Frustrations & Smiles

Have I ever told you how much I love technology? Really, I do. But it frustrates the heck out of me, too! My wonderful computer decided last week to crash AGAIN in such a way that I needed to reboot AGAIN and then reinstall all of my programs AGAIN. Doing this once in a lifetime is frustrating enough - doing it twice in two months is enough to give you grey hair (if you have any left after pulling it all out!)! I might, if I'm lucky, and if I run programs all day long every day, have things reinstalled by this weekend. And it's only Monday!!! I am forever grateful and thankful for Andrew, though. If I didn't have his expertise I'd probably have spent hundreds of dollars replacing my laptop by now. Granted, he doesn't always put my computer on top priority, so it's not always the fastest, but he does put up with a lot when it comes to my computers! Sometimes I think I'd be better off if I was more computer illiterate - then I'd probably just leave the thing alone and only use it for emails and games. Not needing it for working and creating things would make life easier. Duller, but easier.

Enough of venting about a machine. Even without it I was able to create some pretty cool documents recently (I just needed to practice my patience with my old laptop) for the HUB. And I was able to do old fashioned research to put together a workshop on Spiritual Gifts. I think it went pretty well - at least no one walked out on me! JR was pumped and wants me to do it every other month or something! I don't think so - twice a year would be enough for me! But it is so rewarding to be able to use some of the knowledge and gifts God has given me to help others in His kingdom do His work. I really feel I'm supposed to be writing another program for the church to use next fall (like the Top Ten one I wrote for last fall), but I'm still not hearing what God wants it to be on. I just know He wants something different - not the same old, same old. Keep praying with me about it, ok? I want it to be what God wants it to be, not what I want it to be, or even what JR wants it to be.

My new little neice is so cute. I took Aiden with me to Ryan's birthday party and he couldn't get over the baby's head of hair - quite different than Lara's bald head! He kept playing with Katelyn's hair. It was cute. But then, again, almost anything he does is cute! He learned all the verses and motions to "The Wheels on the Bus" song on the way home. Did you know wipers go 'wish, wish, wish'? It's so cute!

Well, enough random thoughts for tonight - or is it tomorrow? Close enough. If you're bored enough to be reading this, I hope your week is great!

Rain

Well, it's raining again.  I'm not sure why I said again, since we really have had a couple of beautiful, sunny days, but when it rains around here this 'spring' (it's technically not spring yet, but it kinda feels like it),  it really rains!  Since all the snow isn't yet melted, the rain just sits on the semi-frozen ground in ugly grey puddles.  It's not the warm run-and-splash-in-the-puddles-summer rain, but the cold-let's-get-out-of-it-as-fast-as-we-can-winter rain.  Yuk!

It tends to make you want to just crawl back in bed and stay there for a week.  Well, maybe not a week, but at least for the day.  I'm so un-motivated today.  I've got lots of things that I should get done, but I don't feel like doing any of them right now.  Thus, I'm here, writing to nobody about nothing.  Funny, huh.

There is a good side to this rain, if you really think about it.  Being early March, it could be snow and it isn't.  And, it makes  you think that maybe, just maybe, Spring isn't that far away?  I've lived in other parts of the country where there really isn't much Winter and I missed the four seasons.  Even tho Spring and Fall are really short here, I still love them both and am glad that God has designed His earth with such spendor.  And amazement.  Can you imagine - we live on a planet that circles the sun at exactly the right speed, and rotates on it's own axis at exactly the right angle to give us seasons, and days, and nights, and heat, and snow, and rain.  God really is quite the master artisan, isn't He?