Tuesday, September 15, 2009

h1n1

So, the swine flu is going around and everyone is freaking out about it. I am choosing to not freak out :) I am trying to not get sick, obviously thinking a little more about it these days due to the little one. There's those verses in the Bible that I like to think of:

"I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust." ... A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you."
Psalms 91:2,7

Maybe that seems a bit dramatic, but I am claiming it for my life, and we are praying for health in our family. I think of other verses that I cannot quote right now about wars and rumors of wars (and plagues, etc.)... There's always something I could be freaking out about. Down here in Texas the swine flu is quite a big deal right now, and we both know people that have it. So I am learning to lean more on God for those things that I cannot control, and am learning to have peace about those things. Since I am a dramatic sort, it is interesting that lately I've been actually pretty calm about it. Of course I should always trust my Savior, God of the Universe. Doesn't that just make sense? :)

All this to really tell you a funny story. Today all of the people at Ron's work got called together for a mass safety meeting where the headlining objective was to tell people how to not catch the swine flu. Great idea to cram all 800 employees together in a tent and teach them about not spreading germs. It just seemed a wild and ironic contradiction to me :) 

Monday, September 14, 2009

tidbit

This morning I got up with Ron and saw him off to work. We won't see each other a lot tonight because we're both busy, so why not play Sorry at 5:15 in the morning while he's eating breakfast?

Also, we discovered a leak in our "great room" (the entryway, that's what we call it :) yesterday, and assume we've never had it leak before because it hasn't rained that hard for several straight days. Cleaned it up, it had stopped raining, this morning it's back. Ron calls me on the way to work (just to tell me he loves me and had a great weekend with me, isn't he the best!?) and I inform him that I put a pot underneath the leak.

"Awww... Just like those people that live in really old houses!" 

"Um... yup, that's us, Ron."

:) 

Saturday, September 12, 2009

a rainy saturday, finally!

Well, even Grandma is getting on to me now, I must write something! She said it's ok if I whine, she just wants to read something from me. Hopefully that doesn't mean I whine all the time :) but thank you for the liberty, as it is likely the case here and there. 

Today Ron and I spent a pleasant rainy morning as follows... slept in, then took a trip to Ron's work site. He had to check something important, and I took his word for it, donned a poncho and joined him trudging in the rain through the partially completed power plant. It has grown a lot since I was last there, and it was fun to look up through the structure to see the tower cranes resting on top of the entire building. Ron explained to me what he was doing, and how some things worked (dumbed down the process a bit without making me feel dumb, he's so good at that :) and set off for Mart. Mart is a little bitty town that we first drove through when coming to Texas and made us very sad! Off the main drag, almost every other house is abandoned, and I wish someone would help their roads out. But today we saw a different side. We stopped at the Cozy Cafe for lunch and met Jess, the friendly waitress. Then we went to a couple of antique/not so antique shops. You know how those places are. Some items that are actually old and interesting, plus everything in between. I was fortunate enough to find some old silver spoons that were very cheap, and that was my good deal of the day. I still have to look up the best way to clean them. So we liked Mart today. It's one of those little towns that we like to seek out in order to go to their shops and maybe find some interesting people. The towns that get overlooked, blink-you're-through-it types. 

Now we're off shortly to the gym, and then HEB to do some grocery shopping. Ron and I are very excited about shopping there today because just recently we discovered quite by accident that they have a policy called "fresh or free". If we find an item that's expired, we take it plus a new item to the check out, and they give us the new fresh item for free! It's already worked for us once, so there's no stopping the Goodmans now. Let me tell you, nothing tastes better than free cottage cheese... And even though it's one of their open policies, not a lot of people know about it, it's not advertised even on their website, and you feel a little silly riffling through items to check their dates :) But it's so fun when you have a good find! It's about as close to james bond as Ron and I will ever get, we try to be discreet :)

So glad for the rain, too, and the cooler weather!! I'm soaking it up, This is the first week all summer that we saw high temps in the 80s. Only a couple weeks ago we were happy to get high temps in the 90s! I better not hear any whining from the north about how cold it is :) Of course, I suppose I should check myself now that I have relatives in Kuwait... Guess it's not so bad here :)