Miscellaneous

God is pouring blessings upon me right now.

It's like a sweet summer rain, after a hike in the desert sun.



"But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness." - Psalm 86:15

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When I'm home alone, I do weird things like get up and wash dishes at 0230.

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Jonathan is going to Iraq. We weren't sure where he was being deployed to until today. Now we know.

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I can make an AWESOME Orange Julius with OJ concentrate.

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weekly_photo_challenge: Fortunes from Fortune Cookies!

"A friend will soon bring you a present."
"Ask yourself why."
"You shall attain great wisdom from the passing years."
"You shall benefit immediately if you co-operate for now."
"Your present plans are going to succeed."
"Your fantasy will come true."
"Climb a tree."
"You are always welcome in any gathering."
"A certain someone will appear who could enhance your life."
"You are mentally alert; put your mind to good use."
The one on the bottle reads:
"You will soon be crossing great waters."

Jonathan updated his xanga

And I suggest you all go read it.

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Aside from that, we are facing a problem here... and we really need to get it sorted out. Like NOW. I'm trying really hard to be patient and wait for God's timing; it's just frustrating. Someone must have prayed for me to learn patience, because that is certainly what I'm being taught. Yuck.

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Your favorite blog (that's me!) is now CROSSPOSTED to:
Xianz - babygirlbanister
MySpace - babygirl_banister
LiveJournal - soldierbabygirl (why couldn't it let me have ONE more character, so it could match the others?)
Freewebs - babygirlbanister (click the S on the sidebar)
Blogspot - babygirlbanister
Xanga remains my #1 blog, and this is where all the action will happen. Every night (or so) I'll copy and paste to my other blogs. So don't worry about missing anything. Yep I'm addicted!

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Drill weekends suck. This time, it's a MUTA 6 (3 whole days) and they're going to Fort Hood, not Camp Maxey. He had to report to the unit at 11 am, and won't be home until Saturday evening. BLECH. Oh well, I guess this is a good time to clean out my compy, wash the floors, clean the closet, and do all those other chores that I've been putting off. And be assured that I'll get in a lot of reading. And Nintendo.

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My version of Drill Weekend:

1. Clean up compy (delete old files, etc)
2. Burn the "car mix" cds that Jonathan wants
3. Mop the floors
4. Clean the bathroom (a dreaded job)
5. Clean and organize the closet
6. Keep kitchen clean (it messes itself up when I'm not looking, I swear!)
7. Wash sheets / Make bed
8. Clean bedroom
   
9. Go through the stacks of papers on the desk / Clean desk
   
10. Change the air filter
11. Clean out the car
12. Wash the car
13. Clean refrigerator
14. Begin cross-posting on blogs
15. Update Freewebs site
    
16. Catch up on reading
17. Re-organize bookshelves
18. Unpack those last two boxes of junk
19. Anything else...?

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God may or may not have just solved the problem I referred to. I'm so confused.........

Crosspost: July 12, 2006

SWIMMIN'!!

I love swimming.
I love youth group.
I love my husband.

Jamie's baby advice

Cloth diapers will save you millions of dollars.
Oatmeal is cheaper than baby cereal (just make sure the baby is ok to eat that thickness).
Invest in a really good food processor and some fresh veggies & fruits.
It is ok to use hand-me-down or garage sale baby stuff. Its going to get thrown up on anyway. Just bleach it first.
You do not need a diaper wipe warmer.

Crosspost: July 11, 2006

24 Hours

{Note: This is not a typical day. I usually do much more reading than TV-watching. I also usually make a more complicated dinner, and often some kind of dessert. Also, nearly every instance of TV-watching today was accompanied by random spurts of "picking up living room" or something similar.}

Midnight: Watching the end of CSI, eating brown sugar cookies with Cool Whip, plotting some fun in a few minutes
1 am: Reading
2 am: Falling asleep
3 am: Sleeping
4 am: Sleeping
5 am: Sleeping
6 am: Sleeping
7 am: Sleeping
8 am: Sleeping
9 am: Sleeping
9:20 am: Wake up, blearily watch Jonathan turn it off, go back to sleep
10:20 am: Wake up again, watch Jonathan get up with the second alarm, go back to sleep
10:45 am: Goodbye kiss, back to sleep
11 am: sleeping
noon: sleeping
1 pm: sleeping
1:50 pm: Wake up, get up, go potty, get on the computer
2:10 pm: Hello kiss, eat leftover fried chicken, go read in bead
3 pm: Cuddling in bed, tickling Jonathan
4 pm: Laying in bed like a lazy bum, laugh at silly hubby, remember that Home Improvement is on
4:05 pm: Watch Home Improvement while playing on the computer
4:30 pm: Watch another episode of HI, flipping back to King of the Hill on FX every so often
4:45 pm: Goodbye kiss again
5 pm: Watch another King of the Hill.
5:30 pm: Watch Room Raiders (I love this show!)
6 pm: King of the Hill on WB / CSI on Spike / washing dishes
7 pm: more CSI (I've seen this episode before)
8 pm: Full House -- You know you're old when the shows you grew up watching are on Nick at Nite...
8:30 pm: There is nothing on TV!
8:45 pm: Finish washing dishes (I got distracted chatting on AIM earlier.) Get in the shower.
9:03 pm: Get out of the shower (yes I really do take that long of showers). Put on sexy nightie to welcome hubby home soon. Email Heidi. Watch The Fresh Prince of Belair.
9:08 pm: Put fish in the oven. Start cooking noodles.
9:30 pm: Remove fish. Welcome hubby home. Watch Futurama on Adult Swim!
10 pm: Watch the beginning of the Matrix on TBS
11 pm: CSI on Spike (the same episode as before - this is a good one!)

{to be continued}

Crosspost: July 10, 2006

To do

1. Get up
2. Deposit check
3. Get gas
4. Pay car payment
5. Get groceries
6. Clean kitchen
7. Clean bedroom (SOCKS on the floor again!)
8. Make dinner (aka mess up kitchen again)

Want to Do
1. Kill insurance company jerks
2. Kill them again
3. Kill Sgt Webster
4. Stomp her dead face into the ground
5. Finish reading The Lovely Bones (again)

(By the way, I'm not really that upset. Just got my lil frustration out, and now I'm good. Woot.)

I get the STRANGEST hits from search engines. Would you believe "cut on the underside of tongue"??? (It went to the blog about my screwed-up dentals.) Who searches for that?!