Taco Bell

I have good news and I have bad news. Bad news is I burnt my tongue on the jalopenio chili. Good news is I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by not paying it. OK, so I stopped paying it a long time ago and I did not save any money today at all. Lol. But I could not resist trying to put the geico or whoever it is catch phrase on my blog post with a twist of course.

I am sitting in the mud room writing this post.
I got home and everyone or I think everyone is in their room.. ..and in my room you can hear a lot from almost any part of the house. So I am in the mud room thinking about grabbing my head phone, putting on some music and finishing this post before I go to bed.
I slept pretty well last night ....though I thought I would never get out of bed. I was so tired. Last night was pretty good.
I got up and Cady came right to me. She wanted out so I let her out figuring I could finish getting ready and them let her back in. After a bit I did not hear any barking so I checked on her.. ..she was sitting on the porch. I let her in thinking she did not want to get wet. It was a good thing I did to because not to long after there was a black lab in the yard across the alley.
McGuire text me setting she was going to be a bit late. I was going to eat a piece of toast or some cereal but I forgot.. no joke. Sara got here and I walked out thinking the getting was just wet.. ...no. ...it was complete ice. I had no problem till I got to the back of the SUV. My cane went and I bout went to. I made it to her car. We almost slid through the stop sign at the end of the block. We got to the college and slid right past our turn. It was crazy. We got on the highway and it seemed like car after car was sliding off the road. There was this yellow car that was faced the wrong way going the right way.. .it was trying to get control but failed.. ..it spun out and bout crossed to our side. On down the road there was this truck that spun out taking two signs with it. We got to the hallsville turn and the road were much better.
I had told Sara that she should not worry bout her phone While driving on ice.. .she said i only do it for you because I love you.. .I told her that now I get what people mean when they say they love you to death and I told her thanks it means a lot. Though I had told her earlier that death did not scare me.
We finally made it to the church. I was dropped off at the front door. I walked up and Bert was out and greeted me.. ..than Mark was holding the door for me. He said do not fall now that would be bad.. ..I agreed.

I went back and helped set up for stuff.. ..Sara did not like this much at all.. .it was funny. Samantha was one of the trek time helpers and she kept asking me questions.. ..trying to make them yes no ones which mostly worked. W finished and went to get donuts.. ..I ate two and if I would not have I would have not made it beyond that point. I was weak. We went in and got our group. 3year olds.. ..Sara told me she would understand if I did not want to hang around.. .I said I should fit right in. By the end of church most the kids had come to like me.. ..even though they did not like that I was not speaking.

ugh. ...I am to tired to write anymore of this post.. ..so I shall continue in the morning.

I am now awake. I stayed up till 11 mostly at the kitchen table. It was hard shifting on the floor in tree mud room. I was not sure if Jess was home or not so I wanted to make sure. ...I had figured since Cady had not come to me or was not in the living room that Jess was home.
Before I went to bed Tennessee was under a tornado warning. We had gone from icy fog in the morning thunderstorms in the evening and then we were supposed to get snow in the early morning.
I am awake and my dreams last night were alright. It is cloudy and it seems that it rained good. I thought it was hailing last night.
OK so I left off. ...
At the end of morning church. The kids had a lot of fun. They made a creation mix snack.. ..loaded with sugar. I did not have any of it.we also made a creation bottle globe. And then we had two different activities. If you had not guessed the lesson was on the7 days of creation.
We finished cleaning up.. ..all the glitter. ...all the glitter.

We left church. And decided to go to taco Bell and than the library or coffee shop. At taco Bell we started talking about theological things.. ..and how children have such an impact. How they ask the hard questions. Than I remembered how I had done that.. .how I still do that. So I pulled up a conversation where I had asked those questions.. .the hard ones. We spent the next 3 hours talking about my questions. I stumped them on a few. And now they know where I am.

We left and went to the chili throw down. We went through the mild and medium chili tables. The medium table had one with jalepenoes. It burnt my tongue. There were a few chilis that I really liked. I did not eat a full bowl though.
While waiting in line and sitting at the table I had asked McGuire to tell me about the old me and college. Something I have been starting to ask people.

She told me that personality wise I am pretty much the same. I am more reserved.. .but that that was understandable. She said we had been roommates.. ..told me about the first night that we became friends. ...told me that I loved school that I wanted to work with youth. Said I had big dreams. Also told me that I love to sing....that I loved music in general. She told me that I always has this out look on life where I did not let anything bring me down.. .or something like that.

All the people that were there for the chili throwdown had left.. .and it was time for youth group. Which meaned that all the kids were arriving. A good amount of them hung out at my table. They were interested in why I could not speak. It is funny how some thought because I could not speak that I also could not hear. ...it is funny because I had sat there last Sunday and listened and responded as they talked. Some of them knew sign some of them knew the alphabet. They were eager to learn both.

The first part of the night was spent playing a type of Dodge ball game. Brooke asked me if I was going to play and I told her that I could not because my balance was not that great. Bailey wanted me to play bounce back with her but my coordination is bad to. I am A loser.

Bert came and say beside me. And me like Mark had that morning if I had had a good week. I shook my head yes. - Mark had told me last Sunday to have a good week. - He asked me if I was improving.. ..I told him a bit.
   We went back into the cafeteria and set down for the lesson. It was on the bags of trash that we have. Um.. ..the sin in our lives. And how Jesus died so that God can take that trash out of our lives and give us a new life. It made me think.

Of course this is stuff that I had been thinking about all day...God creation sin repentance.

I will finish this day in another post.
I need to do something with the day I have.

I do have one thing that needs to be said in this blog post and that is this:
I prayed before I went to bed. Something that Kurt had said in his lesson really made me think.
I know we all talk to others about our problems and that is mostly good. ...but he said how often do we really rely on God and live the way we are meant to? . ...I like to think that there is someone or something out there that could make a change in my life.. ..I may not be who I used to be.. ..but I do like to pray. And if there is a God and if I pray hard enough and try my best to be a good person until I figure out all this.. ..and even beyond that point. ..than eventually one of my prayers should be answered right? !

So I prayed before I went to bed. I prayed for Stephen and Ash and others. I do not pray for myself. I do not need anything. Sure I want stuff but that is nothing to ask God. ....the creator of all for.
Ya hello God I do not need anything but I want a burger and a shake and some ice cream.. ..
I wonder how many people basically pray to God like they are ordering McDonalds?
It is only fair since I am figuring things out that I pray for things that are needed. ..and not by me.

Maybe we should all spend time praying or mediating on the things we need or that others need. It makes sense.. ..life would not be a good adventure without the people that come into it.. ...therefore it is not all about us !