happy thanksgiving!

Originally published on November 23rd, 2006 at Onward & Upward

I want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! I am very thankful to have a day to sleep in, and that my husband has the day off too! That’s a rare thing in our lives! :-) (Now just pray that he gets Christmas off…)

Yesterday a customer called me to see if there was any way he could get an ad printed before Christmas. He had cancelled his ad back in October, he explained, because he was in the hospital and the doctors had told him he wouldn’t live. However, he had defied the odds and is now back and able to run his store! Even though I don’t know him personally, or any details of his illness, I was rejoicing with him about this unexpected gift of life.

I thank God for loving me enough to die for me, for loving me despite my inconsistent and fickle nature, for loving me enough to always be there for me. I praise Him for my health, my job, my freedom, my family, my hope for the future, for a house over my head, for two kitties to love, for friends, for a car to take me to work and take me to visit friends. There is so much I am and should be grateful for this season!

And I should end with saying that I get to see my dear friend Beth in only a few hours. Hooray! :-) This time we won’t forget to take pictures. ;-) What are you doing to celebrate today?

“Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name.” Psalm 100:4


up and down

Well the ad is finally done, and they think they’ve discovered and fixed the problem with the servers so I won’t lose any more of my work. Hooray! I actually did enjoy working on the ad, which made losing it not as big of a deal as it could have been. I just love working in InDesign!

Yesterday, Paul helped his brother move from one apartment to another. I joined them for dinner, which was nice. We decided that I should go into business making and selling clothes for small men. Paul and Tim were complaining about not being able to find men’s styles in the boys section, or boys’ clothes not fitting all the way around. I guess I need to learn how to sew clothes then. :-) Anyone willing to teach me? We decided that I could very quickly have a booming business – there is definitely a market out there (especially in areas with a lot of hispanic men). Why haven’t any clothing manufacturers tapped into this yet?

On the way home from Tim’s place, some guy cut me off and I swerved, hitting the curb full on. I heard a *pop!* and I could immediately tell the tire was shot. The ironic thing was just that morning I had been talking to my coworker who also got a flat tire. I was able to pull into a parking lot of a restaurant, where I proceeded to call people. Paul was in his car also going home, and would meet me where I was. I called the roadside assistance for my insurance company, and found out that just because I added a car to my insurance policy, it is not automatically added to the assistance coverage. Since the assistance is based on the car, and I was in the Corolla and not the Intrepid, I would have to pay for the tow truck. Fortunately, Paul has AAA so I called them and they said it would be 2 hours. (Of course, knowing AAA,2 hours means more like 3 or 4.) As I was waiting, a group of college students came by, and one really nice guy offered to put on the spare for me. I was so grateful! They were all really nice and I thank God that they came by when they did. I cancelled the tow truck, and got home safely. My car now has a new “shoe” (there was a 2 or 3 inch gash in the tire from where I hit the curb! I actually hit the corner, since I was going through an intersection when the guy cut me off, which is why it did so much damage). Anyways, all is said and done and unfortunately did not get a chance to run my errands yesterday evening or today at lunch. Tomorrow, I guess!

Paul has lost his wallet. :-( Our bank account remains untouched, but how long do you wait and look for it? We can last place it to last night when he pulled his AAA card out to give me the number. After then, we’re really not sure.

Oh and of course the big thing, we now have internet at home!! Hooray! :-) I am very excited and Paul and I fought over who got to use the computer this evening. :-) (Yeah, neither of our desktops are hooked up/working right now.) But yeah. Blogging should be more frequent from now on. And email writing. *grins*




sigh…

What’s worse than losing all the changes you made to your ad when the server crashed?

Answer: Having the file be corrupt so you have to start over from scratch. :-(