Fifi the organizational freak

did you know that i love organizing stuff? not stuff as in events and all but stuff as in the back of the store, my room, the house in general, etc. it's so nice when you walk into a house and it's tidy! yesterday i went on a rampage in the back of the store (i had nothing else to do) and decided it was high time someone took initiative and did something about the pigsty we were working in. through the course of the day i succeeded in moving half the things leaning along the far left hand wall near the roll-up door and relocating them or getting rid of them (you may call me dumpster girl and laugh but really that is one of my favorite things to do. throw junk away. in fact the magic word really isn't 'please', it's 'throw it away'!). while moving one of the three folding picnic tables out all 30-odd shuffle board tops came crashing down, narrowly missing my head and hitting a dolly with 4 tubs of 'liquid siding' on it instead. seriously one of these days i'm going to kill myself. needless to say i was pressed to remove the shuffle boards from the floor and did so 2 at a time onto the top shelf of racking that we recently put up. thank goodness for that racking, i've fit so much on it that otherwise would be junked in big piles on the floor in the big open space and we'd be treated to regular reprimands from Dad about how 'cleanliness is next to godliness'. yes Dad it really was a good idea, although it was a hideous amount of work while we were in the process of upgrading.
so now we can actually see parts of the wall whereas before all we saw were large boards, shuffle boards, ladders, tables, and quite frankly, junk.
and now we're ready for the shipment tomorrow!! we get this Friday and next Tuesday which will be extremely good being as our shelves are emptying out fast. i just hope and pray that the loads will be BIG unlike the past few which have been pathetically small.
thats all for now folks!!
oh and cheer up, the rain can't last forever....

What is the point of blogging? what is the point of having a blog in general? why do we have this insistence on people peeking into our lives? can you tell i have absolutely nothing to say?
yes it was a long day at work, and i'm glad to be home. and being as someone mentioned off-hand the other day how i never update my blog i thought i'd better. no time like the present.
so here goes:
-I am fine
-Leah is pregnant (yay!!)
-Will is leaving (yay? no really i'll miss him)
-Kiara is 5 (october 11)

and that is really all the remarkable news that i can think of!! but actually it depends on what you would consider remarkable. some people want to know every detail of your life, when you got your last haircut, when you got your last speeding ticket, what you bought when you last went shopping and how much it cost....or even what time of night you go to bed! i don't mind. but i can never turn my thoughts into proper words so i apologize to any offended party who may find my blog boring and useless.
here are some more interesting ones:
heatheradavies.blogspot.com
pipesmokingprof.blogspot.com
and thats all for now!

My First Taste Of Europe

Bonjour! i'm finally in Europe! today Heather and I travelled to Brugges and wandered around for the whole day, did typical touristy things, took a billion pictures, i'm going to have some really interesting stories to tell! Heather and I wandered into a store entirely devoted to Tintin comics, and if you haven't heard of Tintin then you REALLY need to get a life!! but then we were kicked out because we were eating ice-cream cones.....but it was totally ok cuz the store was freakin overpriced, like MAJOR €€€€€€€€€€€!!! this one teeeeeeany-weeeeeeany tintin figurine was like 50€. anyhow it was nice to look.
And we wandered through this massive cathedral which i can't remember the name of (which is why i took a picture of the sign), and took way too many pictures.
and then we had to sit with this creapy old belgian guy on the train back to Brussels who was CONVINCED that we had "spanish blood in [our] veins"...........riiiiiiiight.
ok folks thats all for now!!
Ciao!

No Compromise

So sorry for neglecting my blog for so long! i've really been busy these past 2 weeks (almost) with work and life and the men's retreat and it all just started piling up and up and up!!! but now i'm back to normal and even my room is getting tidied today! and speaking of today, happy birthday Geraldine and happy birthday Colleen! (see girls i didn't forget...)
i have a book to recommend: its the life story of Keith Green written by his wife Melody, and its called No Compromise. and let me just say this one thing about it: it will really challenge you! it sure challenged me....
which is why i'm cleaning my room today.
why?
well one of the things Melody Green talked about in the book was how Keith was really lacking in self-discipline. one of his friends spoke to him about it and explained how its really a sin. because whatever hinders us from holiness (ie being lazy, watching too much tv, uncleanliness (which is really just laziness), and a whole bunch of other things associated with a lack of self-discipline) is not from God, and whatever is not from God in our life is sin!
And then it hit me. that was what i was like!
I've asked God to help me in this area of my life, and i know He will because He is faithful in everything!
So if any of my readers would like to pray for me that would be GREATLY appreciated.
Love,
Aunty Fifi
P.S. please read the book, it's really worth it!!

decided!!

So i think i've decided. i'm going to buy the Michael Buble album. unless one of the other ones is cheaper of course....

New Deck, New Hot Tub, and Potential New Music

yes its true, we've actually splurged and had our deck built by a professional instead of doing it ourselves! ahhhhh and what a beautiful deck it is! complete with a nice large hot tub (regrettably not full of water yet) and a nice glossy finish. so any time any of my friends feels the urge they can come over and hop in the hot tub and drink virgin margaritas and listen to cool music and just generally hang with the cool people.....cuz everyone knows that we're cool people. right?
well really its just the hot tub thats cool.....but thats entirely beside the point.
so now that you've heard about our great new deck and great new hot tub and received the open invitation to chill on/in it.....you may be wondering just what this "potential new music" is?
it just means that i'm planning on buying a new album but i'm not sure which one yet....
here are my options:
1. This Time Around ~Paul Brandt
2. Amore ~Andrea Bocelli
3. Call Me Irresponsible ~Michael Buble

Great albums all of them. but the problem is that i don't know which one it's going to be!!!!
i'd appreciate comments.....

New Pets

so we've done it again.
or rather, mom and heather have done it again.
chickens. two of them. and they're smelly, stinky, ugly, and extremelly useless until they get older and can finally lay some breakfast for us. but i'm having nothing to do with them, and as you may have guessed i feel quite bitter about it because pets in our family just don't like me. like seriously they hate me. our last chicken attacked my foot and drew blood for NO APPARENT REASON! and the same with the crow before it, junior.
well i'm not bitter, that was an overstatement, but you get the point. i don't like pets.
end of post.