Everyone else was starting a bit late, so I went ahead and started SHARING 458

[Melody]

Nathan thinks he may have just broken his foot.  We cannot afford this to happen.

[MsJennJenn]

Nathan thinks he may have just broken his foot.  We cannot afford this to happen.

*hugs & prayers*


Following God's word, especially when it causes wounds to those involved is SO hard.
I just want to cry...

[Lynx]

Howdy y'all.  After waking up and taking inventory, I seem to be functional yet again this morning.  But I'm out of chocolate cheesecake.  So a plus and a minus starting out, but the minus is bigger than the plus I think.  Gotta make some more of that stuff...

[MelodyB]

I'm awake. I had kinda a rough night. My own fault though.


I've got to clean the bathroom really good today. Not looking forward to that AT ALL. And I have a few more loads of clothes to wash.

[Roscoe]

I'm sure I will have one, copper.

My legs are sooooooooooooooooooreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..................good gravy, I'm not gonna be able to walk soon.

the very reason I told you to simply have a day. I knew you'd rebel against having a GOOD day. 

Nathan thinks he may have just broken his foot.  We cannot afford this to happen.

*hugs & prayers*


Following God's word, especially when it causes wounds to those involved is SO hard.
I just want to cry...

I'll be praying..

Howdy y'all.  After waking up and taking inventory, I seem to be functional yet again this morning.  But I'm out of chocolate cheesecake.  So a plus and a minus starting out, but the minus is bigger than the plus I think.  Gotta make some more of that stuff...

And YOU need to p.m. me the receipe for the chocolate cheesecake.....two of my favorite foods, combined into one. Don't make me come looking for you over the receipe....you won't like me hungry.

[Melody]

Nathan thinks he may have just broken his foot.  We cannot afford this to happen.

*hugs & prayers*


Following God's word, especially when it causes wounds to those involved is SO hard.
I just want to cry...

Go ahead and cry, it'll probably lead to intercession.  Many times prophets cried when God gave them hard words.  God knows.  To know Him in the power of his resurection and in the fellowship of His suffering. 

*Hugs and prayers back*

[Lynx]

Why PM, you want to keep it a trade secret?

It's really simple.
1 stick butter, melted
1 cup sugar
1.5 bars Lindt 85% cocoa
2 packs cream cheese
4 eggs
This is for a small batch, maybe a 6 inch springform pan.  I double it and put it in a 10 inch.  Mmmmmm! 
Melt butter, mix in sugar, then melt chocolate in with it.  Mostly because if you tried to melt the chocolate into the cream cheese, cream cheese doesn't handle being melted very well.  After chocolate is melted in, add cream cheese and eggs, beat to death.  Pour in pan, bake at 300 for about an hour, mebbe less. 

IMPORTANT:  Cool gradually!  The faster you cool it down, the more it will crack on top.  Turn the oven off and let it sit for a good 20 minutes, then move it to the countertop for another 20 minutes, then to the fridge.  After it is fridge-cool you can take it out and slice it.  Try using dental floss to slice it (NEW dental floss, not used!) because if you use a knife it'll stick like everything.

And yes you can use hershey's cocoa powder if you have to.  I prefer real cocoa though.  No idea how much powder though... half a cup?  Yeah, half a cup oughta do it.

[MelodyB]

Dear Lord.


I wish my brother would call and cancel this weekend. Mom won't do ANYTHING at ALL to help clean up. I've been working on this house for two days solid and she has layed in the bed watching TV and expecting me to bring her her meals. I refuse to. She is able to fix her own plate. I cook it! UGH! I am so stressed. The bathroom is a mess, and the toilet is backing up into the jacuzzi tub every time you flush. Whenever the water is draining from the shower, dishwasher, washer, kitchen, wherever, it bubbles the toilet and backs into the tub. It's discusting. But cannot be fixed cause there is NO MONEY. And dad cant hardly walk across the floor most days, much less crawl under the house and fix plumbing.

Sis Ramsey called and has the flu. She is on bed rest till Monday, so they wont be coming to our little get together anyway. Mom is griping cause she is afraid they will ask HER to do the nursing home on Saturday. She barely makes it to church, much less extra stuff. She has missed the last FOUR services. Two for no reason that I could see. *SCREAM*

I am SOO HOTTTT!! And the air isn't turning on either. Dad and I tried fixing it yesterday, and can't find the problem. I've been soaked with sweat for the last two days with no relief in sight cause again, NO MONEY! No one to do any of the physical stuff.

Dad went to dialysis and then his dr and they sent him to TWO heart drs after that. Don't know what is going on there. That's all we need is more junk happening to his health.

I'm trapped. I can't get away from the problems and SICKNESS and even if I had somewhere to go, I have no way to get there. No money and no car. I'm stressed. And lonely. And just don't have a clue what to do or how to do it. It's horrible.


Please God help.


/rant



Sorry to unload in the sharing thread. I just don't know what else to do. I had to get it out. *sigh*

[Melody]

Oh my sis, God has the strength for you.  *hugs*

So Nathan broke his foot literally just walking.  That is goofy.  He's slightly irritated to be wasting time in "crutch training."  He texted me,  "Really? crutch training?" 

I called a couple of guys so they could text and chat with him to raise his spirits a bit.  We were JUST talking about broken feet last night at cell group cause another guy has a foot issue where they may have to break all his toes.  New rule:  no talking about injuries at cell group... LOL jk

[MelodyB]

My brother just called.

Everything is still a go for the weekend. 7 extra people in the house for a big fish fry. That may not sound like much, but right now it feels like a crowd.

[Melody]

I'd come and help if I could.  It's not worth much just saying it though.  Have you shared this with your pastor's wife?  Maybe there is someone at church that would love to just come help out a day with you.

[The Purple Fuzzy]

I say don't worry so much about the cleaning.  If your mom's not worried about helping any, just straighten up a bit and let the rest go.  *HUGS*

[Lynx]

My brother just called.

Everything is still a go for the weekend. 7 extra people in the house for a big fish fry. That may not sound like much, but right now it feels like a crowd.

Get your brother to get down there and tinker with the plumbing.  Surely in 7 extra people somebody's gotta know something about it.  Your dad could advise and supervise while they provide the crawling and muscle. 

Also what Fuzzy said.  Also, don't kill yourself taking up slack for other people who won't.  (Your dad is a different case, he just can't, and I wish I could be there to help.)

[MelodyB]

Yeah when he gets here he might can look at bother the plumbing and A/C. And thanks everyone for the support.

As for leaving the cleaning, I cant do that. My life would be even worse if I left it. No, she won't do it, but if it wasn't done, it would NEVER get done, and I would have to hear it from her, and my live would be a living *hot place*. And I have to do whatever she says cause if I don't, then she starts on her constant nagging, and makes dads life miserable too. So if she is mad at me, dad suffers too, so all I do, I do to keep the peace so my Daddy doesn't get worse. I wait on him hand and foot cause he is unable to do half what he does to keep us alive. And I appreciate him for it. But it's hard when she won't do anything.

I just cooked him some eggs and coffee, and he said once again "Thank you, I don't know what I would do without you, cause God knows your momma ain't gonna do anything for me."

He has said that to me many many times in the last month. And it's the truth. But to hear HER tell the story, she does everything for everyone, and no one does anything for her. When in reality, it's the other way around. She is the Queen and we dare not upset her, or it backfires on US. And so we just do it to try to keep the peace.






And as for my Pastor and his wife, they know how it is. Pastor is her brother, and even he has remarked that he doesn't know how to handle her or our situation. And they aren't in the best of health either. Sis Ramsey has battled cancer, seizures and all kinds of sickness in just the three years I've been here. Everyone is sickly and decrepit, and I feel like I'm by myself most days. I'm thankful I at least have my health. For what that's worth.

Again, I'm sorry. 

[The Purple Fuzzy]

* The Purple Fuzzy leaves Mel another hug

[Chseeads]

Mel-Mel, perhaps we should just start up our own nursing/old folks home.  We both have plenty of candidates to start with. 

[Melody]

don't apologize Mel.  God's got an awesome blessing and fruitfulness in it all for you if you just keep loving everybody.  You're an amazing woman of God, sis.

[MelodyB]

I'm just sorry I've been unloading such negativity. Normally I try too keep a good additude and my problems to myself. But I was just pushed beyond the limit today and I blew up.



Fixing to get ready and head to church with dad. At least I'll have some good hugs and some Jesus time in a little bit.

[Roscoe]

I'm just sorry I've been unloading such negativity. Normally I try too keep a good additude and my problems to myself. But I was just pushed beyond the limit today and I blew up.



Fixing to get ready and head to church with dad. At least I'll have some good hugs and some Jesus time in a little bit.

Mel, that's what I love about this place. We don't have to always be upbeat- we can be ourselves even in the bad times and know that the others will understand and, even better, lift us up in prayer. This place has literally been a Godsend for me over the past , what, year and a half, that I've been here.

And in my own sharing- Got home and began to install the free range we were given. that was quickly brought to a standstill by the discovery that the dadblasted old stove was hardwired in, not plugged in. I'm petrified of three things- heights, snakes, and electricity. I ain't going willingly near any of the above. So I gave up and called the local appliance repair man and scheduled a service call. Now, please, God let it be repairable and affordable to do so. Please.

I then stormed out to work on Rusty a bit. Got his valve cover pulled.....man, I'm dreading this head rebuild like a mugg. NOw I'm inside for the night, where maybe I won't destroy anything else....

[The Purple Fuzzy]

Too bad we're so far.  Hubby is good with electricity.

[MelodyB]

How shocking!


Anywho...I feel MUCH better now. I got some good good GOOOOOD Jesus time! We watched a video from POA. Bro Mangun did the praying thru the tabernacle. Wow! Even through just watching the video we all ended up on our faces! Well I did, I don't know what everyone else was doing. I was oblivious. Haha.

I feel better about things, not as frustrated as I was, I still have cleaning to do tomorrow and cooking and getting things ready, BUT! I get to see my brother and his sweet kiddos on Saturday! We are gonna have a great time and all this mess will be forgotten. I'm gonna be fine.


Thanks everyone for the support while I was venting today. It's VERY nice to know that I have this place to come to. I wouldn't trade any of you for all the red M&Ms in Cleveland.


*HUGS* to all! (even SethiePoo!)

[Chseeads]

American Greetings is headquartered in Cleveland. 

w2cchas

[Heather]

relatively calm day. i got off work early. we finished the brakes on my car.

i haven't slept work anything the past 3 nights.

oh and we're supposed to have even stronger storms tomorrow evening/night than we did last night. guess who's just gonna go ahead and camp in the basement tomorrow night? ME! 

[kmymbir]

Allow me to fill you in ducky- When you went down, so did a lot of others, God took people to their knees. Then those who did not drop, snot, and repent got prayed for by pastor! A few kids started to trip out and scream because of the volume. You may wonder how I know this, well I had a migraine and it was all I could do to stay in service,  So I was holding my head watching in agony wishing I could participate. It got crazy in there! God was changing some people and their prayer lives.
So I was standing there minding my own business when randomly some one grabs me from behind and pulls me into the row of chairs behind me! I was about to scream and fight back, then I realize it was sister Ann, I think she was trying to pray the devil out of me. LOL She was literally screaming in my ear and I thought I would die. All I could do was tell myself I was taking it for Jesus. Eventually I fought through the pain and prayed through.
I had to get mom to drive home though, I'm now in my room in the dark, it's killing me to make this update. But I miss you all and I love you all enough that checking in is worth it.
I need to try and sleep now.
Good night.

[MelodyB]

You called me Ducky while I am watching him on my TV perform an autopsy on some chick who wrapped her car around a tree. Lol!