A Week?!

Goodness sakes...it's been almost a week and I haven't blogged. For shame Kasey!

This week was good. It was my first FULL week back to work between all the holidays and being sick, and I must say, my pocket book will be very very happy. I am thankful to the Lord for this week, as I actually felt healthy enough to work the whole week and was even back to my bubbly sassy self. One person even made the remark "I guess you're feeling better, huh". Isn't that great. I read a devotion this week that has really stuck out to me. I am pretty sure I have read it before, because I have one devotional book my mom got me that I love and I am going through it for the second time, but for some reason this stuck out to me now. It said.."what you think, will be. If you think good will towards someone (that is normally not your favorite person) then that will come and that good will, will follow you. If you THINK health, then health will come". Mainly what it was saying is, HAVE POSITIVE THOUGHTS, our minds can convince us of so much JUNK, especially mine, that we get bogged down. So think happy, and happiness will be! I really liked it!!

Friday came so fast, and Shley came over to spend the night. We watched Fame, which for the most part was pretty good. We started P&P but, shew, I am old and it was late. I was OUT halfway through. I got a call from mom in the middle of the night, but missed it. So i called her back at nearly three am, and one of the horses had gotten out. She had to work realllly early this morning, so I had to go mend fence so our trickster wouldn't get out again. An hour later and a few scratches from the thorny trees surrounding the break through area, it was good to go. I felt like an old fashioned cowboy, cept I wasn't on a horse riding fence, but a four wheeler. Shley helped me, poor kid. She wasn't expectin to have to do that, but I am thankful she was there to help. The fence was tore up pretty good. After that, we came home and made lunch. YUM. We had seared chicken with gravy, biscuits, and cornbread dressing. YUM YUM YUM. I know, no veggies, but hey...there were some green things in the dressing. ;) We then watched the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a really sad but good movie. I have TV guardian so I don't know about the language, but there were some areas I didn't approve of. Overall good though. And it has changed my opinion of Brad Pitt, I have sided with the rest of the world (FINALLY) and now think he is gooorgeous. shew. The movie is like threeee hours long though. After that I took Shley home, and then went and got my coffee. I took a nap, and now I am getting ready to go to a concert at a local coffee shop. Hopefully its good, I think its just small local Christian bands, but I hear they are good! Have a great night!

Weekend Over...again

My weekend is over, and my left pointer finger is twitching. Hello random. ;)

Friday night I worked late, came home to the parents house and picked up my babies, then went home and did much of nothin. Saturday I woke up early and got ready for the long awaited....auction!! I went on the sole purpose of buying a four wheeler, God willing. He knows the desires of my heart, and as materialistic as it may seem to some...I want a four wheeler (ATV)...bad!! I prayed if it was His will I would get one. Well, it must not be His will right now. The one, THEEEE one (oh it was beautiful) that I wanted, 2006 Bombardier 800 4x4 with only 110 miles... 110!! Thats NOTHIN for a four wheeler. Oh, and did I mention it was CAMO! I want a camo four-wheeler. Anyway, Bombardier's are the cadillac, mercedes, beamer, etc. of 4 wheelers, and it went for one of those prices too. Alas, no four wheeler. Tear. I was really bummed. But, if it's meant to be a better one will come along. Preferably a Yamaha Kodiak or Grizzly 450 to 550, blue or camo. ;) I can dream right. Anyway, I was at the auction most of the day. After that I had Choir Practice. We have TWO new choir members! WOOOOT! THEN, Shley (pronounced sh-lee) went and rented a movie and got pizza. I liked the ending of the movie, and a few parts in between. But seriously...Hollywood has gotten SOOOOOOO dirty, just since I was a kid. It's pretty sad what this world is coming to, is already in I should say. But, none the less it was a fun night! Sunday (Today) was church. I teach the preschool class, and I have THREE 2 year olds, and TWO 4 year olds. I love my kiddos, so much! But, God really helps me through the class, whoooooeeee, talk about endurance. They got enough energy to run power to an entire town, I'm pretty sure. ha! So so cute tho! Then I went grocery shopping and spent to much money, and now I'm broke. After that I took a lovely Sunday afternoon nap. Then woke up and read for awhile. Tonight was church, and it was ammmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaaaaazing!!!!!!! I just loove love love, that GOD, LOVES me! seriously...out of all the world, and He loves and cares about ME. Woo, praise the Lord!! Well, that's the weekend. Have a good week!

Want Some?

Do you need some encouragement today? Whatever you may face...I think this scripture covers it...ready?

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. II Timothy 1:7

I am a worrier...about everything. Mainly a hypochondriac. I have let it get to the point of fearing everrrryyything is wrong with me. So bad I can't even function and am sad all the time. But you know, God does not want me to live like that. So each time I try to dig myself back into that hole, He gets me back out. I hope I am learning from these times in my life. To trust, not fear. To love, not fear. To LIVE, not fear. Because..."For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind"

Sunday Morning

Well it's Sunday Morning and I'm feelin' might fine...well, the best I have in about 5 days anyway. :) Thank the Lord for the rest last night, not waking up stuffed, and my face not hurting as bad. I am not sure if I have ever had a sinus infection before, but woooeee it stinks. Course' I'm a wuss when sick, so ya know.

It's almost time to go for Sunday School, so I better go. Just wanted to thank the Lord for feeling better. Have a great day, go to church and worship Jesus!

On The Fly

So...being the lover of music that I am, I often come up with songs that I just make up and start singing a melody. Most of the time...those songs are really good. But alas, when I try to remember them to record the way the music floats and words go, I can't. BOO. Last night, as I was coming home from work, I was thinking of the rather sassy and jazzy song, "Summertime"...summertiiiime...and the livin' is easy, so on and so forth. I truly enjoy that genre of music. Probably because its so unique, and sassy, kind of like me. Thank goodness there is only one of me, poor world if there were two. haha. ANYWAY, back to the subject. I was thinking of a "sound" similar to that song, and came up with my own song about how the devil has had his fun long enough, he's done, done, done, throwing me around (these aren't the words, like i said, I forget) I have given him ground long enough, and he's done. I wish I could have recorded it, it was almost like my soldiers anthem. As a soldier for the Lord, sometimes you can allow yourself to get down, discouraged, worried, and so on. With me, worry is my everpresent thorn in my side. So last night, this song came to me and it was encouraging. I felt power, my power coming from my Father. He is good, and He loves me,and HE is my strength. i just wanted to share, and hey...I'm on a blogging roll. ;)

Home On The Range

Well my range is my living room. Home sick today. I decided to go to the quick care last night, turns out I did have a mild case of pink eye, and sinitus. If my symptoms don't improve with my sinuses, the PA(physicians assistant) said I need to exploure the possibility of allergies. I have never really had allergies in my life...so, I am hoping it clears up. I am on eye drops, antibiotics, and cheapo generic saline solution up the nostrils so I can thin out my muchus. MMMM...didn't know you were gonna be grossed out when ya read this, did ya?! HA. I wish I were at work, because I need the mula, but I did NOT sleep well and I feel pretty blah and worn out. So hopefully this will help, rest always seems to.

Despite my sickness, I DID get the kitchen cleaned last night. With the exception of sweeping the floors. Wahoo, that felt good to get something accomplished.

I guess I'm not to interesting, because that is all I can think of to blog about. BUT, atleast I am blogging!

BOOOO On Sickness

Well, since a few days before my DC trip (beginning of December) I have been trying to get sick. In the third week of December it finally hit, and I actually went home a half day early because my eye was a fountain, as was my nose. I felt like I needed to sneeze, but couldn't. Ech, awfulness. Well, it calmed down to the point I didn't have to get in the shower in the morning just for the steam to clear my sinuses. My first morning not doing that was two days ago I think, then yesterday evening I started to notice build up again in my sinuses and drainage in my throat. Last night I woke up arond 1 am with symptoms of pink eye. Sorry if this will gross you out, but my phlegm is not clear anymore...blah, I am just tired of bein sick. I am thankful, because I know I could be sicker, so thank the Lord. But still, I am ready to be well. Your prayers would be greatly appreciated.

Have a great day.

2 Minutes

Okay I need to leave for work in, well...two minutes ago. So this will be short and sweet, but atleast I am posting.

This weekend was productive. I got allll my Christmas decor down and organized and packed. Still haven't moved it to the shed yet, but hey, it's a step. I cleaned my car, wahoooo! I got my grocery shopping done as well. And, two or three loads of laundry. Even folded. BAM! I still need to clean the house, but that will probably have to wait until Wednesday because TONIGHT is the FIESTA BOWWWWLLLLL!!! GOOOOOO BRONCOS! How I wish I was in Phoenix, AZ tonight! Well, it was so hard to get up for work this morning, but alas I have a job, and thank the Lord, a way to pay bills. :)

I hope you all have a fabulous wonnnderful day!!

Im Posting

WOOOHOOO! Happy New Year everyone!!

I have been sooo horrible about blogging lately, but truly, I enjoy have the little diary of my life to go back and take a look at from time to time! So, with this new year, I will try to be better at blogging.

My ten year class reunion will be this year, ahhhhhh!! I cannot believe I graduated HS nearly ten years ago, OLD.

Christmas went by so fast, so so so fast. But, just in the nick of time, I got all my baking done for my treat tins to give to family and friends. I got a new delicious wonderful, decadent, awesome (need I go on) recipe from a girl at work. Oreo Truffles...and only three ingredients. They have been the hit of this Christmas season, they are sooo gonna be a staple for the holidays now. Although, nearly 350 truffles later, I admit, I am siccckkkk of making them! I also did chocolate dipped potato chips, chocolate dipped soft candy cane sticks, and puppy chow. Yummy. I didn't get to cookies, but considering I did it all on Christmas Eve in about 4 hours, I though I did pretty good!

Now Christmas is over, sad. But I do enjoy the Christmas decor (as if i need more) that is on 50-75% off. Hello new lights! Gift bags, tins for next years goodies, woohoo! New Year's eve was spent in two places. First and old friend from my rodeo days, was having a party so I went to that for a little bit. We have reconnected on Facebook, and it has been sooo great. The weather was awful that night, but my little car made it through the 3-4 inches of snow, even if I was a bit nervous I was going to get stuck from time to time. Around 8:15 I headed to church for our annual Watch Night service. Of course, we have food first, so that was yummy, then we started service around 10, stopping just before midnight, to pray in the new year. It was that night 11 years ago, I FIRST came to The Church of God. What a adventure it has been, the places I have gone, life happenings, wowee, all of it is crazy, but ya know GOD IS STILL THERE AND HE IS SO GOOD! I am so thankful!

This year has been so hard as far as missing Damon. Still, with God's help it is bearable, but for some reason on this third Christmas after his passing, I had the hardest time of all. I love my husband, and it seems so strange that he is gone, yet the time I was married, seems so far away as well. I just wish he was here, but God knows.

I hope you all (that still read this) have a wonderful new year, and that God will be the most important One in your life. Much Love, Kasey