Not Me Monday…well sort of

July 6, 2009 at 10:53 am (Dogs, Not Me Monday, Randomness)

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Hello everyone!  This is my first official blog post.  And who am I?  My name is Jill.  That’s right.  I’m giving Kathy a break this week since she’s been busy helping me take care of my puppies.  Oh yeah, maybe I should mention that I’m not really a person.  I am a purebred 4 year old Border Collie.  That’s a picture of me and my puppies at the top.  I’ve been hearing about these “Not Me Monday” posts and they sounded pretty interesting, so I thought I’d give it a try.   I think you’ll find it very interesting.

First, there is no way that I decided to come in “Season” the week after Jerrad and Kathy got married.  I knew they had a lot going on so I did not try to hinder them by digging out of the lot, tearing through chain link, and climbing out of kennels.  I also did not decide to have a little honeymooon fun of my own with the other males in the lot (one beagle and another border collie).   And better yet, I’m pretty sure that I didn’t make it very very hard for Kathy to figure out who “got to me.”

Then, I know I didn’t hide my pregnancy until the last two weeks (they just thought I had gained some weight).  And after the puppies were born,  there is no way that those puppies could look like either beagles or border collies so they don’t know whether they will have to sell them or beg people to take them.

And now, I’m not keeping my humans busy by constantly trying to break out of a steel horse trailer (which I did not break out of completely at least once).  And I certainly did not get scared of the fireworks the other night and climb across the trailer divider to hide in the bottom drawer of an old dresser that is being stored there for now.  And I kind of didn’t forget to bring my puppies with me (oops!).  The next day, I did not decide that the dresser would be a better place to keep my puppies and did not try to bring them over there with me.  Kathy did not catch me in the act and make me put them back.  Well, it seems that Kathy has caught on to my antics and fixed everything so I can’t do what I want.  So it would be very bad if I had decided to constantly move the puppies to different places in the trailer and never leave them in the same place for more than 8 hours.  Whew!  I sure have been busy keeping my humans busy. And one more thing…Kathy decided to put up some sticky fly paper to try to keep down the flies.  But, I’m pretty sure that I did not get hung up in at least 2 of those papers and have them stuck all over my body and around my tail so that she had to cut them off of me.

Well, I had better run on now.  My puppies are hungry and I’m going to see what other people food I can finagle out of Kathy.

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Wedding Etiquette

May 9, 2008 at 2:43 pm (Randomness)
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I am the Media Team chairperson at my church.  What that means is that I have to make sure there’s someone to run the sound system and the computer media at all the services and special events.  It’s really not as special as it sounds.  Occasionally (meaning once every 3-4 years), there will be a person from outside the church who plans to get married there.  They usually call us way in advance to schedule someone to run the sound for the wedding.  Well, I got a call on Thursday 5/8 for a wedding that will be on Saturday 5/24…Memorial Day weekend.  So not only is this short notice, it’s a holiday weekend.  Most all of my techs are out of town and I’ll probably get stuck having to do the wedding.  My question is:  According to the rules of etiquette, what is the proper amount of advance notice for securing a sound tech for your wedding?  Just curious.

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Jack-Knife

April 24, 2008 at 9:33 pm (Randomness)
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I usually pride myself in not doing stupid things.  I’m usually pretty self-sufficient at getting things done without the help of others.  Tonight, Jerrad and I were cutting my grandfather’s grass.  Jerrad had borrowed my lawnmower and we had brought it back to use tonight.  Well, I decided to leave the mower at Papa’s.  We finished unloaded the rest of the trailer, told my Papa bye and then I started to back out of the driveway.  CRASSSSSHHH!!  I forgot that I still had the trailer attached to my vehicle.  I had jack-knifed the trailer into the side of my 4Runner.  Fortuneately, it didn’t do TOO much damage, but there’s enough there that I’m going to have to call my insurance company.  I didn’t get a chance to take a picture, but I’ll be sure to tomorrow.  I’ve got to be more careful from now on!

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ShiftHappens…Food For Thought

April 22, 2008 at 1:56 pm (Life, Randomness, Teaching)
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A very interesting perspective on what the future holds…especially for future jobs and education.  I can’t get it to allow me to embed the video, but you can visit the link.

Shift Happens

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Where to draw the line…

April 19, 2008 at 12:43 am (Life, Randomness)

I have a friend who is getting married this year (well, at this point, I’m not sure she’s still a friend…you’ll understand in a minute).  She and I have been very close for the last 9 years.  Over the last year, she and I have drifted apart partly because we both started serious relationships and partly because of some changes.  Over the last year, I’ve seen her almost appear to compromise her beliefs and morals.   Things she was opposed to over the past 9 years, suddenly were ok.  And I’m not talking about little things such as favorite colors or dislikes in food.  I’m talking about wholsale value changes.  I began to drift away from her not exacty intentionally.  I no longer knew how to approach her or how to relate to her.  Well, recently, I shared with her my feelings about the situation.  Somehow, I’ve gone from being a best friend to being someone who is unsupportive and unwelcome at the wedding.  So my question is why is it that being honest with someone is considered being unsupportive?  Wouldn’t you rather someone tell you the truth now than withhold biterness and anger until it finally bursts?  Wouldn’t you rather someone tell you what issues they have with you rather than allow it to eat away at them and the friendship?  I guess I should have just kept my mouth closed and smiled and nodded.  But that’s not who I am and that’s not the way I work.  If your best friends can’t be honest with you, who can?  I really wish that she could understand how much her friendship means to me and how I really only want the best things for her!

In 1 Corinthians 5, Paul is talking about confronting your “brother about his sin.”  He said “You must not simply look the other way and hope it goes away on its own. Bring it out in the open and deal with it in the authority of Jesus our Master….Hold this man’s conduct up to public scrutiny. Let him defend it if he can! But if he can’t, then out with him! It will be totally devastating to him, of course, and embarrassing to you. But better devastation and embarrassment than damnation. You want him on his feet and forgiven before the Master on the Day of Judgment. “

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Good Ol’ Mama

April 8, 2008 at 12:19 pm (Death, Life, Randomness, Uncategorized)

Well, I have to apologize for the long delay in publishing.  If you notice, the last date I published as February 1.  It has been a rather busy few months.  The last 2 1/2 months have seen the illness and death of my grandmother, the near death experience of my grandfather (the day after my grandmother’s death), and his gradual recovery.  Like I said, it’s been busy around here.

I hate to admit, but I had almost forgotten about this site.  But thanks to my Mom, I’ve been reminded lately to post here.  I promise I’ll do a better job in the future.  School is winding down for the year and summer is on the horizon.  I’ll definitely have more time to post then. 

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Forgiveness

February 1, 2008 at 9:55 am (Randomness)

On Tuesday of this week, I had a very strange thing to happen.  I ran into an old friend from high school.  He was here at the school working on a copier.  We made small talk then I went about my way.  As I was making my way back to my room, he called after me. 

Flashback: He and I had been great friends in high school, spending a great deal of time together during our senior year.  When I went off to college, we did a few things together and tried to keep in touch.  During the spring of my Freshman year I found out he was engaged.  I didn’t even know he was dating anyone.  For a naive little college girl, it was heartbreaking. 

Now:  When he caught up to me, he said he needed to ask me a question and then asked me to forgive him for not inviting me to his wedding.  Strange.  It has been 10 years and he’s asking my to forgive him.  I’m not sure what was so strange about it…the fact that he asked for forgiveness or the fact that he still thought about me after being married for 10 years.  I’m still not sure what to make of it, but it was definitely strange.

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Just a little tired…

September 4, 2007 at 10:27 pm (Randomness)

I’m pretty tired tonight. I had an incredibly busy weekend. Jerrad and I spent a lot of time at the property bush-hogging. Yesterday as we were trying to take the tractor back, the trailer tire came off the rim. Fortuneately we had just pulled off the property and were able to get it all situated and out of the road. It could have been much worse…especially if we had been driving down the road. Finally today, we were able to replace the tire. We should be able to get the tractor back on Thursday.

Even through my tiredness, I was able to relax a bit. We had our Doris Laboone Circle Meeting tonight at Kim’s. It was nice to sit around with a bunch of ladies, eat, good food, hear an encouraging Word, and just fellowship. It’s so nice to know that God has brought such a wonderful opportunity to these ladies to be able to grow together in Him. It was really what I needed this week.

If you’re between the ages of 14-74, you’re invited to a Progressive Dinner on Friday, Oct 12. Meet at the church at 6:30pm (and Mom’s let the Dad’s take care of the kids that night). Call me or Kelley for more information.

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Hemorrhoids, Kudzu, and Multi-tasking

August 19, 2007 at 10:04 pm (Randomness)

Weekend recap. Much randomness. So…

This has been an interestingly stressful weekend. First, my grandmother was put in the hospital for some internal bleeding. Everyone was fearing the worst. But after a night’s hospital stay, it was only hemorrhoids. Seriously.

Jerrad and I spend about 2 hours traipsing through kudzu trying to figure out exactly where my property lines are. There’s not an interesting story to it. I just thought I’d mention it.

And tonight at church, there was no one else upstairs with me. Everybody had a conflict so I had to run the sound, the computer, and the camera all by myself. I was a little stressed out. There was so much going on, but I managed to make it all work.

I was really quiet at dinner tonight. I usually look forward to Sunday nights, but I didn’t have a whole lot to say tonight. I think I’m just a little apprehensive and even a little emotional about the upcoming school year. I’m not sure exactly what to expect.

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