Friday, October 30, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009
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When some friends of ours decided to attend another church another friend made the comment that she was staying put at her current church until she died. I found out today that she will be leaving at the end of the church year to attend the same church that the first friends attend.
I briefly reminded her of this today, but told her where the Lord leads her to go, she has to follow. Also told her that it has been on my heart to seek out another place of worship, but leaving a place so familiar to me is so hard. She agreed. That's all.
I briefly reminded her of this today, but told her where the Lord leads her to go, she has to follow. Also told her that it has been on my heart to seek out another place of worship, but leaving a place so familiar to me is so hard. She agreed. That's all.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Britney spears - UGH!!
Two of my co workers went to the Britney SPears concert on Monday. I made fun of them. One is a 37 year old guy and the other is a single gal in her late 20s. One of my friends asked me if told me she would go the concert if she could. She has never been to a concert. likes some of her music, and would like to see someone famous. I told her I wouldn't go under any circumstance. We got into a heated discussion about why I wouldn't go. One, I don't care for her. My friend asked me why I dont like her and I ranted off several reasons. Still she didn't see why I wouldn't go. Two, I don't like her music. So she asked me what kind of music I like. I told her I don't care for today's pop music and that I mostly listen to Christian music. Then she proceeded to criticize my choice in music. She was like all that Hallelujah doesn't appeal to me. I was like That's not what I listen to and why is it okay for you to bash what I listen to but I can't say that I don't like B Spears?
She asked me if I would go if it were free. Again, I told her no. She didn't get it. I proceeded to tell her that if I can avoid it, I won't support people, places, things, that I object to. She thought I would be the only person at work who wouldn't go. We polled some people. No one would pay or go out of their way to go and one would have to be paid a good chunk of money to go. I felt good expressing my principles and what I would do to back them up.
Would you go?
She asked me if I would go if it were free. Again, I told her no. She didn't get it. I proceeded to tell her that if I can avoid it, I won't support people, places, things, that I object to. She thought I would be the only person at work who wouldn't go. We polled some people. No one would pay or go out of their way to go and one would have to be paid a good chunk of money to go. I felt good expressing my principles and what I would do to back them up.
Would you go?
Friday, March 27, 2009
What people will buy!
I am a big fan of buying second hand clothing for my kids. And an even bigger fan of selling what my kids used to others. I have had much success on Craigslist and even ebay. But a garage sale - wow! I remember the first garage sale we had at my parents' house when I was in college. You KNOW how much stuff my parents have so we had a ton of things to sell. My mom told me I could keep half of what we made. We put signs out a couple of days before informing drive bys that it would start at 8am. I vividly remember my dad calling me to get up at 7am bc people were already waiting on our driveway to see what we had. "Jennifer get up! They already coming!!"
I had a "multi-famlly" garage sale with one of my friends and her sister in law last weekend. He mom passed away last year and they are needing to clean out the house to get it ready to put it on the market. So she had a lot of furniture to sell. Her sister in law just had a lot of random stuff. She had a book titled "CHYNA" which was about some wrestler. I brought all the toys that the kids don't play with anymore, some clothes I didn't pass on, our motorcycle helmets, rollerblades, and stereo equipment we upgrade from.
I priced everything what I thouht was reasonable. The helmets orginally were $400 each -I priced them at $20. I got offers for $5 and $10. I did sell them for the marked $. I had speakers orignally $150 each price at $15 each. Some guy offered me $5 each -I didn't sell them to him. While standing around we talked about how people just want you to pretty much give stuff to them. Which from a tax point of view I would rather do then sell them for an unreasonable amount!
BUT down to what strange things people will buy - at least I think they're strange:
Shoes
Free shampoo and soap from hotels
UGLY and I mean ugly "chachkies"
socks
and underwear.
Yes I said underwear.
Would you wear someone else's underwear?
I had a "multi-famlly" garage sale with one of my friends and her sister in law last weekend. He mom passed away last year and they are needing to clean out the house to get it ready to put it on the market. So she had a lot of furniture to sell. Her sister in law just had a lot of random stuff. She had a book titled "CHYNA" which was about some wrestler. I brought all the toys that the kids don't play with anymore, some clothes I didn't pass on, our motorcycle helmets, rollerblades, and stereo equipment we upgrade from.
I priced everything what I thouht was reasonable. The helmets orginally were $400 each -I priced them at $20. I got offers for $5 and $10. I did sell them for the marked $. I had speakers orignally $150 each price at $15 each. Some guy offered me $5 each -I didn't sell them to him. While standing around we talked about how people just want you to pretty much give stuff to them. Which from a tax point of view I would rather do then sell them for an unreasonable amount!
BUT down to what strange things people will buy - at least I think they're strange:
Shoes
Free shampoo and soap from hotels
UGLY and I mean ugly "chachkies"
socks
and underwear.
Yes I said underwear.
Would you wear someone else's underwear?
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
a dream COME true
For the past few years I have been considering looking for a new church, but taking the kids into consideration it has been hard to make the move. WHY the change you may ask? I know you aren't to be expecting your church to meet your needs, but I think the church shouldn't constantly disappoint you either. I get so frustrated with the "old"way people think that it affects my outlook on the church as a whole - specifically this church I am currently attending. The majority of the people aren't open to ANY change at all, bc tehy like it the way it is. I guess they figure if it ain't broke don't fix it??? What they don't see is that it IS broken.
Also the location is FAR. Not as far as my work, but far enough where it gets to be a hassle to drive there.
So I have been looking at churches close to home AGAIN. I googled churches in the area and have "narrowed" it down to 2 -Crossbridge Church and Sugar Land Family Church. Both non denominational. Now if any of you know of some others I should check out, be my guest and let me know. You may also wonder how I picked these. After googling, I looked for the Children's Ministry info. Although I think my growth greatly influences my children's, I don't want them to be somewhere they can't be happy as children.
IF i ever get around to looking I think it'd be hard to leave. Last week in SS we talked about burden's God has put on our hearts. I think I have a burden to work with the children, but don't know how it would be in a new setting. And I have been going to my current church for 28 YEARS! They really my family. But like others who have left, they have managed to stay in touch with people they left behind. There is a group of students who will be graduating next year that I am really attached to. For some reason I feel the need to see them off into adulthood. I was really hoping to find a Chinese church to visit, but mostof the ones I looked up were too chinese-y. I want my kids to hang on to their heritage, so I guess I might have to find a new way to do that.
I'll just keep praying about all of this and wait for God's revelation.
Also the location is FAR. Not as far as my work, but far enough where it gets to be a hassle to drive there.
So I have been looking at churches close to home AGAIN. I googled churches in the area and have "narrowed" it down to 2 -Crossbridge Church and Sugar Land Family Church. Both non denominational. Now if any of you know of some others I should check out, be my guest and let me know. You may also wonder how I picked these. After googling, I looked for the Children's Ministry info. Although I think my growth greatly influences my children's, I don't want them to be somewhere they can't be happy as children.
IF i ever get around to looking I think it'd be hard to leave. Last week in SS we talked about burden's God has put on our hearts. I think I have a burden to work with the children, but don't know how it would be in a new setting. And I have been going to my current church for 28 YEARS! They really my family. But like others who have left, they have managed to stay in touch with people they left behind. There is a group of students who will be graduating next year that I am really attached to. For some reason I feel the need to see them off into adulthood. I was really hoping to find a Chinese church to visit, but mostof the ones I looked up were too chinese-y. I want my kids to hang on to their heritage, so I guess I might have to find a new way to do that.
I'll just keep praying about all of this and wait for God's revelation.
Monday, September 15, 2008
The positive side of Ike
-we had absolutely no damage done to the house other than a leaves and twigs in the yard. We have a part of our fence that about to fall over but even it survived the storm. I have to say I feel EXTREMELY lucky and covered by God's grace that nothing happened to us. I did wake up from the rain and wind the morning Ike moved in and moved to the closet to finish my sleep (it is on the opposite side if the house where the rain and wind were coming from). And my sweet husband even let me sleep there until 8:45!!! Which in my house is a luxury considering that the boys wake up about 6:30 EVERY morning.
We ventured out Sat afternoon to see if our roof had any damage and I found a single shingle on the driveway and informed John. He went out and surveyed the house and didn't see any missing tiles at first glance so he stepped into the street to look at the house. On his way back in he glanced at the houses down the street. One poor house had a huge section of it's roof gone. Not gone gone like a hole in it - but gone as in no shingles. So we figured the shingle I found belonged to them.
-I went to work on Friday on Monday and was compensated triple time for working while the school was closed. I almost made more in 2 days than I normally do in 2 weeks!
-John ad I went out to get milk for the kids. We had to wait for them to unload the truck with the 2% milk. While waiting we met a couple to have been attending the 5:30 service at Ecclessia. We asked if they new our friends there and they do! And they had dinner with y'all last time you were here. I don't remember their names.
-The cooler weather is perfect for running!
The negative side of Ike
-Most of the people we know who live in town do not have power - this includes both of out parents. John's parents are at the previously mentioned brother in Katy and my parents, well there are at my house. Now don't get me wrong, I do love my parents are are grateful that they are here to watch the kids while John and I go back to work, but I have my way of doing things and they just don't do them that way. For a lot of things. At first they had water but no power. WHen they went back to check on the house today now they have no water. We have been hearing on the news that it could take 2 weeks for some people to get power back - I think I'll go crazy by then.
-They have canceled school thru Wednesday. So not only do I have my parents here but all 3 kids as well. Again it's not that I don't love all of them, but the kids tend to misbehave when my parents are here thinking they can get away with more - uh uh no sir no way. So they get in trouble whuch in turn gets me mad which in turn gets me upset with my parents. I know this yet I cannot control my part of it.
-On Saturday afternoon after a slight sense of cabin fever (remember 3 kids) we decided to venture out to look for some place to eat. What's the first place we go? OF COURSE Bellaire. Oh we were SO disappointed. no power. drove down to Hong Kong market - no power. We knew that Katy had power since a friend and John's brother live out there so we drove over there. The 4 places we saw that were open had people waiting to get into the parking lot so we ended up at my brother in laws.
-gas lines are ridiculous! and grocery stores are closing at 7 or 9pm
-one of my friend's husband went to Bellaire to get some lunch. a few places were open to eat. While he was waiting for his food he ate some of the dim sum food he ordered. It was bad as in rotten. He told the person at the counter who refunded his money and also asked him not to say anything to the rest of the customers! Apparently they were cooking food that had been in their non powered fridge over the weekend.
-since my lab has been closed I have been bringing work home. no further explaination needed.
Here's hoping that we fare as lucky after the next hurricane.
-we had absolutely no damage done to the house other than a leaves and twigs in the yard. We have a part of our fence that about to fall over but even it survived the storm. I have to say I feel EXTREMELY lucky and covered by God's grace that nothing happened to us. I did wake up from the rain and wind the morning Ike moved in and moved to the closet to finish my sleep (it is on the opposite side if the house where the rain and wind were coming from). And my sweet husband even let me sleep there until 8:45!!! Which in my house is a luxury considering that the boys wake up about 6:30 EVERY morning.
We ventured out Sat afternoon to see if our roof had any damage and I found a single shingle on the driveway and informed John. He went out and surveyed the house and didn't see any missing tiles at first glance so he stepped into the street to look at the house. On his way back in he glanced at the houses down the street. One poor house had a huge section of it's roof gone. Not gone gone like a hole in it - but gone as in no shingles. So we figured the shingle I found belonged to them.
-I went to work on Friday on Monday and was compensated triple time for working while the school was closed. I almost made more in 2 days than I normally do in 2 weeks!
-John ad I went out to get milk for the kids. We had to wait for them to unload the truck with the 2% milk. While waiting we met a couple to have been attending the 5:30 service at Ecclessia. We asked if they new our friends there and they do! And they had dinner with y'all last time you were here. I don't remember their names.
-The cooler weather is perfect for running!
The negative side of Ike
-Most of the people we know who live in town do not have power - this includes both of out parents. John's parents are at the previously mentioned brother in Katy and my parents, well there are at my house. Now don't get me wrong, I do love my parents are are grateful that they are here to watch the kids while John and I go back to work, but I have my way of doing things and they just don't do them that way. For a lot of things. At first they had water but no power. WHen they went back to check on the house today now they have no water. We have been hearing on the news that it could take 2 weeks for some people to get power back - I think I'll go crazy by then.
-They have canceled school thru Wednesday. So not only do I have my parents here but all 3 kids as well. Again it's not that I don't love all of them, but the kids tend to misbehave when my parents are here thinking they can get away with more - uh uh no sir no way. So they get in trouble whuch in turn gets me mad which in turn gets me upset with my parents. I know this yet I cannot control my part of it.
-On Saturday afternoon after a slight sense of cabin fever (remember 3 kids) we decided to venture out to look for some place to eat. What's the first place we go? OF COURSE Bellaire. Oh we were SO disappointed. no power. drove down to Hong Kong market - no power. We knew that Katy had power since a friend and John's brother live out there so we drove over there. The 4 places we saw that were open had people waiting to get into the parking lot so we ended up at my brother in laws.
-gas lines are ridiculous! and grocery stores are closing at 7 or 9pm
-one of my friend's husband went to Bellaire to get some lunch. a few places were open to eat. While he was waiting for his food he ate some of the dim sum food he ordered. It was bad as in rotten. He told the person at the counter who refunded his money and also asked him not to say anything to the rest of the customers! Apparently they were cooking food that had been in their non powered fridge over the weekend.
-since my lab has been closed I have been bringing work home. no further explaination needed.
Here's hoping that we fare as lucky after the next hurricane.
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