Tired today

Last night, I stayed up way too late reading a fantasy book, called Poison Study. I bought it on a whim, it was a new author and I have so many favorites that keep writing that I don't need to find new ones!! But it had an interesting blub and an interesting title. Monday night, I read a couple of chapters and then went to bed. (I almost always read for 10-15 min before bed) Last night, I went into the bedroom at 10 pm and planned on reading a couple of chapters, the next thing I knew it was 11:10. And I thought, well I have to get thru this intense spot, so five more minutes. The next thing I knew it was 12:30 and the only reason I stopped then was because I was so tired that the words on the page were blurring. I got up and finished the book this morning, but I am paying the price! I am exhausted!

A few more words on Treasure Hunters, I am still watching for those amazon points! This week the pastor tricked another team. The other team, Southie Boys (from South Boston-think Good Will Hunting) were very nice and helped the pastor's team carry their canoe for 3 miles!! They agreed to "team up" and the pastor tricked them into getting out of the river at the wrong point. The pastor said I think this is the spot, lets all get out and check. The Southie's did, the pastor didn't and on down the river they went! And at one point the daughter said I feel bad about what we did, let's pray for the other teams, and the mom prayed thanks God for helping us, please continue to help us. And absolutely nothing about the other teams!! Sigh. No wonder so many people have the wrong idea about christians. I should probably stop watching, despite the points.
God bless

Television/treasure Hunters

I am a member of several survey sites. One, E-Poll, is concerned with mostly television/movies. I received a survey from them, and when I finished it asked that I watch the show Treasure Hunters and I would get many many points. (points get me amazon gift certificates, which I just love!) So, even tho' I had not been planning on watching the series, for those points, I would.

So I tuned in on Sunday night. It's actually not that bad. I imagine it's a bit like the Amazing Race. There are teams of 3. One team consists of a Minister, his wife and his daughter. At some point, they do a little mini commentary from them, and the Minister says, well if we have to lie, we will "stretch the truth". A disturbing comment from a minister.

It got worse. The Minister's team was in third place. Another group, with a girl, was in second. She dove into the cove, picked up the little chest, brought it back to the surface, opened it, and the Minister reached in and took her clue!!!!!!!!!! She tried to get it back, but he must have been stronger. He is so overwhelmed by greed that he is willing to steal! After that, his team moved into second and they all were oh so very proud of his stealing the clue.

I am not perfect. I don't claim to be. People watching me may not see a model christian. But I am not a preacher, lying and stealing on national tv!!! I was horrified at his actions and, had I been a member of his church, I would be looking for a new church today. How could I listen to sermons from him, on following Jesus, lessons on following the 10 commandments, lessons on serving God and manna, and how you can't do both? He may have moved into second place in the race, but I think he may have lost a portion of his parrish, and pushed some of those on the fence about God, off, and onto the side of disbelief. A very costly decision on his part, the problem is, someone else may pay that price.

God bless

yesterday

yesterday was not such a great day. Work stuff, so I won't go into it. Yesterday evening was much better.

I still bowl on Wednesday's. My team won all 4 games yesterday. And I can honestly say I contributed!!! My average is about 122. My first game I got a 133. Pretty good. I am always happy when I bowl above my average. My second game I got three strikes in a row, something I have only done 3 or 4 times in my many years of bowling!! That, and a bit of luck with spares got me to a score of 172 in the ninth frame. My high game ever, was 181. I bowled the first ball in the 10th and got 7 pins, so I make a mistake and look at the score board. I am now at 179, I have to get the spare to beat my high game. Here's where I usually choke and blow it. I bowl and get the 3!! so I have a 182 and another ball to throw!! I ended up with a 190, which is definately my high game ever! The last game was a 142, also pretty good. When I got the 181, last year, the third game tanked I got less than 100!! So, a really decent night! 200 here I come!!

God bless

A new photo

Ok. Forget the grad photo. I can never remember to do that when I am at home! A friend from the El Salvador trip just emailed me a photo she took of me while I was painting suncatchers with the kids at a project. We were told if we wanted to bring a project to do we could and so I brought 30 suncatchers and paint to do with the kids. I didn't plan very well. The suncatchers came in kits, 10 to a kit and one paintbrush and one set of paints!! Well, the kids took the paints (all but one that I snagged) and the paintbrushes and well, the rest of us shared the one I kept, and broke in half, and used our fingers. They were all religious suncatchers.

The picture really made me smile, If you look closely you can see my tongue sticking out a tiny tiny bit. Grammy (my Dad's mother) used to stick her tongue out in the corner of her mouth when she was doing crossword puzzles. I guess a little of that stuck with me!

God bless.

Graduation part II

The graduation ceremony wasn't too bad. It was overcast, so we didn't fry. I got to the school at about 10 til 5 pm. The gates opened at 5:30 and the ceremony started at 7. I wanted a good seat. I was two rows back from the graduates. They were sitting sideways to us. The two rows in front of me were for teachers and staff and only one of them filled up. Unfortunatly, I misjudged the road Brit would be sitting in so I wasn't completely in line with her, but I had some pretty good views. I was so proud of her!

One of the speakers started her speech by saying, think back to the 80's when you were born, at time when notes were passed in class instead of text messages, when you were out of touch for hours at time because you didn't have cell phones, when you carried around a tape player with head phones for music instead of an ipod that was small enough to hide from your teachers! She had a few other tidbits too, that I can't remember. Made me feel a bit old, and gave me an awareness of just how much has changed! Research was done in libraries, not on the internet. I called all of the airlines to find the best deal on tickets, instead of spending 10 minutes at orbitz or Kayak.com. I had to get directions from people, which could have problems, instead of printing maps from the computer. It is a different world. I graduated high school in 1987!!! Some of these graduates weren't even born yet. Sigh.

I attempted to post a picture of brit and I, but I can't seem to pull it off the web. Tonight, I'll edit this post and add it from my home computer. I am really starting to hate pictures of myself. My face is so oily that the flash reflects off it and it looks terrible.

God bless

Graduation

There are two high schools in the town where I live and in the districts infinite "wisdom" both are graduating on the same night, tonight. I saw a few extra cops just start a shift and realized that graduation means worries for the police, and most likely I will be getting a host of police reports to read next week.

I am actually going to one of the grads! I am not really a fan of these things, they are long and boring. But, one of "my" girls is graduating. I have been her "unofficial" mentor ever since she was in the eighth grade. I tutored her in Algebra and she needed an adult in her life that she could talk to, someone outside her family. She is a great kid. Smart, and trying to rise above her troubled youth. She's actually the one who introduced me to the church I love!! I am very proud of her.

On a sadder note, the earthquake in Indonesia over the weekend was horrible. I sponsor a girl there, Arlita, and she is fine and so is her project. I went to the Compassion website, and 11 projects were damaged/destroyed and too many sponsored kids no longer have homes. And very sadly, 3 sponsored kids were killed. Please pray.

(Photo from Friday project in El Salvador)

God bless