Washing out Life

So our washing machine is out, and it has been out for a while.  Being out means it won't drain or spin.  It fills up with water and washes the clothes, but then doesn't drain, and then that kills the rest of the cycle.  So I have been draining the loads all by hand, using a large glass. This is quite the process, and it's a big bummer since there is no money to replace or fix right now. So yes sometimes life is the same, we have to brain our selves with a cup and get all the water out.  Meaning all the things that we really don't need or want.  We have to wash out life and get things straightened out again, make things right and get on the right track

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Right now I am wishing I had this washing machine.  At least it would work right.

O Happy Day!

Wes

Cold spells can help in life?

So I just saw something that went along with my last blog.  Apparently some plants need the cold to be able to bloom in the spring.  Here is the article Why winter is important to some plants.
Same thing for us.  We need to have winters in our lives to truly enjoy the springs an summers of our lives.  Think about it. If you never had sadness you would never know what joy and happiness was.

Wes

LIFE'S Protection from a Lily

I was cleaning out some of our flower beds today, yes it is January and I live somewhere were there is normally a lot of snow.  Well there is almost no snow on the ground and it has been really nice weather.  Probably too nice for January.  This picture reminded me of what I saw in the flower beds.

We have day lilies maybe to many of them but they are really beautiful when them are blooming.  We didn't get two of our beds cleaned out and the Day Lilies just stayed there and covered the beds up with they're long leaves, if that is what you call them.  Underneath them I found a pot with a flower in it that was living and doing quite well even though it should have been dead.  It was still alive from the protection that it had gotten from the Lilies and moisture from the snow that had fallen.  Even though the temperature seems warmer than normal there have been some real cold snaps.  Thanksgiving was around -10 at night for a few nights, and a lot of 0's for the first week in January.
     My point.  We may feel beat buried, froze out, burned out half dead and just ready to give up, but there is some type of protection that we have that has and is saving us and protecting us from the storm that is raging around us.  Just hang in there and there will be growth.  There is not one person that does not go through something in their life were they feel battered and bruised.  And there is always some type of Lily there helping us through.

Wes

Parenting through life

     So apparently Helan Hunt doesn't want her daughter to be a child star.  I think that is a good idea.  I would probably do the same thing if I were that rich and famous.  I would want my kids to be away from that type of life and I would make sure that they had a work ethic that almost no one now a day even has a clue about.  I remember as a teenager digging fence posts on my parents 24 acres,  splitting the property in half, it was in the shape of a rectangle and I went the long way.    Over 40 fence posts in one summer.  Some may think that is great others may think that it is torture.  At the time I thought that I had a great work ethic.  I was in England for 2 years on a mission for my church and didn't do much physical labor, but when I did I really missed it.
      Now 10-15 years later I look back, after working with some guys that really know how to work, I think that maybe I could have had a better work ethic.  I don't know, maybe these guys work a little to much, but they work and when it is time to work they work until the job is done.
     So what am I trying to say, well I know that todays work ethic is shot. And there are some great lessons that are taught through hard work.  Yes the movie industry might be hard work but it is a place I don't want my kids in.

wes

A little to much stress

So I took on something at work that maybe I shouldn't have.  Well my coworkers weren't to worried about it, even though it did affect them quite a bit.  So yes I was quite stressed out today, and I am one that does not stress very much at all.  And then the outcome wasn't quite like I was hoping for either.  Well it ended up working out but not like I had planned.  This came about because I came up with a brilliant plan the day before our semi big, (well it really wasn't that big) event.  And really that wasn't enough time to get everything prepared like we would have liked it.  So trying to make this cool put a lot of stress on me.  So my point,  I guess the old saying don't bite off more than you can chew, applies to me a little here,especially since I am swamped with other things already.

so here is a link to some

Consequences of Work Stress

to try and remember to relax a little at work.

Don't you think that having snow in 49 states is kind of neat.   well I guess not if you live somewhere specifically to be away from snow.  I am from Utah so I am used to it.  If you haven't really seen about it check it out on ABC

Hey 

Love Life

Wes

Harry Potter

Ok. I have never read any of the Harry Potter Books, and only seen the 1st two movies (I think, I know that I have watched the first one and I think the second.)  That may not seem too big, but here it is.  I am a elementary teacher.  I have nothing against them, I think that it is great that books have captivated young readers so much.  I just haven't grabbed book one and started reading.  I don't even have them in my classroom library.  I am working on it, just haven't been able to get the whole set yet.  I have taught a couple of years, but this is the first year in the elementary grades. Maybe this summer will be the time that I start reading the series.  I don't think that it will be before that.  My kids are just small so they don't even know who Harry Potter is.  So that might be part of my lack of reading so far.

So my thought on how to aline this with life and it's lessons.  We can not asume that someone likes or dislikes something just they don't seem to have an interest in it.

Am I going to read them?  Of course I am going to read them, and probally watch all the movies sometime to.

rainy night

Here is a thought for life.

It may rain all night but a new day is a new day.

Rain

The good thing about rain is that its not going to stick around forever.  Right now here it is raining, yes it is good for the plants and soil and all that.  But on days that we feel a little bummed out it is good to know that it is not going to last.

wes

A year in the making

A lot of things can happen in a years time.  Especially in today's economy.

So I started this and never got very far and now I have no idea what I was going to write.  So life is like that sometimes but don't let that affect you.  Just love life and keep going on.

wes

Maybe it if something like Alzheimer's. 

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Communication

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 No my tires weren't this bad.  Not to far behind though.

O.k.  so to continue on with the tire situation.  Don't you think that if you had  a tire company and always dealing with people would have a little better communication with your customers?  Yeah well communication didn't happen with me very well and I didn't get the financing that they had talked about and new tires were put on.  The thing was, was that I was at work all day and couldn't get in contact with them.  So I come back not able to get my car, ( and it is the only one that we have)  so I end up car less for the night and miss a meeting for work this morning that I should have been at.  Doesn't life just work like that sometimes? Well when I did talk to the owner things were somewhat worked out and he was very good to us in the end even though it was kind of bad for both of us.  My point.  COMMUNICATION solves a lot of problems and keeps you out of a lot of others.  Life is all about communication and a lot of lifes lessons are learned because of communication or the lack thereof.

for those of you that it affects don't forget daylight savings tonight.
don't forget to still sleep.

wes

Unstoppable the movie