OK, so after spouting off at the mouth the other day about looking younger than I am, I find out that not everyone thinks so!! LOL People either think I am way younger than my true age or way older. A friend and I went to a women’s conference a while back. Some boys from a college nearby tried to recruit me to go to their school. At the same conference, we had a couple girls come up to us and ask if I was my friends mother!! Her mother!! I am only a few years older than her. How can I be her mother?!?!
So, here I am, almost 35, and I am getting a few lines and wrinkles around my eyes. If I am diligent about moisturizer, they are usually not very noticeable. Why is it that I can’t get the best wrinkle cream on the market for less than like $50??? Who can afford that? And they only get more expensive from there. It just isn’t fair!! I guess I will have to keep my fine lines and wrinkles….
I am so tired right now, I can hardly think. I have been up at camp working for a couple hours and thought I would take a break!! We have a group from Alabama in right now and they are helping us plant flowers and get the camp ready for the camp season. They are also up here to help a Church in White Cloud. Not sure exactly what they are doing for them, though.
Anyway, it was funny, I was talking to some of the teens that came in with the group yesterday and I mentioned something about my 13 year old and none of them believed I am old enough to have a 13 year old child. I laughed and asked them how old they thought I was. They said they thought I was like 2o!! HA!! I told them will be 35 in August and I have been married almost 17 years (October 1993) and they just laughed. I said I was born in 1975, do the math!!
I was telling a friend of mine that I was going to have to get some major wrinkle treatment like prototype 37c the other day and she just laughed at me. I told her I have plenty of wrinkles to worry about. She said I was nuts and that I didn’t need any help with wrinkles. I DO have wrinkles people, I do!!!! Is it ever too early to start working on not getting anymore????
Someone asked me the other day if I could give them any fresh ideas on how to lose weight fast. They have a reunion to go to this summer and want to lose a few pounds quickly. I just laughed and said, “Look at me (persons name), do I look like I know how to lose weight fast?” LOL I am 5′ 1″, and I weight just about 200 pounds. I don’t think I am in any position to give any one weight loss tips!! Do you??? =)
One thing my neighbors don’t have in their gorgeous log home is a fireplace. I often wonder why they don’t have one. I am going to have to ask them about it. There is nothing like cuddling in front of a warm fire on a cold winter night. And they just give off such a cozy feeling in the home, too!!
I like the good old fashion fire places that you actually put wood in and burn the wood to make a fire. My sister-in-law and her husband have a gas fire place. I think it’s hooked right into their propane. Those are nice, but I don’t like it when it’s really obvious that they are gas. Some of them have really cool fake logs that look like the real thing!! I only recently heard that they make an electric fireplace . I don’t think those look real at all, but they are effective as a means to heat an area that may otherwise be cold!!
What do you think? Do you like wood, gas or electric fireplaces???
today i write for me….not because i have a deadline or a certain meme i want to link up with, but for me. this week i haven’t joined in on the weekly memes i usually do and i did that on purpose. i needed a break, i needed to be free from my “obligations”, if you will. and before i get comments and e-mails saying i don’t have to link up every week….i know that, really i do…but today i blog because i want to, because i need to, for myself…
i find that blogging gets my thoughts out of my head where they can be dangerous and gloomy and threatening and it puts them out somewhere where i can look at them in a different way and deal with them in a healthier way….it kind of separates them from me. it probably doesn’t make sense to some, but it works for me!! =)
believe it or not, and some of you will not, and that’s OK. but, believe it or not, i have a good heart (as good as a sinful, but saved by grace, human being can have anyway). i think all people should be treated equally, regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, wealth and anything else that can separate one group of people from another. that’s not to say i agree with everything a particular group does or doesn’t do, but they should be treated with respect and dignity. they should be prayed for and loved just like anyone else.
i try my very hardest to find the good in everyone, no matter how long or hard i have to look. and up until recently, i thought that everyone possessed at least some good in them. i felt that God makes people and God would never make something that didn’t have at least some redeeming value in it, right? i have recently realized that some people have taken the good God gave them and either destroyed it completely or buried it so deep that it can’t get out anymore. i have found that some people have let the devil take over their lives and given him the place that God should have had. they lie, steal, cheat, manipulate, cast blame, and just in general are not nice people. they are selfish and bitter and lash out to hurt others. and as a part of that, they don’t see this in themselves but seem to project it onto others and claim to see it in their lives. it is so very sad to me that they can’t even see that they are like this. the devil has tricked them into thinking they are right and anyone who isn’t like them is wrong or bad.
people who “suffer” in this way often blame it on something that happened to them in their childhood and/or a condition they have. someone molested them or beat them or hurt them in some other way. or they suffer from a mental disorder. that is a cop-out!! i can say that because i had a very tough childhood and i am also diagnosed with and documented to have bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder (among other things). my parents were separated and/or divorced either just before i was born or just after, i am not sure which but i know they were not together when i was taken from my mother at 18 months old for neglect because then i was placed in my father’s care for several years after that and was taken from him for physical and sexual abuse. from there i went to a “foster” home and the woman who took care of me there ended up adopting me. at 17 i left home after enduring years and years of physical and emotional abuse.
i am NOT in a any way shape or form saying i was a perfect child or teen(or that i am perfect now, for that matter, because i wasn’t, am not,and never will be while i am here on this earth)!!! i was naughty just like everyone else. and because of everything i went through as a child, i did have a lot of issues to deal with through counseling and therapy and such. and i did have to have therapy and medications and counseling and things like that for the “mental issues” i have. and yes, i got rude with my parents just like EVERY child does at one time or another. i didn’t do what i was told to do from time to time, just like EVERY other child does!! i lied to my parents occasionally, just like EVERY other child does (for the most part). i am ashamed to say it, but i did have a problem with stealing as a child and a teen but i have admitted it, repented and asked for forgiveness for it, which is all i can do now. BUT, considering where i came from and what i went through, it could have been a lot worse. i didn’t drink and party and and sleep around and do drugs, or any of those kinds of things. although, i did not have a good grasp on the difference between right and wrong, lies and truth, good and bad. i had been taught by example that lies were OK, that in a lot of cases bad was good and wrong was right. and i thought that the way i was brought up was normal. it was hard to keep everything straight.
then through some good relationships i slowly learned that lying is wrong and that i don’t have to lie to make and keep friends, in fact that is a good way to LOSE friends!! i learned that lesson the hard way in high school, unfortunately. but i learned it nonetheless. and i am so thankful i did, because now i have so many healthy relationships. i learned that there are people who will love me unconditionally, faults and all. that i don’t have to be perfect to be loved. i learned that everything good in my life comes from God and that He has allowed everything that has happened for a reason. i have learned that God doesn’t make mistakes and He is always in control, even though i may not always understand. i learned that with God’s help i can be different than those that hurt me, so i don’t have to repeat that cycle. i learned that i can forgive those who hurt me and not let that hurt and pain define who i am. i can CHOOSE to let my past hurt me and prevent me from doing God’s will for my life by being bitter and mad and depressed and feeling sorry for myself or i can allow God’s love and grace to wash all that away and I can live my life for Him. that is what i choose!! because being bitter and depressed and feeling sorry for myself only hurts me, it only makes my life miserable, and it gives satan reason to rejoice because i can’t effectively live my life for God if i live that way! and personally, i don’t want to give satan glory, i want to give God glory!!!
thanks for stopping by, sorry you didn’t find my “normal” posts this week about random things like weight loss and recipes, but fear not, i will likely be back in the swing of things next week!! thanks for “listening” to my ramblings. please vote on my new poll and let me know what you think…
I know several people who suffer from insomnia, as I do. It’s hard to really come up with a definite reason for it, too. Sometimes, I just can’t turn my thoughts off. Sometimes, I am really tired, but I can’t lay still. Other times, I am exhausted and can’t keep my eyes open until I climb in bed, then I seem to be wide awake. I don’t understand it. I have tried sleeping pills before, but had problems when I tried to stop taking them.
What is the best sleeping pill?? I recently found out you can get “all-natural” sleeping pills that don’t use harsh chemicals and stuff like that. I’m thinking that might be a better way to go?? But do they have the same “withdrawal” symptoms? I wouldn’t think they would, but everyone is different, I guess…Just something to think about.
so chuck and i are going away this weekend. we have a wedding to go to in ann arbor. we are going with another couple and all the kids are staying home. though i miss pumpkin_seed when she isn’t with me, i do love some one-on-one time alone with buster!! we will be leaving tomorrow around noon and getting home late saturday evening. can’t wait, it’s gonna be so much fun!! what are your plans for the weekend????
i know some of my friends are going to “the shack” for a marriage retreat this weekend. this will be the first one we have missed in ten years!! so sad we won’t be going, but hopefully the church we are attending now will start one up very soon!!
i do miss all my friends from FBC but i don’t think friends are a good a reason to stay at a church, especially when God is calling you elsewhere!! i am hoping all my friends understand that!! we aren’t mad at anyone or upset…we just feel like we can serve the Lord better somewhere else!
someone wise told me that my real friends will still be my friends and keep in touch and we’ll spend time together and the others will think about me and pray for me and say hi when they see me, but go on with their lives without me…..it pains me to think that any of my “friends” would only do that latter, but i have seen it already and it makes me very sad!! but God knows my heart and buster’s and he knows we just want to serve him to the best of our abilities and that is enough for me!
hope your weekend is great….will try to get my “foodie friday” to post for tomorrow, if it doesn’t work , i probably won’t be on here til sunday!! til then, i will miss you …
Medical Insurance and Life insurance are two of the most important things to people these days. And they are hard to come by. Insurance that’s affordable, anyway. I would encourage those without insurance (Life, in particular), to look into insurance quotes from your home and auto insurers. I didn’t realize until recently that some of them actually offer Life Insurance! Just something to think about!
i have been thinking about starting something new here @ blog-diggidy for some time now. I think it might be time!! how many of you would like to join me in a new meme?? carnival, whatever you wanna call it??? it’s kind of different from others i’ve seen. what i want to have everyone do is take a recipe for SOMEONE elses blog, try the recipe and then blog about it , leaving a link to the original blog. then link up with me so we can all share the goodness!! its a recipe meme, but with a twist. a good way to network, i think.
now if i can just get the mr. linky people to cooperate and acknowledge that i am a paid member so i can name my own meme, we can get started….i will keep you posted!! let your friends know about this new meme…i think i’m gonna name it “Foodie Friday”, maybe “Food&Friends Friday”….not quite sure yet,what do you think??? any other name ideas??
Growing up, one of the most exciting things I could think of was one of those Disney vacations. We never took one. We went to Cedar Point and Sea World in Ohio…Took a lot of camping trips, but never went to Disney. UNTIL I MOVED OUT!!
Yeah, My parents took my youngest sister to Disney after I moved out of the house. What a jip!! I keep trying to convince Buster that we need to go. He says maybe someday!! I don’t know, now that I’m older, I think it may be a little over rated, but I still wouldn’t mind going!!
My friends call me Jo...I am a thirty-something wife to Buster. He is the second-best thing that ever happened to me. The first was my salvation at 11 years old. I am a mother of three. Pumpkin_Seed is 13 (going on 25 lol). She is beautiful, opinionated, head-strong, smart and loves God. My son, Lil' Buster went to heaven when he was 10 (car accident in 2004). He was all boy but adorable, tender-hearted and loved God. And one sweet baby we never got to meet is waiting for us in heaven with Lil' Buster.
A few words to describe me: Christian. Bipolar. Passionate. Determined. Thankful. I am so thankful for my Father up above who leads and guides me through this sin-sick world. I am just trying to live a life pleasing to Him. My blog is a mix of the inner most workings of my Bipolar mind, recipes, random stuff and a few reviews thrown in.
