CANCER

My grandfather on my mother's side was diagnosed with lung cancer this pas summer. He was not a smoker but lung cancer is the #1 killing cancer, more than breast, prostate and another one that I forget. My uncler (her brother) found out last week that he had Stage 1 lymph node cancer. He had cancer 30 years ago but fought it with chemo and was ok until now. But today they called my mom and said he also has Stage 4 bone marrow cancer that is not curable.

I will probably never understand why people get an illness or disease that kills them. Maybe GOD will tell me when I met him. Maybe, Maybe not. I just pray that before my grandfather or uncle or anyone accepts Jesus as there savior before they pass on. That is the most important thing we will ever do in our lives. We can have the best car, the nicest house, the perfect life or we can be homeless, have no job, no money, no family in either case accepting Jesus as our Lord and Savior is still the most important part of our lives. I pray that my family does this. I pray that all of you do this. Not only accept him as LORD AND SAVIOR but live as he would have us to live.

My dad also passed away from cancer. I am curious how many of you have had a family member that has had cancer?

WEATHER

No disrespect to my Northern friends but I don't know how you do it. I do not like cold weather. We had a lot of sleet this past weekend. For 3 days that's all it did. Our lawn is white and looks like snow but it is sleet and it is slick. We don't get a lot of bad weather in Oklahoma, well winter weather that is. They had cleared the highways pretty good. But some of the main streets that we have to drive on are still bad. We go down 23rd st to get home. It is a 5 lane road usually. Now it is only 2 lanes. They cleared out one lane on each side and pushed all of the ice to the other lane making it impossible to use. I think they are doing a horrible job on these streets. They are also pushing this stuff into other roads that cross it and people are getting stuck. It is piled so high there cars, trucks and suv's can't go over it. I will be so glad when this melts but it looks like we may have more snow this weekend. Ugh go away!!!!

TIME

I have a lot of things on my mind. Things I want to do but time is not on my side. I don't know what to do. Let me start with my work and sleep habits. I have to go to bed at 9 pm because i get up at 4 am. If I go to bed any later I am miserable at work. We get up at 4 because we go to the gym in the morning before work. We only have one car. We have to be to work at 7:30 and get off at 4:30. We live 30 minutes from our job and we get home a little after 5. When we get home I have to cook something (if I have not prepared our meals on Sunday) and eat which can take 30 min to 1 hr. so by then it is 6. Now that we have Sixer (our dog) he needs attention. He is a puppy so I am hoping as he gets older he grows out of the stage he is in. I constantly have to watch him because he is always getting into something. If I try to read the bible he is constantly on my lap or bringing me a toy or trying to get my attention. I can't concentrate. I also would like to finish studying for my real estate license, work on a ministry newsletter, read the bible and pray. We are also talking about me going back to school in august to work on my accounting degree. I really feel like time is not on my side. On the weekends I have plenty of free time. But I feel like I need to work on this stuff during the week also. Another thing that bothers me is that I am constantly sleepy. When i start reading or if I try to study I can't concentrate because i am so tired. I try to get plenty of sleep, I eat decent and I work out so I feel like I try to be healthy but I can't figure out why I get tired all of the time. I have been to the Dr and they tested my blood and everything was fine. Please pray for me in that area. I don't know how some of you moms do what you do. I will start praying and asking GOD to guide me in what I need to do and how i can do it. I know he has the answers I just need to talk to him more. I trust him and he always comes through.

ICE STORM

It is freezing outside. Sleet is coming down and sticking to the roads. It's amazing that yesterday it was in the 60's and sunny. Today sleet and in the 20's. That's a 40 degree difference. I know for those that get this stuff on a regular basis it's no big deal but here it's the talk of the city. I think they even have names for it Ice Storm 2007. I kept hearing all these people talking about going to the grocery store yesterday and having to stand in line for an hour. And a lot of people were making fun of them. Not me cause I have to go today in this stuff. NOT FUN. They were smart to go yesterday. Anyway we are closing down at 12 so I am outta here.

Update: We went to the grocery store @ 12pm and they were out of hamburger meat. How do you run out of hamburger meat at a grocery store? There were a lot of empty shelves. My husband and I were talking about how people were buying up stuff like they were going to stuck in there house for two weeks. This is a 2 day ice storm. By Monday everything will be back to normal. I guess everyone needed groceries for the weekend. By the way we go to the grocery store every Friday. We didn't just go because of the ice.

SIXER IS NOT SLEEPING

Sixer is waking up at 11:30 or 12 at night and not wanting to go back to sleep. We get up at 4 a.m. This is not good. Does anyone know if we have him neutered will that change his sleeping/calmness? He is hyper all the time right now. He is 8 months old. I need some advice. My vets office is not very helpful.

I haven't posted any pictures of Sixer lately. He has gotten so big. My how time goes by so fast.




This is Lady, our friends dog. Sixer likes her but she detests him. They also have a cat named Nemo. He hates Sixer also. My poor baby has no friends.







Sixer loved the snow we had in November. It is suppose to snow here again this weekend. We will see. We usually have 1 snow per winter sometimes 2 so if it does snow it will be the 2nd time.





My husband has come to love Sixer. At first he was hesitant to agree on having an inside dog. He wasn't to fond of the idea but now he loves Sixer. He loves how Sixer is so excited to see us when we get home from work.





Sixer had just gotten a bath and needed to snuggle so he could get warm.






This is our friends baby the day he was born. His name is Jaylen. He is precious.




Ok enough pictures.

I am not good at titles!!!

So anywho I don't really have a title for today. GOD is good as always. I have been feeling lately that I need to do more for GOD. I mean I give him the glory for everything in my life but I feel like could be doing more. What do you ask? I really don't know but I just love him so much and want others to know him. I have been praying and seeking him to guide me. Maybe its just me and my feelings. My hubby and I are on different pages on this. He feels like we are doing what GOD wants us to do. I have things I want to do but haven't and feel like I don't know how to do some of the things I have a desire to do. For instance I want to write a book about marriage but I don't have eloquent language skills and get stuck while trying to write. I feel like I repeat my self over and over. I know there are people who don't have the best writing skills that write all the time. Maybe I am scared to do it. I do make excuses a lot. Like there are to many things going on, to many distractions. I will be praying until I hear from GOD.

Hopefully I will be able to post some pictures soon!!!!

GOOD IS SOOOOO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!


Big news, for us anyway. GOD is soooo good. We closed on our house today. I wrote about us buying a new home back in Aug or Sept. We had it built. We weren't suppose to close until Feb 1. We basically had $4,000 not returned to us from a bad business deal. (we were going to use that for closing) Well we closed with no money down and actually got @ $400 back at closing. God is good I will post more about this after Christmas and hopefully some pictures. I hope everyone has a great Christmas and remember Christ is the reason for the season. Remember him in all you do!!

BIG NEWS

Ok I will give a hint. I am not pregnant. We have decided to wait until at least 2 more years before we seriously consider having a child so that announcement won't be for a while. Other than that I can't say anything right now.

I had my annual review last week. I had been considering going back to get my degree in accounting. 2 yrs ago I started back to school full time and worked full time and I just could not do it. So if I go back it will be at a slow pace. The 1st year I will only take 1 class each semester because it is the hardest accounting classes to take and I will need to devote all my time to that. I have to really study to get good grades and comprehend things. I am not the one that never picks up a book and gets an A. That would be nice but not going to happen with me. But I would not be able to go back until Aug 07 and only if we have a 2nd car by then. So we will see. My boss really encouraged me that it would be the right thing to do and it is paid for by the company.

Sixer is doing great and is getting bigger. I am hoping he will not be so hyper as time goes on. We need to get him fixed, hopefully that will help a little. We shall see. Anywho the weather this week has been great. 2 weeks ago it snowed and was in the 30's for a while this week it is in the high 60's. Is it just Oklahoma or do other states have weather that changes from week to week. I'll take it while it lasts. This weekend it may be in the 70's and next week it is suppose to be in the 40's.

Sorry Faith in Florida it has been a while since I last updated. I have to confess I post on my blog at work and don't really get on the computer at home. I have been really busy at work so that is one reason I have not posted in a while. Plus I lead a very un-happening life. So not much to post about. Plus I have a big announcement that may take place before Christmas so you will have to keep checking back to see what's going on. So I guess I do have some excitement in my life. I am a procrastinator also. I need to get my pictures put on a cd so I can post some and I have not done that.

Does anyone know where I can get some dishes(plates, bowls) for a good price not over $30 for a set of 16 pieces. Target is too high but they have cute stuff, Walmart doesn't have as cute as I like but they are cheap, TJ Maxx doesn't have 2 sets of the same dishes. But I guess i can mix it up. I need to check Ross. If I have to order online I can.

Ok I will try to update more often even if nothing is going on with me.

STARBUCKS

I went by Starbucks on my way back to work at lunch to get a regular cup of coffee. It is freezing here so a nice cup of hot coffee sounded great. Something told me it would not be as easy as that. I order my grande coffee no room for cream she goes over starts to fill it up and low and behold STARBUCKS has NO COFFEE MADE!!!! How do you not have any coffee made? They have 2 or 3 (what look like to me) brewing stations and all of them are out of coffee all at the same time?? Somebody is not doing a good job of keeping it up. I need my caffeine and a cold coke will not do it for me. Ugh. She offered me something I can't remember the name of it but she said hot water and espresso. I said fine but then I would have to wait while they make everyone else's drinks. Which was like 5. If they just had some coffee made she could have poured it and I would have been on my merry little way. So I stand there for 2 minutes and realize I have to get back to work. I do not have time to wait on water and espresso. Besides they still had not made any of the other 5 drinks. I know this is trivial but still I wanted a cup of coffee.

Anywho it was in the 60's I think this morning when I woke up and currently it is in the 30's. It is suppose to snow and sleet tonight and tomorrow. Gotta love Oklahoma whether.

HEAVY HEART

My mom called me Sunday to tell me she had seen in the newspaper a girl I went to high school with had passed away. Well she is a woman now, 30 years old. Although I have not spoken to here in years I was sad to hear this. I was best friends with her cousins. They were very close so I knew her pretty well back in the day. Things change so much after high school. I only saw her a couple of times after she graduated. I am not sure what happened to her. Her funeral was today at 2p.m. It is 3 hours away where it is being held so I could not make it. It's just wierd to think of her so young and now she is gone. I haven't been able to stop thinking about her and her family. I pray that they seek GOD at this time. He can give them comfort. It is so awesome to know he can wrap his arms around me when I am sad and let me know I will be ok. I will make it through difficult times. No matter what he is always there. I don't know what her relationship was with GOD I just hope it was enough to get her into the book of life.

Over the past couple of months I have noticed a significant change about me. I can only credit GOD for the change. Before when certain things didn't go the way I wanted or thought they would I would stress out and panic. I would always try to be strong for my husband if he ever paniced but would often break down and panic with him. But over the last couple of months and really seeking to know GOD and be more like him I have noticed I don't stress out or panic. Don't get me wrong thoughts come into my head but I fight them with prayer and scriptures. And when my husband paniced for a few minutes I didn't panic with him. There are some things going on right now that a couple of months ago would have stressed me out and tried to make me doubt GOD but today it doesn't not affect me like that. GOD had to put me in check on what is important and what is not, he is important, his kingdom work is important, the things we go through naturally can not compare to him. I just LOVE GOD so much. He is so awesome. It's not always easy but with him all things are possible.

IRS

After working in the accounting field for years I already knew why the IRS had a bad reputation. They are very difficult to work with. Especially when they are wrong. You have to go through so many steps to prove to them that they did something wrong. Well its even worse when its your personal records you are having to prove they or someone else did something wrong.

Here is my story. Back this summer I got a letter from the IRS saying that I did not report all of my wages for 2004. So they said I owed more money. My first thought was what did I do wrong. After looking over my taxes for that time I could not find anything wrong. So I called IRS and asked them what this was about they said that I had wages from working in North Carolina that I did not report. I have NEVER been to North Carolina, I repeat I HAVE NEVER BEEN TO NORTH CAROLINA!!!! You would not believe what I am going through having to prove this. I spoke with the lady that I supposedly worked for. She did not have my name or a soc sec # even close to mine for that year or any year. I had so many days that I had to send in a response to the IRS trying to prove why I didn't owe that amount. I sent in my letter stating I have never been to, lived in or worked in North Carolina in my lifetime. So I had to sit and wait for a response. I got my letter yesterday form the IRS and guess what? They say I still owe the money. Now my boss is going to write a letter stating I worked in OK in 04 and there is no way I could have worked somewhere else. I am trying to get in touch with the lady I supposedly worked for in North Carolina to see if she will write a letter so I can send them in to the IRS. Other than that I have no idea how I can get them to believe me. Ugh!! This is so crazy and frustrating. Please pray for me.

NOTHING MUCH

I am glad to see I am not the only one not posting on a regular basis. Some of my regular reads have not posted in a few days. I am sure they are a busy as I am not but still. I am ready for the weekend. My friends babyshower is this weekend. Oh I need to get a cake. She is due Nov. 29th. It's a boy. That's about all I have going on for this weekend. I hope I get to relax a little. For the past 3 or 4 weekends it has been really busy for us.

Tuesday we are having a pot luck at work. I am making Taco Soup. It is really easy and yummy. Here is the recipe.

1 lb. ground beef
1 can black beans
1 can ranch style beans
1 can whole corn
2 cans rotel
1 pkg. taco seasoning
1 pkg. ranch dressing seasoning

brown ground beef, add to beans, corn, rotel etc. let it cook together til its hot. I pour mine over fritos and add shredded cheese.

I will also be making kitty litter cake. I have never made this but it is funny and suppose to taste good to here is the recipe with a picture to funny!!
CAKE INGREDIENTS:
1 box spice or German chocolate cake mix
1 box of white cake mix
1 package white sandwich cookies
1 large package vanilla instant pudding mix
A few drops green food coloring
12 small Tootsie Rolls

SERVING "DISHES AND UTENSILS"
1 NEW cat-litter box
1 NEW cat-litter box liner
1 NEW pooper scooper
1) Prepare and bake cake mixes, according to directions, in any size pan. Prepare pudding and chill. Crumble cookies in small batches in blender or food processor. Add a few drops of green food coloring to 1 cup of cookie crumbs. Mix with a fork or shake in a jar. Set aside.

2) When cakes are at room temperature, crumble them into a large bowl. Toss with half of the remaining cookie crumbs and enough pudding to make the mixture moist but not soggy. Place liner in litter box and pour mixture.

3)Unwrap 3 Tootsie Rolls and heat in a microwave until soft and pliable. Shape the blunt ends into slightly curved points. Repeat with three more rolls. Bury the rolls decoratively in the cake mixture. Sprinkle remaining white cookie crumbs over the mixture, then scatter green crumbs lightly over top.

4) Heat 5 more Tootsie Rolls until almost melted. Scrape them on top of the cake and sprinkle with crumbs from the litter box. Heat the remaining Tootsie Roll until pliable an d hang it over the edge of the box. Place box on a sheet of newspaper and serve with scooper. Enjoy! "Kitty Litter Cake"


Ok I can not figure out how to get my picture at the bottom of the page and I do not want it to be the first thing you see so click on this link kitty litter cake to see a picture of it.

Food for thought

I have been noticing a trend lately. It really bothers me. I have noticed out and about and on blogs what people are eating. Or not eating should I say. I see women eating salads and their husbands or boyfriends eating burgers, fries, pizza. It is so frustrating that most men can eat anything they want. They don't count fat, calories, carbs or anything like that. Women on the other had most of them have to eat very healthy to not gain weight. I grew up on junk food, anything fried was good to me. Now I am having to watch what I eat because I have started to gain weight. I have to limit my Dr. Pepper intake. It just doesn't seem fair. I want to be able to eat what I want and not worry about it but I can't. It sucks big time.

Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. You are worthy to be praised. You are an awesome GOD. I bow down on my knees and worship you today and everyday. Your love gives me joy, peace and comfort. You are King of Kings and Lord of Lords. I will not waver in trusting you. The enemy wants me to doubt you and I refuse to. You are a keeper of your word and I will trust you. The enemy wants me to fail but you will prevail. My trust is in you.

Goin me in Praising GOD today.

I have been really busy here at work. That's why I have not posted recently. I am very thankful that busy does not = stressful at my job. I have a very laid back job, no crazy people running around stressed out, causing others to stress. Sometimes I just have a lot to do.

I have read almost all of the testimonies on the bloggy tour of testimonies. If you haven't you should. There is a link on my sidebar. Most of the testimonies are people that have always known or had a relationship with GOD most of there lives. It's funny because those testimonies the people often say they had a boring or uneventful testimony but most of them are people who have begun a relationship with Christ at a young age. I feel like I am in the minority in the tour cause my is kinda crazy. However, they are all such a blessing no matter how you came to Christ. I am just glad there are others out there that love GOD as much as I do!!

In sad news we have had a loss in the pet world. Alan and Kara at flat nosed pups had to send there pug to doggy heaven. If you feel like it go leave them some encouraging words. Since I now own a dog I could not imagine what this is like for them.

Unusually Calm

That's how I am right now, that's how I have been for the last couple of months, that's how I pray I stay. Right now there are things going on in my life that before a couple of months ago would have me stressed out!!! (Recap: my husband and I prayed about buying a house a couple of months ago, having one built actually, GOD said yes. And I trust him) We knew before we signed the papers for them to start building that we would need our down payment at closing. The builder told us it would be done Feb. 1 possibly a little earlier. It is Oct 4th and the builder is saying it will more than likely be done before the end of November. Several business opportunities were presented to us, each one would provide the down payment we need. None of them have came to pass. But GOD be the glory I am not stressing. My husband and I prayed, we heard GOD and he said we could do this and we trust him with the down payment. I am the happiest I have been ever. Even with all that is going on I am in one of those I could just cry because I am so happy and I love GOD so much. He is the best thing, person whatever you want to say it is to happen to me. He is so loving, caring, merciful I could just weep with joy. Thinking about him is all I want to do, with him there is peace, love, joy, comfort and so much more. He is so awesome to me. He is KING of KINGS, and LORD of LORDS. He is so worthy to be praised. I just want to share him with everyone. The way I feel right now everyone can feel like this if they will just turn over there worries, burdens, sorrows, pain, hurt, bitterness, anger, hate but most important there life. Turn it over to him and you will have joy like you have never had before.

MY TESTIMONY

If you want to read other testimonies please click on the Bloggy Tour of Testimonies on the side bar. GOD reaches each of us in different ways but its always his way.

I started going to church as far back as my memory will take me. My mom was a evangelist so my sister and I were in church 8 days a week. As soon as we came home we ate and rushed out the door to get to church on time. Sitting on the pew is usually where we did our homework for the night. We were of the Penecostal denomination. It wasn't the one where you don't cut your hair and can't wear pants. There are so many different ones I couldn't tell you if we were called something inparticular or not. It's odd to go back this far in my memory and think about all of this. It's for the good though.

I knew as a child that there was a GOD and that he did good things for people. I remember very vivid one night I was @ 4 or 5 my stomach was hurting. It was hurting so bad I just remember asking my mom to pray for me and to make the pain stop. Other than this I don't remember ever really knowing about JESUS. I am sure I learned in Sunday school but I never had a personal relationship with him. When I was around the age of 8-9 my mom stopped evangilising. I do not know what happened. I would like to ask my mom about it, I think I know but I am not sure I want to actually hear it. Anyway after she stopped we stopped having to go to church. In my teens I started drinking and getting drunk. My mom would often go off on the weekends and it would be my and my sis. She was out of high school at the time. My mom and dad divorced when I was 2 I think. My dad was not religious at all. He had issues. He was in the Vietnam War and my mom and his parents, well basically every one that knew him before he went to war said he was different when he came back. Even though my parents were divorced they argued when they seen each other. Mostly because my dad was drunk. He started drinking and smoking weed when he got back from War. He became an alcoholic. It was hard sometimes. I remember one year for Christmas he was in rehab and that's where we had to visit him. After him and my mom divorced he lived with his parents. Only 1 time do I remember that he rented a trailer for a little while but eventually moved back with his parents. He had issues but he was still a great dad to me.

Ok anyway the weekends my mom was gone my sister and I would have parties. Then she got married when I was in the 11th grade so it was just me and my mom. This is when I started dating black guys. No one in my family knew. I was hiding it. So after high school I go off to college and start drinking even more. I honeslty did not want to talk about GOD at that time. I knew he was real and I was doing wrong and it scared me yet I refused to change. My 2nd year of college I met "Dos" my future husband. He is a year younger so he was a freshman and I was a sophomore. He was a smoker. Weed Smoker big time. I swore I would never do that because I saw my father do it and thought that was what made him like he was.(it wasn't until later that I realized it was the war also) So when I found out that Dos smoked I told him it was me or the weed. He chose the weed and I gave in. I was smoking and drinking. 2 weeks after Dos and I met my father passed away from cancer. When he died I received $10,000 from his life insurance. I spent all of that on weed. I kid you not. I was getting high everyday, smoking 2-3 times a day. The college we attended was just a 2 yr school so I went back home after my sophomore year. I did not finish school. Instead I got low paying jobs, working 2 jobs to be able to move out of my moms but in with a roommate. During this time I was still seeing Dos. One night I got a call from this girl telling me she was seeing and sleeping with Dos also. I broke it off. I wasn't perfect either though. But we got back together. The summer after his sophomore year he told me he was living with his mother but she did not have a phone. I knew something was going on but could not prove it. He was living 2.5 hours away from me. He would come and see me on the weekends. I was still smoking and drinking a lot. The day before Thanksgiving 1998. I was sitting at my desk working when I got a call from the receptionist saying I had a phone call. When the call was transferred it was the same girl that had called me about a year before saying she was seeing Dos. This time she told me they were living together. I was crushed. He called me soon after she did and I told him I never wanted to see him or talk to him ever again. That night I went to my cousins so I could get high. I did not want to be at home. My mom called me @ midnight to tell me Dos was in town to see me. I decided I would stay out even later, so I eventually came home @ 3 a.m. Not much longer after that Dos shows up again. This time he looked different to me. He told me he got saved and he was changing his life. I believed him. Even after all the lies he told me because I could see GOD on him now. I however was still hurt. He wanted me to come back to his moms and meet her and eat Thanksgiving with them. I told him no. He said he would call me. He did Thanksgiving day, the day after Thanksgiving and I agreed to go to OKC to meet his mom on Saturday. I was still being stubborn. Saturday morning before I drove up there I did 2 lines of coke and on the way up there I smoked some weed. I was good and high by the time I got there. I sat and talked with him and his mother and I could see the joy and happiness that they both had. I was unhappy and had been most of my life. I knew that could change though. That day in my mess I accepted Jesus as my LORD AND SAVIOR. That was the best decision of my life. 2 months (Jan 99) later Dos and I got married and we have been living for Jesus ever since.


PS please do not pay attention to my grammar I did not check it all that well.

ALSO AS SOON AS I CAN GET MY HUSBAND TO WRITE HIS TESTIMONY I WILL POST IT. IT IS AN AWESOME ENCOUNTER WITH GOD.

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!!!