Donna’s Blog

Crrrrazy week

A friend emailed me over the weekend that something was up with my blog.  So i tried to check it out and sure enough, no blog came up, but instead it was an advertisement for a marketing firm.  I got a little more worried when i tried to go to the blog.com homepage and was told the page could not be found.

i thought maybe the blog people were out of business.  i know there are other blog venues out there that i could use, but the hard part is knowing how to attach that new blog to my website.  which is really why i have continued to stick with these blog.com people anyway.

By Tuesday the situation had worked itself out.  I guess the blog people had goofed somewhere and finally corrected it.  all i can say is, yeah….glad it wasn’t my problem to fix!

Then Tuesday night Ben and i were having a little date night out at Texas Roadhouse.  We had just finished up really and were signing the bill when Ben got a call on his cell phone from a number he didn’t recognize.

it was Karen Cook…..the dance line instructor from the high school.  i knew from Ben’s face and his comment “we’ll be right there” that something was up with Karlee.

he said Ms. Cook told him it had something to do with her knee.  she was marching and then she wasn’t.  she hobbled to the sideline and was in severe pain.

we picked her up and took her to the e/r.  i have to say i was impressed with how quickly we moved from the waiting room, to the triage room, to Room #5, to seeing the doctor, to having an xray taken to being discharged.   it all took only 2 hours.

the doctor told us she had a sprained knee and to have her seen by an orthopedic surgeon and tell him the e/r doctor was “worried”.  (translation….not able to read the xrays all that well?)

so we leave with this on

 and some pain meds that the doctor told her would make her sleepy.  (which had the reverse affect and actually keep Karlee awake all Tuesday night).

So Wednesday morning at 8:30 i call Dr. Aguero…he’s the one who saw Karlee when she broke her wrist and elbow.  I will spare you the details of the three phone calls trying to get someone to call me back….but by 12:15 i was aggravated and then it dawned on me….call Dr. Bearden.

i had just seen him for my shoulder incident a few months ago.  we really like Dr. Bearden.

i was told i could leave a message with his nurse and then we waited.  in a little over an hour, the nurse called back and we were told to go ahead and bring her in.

in less than an hour after that, we were in a patient room and Dr. Bearden was coming in to check on her.  the guy has great bedside manner.

he did a quick exam on her leg, pulled up the xrays on his computer from SGMC and the diagnosis…..Karlee’s knee cap came out of place.  it had gone back into place on it’s own…but the pain was from stretched and/or torn ligaments from the dislocation.

doctor’s orders:  USE THE KNEE.  that’s right…walk on it and start some physical therapy. he wrote us a prescription for one of these:

Much more comfortable.   although she woke up last night about 2 am and took it off cause it was rather tight. 

i haven’t woken her up yet this morning.  but we’ll see how she feels and try to get her into some therapy today.

we’re hoping that she can march on Saturday.  it’s the LAST marching band competition of her senior year and it really means the world to her.

Friday rambling…

…it’s been “Tax Season Part II” around here this week.  for those people who filed an extention in April, tax returns were due yesterday.  so it was busy busy busy this week

…the thunder, lightening, winds and heavy rains did not wake me up this morning

…the phone ringing with a recorded message saying “this is your code red weather alert” did, though

…the forecast for this weekend is busy busy busy

…tomorrow is Valdosta’s Got Talent at 7:00 at the Performing Arts Center!  We have 15 acts for the show and it will be a great night of entertainment.  tickets are $10 and you can still get one from me

…i’ll be at TPAC tonight decorating for the show

…unfortunately i can’t actually MAKE the show because the band has a competition in Sandersville tomorrow.  we’ll be leaving at 7:30 a.m.

…which means we have to be at the high school at 7:00 a.m….ready to ride on one of these…

…guess what time we get back?

…3:30 a.m. Sunday morning. 

…yikes!

…forecast for Sunday….sleeping in and lots of laundry!

bloggy friends, hope you have a great weekend!

nuthin new

Happy Tuesday bloggie friends!

I’m having my coffee and missing chattin with you!

Not that i really have anything to chat about, but has that ever stopped me before?

I ran in the rain last night and loved it.

It wasn’t one of  those “big rain drop” kind of rains, just a sprinkle really.  so i just kept running and enjoying the drops washing the sweat off my face.  i figured if a downpour came, i would just run home.

that actually happened a few weeks ago.  i was out for a run and the sprinkles started.  i kept running, hoping it would only be a light shower.  but it was like someone turned up the hose in heaven and water just poured out of the sky.  i wasn’t too far from home, so i headed that direction.  my sweet husband was on the porch; he said he was about  to get in the car and come find me and pick me up.  how sweet.

but when i was running through the rain last night…waiting to see if it was going to turn into a downpour….i thought about how life can come at me like that.

i’m just going about my routine and all of a sudden the sprinkles start.  i have a decision to make.  forge ahead, or run for shelter.  and if i keep “running”, when is too much rain, too much?  when is it just too much to take?  and do i realize there is always a present shelter?  there is always a hiding place?  there is always a refuge?  or do i sometimes run in the rain and wonder where God is?

when i was running last night, this song came on my ipod.  how fitting.

Bring on the Rain

Friday rambling…

…i’m trying to resist putting more sugar in my coffee this morning.  i really want too.  just a dab more.  but since i drink so much coffee, i figure if i can cut out a dab a sugar every few weeks, pretty soon i’ll be drinking it black.

…i always envy people who take their coffee black.  no messy cream packages to pry open.  no accidentally dropping the sugar packet in the coffee while trying to rip it open.

…we watched Seven Pounds Wednesday night.  i love that movie.  one of Will Smith’s best performances ever!

…it’s about time to make a trip to Bath and Body!  my lotion that i use at work is almost all gone.  and that would be awful because i HAVE to lotion up every morning and then every time i wash my hands i have to re-lotion.  is that a word?  re-lotion?

…i didn’t go out running any night this week.  that’s probably because i spent four nights up at the band room.  meeting-meeting-work on props-and pack snack bags.  of course we were home by 7:00 last night, but then i had to take Paige dress shopping.

…found a really awesome dress for $19.99 at Belk!

…pictures soon!

…i had color painted on my nails yesterday.  i think that was a mistake.  i miss my french manicure already

…A&E has a new show out called “Hoarders”.  Oprah featured some of it on her show yesterday.  It was frightful to see what their homes looked like.  Most of them just had “paths” in rooms to walk through.  One family of five used their parents bed as a place to eat because the kitchen table, counters and any other surface good for eating on was piled with clutter.

…somebody please tell me that cool weather is coming

…i need to find another good book to read to take on the band trip tomorrow

…we go to Fitzgerald for our first band competition.

…pictures to follow!

…call a friend today, treat yourself to an extra piece of chocolate, and make it a great Friday!

And the answer is….

	hump day	425 up, 120 down
	Wednesday, or the hump of the week The absolute BEST day of the week, the day of maximum hope that maybe, you might make it out of this week alive. A particularly good hump day can last you the rest of the week, and by Doomday morning (Monday) you survive by anticipating hump day. Nothing goes wrong on hump day Most other days can be defined by hump day. Tuesday is the day before hump day. Thursday is one day after hump day. Except Friday is WOOOH!!! FREEDOM!!! Day, Saturday is Mostly Hungover day, and Sunday is PreDoom day.

this is actually what i got when i googled hump day.  well, that and a few other things i could not print.

i thought i was visiting the “dictionary” site, but i was actually at something called the “urban dictionary”.  not sure who writes it, but they have some very interesting things there.

anyhow, it IS Wednesday, which means it IS hump day.  Yeah!  Cause after today, it’s downhill till the weekend.

of course if i still worked at the bank, it would be a long weekend because they are closed on Monday….Columbus Day.  So glad he showed up in the Americas.  Too bad it isn’t exciting enough for EVERYONE to close.  :0)

It’s a Monday

i seriously think that rain and Mondays are a good fit.

it’s hard to wake up on a Monday.  and rain is a nice soothing sound if you HAVE to wake up on a Monday.

i want to drag on Mondays.  i don’t want to rush out to work in a hurry.  and rain, at least for a while, seems to slow drivers down….they are more cautious and sometimes even more courteous about letting you into their lane so that you can turn left to get into the line of cars dropping off kids at the middle school.

Mondays rev up kind of slow.  i don’t know about your office, but everyone is pretty quiet around here on a Monday morning.  catch us on a Tuesday morning and we’re much more chatty.  rain is good for that because it fills up the quiet places with it’s gentle “pitter patter” against the window pane.

of course the hard part is that the “pitter patter” makes me want to go back to sleep and that wouldn’t work too well at the office!

and when i was a SAHM, we always baked cookies on rainy days.  the girls thought that was a written commandment somewhere. that in every house on the street they were probably at home making cookies.  they had no idea it was just their chocolate-chip-cookie-loving-mom-who-needed-a-fix! 

So here’s to our rainy Monday today.

enjoy, slow down and bake some cookies!  and if you can’t eat them all….i accept deliveries!

Crazy Busy

Today i was putting gas in my truck and watching all the drivers fly by.  i was thinking about how everyone seemed intent on getting somewhere, and most of them getting somewhere FAST!  i was thinking of my friend who had just told me that her plate was seriously full and she just had to give something up.  i was wondering why most EVERYONE I KNOW is so BUSY BUSY BUSY?

And then i read this blog by Shaun Groves.  Shaun has been asking the question “is Sabbath still for today”?  That’s my paraphrase…but it is the subject he’s been tackling on his blog.

So in case today, all you can think about is how busy this weekend is going to be, i thought i’d skip my Friday Rambling post and share this wisdom from one of my favorite writers (Shaun Groves…his link will be at the bottom of the page):

Trust

DEUTERONOMY 5:15 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

I’ve never actually seen It’s A Wonderful Life – not all the way through. But I’ve seen enough to understand this much: George Bailey’s life is wonderful because he’s so important. Without him around, everyone and everything would fall apart.

I can relate. Who else on earth could possibly do all the super important stuff I do?

People are depending on me. They need me. On my cell phone. In my inbox. I’m extremely essential. Without me everyone and everything would fall apart. It’s up to me to end poverty, keep a roof over my family, fill our plates with food, counsel the unhappily married and depressed and addicted and… To keep this world on its axis.

The wisest man who ever lived realized the danger wealth posed to his trust in God.

PROVERBS 30:8,9 give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the LORD ?’ Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

My accomplishments, reputation, and account balance tempt me to believe I’m more important than I am – that I’m Lord.

But I didn’t create life or the economies of the world, or plan my family’s days before time began. God gave me a body and a brain that work. He gave me work. He gave me a wife and three kids, and a house, a refrigerator full of food.

Therefore.

Therefore, I can leave the world and it keeps spinning.

Therefore, I can step out of your life and you’ll go on living.

Therefore, I can turn off my phone and close my laptop and everyone will survive.

To take a Sabbath requires me to trust – to really trust – that God has the whole world in his hands. Not mine.

http://shaungroves.com/

Retreating….

My friend, Kris, was here this morning.  She’s heading to DC to lead worship at a retreat.

She was here early this morning.  Early enough to make her flight.  Unlike someone i know who thought she could show up an hour before her flight and make it through security.  But who knew the lines would be that long at 6:30 in the morning?  So someone missed their flight and sat in that airport for 12 hours.  You know what there is to do in the Jacksonville airport for 12 hours?

  Pretty much just walk these halls…

and maybe eat here…

but all in all…you don’t want to spend 12 hours here.

even though i did see that spa…you wouldn’t believe what they wanted to charge for a little back rub.  their price was more painful than just sitting in the airport armchair for 12 hours!

I called Kris this morning to just to make sure she made it to her gate in time.  I had already given her my scare story of missing a flight.

So she was on the road at 2:50 a.m.  She’d already been checked in and hanging out by 5:30.

She’s one smart chic.  And she’s going to be an AWESOME retreat singer!!!!

Seasons

What is it about this time of year?  The air is cooler, crisper, cleaner.  It almost seems like you can feel the new energy everywhere.

i already think about how great it will be to run at night with the cool breeze in my face.

i am loving the new sweaters in the stores….although here in  South Georgia, we’re still about six weeks away from that probably.

i think about how much nicer it will be at band practice in the afternoon for the kids.  hopefully yesterday was their last day of 91 and hot hot hotness.

of course the cool weather also signifies some of the funnest days…..Paige’s annual Halloween Bash…..a month of Band competitions…..Thanksgiving…..all the music of the Christmas season…..

a new season.  it’s just nice to have a change.  in fact, i think that what i love most is the actual changing of the season.  when the first cool Fall morning arrives with the promise of leaving behind the muggy days of summer (like this morning!!); when the icey chill finally blows in and we can put the logs in the fireplace; when the first tiny bloom peeks out on the dogwood tree and tickels my nose with such delicious smells; and when the grass is a lush green and the waves of the beach beckon me to come and spend the day!

change, i think, is good for the soul.  i’m glad that God didn’t design a one season kind of environment.  all of the seasons are necessary.

and change is good for me too.  God is constantly calling me to that.  my relationship with Him is always evolving.  There is Fall, when i am enjoying all the various colors of who God is.  There is winter, when life can be still and icey and God is teaching me.  we have spring together, when i a finally learn in obedience what He was saying to me through what felt like a cold silence.  And then we celebrate summer as i enjoy the waves of love that wash over me and remind me that i am His child. 

it’s all necessary.

what season are you in?

Leeland

i am sad that all of a sudden my Leeland CD won’t play in the van.  can’t tell what’s up….but when i put it in, it just sits there.  i love that CD.  guess it’s time to buy it from itunes and download it to my ipod.

one of my favorite songs is this one:

Carried to the Table