finally answering a "tag"

CyberJazzDaddy "tagged" me back in March. I was to eager to post about El salvador, the photos, the excitement, my new life changes to answer it then. But I am ready now.

Four Jobs I have had:
1) Delivering Pizzas for Pizza Hut
2) Working at my law school library
3) working at Barnes and Noble
4) Working for a telemarketing company in college. I called and asked people to renew their magazine subscriptions. For someone who HATES talking on the phone this was a challenge.

Four Movies I can watch over and over
1) Ever After
2) Any and all of the Star Wars
3) Noises off
4) Gone with the Wind (although I do put a few years in between watching)
Honorable mention: the tv series M*A*S*H I never tire of watching it!! but it's not a movie.

Four places I have lived
Only list 4??
1) Garden City South Carolina
2) Strafford, Missouri (aka Misery)
3) Lincoln, Nebraska, in dorm rooms!!
4) Quincy, Massachuttes

Four tv shows I have loved:
1) M*A*S*H (should have read ahead before I did the honorable mention, oh well)
2) China Beach
3) Fame
4) Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Hmm, again only 4???

Four places I have vacationed
1) cruise to Alaska
2) Omaha Nebraska (my brother's house)
3) El Salvador
4) Fort Lauderdale (my parent's house)

Four of my favorite dishes
1) lobster
2) sushi--but tuna rolls only!! otherwise I just do the veggie ones
3) popcorn
4) chocolate

Four sites I visit daily:
1) yahoo, for email
2) blogger friends
3) rewardtv
4) not really daily but frequently tvshowsondvd.com

Four places I'd rather be:
1) I wouldn't mind it being April 2007 and being in Peru on a compassion tour
2) anywhere with my Mom, it doesn't matter where!!
3) At my brother's wedding (coming soon, in August)
4) at the beach, I love the beach!!!

Four bloggers I am tagging
well, I'm not. I don't think I have 4 people that read my blog and at least one who does tagged me!!

Cars

So, last night I turn on my car in the parking lot behind my office. It starts. The radio doesn't work, which is odd. It seems frozen. I hit the on/off button a few times and start to drive. I make a left turn out of the parking lot, and the radio starts to work. I go about a block and my car flashes the check engine light, slows and then STOPS COMPETELY. Nothing, no lights, no radio, no power locks, no air conditioning, no horn!! It the half a second of warning that I have I turn the wheel to the curb and it goes that direction a tiny bit. I am not completely blocking the road, just partially. Luckily, my friend from work hasn't left yet, so I call and he and a deputy sheriff stop by and push my car to the curb.

This morning I have it towed. Thank God, all it was is a very dead battery. I had it for 5 years so I guess that's good. The guy at the garage said that batteries tend to last 2-3 years now!! So I took the car, with a loaner battery from the garage, to sears and got a new battery. The old was was still under a partial warranty and I got $25 off the price of the new one. Not bad. I am just relieved that it wasn't something super expensive!!

In other news, my brother plans on remarrying in August. Sort of expected. His announcement that his beloved is pregnant was not expected. I had hoped they would at least wait til they were married before they got pregnant!! The baby is due in January. He has 5 kids of his own from his first marriage (what a strange thing to have to start saying!!) and she has 2 from her first marriage!! So he can now have his own 8 is enough show. Or a bigger version of the brady bunch?? Jokes aside, I am happy that my bro has found someone to love, someone who loves him. And I am happy for them and the new baby! I think he needs a bigger house tho'!! My mom and I are going to try to be there for the wedding. Dad had already bought plane tickets to go there the first week of June. My parents have a parakeet that they love dearly and would probably die if they were both gone at the same time, so they never travel together anyway.

Another child in El salvador. One of the sponsors, a college kid, kept sticking his toungue out at this kid, so he responded!

God bless.

So what do I call this post? a mishmash?

Kids are graduating high school on June 1st. My girls, in Life Hurts God heals graduate tonight. Then we are done for the summer. It is already in the 90's and I love the warm weather.

Last night was the end of the "winter" bowling league. It was sweeps night. Which means a great deal of money is given to the team with the most total pins from 3 games bowled that night. The 2nd place, 3rd etc all get $ too. Even the lowest total pins gets something. And you divide that money the team gets by 4 (the # of people on the team) Well. My team got the highest total pins and won $100 each!!!!!!!! This was with no thanks to me since over all I bowled about 20 pins below my average, but the rest of my team just rocked!! It came down to the last frame too. We only won by 20 pins!! We were all pretty excited! In two weeks the summer league starts and 3 of us are back for more fun! We have to find a new 4th tho, one person is moving away.

There is also quite a bit of sadness surrounding me. It's not my family, but a friend's family. I really can't say more, but they need alot of prayer!

The photo is from El Salvador, isn't he sweet?

Ongoing realizations

Well, it has been awhile since I posted. I have been at conferences a few hours away from where I live for 3 days at the beginning of two consecutive weeks. They were work related.

I am still excited and wanting to spin in circles! My life seems so peaceful now, so joyous, so amazing. Last weekend, I finally put together my El Salvador photo album. You know, the old fashioned kind, where the photos go in plastic in a book? I included photos from other people's websites and from the Compassion photo disc that I got. I have 296 photos in there!! It was fun to put together and remember everything. Not that I am likely to ever forget my amazing experience.

I apologized to God this morning, actually, I have apologized a few times. For being so consumed by my own desires that I forgot to listen to Him. It's a good thing God understands us so well!! I had the oddest thought the other day, and again this morning. The thought was "I don't want children" Something I NEVER thought I could say and mean. But now I do, because God has filled my heart with love for the children of the world. His children, who need love, who need to hear His Word, who need to know that they matter and are special. What an awesome thing that God can accomplish this goal, fulfill this need thru me.

God bless