It's Here... It's Here!

This is my first officially post using my new computer! It came yesterday in afternoon. I was so surprised cause it wasn't supposed to come for another 5 days, I love surprises...[smile]

Well for a quick recap of the week, on Sunday I went to church in Oakes, Pastor Dean had a GREAT message, on Satan, and how he deceives us, he talked a lot about music, and how bad it is, and even though we don't think it changes us after listening to that..."stuff" (for lack of nicer word) long enough, it will impact you! The same with TV, we must remember...

" I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes"- Psalm 101:3

Well anyway, it fit right in with the book I am currently reading, Battle Cry For A Generation, The Fight to Save America's Youth By: Ron Luce

Well after that I went out to my cousin Micki's house, to help her pack, or should I say "pack" for her trip to Europe, I am sure I was more of a distraction then anything, being that we ended up talking most of the time! What a shock right? ;) Well my uncle went fishing and my plan was to stay for supper and then head home, well plans change... Micki and I ended up going and get My Uncle Jeff and a church friend Earl, for they blew a tire on the boat trailer, so we are taking them back to the boat, and the car went crazy... the windshield wipers turned on high, even though they were turned off, the car went hot and smoke started billowing out of the CD player. The alternator went out... so there we were sitting in the middle of no where - not hard to find in North Dakota! with smoke pouring off the engine, I know every little about motors, but that is rarely, if ever a good sign! Well so much for fixing the boat tire! a nice man came by and gave Jeff a ride to the suburban, meanwhile 2, 18 year old girls and an 81 year old man are left waiting by the side of the road...! well Jeff did return and towed Micki and I back to the house, so much for being home around 7ish, it is no going on 10:30 and we still hadn't eaten supper. So we ate some pizza and I headed out, the hour drive wasn't so bad, until I got home to have a whole bunch of floating eyes crossing the road in front of my mail box...the cows were out, I was home alone, it was dark and they were black steers. So assessing the situation, I decided to call for help... so at midnight, I called my uncle Kenny and explained the happenings, fortunately they were not ours so I was able to go to sleep. I had to work in the morning nothing to significant happened there... and then I came home to find my lap top was here! Then I went back into town for Play Practice, and my car was telling me that my tire pressure was low... on the tire that i just got fixed! Perfect and our air compressor is not at our house and I am running late already, so I decide to go into town and put air in at the station in town, well either I am mental, I already admitted that I am not a mechanic, but I have never had a problem putting air in a tire... before last night that is, because tire as I am the air was not going into the tire but to my horror, it was getting flatter! After a slight panic attack, I decided to go to play practice and when I got back to town I would try the other station, well practice went until 10ish so it is pouring rain at this point, and my tire is holding what little air that it had in it but it was still not gaining any air. And it wasn't just me, Lori Feil tried, and Brent Ulmer, who happened to be passing by... the boy worked at a Jiffy Lube, and even he couldn't get air in the tire, at this point from every only trying to get air in, and air kept coming out, my tire was now at 15 psi, it is supposed to be at 44 psi. Not Good... Lori had to go home and Brent was kind enough to give me a ride home... and my poor car was stuck in town, well it is fixed now, but still in town, due to the fact that I haven't quite figured out how to drive two cars at once, although it is on my list of things to do! [grin] To the conclusion of my story, turns out gas stations turn their air hoses off at night, but not completely because when I would check there was still air coming out. Oh well everything worked out, the Lord did provide for me, everything I needed, even if I was just a wee little bit stressed at the time. Oh and if any of you are wondering why I didn't put the spare on... cause it was quite literally down pouring outside, and I had no dry clothes. If I would have had to, I could have, but I chose to stay dry instead, being I had a ride home.

Tomorrow Micki has a concert in Fargo, before she leaves for Europe, where she will be for 2 weeks, [sniff sniff]... I miss her already! I am planning on going to the concert... hopefully get there with out any car trouble... I have had enough of the side of the road for a while! :)

"Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest." - Joshua 1:9