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Have I mentioned that my life is not boring?

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

I handed in those last two projects on Monday, after I was at class from 7:00 – 11:30.  I even ran my meeting at 1:00 and had a successful discussion there.

Today, I handed in another and I’ve got another one started.  The one I handed off has been kept by that coworker and I hope to not have to do anything with it because I have another one that same day that I need to look at updating.

But tomorrow I’m taking a vacation day.  Followed by another vacation day on Friday.  Followed by yet two more days of weekend.  And I’m really looking forward  to it.

Expecially because next week I’ll have to prepare for being out of the office for a week and a half, which will involve a little bit of frantic working.  And then when I get home from work, Tuesday I have Bible study, Wednesday I have a meeting about a committee at church, Thursday I have band practice, and Friday I’m taking a break from chuch activities and hanging out with a bunch of geeks online.  And then Sunday, I’ll be at church early for more band practice and stay late for the Servapolooza.

And then on Monday we’ll head out for the Symposium.

I’m not going to be bored anytime soon.

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Happenings

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Okay, so the post before this one is password protected and it’s because it’s pictures of an expensive item for my sister-in-law to see that were too numerous to email to her, but not something I’d like to just put up for everybody to see.  So, that’s what’s going on there.

To make up for that, you get the thrilling tale of my Saturday!

We went to help at Room at the Inn in the morning.  Our church helps them out now and then, taking care of things that require more money or hands than they tend to have on on hand.  So we went over and re-did a couple rooms, doing painting and staining and other things.  Mostly, Justin and I moved things around and did random little things like hang pictures and put knobs on dresser drawers.  I was wiped from last week, but happy to help for as long as I could.  Which was from 10:00 when we started until 1:00, when I was tired, hungry, and ready to go home.

So we did!  And showered and looked up times for movie showings and relaxed for several hours.  I ran to a thrift store, found it closed, went to the consignment shop next door, and bought a pair of sheets for fairly cheap.  (And then discovered the next day that it would take more money to make the gift for Erica than it would have to buy it, and that I didn’t have the money for either option . . . .)  And then we drove to Savannah.

Justin needed a haircut, and we have a pretty solid routine when that happens.  We go to Raye Anne at the Regis in Savannah Mall (yes, this is a promotion for her because she’s AWESOME and we want her to be able to keep cutting hair there), we get dinner at Savannah Gyro (and yes, that is a kiosk in the cafe court — they have the BEST GYROs), pretend that we’re going to save room for ice cream from Cold Stone, and stop at Target.

So we got there with time to eat gyros before Justin’s haircut.  We stopped at the Verizon store and I fell in love with the Incredible.  I left Justin at Regis and went to Target and picked up a few things, including under-pinnings for my dress for the wedding.  He found me still in Target and we checked out, decided that we weren’t going to get ice cream.  And then went across the street with the tickets I got from an award months ago and saw the movie Inception.  And that was AMAZING.

And we drove home later than we’ve driven home from a movie in a long time, past the neighborhood where we used to live, which brought back fond memories, back to the home we love, where we collapsed into bed after a long, fantastic day.

Which was good because today I was at a training class at 7:00 AM and then spent all afternoon remembering why I was happy to be leaving Friday afternoon.  Bright side:  I handed in the last two projects I was working on last week.  And I’m 85% certain that the document my coworker took over is going to be done by that coworker instead of me.  Which means that if I can get the document that’s due on Friday done by Wednesday and the one that’s due on Monday started sometime this week, too, I’m going to take vacation days on Thursday and Friday and just make a long weekend out of it.  Because, dang it, I’m tired.  I want a few days when I’m not worried about getting work done.  I want to sleep in and go to the beach and relax.  And then I’ll go back to work, have a frantic week before I’m out for a week and a half, and then enjoy some time doing things that aren’t charging through these documents as quickly and frantically as I have been.

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Love and War {in marriage}

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Okay, so I mentioned ages ago to Mom and a couple other people that my church is doing a great sermon series about, if you didn’t catch it in the title, MARRIAGE.  :)   It’s been really great and I wanted to share it with the rest of you!

So, hopefully this link will work.  I’ll post this and then check it and then I’ll know.  But here’s the link:  CLICKY.

And it looks like they’re off by a week because I was hoping to listen to the one I missed on Sunday (Justin was sick and I was “helping” by staying home and sleeping, too).  But they’ve got 3 of the sermons up for listening:  “Introduction,” “Compromise,” and “Communication.”  I just listened through “Communication” again and I’ll have to go back and listen to the other ones sometime again, too.  But while it’s all fresh, let me help clarify a few things that Pastor Michael mentions in the sermon.

He’s been using videos from “Everybody Love’s Raymond” for examples, which aren’t on the podcast because of copyright laws.  And I can’t find a copy of it on youTube, either.  But if you can find a copy of Season 4 Episode 3, the “Can Opener” episode, it’s in the middle of that.

He mentioned Jim & Nick’s and that’s a is a barbecue restaurant and if you ever come to visit us, we will take you there because it is AMAZING.  Delicious ribs.  Amazing nachos.  I’m drooling over here….

This is what he puts up on the screen at the end of the sermon:

  • Timing is everything
    • Ecc. 3:1,7
  • Think before you speak
    • Proverbs 16:23, Proverbs 15:23
  • Don’t send mixed messages
    • Matt 5:27
  • Listen, listen, listen
    • Proverbs 18:13
  • Encourage
    • Eph 4:29

If I find time in the next couple days, I’ll try to go back and listen to the others, too, and give some notes on those, too.

Anyway, give them a listen!  They’re good!

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Monday is treating me well

Monday, April 5th, 2010

I’m having a lovely morning so far.  I didn’t expect it to be good – it is, after all, a Monday.  A Monday where I’m late on a project and leading a meeting that’s bound to be frustrating and on a day when we’re having really lovely weather outside and I’m stuck in a cold, industrial building with no windows.  But unexpected things just keep on popping up and they’re making it a fun day.

Yesterday at church, a reporter from the local newspaper came to the service and took photos so he could write an article about the “Shoes for Soles” project that we did.  It was “Barefoot Sunday” and everyone was encouraged to bring a pair of shoes to donate and go barefoot for the rest of the service.  The church collected over a thousand shoes to send out to people in Haiti and Rowanda.

The front of the newspaper today is 2/3 covered in a picture of the piano player’s foot.  And I’m standing in the background—blurry, but still vaguely recognizable as me.  The article that’s supposed to be on page 10 – 11 isn’t actually anywhere to be found in the paper, but maybe it’ll be out tomorrow.   I really don’t know what’s going on there.  But hey!  I’m on the cover of the newspaper!

I was invited to the 9:00 meeting that the director of my department holds on Mondays.  I was invited to this meeting once before and it turned out well, but it’s always a little scary being invited to a meeting with the “big dogs.”  This meeting turned out well for me again – I was given an award for my hard work on my projects lately.   There are three levels of awards:  bronze, silver, and gold.  Bronze awards come with a set of free tickets to a movie theatre in Savannah.  (Not terribly useful to us since it’s about an hour away from home.  I have four of those tickets in my purse right now.)  Silver awards come with a $50 voucher to the Wal-Mart close to the company grounds.  (And it really only works at that specific Wal-Mart.)  And Gold awards come with a $300 bonus check.

I was awarded a Silver award at the meeting.  $50 to spend at Wal-Mart!  It’s pretty exciting.

As a side-note, I received a Bronze award in January and again in February.  I was thinking I’d work on a trend and see if I could get one every month of the year.  (Who deserves a promotion?  I do!)  :)   I didn’t get on in March, but I figure getting a Silver award makes up for both March and April.  Don’cha think?

On my way back to my desk from the meeting, I passed my lead.  (Or co-lead?  I’m not totally sure where he fits on the current chain-of-command, actually.)  He took a double-take and said, “Kylene, you’re shrinking!  Is that from Zumba?  I almost didn’t recognize you!”  It made me laugh, especially because he had to back-track and explain that he meant it in a good way and not at all badly . . . he’s very concerned about being proper to women in the workplace.  I have no idea what I’m doing differently from Friday when he saw me last, but made me feel really nice.

By the way, the scale on Saturday said I weighed 213.5 pounds, with shoes on.  That’s down 3 pounds from last week and about 19 pounds from my starting weight.  And I’m on day 29 of logging my food in a row!  If I can make it all the way through today and tomorrow (and really, why wouldn’t I?) then I can call and schedule my massage.  How awesome is that?!

But I’ve run up to the end of my lunch hour so I’ve got to go ahead and post this.  I hope you’re all having a fantastic Easter Monday!

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Church cleaning

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

About two months ago, it came to my attention that there was no one cleaning the church offices besides our church staff.  We don’t have a church building – we meet in the local high school – so there’s no need to have anyone cleaning the actual church building.  But we have a set of offices and the church staff was charged with doing their own toilet scrubbing.  Now, I don’t know about you, but that just doesn’t seem right to me.  And it didn’t seem right to another woman in the church, either.  So we set up a schedule and now we’re scrubbing the toilets instead.

It’s a pretty wide rotation, currently.  Every two weeks, one or the other of us goes in.  Last week was my week on the rotation.  She did it two weeks before that and she’ll do it again the Friday after next.  I’m waiting to hear back whether we should clean more frequently than that, but so far, it seems to be working.

The head pastor is really excited that we’re doing it.  He came in on my first Friday (Friday and Saturday counts as the weekend for the church staff, since they work on Sunday) and told me that he was so thankful for the work.  And he said so again that Sunday when I ran into him after church.

I’m glad that he’s happy about it.  But his appreciation isn’t why I’m doing it.

The reason I’m doing it is because it needed to be done.  There was a need and no one was filling it, so the two of us stepped up and we’re taking care of that need.

But also because it should keep me humble.  I’m starting to get recognized at church because I sing with the band sometimes.  Even when I’m not singing that week, people still come up to me and mention it and tell me that I sound good.  It’s easy for that to go to my head.  But it’s a gift that I’ve been given (cultivated by my mom (thank you, Mom!)) – my ability to sing and harmonize with a group and feel comfortable enough to stand on stage and share it with other people.

But I’ve also been given a talent for cleaning and organizing.  And if getting on my knees to clean the toilets at the church office doesn’t remind me of how important it is to do the behind-the-scenes dirty jobs that no one wants to do, then I don’t know what will.  If I can get the same sense of service while I’m singing as I can while I’m cleaning, then I’ll know that I’m not doing it to get the praise of people watching.

I cleaned the offices on Friday for four and a half hours.  It was hard, dirty work, but that place sparkled when I left and it felt wonderful.  I was tired and sweaty and I smelled like dumpster, but I left a bouquet of flowers in the conference room and a clean coffeepot in the kitchen.  And how can I not feel happy about that?

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