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Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 9:32 PM
What a roller coaster of a week. I had extreme moments of joy and extreme moments of frustrations. But such is life. One evening, I was alone in the house which is very rare and I was just crying and so I went to the computer and looked up the music to a new song I wanted to learn. I had seen the sheet music in our church’s magazine and I had tried to pick it out on the piano, but I am not very good at that. I did find it on YouTube and the music was incredible. I went from being sad and frustrated to feeling peace, comfort, and joy. |
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Posted on Monday, February 13, 2012 7:38 PM
It snowed last night and was icy so the college did not start classes until 10 am. My class is at 9 am. In other words, I did not have class today. Yea! I just stayed home. I still woke up early and read for a while. I just finished, “Killing Lincoln” by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard and now I am reading, “To Try men’s Souls” by Newt Gingrich andWilliam R. Forstchen. Both books are hard to put down and are excellent. I am making Felipe, my 17 year-old read both. I then recruited Fito and a friend who is staying with us, Jorge, to help me rearrange furniture. |
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Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 8:38 PM
I am teaching a computer class write now (well…they are practicing their keyboarding). This is a beginning class and they come without even knowing how to use a mouse, turn on the computer, etc. many times they haven’t even see the Internet. It is a fun class to teach, though, as we progress through Windows, Word, and the Internet. They set up a Gmail and Facebook account. They learn to copy and paste and learn the wonders of the Web. Over and over again, the light comes on, they realize what a great tool this will be in their lives, they sent emails to each other and the excitement bubbles over and is contagious. |
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Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 4:06 PM
What a great weekend I just had. Friday morning, I woke up in one of those strange moods where something was really eating at me…I didn’t know what or why…but I knew I wasn’t happy or content with life at the moment. I ended up getting angry at Fito. We both left for work upset. Of course, we cleared it up later and I realized what had been bothering me (and poor Fito, it had nothing to do with him). Anyway, on the way to work, I was stopped by a Highway Patrolman. But a tender mercy from above was bestowed and he did not give me a ticket or even a written warning. |
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Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:49 PM
This past week I did two different meals, where I took leftovers and changed them into a new meal. As I do this frequently, I thought I would share with you what I do. The first meal was made from leftover turkey. Actually, I had canned the leftover turkey from Christmas, but one of the jars didn’t seal and was sitting in the fridge. When I opened the fridge to “stare” at the contents for a while and try to come up with dinner, I saw the jar and thought, “Oh, I need to use that.” |
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Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2012 9:53 AM
I had to write about our New Year's experience. We went to Houston and had such a strange and wonderful time. We stayed with Douglas and Ary, and guess what...their water heater broke the day before we got there. They took cold showers, but not me. I said, if I had to, well okay, but I have too many friends in Houston to be taking a cold shower. We ended up going to Ary's parents and as always they were so gracious and hospitable. Fito and I then went to visit some friends that we hadn't seen for some time. |
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Posted on Saturday, December 31, 2011 1:21 PM
We are in Houston right now visiting with family and friends. We came down yesterday. We only have Tony (he came from Fort Leonard Wood late Thursday night), Felipe, David, and Elizabeth. Matthew, Benjamin, and Maria all stayed in OKC as they all had work. Fito and I stayed with Douglas and Ary. Celeste (2 years old) and I have been watching Wee Sing videos today (a gift from us) and dancing. She wants me to hold her to dance. We opened presents with them last night and she is at that perfect age for Christmas. |
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Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:47 PM
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Posted on Wednesday, December 07, 2011 1:07 PM
Another week and come and gone…and what a week! I worked on a big training that I actually did today, and it went really well, except that I probably over prepared. I had too much content. Next time, I will do less content/theory and will have more activities to make the content more practical to them. It went really well (at least it seemed that was) we will see what the evaluations say… We also put up Christmas decorations on Saturday. Elizabeth and Rebeca helped me and they are amazing helpers so it went up quicker than in years pass. |
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Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 3:36 PM
ShareFor Thanksgiving this year, Idid something completely new. I made aSpanish turkey, a ham, andPupusas. I have never made Pupusas for Thanksgiving, but we had three sets of missionaries coming and they wanted Pupusas. I had made everything earlier in the week and we had had Pupusas that night for dinner, then I saved the rest for Thanksgiving. I also took a can of crushed Pineapple and about 1/2 cup of brown sugar and added that to the water (I always add about 1 inch of water to the pan) when I bake a ham. |
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