The music of Anticipation

Well, after enduring the monotonous daily life, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I mean, not that I don't mind my life, but it is nice to have something out of the ordinary happen once in awhile. Anyway, there are a few things coming up that will bring a change to my daily life.

First, Ashley and I will be going to the Stand Out for Christ Christian Music Festival this coming Monday. This is the first concert of this kind that will be held in Ripon. We will get to hear some pretty well known Christian artists. Artists such as Kutless , BarlowGirl, Big Daddy Weave, Stellar Kart, and Radio Friendly. I hope that we have a great time and that this can become an annual event.

Another event that is going to liven up our life if the arrival of family members who are coming to celebrate the graduation season. Braden graduates from 8th grade June 4 and my cousin Rianna is graduating from High school.

The first of the relations to be coming is my Grandma Schuller. She will be here next week Thursday! Despite all the work that goes into having company, I am really excited! I haven't seen Grandma since I graduated from Dordt. And the last time she was out here was in 2003, I believe ( I am not sure because I was at Dordt). We also have relations from the other side of the family coming out for Rianna's graduation. They will be here the following week. It will be very exciting because it will be the first time in many years that all of my Mom's siblings will be together. At the last reunions we have gotten 7 or 8 of them but this time all 9 will be there!

Well, other than family not much is new here. Now time to get cleaning!

Hot ..... May Nights?

Here I sit in my room,
wondering why I deserve this doom.
Why at this time of night,
do wonderful, peaceful sleep I fight?
Why is it that I am still awake?
Is not sleeping a piece of cake?
You may wonder what causes me,
to lay here in horrid agony.
The things that make me feel this way,
are two issues that have pledged me all day.
The Lord has blessed us with wonderfully warm weather,
that gives me symptoms that are a torment both separate and together.
With one I cough, sneeze and feel like I am in a fog.
with the other I feel like I am in a humid bog.
So yes, my poor dear blog followers,
and even some of my fellow issue wallowers.
If you too suffer from sweats and sneezes,

I soon hope different weather pleases.

If you couldn't understand from my poetry above, it is about 2 in the morning and I can't sleep. It is so hot here! And along with that I am being plagued by allergies. I must say on the bright side my room has cooled down from 92 degrees down to 87. But, sadly there is little air movement outside and so the three fans I have going, don't pull in as much of a refreshing breeze as I wish.

Now, I don't want you all to think that I am hating this weather all together. It does bring the opportunity to use the swimming pool without getting pneumonia which is what we at the Schuller house did most of today. However, it makes trying to sleep just awful. Not only am I on my third box of tissues and feel so hot, there are these little brown bugs that get into everything! And, I just found out that they bite! Well, hopefully, but doubtfully, I can turn the AC on in my room tomorrow, they say it is going to be 104+, I can't wait. :-P
Now, don't you all wish you can be in sunny CA?

The music of boredom

I know, I know. I didn't post yesterday. I was told but someone (aka my sister) that my blog was boring, that all it is is quotes and such. I must say that lack of new news and lack of desire to write did get in my way yesterday. However, in my defense I had originally warned that people about that my blog was going to be boring and that the only reason I was posting everyday was so that I would not forget about it completely.

Well, time for me to get "back to work". I just don't know how I am going to get everything done before I have to leave today. ;D

Mother's Day 2009

Well, today was mother's day. I hope everyone had a great day even if they were able to spend it with their Moms/ children or not.

Here at our house we let mom of the hook from making lunch. Ashley made her ranch burgers and I made a strawberry dessert. Mom and Braden also spent sometime in our pool. (Yes, swimming weather is here).

Other than that it was a usual Sunday afternoon here at the Schuller house. Thanks for a reason to celebrate mom! Happy Mother's day!

Hamster in the Wheel of Life

Have you ever felt like you were a hamster in a running wheel? You keep going and going, and you just don't get anywhere.

The Shack and The Big Bang Theory

Alright, so to what I am sure will be my sister's delight I have started reading The Shack. I don't know if any of you have read it but it is a very intriguing book. I am still trying to find a way to express my thoughts about it. I will say that at times I find myself wowed by the way the author describes the different relationships and concepts and such. However, I find myself leery at other theological thoughts. If anyone has read the book or are reading it i would welcome thoughts or feelings.

That's my thoughts for the day. Now I am off to watch more episodes of The Big Bang theory. It you haven't seen the show you should..... it is just so funny!

Attitude

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.” ~Charles R. Swindoll

My day in "quotes"

"I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored." -ERICH FROMM, The Dogma of Christ

(Me after all the guests had checked out by 11am)


"I can't uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of 'Uninstall Shield'."

(This is what I was thinking while trying to uninstall my virus shield so I could reinstall the new version. I still am stuck with the old one.)


“Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.” - Ashleigh Brilliant

(Certain people at the hotel today)


“The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.”
-Henry S. Haskins

(OK, so I wish that all phones had cameras so this one would work for people I had to talk to on the phone today.)


I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. — Edward Verrall Lucas

(For the girl who works the shift after me)


Food, food everywhere and nothing to eat. – (Me looking in the freezer for something for dinner.)

But on the whole it was a pretty good day. I got to spend time at home relaxing this evening. Hope all of you had good quotes to fill your day.

Do you want to delete Sarah E.?

Now, some of you may wonder at the title of this post. Why in the world am I being asked if I want to delete my friend Sarah? Well, that lack of desire to do something productive is over. I am officially in organizing mode.

I finished filing all my vocal music the other day, so now when looking for a song I don't pull out 2 or 3 different binders of unorganized mess, that is worse when I put it away. Now I can go strait to the type of song I want and look through a smaller stack! Woohoo for file boxes!

I have also downsized my quote book from two half full, tattered, broken notebooks and one ugly binder to one nice journal type book. This is still a work in progress because some genius decided the cursive looked better than print... i have now come to the conclusion that my hand is a little stronger for all the pain I put it through and that sadly my handwriting is still as atrocious as ever.

The last thing that I am currently working on is taking my pictures on my computer and compiling them onto CDs. This is what really got me into organize mode. See, I went to defrag my computer one day. I didn't want to wait to long like I had one time and have it take seven and a half hours to defrag. So, I went to do so, and it my computer would not let me. I did not have enough room on my drive to do a defrag! Well, after deleting a few photos to get enough space it got me going on the rest of the organizing. and so that is why my computer wants to know if I want to delete Sarah E. Sarah was just taking up to much space on my computer so I am getting rid of her. Hopefully she doesn't mind. ;D

Sumer Is Icumen In Lhude sing cuccu!

There are many things that remind us that the seasons are changing. Many times it is the change in the weather. That is not what turns my thoughts to triple digits, ac, and swimming. However, the thing that is turning my thoughts toward summer is not the change in temps, wanting the house cooler, or diving into the cool, refreshing water. The thing that turns my thoughts is the end of the church school year, more specifically, the Gem's mother, daughter tea.

It was a evening full of skits, fashion shows and cupcakes. Yes, I got to put my baking skills to the test. I had to make 18-24 cupcakes for this annual get together. Happily there was no drama in the making of the cupcakes (at lest nothing I couldn't fix without starting over). And, it was a lot of fun to do some baking again. But, I think I have had my fill for a little while. The cupcakes tasted good. No one has gotten sick from eating them so we assume that despite a little bit of egg yoke that got in and shouldn't have, it was safe to eat them. Summer is coming in Loudly sing, Cuckoo, (and eat cupcakes!) ( and no, those are not mine in the picture, I did not get a picture of mine).

On this Sunday afternoon

Well, I have decided to try to at least post some sort of thought each day to try to get in the habit. I was never one for keeping up on a journal. I always liked the idea. I would have visions of some future decedent of mine stumbling across my journal after I had died and gaining all this wisdom that I had felt important to pass on. Sadly, most of my journals/ diaries never made it past two or three days. So I hope that I will keep this up a bit better. As to any wisdom I may pass on, if anyone stumbles across a profound thought I am glad I could help broaden your horizons. To anyone else who needs cheap entertainment, I am glad to report that this is free and that you are not wasting any money. But I do wonder who in their right mind would actually want to read this?

Well, today is one of those days were I can't decide how to spend my time. I want to do something productive, but I don't feel like doing any of the productive options that are available to me. Then I think I could scrapbook...... but I won't allow myself to do that until the rest of my space is picked up and we're back at the not doing productive stuff. I could watch a movie but, I don't feel like watching any of my movies (yes, some of you are astounded that I don't want to watch one of my movies over again for the tenth plus time). I who can watch a movie multiple times in one week don't want to watch any movie at all . I could read a book.... but, I am having the same issue as I did with the movies. So, until I figure out what to do, I will sit here writing nonsense, wait for it to start raining again, and listen to violin music on my computer and the scare guns going off in the cherry orchard down the road, all on this Sunday afternoon.

Well, I have finally done it. I have created a blog. I am not sure if I will keep this up or not but, I have one. I really don't have a lot of interesting things to share about my day to day life. But, we will see what comes up.