Trust in the Lord

Remember when a man's word was his bond? Now, they look you in the eye & lie. When reminded of what they said, it's suddenly YOUR fault that they didn't keep their word??? So sad.

I wrote the above on Facebook as my "status." Eddie promised he'd come over today, Sunday, & get some big thing on Runescape. Which I thought was only fair. Nick has paid for Eddie to have a paid account too many times for me to count. Well, Eddie ended up at another friend's house & got the level or cape or whatever. Don asked Eddie on chat about it & Eddie immediately started bashing Nick. Can we say, been there, done that? This time it was Don, not me.

Nick was hurt. He wanted to know what he could do. I told him nothing. We didn't want to give Eddie the satisfaction. I told Nick that Eddie's word means nothing. He will look you in the eye & lie. But he will come when he wants something.

So, what does this whole sad scenario have to do with the title? I learned long ago that if a person makes Jesus Christ the center of their universe, He doesn't leave you, you leave Him. I wish I could have done a better job of teaching Nick that principle.

Now, onward & upward. Look forward, not back? But, the important thing is to learn from your mistakes. I hope Eddie's lack of integrity doesn't sour Nick on friendship.

OK, a baseline for weight is in order. If I'm going to lose 30 pounds this year. I need to start. According to Mother's scale, I weighed 175 after dinner tonight. That's higher than I want to admit. I also admit it was a bad time to weigh, but hey, it's when I thought about it. It also gives me a cushion, hehe.

According to my calculations, I can lose 1 lb. every 12 days to reach my goal of 30 lb. by Dec. 31, 2010. Now, my goal weight is 135, but 30 lb. is certainly a start. If I get serious about this, I may have to change my little New Year's Goal graphic.

I am proud to announce that I stepped out in faith & read 1 book today, tonight actually. I picked up Jack Weyland's book Brianna, My Brother & the Blog. I absolutely loved it. It was a quick read, but it was what I needed & I finished it by 11:30. I gave it 5 stars. I cataloged it in "Alphabetical by Author Last Name." So, W is checked off.

Evidently the bishop has given our ward members a goal to finish The Book of Mormon by Memorial Day. Just saw that today on the Sacrament meeting program. I've been thinking about using the scripture web site to help me with The Old Testament, since that is the course of study for 2010 in Sunday School. So, that is a dilemma, Old Testament or The Book of Mormon??

Reading: 1 book read (See ticker in the sidebar of the blog.)
Weight: 30 lb. to go

Labor Day Weekend

It's amazing that September is here, with the last long weekend of the summer. I have to admit fall is my favorite time of year, now that I no longer have to fight with school. I always dreaded fall as a kid in school & as my kids were in school. But I've always loved the warm, mellow days, beautiful leaves & cool evenings of autumn. You don't have to deal with the mud & cold days in the spring, or the hot, muggy days of summer, or the bitter cold & snow of winter.
Don & Nick have some online friends visiting, Melva & Ron Terry from Mississippi, & Gordon & Colin from Washington State. The Terrys are here for their son Kyle's wedding. Kyle is marrying a girl from Cache Valley on Monday. One of her parents, father I think, lives in Miss & her mom here. We met Kyle & Ashley earlier in the year.

We met them last night at Golden Corral for dinner. There were 10 people there, Ron, Melva, Kyle & Ashley, Ron's mother Trish & grandmother Wilma, Gordon & Colin, Matt (Ron's brother) & John, besides the 4 of us. Don, Nick & Eddie knew the majority of the people there from Runescape, an online game. They've known each other for several years. It was fun as they were introducing themselves by their user names. It confused me no end though as Don calls them by their given name or their user name, rarely interchanging them. They were talking about other friends that weren't there, so I had to ask for a user name, when the given name didn't mean anything to me.

It was fun. I've never seen Nick so animated with total "strangers." He was laughing & talking. It wasn't the usual monotone. They were talking Runescape though.

After dinner, we went out to their house. Check this link out, Logan vacation house rental. Don & I were amazed. It sleeps 16 & there must have been 10 people there already. I don't know if they saved any money over a hotel by the time they paid the deposit & cleaning fee besides the nightly fee, but it was sure nice.

Today, they came up to see the addition to the house, Nick's project car & the Mormon Pioneer Relic Hall in Franklin, the oldest permanent settlement in Idaho. Gordon & Colin from Washington State were on their way home as Colin has to be back in school Tuesday. He was homeschooled & now is in high school. Like Nick was.

Tomorrow there is a potluck rehearsal dinner in Hyrum that we're invited to. Mother's not going, doesn't sound like Don-Mike or Nick are going either, sigh. Tomorrow is Lasagna Sunday, but we didn't prepare for it. I guess if we don't go, we'll have to have zucchini dressing as that's the dish I was taking.

Monday is the wedding. On top of that, Mother is recovering from an acute asthma attack that took us to the Logan Hospital ER Thursday night. Since it's a holiday weekend, I worked yesterday, Friday. I should have finished the paper today, but I hit the floor a running this morning, & finally crashed at 4. I did not make it in to work. I've still got tomorrow & Monday though. We go to press Tuesday, but have Monday off.

At 6 I got up, went over to Mother's to give her another inhaler treatment, fixed her supper (nuked a TV dinner), & made sure she had the antibiotic, but not the steroids. I also went to the grocery store to buy more TV dinners & stuff for my covered dish for the potluck tomorrow & supper tonight. I took Mother's groceries to her, came home & fixed supper.

I stayed up until 3 last night waiting for Sam, our yellow tom cat, to come in. And so even though I had a 2 hour nap, I'm ready for bed tonight.

Moving in May, 5/22

I didn't really have anything to post about yesterday, no moving as such. Just a normal Friday work day on Thursday. I did go over to Mother's after work last night so she could have a bath.

Today was a normal Monday or production day on Friday. I got 15.5 hours in yesterday & today. I still don't see how we can only get 15 hours during an issue cycle. But we try. I'll go in tomorrow to finish the last four pages & then back in on Tuesday for a little while.

I walked to Lewiston State Bank at lunch, up the east side of State Street. I crossed at the light & walked back up the west side of State Street to the Subway, back across State Street to the Citizen & back to work. Total time, 1/2 hour. Once I got to Stokes, I sat down on the bench just outside the front door to decide why I'd walked to the bank. Just how much money did I need, sigh. I hate not being able to remember stuff.

I buzzed my head yesterday. I have 1/4-inch of hair all over my head except a few stray hairs around my ears that I missed. The real reason I buzzed it is because I was sick & tired of it. I had asked Don a couple of times in the last couple of weeks to cut it for me &, of course, he's always busy, either with Nick, Runescape or lately he's been working on the siding of the house.

It feels so good to not have that long, at least to me, straggly hair. I was having to pull hair out of my ear after putting my hearing aid in. Once I got it cut though, I was thinking about gardening. You severely prune back bushes to make them grow bushier. I've stopped taking the femara, which has a side-effect of male-pattern baldness. I thought maybe if I cut my hair really short, maybe it'll grow out a little better. All of my mom's sisters have very thin hair, except Mother. Hers is still thick & still has color. The others all have white, very thin hair.

I don't like looking in the mirror & wondering who that ugly man is, LOL. My hair will grow.

Nick had a first yesterday. The very first time he went to the barber all by himself for a hair cut. His hair has been looking like Young Einstein's & so I had $10 for groceries. I asked him if I gave him $10 would he go to Weldon (Cheney) & get his hair cut? He said yes. I told him the $10 was for a haircut, nothing else. If he didn't get his hair cut, I wanted all $10 back. He said what if it's less than $10. I said if anything, it would be more. If it was more, come & get some more $$. He got his hair cut & went right over to Mother's to show her.

Moving in May, 5/6

I've worked on the blog template off & on all day. I took off the labels & added a label cloud. I think they look cool. It wasn't quite what I wanted, but I have to work tomorrow & Friday, so I guess, again, I live with it, until I have some time to waste again. I also updated my personal web page on Yahoo!, just to find that now Yahoo! is doing away with GeoCities. First of all, it was the photo hosting, they transferred everything to Photobucket; then they did away with Briefcase. In that case, they just dumped everything. I don't think I lost anything that I didn't have anywhere else.

Nick is having a meltdown & even with my hearing aid turned off, I can still hear it. The next thing we know, he'll be slamming out the door, breaking the glass & pealing out of the driveway. I tried to avert it, but I think I made it worse. Don is trying to reason with him, find out what's going on. He has way more patience than I will ever have. It is, of course, to do with Runescape. I hate that game.

I was sitting here at the computer & had to go to the bathroom. I didn't want to get up & just leave windows open & logged on. My reasoning was that Eddie would come & want the Internet. I looked at the time, 8:30 p.m., & I thought, "Ya, right!" Just minutes later, the door opened & I thought it was Don-Mike. Don looked up & said, "Hi Eddie!" His dad was right behind him. Eddie has a 4-page assignment due tomorrow. He needed the Internet. He was supposed to call, but he didn't, they just showed up.

I walked again today. Don needed to go to Stokes for supper & asked if I wanted to go. On my big long list of things to do today was "distilled water" for the CPAP. I said yes. I figured I could walk around the perimeter of the store again. I must have walked around that store twice. Candice Burns, a lady from our ward, was standing by the meat department. The second time I approached her I asked if she had seen Don. She said he was right behind me the first time. So, here I am, carrying my gallon of distilled water looking for Don & he was looking for me as well. So, we both got a walk in.