Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Job Update

For those of you who are keeping track:

I actually have a job at least through the middle of April. Maybe longer, depending on whether or not they decide they need me enough to hire me on.

I really, really like the people here and I would love to work here on a more permanent basis. But I'll leave the planning up to God on this one.

Just keep us in your prayers as we continue to navigate the terrain. Thanks.

Also: We just bought a new laptop off Craig's List and it's lots of fun. It's a Dell XPS M140. It's really pretty. Oh yeah, and it works good too. lol

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

I Got a Job... Sort Of

I got the job I wanted even, well sort of.

I got hired on as temporary office help at HighPoint Solutions. I'm basically doing the same stuff I was doing at dB Audio, but not as many different tasks. Which is nice in one way, but in another, I don't feel quite as challenged. But if I got to be creative AND problem solve, I'd love work and that just seems wrong, ya know?

Anyway, thank you all for praying. I have a job for this week. Please continue to pray as I don't know if I'll have a job NEXT week.

Monday, March 13, 2006

Random Events?

Jesse and I were talking over the events of this last week last night, and it dawned on us. This week was not a series of random events. It's too calculated, to coincitental. We were reminded once again that there is a very real enemy in this world and his mission is to steal, kill and destroy everything he can. This week really seemed like everything went wrong. The leaky ceiling. Our computer working then not working then acting like it might work. My parent's laptop (which we borrowed while our computer was deciding whether or not to flake out on us) refusing to work off our internet connection. Etc, etc. It's just been coming at us from every conceivable angle. We feel a little battered and bruised, but we're alive. It's driven us to the feet of the Father, and more than ever, we feel like that's where our strength and unity is coming from and will continue to come from.

Thanks to all of you sent prayers heavenward after hearing about our flood. Please keep praying for us as we continue to deal with the aftermath. Love you all.

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

"After me, the deluge" -Napolean Bonaparte

{Takes deep breath}

Well folks, I've had about the craziest 48 hours anyone could ask for.

Monday night, Jesse and I went to the YMCA for a particularly difficult workout session. Then we went to Wal-Mart for some necessities (TP and ice cream for me). We got home to a torrential downpoar...in our dining room.

Apparently, a valve underneath the kitchen sink in the unit above ours blew out sometime Monday while we were gone, and poured enough water into our unit to leak into the unit below us. Needless to say everything in our dining room was pretty much soaked. As soon as we got home we had to start moving everything. Jesse keeps his guitars and amp in the dining room, but they managed to come out unscathed. We think we might have lost his tuner and his trainer thingy that slows down CD tracks so he can learn them. Thank God he bought the warrenty on them.

Also, the water was coming through the dining room light fixture. And there's tell-tale blister marks on the same line as several of our electrical outlets, so there might be some electrical work that needs to be done. The whole dining room and part of the living room are going to need to be painted and possibly have some drywall replaced or repaired. So we might have to move into a different unit while they're doing the repairs to ours.

We also discovered a blister that was threatening to leak on our computer. So we moved the computer and we thought it was out of danger. However, we have been unable to get it to boot up at all. We're not sure exactly what's wrong with it. We're going to replace a couple things that needed to be replaced anyway, and try to boot it up off the Windows CD to run a repair. That is, if we can find the CD.

If y'all would pray for us and our computer, we'd really appreciate it. It's not like we can go out and just buy another computer, ya know? God bless you all and we'll keep you updated on how eveything works out.

UPDATE:

Thank you, Jesus! The computer works! It turns out that the surge protector did its job and protected the computer, but the surge protector is shot. So I plugged the computer into a different power strip, and it worked! YAY!