With being off work, and staying up later, somehow my body is managing to sleep an hour or so longer, which makes up for the later hour of going to bed. But, with that, it is messing me up. I either sleep well all night, or I'm awake most of the night. Last night was an awake night. Tossing and turning, thinking of things I need to pay, things I need to do. Silly things at that. I threw off the covers a couple times because I was so sweaty. I still blame all this on the bug bites. And I still get pin pricks in that area. I may be nuts, but I have found 2 more bumps like the bug bites - one on my neck, and one on my belly. Do I have a bug in my bed? It's been a couple days now but maybe they will go away soon. October 12th was the night I got bit.... don't you think that they would have been gone by now?
I made cookies last night and as I was using my new very sharp knife to cut nuts - the tip touched my little finger and put about a 1/2 inch gash in it - not deep so no worries there, but it took me awhile to stop the bleeding. Never told hubby, you know how he could be. That knife is sharp! But I am loving it for cutting up things - just need to learn to keep my fingers out of the way. It could easily cut off a finger with one swipe.
Hubby will be leaving soon for his training. I don't go until tomorrow morning. I think we will only have one half-hour session this week due to the holiday and our trainer taking some time off. But, when I added the date and time to my phone calendar, it came up for 60 minutes so I'm not sure how long - but I think it will be 30 minutes, unless others of her clients cancelled and she has the time. I'm sure hubby will ask her about it this morning; you know how he loves to be in my business.
A granddaughter and great-granddaughter will be coming over this morning to bake cookies. I hope I have everything she will need for whatever she wants to bake. It will be fun baking with them; although I don't bake, just sit around and talk. I still have a couple batches of cookies to make for the 'cookie plates', and I will get it done soon.
My daughter called yesterday after she realized that with us doing Christmas with them on Saturday, and they did Christmas with their children yesterday - we won't be gathering on Christmas Eve or Christmas - so she is planning a Christmas lunch and invited us to come over. That is really switching things up as we usually don't leave the house on Christmas day. So we will go there for lunch and that will be a nice treat. I had no plans to fix a big meal for us - we would probably be finishing up the lunchmeat from last Saturday! In fact, we may get that again today. Still have some soup as well.
Yesterday was totally off. We got partially dressed for church, then watched Jentezen Franklin @ Free Chapel. It was very good. About 10:15 (cause he went way over), we started getting ready - and I was ready to go by 10:30, which was time to leave. Hubby still wasn't dressed; he was in a frazzled state... and I realized even more that although the gym is making him stronger, his mind is not. He finally got dressed (all he had done previously was shave) and was still 'running around' trying to get ready. It's at least a 12-15 minute drive to church. It starts at 10:45AM. At 10:35 he was dressed, but didn't have his shoes and socks on. At 10:40AM I tell him that we will be about 10 minutes late. He kept apologizing that he had not gotten ready more before watching the service. He finally looks up and asks if he can take me to breakfast. So instead of getting there 10-15 minutes late, we went to breakfast. It was 11AM when we got there. He was frustrated with himself because I had been ready to go on time (I had done my hair and makeup before the service; all I had to do was get dressed) and he wasn't. So we went to breakfast instead. I talked with my daughter, my sister, and my little brother. And I baked one batch of cookies. Hubby watched TV alone until I finished the cookies, and we watched some NCIS repeats. That was our Sunday - so productive, right? Well, at least I got cookies made and touched base with my siblings.
I did get on the work computer and got caught up on emails and meetings to schedule, approved all the timecards, and shut it down. I'll keep track as the week goes by if I get a lot of things to do. Being off work from last Friday until January 2nd is a long time for me. I know I will be bored before too long - although I still have things I like to do - at least Christmas is done. No shopping, no more gifts coming in, all my wrapping is done. Yeah, need to clear off this bed now. Should bake something for the neighbors (after all, she brought me cookies)... my 'I don't want to' keeps overruling 'I should' in taking things to the neighbors.
I do need to start focusing on the message for Sunday too. I have a very rough draft, and I need to go through it and make it work. I have it here on my left to start on.... what is my scripture for the message?
John 13:34 (NKJV): A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, you, that you also love one another.
One can read that scripture and think it means we should love only our children or our spouses, and yet, it doesn't really say that. We can't love some people and not love others. Sometimes the 'love' is only 'like', but we also need to be respectful and treat them with love. I'm messing this all up, I'm sure. I'm tired this morning - already! Ok - let's try this again. Let's step outside of family. We have some very close friends that we enjoy being with and we say that we 'love' them. But what about those that are alone; those that don't have as much as we do.... do we love them as Jesus does? Ok - I'm putting myself on a guilt trip here - I say I love Ms. Diane and Ms. Vicky, but for the past three months I feel like I have withdrawn and become a hermit... I've enclosed myself.... and I'm not sure why. By not visiting (I have talked on the phone, but not often at all), am I still showing them love? I visited at least every week or two weeks, I think... and now for three months - nothing. I've got to shake off this withdrawal from life; this load of depression I seem to be carrying around, and come alive again. Will see how today goes; maybe I will visit at least one tonight. See, even I have issues I have to deal with.
We are called to love others as Jesus loves us. We all know that Jesus loves us - are we loving others the same way? Or are we always pointing fingers of things done that we don't approve of? Ouch. I think we all have something to learn from that scripture.
Let's start today - let's love even the unlovely. After all, sometimes we are unlovely and we would never accept someone not loving and caring for us. Who can you show love to today that you haven't for awhile? Maybe today is a good day to start. I'm in - are you?
Blessings!
Addendum: This is how 'messed up' I am this morning. Hubby brought my coffee in a little after 6AM. I just saw my cup with the lid still on it (to keep it hot) and thought I should make another cup of coffee so that I could get started on the message. I pick up the cup - here it is 8AM - and find it is still full. I forgot to even drink the first cup! Is this the sign of how my day may be going? Lord, HELP!!
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