I'm very sad that life's events caused me to miss a Thursday Thirteen post.
Please forgive me and I promise to get back on track next week!
We are having one of my favorite type of days here in NE TX. If it would only be raining too that would make it just perfect! It's windy and almost chilly! I'm soooo making chili for dinner tonight!
Ok, I don't know about the rest of the world but C and I listen to music as we fall asleep each night. (I also have to have a fan on but that's not what this paragraph is about.) Usually it is a cd that has Meryl Streep reading The Velveteen Rabbit story w/ George Winston piano music in the background. Recently, I purchased from wallyworld one of those cd's from that spot that has that machine where you can hear a sample of the music, they usually have seasonal type music and instrumental stuff. I have a few from there and I really like them. NEWAY: my most recent cd purchase from there was "Dreamsurf: ocean waves for relaxation" I love love love love it! It reminds me of many things, the first 21 yrs of my life on Long Island, our recent vacations to Rockport, MA where the B&B is right on the ocean and you sleep w/ your balcany door open to hear the ocean. It's so awesome and sooo relaxing, we are really digging this cd. If you listen to music to fall asleep to, I highly reccommend this cd. If you don't, I reccommend you start and get this cd! and no this is not a paid advertisement! ;-)
Ok, so the closing on the house in IL that has been up for sale for 20 months is today at 2pm! I'm sooooo excited to finally be rid of it! God's timing never ceases to amaze me!
Before we made the official move to TX, I had the house inspected by the city... at first it didn't pass and they gave me a list of things to do... I did what I could and then paid someone else to do the rest. The inspector came back and said we passed. I even have the paper to prove it.... somehow 14 months later it no longer passes the city inspection. We offered the buyer some dough (that we really didn't have) to get the stuff taken care of on her own. She accepted and we signed papers. The new inspector insisted that there was no way this house had passed inspection just last year blah blah blah and he had a whole list of stuff he didn't like. Well, new buyer took care of it, called an electrician and a plumber and a handyperson, sunk a chunk of money into the house already and everything is taken care of. Inspector comes out again and almost fails the house b/c an outlet cover wasn't on. Mind you the outlet cover and screws where right there on the floor in front of the outlet. Our realtor went and got a screwdriver and put it on! That inspector is a moron! We found the inspection report from last year last night in our office. C is faxing it to our realtor to show her (and the new buyer) that the house really did pass inspection before we left it. The date of the inspection August 29, 2005. What in the world has happened to my house in the 14 months since I've been gone???? According to our realtor there were no amendments made in the city code that affected our house. So tell me, how come one city inspector will pass a house and another city inspector (for the same city!) fails it!??!?!?! I just can't wait until tomorrow when I am the homeowner of 2 houses instead of 3!!!!
Friday, October 27, 2006
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Holy cow did I have fun!
So this weekend was, like, a total blur and I loved every bit of it!
I'm sooooo glad that I went to OK w/ our youth choir. I had such a good time getting to know them those wackos better.
As you know from previous posts of mine, I am from New York and not upstate country New York, I am a Jewish (turned Christian)girl from Long Island. I spent a few years in the middle part of America and the last 13 months here in the NE corner of Texas otherwise known as Dallas. Dallas is not a small town by any means, and you know what they say, "everything is bigger in Texas". I have discovered that while Dallas may not be a 'coastal' city (ie: New York, LA, Chicago (it's on the Great Lakes) or any other major city I just can't quite put my finger on right now) the Dallas-ites are quite, um, how can I say... big city, I guess. They are very used to creature comforts (and then some!)they are quite high-tech, and most have the latest and greatest of whatever the newest thing might be. This remark is in no way intended to make fun of or offend any local that may come upon this 'musing' today; it is solely intended to make totally clear what happened to us this past weekend.
So, 3 15 passenger vans and one pickup truck hauling a small Endtime Ministries trailer made their way to a VERY small town in Oklahoma on Friday evening. We arrived around 7pm or a little after. It was COMPLETLY dark out there in the sticks. I saw more stars (in the sky) this weekend then I've EVER seen in my life! It really was beautiful. But I say that to show you just how dark. it. really. was. As we piled out of our vehicles we were met with a rather interesting ragamuffin looking group. Their talk and dress left me and the rest of our group quite speechless. We were like deer in headlights. Dumbfounded. Was this for real? It was like every hee haw character was being introduced to us. They warned us to stay away from the farm animals, to watch for 'cow patties', and to use the outhouses should nature come calling. OH. MY. GOD! I don't even like to use public facilities, let alone a port a potty! It wasn't too long that the whole hillbilly thing was revealed as a joke on us city slickers, (thank goodness!) We had work to do, so the kids played volleyball and roasted hotdogs over an open fire on wire hangers (?!?) C and I set up the sound equipment which took just about 2 hours, we had 5 speakers, 18 mics, 12 mic stands, 1 small sound mixer board, 1 large sound mixer board, a 100' long snake box, and about a mile in various other cables. Seriously, I was just about ready to call for the choir to do a sound check when I was told the whole thing would have to come down and be covered up or put away because there was a threat of frost. oh and we needed to do it quickly so that the boys could get out to the field to put up their tents. I just about cried. So we broke it all down and covered it up or carried it in so that we could do it all again in the morning. :oh joy:
Saturday went well, the kids sang wonderfully, and we were even able to take down the stage early b/c they needed the trailer for the hayride. All in all, it was one good trip. The bathroom situation bothered me quite a bit, but I was able to hold 'it' far longer than I ever thought was possible. It's a good thing I've never been pregnant.... I hear its a killer on your bladder!
Here is a pic of the red-neck drum stool that they set up for us! I really wanted the picture with the goats behind us but you can't see the stool as well in that one!
I'm sooooo glad that I went to OK w/ our youth choir. I had such a good time getting to know them those wackos better.
As you know from previous posts of mine, I am from New York and not upstate country New York, I am a Jewish (turned Christian)girl from Long Island. I spent a few years in the middle part of America and the last 13 months here in the NE corner of Texas otherwise known as Dallas. Dallas is not a small town by any means, and you know what they say, "everything is bigger in Texas". I have discovered that while Dallas may not be a 'coastal' city (ie: New York, LA, Chicago (it's on the Great Lakes) or any other major city I just can't quite put my finger on right now) the Dallas-ites are quite, um, how can I say... big city, I guess. They are very used to creature comforts (and then some!)they are quite high-tech, and most have the latest and greatest of whatever the newest thing might be. This remark is in no way intended to make fun of or offend any local that may come upon this 'musing' today; it is solely intended to make totally clear what happened to us this past weekend.
So, 3 15 passenger vans and one pickup truck hauling a small Endtime Ministries trailer made their way to a VERY small town in Oklahoma on Friday evening. We arrived around 7pm or a little after. It was COMPLETLY dark out there in the sticks. I saw more stars (in the sky) this weekend then I've EVER seen in my life! It really was beautiful. But I say that to show you just how dark. it. really. was. As we piled out of our vehicles we were met with a rather interesting ragamuffin looking group. Their talk and dress left me and the rest of our group quite speechless. We were like deer in headlights. Dumbfounded. Was this for real? It was like every hee haw character was being introduced to us. They warned us to stay away from the farm animals, to watch for 'cow patties', and to use the outhouses should nature come calling. OH. MY. GOD! I don't even like to use public facilities, let alone a port a potty! It wasn't too long that the whole hillbilly thing was revealed as a joke on us city slickers, (thank goodness!) We had work to do, so the kids played volleyball and roasted hotdogs over an open fire on wire hangers (?!?) C and I set up the sound equipment which took just about 2 hours, we had 5 speakers, 18 mics, 12 mic stands, 1 small sound mixer board, 1 large sound mixer board, a 100' long snake box, and about a mile in various other cables. Seriously, I was just about ready to call for the choir to do a sound check when I was told the whole thing would have to come down and be covered up or put away because there was a threat of frost. oh and we needed to do it quickly so that the boys could get out to the field to put up their tents. I just about cried. So we broke it all down and covered it up or carried it in so that we could do it all again in the morning. :oh joy:
Saturday went well, the kids sang wonderfully, and we were even able to take down the stage early b/c they needed the trailer for the hayride. All in all, it was one good trip. The bathroom situation bothered me quite a bit, but I was able to hold 'it' far longer than I ever thought was possible. It's a good thing I've never been pregnant.... I hear its a killer on your bladder!
Here is a pic of the red-neck drum stool that they set up for us! I really wanted the picture with the goats behind us but you can't see the stool as well in that one!
Thursday, October 19, 2006
TOTALLY Random stuff from my head!
01. I'm dreading and excited about this weekend.
02. I have so many things I should be doing OTHER than blogging!
03. I hate to miss a TT post!
04. I enjoy (love, actually) working at the church.
05. I have an intense desire to go shopping and spend money we don't have.
06. I wish I was independantly wealthy.
07. Because I am not #6 I can't do #5!
08. I hate that I am a procrastinator!
09. I have ideas that I wish I would implement...
10. I have had ideas that I wish I hadn't implemented!
11. I wish I made my bed everyday. There is no reason why I don't or shouldn't.
12. Today was a beautiful day and I didn't get to take any pictures!
13. I actually love being busy.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
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