To the women with whom I spent last weekend:
Thank you for being with me as I cried, laughed, sang, and prayed.Â? Thank you for giving me a reminder that I am not alone as a pastor’s wife and that others have dealt with all these things and survived.Â? You guys gave me my hope back.
Love,
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I was filling my pillbox for this week when Jon came into the kitchen with an article talking about the FDA investigation of a link between Singulair and suicide.Â? (I’m on Singulair for allergies and asthma and have been for almost 10 years.)
According to the article…
“We have no indication that anything about the mechanism of Singulair is consistent with these events [the suicides],” said George Philip, directorof research and product development.Â? “But because suicide is a life threatening event we thought it was important to provide this information in the product label.”
Apparently, suicide is a life-threatening event.Â? Who would have guessed?
(Jon laughed for about 5 minutes when I pointed this out to him.)
I asked for this week off as it’s the Montana Synod Pastors’ Conference and was granted it so… I got to go to Chico Hot Springs with Jon for the conference!
The Good
-not having to commute an hour to work for 5 days!
-living in the most beautiful state in the union and seeing a part of it while driving down
-breakfast at the Park n’ Ponder in Great Falls on Tuesday
-soaking in the pool at Chico which is fed by natural hot springs so it’s a gigantic hot tub
-the food — all gourmet and all made fresh every day
-hanging with friends from the synod and making new ones
-getting to have a normal conversation with our most awesome bishop and being able to joke around
-AWESOME worship by people who KNOW how to do it
-going to Yellowstone on Wednesday afternoon and communing with the bison and elk and geese who were out
-being able to sit by the fire in the lodge and read Joanne Fluke murder mysteries
-dinner with Joe and Jon at Arby’s which was so fun that one forgot they were in a fast food restaurant
-walks in the falling snow while listening to my devotions as well as other podcasts on Panimatushka (my new iPod)
The Bad
-hard mattresses at the resort
-not getting to have a big orange tabby displacing my hips for several days
-missing my kitties
Otherwise, I’m chilling in my study because we have no heat (!!!!) and downloading interesting podcasts for work this week in addition to some Casting Crowns.
Christos aneste! Alithos aneste!
He is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia!
Happy Easter to those in the West. To those in the East, keep up the good fight with your Lenten fasts!
No plans as of yet for today other than church and more church but hopefully someone will adopt us? *gives local peeps Bambi eyes*
Pisco and I were talking today about how exhausted we’ve been lately and I had to laugh when I saw this in the chat…
I hear you. I been run down and worn out this week. I keep saying to myself, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead,” and then realize we’re supposed to expect resurrection of the body and think, “Oh, crap.”
Guess I’m not getting that sleep deficit worked off any time soon…
(Speaking of such things, I should get off and go shower and go to bed meself as I have to be up at dark-thirty for church tomorow.)
(To those at L.L. Bean reading this: Don’t worry — I’m talking about how AWESOME your customer service is and how much I love you.)
So… Jon and I got a MASSIVE L.L. Bean gift card from my in-laws for our anniversary (which is tomorrow!) and I decided to get a new swimsuit with it. I ordered a dark green/teal camisole-type top and black swim/jogging shorts figuring that it would be modest and also cover up parts of my body that I’m not so secure with at the moment.
Well… I ordered them with express shipping and it arrived yesterday. I finally got to open the package today and found, to my horror, that they had sent me some black-flowered thing instead of the black shorts. So… I drove to town feeling like I was going to cry — I leave for a mini-vacation on Tuesday and I kind of WANTED this stuff for that!
I got to town and figured that I’d open the bag with the shorts and at least see what they looked like. Well… therein lay the problem because the bag was incorrectly labelled — it contained a humongous black swim top!!! I called L.L. Bean posthaste and was put through to a wonderful customer service rep who quickly explained that they would be refunding ALL of my shipping costs and offered to expedite the shorts to where I’m going to be next week.
Well… I happened to be next to the local independent clothing store and I went in there to see if they had something that would work for right now.Â? They did (!!!!) so I called L.L. Bean back and worked through a deal with the next customer service rep to get my shorts though not expedited.
So… all’s well that ends well and I just spent the rest of my gift card there for some things for both Jon and I.