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sorry this blog was written two weeks ago and was never uploaded...can't let it go to waste.


I have not updated since St.Patricks day....lame? yes I think so.
So well to cover the basics...summer was great..wish I was still on summer vacation. Football started out great Aug 1st at midnight...after working basketball tournaments in GA days prior I drove back that night, was a home for 15 mins and LP took me to midnight madness. The season hasnt been so great, on the winning side and on the injury side.
We are overall 1-6....yes and 1-1 in the conference. We took out union pines and then were viciously crushed by Douglas Byrd who hit hard and ran fast all over our defense. Its hard to watch these guys get crushed like that.

What makes it all even worse is out senior QB completely dislocated his knee 3 weeks e ago....ACL-gone, MCL-gone, PCL-partial tear. Some how both minicuses are still there! He wont have surgery for a couple more weeks allowing for the MCL to heal. Ive got a junior who tore his ACL - surgery is wednesday (hope they let me watch!) We've had bad concussion (dude didnt even know what month it was!), heat exhaustion (almost a heat stroke), cracker humerous, torn labrums, sprained MCLs....and then theres the normal bumps, cuts, bruises and more. And losing just adds more salt to the wounds.

Im conflicted though, I dont think I have another year in me for Overhills. I love it, but if me and LP move to the parsonage I will have to drive 45 mins every day one way. And the underappreciation and lack of respect is getting to me a little. I can handle it from coaches and other staff, but from the players? Its hard to take, these are the kids i invest my time, energy and degree in! they can give me a little credit no? They are not all bad! there are certianly those I love and dont want to leave them! Cleveland High School is being built a few miles down the road from West Johnston. New school....new start? Im hoping so, we shall see.

Other than all that Im working this weekend in Durham...AAU basketball tournaments...good money. But not good timing for work. Ive got a second job taking some kids to school in the AM...and of course i start the week that I have a home game everynight and football thursday and friday ...Ive been so tired and busy I havent done anything else! I have an online class that Im desperatly behind in, I just hope I can finish what i need to by the end of tonight and early tomorrow. We have half day tomorrow, no games and everything practice must be done before 3...I hope thats God giving me a few crucial hours...

As you can see I am one busy woman! haha if that covers it. :/ Most of all right now I am homesick! I hate hate hate being away from LP and maggie. I had to spend the night in creepy durham at a Days Inn that was ehhh ok....

GREEN RIVER!

I didn't know this until today! Each each year for st. pattys day Chicago dies its chicago river green!!
and they use a orange powder to do it....weird huh?
here is a cool site that has the history of it and a video
http://www.greenchicagoriver.com/index.html

look at the pictures from google and see how green it is!
GO GREEN!

Wear some green or get pinched!

Happy St. Patrick's day to all!! :) May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future.

So I hope your wearing your green today so you don't get pinched. If you have never read the story of ol' St. Patty you really should. LP preached this past Sunday...did a great job! ;) and told the story behind the holiday. Which I was able to tell my Sports Medicine class today! So yay!

Its been a while since Ive updated. Not much has changed really. We are moving to a new town home! its really nice and instead of it being right of the street like the place we live at now its kind of in a sub-division of its own. The rent is a little higher but its worth it I think for a little bit bigger place, and safety!! The place we live at now is probably not the safest of places, we've never had a problem but its the kind of place you could have a problem.

Work is going pretty good. Its spring sports season. I just wish the sun and the 75 80 degree weather would come back! I dont like all this cold rainy mush...makes me sick.....which I am. Battling a sinus thing...gross.

Everything seems to be going pretty good. I got my car back.....ehh....and Im looking a second job. really right now i just need weekend work, need to pick up some extra cash, and then by may when the sports stop I can work after 3:30 then the summer I can work more. So Im working on that so keep your fingers crossed I can get a weekend job that still allows me to go to church and work sunday afternoons or evenings and still have time to spend with LP and Maggie.
well see what comes along

So with that I will leave with a couple of irish toast and blessing

As you slide down the banisters of life may the splinters never point the wrong way.

May you get all your wishes but one,
So you always have something to strive for.

May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.

Here's to your coffin...
May it be built of 100 year old oaks which I will plant tomorrow.

May your neighbors respect you,
Troubles neglect you,
The angels protect you,
And Heaven accept you.

May you be in heaven one half hour before the devil knows you're dead.

May you have the hindsight to know where you've been,
The insight to know where you are,
and the foresight to know when you've gone too far.

:)

Heart day

Just wanted to say happy Heart day to everyone. I knew about this acronym and with the help of Google I found it!

or God so loVed the world
That He gAve
His onLy
BegottEn
SoN
That whoever
Believes In Him
Shall Not perish,
But have Eternal life. (John 3:16)

Happy valentines day!
<3 Heather P.

confession

So I have a confession to make......im a procrastinator! *gasp*
*Like my family and anyone I went college with didn't already know that.*
You see I have ADD....meaning there are slow chemicals in my brain that don't really fire on time. haha my brain procrastinates too. But I have a hard time concentrating on a lot of stuff. I get bored and restless easily. But even when there is something to do I get off task and find something else that needs to be doing....follow me so far? good

So one of my new year resolutions or rather the things I want to accomplish by the end of 2009 is to spend time daily in the word, with the Lord, and another was to read my bible from beginning to end. So my scattered little brain put the two together. One of my FCA kids, Chris, at school pointed out a program that his church was doing. Its called Around the word in 180 days.
So I have started reading from the begining the other day.
With my procrastination and ADD i have a tendency to not complete things I start. So I am confessing now to my faults in hopes that I can complete something I start this year

I'll post all my resolutions later but for a start I am reading the bible all the way through and each day spending that time in Gods word to learn about him as he has always been from day one.

Praise be to God!
<3 LP -peace

Oh a week Off and O yes Obama!

So this past week starting with Monday we had no school due to the celebration of Martin Luther King Jr Day. Then my hopes and dreams came true! SNOW!!!
Yes it snowed! Finally! I have not seen snow like this since my Freshman (maybe sophomore) year at CU. It was so beautiful! I thanked the Lord every time I looked outside to see it covered in white and to see it continue to fall. Lawrence and I walked up to downtown and took pictures and enjoyed the site of all the snow. It just looked so amazing and since there were only a few cars out on the street there was a peaceful feeling from all the snow.
With all the snow and some ice the county canceled school for Tuesday ( the actually snow day) then for Wednesday and to my surprise they closed school Thursday! It was like having a winter break! The rest I got was wonderful, and the time at home with LP and maggie was exactly what I needed. Praise God for his blessings!

So Tuesday marked an event in history, a historic one! I almost cried (im such a softy). Since we had the day off due to the weather CNN was all that we watched. Lawrence and I got to sit and watch as the 44th president of the United States was sworen in to Office. Now Im old enough to have voted twice. But I didnt really follow all the polotics like Idid this time around.
I was excited and happy to see history in the making. How awesome it was to see the first African American president voted into office. I really thought it was something you only in movies.
But being able to be a part of it all to see change in our nation and to see the inaguration was a great moment in my lifetime that I get to tell to my grandkids one day.

And my prayers are with the Bush family who is proud of what he did for the past 8 years and no matter what the pols said I still beleive in him and I still respect the man for leading the country.
Check out his speech on CNN when he got home to texas. Im so happy he got a warm welcome home.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2009/01/23/kaye.obama.air.force.one.cnn

As for President Obama I will pray for his term in office and I pray for the Lord to be with him and his wonderful family. And no matter what anyone says black,white, poka-dotted, yellow, pink or orange, young or old I beleive that the man in office today is the man that the Lord put in office. I beleive that God knows what he is doing and the right man for the job was selected. I feel a peace and comfort with President Obama in office....now if I could meet him for real that would be sweet! I think the opportunity to meet any president would be pretty sweet.
I am thankful for a country were I can vote freely and be a apart of what is best for my country.
So to President Obama- good luck and God be with you and your family in the years to come. I know you'll serve this country well.

Well today is friday....my only day of work this entire week! Working a basketball game but not complaing.
To God be the Glory!