Home Alone.... Again

Well Joel left for a week in the field yesterday and he will be gone till next week sometime... which you know should make me really sad and stuff but all I can be is jealous cause I know they do lots of boring stuff in the field but I also happen to know that they get to shoot really cool guns.... which is just not fair...

Couple days ago Joel told me that by the end of the trip he would prob be rank first or second in his class... which is really cool... except it does nothing more for us than bragging rights... but I am proud of him anyways and I stick my tongue out at the army.... I mean you would think that they would be trolling places like this looking for good leaders to put in the fleet... I mean force? unit? brigade? oh well I may not know the correct army term but I'm learning fast.... I've already converted some of my lingo like "base" to "post" although my brain still sometimes has to take a minute to translate things... the other day a woman asked me if I lived on or off post and it took me a couple seconds to realize what she was asking me... I could almost see my brain cells scrambling around the insides of my head looking for the "navy to army" translation dictionary.... but back to the main point... you would think that the army would have scouts at these bases looking for capable leaders... I know that the program evaluates their leadership skills and abilities... no for real they get evaluated from time to time and get a score... the army purposefully rotates these boys through a schedule of leading the unit so that they can evaluate their leadership skills.... but then what? give them a score and say "good job son"... there has got to be a better plan than that at work.... or not who knows....

By the way my blog should get more pictures and things soon because I bought myself a nice little camera.... Joel gave me money from our tax refund to get a really nice one... so I got online and started looking and after about an hour i gave up and called Erin.... lol she patiently took me through what I probably wanted and what to look for which was really cool of her... so fairly soon you should be seeing pics of my house and my town... and some of my newer projects... although I've been toying with the idea of starting up a "beadingmonkey" blog where I can exclusively put up my crafts and things... I'm just not sure how much I wanna mix my personal life with my "business life" so i'm thinking about separating the two... but that's at least another week or two off and there will be a post here once i've gotten up the courage to get it up....

Goals

So I've decided to quit hiding behind "it's not quite ready" and get some stuff up on etsy... so here are my goals for the next month or so....

1. Produce jewelry nice enough to sell
2. Take pictures and post on etsy
3. Do not get distracted by other projects
4. Do not get discouraged when people do not buy them
5. Continue to pretend like I can design and that I've got the talent to pull this off
6. Persevere to the end even if it does not come out like I envision

Pray please because I am my own worst critic and I have never felt like my stuff was ready but i'm never gonna know till I get it out there and see how people respond to it.... so just pray that I can persevere till I get some stuff on there...

Coming Home

The Lord is faithful... that is what I have been reminded of constantly for the last two weeks.... The Lord is forever faithful to His children.... Not only did I see the Lord take care of a family that is very near and dear to my heart these last two weeks but I watched him take care of me in all the daily things... and He was gracious enough to keep me healthy so that I could have the pleasure to serve them... the Lord seems to have made it his personal mission to remind me that He is always faithful to us and I always love seeing it... many thanks to all the people who helped me this week and gave us a place to stay and just made my life easier in general.... Love you all...

This week

This week I am back in Annapolis for a bit of time... I'm here helping some very very good friends of mine while they are caring for a dying family member... Grandmama is very sick and will soon join her Lord in heaven but for now she is here with us... So early this week my friend Leslie and I made the 16 hour drive out to Annapolis to care for the family... By the grace of God I have stayed fairly healthy this week... I had a small instance on Thur night where the toilet and I got friendly but other than that i've been ok which has been a blessing because I'm not sure if I could get it all done otherwise... but the point is pray for this family... watching a loved one die is hard at any age and this whole family is taking it very very hard... and I don't believe anyone was prepared for what they have gone through in the past few days... so lots of prayer for all of them and if you wouldn't mind slip one in for me too... because to be honest watching someone go through all of this is terrible too... Thanks to all :)