6/27/05

just got home from work...a good day, basically, with some frustrating moments thrown in...we've a staff meeting tonight, so i am looking forward to that...will write more later...

6/25/05

life as we know it can and does change in the blink of an eye...won't go into details, but my son matt is hurting quite a lot right now and i just want to be here for him...it just shows me once again that the things and the relationships of this world cannot be our focus, because people always fail one another...it's just the way it is...and i am one of those humans of whom i speak...i just have to focus on the Lord and take these sorrows to Him and let Him work in our lives...i just want to put both of my kids in His hands and trust Him....it's hard, though, isn't it?

i spent the day working at "ye olde merrie greenwood renaissance faire" at howard amon park, and after church will work at it tomorrow...as a fundraiser for hanford high music, we sell tickets, take tickets, give stamps, take surveys, give out the "jester press" faire newspaper...it was fun, but very busy, very tiring, and of course, there weren't enough people to help in shifts, so i walked there this morning (a good 3 mile walk, but it was a beautiful morning walking mostly along the path along the columbia river) and worked from 8:30 am until about 5:00 pm...tomorrow i will go to church then walk there and i guess work from around 11:00 am until about 5:00 pm...i had never attended a renaissance faire before, it was enlightening and interesting...i like to experience new things in life, you know...

so tonight i will watch the local news, then nbc nightly news with john siegenthaler, then a repeat of csi, then i don't know...maybe a dvd...maybe i will read (finish harry potter and the goblet of fire maybe?)...or go to bed....maybe matt and i will play another game of chess with the pieces that are mariners and yankees players...no...i lost that game badly....i am not a good chess player, but i like the way it makes me think...

such sad news lately...those three boys in new jersey who accidentally died...i just pray for the families and friends...also the girl killed in florida in a shark attack...don't know what will happen in the situation with the young woman who is missing in aruba...how do families go on?...each day there are casualties of war in iraq and afghanistan...i know, i know, that death will end the earthly lives of each of us, but it's hard to handle...

later....

6/23/2005

i got home from work about one hour ago...matt and brie are on the couch and we have the movie "love actually" on...i have only seen it about 6 times...some of the characters i like, such as "colin frizzle" and colin firth's character and liam neeson's, i feel badly for emma thompson's character, and i don't like the alan richman or his secretary or colin firth's wife/girlfriend at the beginning...if you ever watch it, make sure to watch the entire movie, or none of it will make sense...saw "moulin rouge" for the first time the other day, and i really liked it...very unusual, but something kind of cool about it...so, work was good with the exception of one incident that isn't even worth going into...so i will be going to bed at 7:30 or so again, that is okay...great mariner game last night, they came back to beat the a's...kim and konnor did something so helpful last night, i can't even explain it, but i was truly surprised and shocked in a positive way...in some ways life is a really difficult struggle, but last night really showed me something...both of my kids have to deal with too many adult responsibility type of issues, and as much as i would like to shield them from most of these things until they absolutely have to deal with them, well, i can see that it gives them both a maturity and an intuitiveness to the needs of others that people their age don't always see...well, i will write again later...

6/20/2005

it's a hot day in the tri-cities...i think it is about 95...certainly not the hottest it has ever been at this time of year, but it's been mild for so long that it catches people off guard...yeah, i watched the weather reports and knew it was going to be hotter, but it just feels too warm for me, i prefer the mid-80's...i'm watching nbc nightly news, then the local news will be back on, then whatever...i'll probably go to sleep fairly early, since i am waking up at about 4:30 am to get to work on time...not complaining, i like that shift, and am thankful for my job...i'm tired, so i will quit for now...

it's about 10 am on saturday...i have been up since about 6 doing some cleaning and stuff...actually i was in bed until 7, listening to this cool radio show that i try to hear every weekend, called "weekends around the northwest"...it is all about resorts, bed and breakfasts, camps, ski areas, etc. in the pacific northwest ( mainly washington, oregon, western idaho, northern california too) and also updates festivals, shows, etc. that are happening each weekend...plus a movie critic discusses latest releases (today he highly recommended "batman begins" and "mr. and mrs. smith")...one of the festivals it mentioned is one at which i will be working next weekend...it is "ye old merrie greenwood faire" which is next saturday and sunday in howard amon park...i think that i am selling tickets as a hanford high school fundraiser...

speaking of hanford high...anyone who has read my archived blog entries knows that silverwood is one of my favorite places in the world!!!...it is such an awesome amusement park/water park...i went up there with hanford high/middle school students and had the best time!...we twice went on corkscrew (a very brief, very fun metal roller coaster with two 360's!), one time each on the huge wooden roller coasters, tremors and timber terror, twice on my favorite ride, tilt o'whirl ( it's fairly mild but goes really fast if you spin it just right1), went on the water rides called thunder canyon (very fun!) and the log flume (kind of boring), also i skipped the super round up (i've been on it at the fair, i think i got sick), then we went to boulder beach, which is the fun water park with the wave pool (i could spend all day in there), went on the tube slide (suprisingly scary!), floated around in the "river" on tubes...so fun...i hope to save up some money for later this summer to take me, matt, brie, and others, and kim and whoever she wants to bring...there will have to be a limit because of room in the cars, and also it is about $40 a ticket each and people will have to pay most, if not all, of their tickets...hope we can work this out because it ends up being such a fun day...

ok, so i don't really have plans except i have been invited to a lasagna dinner thing at konnor's house...i really like konnor and his family so i am pretty excited to go...it starts at 5:00 and i think i will walk there...i haven't spent too much time with kim lately, so this should be nice...

later...

early saturday morning

frustration...i just wrote a great blog entry, but my @%^$# internet disconnected before i published it, so dang...well, i won't go into a lot of detail, but things were kind of rough earlier, and i hope they get better...mainly, i just love my kids and want us to work things out...i want to continue to work to provide a home for them and support them and love them without undue pressure and unrealistic expectations, but with some healthy boundaries and limitations and some expectations that will help them become who they can be in life...and today we had some difficulties and miscommunications about this...i know it will get better...hey, thursday i went to the mariners-phillies game at safeco field!!!!!!!!!!!...ichiro was right in front of us, we were sitting in the front row next to right field!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...really really fun!!!...more about it later...take care, everyone in blogland!!!!!!!!!!!