I was struck again by this scripture today (was a couple weeks ago too) Luke:1-11 http://www.usccb.org/nab/020407.shtml. Once again, St Peter is such a great example for me... he's exhausted from fishing all night, Jesus asks him to use the boat so he can preach to the crowds from it, and although i'm sure its the last thing Peter wanted to do, he does it because Jesus asks. and then, to top it off, after he's done speaking (which was probably fairly long) Jesus tells them to put their nets out for a catch. Peter responds that they'd been fishing all night and caught nothing (are you crazy?) but if you say so, we'll do it. He may not have expected much, but he was obedient... and sure enough, Jesus provides the miracle and fills the nets to breaking.
Lord, give us the grace to be obedient, even when we are exhausted and don't understand. May our ears be attuned to the sound of your voice and may our eyes be opened to see your work among us.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Friday, February 23, 2007
again, wow... even if it is just a dumb quiz, i wish it were true...
| You Have A Type A- Personality |
You are one of the most balanced people around Motivated and focused, you are good at getting what you want You rule at success, but success doesn't rule you. When it's playtime, you really know how to kick back Whether it's hanging out with friends or doing something you love! You live life to the fullest - encorporating the best of both worlds |
who'da thunk?
| People Envy Your Compassion |
 You have a kind heart and an unusual empathy for all living creatures. You tend to absorb others' happiness and pain. People envy your compassion, and more importantly, the connections it helps you build. And compassionate as you are, you feel for them. |
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Bitterly Cold
Hello imaginary readers :) Its another frigid day here in michigan... -4 degrees as i drove to work after morning Mass. sigh. I am tired of cold feet (no i'm not nervous about anything, my feet are actually cold), although i can't complain too much other than that since i work indoors and haven't had to shovel absurd amounts of snow. It is good to see the sun shining through the window at least, although there is still quite a chill in the air here, despite my scented candle flickering away making it seem cozier than it really is. :)
I actually thought of something to post about... but now i can't remember. sigh. so you're in for some random ramblings instead.
Yes my friends, it is already February! Where does life go?? I'm looking forward to spring, which will hopefully come faster than i think. I miss being outside, the yard work, gardening, bbq, biking with the Magster, lots of ball with both BOC, and just being outside without freezing my tush off!!
My weekend was insane... one of those weekends that left me more tired than when it started... sigh... Friday night, started some laundry, went to see the Holiday at the dollar theatre with roommate and friends, entertaining, but i don't know if i can actually recommend it. Saturday: baked like a fiend... baking is good stress relief for me, and i prefer the act of baking over eating the actual baked goods! anyway, i knew we were having a girls night that evening and they'd need some breakfast options for Sunday, so I baked peach bread, banana bread, pizza dough and sweet bread dough (in Donals breadmaker). I also did random Saturday stuff like some cleaning, washing the dog blankets and rugs (I know i'm a fanatic), and even did some uncharacteristic lounging around for a bit (knowing the rest of the weekend would be anything but restful). Made homemade pizza for dinner and then began on the cornbread... you see, the Life Teen superbowl party was suppsed to be a chili cook off and no one else had volunteered to make cornbread... so i said i could do it (why do i sign up for stuff like that?) So I spent a couple hours making cornbread for 100+. In the midst of this, girls started arriving for girls night. It was a lot of girls who hadn't been to GN, and a few of the regulars... overall, it was insane and a lot of fun. Probably 16 girls for the evening and 11 spent the night, quite a houseful! I didn't sleep until after 2 am... ugh... then up for breakfast, seeing the 8.45 Mass carload off (with Kara), and trying to get everyone up and moving in time to get to the 11.15 Mass with another carload of them. Sometimes i feel to old for all of it, probably due to lack of sleep, but at the same time, I am incredibly grateful to the people in my life who have opened their homes and hearts to me through the years and am grateful that i have both a home and heart to share wiht my girls during this often tumultuous time in their lives.
After Mass, I got to go home for an hour, long enough to make yet another oven full of cornbread, and clean up some stuff... then loaded the car down to take to CTK for set up for the party, Mass, superbowl party, etc. Long long day at CTK. and a bit more exciting than planned when the church had frozen pipes in the fire suppression system and part of the ceiling filled with water, collapsed, flooded part of the church... yeah, exciting stuff. I'm just glad people were in the church when it happened so they could get the water cleaned up before it ruined pews and lots of other stuff if it hadnt been found until the next morning. I finally arrived home from all of it after 11 pm, fed the hungry BOC, called to make sure D was safe driving, so i talked to his GF for a bit, and then crashed. and thus ended the weekend, which i am still recovering from :D
In other news, puppy class was canceled Monday for inclement weather so Suz and i had the night off, which was beautiful, and gives us a chance to practice some more techniques before next week.
Last but not least, i was struck by the Gospel on Sunday Luke 5:1-11 http://www.usccb.org/nab/020407.shtml. Once again, St Peter is such a great example for me... he's exhausted from fishing all night, Jesus asks him to use the boat so he can preach to the crowds from it, and although i'm sure its the last thing Peter wanted to do, he does it because Jesus asks. and then, to top it off, after he's done speaking (which was probably fairly long) Jesus tells them to put their nets out for a catch. Peter responds that they'd been fishing all night and caught nothing (are you crazy?) but if you say so, we'll do it. He may not have expected much, but he was obedient... and sure enough, Jesus provides the miracle and fills the nets to breaking. Lord, give us the grace to be obedient, even when we are exhausted and don't understand. May our ears be attuned to the sound of your voice and may our eyes be opened to see your work among us.
I actually thought of something to post about... but now i can't remember. sigh. so you're in for some random ramblings instead.
Yes my friends, it is already February! Where does life go?? I'm looking forward to spring, which will hopefully come faster than i think. I miss being outside, the yard work, gardening, bbq, biking with the Magster, lots of ball with both BOC, and just being outside without freezing my tush off!!
My weekend was insane... one of those weekends that left me more tired than when it started... sigh... Friday night, started some laundry, went to see the Holiday at the dollar theatre with roommate and friends, entertaining, but i don't know if i can actually recommend it. Saturday: baked like a fiend... baking is good stress relief for me, and i prefer the act of baking over eating the actual baked goods! anyway, i knew we were having a girls night that evening and they'd need some breakfast options for Sunday, so I baked peach bread, banana bread, pizza dough and sweet bread dough (in Donals breadmaker). I also did random Saturday stuff like some cleaning, washing the dog blankets and rugs (I know i'm a fanatic), and even did some uncharacteristic lounging around for a bit (knowing the rest of the weekend would be anything but restful). Made homemade pizza for dinner and then began on the cornbread... you see, the Life Teen superbowl party was suppsed to be a chili cook off and no one else had volunteered to make cornbread... so i said i could do it (why do i sign up for stuff like that?) So I spent a couple hours making cornbread for 100+. In the midst of this, girls started arriving for girls night. It was a lot of girls who hadn't been to GN, and a few of the regulars... overall, it was insane and a lot of fun. Probably 16 girls for the evening and 11 spent the night, quite a houseful! I didn't sleep until after 2 am... ugh... then up for breakfast, seeing the 8.45 Mass carload off (with Kara), and trying to get everyone up and moving in time to get to the 11.15 Mass with another carload of them. Sometimes i feel to old for all of it, probably due to lack of sleep, but at the same time, I am incredibly grateful to the people in my life who have opened their homes and hearts to me through the years and am grateful that i have both a home and heart to share wiht my girls during this often tumultuous time in their lives.
After Mass, I got to go home for an hour, long enough to make yet another oven full of cornbread, and clean up some stuff... then loaded the car down to take to CTK for set up for the party, Mass, superbowl party, etc. Long long day at CTK. and a bit more exciting than planned when the church had frozen pipes in the fire suppression system and part of the ceiling filled with water, collapsed, flooded part of the church... yeah, exciting stuff. I'm just glad people were in the church when it happened so they could get the water cleaned up before it ruined pews and lots of other stuff if it hadnt been found until the next morning. I finally arrived home from all of it after 11 pm, fed the hungry BOC, called to make sure D was safe driving, so i talked to his GF for a bit, and then crashed. and thus ended the weekend, which i am still recovering from :D
In other news, puppy class was canceled Monday for inclement weather so Suz and i had the night off, which was beautiful, and gives us a chance to practice some more techniques before next week.
Last but not least, i was struck by the Gospel on Sunday Luke 5:1-11 http://www.usccb.org/nab/020407.shtml. Once again, St Peter is such a great example for me... he's exhausted from fishing all night, Jesus asks him to use the boat so he can preach to the crowds from it, and although i'm sure its the last thing Peter wanted to do, he does it because Jesus asks. and then, to top it off, after he's done speaking (which was probably fairly long) Jesus tells them to put their nets out for a catch. Peter responds that they'd been fishing all night and caught nothing (are you crazy?) but if you say so, we'll do it. He may not have expected much, but he was obedient... and sure enough, Jesus provides the miracle and fills the nets to breaking. Lord, give us the grace to be obedient, even when we are exhausted and don't understand. May our ears be attuned to the sound of your voice and may our eyes be opened to see your work among us.
Thursday, February 01, 2007
more boring
so, life certainly is an adventure, and some of my more amusing stories have been gleaned from our latest round of obedience class... and by obedience class and the use of the word "our" I mean Suzie's class... Lets see, a bit of history (altho no one will even read this). About 9 moonths ago, Zu (Suzie) and I did beginner obedience class at this place for 5 weeks. i had a blast and learned a lot, as did the muttface. The teacher said at the time Zu probably needed one more round of class1 before going on to class2. Well, life happened, summer happened, and all the sudden, 9 months later, i decide to take another round of classes.
To make this more entertaining, Nick & Jen enrolled their horny puggle Chance (who really loves Suzie) who also needed some obedience training. Anyway, so 2 weeks go we go to class, and work on the basics, most of which Suzie is very good at and was way ahead of the rest of the dogs in the class. Somewhere in the middle of class, the teacher (a very large, missing several teeth and wears stretch pants lady, who does know dog stuff certainly) trades dogs with Nick cuz Chance was misbehaving and she wanted to use him to illustrate a point. So they trade and the whole class watches as she demonstrates how to teach a stubborn dog to come. she does that several times, then looks up to explain something further to the class... as soon as she looked away, Chance starts smelling her shoe, lifts his leg, and ... yeah, right on her foot! I thought I was going to die i was laughing so hard!!! The whole class gave a nervous, amused laugh and then stopped... me, not so much. i couldn't stop. the rest of the class doesn't know Nick & I are friends cuz we avoid each other in class since Zu is usually too much of a distraction for his pooch. so the whole class must think i am a heartless mean person who will laugh when anyone's dog misbehaves, esp. since Zu is ahead of the rest of the class... oops. so that was last week.
At the end of last class, the teacher told me to bring Suzie for the second half of beginner class and the first half of the advanced class, sort of a promotion :) yay Suzie. So this past monday was our first go at advanced class. Since it was snowing, the other two dogs who are doing 1/2 of each class didn't come... so advanced class consisted of Holly, a 95 lb doberman who wears a coat and sweaters. Foofy dog (not sure of the name) whose head comes to my chest, but its really skinny and has foofy hair (some kind of fancy show dog, whose owner actually shows the dog), and another doberman around 100 lbs, but a bit younger than the other one. and last but not least, little 32 lb Suzie. It was very amusing to say the least. All 3 of the other dogs have been thru this class multiple times and the dogs are very well trained, its quite impressive. Zu and i tried to keep up, since we didn't even know all the commands being used. Zu behaved beautifully, even did a 7-minute down stay while i walked across the room. it was awesome. At one point the teacher tells the 4 of us to line the dogs up along one wall, down stay, and then walk across the room from them. We did it, and i look at the line up: huge doberman, tiny Suzie, huge doberman, and lanky foofy dog... quite a sight. A few minutes later we were praciticing the same exercise in different corners of the room, I had just told Suzie to Down, and turned to walk away to see the big doberman running toward us from his corner. At that moment, i realized later, my life probably should have flashed before my eyes, but i'd seen how well behaved he was so it didn't really scare me. Suzie on the other hand, strong protector that she is, quickly got up and hid behind me. yeah, somehow i think if i want protection, Suzie isn't gonna cut it. The owner quickly retrieved her huge doberman, saying he couldn't resist a little cutie like Suzie and we all moved on. So yeah, thats my story. Dog class continues to be both a learning experience and cheap entertainment :D
To make this more entertaining, Nick & Jen enrolled their horny puggle Chance (who really loves Suzie) who also needed some obedience training. Anyway, so 2 weeks go we go to class, and work on the basics, most of which Suzie is very good at and was way ahead of the rest of the dogs in the class. Somewhere in the middle of class, the teacher (a very large, missing several teeth and wears stretch pants lady, who does know dog stuff certainly) trades dogs with Nick cuz Chance was misbehaving and she wanted to use him to illustrate a point. So they trade and the whole class watches as she demonstrates how to teach a stubborn dog to come. she does that several times, then looks up to explain something further to the class... as soon as she looked away, Chance starts smelling her shoe, lifts his leg, and ... yeah, right on her foot! I thought I was going to die i was laughing so hard!!! The whole class gave a nervous, amused laugh and then stopped... me, not so much. i couldn't stop. the rest of the class doesn't know Nick & I are friends cuz we avoid each other in class since Zu is usually too much of a distraction for his pooch. so the whole class must think i am a heartless mean person who will laugh when anyone's dog misbehaves, esp. since Zu is ahead of the rest of the class... oops. so that was last week.
At the end of last class, the teacher told me to bring Suzie for the second half of beginner class and the first half of the advanced class, sort of a promotion :) yay Suzie. So this past monday was our first go at advanced class. Since it was snowing, the other two dogs who are doing 1/2 of each class didn't come... so advanced class consisted of Holly, a 95 lb doberman who wears a coat and sweaters. Foofy dog (not sure of the name) whose head comes to my chest, but its really skinny and has foofy hair (some kind of fancy show dog, whose owner actually shows the dog), and another doberman around 100 lbs, but a bit younger than the other one. and last but not least, little 32 lb Suzie. It was very amusing to say the least. All 3 of the other dogs have been thru this class multiple times and the dogs are very well trained, its quite impressive. Zu and i tried to keep up, since we didn't even know all the commands being used. Zu behaved beautifully, even did a 7-minute down stay while i walked across the room. it was awesome. At one point the teacher tells the 4 of us to line the dogs up along one wall, down stay, and then walk across the room from them. We did it, and i look at the line up: huge doberman, tiny Suzie, huge doberman, and lanky foofy dog... quite a sight. A few minutes later we were praciticing the same exercise in different corners of the room, I had just told Suzie to Down, and turned to walk away to see the big doberman running toward us from his corner. At that moment, i realized later, my life probably should have flashed before my eyes, but i'd seen how well behaved he was so it didn't really scare me. Suzie on the other hand, strong protector that she is, quickly got up and hid behind me. yeah, somehow i think if i want protection, Suzie isn't gonna cut it. The owner quickly retrieved her huge doberman, saying he couldn't resist a little cutie like Suzie and we all moved on. So yeah, thats my story. Dog class continues to be both a learning experience and cheap entertainment :D
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