Oh, the drama!

Once again, it has been a while since I last blogged, the reason: I have had a fever for about three weeks and have not felt like doing anyhting except sleep. Thankfuly I am feeling much better now so I can tell all about the other bits of drama that went on. Drama the first: Chris called me on my lunch break( this was like the week before Easter) and told me that he was being let go from his job. He is the IT director at a company that services and details private jets and the owner of the company, having some trouble collecting payments form some jet owners, freaked out and decided that he needed to cut some jobs. Being that the owner works in a different hanger than Chris and doesn't know much about computers, he didn't really know what Chris did and, so, decided that he didn't do anything and decided to let him go. However, we didn't freak out, we just prayed, he sent out about ten resume's and then his boss that is directly over him pleaded his case and told the owner how much they really needed him. He actually said that he would take a paycut to keep Chris on, that's how much they need him! So, the next day, Chris gave me the good news that he was not being let go. Crisis averted, God is good!
P.s. stay tuned for Drama the second:)

Couples' Devotional Bible

i recently bought a couples' devotional Bible and it's pretty cool because it has marriage related devotionals that correspond to a daily reading. I just wanted to share one of the devotionals that really impacted me recently. It was written by a woman named Ruth Ann Polston; she has been married for 50 years and lives in Indy, like me. The scripture is Psalm 62: 1-12 and the author shares a bit of wisdom she learned from this verse that I can really relate to. She writes:

" St. Augustine prayed,' Thou hast formed us for thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.' After my husband and I moved from one state to another, I began to see that my restlessness was the "part" longing for the "whole." My mistake was that I was looking for home in places other than God. The soul is at rest with God. Not with a particular city, a church, a house, friends or even family. The Psalmist found the secret. He once said,' my soul finds rest in God alone...' ( Psalm 62:1). To commit myself to other allegiances is to make myself vulnerable to the pain of change. Our lives are like airport concourses, filled with arrivals and departures. But God abides. We need not worry that we'll leave him in some cherished place we're moving away from. He's always there waiting for us at the next stop."

Let me just say, I wept when I read this because it rings so true and thinking in this way has really helped me a lot!

First blog of the new year

So, January is almost over and I am just now posting my New Year's blog. The reason being that I have been sick pretty much continuously since the weekend before Christmas and haven't felt like getting on my computer. The most exciting thing I've done since the year started was be a bridesmaid in my friend Shari's wedding on the 5Th. It was a beautiful wedding and she was a beautiful bride. She wore the dress her grandmother was married in in 1947 and she looked just like a 40's Hollywood starlet. I love weddings and being in the wedding of one of my best friends is so special plus, having more married friends is pretty awesome! Speaking of weddings, lastnight I made a new reciepe and decided that it would be a nice occasion for us to drink the bottle of sparkling grapejuice leftover from our wedding, you know, before it started to ferment;) Both the food and juice turned out to be pretty good and we had a nice relaxing evening!

Our second Christmas

Christmas number two has come and gone for the Gaizat's and I must say this one was much less stressful than the last. It makes sense,though, I mean, last year was the first time we had to figure out the whole family circuit and we were sort of just flying by the seat of our pants but we had more of a plan this year so we could just enjoy the season and look foreward to the plans we had made. I hope everybody else had a great Christmas, too.

Recent Goings-on

We've been up to about a million things lately but I'll just recount a few! my little brother, McLean, turned 21 on the 21st. I think I was more excited about the fact that it was his golden birthday than he was; I gave him a set of sake' cups since he's really in to the Japanese culture. We actually got to see both our families for Thanksgiving. His family lives in town so we got to spend some time with them in the morning and then we headed down to Illinois and spent The rest of the day and Friday with them. We brought our Wii and so Chris became wildly popular with my four-year-old cousin. I helped my mom put the Christmas tree up on friday. That was fun, especially since we don't have on yet and probably won't until we get a house. I am excited though because I have come up with a solution to our no tree problem. My mom bought me this really pretty amber colored hurricane vase( it's actually more champeign colore but it's called"amber luster) and I bought some pretty ball ornaments to put inside. I also got some Christmas lights to put in the vase with the ornaments and once I have all that arranged I've got a sparkly silver star to set on top. My romantic Christmas fantasy is that Chris and I can come home from work and we will turn the lights off, plug in our "Christmas vase" and sit on the couch together, drinking hot chocolate and watching the beautiful lights. Hmm, I think I've already watched too many Christmas movies this season!

Maiden Voyage

This weekend was my friend's bridal shower and, as a bridesmaid, I just had to be there. Obviously such a weekend just screams of large doses of estrogen; hence the reason Chris did not want to come( and i totally don't blame him)! This ,of course, means I was on my own. Yep, I made the trek to my home town on my own for the first time ever! The trip there was completely without incident. The way back was nearly without incident except that I missed my exit coming in to Indianapolis and had to turn around and try to find my way back. Yeah, I was really freaking out because it was almost 1:00 am, my eyes were kind of blurry so I had trouble reading signs and I didn't really recognize the area. I was frantically calling Chris but he was asleep and didn't hear his phone. Thankfully, as I was trying to get Chris on the phone my mom beeped in and she was able to get a map and help me find my way. The weekend with family and friends was great and although the trip back was a bit traumatic I am sure that I will come to see it as a positive, confidence building experience!

weekend recap and weekday mishap

This past weekend was so much fun! Chris and i drove down to my parent's house Friday night and then Saturday morning my mom and I went on this bus trip to Chicago. Wow, we had so much fun together but we were so ready to go home like two hours before we were supposed to meet back at the buses. We walked all over the place from about 9:30 to 7:00. I'd say the highlight of the day was when we took a carriage ride down by the lake. We were so tired and there was absolutely nowhere to sit down so we said, what the heck, let's take a carriage ride! As we were riding we saw a wedding party just coming out of the reception and the bride came out in her lovely dress and my mom said,"you've been married longer than her!" Yeah, i was like, how weird is that! It really just blows my mind sometimes to think that I'm really not a kid anymore, that there are people out there who are more newly married than I, and that the number of people who are younger than i am is growing day by day. Weird.

OK, on to the mishap portion of this blog entry. We have almost nothing to eat in the house so yesterday I decided I would go to the store on my way home from work. Well, i went all through the store with my mentle list, picked out what we needed, got in line, loaded the stuff on the belt, pulled out the little case I keep money and stuff in and discovered that i did not have my debit card. D'oh! I felt like the queen of the village idiots; I just couldn't believe I had done that!