Your P.A.L. Kat

Okay, so most of you who know me, and for the ones that don’t… I LOVE DOING LAUNDRY…like, really love it! I get it from my dad…he likes to sit in front of his front loading washing machine and watch the clothes go round…so, I think I got it from him…anyway, we swapped out our old dryer yesterday (which by the way we got for free on the side of the road and had Dane Clark from The Grove fix for us…he can fix anything)…swapped it out for Bill and Patti’s newer dryer they left when they went up north…well, we got them swapped, left the old one on the side of the road with a “FREE” sign and someone grabbed it…but, then we couldn’t hook up the “newer” one because the nozzle where we hook it up to the gas was stripped, so, resulting in a gas leak, no bueno! It goes without saying, I was FURIOUS! Really upset…for one, it took forever for us to get the “old” one hooked up(took like 8 trips to home depot) …and now this one we can’t hook up…What the HECK?

I was very mad, as I LOVE MY LAUNDRY TIME…it relaxes me, and this was not at all convenient… and then my husband reminds me how much better it would be for the environment if we didn’t use the dryer…I was not happy about this suggestion, and said I was not ready to give that up yet…so he kept quiet, I continued to pout (very in my nature, unfortunately…Im working on it) and all day I thought about it, prayed about it, and in the midst of it all, realized how freakin’ selfish I was being…needless to say, I was feeling quite convicted, and it was stressing me out, cuz I was doing this thing I call “avoiding the conviction.” Well, I woke up this morning and saw all the laundry I still had yet to finish, and decided to experiment with the “no dryer” option(yes, i was listening to the conviction in my heart)…so we have no string, so we found a long extension chord and tied it up and we started hanging things…

Well, after we were finished, I actually felt better…Jon reminded me yesterday how selfish I can be with his kind way of showing me how much of a luxury it is to even have a dryer option, and most of the world don’t even have washing machines…although I already know these tings, sometimes we need to be reminded and need to be convicted over and over with the same thing to really appreciate what that kind of change can represent, and then we are humbled…Jon and I were going to call Mike Lance to come check out our dryer, but…. I think I will will experiment with doing “GREEN” laundry for a couple weeks…I mean, if Matthew Sleeth and my sister-in-law Heather can do it, then we shall see how much I really need a dryer…I mean, I can still do laundry, I can still love it, I just don’t get to do it the way I always use to…and that’s okay, it’s just a luxury and convenience…Toby will miss the warm piles of clothes to burrow in…and I am not saying I have totally decided against the dryer, I’m just writing this to say I was given the opportunity not once(free dryer that was a pain to hook up), but twice(other “newer” dryer that we “can’t” hook up) to reconsider this one luxury I have, and am being challenged with it…Hey, I know it may sound stupid to some, but this is something that I am struggling with, other things, not a problem, but this is definitely an opportunity to help in the “change” I am saying I want to be a part of…this taught me three lessons…1. be content with the “old” stuff ya got if it works just fine…2. dryers are a luxury that most of the world will never know, so why do i need one? and 3. don’t fight convition, you are so much better off giving in to it, because it knows way more than you… so ask me in a couple weeks if I need that dryer still…we will see where this challenge takes me…and hey if I need to dry something really fast, I have neighbors around the corner…right Dan and Alyssa?

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Well, folks, it is that time…come on down for our YARD SALE tomorrow morning, Sept. 29…we will be set up and ready to go by 7am…my mom has a bunch of stuff from her last move, Patti and Bill left us a heap to sell when they moved to SALINAS…and um, we have some crap too…so it is like downsizing central here…cuz when we all moved, we got rid of stuff, woohoo!!!

SO, come buy our stuff! And uh, bring your friends too…

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Here is a photo video Jim McGill posted after our wedding last December…just wanted to share…

Makes me smile…and this song was the song we had our first kiss to…and everyone sighs…

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Why? I will share…

1. Both professors showed up to teach their classes

2. We played theatre games, lots of theatre games

3. Got to create stories in readers theatre from our homework assignments, which was to tell a story thru a recipe, or something with instructions, like how to wash a car…my group told a story with our directions from CSUSB to Magic Mountain…we used one of many forms of readers theatre methods, the epic mode…combining dramatic and narrative details…

4. played more theatre games, like “WHoosh” and miming activities…

5. took some interesting notes on how to incorporate these activities in a classroom setting and why they are helpful in the growing minds of youth…

In all, it was an awesome day of grad school…I got to think in the mind of a child with my creative abilities…Heck, i got to play games and act like a kid…two things i really love to keep active in my life…

Its gonna be a good quarter…

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Oh goodness, The Office and Greys are on tonight…i can hadly stand it, i might pee my pants…

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My heart hurts…
my sister is in agony, her husband tries to be strong for her, but he aches too…
they need comfort
they need reassurance
they need hugs
they need laughs
they need time to grieve
they need time to refocus
they need to know that i believe with all my heart that God will bless them with a child…
they need to know that i believe God knows the deep desire of their hearts to be parents, and
they need to know that He knows what amazing parents they would be, and that it will happen…that they can trust Him…
they need to know it is in HIS timing…

they need to know i believe with all of my heart that there is no one else i know on this earth who deserves to be a mommy and daddy more than them…

they need to know that i trust they will be blessed with the gift of parenting because they have such a heart for children and i believe they can and will make a difference in the life of at least one child…
they need to know that it will all be okay…
they need to know i love them so much and i am praying constantly for their aching hearts…
they need to know that i know they can get thru this…
they need to know they are not alone…

Dee and Shane, you are not alone, you have eachother…and you’re so strong and brave and the most amazing couple i know…i look up to you guys…i love you both so very much…dont give up, dont feel defeated, hold eachother up…
and KNOW…”that which does not kill you, makes you stronger.”
hugs to my nee-nee…your sissy is with you…

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Okay, so my first day of grad school last thursday, my professor forgot to show up to class…thought her class was at 2, but she was mistaken, its at 10…at that time, i was currently enrolled just in that class…so, um, i went home…
today, i went to another class i added and went to it at 8am…and 830 rolls around, NO professor…
Um, he slept in…Sweet…so if this is how grad school is, i should have no problems passing with flying colors…or maybe its just me, maybe i am bad luck…nah, they just happen to be “theatre” professors, so absent mindedness is a given…oh, us silly artists!
Luckily, the professor who had not showed up last thursday, successfully made it to my 10am class, where i got to play theatre games in a huge circle with a ball…with a butt load of liberal studies majors, and then there were three….three lone grad students…myself and my pals, tanae and dan…we are carpool buddies…all have the same classes, so that ROCKS!!!! anyway, my second day of grad school was, um, better!?

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Sat down to begin some “homework” for school, and thought to myself, “who the heck am i kiddin?” man, i was in school like 6 years ago…i think i can remember what to do and how to do it, but i think it is going to be a lot harder than i expected…not that school was not hard before, but now my life is in such a different place, im not 19, im 28…so, off i go to study…one thing i can say is, i give props to moms who do this…school, being a wife, and with kids…whew, glad i just have the wife and school thing…otherwise, i dont think id be able to hang…

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So, I have this item in my house that is used for recycling…I have to admit, yes, it is a bit scary at first when you see it, but he is my recycling buddy, and if you are ever at my house, he can be your new buddy too…don’t be scurred, it’s only BIG MOUTH!!!
Pictures provided by: J.R.

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I just want to say I love my husband…Jon is so darn cute sometimes…I love that he is constantly taking pictures….and always the ones of us make me smile…I like to look at them and see that he always has this crazy grin and I just see the kid in him and I love that about him, among several other things…

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