Just thinking

Please…

When walking by the bumper sticker rack at the Christian book store…

JUST Say NO!

I’m sure these were very nice people that parked next to me at Wally World this morning…

But, there is an epidemic on our hands concerning the abuse of bumper stickers. 

Come on people, these aren’t even on the bumper.

This is serious.

If you are addicted to religious stickers and cannot go cold turkey…

Please… try to use moderation.

(I do give these people credit…they support our troops and that rocks and they have nice friendly bumpers stickers…The worst is angry Christian bumper stickers on a car…ugh…stop the insanity!)

This can be filed under things that made my week…

Yesterday John got a text message from God.  I’d like to say we did realize the text’s were not actually coming from God (just in case you were concerned) but we couldn’t recognize the number and God wasn’t fessing up to his true identity.  We had it narrowed down to a few dozen people that may have been guilty…(I can’t remember it word for word, but it went something like this)

God- John.  This is God.  You need to move back to Canton and take the Youth Pastor Position that just came open at New Life Ministries.

John- Who is this???

God- God.  Where are you?

John- Can’t you see me?  Just one question God.  Why mosquitoes?

God- idk, but there are less mosquitoes in Ohio.  Move there.

 thanks God

As a card carrying member of the pasty white girl club there have been some important things I have learned about skincare.

How to use self tanner has not been one of them.

It all started when I was a teenager…with the invention of the the self tanning lotion.  THAT was the biggest disaster ever.  I never could get it right.  I can follow the directions exactly and every time I looked like an orange stripped zebra. 

 Following these failures (that’s plural because I kept trying it expecting different results) I returned to the tanning bed.  (I know, bad…)   And… after having kids and my money had more important places to go than my skin tone…I settled for ghostly whiteness.

Until last week. While stocking up on sunscreen…I noticed a tanning product I had never tried.

Micro mist airbrush sunless tan.

And, it was expensive so it must work..right?

This is what I ended up with…

Orange Feet. (that’s a new one for me.)

Apparently I didn’t consider washing the bottoms of my feet after using the micro mist spray that apparently had coated the wood floor in my bathroom causing me to have horribly discolored feet as I walked across it.

So, what goofy thing have you done lately?

I have to say this weekends game at ignite was one of my favorites.

Not for the weak at heart….for sure.

Foot signing.

That’s right.

The team with the most legible signatures on their captain’s foot wins.

Here’s to washable markers and pedicures!

(and to the runner up that won Dr Scholls medicated shoe pads…and still smiled)

I’m not much of a commentator on the state if our economy…

But the prices at the grocery store are getting crazy…

and…

I have started to fill up my gas tank $10 at a time so I don’t cry…

There is a possibility that I may never have a full gas tank again.

This morning I put my ten bucks in my car  at $3.45 a gallon.

The news says to expect a ten cent jump for the weekend and prices at $4 a gallon by early summer.

Sheesh.

Instead of complaining… (more than I already am)

(or taking it out on the poor gas station attendant… like the crazy old guy I saw… making a huge scene and calling them robbers…and telling the nice lady she was murdering him… even though the poor attendant  is probably making peanuts herself…and obviously is not setting the gas prices…she is just working the morning shift at the Shell station…but whatever makes you feel better old angry guy… I personally think we should be nicer to the gas station attendants before they become the next “postal workers”…)

anyway

I’ve decided to dwell on all the things I’d rater be doing with my $4.

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Today, I had a very unhealthy breakfast at MC Donald’s for $4…

I do not condone in anyway shape or form eating at MC Donald’s…

I’m not sure what came over me…

but…FYI

you can have a Vanilla Iced Coffee

and

a biscuit with sausage gravy

for just under the 4 dollar mark.

…even though I picked out all the sausage in the gravy…

because I’m not comfortable with what it might be made of…

and scraped off most of the gravy because…well..the same reason…

On further examination I should have just gotten a plain biscuit….because apparently that’s what I really wanted.

But….anyway

I’d rather spend my 4 bucks on that…  (and about a dozen other things)

What would you spend your $4 on if it wasn’t going in the tank?

I think I am having an early mid life crisis…very early. 

There is a great possiblity that all four members of my family will be in school come this fall…

1 in Kindergarten

1 in First Grade

and

2 in College… (that would be my husband and I)

lets see…

Getting married at 20…

Having 2 kids litterally in the first 2 years of marriage…

being a stay at home mom for 5 years…

Well, it hasn’t give me much time to consider the future…

So, that leaves me with the Question…now what do I want to do?

I had this all figured out when I got married. I had a perfect plan mapped out for us.

Thank God He sometimes saves us from our own plans…

We both have good Jobs…

I’m pretty sure we won’t be doing them forever though. (Ministry for sure, buy maybe not in the current format)

I like where we live…

But, I don’t want to stay here forever… (I need to live closer to a Chipotle)

I’ve discovered a so many things that I can do recently that I never even thought I could do.

So, now what?

Is this when you are patient and wait for God to open doors?

Is this when you activly seek  and discover where you should be going and make a plan of attack?

Any Suggestions?

Job Suggestions?

 (I’m not saying I’m quitting my current job, but maybe I just need a couple more…)

(I’ll take any job suggestions except my husband saying I should be tech support or the resident sarcasm adviser)