Here we go. It is 7:30 in the morning and I'm sitting at my computer. I have taken my meds, and am drinking my coffee. No one else is a wake yet. Today will start soon enough. I look outside, and see that it is raining. Great, on a day like today, it starts out raining. At 9:00 this morning we do our final walk thru of our house before we sign the papers. At 10:00 we have our signing. One that is done, we will receive our keys and the house is ours. Instead of celebrating, all hell breaks loose. I have to take our deed to the water dept to get our water and sewage signed up. Fortunatly we have already did the gas and electric, mail, and paper. We will be starting to pull up all the carpet in the house. Donald and his friends(with pickup truck ) will start hauling boxes over to the house and put them in the garage. On the return trip they will drop off old carpet in the dumpster. Catherine and Lindsey will coordinate things at the apartment, like boxing their bedroom. Sometime I have to buy a gas grill so we can cook meat for the workers. Once the floors are preped, they have to be uerethaned. At 1:00 Tim is coming over to measure the kitchen, diagram it so that we can cut open an openning between the kitchen and the dinning room. Joel is sending one of his workers to cut the openning. By the end of today, we hope to have all the boxes and small items moved, the kitchen preped, and the floor urethaned. Saturday will be the moving of the big items in Louie's truck. It also will be the day that the cable company will show up to install cable lines. Anything that hasn't been moved will be moved and the apartment cleaned out. Saturday evening we have to go and clean the church.
Sunday is Palm Sunday, and we have two worship services, and have to hand in our keys to the apartment complex.

I realize that April 1 is April fools day, and I hope the joke is on someone else. Love ya all

Age old delema. Why is it when you want something to happen right away, it will take time for it to happen. We close on our new house 10 am on Friday. Tick, tick, tick. Im living amoung boxes. Ive changed adresses and services and time drags on. When Friday does happen, we have fourty-eight hours to prep the new house and move out of our apartment. At that point time will be flying.

TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO
HE IS THE MARICOPA, ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER.
THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY:
It was Sheriff Joe Arpaio who created the "Tent City Jail"
He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving (actually 20 cents)and charges the inmates for them.
He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights Cut off all but "G" movies.
He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.
Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.
He took away cable TV Until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. so he hooked up the cable TV again, only let in the Disney Channel and The Weather Channel.
When asked why the weather channel He Replied, "So they will know How hot it's gonna be while they are working ON my chain gangs".
He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.
When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."
He bought Newt Gingrich's lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails.
When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.
More on the Arizona Sheriff:
With Temperatures Being Even Hotter Than Usual In Phoenix (116 Degrees Just Set A New Record), the Associated Press Reports: about 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued Pink Boxer Shorts.
On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, in which the temperature reached 138 Degrees inside the week before.
Many were also swathed in wet, pink Towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their PINK SOCKS.
"It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the TENTS for one year. "It's inhumane."
Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths!"
Way to go, Sheriff! Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves.

A man and his wife were getting a divorce at a local court, but the custody of their children posed a problem. The mother jumped to her feet and protested to the judge that since she had brought the children into this world, she should retain custody of them.
The man also wanted custody of his children, so the judge asked for his side of the story. After a long moment of silence, the man rose from his chair and replied: "Judge, when I put a dollar into a vending machine, and a Pepsi comes out, does the Pepsi belong to me or to the machine?"
Don't laugh, he won!

Don't let this happen to you.Home Depot ScamA "heads up" for those men who may be regular Home Depot customers. Over theLast month I became a victim of a clever scam while out shopping. Simplygoing out to get supplies has turned out to be quite traumatic. Don't benaive enough to think it couldn't happen to you or your friends. Here's howThe scam works:Two seriously good-looking 20-21 year-old girls come over to your car as youare packing your stuff into the trunk. They both start wiping yourwindshield with a rag and Windex, with their breasts almost falling out oftheir skimpy T-shirts. It is impossible not to look. When you thank them andoffer them a tip, they say "No" and instead ask you for a ride to anotherHome Depot or Lowe's.You agree and they get in the back seat. On the way, they startundressing. Then one of them climbs over into the front seat and startsCrawling all over you, while the other one steals your wallet.I had my wallet stolen December 4th, 9th, 10th, twice on the15th, 17th, 20th, & 24th. Also January 2nd, 3rd, twice on the 5th, threetimes just yesterday and very likely again this upcomingweekend. So be careful and tell your friends to be careful.

What a month.

Last month ended when my father died. He wa 84 and suffered from alzhiemer and death was somewhat a blessing. This was a long and tough week.
We have been working on buying a house and moving out of this apartment. We got pre approved financing and had found our house after a long search only to find out if was just sold. After more searching we found another house and made an offer on it. It took two weeks of going back a forth before they agreed on our offer. What made this more nervious is that we had given our 30 day notice to our apartment. Now we have to try to close, and fix up the house in 3 weeks. On top of this, my blood preasure is going wild, Liz is still full time and at school.
The car has had new rotars, new radiator, and a thermostat this month. all of these happened seperatly.
A friend of mine's sister passed away. This was also a blessing after a long illness. It still doesnt make it easier for him and his family.

To top off a weird month, "Sundance", the best singer ever on "american Idol" was voted off the show by america. He was beaten by a person who couldn't sing, but was very femanine looking. it just goes to show that our young people value looks over substance..

Well keep us in your prayers about our house, and pray that everything goes smoothly

Two Wolves

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between two "wolves" inside us all.
One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.
The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence,empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."
The grand son thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?"
The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."