simple...

For the first time in a very long time, I can say, "I read a book today." start to finish. Not an epic 1000 page saga or anything. just a nice Christian novel. And without staying up all night to finish it too :)

Here's the situation... as of tomorrow, my home internet is going away. I can do almost everything I need to do on my cell phone (my only phone!). I thought about watching some TV on hulu.com all afternoon, because I can still, until tomorrow. But I've watched everything I wanted to watch, all the season finales and such. I had gotten a new book at the library (a week ago actually) after seeing some new titles while killing time at WalMart. Never realized they had such a large Christian novel selection!

Anyway, this book was about a young lady who ends up living with an Amish family, and taking on their ways for a while. And she likes it. So, all afternoon, as I am reading and thinking, shouldn't I be online one last time, I'm also thinking, man, there's nothing wrong with the simple life! Not the AMish lifestyle is simple, they work their butts off, but simple in there are fewer distractions and such.

So, I've decided that turning off my internet is going to be a GREAT thing and I will embrace the time to read, talk (and listen!!) to God, and hopefully continue to figure out who God wants me to be, and to be that person!!

(the book was Hidden by Shelley Shepard Gray - it's the first in a series I think)

Summeritis

I have summeritis SO bad it's not even funny. I think I'm "doner" than the students are. I feel guilty, but if they don't want to learn, why should I feel like teaching?! I teach, I'd just rather be somewhere else. June 8, HURRY UP!!!

Like a Good Neighbor...

My neighbors are really quite wonderful. Here's why today...

I pull in my driveway and open my garage door like always. I get out, get the mail, bring in the trashcans, say hello to the neighbors next door who are sitting outside. I go in the garage and push the garage door button. Nothing happens! The overhead light is on, so the power is on. I go into the car and push the remote button which I had JUST used to open the door. Nothing. So, I walk over to the neighbors and say, "what would make my garage door opener stop when I JUST used it?" The very nice man walks over with me. We do this and that and he looks at it and I swear he grunted, but I think it was really more of a "huh" like it made no sense to him either. So we try some more things and get it to run when it's not latched. Okaaaayyyy... so we relatch it, while it's down, and sure enough it goes up. but then it won't go down! finally i take the car out and he gets on the step ladder and asks for a screw driver. one little screw had come a little loose (seriously, i think he made one full rotation screwing it back in, if that) and it wouldn't hit the latchy thingy so that it'd go back down when the button was pushed. we laughed about it, I thanked him profusely, offered him the old mower for parts (he told me a handyman will give me $5-10 probably), he left and i drove back in and shut the door.

but really, do i need a "sanity day" or what? good thing i already have one planned for tomorrow :)

happy

Ever have one of those moments when you just think, "golly, i'm happy"? i have them quite often these days. love my job. love my friends. love my house. etc. etc. etc. even on a bad day, i still get to come home to my adorable fluffy G.

yup. life is good. and i owe it all to God. living out His will is amazing!!! i highly recommend it!!