Here I am...it's almost 1:30 am...and I'm up yet again.  I don't want to sleep, because I don't want to cough (which seems to increase when I lay down...which is strange, because last night I got a pretty good night's sleep...guess it was too much to hope for 2 in a row)  All I realy want is to be ALL better and be able to go to church tomorrow (actually it's today isn't it!).   After having a good night last night, and a decent day (actually got out of the house and went to help decorate at church)  My mom told me not to do too much and have a relapse, and I didn't think that I did...but who knows.  Tonight wasn't a good night, but that isn't why I came on to blog.

I came on to blog about how I've been thinking about creating another blog site...one to play with, experiment with...to see what kind of design I can come up with.   A TEST blog if you will.  I've seen so many blogs that are designed really well.  Others that have things that I think are cool, but have no idea how to recreate it for my own blog.  So maybe if I have a test blog, I can figure stuff out without messing up the one I've got already that works just fine.    But all this takes time, and I'm not sure I have or want to spend that kind of time on it.  I wish I knew HTML ...so far I've figured out enough to do simple things and  enough that I could get myself into trouble real quick. 

Well, like most ideas I have, this may be the only time it's ever mentioned...I'm terrible at following thru on stuff.  I still have all kinds of "fabulous" ideas for blog entries...that have yet to become reality.  If nothing else this post may have served the purpose of making me sleepy...Lord I pray that I'm able to sleep thru the night again..ease my fears...give me peace and help me to trust.

until next time...        

Hmm what to write about, where to begin?  I had thought about several different things I wanted to blog about and post here, but have been dealing with this horrible cough thing that has (as I told one of my friends) rattled my brain a bit in an effort to keep from hacking up a lung every few minutes!  

School this week went pretty well despite the coughing - but it's left me drained.  Right now tho the house is quiet, Brian and Bridgette have gone off to run some errands and I am enjoying the peace of being alone with my (ahem...Brian's) laptop.  Browsing around Facebook some and blogging here.

I don't remember if I actually blogged about this before - that I wanted to create a category that would be just for pictures...but that's something  that I need to work on with our regular computer so I don't have to do extra work copying pics a bunch of times just to put them on here.  I know I also want to post more in my carrying the power category, but that will probably require clearer thinking than I've been capable of lately.  So for the moment I'm stuck with blogging my random meaningless thoughts -  which will bore to tears anyone who might drop by to read.

As it turns out Facebook is kinda cool.  And I'm excited to announce that I have 19 friends on my friends list...woohoo, I am loved

It is very different than doing this blog...I have to make myself "brief" over there.  I thought that would be hard to do...seeing as I am so "long winded" here most of the time.   But perhaps it will be good for me to just give short little blubs of what's happening!  And maybe it will teach me to be less wordy here...hmm, I dont' know about that....

I was just visiting at a web blog of one of my friends on facebook...and she had a section just for photos.  Now granted they have their own website...not using a host like HSB...so they have their own storage capability for photos I'm guessing.  But I was thinking of setting up a category that would be just for photos.  So that it would be easier for those visitng my blog to find pictures I post of our family.  In fact (forgive my think "out loud" here) maybe I should put a "sticky post" at the top...alerting visitors to check the Photos category....Okay, that will be something to work on this weekend sometime possibly? 

Now technically I shouldn't post about school stuff here in a post that is basically a "Random Thoughts" post...but I will anyway.  We had a great first week of school.  I think that I'm finally learning to relax more with school and not worry about getting everything on the list done...and Bridgette is more relaxed too and is enjoying all the "art" she gets to do with notebooking stuff.

I also managed to get this wonderful cough...from people at church...I don't feel sick really, just this nasty annoying cough.  And I so I'm probably milking it more than I should by being a couch potato and blogging etc. (in fact I was even IMing with another friend on facebook while I was typing this blog)  Ah...I'd probably do that anyway even if I didn't have a cough - lol! 

My friend's daughter Angela decided that I needed to have a Facebook page...I'm not sure why...after all I have all I can do to keep up with this blog and keep track of some of the other forums that I'm involved with.  But, since alot of other people at church (friends and such) are on Facebook I thought well why not?  

So yesterday I signed up...but unlike this blog...I have no idea what I'm supposed to do now.  Or how I'm supposed to find their pages.  Guess I'll have to ask Angela about that.    Are any of you out there in the HSB bloggy world on Facebook?   Does it work kind of the same way - where you can post entries like this just writing about whatever?   I know they talk about putting pics on...and I can do that here as well (although because of this site's limited storage - I have to keep the pictures I want to post on another site...namely Photobucket) 

I also have someone I "know" who has a blog on Xanga (the reason the word know  is in quotes is because I don't actually know her personally, but I follow her  blog because I went to elementary school with her husband who died about 18 months ago)  And as I write this I'm thinking I should add the link to her site on my sidebar so that others may go check it out.  She has inspired me very much over these many months telling how God is working in her life now that she is raising and homeschooling their 8 children without a husband/dad.  In fact why don't I post her site in this entry as well...NineAlone  If you go there you will see her most recent post about a Disney trip - She was blessed by some friends to be able to take her 5 older children on a Disney vacation (while another friend took care of the 3 littler ones).  I'm sure that it was a wonderful time for mom and kids to be rejuvinated!

Well - I guess that's all my thoughts for the moment...I'll be sure to update you on the progress of my newest adventure with Facebook.

Oh by the way - after yesterday's post about feeling as tho the walls would close in on me....just wanted to say that it must have been just a "yesterday thing"...although I know what really got me out of the funk I was in.  This morning was our monthly intercessory prayer time at church...there's a group of us who meet on the last Saturday of the month to pray - from 9 - 12...and there is just something about a group of believers getting together to pray that can't help but change your whole attitude!   Amen?   Amen!!!

Well yesterday was an interesting day...first, our friends picked us up in the morning to go to the movies...they have free summer kids movies in the mornings during the week.  We (3 adults and 5 kids ages 8-16) all went to see the VeggieTales movie The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything.   It was cute, but it's sad that VeggieTales has changed so much since they sold Big Idea.  There was I guess an underlying godly theme in there somewhere, but not a single mention of God or the Bible or anything.  And I was shaking my head at the whole "Help Seeker" ball...all a little bizarre if you ask me.  But,  aside from that, it was cute, made me laugh at times...just not anywhere near the biblical messages of VeggieTales past.

Then we all went back to our friends house had lunch and us adults went out to run some errands, one of which was to include a trip to the bank for my friend  who is buying our car (we were using said car for these errands) so that she could withdraw the money to pay us for the car.  However, before we finished the other errands and got to the bank...the car stalled out  and had to be towed.  Ugh!  I felt horrible about it but it's been a known issue with the car.  It doesn't happen all the time - just occassionally, and even after it was in earlier this week being checked out before she bought it, they say that there isn't anything that they can find that is causing it.   But apparently today, I guess they think they might know what it is and are supposed to fix it...we'll see how that goes.  So if you are reading this and think of it, please pray that everything is straightened out  so that my friend will have a good car to drive. 

So needless to say my day, wasn't at all what I was expecting - with the exception of going to the movies with them, I hadn't expected to be with them all day, to have to call Brian to get off work early to come rescue us (which he didn't really mind leaving an hour and 1/2 early on his birthday) etc.   But later, we went to Outback Steakhouse for supper which was very good (Expensive, but GOOD!) and then to purchase a few things (another supply of flea treatment for the kitties, a birthday present for one of Bridgette's friends, and a new cd player for Bridgette - because her's bit the dust the other night).  Then we came home and crashed, watched the result show for So You Think You Can Dance and went to bed.  So all in all the day wasn't too bad...and my friend isn't upset about the car or anything (at least she isn't letting on that she is), so that's good.

Speaking of So You Think You Can Dance...I discovered something very interesting and disturbing, just by chance.  As I was browsing thru some blogs today I came across one by a 13 year old girl (and you'll have to forgive me because I don't remember the name of the blog or anything like that) who had written something about putting songs on her iPod, and coming across a "#1 song" that disturbed her (not that I blame her really).  And normally I wouldn't have really paid much attention to it except that she wrote about the song (about it's immorality and what the bible had to say...a very good blog actually) and mentioned the singer's name...Katy Perry.  And I thought to myself, wasn't that the person who sang on the results show last night?  So I went to check it out and sure enough it was.  And the song this girl wrote about in her blog  was the song she sang on the show.  I was appalled!  Now first you need to know when it comes to the people they have on to sing during the results show we usually mute the volume because we don't really listen to secular music, and I figure it's a dance show, not American Idol or something...so I don't care anything about the songs or the people singing.   I was not impressed at all when I discovered this was the song they had featured on the show...titled: I Kissed a Girl...sung by a girl...so really to say that I was not impressed is a bit of an understatement...in fact I was disgusted.   And I'm sure that there might be some who would even question as to why we watch the show in the first place with some of the costumes and dances being at the very  least -  inapprorpriate.  However, my daughter and I are dancers at heart - even if we lack some real ability, and have overall enjoyed most of what we have seen on the show.   But it seems more and more the morality of what is shown (anywhere, not just this show) is getting worse and worse these days and the general population seems to think nothing of it....and are being de-sensitized I am afraid.  Will this make me stop watching the show?  I don't know...just trying to determine where my own threshold of what is too much.   I'm going to trust in the leading of the Holy Spirit to convict me about this one.

Okay - Lastly,  I had hoped to get back on yesterday to blog about any new exciting lessons learned from bible study...and since I wasn't home during the day, plus the fact that this week's bible study was more of a review of last week's with a little bit more indepth info, I probably won't blog specifically about that....so soon (beginning of next week possibly?) I hope to post something from my journals....stay tuned til then!