Month: September 2005

  • The Georgia National Fair starts one week from today....The ferris wheel is starting to go up...putting some of the basics in line....Guess it is a good thing they take over a week to put them up and have time to check, recheck, tighten all the nuts and bolts....Safer, anyway.... Just want to the weather to cooperate and turn COOLER!!!!


    Work has been pretty good, slightly stressful, but that is the norm lately....I got to be Charge, again last night, uneventful...The Emergency room played nice...nothing too drastic....I like it it when it goes smoothly....Everyone there was professional, competent, able to function on their own...yeah!!!


    Paid some bills, ugh...ran some errands...went to Walmart...uh-oh...Yea, I was a bad girl....But it was so much fun....Will be so glad when the wedding is over and I can stop looking and finding things...HA HA HA HA...Yea, right....like that will stop me....Then I will try to fill up Josh's apartment.....I will need blinders for when I GO OUT IN THE WORLD.  Please pray....


    I am off tonight, so you all know what that means...I'm cooking again....Cleo appreciates me....Loves the smells from the oven or the simmering pot....She really liked the beef stew....every day we ate it....but the poor dog likes it when  I eat goldfish for dinner....she is not a picky or discerning eater....


    I have so many plans for my life whenever I am able to retire....have books up to the ceiling and back down...going to make all 20 scrapbooks I plan to create....going to continue with my journaling....going to travel...(if gas isn't 10.00 dollars a gallon...), going to take cooking classes.....learn a new language....watch all the videos and movies I own, and listen to all the CD's I have purchased....okay, I'll stop...Because the list grows by the second....(HA, God probably is laughing, and thinking, yea, right. like she is ever going to retire...HA HA) We all know how His sense of humor is....


    " You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures         Visit Pressing_on_to_JESUS's Xanga Site!forevermore."Psalms  16:11               


    Hope everyone has an awesome and productive week-end...or not....Take time to tell those you love how you feel...show them they mean the world to you, how glad you are that God brought you together...He has His reasons and His own, special purpose for us all...

  • Another WOW!!! Can you believe Christmas is 3 months away???? ARGH!!!!


    That means less than that until Josh and Sabrina's wedding...ARGH!!!!!!


    Okay, enough stressing....Doing Media church this morning...yep, Mable White is blessing me this morning....Does a good job!


    Slept for 12 hrs last night, I was exhausted....Spoke with my sister....They were getting some rain and wind from Rita...hopefully no tornadoes....Praying....


    Laundry is the plan for this afternoon....studying and reading.....not too exciting, but necessary....On my second cup of coffee....feeling more alive, better, less groggy...yea, I know, it is the caffeine....HA. Another necessity, for me, anyway....


    Hope everyone was Blessed this morning at church service...Know Discover Point was getting thier Praise Groove on, singing and rocking, praising our Heavenly Father.....I'll catch it in 2 weeks....Tell and show those around you how much you love and respect them....Share God's Love and His Joy with the world.... Stay focused and Keep smiling from the inside out!!!!


    The word for any relationship, "COMPROMISE!!!"...

  • Wow.... Can you believe this hurricane season??!! Praying for the Texas and Louisiana coast...Some of Mississippi, Alabama (Dauphin island was already sustaining some flooding this morning...)


    Will have to await the outcome from Josh's car accident ordeal...but there may be some good from it..Josh witnessed to the guys mom and told her about Discover Point, she was really interested...Cool, huh??!! Now if they will just be reliable and have his car fixed, and show up at church, that would be a blessing....x 2...


    Pray for a family in Josh's apartment complex....woman with children, who were evicted yesterday...May God provide shelter, may they have blood family or church family to help out....Sadness is closer than just the pictures on the TV...from natural or man-made disasters....


    "The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. And those who know Your name will put their trust in You;


    For You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You". Psalms 9:9-10


    May we all seek our Heavenly and Gracious Father in all areas of our life, through good times and bad...May we all learn what God intends for us to learn through all situations...Visit Pressing_on_to_JESUS's Xanga Site!


    Have a most awesome and Blessed  weekend...Stay focused....Bless those around you...Keep smiling from the inside out.... Share God's Love and His Joy with all you come in contact with daily....

  •     Visit Pressing_on_to_JESUS's Xanga Site!        Okay, What a gorgeous day.....Especially since I am off tonight!!!! Survived 4 nights of being Charge Nurse on Med-surg floor...No one died...everyone played nice, except one or two patients....LOL. Don't have to do it again until next week...one day only, yeah!!


    I signed my life away yesterday...refinanced my house, lower interest rate, for 10 yrs...Will be able to fix up the inside now !!! YEAH!!! The plans I have...heh heh heh...Pray I make the right decisions....


    Pray for Josh, someone hit his car, in the parking lot of the Admobile office yesterday...Josh was sitting in the Admobile truck, and saw the guy do it..He handled himself very maturely, very grown-up...When he probably wanted to rip the guy's head off...Just kidding...Pray the situation gets resolved in a timely manner...very amicably...


    Of my two friends that just had surgery, one is healing well and doing wonderfully. The other is having a hard time...not healing fast because of complications, getting depressed...Please pray for God to intervene in her emotional and physical healing process....


    Coffee is finished brewing....Ahh the aroma is divine....can you smell it??? Think I'll have a nice crisp bagel to go with my first cup....Plan on cooking today...yeah, you know, because I am off...The only time I cook is when I am off work, and when Josh is home....Cleo loves for Josh to be home, cooking, smells and food...tee hee...On the menu for today, and the rest of the week, lol, is homemade beef stew, (with tender pieces of sirloin, fresh mushrooms, onions, carrots, parsnips, new potatoes, simmered in a deep, rich burgundy tomato broth)....going to let it simmer all day long...Having either corn bread, or large loaf of SourDough bread...Maybe a salad....Call before you drop in....Ha Ha.   Everyone have a most Blessed week....Stay focused....Smile from the inside out... "Commit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass" .......  Psalm 37 ;1-5.

  • "My son, keep your Father's commands


    and do not forsake your mother's teaching.


    Bind them upon your heart forever;


    fasten them around your neck.


    When you walk, they will guide you;


    when you sleep, they will watch over you;


    when you awake, they will speak to you."


    Proverbs 6:20-22       Visit Pressing_on_to_JESUS's Xanga Site!


     Christ has no body now on this earth, but yours. 


    No hands but yours, no feet but yours;


    yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion looks out on the world,


    yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now.


    I was Blessed greatly this weekend, by music, by words, by actions, and by friends, fellowship and love.   May we all continue to show God's Love and Grace through our daily walk through this world....Touch, Love, Tell, and Bless those all around you..... Smile from the inside out....Remember, you may be the only Jesus those you come in contact with in this world may ever see....   Have a most Awesome and continuously Blessed week!!!         

  • From most of my comments, my pictures were not able to be seen by anyone...Not sure what I did wrong...But I could see them. I copied them to my xanga page from pictures emailed to me by my cousin.Oh well, you know how technologically challenged I am!! LOL...


    I survived my first night back as Charge nurse on Monday night....Yeah! It has been many years since I performed as that role, Alot has changed and alot had to come back to me...Hoping to be off Thursday night, A good and special friend had some major surgery, and needs some supervision and care during the night for several days...I want to help, if I can get the night off. Pray for her recovery!!!


    I am loving the essence of the fall to come...less humidity...cooler, somewhat, mornings and evenings...sky is a little more blue...the leaves are falling and crunching everywhere....I cannot wait!!! My favorite time of the year, along with winter and spring....


    I have another eye appointment in the morning...oh joy, tedious, just to say the least. Just checking on the progress of my eyesight and to see if anything else has developed since the last appointment.


    Pray Josh's cable gets turned on today...he is so lost, just watching movies...and listening to talk radio all day long...He is much more informed than I am...HA HA... Planning on attending the caterer appointment Saturday morning...Yum...cake, icing, snacks and hordeurves for breakfast....And then Josh and Sabrina have a Marriage Counseling session later that day....I'm going up to Conyers for Sunday morning First Premier Service of Discover Point!!!! Pray for the congregation to come...pray for the lost and the souls of those in Conyers who need to be there....May God bring them there to worship and praise Him all morning long....I'm excited!!!


    And then we have to make a visit to local Wally World  (Wal-mart)...need to stock up Josh's kitchen and bathroom...with provisions....That will be fun....


    Keep all of the Gulf Coast in your prayers during this stressful time of recovery, reconstruction...and pray for the areas that are taking in thousands of people and families into their region, for jobs, housing, schools....Just Pray continuously....


    May we all stay focused in our pursuits....May our purpose be followed and obtained as God deems it to be....May we stay Blessed, and Bless those around us....Walk the walk...Talk the talk...Share God's joy and His love....Smile from the inside out....Later...

  • New Pictures from our Fairhope trip.....            My sister, Sue, feeding Potato Chips to the greedy seagulls off the pier...."MINE, MINE,MINE".....     


      My niece, Jill, my cousin Laura and her husband Norman, from Florida, and Sue, my "older" sister....tee hee....                   on the pier...which was almost all lost during Katrina...BOO HISS!!!!


              Proud Mama, And Josh and Sabrina...right after he "popped the question"...and SHE SAID YES!!!!!!!                                                                                                                                                                                                  The table, all decorated, by Me, Jill, and Laura.....We had a grand time with the sneakiness and deception.....We were having way...too much fun.....    


                                            The Happy Couple.....AHHHHH!!!


    Finally...it is over with...Unh, unh...it has now just began.....                                                        And one more to share...... Jill, her son Brooks, and her fiance' Chris....(Brooks was sick almost the whole time....ahhh)....


    More to come when I get them developed and posted......Have a most Awesome day.....Getting ready to call Josh...at the "time of his actual birth...12:48...To wish him a most Glorious Birthday.....Everyone, be sure to give him a call...or post a birthday wish to him...You know how sentimental he is,...yeah, right....Well, he is a closet softy, after all....Stay Blessed....Later.....


     


     

  • So, sitting here, just thinking back to 24 yrs ago today....Knew I was going to be induced, because my bloodpressure was so dangerously high, had been on bed rest for 4 months, doped up to bring my bloodpressure down, and it still did not work, so, anyway....Rambling and run-on sentence....Went for my daily Dr. appt on Tues. the 1rst of Sept., the Dr decided the baby could be born, was big enough...strong enough... at 37 weeks...(I told him he would have to pay for the first 2 yrs of private school....cuz' the deadline for starting school was the birthdate of 09/01...and my child would be born on 09/02....a whole year behind just because he chose that day...GRRRRR) Gerald, my ex, washed baby clothes and brought them to me on our bed, to fold...cuz' I was still on bed rest...Did not sleep much that night...too excited, worried, nervous....Got up way early, around 0400...had to be at the Houston Medical Center by 0530....And Gerald had to stop by Hardees to get a cup of coffee and a sausage biscuit...smelled so good, and I couldn't have anything after midnight...BOO! Anyway..... To the labor room...all the fun stuff you have to go through...Caudal did not take, after 4 trys...(the thing they did before the epidural came about...)...so I got a couple of doses of Demerol...UGH!!! Pitocin started...Double UGH!!! UGH!!! Was fully dilated by 1130...But the baby went into fetal distress...not handling the contractions well...Remember flying down the hall on a stretcher to the surgical suites....Time for an Emergency c-section....And by 12:48...after RIP and SPLIT...sorry....Joshua William COleman Brickle was yanked into this world....ALl 6 lb 9 oz of his cute little self...19 1/4 inches long....cute little red headed button....yes his hair was reddish tinted when he was born...then it washed away....ha...after a month or two...cutest little bottom lip, all quivering....WHAT HAPPENED??? I do not remember 24 yrs going by.....Someone slipped a mickey into my gatorade or something... and now, here I am 24 yrs older...Not quite fair....Can't I have a do over, second chance or something?? But I am so proud of who He is and who God has molded into a fine young man, HIs testamony tells that story....I feel like I didn't have too much to do with who he is today...I wasn't always there for him...or the proper example of a motherly role model....kind of self-absorbed, or depressed and zombie-like after the divorce and during nursing school....I regret that terribly!!!!...But it did make him very self-sufficient, in more ways than one...and independent.... If you see Josh today, wish him a very happy birthday.....Will plan a celebration for the next year....more of a mile stone...1/4 century....ARGH!!! Okay, the motherly guilt is swarming all around me....But I will make it up to him next week-end when I see him!!! Thank you God, for blessing me with this special young man....Take him and mold him further into who YOU want him to be....may he find his path and his purpose...as YOU have planned....And may he smile from the inside out...because he is loved by many,,,,,Amen!!


    Hope the planning session in Marietta goes well tomorrow.... Everyone be safe....Be Blessed....Stay focused....Walk the walk...talk the talk...share God's Love and His Joy with the world....Later...Visit Pressing_on_to_JESUS's Xanga Site!

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