June 2, 2008

• Prayer Please & Some Cleaning Projects

  I decided to write this tonight with pictures added and all.  I’m not sure what tomorrow will bring. 

  I forgot to ask earlier today for prayers again for Luci.  We are taking her to church to the pastor sometime in the morning.  Probably like last time, 10 – 10:30am.  I would appreciate everyone’s prayers.  She is much better, but I think there are still areas she is being tried.  She was crying and having a fit and then started to scream for me to pray for her and “get Pastor C. J.’s oil and hurry!”  I ran and got some olive oiled, prayed that God would change it to anointing oil and ran back to her room.  She was violently trying to kick me.  She was so tense that her toes were splayed open and her legs were tense from wanting to kick a hole through me.  HOWEVER, her face was not ugly and distorted as it has been in the past when she went into these rages.  She looked right at me and said, “Help me please, Momma.”  I prayed and felt led to anoint her legs, and as I did,  I moved to her feet.  Her feet being tense and toes splayed stopped IMMEDIATELY.  Within about 15 seconds her legs were so relaxed they laid there limp.  We prayed together and I told her I would help get her through this.

  So, prayers tomorrow on central time zone are welcomed by our family, and Luci, too, I’m sure.

  Now to less serious stuff!

  This is my cleaned desk and two file cabinets – as clean as they will every be!
  

  I wish I knew how to hide the icons, but do you like my screen saver?  Two Amish girls helping each other carry a bucket.
  

  Next is Rissy’s closet.  I took all of the extra pillows, quilts, bedspreads, blankets, you name it, off of the top of the chest of drawers and her closet shelf; and left only 3 blankets.  It looks barren compared to how it used to look!  That’s my wedding dress in left corner.
  

  Buying those utility shelves for the other side of her closet was one of the best ideas I’ve had.  That and the shoe hanger for her closet door.  She has so much more room to organize things and the top shelf isn’t even being used.  I’ve stored “future shoes” on the top shelf!

  

  I DID finish sorting all of the stuff on top of my dresser.  I was even able to take glass cleaner to clean the glass we had cut to protect the wood!  The plate is a collector item I bought back in the 1980′s.  I can’t believe it has always fit into all of my bedrooms.  I must be a peachy/brown bedroom type of person!!
  

  I’ll try to enlarge this next one in hopes you can see some of my beloved, deceased family members.  The top picture are my dad’s parents (the Grandma I miss and was so close to), the second one is my uncle who passed away suddenly and the bottom is his wife, my aunt, who also passed away 18 months later and VERY suddenly.

  

  I’m really not a morbid person with a mirror memorial for the deceased.  That’s just where those 3 pictures ended up!

  Let’s see, what else . . . Oh!  Yes!  The blankets that came from Rissy’s closet.  The ones I put on the king size guest bed and will get to soon put away (since we have guest arriving Thursday night!!!!).  After I take Rissy’s small bookcase and put it on top of that chest of drawers in her closet, I’ll be able to fold things and use the shelves and her closet shelf to store most of these things.  They ended up falling on my head yesterday when I tried to put (just one more tiny) blanket up there!  So here’s where they are now.

  

  Yeah, I know.  Company coming Thursday and I created this mess.  I’m not sure WHAT I was thinking!!!!  I guess just one more project for this week that I can now add to my list!  I have to put the new bookcase together so I can move that small one into Rissy’s closet.  I suppose the messy guest bed is my new motivation to assemble the new bookcase!

  Oh!  I forgot to show you the pink shag rug we bought for Rissy’s room.  It looks great with the periwinkle paint and the pink & periwinkle floral bed spread.  It even matches her bean bag chair!
  

  It seems I’m forgetting something REALLY important . . . now, what could that be?????  Ohhhhhh!  I knooooooow!!  The kitchen bar!!!  Look fast, because I’m not a betting person, but I bet it doesn’t stay like that for long!  LOL

  

  Everything looks kinda yellowish, but it’s bright white.  Maybe when I enlarged the picture, the pigment changed.

  So that was my day.  The chicken recipe was good but I would do one thing different next time.  I put season chicken meat down first, then the frozen vegetables, then the soup, and finally the cheese.  The cheese got a little crunchy – not bad tasting – just a weird texture.  Next time, I’d put the cheese on top of the chicken breasts and the soup on top of the cheese.  I did  NOT dilute the soup since the chicken breasts put off enough liquid after they are cooked.  I made linguine because it cooked faster than spaghetti or fettucini.  I was too tired to mess with the cauliflower.  I’ll have to use it soon, or it will go bad.  Maybe tomorrow for breakfast.

  I actually was so tired, I didn’t even serve the peach pie!  Now THAT’S tired!!!

  Okay, I’m waaaaay tired and better get to bed.

  • 11:54 pm
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