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2 Corinthians 12:9-10: He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Picked Tyson up from the vet today. He has to wear a cone and he has no depth perception, so there's been a lot of running into walls and then just standing there not sure what to do. I feel so bad for him. I know they say animals have a much higher threshold for pain than people, but it can't not hurt and I wish I could just dope him up for the next 2 weeks and let him sleep through the healing process. They sent him home with 2 days of pain meds... doesn't seem like enough to me... Anyway, he's home. We have him all set up in our bathroom, which is connected to our room, with wet and dry food, live catnip, water, a litter box, his teddy bear and a new bed. I can't wait until the tail is healed and the hair grows back. The vet was right, it will look pretty cute. Right now, though, it looks like a grey sausage.... and when he wiggles it, it just looks wrong. :-(

HAPPY HUMP DAY!

The old man of the house, Pops, has gone to the vet 3 times for the same thing and each time he would get some new medication or shot or whatnot... then I noticed this weekend that Mickey - the big white dog - has fleas. Which got me thinking, 'I wonder if Pops has fleas...' Sure enough, not only does Pops, but all 5 dogs and both cats. So, I went and stocked up on Frontline (and we have 3 different weight classes between our 5 dogs - if you've ever purchased Frontline, you know what that means) and Evolution for the cats yesterday. While I was at the vet, I went ahead and scheduled to bring Ashley in this Thursday b/c she tore her nail and it needs to be cut back to the quick - it's a painful process and one I was hoping to avoid. She tore her nail last week, but we've had to have them cut the nail back before and knowing how much it would hurt her, I was hoping it would heal itself and we could avoid that this time... now it's infected and sedation is going to be necessary to get the job done. So... Ashley goes in on Thursday, right...

Ok. So, Dustin and I are outside talking to my friend Lori last night and Tyson, one of our cats, walks up and he's purring, wanting lovin', so I start petting him. I ran my hand down his back and up his tail and then I realize that the BONE is sticking out the end of his tail about an inch and he's bleeding and has clearly done something to it...

So, I took him to the vet and dropped him off this morning before heading in to my 2nd day at this new job... the vet calls me a little while later to let me know they are going to have to amputate 1/2 the tail and he has to spend the night... I won't even get into how much all this crap is costing at this point...

The vet said it could have been that his tail got stuck under a tire and he went to run or another animal could have bitten it off ... she said it's actually not that uncommon in both dogs and cats... but, knowing that didn't make knowing that his tail is being amputated any easier to swallow...

... I ended up walking out (literally, grabbing my purse and walking out) of my 'new job' today, my 2nd day of work... I'm not even going to waste the time or energy going into the explanation as to why, but I will say that I had heard enough f-bombs to fill an entire week of HBO programming and after working for 8.5 hours yesterday and leaving with $26 in tips, it just felt like Churchill's all over again... not doing that again... and not putting up with some power tripping 'boss' being verbally abusive to everyone there, except, of course, his 17 year old daughter. God I hate work place politics...

I often wonder if I will ever find a job I can hold for any respectable amount of time...

I also had the pleasure of going to the doctor today to find that, yes, I do have a sinus infection and an ear infection! This week is going SO WELL so far!

Change of subject:

My little brother and his wife went to Vatican City yesterday... here are some pics:

The creepy highlighter yellow/green head:

...and Mary holding Jesus' body (it was behind bullet proof glass):

I have to remember that there is nothing in this life that can come my way, no matter how bad, no matter how 'all at once', that will separate me from the love of Christ!

Romans 8:35-39: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, 'For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.' No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord .

... and ya'll thought I was just going to use today's entry to complain...

HAPPY TUESDAY! :-)

Isaiah 25:1: O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

vs. 4-11: you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, See, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. And he shall spread forth his hands in the middle of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

and some fun stuff...

Sunset from last night - pictures from Dustin's iPhone - I want to get an iPhone so I can use the Hipstamatic app for pictures:

Tonight's sunset-ish:

We were out back and I saw this cloud - it looks just like a swordfish...or a hummingbird!

I have one more cloud picture from tonight, but I'm saving it for the end....

My little brother, Jeff, and his wife, Rachel, are in Rome, Italy right now and he keeps posting all these pictures on Facebook of him eating this ridiculous desserts - gelato, cookies, pastries - I think he's doing it just to torture me... I told him he should head over to Volterra while there and see if he can find himself any sparkly vampires (if you're not a Twilight nerd, like me, then you won't understand or appreciate my idea)...

I started a new job today... and, of course, I'm getting a sinus infection. Benadryl has stopped working and I can feel the concrete slowly filling my head with every passing hour... wonder what I'm going to feel like in the morning....

Ok - and the best cloud picture... I like to make pictures out of the clouds... Dustin usually makes fun of me, but he couldn't deny the marshmallow man in this one - his arms are out, like he wants a hug!

...and, last but not least, our dog, Jasper, has been going out in the backyard and sticking his nose down into the grass and making these weird puffing noises... we finally figured out why... makes me wonder if he's slow... I'm being serious.

I'll have to upload the actual video to the blog later - YouTube is being stupid, as usual...

HAPPY MONDAY!

Isaiah 25:1: O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

vs. 4-11: you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, See, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. And he shall spread forth his hands in the middle of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

and some fun stuff...

Sunset from last night - pictures from Dustin's iPhone - I want to get an iPhone so I can use the Hipstamatic app for pictures:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832483792/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832483792/" title="blog692 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/4832483792_aa07ccc414_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/4832483792_aa07ccc414_m.jpg" width="240" height="179" alt="blog692" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4831874697/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4831874697/" title="blog691 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4831874697_3e38aae2a7_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4831874697_3e38aae2a7_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="blog691" /></a>

Tonight's sunset-ish:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184529/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184529/" title="blog698 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/4832184529_7b6c3cf769_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/4832184529_7b6c3cf769_m.jpg" width="240" height="170" alt="blog698" /></a>

We were out back and I saw this cloud - it looks just like a swordfish...or a hummingbird!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793306/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793306/" title="blog696 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4832793306_44630ef6b8_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4832793306_44630ef6b8_m.jpg" width="179" height="240" alt="blog696" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793426/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793426/" title="blog697 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4832793426_fc0f88de69_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4832793426_fc0f88de69_m.jpg" width="240" height="179" alt="blog697" /></a>

I have one more cloud picture from tonight, but I'm saving it for the end....

My little brother, Jeff, and his wife, Rachel, are in Rome, Italy right now and he keeps posting all these pictures on Facebook of him eating this ridiculous desserts - gelato, cookies, pastries - I think he's doing it just to torture me... I told him he should head over to Volterra while there and see if he can find himself any sparkly vampires (if you're not a Twilight nerd, like me, then you won't understand or appreciate my idea)...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793164/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793164/" title="blog694 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4832793164_b2e204dd53_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4832793164_b2e204dd53_m.jpg" width="240" height="192" alt="blog694" /></a>

I started a new job today... and, of course, I'm getting a sinus infection. Benadryl has stopped working and I can feel the concrete slowly filling my head with every passing hour... wonder what I'm going to feel like in the morning....

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184219/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184219/" title="blog695 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4832184219_58fb463884_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4832184219_58fb463884_m.jpg" width="202" height="240" alt="blog695" /></a>

Ok - and the best cloud picture... I like to make pictures out of the clouds... Dustin usually makes fun of me, but he couldn't deny the marshmallow man in this one - his arms are out, like he wants a hug!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184629/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184629/" title="blog699 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4832184629_0624fe5c9b_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4832184629_0624fe5c9b_m.jpg" width="240" height="162" alt="blog699" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184653/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184653/" title="blog700 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/4832184653_307d52f5aa_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/4832184653_307d52f5aa_m.jpg" width="240" height="224" alt="blog700" /></a>

...and, last but not least, our dog, Jasper, has been going out in the backyard and sticking his nose down into the grass and making these weird puffing noises... we finally figured out why... makes me wonder if he's slow... I'm being serious.

I'll have to upload the actual video to the blog later - YouTube is being stupid, as usual...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=peZALAOCnQU

HAPPY MONDAY!

Isaiah 25:1: O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

vs. 4-11: you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, See, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. And he shall spread forth his hands in the middle of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

and some fun stuff...

Sunset from last night - pictures from Dustin's iPhone - I want to get an iPhone so I can use the Hipstamatic app for pictures:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832483792/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832483792/" title="blog692 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/4832483792_aa07ccc414_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/4832483792_aa07ccc414_m.jpg" width="240" height="179" alt="blog692" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4831874697/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4831874697/" title="blog691 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4831874697_3e38aae2a7_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4831874697_3e38aae2a7_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="blog691" /></a>

Tonight's sunset-ish:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184529/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184529/" title="blog698 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/4832184529_7b6c3cf769_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/4832184529_7b6c3cf769_m.jpg" width="240" height="170" alt="blog698" /></a>

We were out back and I saw this cloud - it looks just like a swordfish...or a hummingbird!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793306/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793306/" title="blog696 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4832793306_44630ef6b8_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4832793306_44630ef6b8_m.jpg" width="179" height="240" alt="blog696" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793426/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793426/" title="blog697 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4832793426_fc0f88de69_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4832793426_fc0f88de69_m.jpg" width="240" height="179" alt="blog697" /></a>

I have one more cloud picture from tonight, but I'm saving it for the end....

My little brother, Jeff, and his wife, Rachel, are in Rome, Italy right now and he keeps posting all these pictures on Facebook of him eating this ridiculous desserts - gelato, cookies, pastries - I think he's doing it just to torture me... I told him he should head over to Volterra while there and see if he can find himself any sparkly vampires (if you're not a Twilight nerd, like me, then you won't understand or appreciate my idea)...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793164/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793164/" title="blog694 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4832793164_b2e204dd53_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4832793164_b2e204dd53_m.jpg" width="240" height="192" alt="blog694" /></a>

I started a new job today... and, of course, I'm getting a sinus infection. Benadryl has stopped working and I can feel the concrete slowly filling my head with every passing hour... wonder what I'm going to feel like in the morning....

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184219/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184219/" title="blog695 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4832184219_58fb463884_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4832184219_58fb463884_m.jpg" width="202" height="240" alt="blog695" /></a>

Ok - and the best cloud picture... I like to make pictures out of the clouds... Dustin usually makes fun of me, but he couldn't deny the marshmallow man in this one - his arms are out, like he wants a hug!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184629/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184629/" title="blog699 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4832184629_0624fe5c9b_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4832184629_0624fe5c9b_m.jpg" width="240" height="162" alt="blog699" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184653/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184653/" title="blog700 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/4832184653_307d52f5aa_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/4832184653_307d52f5aa_m.jpg" width="240" height="224" alt="blog700" /></a>

...and, last but not least, our dog, Jasper, has been going out in the backyard and sticking his nose down into the grass and making these weird puffing noises... we finally figured out why... makes me wonder if he's slow... I'm being serious.

I'll have to upload the actual video to the blog later - YouTube is being stupid, as usual...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=peZALAOCnQU

HAPPY MONDAY!

Isaiah 25:1: O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

vs. 4-11: you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, See, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. And he shall spread forth his hands in the middle of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

and some fun stuff...

Sunset from last night - pictures from Dustin's iPhone - I want to get an iPhone so I can use the Hipstamatic app for pictures:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832483792/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832483792/" title="blog692 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/4832483792_aa07ccc414_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/4832483792_aa07ccc414_m.jpg" width="240" height="179" alt="blog692" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4831874697/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4831874697/" title="blog691 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4831874697_3e38aae2a7_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4831874697_3e38aae2a7_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="blog691" /></a>

Tonight's sunset-ish:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184529/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184529/" title="blog698 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/4832184529_7b6c3cf769_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/4832184529_7b6c3cf769_m.jpg" width="240" height="170" alt="blog698" /></a>

We were out back and I saw this cloud - it looks just like a swordfish...or a hummingbird!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793306/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793306/" title="blog696 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4832793306_44630ef6b8_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4832793306_44630ef6b8_m.jpg" width="179" height="240" alt="blog696" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793426/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793426/" title="blog697 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4832793426_fc0f88de69_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4832793426_fc0f88de69_m.jpg" width="240" height="179" alt="blog697" /></a>

I have one more cloud picture from tonight, but I'm saving it for the end....

My little brother, Jeff, and his wife, Rachel, are in Rome, Italy right now and he keeps posting all these pictures on Facebook of him eating this ridiculous desserts - gelato, cookies, pastries - I think he's doing it just to torture me... I told him he should head over to Volterra while there and see if he can find himself any sparkly vampires (if you're not a Twilight nerd, like me, then you won't understand or appreciate my idea)...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793164/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793164/" title="blog694 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4832793164_b2e204dd53_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4832793164_b2e204dd53_m.jpg" width="240" height="192" alt="blog694" /></a>

I started a new job today... and, of course, I'm getting a sinus infection. Benadryl has stopped working and I can feel the concrete slowly filling my head with every passing hour... wonder what I'm going to feel like in the morning....

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184219/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184219/" title="blog695 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4832184219_58fb463884_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4832184219_58fb463884_m.jpg" width="202" height="240" alt="blog695" /></a>

Ok - and the best cloud picture... I like to make pictures out of the clouds... Dustin usually makes fun of me, but he couldn't deny the marshmallow man in this one - his arms are out, like he wants a hug!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184629/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184629/" title="blog699 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4832184629_0624fe5c9b_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4832184629_0624fe5c9b_m.jpg" width="240" height="162" alt="blog699" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184653/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184653/" title="blog700 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/4832184653_307d52f5aa_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/4832184653_307d52f5aa_m.jpg" width="240" height="224" alt="blog700" /></a>

...and, last but not least, our dog, Jasper, has been going out in the backyard and sticking his nose down into the grass and making these weird puffing noises... we finally figured out why... makes me wonder if he's slow... I'm being serious.

I'll have to upload the actual video to the blog later - YouTube is being stupid, as usual...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=peZALAOCnQU

HAPPY MONDAY!

Isaiah 25:1: O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

vs. 4-11: you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, See, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. And he shall spread forth his hands in the middle of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

and some fun stuff...

Sunset from last night - pictures from Dustin's iPhone - I want to get an iPhone so I can use the Hipstamatic app for pictures:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832483792/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832483792/" title="blog692 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/4832483792_aa07ccc414_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/4832483792_aa07ccc414_m.jpg" width="240" height="179" alt="blog692" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4831874697/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4831874697/" title="blog691 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4831874697_3e38aae2a7_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4831874697_3e38aae2a7_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="blog691" /></a>

Tonight's sunset-ish:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184529/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184529/" title="blog698 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/4832184529_7b6c3cf769_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/4832184529_7b6c3cf769_m.jpg" width="240" height="170" alt="blog698" /></a>

We were out back and I saw this cloud - it looks just like a swordfish...or a hummingbird!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793306/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793306/" title="blog696 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4832793306_44630ef6b8_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4832793306_44630ef6b8_m.jpg" width="179" height="240" alt="blog696" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793426/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793426/" title="blog697 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4832793426_fc0f88de69_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4832793426_fc0f88de69_m.jpg" width="240" height="179" alt="blog697" /></a>

I have one more cloud picture from tonight, but I'm saving it for the end....

My little brother, Jeff, and his wife, Rachel, are in Rome, Italy right now and he keeps posting all these pictures on Facebook of him eating this ridiculous desserts - gelato, cookies, pastries - I think he's doing it just to torture me... I told him he should head over to Volterra while there and see if he can find himself any sparkly vampires (if you're not a Twilight nerd, like me, then you won't understand or appreciate my idea)...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793164/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793164/" title="blog694 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4832793164_b2e204dd53_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4832793164_b2e204dd53_m.jpg" width="240" height="192" alt="blog694" /></a>

I started a new job today... and, of course, I'm getting a sinus infection. Benadryl has stopped working and I can feel the concrete slowly filling my head with every passing hour... wonder what I'm going to feel like in the morning....

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184219/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184219/" title="blog695 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4832184219_58fb463884_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4832184219_58fb463884_m.jpg" width="202" height="240" alt="blog695" /></a>

Ok - and the best cloud picture... I like to make pictures out of the clouds... Dustin usually makes fun of me, but he couldn't deny the marshmallow man in this one - his arms are out, like he wants a hug!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184629/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184629/" title="blog699 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4832184629_0624fe5c9b_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4832184629_0624fe5c9b_m.jpg" width="240" height="162" alt="blog699" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184653/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184653/" title="blog700 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/4832184653_307d52f5aa_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/4832184653_307d52f5aa_m.jpg" width="240" height="224" alt="blog700" /></a>

...and, last but not least, our dog, Jasper, has been going out in the backyard and sticking his nose down into the grass and making these weird puffing noises... we finally figured out why... makes me wonder if he's slow... I'm being serious.

I'll have to upload the actual video to the blog later - YouTube is being stupid, as usual...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=peZALAOCnQU

HAPPY MONDAY!

Isaiah 25:1: O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

vs. 4-11: you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, See, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. And he shall spread forth his hands in the middle of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

and some fun stuff...

Sunset from last night - pictures from Dustin's iPhone - I want to get an iPhone so I can use the Hipstamatic app for pictures:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832483792/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832483792/" title="blog692 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/4832483792_aa07ccc414_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/4832483792_aa07ccc414_m.jpg" width="240" height="179" alt="blog692" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4831874697/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4831874697/" title="blog691 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4831874697_3e38aae2a7_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4831874697_3e38aae2a7_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="blog691" /></a>

Tonight's sunset-ish:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184529/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184529/" title="blog698 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/4832184529_7b6c3cf769_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/4832184529_7b6c3cf769_m.jpg" width="240" height="170" alt="blog698" /></a>

We were out back and I saw this cloud - it looks just like a swordfish...or a hummingbird!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793306/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793306/" title="blog696 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4832793306_44630ef6b8_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4832793306_44630ef6b8_m.jpg" width="179" height="240" alt="blog696" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793426/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793426/" title="blog697 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4832793426_fc0f88de69_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4832793426_fc0f88de69_m.jpg" width="240" height="179" alt="blog697" /></a>

I have one more cloud picture from tonight, but I'm saving it for the end....

My little brother, Jeff, and his wife, Rachel, are in Rome, Italy right now and he keeps posting all these pictures on Facebook of him eating this ridiculous desserts - gelato, cookies, pastries - I think he's doing it just to torture me... I told him he should head over to Volterra while there and see if he can find himself any sparkly vampires (if you're not a Twilight nerd, like me, then you won't understand or appreciate my idea)...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793164/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793164/" title="blog694 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4832793164_b2e204dd53_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4832793164_b2e204dd53_m.jpg" width="240" height="192" alt="blog694" /></a>

I started a new job today... and, of course, I'm getting a sinus infection. Benadryl has stopped working and I can feel the concrete slowly filling my head with every passing hour... wonder what I'm going to feel like in the morning....

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184219/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184219/" title="blog695 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4832184219_58fb463884_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4832184219_58fb463884_m.jpg" width="202" height="240" alt="blog695" /></a>

Ok - and the best cloud picture... I like to make pictures out of the clouds... Dustin usually makes fun of me, but he couldn't deny the marshmallow man in this one - his arms are out, like he wants a hug!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184629/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184629/" title="blog699 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4832184629_0624fe5c9b_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4832184629_0624fe5c9b_m.jpg" width="240" height="162" alt="blog699" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184653/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184653/" title="blog700 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/4832184653_307d52f5aa_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/4832184653_307d52f5aa_m.jpg" width="240" height="224" alt="blog700" /></a>

...and, last but not least, our dog, Jasper, has been going out in the backyard and sticking his nose down into the grass and making these weird puffing noises... we finally figured out why... makes me wonder if he's slow... I'm being serious.

I'll have to upload the actual video to the blog later - YouTube is being stupid, as usual...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=peZALAOCnQU

HAPPY MONDAY!

Isaiah 25:1: O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

vs. 4-11: you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, See, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. And he shall spread forth his hands in the middle of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

and some fun stuff...

Sunset from last night - pictures from Dustin's iPhone - I want to get an iPhone so I can use the Hipstamatic app for pictures:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832483792/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832483792/" title="blog692 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/4832483792_aa07ccc414_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/4832483792_aa07ccc414_m.jpg" width="240" height="179" alt="blog692" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4831874697/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4831874697/" title="blog691 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4831874697_3e38aae2a7_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4831874697_3e38aae2a7_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="blog691" /></a>

Tonight's sunset-ish:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184529/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184529/" title="blog698 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/4832184529_7b6c3cf769_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/4832184529_7b6c3cf769_m.jpg" width="240" height="170" alt="blog698" /></a>

We were out back and I saw this cloud - it looks just like a swordfish...or a hummingbird!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793306/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793306/" title="blog696 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4832793306_44630ef6b8_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4832793306_44630ef6b8_m.jpg" width="179" height="240" alt="blog696" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793426/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793426/" title="blog697 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4832793426_fc0f88de69_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4832793426_fc0f88de69_m.jpg" width="240" height="179" alt="blog697" /></a>

I have one more cloud picture from tonight, but I'm saving it for the end....

My little brother, Jeff, and his wife, Rachel, are in Rome, Italy right now and he keeps posting all these pictures on Facebook of him eating this ridiculous desserts - gelato, cookies, pastries - I think he's doing it just to torture me... I told him he should head over to Volterra while there and see if he can find himself any sparkly vampires (if you're not a Twilight nerd, like me, then you won't understand or appreciate my idea)...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793164/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793164/" title="blog694 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4832793164_b2e204dd53_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4832793164_b2e204dd53_m.jpg" width="240" height="192" alt="blog694" /></a>

I started a new job today... and, of course, I'm getting a sinus infection. Benadryl has stopped working and I can feel the concrete slowly filling my head with every passing hour... wonder what I'm going to feel like in the morning....

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184219/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184219/" title="blog695 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4832184219_58fb463884_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4832184219_58fb463884_m.jpg" width="202" height="240" alt="blog695" /></a>

Ok - and the best cloud picture... I like to make pictures out of the clouds... Dustin usually makes fun of me, but he couldn't deny the marshmallow man in this one - his arms are out, like he wants a hug!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184629/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184629/" title="blog699 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4832184629_0624fe5c9b_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4832184629_0624fe5c9b_m.jpg" width="240" height="162" alt="blog699" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184653/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184653/" title="blog700 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/4832184653_307d52f5aa_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/4832184653_307d52f5aa_m.jpg" width="240" height="224" alt="blog700" /></a>

...and, last but not least, our dog, Jasper, has been going out in the backyard and sticking his nose down into the grass and making these weird puffing noises... we finally figured out why... makes me wonder if he's slow... I'm being serious.

I'll have to upload the actual video to the blog later - YouTube is being stupid, as usual...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=peZALAOCnQU

HAPPY MONDAY!

Isaiah 25:1: O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

vs. 4-11: you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, See, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. And he shall spread forth his hands in the middle of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

and some fun stuff...

Sunset from last night - pictures from Dustin's iPhone - I want to get an iPhone so I can use the Hipstamatic app for pictures:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832483792/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832483792/" title="blog692 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/4832483792_aa07ccc414_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/4832483792_aa07ccc414_m.jpg" width="240" height="179" alt="blog692" /></a>

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Tonight's sunset-ish:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184529/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184529/" title="blog698 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/4832184529_7b6c3cf769_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/4832184529_7b6c3cf769_m.jpg" width="240" height="170" alt="blog698" /></a>

We were out back and I saw this cloud - it looks just like a swordfish...or a hummingbird!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793306/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793306/" title="blog696 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4832793306_44630ef6b8_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4832793306_44630ef6b8_m.jpg" width="179" height="240" alt="blog696" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793426/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793426/" title="blog697 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4832793426_fc0f88de69_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4832793426_fc0f88de69_m.jpg" width="240" height="179" alt="blog697" /></a>

I have one more cloud picture from tonight, but I'm saving it for the end....

My little brother, Jeff, and his wife, Rachel, are in Rome, Italy right now and he keeps posting all these pictures on Facebook of him eating this ridiculous desserts - gelato, cookies, pastries - I think he's doing it just to torture me... I told him he should head over to Volterra while there and see if he can find himself any sparkly vampires (if you're not a Twilight nerd, like me, then you won't understand or appreciate my idea)...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793164/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793164/" title="blog694 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4832793164_b2e204dd53_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4832793164_b2e204dd53_m.jpg" width="240" height="192" alt="blog694" /></a>

I started a new job today... and, of course, I'm getting a sinus infection. Benadryl has stopped working and I can feel the concrete slowly filling my head with every passing hour... wonder what I'm going to feel like in the morning....

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184219/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184219/" title="blog695 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4832184219_58fb463884_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4832184219_58fb463884_m.jpg" width="202" height="240" alt="blog695" /></a>

Ok - and the best cloud picture... I like to make pictures out of the clouds... Dustin usually makes fun of me, but he couldn't deny the marshmallow man in this one - his arms are out, like he wants a hug!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184629/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184629/" title="blog699 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4832184629_0624fe5c9b_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4832184629_0624fe5c9b_m.jpg" width="240" height="162" alt="blog699" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184653/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184653/" title="blog700 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/4832184653_307d52f5aa_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/4832184653_307d52f5aa_m.jpg" width="240" height="224" alt="blog700" /></a>

...and, last but not least, our dog, Jasper, has been going out in the backyard and sticking his nose down into the grass and making these weird puffing noises... we finally figured out why... makes me wonder if he's slow... I'm being serious.

I'll have to upload the actual video to the blog later - YouTube is being stupid, as usual...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=peZALAOCnQU

HAPPY MONDAY!

Isaiah 25:1: O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

vs. 4-11: you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, See, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. And he shall spread forth his hands in the middle of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

and some fun stuff...

Sunset from last night - pictures from Dustin's iPhone - I want to get an iPhone so I can use the Hipstamatic app for pictures:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832483792/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832483792/" title="blog692 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/4832483792_aa07ccc414_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/4832483792_aa07ccc414_m.jpg" width="240" height="179" alt="blog692" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4831874697/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4831874697/" title="blog691 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4831874697_3e38aae2a7_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4831874697_3e38aae2a7_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="blog691" /></a>

Tonight's sunset-ish:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184529/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184529/" title="blog698 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/4832184529_7b6c3cf769_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/4832184529_7b6c3cf769_m.jpg" width="240" height="170" alt="blog698" /></a>

We were out back and I saw this cloud - it looks just like a swordfish...or a hummingbird!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793306/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793306/" title="blog696 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4832793306_44630ef6b8_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4832793306_44630ef6b8_m.jpg" width="179" height="240" alt="blog696" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793426/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793426/" title="blog697 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4832793426_fc0f88de69_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4832793426_fc0f88de69_m.jpg" width="240" height="179" alt="blog697" /></a>

I have one more cloud picture from tonight, but I'm saving it for the end....

My little brother, Jeff, and his wife, Rachel, are in Rome, Italy right now and he keeps posting all these pictures on Facebook of him eating this ridiculous desserts - gelato, cookies, pastries - I think he's doing it just to torture me... I told him he should head over to Volterra while there and see if he can find himself any sparkly vampires (if you're not a Twilight nerd, like me, then you won't understand or appreciate my idea)...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793164/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793164/" title="blog694 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4832793164_b2e204dd53_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4832793164_b2e204dd53_m.jpg" width="240" height="192" alt="blog694" /></a>

I started a new job today... and, of course, I'm getting a sinus infection. Benadryl has stopped working and I can feel the concrete slowly filling my head with every passing hour... wonder what I'm going to feel like in the morning....

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184219/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184219/" title="blog695 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4832184219_58fb463884_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4832184219_58fb463884_m.jpg" width="202" height="240" alt="blog695" /></a>

Ok - and the best cloud picture... I like to make pictures out of the clouds... Dustin usually makes fun of me, but he couldn't deny the marshmallow man in this one - his arms are out, like he wants a hug!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184629/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184629/" title="blog699 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4832184629_0624fe5c9b_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4832184629_0624fe5c9b_m.jpg" width="240" height="162" alt="blog699" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184653/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184653/" title="blog700 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/4832184653_307d52f5aa_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/4832184653_307d52f5aa_m.jpg" width="240" height="224" alt="blog700" /></a>

...and, last but not least, our dog, Jasper, has been going out in the backyard and sticking his nose down into the grass and making these weird puffing noises... we finally figured out why... makes me wonder if he's slow... I'm being serious.

I'll have to upload the actual video to the blog later - YouTube is being stupid, as usual...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=peZALAOCnQU

HAPPY MONDAY!

Isaiah 25:1: O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

vs. 4-11: you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, See, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. And he shall spread forth his hands in the middle of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

and some fun stuff...

Sunset from last night - pictures from Dustin's iPhone - I want to get an iPhone so I can use the Hipstamatic app for pictures:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832483792/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832483792/" title="blog692 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/4832483792_aa07ccc414_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/4832483792_aa07ccc414_m.jpg" width="240" height="179" alt="blog692" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4831874697/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4831874697/" title="blog691 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4831874697_3e38aae2a7_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4831874697_3e38aae2a7_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="blog691" /></a>

Tonight's sunset-ish:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184529/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184529/" title="blog698 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/4832184529_7b6c3cf769_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/4832184529_7b6c3cf769_m.jpg" width="240" height="170" alt="blog698" /></a>

We were out back and I saw this cloud - it looks just like a swordfish...or a hummingbird!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793306/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793306/" title="blog696 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4832793306_44630ef6b8_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4832793306_44630ef6b8_m.jpg" width="179" height="240" alt="blog696" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793426/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793426/" title="blog697 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4832793426_fc0f88de69_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4832793426_fc0f88de69_m.jpg" width="240" height="179" alt="blog697" /></a>

I have one more cloud picture from tonight, but I'm saving it for the end....

My little brother, Jeff, and his wife, Rachel, are in Rome, Italy right now and he keeps posting all these pictures on Facebook of him eating this ridiculous desserts - gelato, cookies, pastries - I think he's doing it just to torture me... I told him he should head over to Volterra while there and see if he can find himself any sparkly vampires (if you're not a Twilight nerd, like me, then you won't understand or appreciate my idea)...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793164/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832793164/" title="blog694 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4832793164_b2e204dd53_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4832793164_b2e204dd53_m.jpg" width="240" height="192" alt="blog694" /></a>

I started a new job today... and, of course, I'm getting a sinus infection. Benadryl has stopped working and I can feel the concrete slowly filling my head with every passing hour... wonder what I'm going to feel like in the morning....

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184219/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184219/" title="blog695 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4832184219_58fb463884_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4832184219_58fb463884_m.jpg" width="202" height="240" alt="blog695" /></a>

Ok - and the best cloud picture... I like to make pictures out of the clouds... Dustin usually makes fun of me, but he couldn't deny the marshmallow man in this one - his arms are out, like he wants a hug!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184629/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184629/" title="blog699 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4832184629_0624fe5c9b_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4832184629_0624fe5c9b_m.jpg" width="240" height="162" alt="blog699" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184653/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51080761@N07/4832184653/" title="blog700 by LauraRenee79, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/4832184653_307d52f5aa_m.jpg" mce_src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/4832184653_307d52f5aa_m.jpg" width="240" height="224" alt="blog700" /></a>

...and, last but not least, our dog, Jasper, has been going out in the backyard and sticking his nose down into the grass and making these weird puffing noises... we finally figured out why... makes me wonder if he's slow... I'm being serious.

I'll have to upload the actual video to the blog later - YouTube is being stupid, as usual...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=peZALAOCnQU

HAPPY MONDAY!

Hebrews 3:7-15: So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did. That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.' So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.'" See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first. As has just been said: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion."

Matthew 22:36-39: "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

... and on that note, I'm going to get ready to worship my God and see what He has in store for me today!

Have a blessed Sunday!

I was sitting outside yesterday and these birds flew by. It looked like they were playing while flying - either that or they were fighting - let's go with 'playing' for the sake of the point I'm going to make with my little story here... I was watching them fly around, chasing each other, going into a nearby tree, then one would shoot out and a couple seconds later the other one would shoot out and chase the other one... and I was thinking about how the Bible says to consider the birds of the air, when I find myself worried that God won't take care of me... provide for me... protect me... and I was thinking, 'How much more enjoyable life would be if I could really get myself to a place of not worrying - of just trusting God, like the birds do without even thinking about it.' Do birds even know there's a God???

Matthew 6:25-27: Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

I've been worried about a lot lately. I've been just worried period. Anxious. Afraid. Unsure. You know, doctors say that anxiety is the root cause of all kinds of different serious health issues. And I've been worried about that - LOL! Think about that for a minute, because I'm not kidding: It's actually been a real source of worry for me, knowing that WORRYING is bad for my health! Talk about viscous cycle. You know it's time to step back and look at things when you're worried about worrying.

I've been at the place before where I get up, pray, read, usually listen to my daily podcast and then I just listen to my heart and do whatever it's telling me to do - usually paint - and I remember, it was so peaceful. And in doing that, I was just trusting God - trusting that He was the One giving me the desires of my heart because I delight myself in Him and just doing what my heart was telling me to do...

I guess lately - or maybe since just before the surgery - things have just been so unclear. I quit at the restaurant I was working at (or, kind of quit - I had the surgery and then never called in or anything and never heard from anyone up there, so no love loss on either end) and then just in the last couple of weeks I've been feeling physically much better, less tired.... blah blah blah... so then started the 'job hunt'. I think the only thing that stresses me out MORE than actually looking for a job is when I'm stuck working at one I have no passion for (ahem: ANY KIND OF SALES!!!) Being unemployed when you're trying to find work causes tension in basically every aspect of your life... and it has been mine as well...

Geez. Even as I sit here and write this, I think, 'I can't even focus on what the Lord might be trying to lead me into or say to me or teach me b/c all I can see are the obstacles in front of me.' What's that saying: You can't see the forest through the trees.

All I see lately is trees. So... back to the whole bird thing... (I just did a painting like a month ago with this very principle as the subject - how is it I'm at this place right now???)

Yeah. I'm trying to remind myself that I've seen God provide for me and I can trust Him because He has always shown Himself faithful in the past... I wonder why this time it's taking so long to get back to that place... this is the longest valley I've been in in quite some time.

I trust God. I know times of testing and trial and tribulation build character and faith and perseverance... wait, there's a scripture to go with this... (see, like this - that still small voice of the Spirit, it's like it's been so silent... It's not ME that remembers scripture)...

(AKJ) James 1:2-4: My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

(NIV) James 1:2-4: Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

James 1:12-17: Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. When tempted, no one should say, "God is tempting me." For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. Don't be deceived, my dear brothers. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

... found these online this evening ... there is nothing in life (apart from the presence of the Holy Spirit) that lifts my spirit like animals ... I wish we could have a pet monkey ...

Dustin got a new app for his iPhone... I don't know what it's called, but I like it!

Me and my mom:

...and this just made me laugh... now I voted McCain, so this isn't a political statement... just thought it was funny:

...and now I'm going to go continue reading Isaiah... I've never read it all the way through before and I'm still trying to get through the 1st half - all the 'an oracle against Damascus and Egypt and Assyria' to the happy, prophetic stuff in the 2nd half...

HAPPY SATURDAY!

Exodus 15:2: The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.

Psalm 69:30: I will praise God's name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving.

This is what it looks like to have a 17 year old Beagle that takes pills like a 90 year old man every day:

The rest of the pups:

Mickey, wedged between the couch and the ottoman...

Cuteness overload:

We watched 'The Runaways' last night... it was AWFUL and really unsettling seeing Dakota Fanning in such an adult role... don't waste your time, money or braincells on this one:

My brother posted this pic on Facebook of Caleb and I:

I think I look like a Lhasa Apso:

HAPPY THURSDAY!

Proverbs 3:5-6: Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.

I think I'm there.

Psalm 63: O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see your power and your glory, so as I have seen you in the sanctuary. Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you. Thus will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips: When I remember you on my bed, and meditate on you in the night watches. Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings will I rejoice. My soul follows hard after you: your right hand upholds me. But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth. They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes. But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that swears by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

I was reading the Proverb that corresponded to the particular day of the month - because there are a total of 31 Proverbs (1 for every day of the month) - but I stopped for whatever reason... picking that back up today...some program on the radio suggested reading the corresponding Proverb for the day of the month and then writing down which verses in that day's chapter stuck out to you and your situation and what you're going through at that point in your life... and then doing that every day, every month - and b/c Proverbs are such a divers collection of different moral principals, each month, the same Proverb will hold different meanings... so... here it goes...

Proverbs 20: Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.  The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own soul. It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? The just man walks in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes. Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made even both of them. Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread. It is naught, it is naught, said the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts. There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel. Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwords his mouth shall be filled with gravel. Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war. He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips. Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. Say not you, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you. Divers weights are an abomination to the LORD; and a false balance is not good. Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way? It is a snare to the man who devours that which is holy, and after vows to make inquiry. A wise king scatters the wicked, and brings the wheel over them. The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly. Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy. The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head. The blueness of a wound cleans away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

Pictures:

Jasper, being adorable:

Mickey and Zwei on our way to go play with Boots and Charlie at Uncle Jeff and Aunt Rachel's last night:

My little brother, Jeffie, cleaning my car for no other reason than b/c he wanted to do something nice for me, while I sat inside in the A/C, getting caught up on back episodes of a TV show... no, it's not normal... Jeff has this charity bone that most people don't... why couldn't I be more like him???

And, that's it for today. Happy Tuesday!

I have this burning desire to worship right now... and it's 10 till 1am... I have not felt like this in SO long... something special, something heavenly and supernatural happens when we worship... everything in life becomes so small compared to the immensity of God .... and realizing that we have the privileged to KNOW HIM and LOVE HIM and BE LOVED BY HIM!!! I feel like I could jump out of my skin right now!!!

PRAISE GOD!!!