Lovely and Lacy

I love these new dies.  There's so much

you can do with them since you can 

place them anywhere on the paper. They 

only cut the design, not all the way through

the paper, so you can place them in the middle

if you wanted to!  Very cool.

You will definitely be seeing more cards

like this.  I also ordered some Tim Holtz

mini crazy birds with all kinds of 

accessories, like glasses, hats, etc.  I can't

wait to get them!  I always put my walmart

reciepts in at the site to see if someone else

has better prices and I had more than 50. 

saved up so I treated myself to them.  I

think I'm going to be getting an HDMI hub,

too.  They have a nice one with a remote 

for only 15. but I have to check with Cody

first to make sure it's the right one for me.

Electronics are not exactly in my realm.  I

am getting better, though!

It's been cold and rainy the past few days, but

I hear it is supposed to be really warm next week.

Just a teaser and then comes the bitter weather.

I hate winter.  Have I ever said that before?

Happy birthday to my friend Karen.  I think

you're 25 again this year, right? 

Thought so!!  :)

A word of thanks

First I would like to thank Hobby Lobby

for moving in practically next door to

me so I have no money left at the end of

the month.  It's all their fault.  Secondly, I 

would like to thank my new friend, Kat,

who is the ultimate enabler.    She posted 

a few cards she made recently and used

Tim Holtz's mixed media dies.  I've seen

them in Hobby Lobby but wasn't sure

how it would look on a card.  Well....

thanks to them moving here, I ran up

and got a set.  There's another set I 

would like, of course, but won't get them

right now because I'm so broke I can't

pay attention.  Anyway, here is the card

I made with one of the dies.  It's a set of 4.

I really like how it turned out, but I wish

I'd used a little darker portion of the

hombre cardstock to make the hello.

Another use of this same die for the inside

of the journal I showed yesterday:

I'm absolutely thrilled with how this turned out!

Now, before I go further, I must clean my desk

because I can't find the bottom of it to work

on.  I have so many projects going on at a

time because I am always wanting to try something

I've seen and haven't finished the project before.

I do finish them eventually, though.  

 

I need to work on my assignment for next

Monday's class, too.  it has some words

I'm not familiar with and can't seem to keep

the sign in my head for some reason.  

 

One more picture in closing:

 

You can't see her face super well,

but this is Bri dressed up as Hermoine 

for Harry Potter day.  Isn't she just

the cutest?  Oh, to be that young again.

At 16 I had already royally screwed up

my life and haven't figured out how to fix 

it yet, unfortunately.  At this point I

think it's just a little late.

 

Praying hands

Another journal.  Are you sick of these

yet?  I'm making three, possibly four

of these for Christmas presents.

At first I didn't have the fibre on it and

it looked so perfectly lined up that it

was just wrong.....So I thought adding the

fibre to the spine would break things

up a bit and I like how it turned out.

I'm not finished with it yet.  On the inside

I'm going to put a pocket on and include

a bookmark, probably with the Lord's

prayer on it.  I just love journals.  They're

a gift that will last rather than get used up

quickly.  That's always the best gift, I think.

I made the trip to Ft. Wayne yesterday to get

the birds groomed.  While there I met a 

man who has two amazon parrots and when

he saw Luna he really loved her.  The problem

is that one of his birds had to have surgery

recently for a benign tumor.  He's kind of

strapped.  I told him I would come down on

the price and gave him my phone number.

I'm really  hoping he can come up with

the money because he is the kind of person

I'm looking for-someone who knows birds,

knows they need a special vet and will give

her a loving home.  A prayer about this

would be greatly appreciated.

Yesterday evening my shoulder suddenly

felt like something was stabbing in it.  This

is not good.  I just had the cortisone shot

a month ago.  I really, really don't want to

have surgery.  It wouldn't help with my signing,

for sure.  I'd still go to classes and just

work on receptive skills, I guess.  But I'm

hoping it will stop hurting.    It's not even in

the same place as before.  This is right at

the top of my shoulder.  Not good.  Sigh.

Playing with elephants

I ordered this pattern last week because it

was just so darned cute.  I made the

journal in regular size and then scaled

it down to make an atc size to fit on

the post it note cover.

I love how the journal turned out.  I wasn't sure

if it would look good with the paper but it

kind of looks like the elephant is standing 

under the tree.  I wish I'd thought ahead and

made it on some darker paper.  I inked the

entire image but it's not the same.

 

Class went pretty well yesterday.  I totally

spaced out on the word commit until ( naturally)

I sat down.  Then I remembered.  But overall

it went pretty well!  On the way  home I saw

a shooting star streak down from the sky.

I don't know where it landed-it probably broke

up in the atmosphere-but it was so cool!  You 

couldn't miss it if you tried.  I've seen shooting

stars before but they were really high up and

very dim.  This one was bright and coming

straight toward Earth.

 

I got my medicare all set and I'd say all in

all yesterday was a pretty good day!

Faith, trust and strength

It's interesting that Philippians 4:13 

¹³ I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

was presented to me twice yesterday.  Once

through a text from a friend and the verse

popped into my head as I was reading it.

The second time during the movie "God's

not dead" which was shown for the first

time last night on the UP (Uplifting) channel.

I really believe that God brings things to 

us in all sorts of ways just to remind us

that He's there guiding us and giving us

strength to do what He has called us to

do.  Yesterday in church I signed the

songs the best I could, some OK, some

not so well.  They didn't even do "We

believe",  the only one I thought I could

do halfway decently!  But He gave me

the strength to try and encouragement

from friends and I can't ask for more.

This card is for a friend who encourages me

 every chance she gets and 

I just want her to know how much 

that means to me. 

On to other things, I wish I had taken a

picture of my neighbor's trees the other

day.  They were so pretty, all dressed in

white-toilet paper, that is!!  They don't have

any kids that I know of and that's usually

why someone gets tp'd, but you know,

it really is kind of pretty in a weird way

to have all these white streamers hanging

from trees!

Tonight is class and I'm going to  need

an extra prayer or two.  I will probably

practice once or twice more, but

I think there is such a thing as over

practicing, too, so I'm just going to

be prepared but not stress myself out.

Or at least try not to!  Believe it

or not, I'm actually looking forward

to it.  Kind of.  I can't seem to make

up my mind which way it goes.  

It depends on the time of day, I guess!

Let's hear it for friendship

I consider myself fortunate to have

many friends that I know I can count

on in any situation.  I hope they know

they can count on me as well.  To have

a friend you have to be a friend, right?  

I try to be the best friend I can be.

This card came out pretty well.  The first

time I made it I made the music background

waaaay too dark.  So I redid it and stamped

off once before I stamped it on the card.  

Now it's just visible without being obnoxious.

I'm looking forward to church today as always.

If I can stay awake that is.  I had trouble sleeping

last night and as is always the way, I started to

sleep well very early in the morning.  Promptly

at 450 am my carbon monoxide alarm started

chirping.  Chirp................Chirp..............Chirp.

Well, I knew what the problem was, it wanted

new batteries.  As soon as I replaced them

it shut up.  Meanwhile, I was wide awake.  Sigh.

I've been working on my assignment for

tomorrow's class.  This is what I have to

interpret:

Fortunately they will be reading it

sentence by sentence so you can interpret

it after they read the sentence.  I think

I will do OK.  In "real" interpreting, you are,

of course, not afforded the chance to read 

and learn what the person is going to say

ahead of time.  I recorded myself saying it

(my voice sounds terrible on a recording!)

and pause it after each sentence. I still

falter on a couple of words that I know 

but for some reason have trouble recalling

quickly, but other than that, I think I'll

get through it.  The interpreting isn't even 

the biggest hurdle, I don't think.  It's probably

 going to be nerves getting up in front of everyone.

I've survived so far, lol, so I guess I'll get 

through this too.   I guarantee you one thing:
Nehemiah is getting a sign name!  Finger spelling
that name every time will take me hours
and the class is only two hours long!

Another bridge arrival

Sadly, my friend, Dianne, had to send

her sweet kitty Lillie to the rainbow

bridge.  She's no longer in pain.

We hurt forever, I think.  God gives

us these precious animals, which I 

truly believe have a little of God in

each one of them, (how else can they

love us unconditionally?) and then we

lose them in such a short time.  They bring

so much into our lives.  I know having

B'Elanna and Neelix when John died

 made the loss a little easier. Sure,

I had the birds too, but lets face it,

with the exception of a cockatoo, birds

aren't extremely cuddly creatures!  So if

you could say a quick prayer for Dianne

and her family I'm sure they will

appreciate it.

Now for something interesting and strange...

I got a friendship request on FB from

Mandisa.  Seriously, I think it really is

from her camp!  I think maybe they went

through her instagram and possibly twitter

and sent requests to everyone on it.  It could be

someone just posing as her, I suppose, 

but I got a nice message this morning, 

"Let your requests be made known to God; 

and the peace of God will guard your hearts

and minds".  You are blessed today."

So even if it isn't from her camp, it is nice

to receive an uplifting message like that! 

I have class today, of course, and as always,

looking forward to it.  I'm hoping a few more

people turn out.  The Monday classes are

much larger than last semester so that's

really  nice.  I think it's wonderful that people

want to learn to communicate with the Deaf.

And on that note, I probably should go get ready!

Limitations

No, not limitations like most people

think.  Just listen to this bird!

I know a couple people in my life that at

times I could have said this to. John 

would be on that list...lol.  This is the first

time I've tried using a die and having part

of the image outside of it.  I'm not sure I

actually did it right, but it worked, so that's

what counts, I guess.  I had to cut up the tail

and then put that on the outside of the die when

I cut the oval.  I had to cut up much farther 

than I expected but when I adhered it

you can't tell anyway.

I need to go get some gas for my lawnmower

and mow the back 40.  Both of my neighbors

have mowed their lawns so I don't even have

to think about the property line (sidewalk

to sidewalk) because I just follow where they

have been.  Easy peasy.  Years ago we had

a commissioner or whatever the heck he was

who decided to enforce the law that if you

did improvements on your house you had to

put in sidewalks.  Quite an expense because we

have a corner lot.  Consequently Fremont has

many, many sidewalks to nowhere, ours being

among them.  John was just beside himself and

even called our lawyer to see if it was legal.

Unfortunately it was one of those laws that 

nobody pays any attention to but is still on the

books.  Around the corner some folks had

their fence blown down in a high wind and

had to put in sidewalks when they fixed it!  It

was a tall fence so I imagine they had to pull

a permit to do it.  Obey the law and get

penalized.  That's how it works in Fremont

anyway.  How did I get on that?  The

guy didn't last long around here.  We sent

him packing to Clear Lake!!  That's the

next town over. 

So, with that I will get myself around and

go do my chores.  I hope everyone has

an awesome Friday!

Supervision, please

These crazy birds are, well, crazy!  I 

found some stamps with sayings on them

just for the birds and just typed them out

rather than get the stamps.  I know exactly

who I'm going to send this to and she will

appreciate this.  She's nuts just like me.

Must be why we get along so well!

Yesterday I went to the cardiologist

with my dad.  While we were there they

did an echocardiogram.  It was absolutely

fascinating.  When Nathan was young and

had them they didn't let parents in to watch.

While she was doing dad's, she showed me 

what would have shown up on Nathan's;

where the blood would have gone, between

the chambers of the heart, (ventricular septal defect)

the aortic flap that was opening but not closing

and where the coarctation (narrowing) of

the aorta would have been located.  They

drew me pictures in the hospital, but it

was really interesting seeing it on an

actual echo. Dad has A-fib but beyond that

his heart seems to be strong, so that was

good to hear.  I just marveled at the intricacies

of God's masterpiece.  We don't even think

about our hearts unless something goes

wrong.  It's astounding to see an actual heart

and understand that this could not have come

about by chance.  Nothing this intricate could

have just "happened".  I don't know how

people who see things like this can't see

that this is something only God Almighty

could have created!

Umbrella man two

Or is it umbrella man too?  Either way

works!  I debated which one to put on

the title because I thought they were both

cute.  I saw this saying on pinterest not

long ago on a card with umbrella man and

knew I had to use it as well.  It lends itself

perfectly to the image.  

My dad has an appointment with a new cardiologist

later today so I am going to tag along and see

what she has to say.  Besides, it's always

a good idea to have a second person as sometimes

you don't hear everything that is said.  He has

A-fib and that is nothing to fool around with.

Afterward we are going to have lunch together

so I'm looking forward to that.  I don't think

he's been in Dairy Queen since they remodeled.

We used to go there and get their $5.00 lunch.

The chili dogs are so good.  It will be past

lunch time, but the chili dogs will still be good,

lol.  Just not as cheap.

Sunday one of the songs is "We Believe".  The

Newsboys sing it.    I have signed it before, but

the "we" and "believe" get me mixed up big

time.  So, Judy, don't look at me or I'll probably

get you mixed up too!!  But I will give it my best.

I feel like I am really in God's will signing and

I'm not sure why or where He is sending me

with this, but I'm going to trust that He has a 

reason for sending me this way and bringing

to my life things that I have both liked and

been not so happy about.  But it all makes us

who we are and what we are is a work in

progress.  If we've "arrived" then what's the

point of being here?  I don't want to stop

learning or seeing what He has coming in my life.

Blessings

I can't tell you how grateful I am that I didn't

 chicken out and not take the interpreter

 prep class. I have left both weeks feeling

encouraged and blessed.  Pam  even said I 

was impressing her!  I am really timid and

shy about signing especially in front of

people I don't know well and there

are several there.  But I just feel very

surrounded by love and acceptance. I 

expect the rest of the classes to be 

the same way.  Maybe God is trying

to tell me something??  I still don't feel

particularly led to interpret at this time

but perhaps that's why He had Pam offer

the class.  We had to get up in front of

everyone to do our verse.  I was sure I

would be able to hear my heart pounding

but surprisingly I was fairly comfortable.

I am surprising myself so much.  I was

also encouraged by several people saying

that they had difficulty with receptive skills

also.  I don't feel so inadequate when I hear

that I'm not the only one.  I expect too much

from myself sometimes.  It's a flaw.  Consequently,

I didn't understand much of the others' signing.  

But.  We have a deaf boy in the class.   He

is 18 so I guess he's not a boy, but he is to 

me.  I will call him a young man.

Anyway, I understood everything he 

signed!  Go figure! 

Yes, I have a card to show.  :)

This card came out exactly as I imagined

it.  That's so rare.  The only thing is that

I was planning to put the flower rhinestone

on the right side down just a little but somehow

it ended up almost even with the one on the left.

I tried moving it  but you could see

the glue when I did that.  They aren't self

adhesive.  So I guess I have to leave it as

is.  Maybe I'll scatter one or two along the

lattice.  Now that I look at it on the computer

it might  look pretty good that way.

 

Monday again?

Where does the weekend go?

Well, I spent some of it finishing

up the last of my new stitching

patterns!  I love how they turned out!

What I didn't write about yesterday was

that when we were out to lunch on Saturday, 

Pam told me I need to be copying the interpreter

when they are signing the songs.  Even if I don't

remember what a sign is, even if I can't keep

up, just copy.  4 out of the 5 songs we sang

yesterday I didn't even know.  So I am

on my way to church yesterday and telling

God, "I can't do it and I'm not going to try."

When the music came on I found myself signing

anyway.  Note to self:  Don't tell God what

you are NOT going to do!  And I actually did

pretty well.  I surprised myself.  The one song

I did know I still messed up a little on.

But I've been told by many people that no

one can see me from behind, first of all, and

secondly no one knows when you mess up

because they don't know sign.  I would add

a third thing to that:  You aren't signing for

them, you are signing for the deaf person

(although we don't have any deaf people

at this time) and you are signing for God.

He doesn't care if you mess up.  All He

cares about is that you do your best! 

I have an appointment today with a medicare

specialist who works with the council

on aging here in Angola.  Hopefully I will

leave knowing exactly what I need to do

as far as supplemental insurance, etc.  I hope

I don't need to get that as I really cannot

afford it.  But I guess I just leave that

in God's hands like anything else.  

I'm looking forward to tonight's class.  

There is a deaf boy in this class so that

is interesting and gives us a little practice.

He's 18, I think.  His mother and brother

are both coming as well.  They all seem very nice.

 

More early Halloween

This is it for the Halloween

cards.  Then it's back to

Christmas again because I

have three new patterns for

that.   I know you're going to

love this first one, Karen!!

The only thing I think could have been

better is if the pattern had had legs

in the witch's shoes.  I probably could

have winged something (maybe not)

but I never thought of it until I looked at

it completed.  It's cute nontheless.

 

Yesterday only 4 people were at the

class including Pam, who teaches the

class I was taking and Coleen who was

going to teach the beginners.  So we 

talked for a while and then an hour

later someone else came in.  We ended

up going over vocabulary for the first

couple of chapters.  Even though this

person has taken the class several

times she's not retaining the information.

But it was good for us to have

a refresher course.  There were a

few words I couldn't remember!   After

class Pam, Coleen and I went to 

lunch and I enjoyed that very much.  Judy

is camping so couldn't join us.  They

are all great ladies and so 

encouraging to me.

 

I think I'm going to be going over to

my mom's and vacuum and start going

through her closets.  She says it's in

my best interest to do it now....lol.

I always call first, though, because she

might not feel up to having company.

Any way you look at it I'll be doing

some kind of work because the lawn

needs to be mowed.  It rained pretty

good yesterday and the grass is

a very pretty green.  I am enjoying it

while it lasts.  I keep asking God to

make it warm all year long.  I've probably

said this before, but I'm pretty sure

I can hear Him laughing.  I know the

cycle of life, blah, blah, blah.  Florida

seems to do just fine without the freezing

cold weather every year.  I did hear the

other day though, that the reason we

have winter is because of the tilt of 

the Earth.  I always thought it was

because our part of the country was

closest to the sun but that's not the 

case.  It's the way the Earth tilts

away from the sun that causes winter.

  Science lesson for the day.

 

Happy early Halloween

I can't help myself!  I ordered more

patterns yesterday. 4 are  Halloween and

3 are Christmas.  I get in moods and

right now it's stitching I guess.  I

admit it.  My name is Marianne and

I am addicted to stitching.

The witch hat has glitter glue on the

hat band.  I think that shows up.  I know

most people don't like spiders, but I think

these are cuties.  As long as they are

not crawling around my house.  I don't 

want to share my house with any

creepy crawlies.  Tomorrow I'll

post the other two patterns.  I'm making

a Halloween treat for the grandkids

so I thought it would be nice to

include a card with the treats.  Not that

they will care about a card I'm

sure.  Bring on the candy!  I don't

give them a lot because I like their

moms and don't want to leave them

with children bouncing off the walls.

Although I will admit when they were 

little, one year for Christmas John and

I got every one of them toys that made

lots of noise.  Sometimes you just

have to get a little payback, lol.

I'm planning on spending the day (after

class) watching some movies on Pureflix.

After all the pain of getting the subscription,

I may as well enjoy the channel.  I watched

one last weekend that pretty much insulted

my intelligence. I thought about turning

it off, but I actually did finish watching it. 

 It was  about this guy who had an angel

 crash into his swimming pool.  It was a lot 

like the movie "Splash".  I don't know 

 why I kept watching it!

 

More stitching

I think I'm pretty much out of Christmas

patterns at this point, but here are

two more.  I love the way the metallic

thread looks but it's a real pain to work 

with.  The candle card is my favourite.

The deer looks a little goofy to me.

The red is supposed to be his nose, but

he must have his head tipped way down

or something.  I am in love with the

antlers, though!!  They are just so pretty.

I went with my friend to pizza hut last night

and tried their chicken ceasar salad.  I wasn't

super enthralled with it.  The chicken was good.

The dressing was tart, but it was mostly

big spinach leaves and I'm not crazy about

those.  They could have had a bigger

mixture of greens.  I guess when you go to

pizza hut you should just have pizza!

B'Elanna was a pretty good therapy dog 

yesterday, surprisingly.  She's getting more 

used to my mother so she actually sat on her

lap for a while without much coercing.   Maybe

she was hoping there would be a few more

treats involved.  I gave them these treats that are

really soft and tiny so that she could have 

a few  rather than just one or two.  She's

very food oriented like most dogs.

Tomorrow is the next class "and beyond"

which is anything past first level.  So it 

will be interesting to see what it entails,

but nothing as scary as the interpreter prep,

I'm sure.  We are supposed to choose a 

Bible verse for the next interpreter class

and be able to interpret it.  I think I'm

going to do John 3:17.

¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to 

condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

Simply put (the way I would interpret it anyway)

is "God not send son to world to judge but

to save."  Others might interpret it differently

but that's how I plan to do it.     I think that

pretty much covers the meaning of the verse.

Ho Ho Ho

Now all Santa has to do is plump up

and put on his suit!  I think maybe if I make

it again I will use a lighter colour of blue.

It just seems to stand out too much and

draw attention away from the entire

suit.  But it's still cute.

Another double z card:

I can't tell you how long I've had these 

stamps but I love them.  They aren't a set

but they definitely go together.

B'Elanna and I are going to visit grandma

today.  My dad called last night and said

my mom wanted to know if she could have

a play date with B'Elanna today, lol.  A

small dog might be perfect for her, but she

wouldn't be able to get out and walk it or

even take it out to go to the bathroom without

much difficulty.  My dad wants another cat

but she doesn't even want that because she

says he doesn't keep the cat box clean enough

and it's hard for her to do.  No one keeps

anything clean enough for my mother, sadly.

So B'Elanna is her therapy dog, I guess.  

She's not very good at it.  She just wants

to run around and bark at my dad.  She

wants him to play with her, chase her around,

that sort of thing.  My mom wants her to sit

sweetly and quietly on her lap.  That doesn't

usually happen after the treats are gone....

Umbrella man

This $20.00 die was half off!  I've looked

at it before but wasn't going to pay

that  kind of money for a die that I didn't

think I'd use all that often.  But I can't

pass up 50% off!! 

Isn't it cool?  I love the saying, too.  Obviously.

Yesterday my friend, LuAnn and I went to

Ft. Wayne to get some bird food, shop at

JoAnn's where I got the die and then out

to lunch at Olive Garden.  Next month will

be two very hard days for her.  The first

will be when her husband, Dennis, had a

catastrophic injury, the second two weeks

later when he died.  Grief is such hard

work.  I'd heard that before, but you don't

know until you experience it.  Everyone's

journey is different.  So while I understand

losing a spouse, I don't understand what

SHE is going through because it's so

personal to each person.  But she is doing

the hard work and more importantly, 

leaning on God to get her through.  As

hard as it is to lose someone to death,

it's comforting to know that they are with

their Savior.  I imagine John and Dennis

along with my cousin Ronnie, having a great

time together and probably wreaking havoc

 in Heaven!  Guaranteed John is trying to

run the place!  Of course, I know that's

not true, but it's fun to think of him

the way he was here on Earth. He was 

always right.  Or at least he thought he

was.  So most of the time I just let

him think that.  It was easier!!

A little birdie told me

I got this set of crazy bird stamps

in the mail yesterday .  There's 4 more 

in the set.  Guess how much I paid

for them?  Nothing!  I ordered them 

from Amazon with gift cards that I

got from Bing Rewards (now microsoft

rewards).  It only takes a few minutes

a day and about once a month

I get a 5.00 gift card.  It doesn't sound

like much but it adds up quickly.

This card is for a lady in our sign 

class who broke her wrist....

Last pic (obviously) is a top view.  I think I've

posted a double zed card before.  Or "Z" as we

Americans call it.

I started the interpreter prep class last night.

I was scared to death and about to run when

I heard what we were going to do.  Seriously.

I thought about "getting something from my

car" and leaving!  We had to write a card about

ourselves, why we wanted to learn sign, where

we thought we might go with it, things like

that.  Then we passed it to the person

on the left.  They familiarized themselves

with what was written, then the person who

wrote it read it and you had to interpret.

Naturally I got my teacher from last 

semester who, of course, already interprets.

Now I'm really freaked out.  So she begins

to read and there were only two, maybe three 

words I wasn't sure of so I tried to use a

different word that meant the same thing.

When I was done she looked at me and

said, "Oh my gosh, I can't believe how

well you did!  She even looked shocked.

I think she had her doubts about me in

the 3rd class, but much of my problem

is that I just can't understand what 

someone else is signing very well.  I

hear that will come...eventually.  That really

boosted my confidence.  I'm just so shy

about signing in front of people and don't

have confidence that what I'm signing

is right or that it will be understood.  So I'm

glad I decided to take the class in the

first place and decided not to run at the

beginning!

Christmas bells

Isn't this just the prettiest design?

I was a little nervous because you have

to draw the dots of the musical notes

with a black pen.  If you mess it up, you 

start all over again-unless you do the 

notes first, I guess.  But they

turned out really well.  I am pretty happy

with it.

 

This card I made for a friend

as a kind of thank you card.  It doesn't

say that, but I wrote a note inside.

The musical note background is

actually from a Christmas pack I

just bought, but it didn't look

much like Christmas so it looked OK

for the card I had in mind.  

 

Tonight is the first class for "interpreter

prep".  I have no desire to learn to

interpret right now.  Nor am I ready

by any means.  But any learning is

good learning so I will go in with an

open mind.  Pam said everyone will

be on different levels so there isn't

going to be pressure to be able

to interpret things like sermons, LOL.

Good thing as I would have run for

the hills!  Maybe someday I will be

good enough to interpret but I don't

 see that coming any day soon.