February 13, 2007
More Hours In My Day
You haven't seen much of these two recently. Here are Mak and Nani snuggled up in my chair in front of the fire. They are fat and happy, living large in Arkansas...but they have one complaint..."Who put da world in da kine deep freeze? Is too cold for us tropical kine kitties!"
I have been busy this past Two weeks, not more so than normal but more than I thought that I would be under the circumstances. There have been a lot of crisis moments but all in all I feel pretty good about some of the outcomes of the events of the week.
First of all I want to give credit for the title of todays post. Many years ago, I found myself stuggling to balance my life with work, ailing parents, and ministry at church all requiring huge amounts of time. So I went to a seminar called "
More Hours In My Day" by the wonderful Emilie Barnes. I dont know if she is still traveleing, as she has had cancer and well its hard as you get older to travel all over the place doing seminars, but she is, to me, a kinder, gentler Martha Stewart, with family first rather than style first.
Anyway that title came into my head as I was thinking about this post. A lot of my blogging time was spent saving my old posts and preparing to migrate to Blogger 2.0. All of the gloom and doom on different bulletin boards warned me to expect the worst, but like Y2K, all noise no substance.
The biggest news is that Woody got sacked from the Toyota dealership due to poor sales. Our weather continues to be dismal and of course that means low sales. He was being recruited by the dealership in Fayetteville, a "Auto Mall" so he can sell all different sort of cars and not just one brand. We will know this week if he got the position, now if the freezing rain will stop he will go out and hit up a few places closer to home (his drive will be about 40 miles one way)
I have a turn in my job as well. I have been working a desk that requires barely a touch more than babysitting, for the last three months. That little respite is going to come to an end, as the account is leaving "thisplace" and going to handle its own freight. I will be going to the "floater pool". The only thing I dont like about that is a somewhat nomadic situation, but I may stay with with my former team ( I sit near them now) and just help out. I will miss being the master of my own ship. I always knew that it would be short lived.
My goal to be working for myself is inching closer to reality. I have managed to repay all of my debts, including my van, so I shall be personally debt free by my self set deadline, Divine Mercy Sunday April 15. I have also been trying to "fast" from descretionary spending. This was to be my Lenten Pledge, but I have been trying to live this way since New Years. Woody is sort of going along, saying he will refrain from excess spending, so that we can start to really save for future projects. Like insulating the room I want to use as a studio. The glassed in screen room has stayed above freezing, but is still too cold for us or the kitties to hang out in. I need to install floor insulation and roof insulation as well as a heat and air unit.
And lastly, church is starting up its preparations for a contemporary service. This is not Kum-By-Yah and coffee, but a radical shift, in both the music and teaching. Im very excited to be a part of this and so glad that things have worked out so we could share in this awakening in this church. Stay tuned.
Labels: Cats, Woody, working
