I have a pain in my side.

In all actuality, I do have a pain in my side. But I really don't want to talk about it. Or any of the other pains I have.
I want to talk about how happy I am that spring & even summer appear to be coming along. Hurray! I even saw some leaves trying to burst forth this morning walking to the boat dock.
I also want to say that I have been thinking about the current opening subject. About keeping our minds on things above. It's harder than you think. Really it is. Just yesterday I was really having a good day and thinking good thoughts and actually staying in the spirit. Then came a thought about some little sore point (I don't really remember what it was) and I sat there stewing about it and having a big talk with someone in my head, which is always stupid. OH I know what it was, it was about John D and how he tries to evangelize to everyone here and convince them that what they are doing here isn't really making them happy and how awesome and totally rad it is in his church and how FANTASTIC his life is now that he's escaped the evil commune. Anyway, as you see it bothers me, but I don't need to meditate on it or have a non existent conversation with him in my head.
It doesn't do him any good and I am stuck thinking rude thoughts about someone instead of taking the Lords view of him and his situation.
Not that I think the Lord's view is always good, but I do know that He tells us NOT to be judgmental of others, and as Bill says not to hammer the gavel. He's doing things that we have no concept of knowing or understanding, so leave the problem to him.
I have also been thinking what Kathy Owens said about the Lord being our husband and treating him that way. I was thinking of how if every time Dan wanted to be intimate with me I found something else to do, we would have very bad marriage.
It really changed my perspective a great deal.
We have been praying more together and reading the bible together like we should. It's been really good.
I know that the only way we will have any sort of marriage will be if we look to the Lord together and individually, and if we flee from selfishness and pride.
It's hard to not let pride separate. It's a real tribute to Don & Debbie that Dan HATES being divided. He fights for unity with all his heart. It's harder for me, but I know how important it is.
Anyway, I am looking forward to running today. Hopefully the sun will last and I will get to be outside. Same for tomorrow. Especially since I have to run eight miles tomorrow. NO MORE TREADMILL for a while.
Yeah!

I can go the distance

I have chosen and decided all on my own, that I am going to run distance. YES! I started about a month ago and have gotten up to eight miles at a timea and 20 mi per week. Very minor when you go to the running sites on the web and look at people running 50 + MPW. WOW, to be like them. Well, they also have way too much time.
My goal, is to get up to 16 miles (in one run) by June and then see. I don't want to commit to the marathon quite yet.
But I do want to do 30+ MPW on a regular basis.
I have to say that the runs, I have had recently haven't been the best, but that might be because I've been fighting an infection as well as some sort of stomach viras.
(So rude for my body to do that to me.)
Today, I am going to run 4, which should be simple enough, though it could be more difficult then usual because I am going to run the road up the bluff hill.... So good for the legs.
In other news, my birthday is in three days. Yeah hurray. Though to tell the truth I am really not that excited about it.
The good thing, however, is that I am going to have a really yummy dinner with my babe. He's going to grill steak and I am going to prepare shrimp...(YUM!!) and it will be delightful. Unfortunately there will be no alcohol because the treatment for the afore mentioned infection states that mixing alcohol and the drug could cause sever sickness... yuck!
And, uhm let me see.......
Ok, that's it. I need to get back to regularly schedualed programs....

PS The best books EVER

Ok, maybe not ever, but definitely ones that I have enjoyed totally and completely and really want to read for a third time, just so I can experience them again. They are called: The Thief, The Queen of Atolia and the The King of Atolia. They are by Megan Whalen Turner. And anyone who reads this blog, should DEFINITELY go out and purloin them by any means and read them. I am trying to spread the word to all I can. The plot it marvelous! And they are just VERY enjoyable. All I can tell you about the book is that the main character's name is Eugenides and the stories are like a fictional historical, semi Greek noval. Eugenides is a thief and he is taken from prison to go steel a gift from the gods. It's so good! I can't tell you anymore then that, else I ruin it for you.
Please read it, it's wonderful!

The Return of the Vest

Oh rejoice all ye who can cry out for the vest that was once lost has been found again!!!! YEAH!!!!! I am very happy about this. It is the best thing that has happened for a while. I lost a certain down vest a year and a half ago. Though to be completely acurate, I didn't infact lose it. It was removed from where I had left it by some twerp and sent to the clothing bank, whereby before I ever saw it, it was removed to someones closet. I am so pleased that it has come to light that I will forgive all and rejoice souly in my newly found old beloved vest!
Oh and there are other good things happening too. I just don't want to talk about them yet.
And no I am not pregnant. YEAH!