to shower or not to shower?

It's 8:01 and I don't nkow if I'm inspired enough to get up and go to work. If I do go...I will have accomplished something minor. If I don't..I can stay here in my pajamas and play with my son. HHmmm..

Does Anyone Need A Gmail Invite?

I have 4 gmail invites. The first 4 people with names, e-mails and who tell me a good joke get the invites.

Very hard to post lately

I've been quite caught up in another blog and I've been neglecting myself. Consequently, I am now up at nearly midnight feeling like I forgot to do something. I sit at my computer and I'm automatically drawn here.

It's been a really long week.

I work in a church in what is essentially a one person office. I never know who is going to call or walk through the door and what their needs might me. I'm well equipped to handle homelessness, hunger, some abuse..but when suicide comes a knockin...I have to step back.

Fortunately, I had a great resource help me out on what to do (call the police and her family) so everything is turning out fine, but it's still hard to watch. I feel for these people..that they are hurting so much. A pastor at my church told me that it's not my job to fix people's pain, but simply to carry it for them, for just a little while. Give them a respite. I would give these people my very blood if I thought it would help them find their path. Unfortunately, I am paying a high price. I leave work on days like this feeling exhausted, weepy, unsure and unable to sleep.

Good night for now.

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much
seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen

This would absolutely be my cat Line. If you don't read it all ready (since this strip is a few days old) here's when you can read the rest of the thread. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&cid=1993 

No one die today, please.

One of the problems with working in a church with older possibility...is people dying. Yes, you're thinking "Well, people are dying all the time". In a church where the average age has to be 65, dying happens a lot. In my old job, we joked about Company X (since I don't want to name the people I worked for) Plague. We would all get sick at the same time. The owner hated when we made that reference. Well, working on the absolute principle that death comes in 3's (don't argue with me, it's real) when you have a small church, you cringe when one person dies knowing that two more are not far behind.

These people I work with are amazing. The old ladies give me hope that when I get old I can still be a sarcastic bitch and people will think it's cute because I'm an old lady. Unless of course I cross the line into crazy sarcastic bitch who tells people that the garden gnomes in her yard are gay and are out to get her (true story, ask me sometime).

The whole purpose...please don't die today. I really like the people here and if you die today, that means two more people I actually care about might go too.

Thanks.

This is my favorite person in the world. 

The best personal ad ever

Thank you to Craig's List for this giggle --

www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/35218073.html

Have you found me yet?

I'm lost in the craptastic television that is network tv. Oh cable or dish, save me now.