WEEKEND

Not much going on this weekend. We are helping our friends move tonight. Other than that we have no real plans. Just another weekend. I do hope I can get some rest this weekend. I have come to the conclusion Sixer (my dog) does not like to sleep. He gets up really early and just wants to play all day long naps are rare. If he does it is just a power nap @ 15 minutes then he is good and doesn't want to sleep anymore. I would like to leave him outside for a longer period of time but I am afraid to do that. He loves being outside but they Pugs can't be outside in warm weather. I don't know what temp they are really talking about. It is in the 80's right now but it is cooling down so we will see. I don't know how long I can leave him outside either. I will have to do some research. Anyway have a great weekend!!!

REALIZATION (Sometimes it hurts)

I have often tried to tell my husband how catty (is there even such a word?) we are. He didn't want to believe me but I think he sees it now. He works in a drs. Office full of women. I kept telling him women have such a hard time getting along and it's hard working with women because they can turn on you in a minute. They have attitudes for no reason. I was telling him I was so glad I wasn't like that. Then GOD started dealing with me. He put a mirror in my face as I interacted with people at my job and I saw how ugly I was. How could I someone that professes to love as CHRIST loves be like that? But in reality I was just like the women I was telling my husband about. Sure I was trying to place the blame on the people I work with but it's not them. Yeah they do stupid stuff and say annoying things but that should not affect how I treat them. But guess what it does. I have been praying to GOD to help me with this. It does not matter what someone else does I can't let it bother me and make me treat them in a UNGODLY way. There are no excuses!!!! It's embarrassing to know that I have been acting this way. It's shameful. Not just to me but to speak GOD to people at my job and not show him. I have been misrepresenting. GOD please forgive me. I never want to misrepresent you in any way. I must learn to be CHRIST like at all times. I mean the name of my blog and our ministry is LOVELIKECHRIST.

I am really trying

to wait until lunch time to eat but I am hungry. I ate 2 pieces of toast with jelly this morning but I am getting really hungry. I am trying to keep myself busy so I will tell my self I don't have time so I have to wait.

It is raining today a great day to be home and do nothing at all. But I am working instead. Fun!

One more day and its the weekend. I think we are going to see Gridiron Gang with the Rock this weekend. I love movies based off of a true story.

Not much else going on, boring really.

I read a lot of blogs through links and such. I found Barb at A Chelsea Morning she is asking how we met our honeys so I thought I would join even though she has no idea who I am. This may be long but it is very interesting. It may give more than what she was asking for but once I started I had to tell the whole story.

I first saw my husband in Aug of 96. I was inside the lobby of our dorms. The walls to the outside were all glass so I had a view of the walkway to the front doors. I was actually sitting there talking to someone that liked me. I was a little interested in him but not a lot. All of my attention was taken away when I saw Dos (my husband) for the first time. I honestly just starred at him while this other guy was talking to me. Luckily I since I could see Dos I could see that him and another guy were talking to one of my best friends. So later that night I asked her who he was and she told me. She said she had her first class of the day with him. Well I just had to meet him. So she talked to him and told him about me. We meet at the dance our college had every Wed. night. We danced together and then went with my friend and the guy she liked to drive around. We talked for a while that night and started talking often after that. One thing led to another and we started dating. Neither one of us were saved and living for Christ we went through a lot of tough times for 2 years. We both cheated on each other and we both found out. I was a year ahead of him in college so I was back home and he was still at school. He ended up calling me from her parents house and it showed up on the long distance bill. She then called me and told me they were seeing each other. I broke up with him immediately. Of course that didn't last and we got back together. About 8 months later while I was at work I got a phone call. A very familiar phone call. It was HER again. This time they were living together. (they lived 2 1/2 hours away) This was the day before thanksgiving 98. I immediately broke up with him again. I told him I never wanted to talk to or see him again. He kept calling my job that day and I refused to talk to him again. When I got home that night I went to my cousins and decided I needed to take my mind off of what was going on so I got high which before all of this was an everyday thing anyway. My mom calls me @ midnight to tell me Dos just showed up at our apt. I told her I didn't want to see him so I stayed out until 3 am. As soon I as got home there was a knock on the door. I never in a million years expected to hear what he was fixing to say. On the way down to see me and while he was getting high he had an encounter with GOD. He describes it as being similar to the road to Damascus with Saul Acts Chapter 9. He cried out to GOD that night and truly repented for his sins and GOD forgave him and saved him right then and there. So when he told me this I could see it. I could see the change in his demeanor, his face, his eyes all told me this was true. Even in his sin GOD saved him and I could see it. He proved it even more by pouring out a bag of pot that he had. My husband was a big time smoker. Everyday all day. So by him doing this it also confirmed what he was saying. I still told him I didn't want anything to do with him and so he left and went back home but still called me. To shorten it up less that a week later I accepted Christ as my Lord and Savior and 2 months later we were married. That was 7 1/2 years ago. We still love the LORD and if it was not for him we would not be together.

WEEKEND

This weekend went by so fast. Of course when you don't want it to it will. Friday night we did absolutely nothing. Saturday Sixer got something in his paw and it is swollen and he will not let me touch it. I have to take him to the vet. Also on Saturday I watched as OU got cheated in there game. I know a lot of people might say it's because I like OU that I feel this way but ESPN and a lot of other people say that as well and if that would have been different teams and I watched a replay of that I still think it would have been one team getting cheated. Anyway we also went to the fair Sat. night. The one reason I wanted to go was to get a cinnamon roll and guess what by the time we got to the stand they were CLOSED!!!!! They have the best cinnamon rolls that I have personally ever tasted. I was soooo disappointed.

Sunday morning we were awaken at 6am by the loudest thunder. It was crazy. It sounded like it hit something. It lasted about an hour then it just rained all day long. We just sat around the house doing nothing all day long. Boring weekend.

Yea it's Friday!!! I hope the time at work goes by fast. The fair is here so it will probably rain all weekend. We may go this weekend or next. Not sure. I think I would rather go see Gridiron Gang with "The Rock". I really need to color my hair because the gray is coming in with a vengeance. I refuse to keep gray hair at 29 years old. Not a lot going on. I hope the weekend doesn't fly by as it normally does. We are watching the OU game tomorrow and I am making nachos. We'll probably watch some of the other big games as well. I LOVE FOOTBALL SEASON.

Another reason I don't like living away from my family in AR

My mom called me last night. My nephew who is 6 yrs old, the baby, broke his wrist at football practice. 3 other kids fell on him wrong or something. Living 2.5 hours away I can't just run down there anytime I want. If I lived down there I could have gone to the emergency room with them, helped my sister with the other kids or something. Ugh. He broke it in 2 places, the dr in the ER last night said he needed to go to an orthopedic surgeon. So this morning my sis took him to one. They said he did not need surgery but she had to take him back at 1 so they could put him to sleep and reset it and put a cast on. I haven't heard from her yet. She said the Dr. Said it was a common procedure. Again I wish I was there.

My husband and I went to AR this past weekend to see my family. My niece's 10th b-day was Saturday. Time is really flying. My niece was born 7 days after my father passed away. So it's been 10 years since his death. I still miss him like crazy. But I love thinking of all the memories I have, I know they will never die. I also spent time with my grandparents. (my father's mom and dad.) I have lived 2 1/2 hours away from everyone for 7 years. I miss getting to visit them more. We use to spend every summer at there house. My dad lived with them after him and my mother got divorced. My dad had issues. He was in the Vietnam war and my mom and his parents all say he was not the same when he came back. He was an alcoholic and drug addict. He still held a job, the same one for 20 years so he wasn't incompetent to do things for him self. But I really don't think he liked being alone. I think that's why he never moved out from my grandparents. Anyway I can really tell my grandparents are getting old. Don't get me wrong they are doing great for there age. My grandpa is 86 and my grandma is 82. They still live on there own, walk on there own, cook for themselves. My grandpa still has a garden that he takes care of every year. I know one day they will be gone and that saddens me. I have spoke with them about GOD and they watch a minister on TV that they really like. They both can be pretty stubborn I just pray they have truly accepted Christ. I send out a newsletter every month and they say someone reads it to them (neither can read). I always put in there the prayer of salvation so I really hope it touches them. I pray it touches everyone that reads it that is not saved.

GOD please show me what to do

I just talked to my sister a few minutes ago. She lives in AR. And is about 2.5 hours away. This weekend is my niece's b-day she will be 10 yrs old. Wow how time passes by so fast. Anyway I was asking her if she was doing anything for my niece's b-day. We usually get together when someone has one with food, cake, ice cream. Good family quality time. She started telling me how broke they are. Neither her nor my BIL have a college education so in the area they live in that means low paying jobs are all they qualify for. He works as a mechanic at the local school bus garage and she drives a school bus. My BIL last year was able to drive a bus to earn xtra money. This year the school system won't allow that. My sis said that means they bring home $400 less than they use to. This makes me sad. I feel guilty that I am able to buy a new home while my family struggles. My husband and I have a ministry account and we help those in need when we have money in there. At the moment we have given it all out. Sometimes its to family members sometimes it's to others. She said they make $40 to much for food assistance. They have 3 children and only have $150 to spend a month on food and household supplies like tissue, soap etc... I want so bad to be able to take care of our family. My husband's family struggles also. But I don't know what to do besides pray for them. If I have the financial means to give I would but then I think about us building a house and our mortgage payment will increase by at least $500 a month. Should we not do that so we can use the $500 we would be paying to a mortgage to actually help our family? Should I feel guilty at all? It's a struggle when you see someone in need. It hurts my heart. GOD please if it's in your will give me the means to help those that need it financially, spiritually and any other way I can.