movie or too in the distant future that I will want to watch. Ten bucks Tun bucks, no?

-I asked the small group to pray about my hours. I found out Thursday after being off work for the past three days that the lady that normaly does salads had been off because her mother had a heart attack. I was hired for the sole purpose of helping them with salads but did anybody bother to call me in to help? NO! I could have worked every day this week. On the bright I haggled to come in at 8:30 am instead of 11:00 am to give me time to the preps for salad and for lunch. Hopefully I will still work until about 2 or 3 o'clock.

Things to do today and this week

1. I need to go through all our wrapping paper for christmas (Done).
2. Finish workin on my story
3. Clean my bathroom
4. Get family pictures taken
5. Contact my old highschool teacher about editing my story
6. Take videos to sell back to video store on Alex Road.

All of these aren't going to be that hard. With the exception of #5. She is a very difficult woman to get a hold of. I havn't gotten to tell her exactly why it is I needed to get a hold of her. Every time I call her she's like,"I can't talk right now I'm babysitting my grandkids." The problem: I think I am beginning to believe the grandchildren are always there. And I need to get together with her soon b/c she is moving to South Carolina to go to semonary school, which I think is pretty cool. #6 is the one that makes me feel absolutely sad. At some area video stores if you bring them your old DVDs/Vidoes, they buy them back from you and sell them with a sticker that says previously viewed or something like that. I wish I didn't need the money so bad.:P

In other news, Josh and I will be going to see the King Kong movie on Sunday. But did you know that its almost three hours long? He said that on our date last Saturday they he hated really long movies. And joked that I would need to keep him awake. That better be a joke! Whats a girl suppose to do when her date falls a sleep in the middle of a movie!lol Some girls I think would be very offended.

Later,

Evie