Life is Good!

It’s been awhile since my last entry.  Guess what that means?  I really long entry that probably won’t be read by many.  Oh well… I need to update!

So I’m going to work backwards in what is going on now to what has happened over the past view days.

Tonight I’m going over to Jeffra’s house to hang out with a bunch of gals from my church.  Fun shall ensue.  YAY!  We are making personal pizzas (each bringing a topping), and then watching a movie or playing some boardgames.  I’ve come to realize that my "partying" days are for the most part over.  I don’t drink hardly ever anymore, at least not to get wasted like back in the day.  I never smoke anymore (cigarettes or other).  And I’m fine with it now.  I used to think that it was because I didn’t have a life anymore.  LOL  And really for a long time I didn’t have a lot of friends that I could relate with.  Now though, I’m finding that I have more and more friends through church.  And I am honestly beginning to consider them friends and not just acquaintances.

Don’t get me wrong.  I’m sure that I will still have some wild and crazy times to come in my life (i.e. when Andrea is out here in a couple of weeks and I meet up with her and her sisters in San Francisco).  I’ve just made it to that stage in my life where it’s not all about partying.  My priorities have shifted to something much more important.  And I’m really happy about that.  Less drama is definitely a great thing in my book!

Last night was my Monday night bible study with a few of the younger girls from church.  We went to a park near Christy’s house and sat in a little clearing just the five of us.  We hadn’t together for a few weeks, so it was fun to get together with the girls again.  I hope that we are able to work out a schedule so that Ashley can come to the group too.

We sat and talked about things like if we ever really knew God as kids growing up.  My answer to that was pretty much not really.  I went through the motions of what was expected of me, but until just recently I can honestly say that I didn’t really know what it meant to be Christian and to know God.  I wish I would have known him when I was a lot younger like the girls that are part of this particular group.  But had I known then what I know now, a lot of things in my life may or may not have happened.  I may not have ever met Jacob.  So therein lies the common belief that things happen for a reason.  At this point, I can just be happy that I have turned to God now.

At the end of our group, we sat and prayed about our coming week and the things that we are searching for guidance in.  We were in the perfect spot (I kind of wish we could meet there more often) and at the end of our prayers, Sue looked up and her eyes got really big.  She pointed behind us, and we turned to see THREE young male deer standing at the edge of the clearing that we were sitting in.  It was probably one fo the most surreal moments in my life.  I will never forget that moment.  And in my heart I believe that it was one of my "that was God" moments.  Absolutely perfect!

Sunday I went to church and bible study.  I enjoyed church and bible study as always.  One of the things that I’m going to do my best to work on is to be more focused when it comes to reading my bible and my reflection time.  I found that last week I was way too easily distracted by outside influences.  I could have easily been spending some time reading from my bible, but instead I chose to read a book that could have waited (I’m finished with the book now though and looking forward to devoting more time to reading from Luke and Hebrews).

Since Jacob has been working so much over the past weeks, he decided to stay home on Sunday.  I wish he would have gone because there were four baptisms on Sunday afternoon, but I can understand needing a day to unwind.  He’s been working hard during the week at his regular job, and on Saturdays he has been working at the house of a fellow church goer helping with a landscaping project.  We are so thankful for that sidejob.  It’s pretty much what has allowed us to get through with our finances.  Which reminds me…

One of the things that I prayed for last night was for God to help the anybody who may be waiting for money from us to be patient while we continually work on getting our finances in order.  As I was leaving from Christy’s house, she stopped me and asked me if we needed a loan.  How sweet is that?  I told her that we were going to be okay and of course thanked her for her very kind offer.  I’m not one to ask for help from other people unless it’s absolutely necessary.  But it is so nice to know that we have people that are willing to help us if worse comes to worse.  She showed me the type of people that we are able to call friends now.  I’m so thankful that they were brought into our lives.

Now… back to Jacob.  So back when he was working at the old landscaping job, he was helping his boss get rid of some windows that had been custom ordered for the guy’s old house.  They had never been installed though and he was just going to get rid of them.  So instead of taking them to the dump, Jacob brought them to our place and stacked them in our living room.  For over a month we had 6 big ol’ windows leaning against our living room wall.  Well I finally got around to putting them up on craigslist this last week.  It was a good thing that I procrastinated as long as I did because we really needed the money at the time.  So I put them up on Craiglist.  They were worth probaby at least $350+ for each window, and I listed them for $100 a piece. 

Soon we started to get calls and emails.  After I listed the windows though, Jacob told me that one of them did have a torn screen and another had a pane of glass broken.  A guy came and looked at them on Saturday night, and he was interested in 3 of them for sure.  Me being the sales person that I am, was able to talk him into taking all 6 of them for $450!  I was pretty proud of myself.  We came up pretty good if I do say so myself.  Obviously we got the windows for free and made a nice profit in the end.  It’s funny how our finances always seem to work themselves out right at the last minute.  *sigh*  I’m hoping that we won’t be doing much more last minute stuff like that soon.  It really can get stressful ya know?

And one last little bit of news that I can think of for now… Jacob may have popped his eardrum.  He still hasn’t gone to the doctor, although I think he is going to be going this week.  It happend in boxing last Thursday.  Evidentally he was sweating and it had dripped down into his ear.  So with the moisture it created a suction.  The kid he was sparring with got in a punch to the side of his head, and the suction from the headgear/boxing glove caused a popping in his ear.  He said at first it really hurt and he heard a high pitched ringing in his ear.  Then his equilibrium was off and he couldn’t hear much.  Now it doesn’t h

urt at all anymore and he is regaining his hearing, so he thinks it is probably healing on its own.  People continue to tell him that he should go to the doctor though.  His coach told him something about some sort of insurance that they have for the boxers at the gym, so he is going to check into that today.  I pray that there is insurance to cover the cost of any doctor’s visit he goes to.  I pray that there’s nothing seriously wrong that won’t heal easily.

Oh yeah… I just remembered one other thing.  So while I was at bible study on Sunday night, Jacob went out and bought me a brand new purse.  My old purse had seen better days, and I just kept putting it off to get a new one.  So he went and bought one for me and put some other things inside of it.  He had it waiting for me in a gift bag when I got home along with a card and an old picture of us from when we had first met.  Awww…  Not sure what had brought about this sweet side of him, but I’m loving it while it lasts.  I guess I can say that we are getting along rather splendidly lately too though.  Yeah we have our days where we bicker, but nothing like how things had been previously.

Life is good!