...you know, the calm before the storm?
Why do I have this sense of impending doom...or rather, disconcerting uneasiness?
Oh well, par for the course.
Random day...great time at Bible study. It's fascinating to me that you can look at passages of scripture that you've read many times and yet be totally floored about what you can learn from them. Followed by car wash, picking up husband's prescriptions (oy, to wait for insurance reimbursements...why can't pharmacies just bill the 100% like our doctors once we meet our stop loss?), and a few hours at the laundromat to wash our comforter and mattress pad (we have a very small washer--not conducive to a king-sized anything!). It has been a very long time since I've been in a laundromat (okay, my summer assignment)...I had hoped to not live that fate again often. I never have good experiences there. Never. Today a lady got mad at ME because she left her laundry in the large-capacity washers and the attendant had to empty them because me and two other people were waiting for them, charging $1 a bag to get her stuff back (totally reasonable in my mind). Then another lady got mad at me because I moved seats because she STUNK of booze...I tried to be coy about it, checking my dryers to see if the bedding was dry and then taking another seat. I'm sorry, but please don't get mad at me because you choose to be looped at noon. I do nothing to provoke these people but walk in to do laundry...sheesh.
Starting to get the hang of this cooking and preparing lunches to take to the corps for two very different eating plans...I've managed to figure out how to at least eat the same dinner, lunch though is a very different story, and he's on his own to figure out breakfast. I find it rather interesting that those foods that are low in carbs are very high in fat. Hubby has to eat no more than 45g of carbs at a meal and 15g at snacks...this means a sandwich is a once a day shot, and cereal, rice and pasta are soooo out (sadness!). I only get 1000-1200 calories a day and a max of 30-40g of fat. For example, the same sandwich that hubby gets for lunch maxes out his carbs, but because it's diet bread his nutritionist recommended, it's low in calories and fat...so I can have sandwiches for breakfast, lunch, and dinner...I'm tired of reading labels, so much to consider to buy a simple food item!
Anyway...my mind is shot tonight, as I'm sure you've picked up in my rambling. It's time for sleep.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Zero to Sixty and Back
Today was a test in my preparedness. I must say, I was rather surprised at myself and my ability to be flexible--not a strong point of mine. Needless to say, I found that it was rather painless to completely rearrange life for an unknown time span with little interruption of daily life at home after one short phone call, pack a suitcase in less than an hour (including a load of laundry and trip to the dry cleaners!), and putting my hands on the exact resources that I would need to refresh my grasp on said topic and shift into the mindset that I needed for the task at hand. Just as I zipped the suitcase to go out the door and drive to the airport, plans changed on a dime. God had some other plans, and I'm okay with that.
Well...at least I got the laundry done and finally ransomed out our uniforms from the dry cleaners...
So, after unpacking my expertly packed suitcase (it is so sad how good I've gotten at packing this year), I sat down to relax and while brownies baked for tomorrow's Bible study (my small group's turn to bring the refreshments), I finished my last lesson to prepare for tomorrow. It was an interesting study on Psalm 127. Now, this psalm has an interesting place in my heart as it was the scripture that I wrestled with for nine months in officer training school through exegesis, homiletics, and all the painstaking efforts in writing our "first" (read: intelligently prepared) sermons. The lesson in my Bible study today threw everything I knew right out the window, well sort of...it at least made me look more critically at what I was reading in the lesson, as the author of our study took the psalm, split it in half, and completely skewed the meaning as a result. While the lesson the author was getting to was a completely valid point in our relationship with God, she really missed the mark in interpreting this particular scripture.
Now I am taking it easy this evening and reflecting on life. Such an interesting journey, I'm glad I'm along for the ride. Can't imagine it any different than it is now, well, maybe with the exception of actually living in the same division--or at least time zone--of our friends (which means they need to move closer to us, because we like where we're at!)
Uninteresting day off planned for tomorrow...after Bible study I have to run some errands and work on a couple things at home. Resisting the urge to go to the corps...I'm curious to see the progress that was made after I left this afternoon on the newest endeavor in efficiency and organization to our food pantry--especially after ordering the utility carts that my husband requested for it today!
Well...at least I got the laundry done and finally ransomed out our uniforms from the dry cleaners...
So, after unpacking my expertly packed suitcase (it is so sad how good I've gotten at packing this year), I sat down to relax and while brownies baked for tomorrow's Bible study (my small group's turn to bring the refreshments), I finished my last lesson to prepare for tomorrow. It was an interesting study on Psalm 127. Now, this psalm has an interesting place in my heart as it was the scripture that I wrestled with for nine months in officer training school through exegesis, homiletics, and all the painstaking efforts in writing our "first" (read: intelligently prepared) sermons. The lesson in my Bible study today threw everything I knew right out the window, well sort of...it at least made me look more critically at what I was reading in the lesson, as the author of our study took the psalm, split it in half, and completely skewed the meaning as a result. While the lesson the author was getting to was a completely valid point in our relationship with God, she really missed the mark in interpreting this particular scripture.
Now I am taking it easy this evening and reflecting on life. Such an interesting journey, I'm glad I'm along for the ride. Can't imagine it any different than it is now, well, maybe with the exception of actually living in the same division--or at least time zone--of our friends (which means they need to move closer to us, because we like where we're at!)
Uninteresting day off planned for tomorrow...after Bible study I have to run some errands and work on a couple things at home. Resisting the urge to go to the corps...I'm curious to see the progress that was made after I left this afternoon on the newest endeavor in efficiency and organization to our food pantry--especially after ordering the utility carts that my husband requested for it today!
Monday, July 19, 2010
Ah Yes, Return to Reality
I totally understand the vacation from your vacation concept now. Last week, we took six days of furlough (didn't want to miss Sunday) to have a little breather--we have more furlough time in a year than one could logically fit in with our schedule, so we decided to take some time this month, the end of next month, and after Christmas (and we still have time that will vaporize!).
I had to drag myself out of bed when the alarm went off (after a customary hit of the snooze) so that I could start my morning ritual of breakfast, the daily homework for Bible study, get ready, put together healthy lunches and snacks for hubby and me (which sounds easy--not so much when his diet is low carb, and mine is low cal/low fat), and check the corps PO box on the way to the corps.
Once arriving at the corps it took me THREE HOURS to just open and sort the mail that accumulated in our absence (granted, I did have a couple interruptions for thrift store vouchers, phone, etc). Needless to say, all I accomplished today was getting my finance packet for last week and this week ready for the mail and write out this week's CCM cards. Didn't get to the email or answering machine...that's first up tomorrow along with my community service worker reports for the municipal court and finalizing our next preaching calendar for September through Easter. Sheesh. I guess the magical little fairies that do paperwork and filing skipped over my desk last week.
Had an awesome volunteer come in today to start to move palettes of food and shelving as we are reworking our food pantry this week to create a more effective & efficient use of space and the FIFO concept (first in, first out) for our food bank shipments. More help tomorrow and lots to still get done, including husband's long-awaited inaugural use of the refurbished floor buffer we finally acquired for the corps and painting the interior of the corps (adios pink chapel and ugly brown brick!)
Complaining aside, last week was a nice break from the normal...while we were busy, I was able to work side-by-side with my husband on several non-ministry related projects. Some of these we refer to as "marriage builders" because we have different points of view on how the job should be completed. In the end though, we figure it out together and haven't had any major catastrophes yet. The end of the week was nice as we were able to escape for a couple days and visit husband's grandma and some cadets on their summer assignment. Can't complain about the discounts we get for a common hotel chain...makes short getaways quick, easy, and super affordable. Getting away was good, we were finally able to rest--literally. When we checked into our hotel, we promptly fell asleep for a 4-hour nap, went to dinner, slept for 11 hours, visited, slept for another 2 hours, visited, slept 9 hours--and would've been longer had the phone not rang. That's one thing that always amazes me is that when we go away from home, we sleep so much that you would think we haven't slept in ages!
Well, I find myself babbling at this moment for lack of something better to write, but I figured I needed to put something down so that the random voyeurs of the world would still know I'm alive. More later...
I had to drag myself out of bed when the alarm went off (after a customary hit of the snooze) so that I could start my morning ritual of breakfast, the daily homework for Bible study, get ready, put together healthy lunches and snacks for hubby and me (which sounds easy--not so much when his diet is low carb, and mine is low cal/low fat), and check the corps PO box on the way to the corps.
Once arriving at the corps it took me THREE HOURS to just open and sort the mail that accumulated in our absence (granted, I did have a couple interruptions for thrift store vouchers, phone, etc). Needless to say, all I accomplished today was getting my finance packet for last week and this week ready for the mail and write out this week's CCM cards. Didn't get to the email or answering machine...that's first up tomorrow along with my community service worker reports for the municipal court and finalizing our next preaching calendar for September through Easter. Sheesh. I guess the magical little fairies that do paperwork and filing skipped over my desk last week.
Had an awesome volunteer come in today to start to move palettes of food and shelving as we are reworking our food pantry this week to create a more effective & efficient use of space and the FIFO concept (first in, first out) for our food bank shipments. More help tomorrow and lots to still get done, including husband's long-awaited inaugural use of the refurbished floor buffer we finally acquired for the corps and painting the interior of the corps (adios pink chapel and ugly brown brick!)
Complaining aside, last week was a nice break from the normal...while we were busy, I was able to work side-by-side with my husband on several non-ministry related projects. Some of these we refer to as "marriage builders" because we have different points of view on how the job should be completed. In the end though, we figure it out together and haven't had any major catastrophes yet. The end of the week was nice as we were able to escape for a couple days and visit husband's grandma and some cadets on their summer assignment. Can't complain about the discounts we get for a common hotel chain...makes short getaways quick, easy, and super affordable. Getting away was good, we were finally able to rest--literally. When we checked into our hotel, we promptly fell asleep for a 4-hour nap, went to dinner, slept for 11 hours, visited, slept for another 2 hours, visited, slept 9 hours--and would've been longer had the phone not rang. That's one thing that always amazes me is that when we go away from home, we sleep so much that you would think we haven't slept in ages!
Well, I find myself babbling at this moment for lack of something better to write, but I figured I needed to put something down so that the random voyeurs of the world would still know I'm alive. More later...
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