Happy Thanksgiving!

Sorry, this is the only picture I have right now.......another one of me and the boys. :-)  Anyway, hope you and your family have a lovely Thanksgiving!  We are having some friends from church over, so that will be fun.  And thankfully Courtney has found a family that is "taking her in" for a good Thanksgiving meal in Alabama....!!!

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Too Funny...

Does the subject of "making time for God" ring a bell for you?!  It's really a slightly outrageous phrase if you think about it....

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It Was Free Coffee Day...

....at Bruegger's Bagels today!  So I enjoyed my free iced coffee on the way home from piano lessons.  They have free Wi-Fi there too, so I brought along my laptop and my SAT book, got a little studying in, (though I always find it a little hard to concentrate out in public), and just generally enjoyed my day.

Ended the day with a hilarious comedy show by Bob Smiley.....looking forward to a semi-relaxing day tomorrow (still have a ton to do but at least I'm not going anywhere!).  

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Family Pics and Spam Emails

The progression of trying to get a group picture.....

It's raining right now as I type this.  Cloudy and cold out.  True long-sleeve weather!  Unfortunately it's just a tiny cold front that is lasting for a few days.  But I'll take anything. :-) This is definitely the day for   coffee and a cozy book.....(though in my case that has to be the SAT book).  Speaking of, my test is less than a month away.  At this point my score seems to be hovering around the mid 1200's.....not amazing but not too bad either.  I guess it will depend on the questions they ask me and how focused I'm able to be on test day!

I have been getting so many spam emails in my inbox this last month or so....they're actually pretty funny to read:-)  And, yes, occasionally I do get bored enough to explore my spam folder.  In fact I just opened a very interesting one informing me that the Federal Bank wanted to give me 11.4 million dollars, and to do that, they only needed my full name, address, bank account information, social security number, phone number, pretty much anything that would be called, um, confidential information.  

And then I get the ones ALL the time telling me, in run-on sentences and no punctuation,  "rachel check out this amazing new weight loss trick i used it and lost 300 pounds so do all the stars you can look like them and find your destiny just click here."

(Apparently, from the horrific grammar, spelling, and lack of punctuation, the spam-email-writers weren't homeschooled.)

And no I never "click here".  Just sayin.

Ok, I'm done rambling about my spam folder.  I can get desperate for blog material sometimes.  

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Deliver Me, Oh Jesus

Deliver me, oh Jesus.....

from the desire of being loved.

from the desire of being extolled

from the desire of being honored.

from the desire of being praised.

from the desire of being preferred.

from the desire of being consulted.

from the desire of being approved.

from the desire of being popular.

from the desire of being better than others.

from the fear of being humiliated.

from the fear of being despised. 

from the fear of suffering rebuke.

from the fear of being forgotten.

from the fear of being wronged.

from the fear of being ridiculed.

from the fear of being suspected.

Oh Jesus! Grant that you would be the objects of my thoughts and affections, the subject of my conversations, the end of my actions, the model of my life,

my support in death and my reward.  

To know you, Christ.

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