Today was such a long day! It started way back at 5:30 this morning and is just now starting to wrap up at 9:45 pm. I left the house at 6:30 this morning and didn't get home till after 9!! Luckily, Devin made it home to feed the babies dinner and take them out. But that isn't really the exciting part of my day, although I'm sure it was for Brooks and Addy!
My excitement for the day, my visa for India is here!! Per Fedex tracking, my package with my passport including visa was delivered on campus and signed for yesterday morning at 8:55 am. When I didn't have it by lunch , I started asking about it. When I left last night and still didn't have it, I started worrying about it. When I still didn't have it by mid-morning today, I got busy looking for it.
First, I was told that it was sent back to Fedex and to call them to find out where I can pick it up. When I called Fedex, they didn't have it. After getting mad, panicking, and realizing neither of these solved anything, I called the campus mail room again and explained Fedex didn't have it. FINALLY, they found my package, and guess what, it was in the campus mail room all along! After walking all the way across campus, with a map and directions this time, I got my visa/passport! YAY!
This trip across campus was much better than the last. First off, I didn't walk in circles, always a plus. I also managed to make it there and back in less than 20 minutes as opposed to 45 minutes. On top of these two, I also saw more of the beautiful campus and realized the circle I walked in the last venture. Need less to say, 100% better experience!
Tonight's lesson with the kids was on being thankful and not complaining. Once again, I found myself needing to be reminded of this valuable lesson. I am truly blessed with an amazing husband, a fantastic family, great friends, both new and old, and a job I love and is allowing me to see the world! Thank you Lord for blessing me beyond imagination!!
Eli
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Day 32: If Wishes Were Fishes...
I wish we lived in a world where people thought before they spoke. I wish we lived in a world where others feelings meant more than your own. I wish we lived in a world where everyone knew the exact truth, not a mumble choice of stories that they catch along life's way. I wish that for each of these wishes there was a fish to feed a starving child! But unfortunately, we live in a fallen world and until Jesus comes back, these wishes will not be fishes!!
Well, as you can tell by my start, today was my favorite day. However, I am going to choose the higher ground and not dwell or go into details. I'm really trying to live up to my own wish and think of others more than myself.
On a much happier note, my sister just uploaded a bunch of pictures from our childhood on Facebook. I was such a dorky little kid. But she, as always, was adorable. It's so crazy though, all the pictures of her as a little kid look like my nephew, her son, with a wig on. Devin thought it was him instead of my sister!!
Other than that, my day hasn't been that exciting. Full day at work, very productive! My visa should be here tomorrow and then its only a matter of days before the flight it booked. I can't believe I will be in India is less than a month!
Well tomorrow is another 11 to 12 hour work day, so I think I'm headed to bed. Have a great night and thanks for letting me vent my wishes and fishes!!
Eli
Well, as you can tell by my start, today was my favorite day. However, I am going to choose the higher ground and not dwell or go into details. I'm really trying to live up to my own wish and think of others more than myself.
On a much happier note, my sister just uploaded a bunch of pictures from our childhood on Facebook. I was such a dorky little kid. But she, as always, was adorable. It's so crazy though, all the pictures of her as a little kid look like my nephew, her son, with a wig on. Devin thought it was him instead of my sister!!
Other than that, my day hasn't been that exciting. Full day at work, very productive! My visa should be here tomorrow and then its only a matter of days before the flight it booked. I can't believe I will be in India is less than a month!
Well tomorrow is another 11 to 12 hour work day, so I think I'm headed to bed. Have a great night and thanks for letting me vent my wishes and fishes!!
Eli
Monday, October 5, 2009
Day 31: Just Another Manic Monday...
I should warn you that tonight's blog isn't going to be terribly exciting. One doesn't have that much to write about when their day looks like this...
5:30 am - Get up, take puppies out, get ready for work
7:00 am - Clock in to work
1:30 pm - Clock out for lunch
2:00 pm - Clock back in from lunch
6:45 pm - Clock out, drive home, fix dinner
8:45 pm - Write blog
I fixed spaghetti and salad for dinner and I'm currently watching Tom, the Hammer, dance with a stress fracture in each foot. Next up is Kelly Osborne, that should be interesting... Although, I suppose its a miracle that she can focus enough to dance growing up with her father!!
This whole week is going to be about this exciting. We are leaving on Friday morning for a wedding in IL, so I'm working crazy hours at work to make up my time. Plus I got asked to work a little bit of overtime to help cover a now vacant position.
What can I say, busy, busy week! Maybe tomorrow will be more exciting!!
With Love,
Eli
5:30 am - Get up, take puppies out, get ready for work
7:00 am - Clock in to work
1:30 pm - Clock out for lunch
2:00 pm - Clock back in from lunch
6:45 pm - Clock out, drive home, fix dinner
8:45 pm - Write blog
I fixed spaghetti and salad for dinner and I'm currently watching Tom, the Hammer, dance with a stress fracture in each foot. Next up is Kelly Osborne, that should be interesting... Although, I suppose its a miracle that she can focus enough to dance growing up with her father!!
This whole week is going to be about this exciting. We are leaving on Friday morning for a wedding in IL, so I'm working crazy hours at work to make up my time. Plus I got asked to work a little bit of overtime to help cover a now vacant position.
What can I say, busy, busy week! Maybe tomorrow will be more exciting!!
With Love,
Eli
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Day 30: Beautiful Sunday!!
One month down, only eleven more to go!! I can't believe I have been in Kansas for a whole month! But more importantly I can't believe I have kept up with my blog for that long!! High five to me!! ;-)
Service was so much better this week, it was beautiful!! The kids were so well behaved and really listened. I did the question and review part and it was great to hear the kids tell me all that they learned! Thank you for all the prayers!!
After church, Devin and I went to do a little shopping. We finally broke down and got a digital antenna. Yay for no more broken signals! I got a pumpkin spice latte, which always makes my day a little brighter. And we got to restock the prize store for the kids at church. One never gets too old to enjoy shopping for toys!
The rest of the day was spent relaxing and enjoying the open windows and fall weather. My body is a little against all the vaccines that I got shot up with the other day and have left me a little of the tired side, but nothing major. Just enough to make me not want to go run around and do a lot. I did fix Chicken Marsala for dinner tonight, its one of Devin's favorites. And got to have wonderful phone conversations with two of my favorite people today! It really has been a beautiful day!!
This week I will be working crazy hours to make up for having Thursday afternoon and Friday off so I think I'm going to head to bed! Until tomorrow...
Eli
Service was so much better this week, it was beautiful!! The kids were so well behaved and really listened. I did the question and review part and it was great to hear the kids tell me all that they learned! Thank you for all the prayers!!
After church, Devin and I went to do a little shopping. We finally broke down and got a digital antenna. Yay for no more broken signals! I got a pumpkin spice latte, which always makes my day a little brighter. And we got to restock the prize store for the kids at church. One never gets too old to enjoy shopping for toys!
The rest of the day was spent relaxing and enjoying the open windows and fall weather. My body is a little against all the vaccines that I got shot up with the other day and have left me a little of the tired side, but nothing major. Just enough to make me not want to go run around and do a lot. I did fix Chicken Marsala for dinner tonight, its one of Devin's favorites. And got to have wonderful phone conversations with two of my favorite people today! It really has been a beautiful day!!
This week I will be working crazy hours to make up for having Thursday afternoon and Friday off so I think I'm going to head to bed! Until tomorrow...
Eli
Day 29: Parcheesi, The Royal Game of India!!
Yet another flea bath occurred today. We have discovered that I was quite off in my thinking of the last time our little ones received their Frontline. They are now over due, and with the weather turning cold, all the little critters are attacking our babies. We are terrible puppy parents, but attempted to redeem ourselves but spending the morning giving them another flea bath and then literally hand picking any ones we could find off. Tomorrow we are heading to the pet store to get something to take care of any that might be left and something to treat the house. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated at this time.
As for learning our lesson, I think its safe to say we have. I'm going to mark the calendar with when to give them their medicine. Otherwise, I'm afraid we might find ourselves in the same predicament again. And I really hate being a bad puppy mommy...
The afternoon was spent going to the grocery store (where I managed to buy a weeks worth of groceries for $50, I love this place!!) and then fixing salad and apple crisp to take over to some friends for dinner. One of the other pastor's and his wife had us over for ribs, chicken, and a board game. We had tons of choices, but since I'm leaving for India in a few weeks, I thought it was only fitting for us to play Parchessi.
Now I had never played this game before, but it said on the box that it is the royal game of India, so it just seemed like a must. For those that have never played, its a very similar to Sorry! with a larger board and a a few variations in the rules. We had a blast sending people back to the start point and seeing who was going to win. At the beginning it looked like Pastor Doug had it by a long shot, but the rest of us were able to hold him off for a while. In the end, he did end up winning, but we had a ball in the mean time and the last half of the game was much closer of a game than the first.
Now Devin and I are home giving the puppies some much needed attention and scratching, trying to make up for being bad puppies parents. Tomorrow's church so we need to get some rest! Hopefully the kids learned their lesson after last week and things will go a little bit smoother!!
Sweet Dreams to all!!
Eli
As for learning our lesson, I think its safe to say we have. I'm going to mark the calendar with when to give them their medicine. Otherwise, I'm afraid we might find ourselves in the same predicament again. And I really hate being a bad puppy mommy...
The afternoon was spent going to the grocery store (where I managed to buy a weeks worth of groceries for $50, I love this place!!) and then fixing salad and apple crisp to take over to some friends for dinner. One of the other pastor's and his wife had us over for ribs, chicken, and a board game. We had tons of choices, but since I'm leaving for India in a few weeks, I thought it was only fitting for us to play Parchessi.
Now I had never played this game before, but it said on the box that it is the royal game of India, so it just seemed like a must. For those that have never played, its a very similar to Sorry! with a larger board and a a few variations in the rules. We had a blast sending people back to the start point and seeing who was going to win. At the beginning it looked like Pastor Doug had it by a long shot, but the rest of us were able to hold him off for a while. In the end, he did end up winning, but we had a ball in the mean time and the last half of the game was much closer of a game than the first.
Now Devin and I are home giving the puppies some much needed attention and scratching, trying to make up for being bad puppies parents. Tomorrow's church so we need to get some rest! Hopefully the kids learned their lesson after last week and things will go a little bit smoother!!
Sweet Dreams to all!!
Eli
Friday, October 2, 2009
Day 28: Daddy Wow!! I'm a Big Girl Now!!
No doubt! Today is one of the greatest accomplishments of my life. Right up there with graduating college and marrying prince charming. I managed to sit still, not throw up, not pass out, and not even cry while I received FOUR shots, back to back, in a row, with in minutes of each other!!
Luckily, I was up-to-date on my Tetanus, thanks to when I got a little chunk of brick in my foot in college. And that MMR that Daddy had to hold me down to get, saved me another. Lastly the Typhoid Fever is now available in an oral vaccine, leaving me with Hepatitis A and B, Meningitis, Polio, and Flu. I opted out of Yellow Fever and Japanese Encephalitis. I also have a prescriptions for anti-Malaria pills and an antibiotic for Travelers Diarrhea.
Needless to say, as someone who HATES shots, sitting through four deserved some kind of treat. Seeing as it is now cold outside, the old ice cream bribe was out. Luckily I've grown up and found something that is almost as good as ice cream... Pumpkin Spice Lattes from Starbucks!! After my proud moment of personal triumphant I headed to Starbucks and my three pump, skim milk, no whip, no sprinkles latte made it all worth while... Well at least until it was gone and I realized how sore my arms are! LOL!
I shared my treat with the hubster and brought him home a hot chocolate. My price charming had cleaning the entire apartment, done all the laundry, including washing the sheets, AND fixed a tasty pasta dish for dinner! I think that deserved a little something special!!
After eating dinner, it was off to a ladies coffee night at the church. This wasn't just the young women's group I've talked about before, it was the entire women's ministry. It was a lot of fun to just sit around and chat. A huge shout out to Dana for the mixer! It was a GREAT way to get conversations started and gave us all an opportunity to get to know each other better.
Lastly, and the reason I'm writing my blog for today (well actually yesterday) at 1am, I "swung" by the youth pastor's wife, Des, house on my way home from the church. The men are on a men's retreat, so Des was having a couple friends over and she had invited me to come too. The intention was to hang out for a few minutes and then head home. Well, I was having way to much fun with Des, Amber, and Rachael to leave after a few minutes. My apologize to the three of you though, I'm sure your ears are about to fall off after listening to be do all that talking! But seriously had a blast and it was really nice to just hang out, even if it did keep me out way past my "curfew"! Hehehe!!
It is so nice to be making friends. I feel so blessed to have met so many amazing people in the month I've been here. I look forward to getting to know each of my new found friends better! I miss my old friends so much, but its like the old saying says...
Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold!
Thank you to all the silver and gold in my life!!
With Love,
Eli
Luckily, I was up-to-date on my Tetanus, thanks to when I got a little chunk of brick in my foot in college. And that MMR that Daddy had to hold me down to get, saved me another. Lastly the Typhoid Fever is now available in an oral vaccine, leaving me with Hepatitis A and B, Meningitis, Polio, and Flu. I opted out of Yellow Fever and Japanese Encephalitis. I also have a prescriptions for anti-Malaria pills and an antibiotic for Travelers Diarrhea.
Needless to say, as someone who HATES shots, sitting through four deserved some kind of treat. Seeing as it is now cold outside, the old ice cream bribe was out. Luckily I've grown up and found something that is almost as good as ice cream... Pumpkin Spice Lattes from Starbucks!! After my proud moment of personal triumphant I headed to Starbucks and my three pump, skim milk, no whip, no sprinkles latte made it all worth while... Well at least until it was gone and I realized how sore my arms are! LOL!
I shared my treat with the hubster and brought him home a hot chocolate. My price charming had cleaning the entire apartment, done all the laundry, including washing the sheets, AND fixed a tasty pasta dish for dinner! I think that deserved a little something special!!
After eating dinner, it was off to a ladies coffee night at the church. This wasn't just the young women's group I've talked about before, it was the entire women's ministry. It was a lot of fun to just sit around and chat. A huge shout out to Dana for the mixer! It was a GREAT way to get conversations started and gave us all an opportunity to get to know each other better.
Lastly, and the reason I'm writing my blog for today (well actually yesterday) at 1am, I "swung" by the youth pastor's wife, Des, house on my way home from the church. The men are on a men's retreat, so Des was having a couple friends over and she had invited me to come too. The intention was to hang out for a few minutes and then head home. Well, I was having way to much fun with Des, Amber, and Rachael to leave after a few minutes. My apologize to the three of you though, I'm sure your ears are about to fall off after listening to be do all that talking! But seriously had a blast and it was really nice to just hang out, even if it did keep me out way past my "curfew"! Hehehe!!
It is so nice to be making friends. I feel so blessed to have met so many amazing people in the month I've been here. I look forward to getting to know each of my new found friends better! I miss my old friends so much, but its like the old saying says...
Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold!
Thank you to all the silver and gold in my life!!
With Love,
Eli
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Day 27: Being Angry Doesn't Solve Anything!!
So I have a true story to share this evening...
While waiting for the elevator to leave work today, there was another lady getting ready to leave as well. She is probably a little younger than me, but not much. Anyway, she huffs and says how it always seems to take the elevator forever at the end of the day. Now mind you, it only took about a minute, but anyway. Once on the elevator, she makes a random comment about how tired she is. Realizing I'm going to end up listening to her complain the whole way to the parking garage, I say "yea, but its Thursday so Friday is almost here" or something along those lines. She says this is true but she has school tonight. This is where things start getting good...
In an attempt to derail the complain train, I ask what she is going to school for. Her response, keeping in mind she has no idea who I am or what my role is and we've had big wigs from corporate here for the past couple of days, is "I'm working on my associates in administration so I can get the hell out of here." (Pardon the language, but it is a direct quote.)
I had to bite my lip to keep from busting out laughing. I thought about telling her I have a degree in Chemistry and this is a fantastic job, but the company doesn't need people with her kind of attitude anyway. I did however slow down walking to the parking garage in an effort to allow her to mosey on past!!
So it's Thursday. Which for the past four years has meant one thing, Grey's Anatomy. I have been in love with this show since it premiered and have seen virtually ever episode. Last week I had the scavenger hunt on Thursday night so Devin and I watched the season premier Friday night on the computer (gotta love abc.com) but its just not the same as watching it on the the tv when it is actually on. I was really looking forward to partaking of some Grey's, but the wind is blowing so the antenna won't work, so NO GREY'S!! Folks its a truly sad day!!
Devin and I do not have cable, nor can I justify having cable when we aren't home that much to watch tv, and there are plenty of free channels out there for when we are. But our antenna gotten broken some how, and it isn't a digital antenna anyway, so literally if the wind is blowing or the clouds are out or if you don't hold your mouth just right, it DOES NOT work. And of course, since there was actually something we wanted to watch tonight, it couldn't possibly work. Devin has been trying to get me to let him get a digital antenna, and I kept insisting that this one works just fine, but I'm realizing, alas, I am wrong. I think I foresee the purchase of an antenna in our near future!!
Ok well I think I'm going to see if I can find an antenna online!! ;-)
Until tomorrow...
Eli
PS Count down to India ~28 days...
While waiting for the elevator to leave work today, there was another lady getting ready to leave as well. She is probably a little younger than me, but not much. Anyway, she huffs and says how it always seems to take the elevator forever at the end of the day. Now mind you, it only took about a minute, but anyway. Once on the elevator, she makes a random comment about how tired she is. Realizing I'm going to end up listening to her complain the whole way to the parking garage, I say "yea, but its Thursday so Friday is almost here" or something along those lines. She says this is true but she has school tonight. This is where things start getting good...
In an attempt to derail the complain train, I ask what she is going to school for. Her response, keeping in mind she has no idea who I am or what my role is and we've had big wigs from corporate here for the past couple of days, is "I'm working on my associates in administration so I can get the hell out of here." (Pardon the language, but it is a direct quote.)
I had to bite my lip to keep from busting out laughing. I thought about telling her I have a degree in Chemistry and this is a fantastic job, but the company doesn't need people with her kind of attitude anyway. I did however slow down walking to the parking garage in an effort to allow her to mosey on past!!
So it's Thursday. Which for the past four years has meant one thing, Grey's Anatomy. I have been in love with this show since it premiered and have seen virtually ever episode. Last week I had the scavenger hunt on Thursday night so Devin and I watched the season premier Friday night on the computer (gotta love abc.com) but its just not the same as watching it on the the tv when it is actually on. I was really looking forward to partaking of some Grey's, but the wind is blowing so the antenna won't work, so NO GREY'S!! Folks its a truly sad day!!
Devin and I do not have cable, nor can I justify having cable when we aren't home that much to watch tv, and there are plenty of free channels out there for when we are. But our antenna gotten broken some how, and it isn't a digital antenna anyway, so literally if the wind is blowing or the clouds are out or if you don't hold your mouth just right, it DOES NOT work. And of course, since there was actually something we wanted to watch tonight, it couldn't possibly work. Devin has been trying to get me to let him get a digital antenna, and I kept insisting that this one works just fine, but I'm realizing, alas, I am wrong. I think I foresee the purchase of an antenna in our near future!!
Ok well I think I'm going to see if I can find an antenna online!! ;-)
Until tomorrow...
Eli
PS Count down to India ~28 days...
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