Now Mel is down- who's next to find a mate? Let's speculate in sharing 488

[Heather]

Car is semi-fixed. Found the root of the problem finally that messed everything else up. Part should be here Tuesday. [Ebay was cheaper than AZ even with Brandon's discount].

I have been in a horrible spunk all week. I work. I come home. I cry. I sleep. That's about it....

[Melody]

Why are you crying?  You're engaged!  You should be floating on air!

Finally got to talk to my neighbor lady that I want to win. In Jesus name!


Praying Mel and Sandra.

[MsJennJenn]

Pretty sure i would be crying if I was engaged too. Haha

[SippinTea]

Huh. I think I did more crying while I was engaged than in the rest of my life put together. Being engaged stinks. People should just get married and get on with life.

[MelodyB]

PREACH SISTER!!!


Im not OFFICIALLY engaged, but we know we are getting married and he asks me to marry him 100 times a day...literally. And I say yes every time, but 20 mins later, he asks again. lol

Boys. SMH.

As for the crying...I havent really cried much since Allan came into my life. A few times, but it was just a brief tearing up. However...I cried a few times this week cause of the things Dad said to me, but most of those crying times, I was laying on the floor in the prayer room with just me and Jesus...so that doesnt really count...Prayer crying is different than emotional girl crying.

To me anyway.

[Lynx]

For some reason every time I read the title of this thread a song drifts through my head...

"All my rowdy friends have settled down"

[Melody]

I'm not an expert. We weren't in church, were pregnant and were 18.  And we eloped. Lol   We needed Jesus!  We would not be on our 16th yr if it wasn't for both of us choosing Jesus. Oh His mercy!! I am the LEAST of these. 

It warms my heart hearing your love journey, Mel.

[MelodyB]

We are having a Youth party fellowship thing tonight and as usual, Im in charge of all the food. So I gotta go get started on it.

Cooking the hamburger meat first, adding the mamwich sauce and slow simmering it all day in the crockpot. Then I have two boxes of cupcakes to make and decorate. And get the fellowship hall set up. Gonna be a great day!


After Allan gets paid and his check cashed today, I gotta go up there and get the money to go pay our phone bill. Thats also very important. lol

[The Purple Fuzzy]

Y'all should just pack up and move to the town where Chel is.  I'm sure you could find a job there.

[Melody]

Y'all should just pack up and move to the town where Chel is.  I'm sure you could find a job there.

Seriously though. Besides saving money to actually move...

You have the whole world to go adventure with your love. You could live anywhere!

[Roscoe]

 I like Sipper's perspective. I asked Lou sometime in July- I think- she said yes, and we got married the fifth of September. Didn't want her to change her mind, which she nearly did anyway. And if y'all move, ya gotta at least come see what WE have to offer and not go off of preconcieved notions. Just sayin'. 

And in sharing- I woke up this morning in a horrid state of mind. Felt like every sin I'd ever committed was staring me down, and making me realize how sorry an individual I truely am. Feeling like a total failure,  I dropped Chey off at school, and headed to the one place I knew I'd find peace. The church. After an hour of bawling and resting in Jesus' arms, a true peace came in and swept me away. Spent a bit of time praying for all my friends too.  SO GLAD God cares enough to just be there for us in those hard times. I bet the devil doesn't try that tactic again on me for a while. It had the reverse effect- it drove me to shelter, which I needed.
And then, walking out the door of the church, I met a sister who'd dropped by to pray today too. Apparently, I wasn't the only one that needed that place of refuge. Then, I picked my phone out of the console of the truck to find two messages from a dear friend who had no idea what was going on, and who hadn't talked to me in a week. They stated that 1) Whatever was heavy on my heart God had heard my prayers. and 2) he'd felt a need to talk to me. I called him blubbering, and he tells me he'd had nearly the same experience this morning..Wow. Just wow.... definately a God thing.
Now I'm at home fixing to cook some Yardbird for dinner. 

[Melody]

What in the world is "yardbird?"  I know you have said your yard had gotten out of control a few times this summer. Does the long grass attract some kind of AR rodent? 

Or is this something that you hit on the road that ran from someone's yard?



Almost cold cloudy day here. Potato soup is on. Fall is in full swing!

There is a YouTube video of a girl explaining Minnesotans. I know I'm from IA but it makes me want to move north. If global warming would cut out the snow, I'd be there.

[Roscoe]

  It's chicken, ya unedjucated Yankee.  And it ain't cold enough for tater soup yet.., here it ain't anyways.

[Melody]

It was 47* one morning taking Andrew to school, don't ya know!  That's cool enough for me. Grant it, it's almost 70 right now with a chilly breeze but a storm is rolling in.

[The Purple Fuzzy]

It's 82 here, but supposed to be a bit cooler this weekend.

[Roscoe]

 Argh! I HATE computers. I've chased a rare ham station around for the better part of a week trying to make contact. He's on an island I need to have a contact with for an award. I FINALLY make contact with the joker, type the info into my logging program- and before I can hit "save" the battery on the 'puter dies, with no warning. Wipes out every trace- time, frequency, everything. I had to do a systems restore to get the comuter to even boot back up. 
Now it's like I've never talked to him. My own fault, I shoulda watch the battery level closer, but I swear this diabolical computer timed it like that on purpose.

[Heather]

I have a horrible tendency to just stop doing anything when I get too much going on. Currently I have bible college, kitchen remodeling, constant car issues, wedding planning/crafting, health issues, and not to mention how I'm paying for any of the above especially with my [insert all sorts of banned words] job issues. So instead of taking care of any of these things I just go soak in the bathtub and cry. Thankfully an amazing friend of mine stepped in yesterday with some very encouraging words and prayer. Also in my church stress Brandon stepped up and said we are going to my church sunday. Thank ya Jesus!

[Kim]

Just to share a little something....the other night I went to the cemetary where my daddy is, and some of his flowers were missing.  Couldn't get back there for a couple of days to replace them,  so when I finally got the chance, as I'm driving there, it starts raining----really hard.  I will admit I don't pray as I should, but the only thi ng I could think was to say a little prayer.  So, I ask if He could please make it stop, or at least slack up just long enough for me to get those flowers put on my daddy.  To my suprise, about a half mile from the cemetary---IT QUITS RAINING!!!  As I pull in, it starts misting.  I jump out of my car and run across the cemetary.  There were four vases I needed to repair.  Put the first one in...the second one...the third one...then just as I got the fourth one in, a clap of thunder hit, and the bottom fell out!  I got soak and wet before I got back to my car, but was laughing because I did ask for just enough time to replace the flowers.  Guess I got what I ask for. Hmmmm...maybe He does still listen to me!

[Roscoe]

Just to share a little something....the other night I went to the cemetary where my daddy is, and some of his flowers were missing.  Couldn't get back there for a couple of days to replace them,  so when I finally got the chance, as I'm driving there, it starts raining----really hard.  I will admit I don't pray as I should, but the only thing I could think was to say a little prayer.  So, I ask if He could please make it stop, or at least slack up just long enough for me to get those flowers put on my daddy.  To my suprise, about a half mile from the cemetary---IT QUITS RAINING!!!  As I pull in, it starts misting.  I jump out of my car and run across the cemetary.  There were four vases I needed to repair.  Put the first one in...the second one...the third one...then just as I got the fourth one in, a clap of thunder hit, and the bottom fell out!  I got soak and wet before I got back to my car, but was laughing because I did ask for just enough time to replace the flowers.  Guess I got what I ask for. Hmmmm...maybe He does still listen to me!

Of course He does....
And it's about time you got back on here....and how did MY homemade carrot cake you made that I never got a piece of turn out? 

[Chseeads]

Shew....long day of poop and cards and such. 

I'm eating a bean bowl.

You're all weirdos.

Dad's still in the hospital, waiting on a nursing home room to open up.

[Roscoe]

Shew....long day of poop and cards and such. 

I'm eating a bean bowl.

You're all weirdos.

Dad's still in the hospital, waiting on a nursing home room to open up.

Is the nursing home thing for rehab, or permanent? That'll be rough to deal with if he is as independent - read bull headed- as my Daddy was..

[MelodyB]

Wish my Dad would quit being bull headed and just go to a nursing home like he needs to.

[Lynx]

When it is my turn to go, I will go quietly, with dignity. 

Yeah, right.


Morning y'all.  I'm flat out of sourdough bread so today is baking day. 

[Melody]

Wish my Dad would quit being bull headed and just go to a nursing home like he needs to.

As bull headed as he is being, I bet he's scared to death.  Scared to be in strangers' hands and away from his wife from now on?


What gets me is that diabetes isn't chronic 99% of the time.  It's preventable, and to a certain point, which your dad has passed, reversible. It angers me what commercialism is teaching people. There are more and more each day though, coming out with their story that they are no longer diabetic.  Irrelevant for your dad but I hope NONE of the rest of us go through that!  We can eat correctly now or be told what to eat to salvage our lives later.

[Heather]

Night #1 at my parents is over. I ended up cuddling with my dad's CDL manual on the couch. They are gone to Charlotte so i'm pet sitting. I've started to do crazy stuff in my sleep again. I was the worlds worst when I was younger to sleep walk. My parents had to put a chain on the front door waaay up where I couldn't reach it. Brandon says I'm getting up and pacing the house at night. I don't remember any of it when I get up.