Executive orders

Wow, I JUST learned about these the other day from Jayne, they are fascinating! It's amazing how the use has changed over time. It's also scary, but I am thinking of them the way I think of gun, scary and dangerous, but in awe of the power. If I didn't I'd become paranoid and that's not fun!
I was reading through some and it's interesting to see the Presidents change the ones from those before them, like Reagan did one that said no federal money could go to any place that did abortions and then Clinton came out with one that took it back! I can't wait to read through more of them and see how many times this happens. Anyhow, just thought I'd share my amazement at this with you all. Look it up, it's neat. :)

First of 4 days off

Hi all, I'm sure someone is still reading this, I hope at least :). I didn't do much today, just a few errands, and I didn't get my phone calls made. Was a decent day though and intend on hanging out on the computer tonight just because I can :). Might as well enjoy the few days I have to do that right??

Tomorrow will be just doing a few things like dying my hair, cleaning out my car and I have to go to work for a bit and work on the computer.

Nothing much else going on. Just trying to decide if I should go back to school or not, so what do you think?? Is it worth it??

Don't really have anything for the day in Julie's life, I usually spend this time of year waiting for my birthday and as of late dreading it as it's a yearly reminder of how little I have done in my life.

More at a later time :)

Thursday Nov. 4

I can't believe it's already November! Means my birthday is right around the corner. This year has just been so so FAST. And talk about beginning a year and ending it totally differently. Last year I had my own apartment, and TONS of friend around all the time. A good friend of mine was using my car, and I was in Geology classes. I now live in a room and have friends, but only talk to them online every now and then I see one in person. I also have a job, which I NEVER thought would happen at the beginning of the year. Anyhow, just been a crazy one for sure.

On to the update. Halloween was good, got some candy and apparently drank too much (how could four glasses of wine be too much???), and spent All Saints day sick. So that's the biggest news I have. Nothing much new at all going on. We are getting prepared for our vacation next week or rather at the end of next week. I am again trying to decide what to do with school, as in should I go and spend all that money for it. Haven't yet decided will have to I'm sure by the end of next week.

Oh, they got another dog! A cute little boy puppy. He's a cutie but not potty trained at all! So now each kid has a dog :).

Sorry to be short on the update, hopefully I'll get a tad more in here tomorrow as I have four days off! I'll be bored by Sunday afternoon so I'm sure my Web Site will also have some updates, so check there as well :).

Julie - off to work

Broken toes????

How silly is this. I was going into the basement to get a new box of tissues for my room (we all have allergies right now), and there's this cement thing that sticks up. Well I up and whacked my toes (three of them!) on it. Man oh Man did that hurt. I don't think they are broke, but it sure sounded like some cracking when they hit. Took a gouge out of my pinkie toe as well. I mean, I'm a klutz, but have never stubbed my toes that bad. Okay, okay, yes I know you are in trouble when the most exciting thing that happens in a few days is hurting your self, but that's all I really have. Oh, I could tell you about the time I feel off a ladder trying to kill a bug??????? That hurt, I landed on a small side table. That was fun, I highly recommend it to all :)

Okay, in other news, I washed my car today, these people here are MEAN in parking lots you wouldn't believe how many dents and paint scraps I have gotten since moving here. I guess their 50 grand vehicle doesn't get dents when it hits another car??? So I have a clean car, which is nice.

Tonight we are going on a hay ride to watch the eclipse, and also have a bonfire. It should be fun, looking forward to it :) Okay, well I guess that is all for now. Have a great day!


day in Julie history - nothing has every happened on this day in my life. Maybe I should do something cool to do! :)

Oct. 22nd (I think??? It's a Sunday)

Things are going about the same as always. Nothing much at all new. Right now I'm trying to find questions for this thing we are doing tomorrow evening with the homeschool group and I can't think of any, how bad is that! I'm harping on the kids to come up with them and I can't even do it! Tomorrow will be a little long day just because of all the stuff we have put off until the last minute. But I get to cook! And I'm making a butter cake, I can not wait to see what it tastes like :). I'm sure Joe will help but he's been pouting because he doesn't want to talk in front of people (do any of us???? no, not at all :) ). But no Big Y tomorrow, so that's nice, very nice. Well this is pretty boring so I'll go I think.

Day in Julie's history. I found out that I was moving to Missouri around this time, I was heart broken and hated the Air Force for making me move to a place called Knob Noster in the middle of my freshmen year. That was in 1992, wow, I still can't believe I lived in Missouri for 11 years. Man, that's a thought to make me miss home :(. I had a dream about my old apartment the other night, the one all my stuff is still in. I wonder if it's all in one piece still? I'm sure. Okay this is getting depressing, so let me try to think of something good about this date??????

I loaned my car to my closest friend, those are GREAT memories, wonderful. And what's even more wonderful is actually being able to enjoy those memories even though I unfortunately am no longer friends with him.

Thought of the day - you can't live in your college life forever, you have to grow up sometime and face 'real' life. It's not all that bad. :)

Update on life in Connecticut

It has been a great week even though I've been very busy and had my work schedule changed three times (how crazy is that!, every one is sick or just doesn't want to work). But it has been nice. The kids and I have our times. I have realized that I nag them too much and I need to be more encouraging rather than pushing them down (realized this today at about 10:30 right before finding the baby fish in my tank :) ). Tomorrow we are having our first States quiz, they are learning the states and capitals as well as where they are :). They have been studying hard I hear this week :).

I really am learning a lot here, and getting more confidence it seems and also finding some negative things about myself that I need to change, which is always good.

Well after 10 years I am going trick or treating again! I can't wait! Mary Grace and I are going to dress up as girls at a slumber party, we are going costume shopping tomorrow, it'll be SO fun. I will post pictures of it on my web site, and then figure out a way to put them here.

I was asked about the weather and leaves here. They are beautiful. I'll get some pictures tomorrow and again try to figure out how to put them here, if anything they will be on my web site, and I'm going to put a new link on there called Connecticut for pictures of just here :) It's not that much different here than Missouri for fall, a little cooler, and the color is greater but I think it's due to having more trees here than in Missouri. There are at least 5 times as many trees! Makes for some wonderful color.

Well I have gone on a lot today, hope someone is reading this :)

Julie

My weekend

The pilgrimage was WONDERFUL! What a spiritually moving time. God is great, and He really does give the power to get through what ever He hands you. I'm very glad I was able to go. I also enjoyed the time spent with my friend, I enjoy talking to her. Mass the next day was great, and the talk afterward was very informative. Overall a great weekend. Though my cat did find a way to hurt herself! She jumped on a shelf and it feel. Still don't know what exactly happened but her tail didn't start to work until today. And the bad cat mom that I am I didn't notice it until yesterday!

I also had a great revelation about fall leaves. God gives us wonderful color and beauty in the spring right after having months of blah. Fall is kind of like God's give to prepare us for the blah of winter. It's so pretty!

More to come about this week and also I was asked about the weather here :).

I highly recommend everyone going to visit the Shrine of the North American Martyr's in New York state.

Julie