Finished By Friday

Why is it that you always find one dirty fork or spoon AFTER you've started the dishwasher? Or you get the electric knife or mixer all put away neatly in its little case just to remember that the blades/beaters are still in the dish drainer and you have to start all over?? Just a random thought. Please tell me I'm not the only one that does this! (Guess you can't tell I'm cleaning my kitchen today!)

After my last class (and I'm ashamed to say my first B in a class since enrolling at AI of Pittsburgh), I was seriously having issues wanting to go on. To make a long story short, I couldn't figure out what the instructor was expecting out of me and when I asked her via e-mail, she wouldn't work with me and give me any ideas of how I could improve. Needless to say, I was a little worried about the next instructors I encountered. Now I'm about half-way through my current class and the instructor is good enough, but the work load is like nothing I've ever encountered in any other class (even the ones that are supposed to be hard). It's not that the work is extremely difficult and most of it so far is just repeating things we've done in other classes and combining them all in order - actually going through an entire design job start to finish. It's just that most classes have around three assignments each week with the occasional fourth assignment. The fir...

Well, the excitement is over. It seems like I'm just doing the same things over and over again and it's all just time consuming and probably not things I'll really be using. This assignment is no exception, but luckily, it's NOT something I've had to do before and hopefully I won't be doing it ever again, but I was pleased enough with how it turned out. My dear sweet husband even helped me with the furniture because I worked all afternoon just to get the house done and he's so good at detail stuff like the furniture. I didn't even know where to begin!

Just letting everyone know that Jon and I have deactivated our Facebook accounts. For family and friends, please keep posting pictures and such on your blogs or feel free to e-mail.

OK, so this is pretty random, but this song gets me every time! I don't hear it often, but every time not only am I convicted to try to reach out and do more to extend the love of God to others, but the one little phrase "Jesus paid much to high a price for us to pick and choose who should come" stings a little as well I'm sure it should, so I just thought I'd share and who knows, maybe you need it too! :-) "But if we are the Body Why aren't His arms reaching Why aren't His hands healing Why aren't His words teaching And if we are the Body Why aren't His feet going Why is His love not showing them there is a way Jesus paid much too high a price For us to pick and choose who should come And we are the Body of Christ If we are the body Why aren't His arms reaching Why aren't His hands healing Why aren't His words teaching And if we are the body Why aren't His feet going Why is His love not showing them there is a way Jesus ...

I've fiddled with the stuff in the basket and I think it looks quite a bit better now. Let me know what you think.

Just had to share. This is almost FIVE times last week's profits! If it gets any more lucrative, I won't be able to post these updates without my husband wondering where I'm stashing all my profits! :D Unfortunately, it's money we've already earned from one of our jobs and NOT really extra income we don't have to work for. . . Someday! :-)

Two things. . . 1) We were finally able to get our new(er) car yesterday (Monday the 5th). It is a 2001 Malibu fully loaded with remote start, remote keyless entry, fog lights, sun roof, power everything, auto volume control on the stereo (which means it automatically changes the volume to compensate for the added noise when you speed up and the less noise when you slow down or stop.), AND NO PAYMENTS!! We are extremely blessed! and 2) I am back to school also beginning yesterday. My current class is Residential Design Studio and so far looks to be very exciting! After this, two classes at the same time crammed into 5 1/2 weeks and then I graduate just days before for Christmas!