I have a new Etsy Store!!

I'm shamelessly putting up a plug for my new Etsy store - Hats 'n Such...check it out! All the items are crocheted by me - handmade  in a smoke free home. Can't wait to put up more stuff: hats, scarves, cowls, hair doodles, patterns and much more! Check it out HERE!! :-D

Monday Pattern

I made this today. It took me about 2 1/4 hours. I had leftover yarn - I calculated it was about 1 and a half skeins of a sport weight in this lovely pumpkin color. I love fall and this felt like the perfect project for me...to keep!!

I made up the pattern myself and for any of you that want the pattern check out my Etsy store! 

I washed my car today for the first time in a year.

Yes. I know. But seriously, what's the point of washing it, only to be driving down some old gravel or mud dirt road and making it filthy immediately following. Where's the sense in that? No sense. None at all if you ask me.

And now, because it is Thursday and because I shared that nugget of my life with you, I'm feeling like sharing the following composite of random and probably useless information with you.

1) I just put chicken in the oven to heat/reheat for dinner. It looked like wrinkled little pig skin. I don't think I want dinner now.
2) My hair is driving me nuts.
3) My computer keeps making 'dinging' noises at me signaling me to update this that or the other thing with their new flashy easy-peasy whatsits. It's kind of annoying.
4) This story was amazing and gave me goosebumps. I don't care if you're not a horse person. Read it.
5) I was almost run over and dragged off by a mule named Mary today. She was about 40 years old and blind as a dingbat. But run away she would. Towards the light. Always following the light.

The end...for now.

Having a Pity-Party for Myself & Only I'm Invited

I hate job hunting. I've been looking for work for over 6 months now and nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zero. I feel like it's taken me so much time and energy and money to get to where I am. It was scary to leave my secure job with its good pay and cushy hours and benefits and great bosses and leap into the huge void of "The Unknown". School was so tough, but so rewarding. Hours upon hours spent in the cold and rain, slogging in the mud and muck, staying up until all hours of the morning studying, clinging to cups of coffee like a drowning man's lifeline, getting slimed, pooped on, thrown off, kicked, stepped on. But I loved every minute of it. And now it's done. And I thought that was the hard part. Turned out I was wrong.

It's so very easy to get discouraged when you pour so much of yourself out and you can see God's hand orchestrating every move along the way to come to the end and feel like His hand has been removed. I mean - like- WHAT HAPPENED? What did I do wrong?

Hence the pity-party.  And now I'm done. *Straightens shoulders - lifts chin*

I didn't do anything wrong. I have to remember that. And I need to take to heart the words I keep hearing myself say to everybody else: "God is faithful."  So much for having a pity-party. Kinda hard if ya have to believe that right?

This dude...

Turned 14 today. :^)  One of the best guys I know.

His discipline in school, dedication to service and God's Word is encouraging and a mark of the man he is fast becoming. I'm so proud of him and blessed to call him my brother.