I LOVE YOU BLUE...

Just another day at work for me... I attended a luncheon honoring some very talented folks in Austin presented by First Tee of Austin (a really cool organization) and got the treat of hearing Luke Wilson as the speaker. It was really more of a Q&A with the MC, but it was still fun. I was that person who went and took a picture with him (there were a few others too thank goodness). He was very nice though and didn't look at me like a goof. So - the only lesson learned for me today was to not have a man take the picture with my Iphone - shaky hands leads to fuzzy picture.

Enjoy!

Time flies

I knew it had been a while since I posted something. Now that I check, it has been almost an entire MONTH! I obviously have no concept of how time flies. Another story to back this up...JP and I visited an attorney a while back to work up our wills. I have been meaning to look it over and get it back to him. I finally thought about it the other day and looked back at the email. Want to take a guess on when the attorney emailed me the drafts? I thought it was just a while back...oh no...it was in 2009! I mean come on, Dena. JP and I got a little laugh out of it. At least we're still alive and haven't needed to use the wills. But now I get to go back to the attorney and look like a goof...I wonder will he charge us the same as he quoted us then, have laws changed so he'll have to start from scratch??? Silly me...

Your lookin' at a winna...

On of JP's pigs won Grand Champion Swine at the Hays County Livestock Show! This is very exciting news for our bunch. JP, Jimmy (or Pops...JP's dad), and Blake (JP's brother) work really hard and every year the piggies coming out of Jansen Farm Show Pigs have gotten better and better. It is fun to see hard work pay off.

Bad for planet...good for me

As promised, here is one picture of this weekend's purging. This was a couple of bags of trash and a couple for donation. This was from JP's closet (it took him over two hours to go through his closet) and some odds and ends I collected as I moved around the house. More to come...

Binge and Purge

definitions:

BINGE - excessive indulgence in anything
PURGE - (1) to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify. (2) to rid, clear, or free (usually fol. by of or from )

Get your attention? I am tired. Tired of junk in every single room of my house, junk drawers, toys the kids don't play with, clutter, old things that I can't decide if I should keep or toss. I hear myself say, "You never know when I might need [insert thing here]"...sound familiar? It seems that we (not only me and JP, but maybe you and just Americans in general) BINGE on THINGS and then I have nowhere to put them or can't make a decision on what to do with them and I get overwhelmed, so what do I do, you ask? I do NOTHING and it makes me feel like things are never done.

My new answer and my new plan is to PURGE. JP and I are going to go room by room in our house and rid ourselves of stuff. We will get a new box (or maybe 2) of trash bags and do some damage. We'll donate what we can or pass along to others or fill up our trash can, but no matter what, it will leave our house. I have done it a few times and it does wonders for my soul. It just makes you feel lighter.

I'll keep you posted...maybe room by room and how many bags. Just as a teaser, I already started this past Sunday in the two bathrooms and I had one full trash bag to dump and one other to pass along to others. Good start I'd say...

Philippians 4:4, 6-7

Started a Bible verse exchange with a friend today...it happens to be one of my favorites and of course it fit the feelings with my new start this week...

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Do not be anxious about anything but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Change can be good

I made it through my first day at my new job. I was pretty nervous, hadn't had a "first day" in almost 8 years. I was talking to the kids about it last night and told them I was nervous. I asked Elizabeth, "What do I do if they don't like me?" Her response, "Ummm, if dey don't yike you...(long pause)...just come home." Perfect response, but luckily, it was a great day and I felt pretty at peace with the change. I even have my own cube to call home. I put up my serenity prayer and desk calendar with pictures of the kiddos. So, here's to day two and many more to come...