In G~d We Trust" ("borrowed" from http://www.jokedujour.com/)

Several years ago, a friend of mine and her husband
were invited to spend the weekend at the husband's
employer's home. My friend, Arlene, was nervous
about the weekend. The boss was very wealthy, with
a fine home on the waterway, and cars costing more
than her house. The first day and evening went well,
and Arlene was delighted to have this rare glimpse
into how the very wealthy live.

The husband's employer was quite generous as a host,
and took them to the finest restaurants. Arlene knew
she would never have the opportunity to indulge in this
kind of extravagance again, so was enjoying herself
immensely. As the three of them were about to enter
an exclusive restaurant that evening, the boss was
walking slightly ahead of Arlene and her husband. He
stopped suddenly, looking down on the pavement for
a long, silent moment. Arlene wondered if she was
supposed to pass him. There was nothing on the
ground except a single darkened penny that someone
had dropped, and a few cigarette butts. Still silent, the
man reached and picked up the penny. He held it up
and smiled, then put it in his pocket as if he had
found a great treasure. How absurd! What need
did this man have for a single penny? Why would
he even take the time to stop and pick it up?

Throughout dinner, the entire scene nagged at her.
Finally, she could stand it no longer. She causally
mentioned that her daughter once had a coin
collection, and asked if the penny he had found had
been of some valuable. A smile crept across the
man's face as he reached into his pocket for the
penny and held it out for her to see. She had seen
many pennies before! What was the point of this?

"Look at it." He said. "Read what it says."
She read the words "United States of America."
"No, not that; read further."
"One cent?"
"No, keep reading."
"In G~d we Trust?"
"Yes!"
"And?"

"And if I trust in G~d, the name of G~d is holy, even
on a coin. Whenever I find a coin I see that inscription.
It is written on every single United States coin, but we
never seem to notice it! G~d drops a message right
in front of me telling me to trust Him! Who am I to
pass it by? When I see a coin, I pray, I stop to see if
my trust IS in G~d at that moment. I pick the coin up
as a response to G~d; that I do trust in Him.. For a
short time, at least, I cherish it as if it were gold. I
think it is G~d's way of starting a conversation with
me; lucky for me, G~d is patient and pennies are
plentiful!"

When I was out shopping today, I found a penny on
the sidewalk. I stopped and picked it up, and realized
that I had been worrying and fretting in my mind about
things I cannot change. I read the words, "In G~d We
Trust," and had to laugh. Yes, G~d, I get the message.
It seems that I have been finding an inordinate number
of pennies in the last few months, but then, pennies
are plentiful...

And G~d is patient...

to quit my job, or to not quit my job.. that is the question..

I had a really lousy day on friday due to the boss man being out and there not being as much work to do so there was more interpersonal interaction going on, and this caused me to be more aware of a certian person's grating on my nerves.. I was down to two on friday.. the boss man is out all next week as well.. so hopefully I can build up another nerve or two for her to grate on by monday (yea right) so it wont get down to the last one..

*imagines water and duck backs*

I have a todo list today.. its not very long, but each item is time consuming. I can't seem to get started on them. I need to exercise, I need to tend to my own kitties, and the fosters, and go to the greek festivel, and do some grocery shopping. I really want to get to the fabric store as well, but Ive been wanting to do that for weeks, and I never think of it when Im actually in town. Since Im working saturday, I'll have thursday morning off.. maybe I can get off my duff and do it then.. but what I really want to do is go back to sleep.

*sigh*

I think I need a new lay out for the blog as well. Something not so heavy. I love the polar bears, but it just isn't working for me any more. Maybe I can find a different polar bear background that's more white.. *shrugs* maybe I'll just go with daisies or faeries or something silly.

sometimes the stupidest stuff gets to me. I was driving home from work with the top down.. (I have a seabring) and before I left the parking lot I made sure anything that could blow away was secure. Well I didn't do a very good job, because somewhere over the town line, my travel pillow flew out of the backseat and landed in the middle of the turnpike. I tried to tell myself I didn't care, cause I never use it... but it is/was made of a soft fabric and I liked it, so I decided to get back on the turnpike, drive back down to the other exit and back up to where I lost it. well I couldn't find it.

and now Im all bummed.

what's with me?

anyway.. work is slowly getting better. Im not listening to bev when she tells me to do something. She threw my empty bottle of soda away today... which got my goat.. cause a) its recyclable and b) I recycle them by reusing them myself.. so it was in no way trash... I just grrr'ed in side my head and grabbled the bottle out of the trash and put it in my locker. (the trash only had paper in it) I just really can't stand her. she surfs the net, and brings stuff in that she finds that she thinks is horribly funny.. well its all stuff Ive seen two years ago and about 100 times since then.. ... so to me she's the kind of person who forwards you those silly emails they get. they just annoy the living daylights out of you. Hopefully she'll get so annoyed with the boss sooner rather than later and quit.. I totally see that happening as she bitches about him all the freakin time.

I'll probably post a few more times about how she annoys me and then I'll be able to get past it all and ignore all the stupid annoying things she does..

Ive only been working a couple of months and I already need a vacation. *rolls eyes* but on the bright side Ive saved quite a bit of money for the new bedroom/bath we are planning on doing.at this rate we should be able to complete the whole thing by christmas.. paid for in cash :D

Ive started reading The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon. I haven't picked up a book in that series for a long while, but its like sitting down with an old friend.. its nice. I'll be sad when its over cause the next one isn't out yet. I have GOT to learn to not start a series of books till they have all been written. Im no good at this unfinished story thing... I waited five years for the next book by jean auel.. I'll probably end up waiting 10 for the next one - God willing.. *rolls eyes*.. its probably why I haven't started the harry potter books.. although it looks like I'll be reading those soon as well.

well I really need to get off my duff and exercise and take care of kitties, but Ive been so extremely tired lately I think I'll skip exercising (once again) and go to bed very early..

you know.. a while back I said to myself.. what is the friggen point of posting.. (those blue periods are a bitch) then I reminded myself I post not for any readers, but for myself, as a journal. I love to write, and I enjoy going over my history from time to time. So I was going to make it a point to write more (I do write more often in the kitten blog, but that's just kitten stories.. ) .. but I haven't. I don't know why. I think of things to comment on as Im driving into work.. but I never remember them long enough to actually blog about them.

I am finally getting into the swing of things in regards to the job. Im finally able to not have my legs scream in pain, and not NEED to go to sleep immediately after dinner. Im still tired a lot, and there just isn't any time to my day.. I have a nine hour work day (I do get an hour off for lunch but big woop. I have to be away from my house for those nine hours) and I have a 40-45 minute commute.. longer if those people from away who don't know how to drive are around. so that's a ten to eleven hours just for work. then you count in my eight hours (if Im lucky) of sleep, and the time i have to spend taking care of the foster kittens.. the eating, the 40 minutes of exercise (again if Im lucky) the getting dressed, the shower, the checking of email.. there just wasn't enough time in my life.. which was another reason why I was going to quite my job. There were a ton of reasons, but yet I haven't. I hate to fail. I don't do it well when I do do it. I know failing is a part of life, and I accept that, but I try to avoid all out failure if I can, and admitting that this job wasn't for me when it seemed so perfect and so destined is failure in my book. I still can't stand that one employee. She's driving me batty. but whatever... maybe I'll be lucky and she'll get pissed off enough at the boss and leave. He drives her insane cause he is quite anal and wants to know about EVERYTHING that is going on. Which is understandable as its his business.. but it can be frustrating when you have to run every little thing by him and he isnt always avalible for whatever reason.

*sigh*

I should go to bed. For some reason Im avoiding it tonight. Might have something to do with the fact that I took a nap this afternoon (half day at work) and when I woke up I felt horrible.. like everything on me weighed 100 lbs.. I felt all bloated and not nice at all. Im considering doing something to keep my feet elevated at night..

btw.. I haven't mentioned that according to my doctor, I've lost 40lbs. I have no idea how that happened, cause according to my scale I've only lost 20.. but then again according to my scale I weigh 10 lbs less than their scale.

Emerald.. go away. stop stepping on me with your little kitty feet, and most definately do NOT lick me.. no you silly kitty.. i said NOT to lick me.. .. ugh..

lets see.. what else has been going on.

we finally got some warm weather here. Winter just wouldn't seem to go away this year.. it was cold and damp for most of the spring. of course now that summer is here, its here with a vengance.. humidity to spare.

The pool has finally cleared up. He opened it up weeks ago, but didn't get it running till last week or so, then it was so cloudy, you didn't want to get in it. today it looked kinda nice, but I wasn't in the mood to go swimming, maybe tomorrow.. if I can find my suit.. or maybe I'll just go skinny dipping tomorrow night :)

really need to clean up the house again. the pool table is underneith so much crap you can barely see it.. I SOOO need to get rid of our old stove and fridge though.. its been in the paper for a week now and no one has bothered to even call on it. that would be one giant step to cleaning out this house.. Hopefully I can get a good nights sleep and be well rested to clean tomorrow.. yea.. right.. and monkeys might fly out of my butt.. I'll probably just lay in bed and watch a movie, and be lazy cause I can, and because the kitties miss doing that with me :)

btw.. the mole removal thing.. couldn't have gone better.. I should have asked her about it years ago. I still have yet to shave under there.. Man I LOVE having so little body hair.. lol.. but Im sure that will go wonderfully..