What's up!

Just a quick "hello" and update to this ole blog of mine.  The west- side romance is continuing in Arizona, and I've been working out in the sun the last couple weeks as a "temp landscaper" through a temp agency.  Despite lots of inquires, interviews, and promises that I'd be called, no one called and the temp agency did provide me with work.  Thankful but it feels uncertain.  I think of the song lyrics, "Just for my sake, teach me to take, one day at a time..."

I'm working at a high flue tin resort/spa that has hosted the likes of Usher (who is rumored to be incredibly "spiritual" and "grounded"), Oprah, Ellen, Real Housewives etc.,  I think it's caused my buddy (landscapers have a work buddy there) and I to reflect on our status in life.  I've had many jobs in which I am the "help", but I truly feel like the help there.  Maybe it's because there's such a large difference in economics? I suspect it's easy to look at the lives I observe as having an easy life in their yoga pants and toned bodies walking from yoga to massage and back to the pool, but who knows really what they are going through? All of this makes me think about how none of this really matters because a person is still a person, and we need kindness and compassion.  I confess I think of their time at this expensive spa and find it rather boring.  How hard is it to find beautiful places to hike and be? How hard is it to run your own bath water and relax?  It's more enjoyable to cook for yourself and others, breathing in all the aromas and anticipation! I'm thankful for my life.  In fact, it makes me chuckle to walk into their bodymindfulness (a.k.a. gym) and see people cycling.  BORING! But now I'm sounding very judgmental... to each their own! Amen!

Other things I've been doing:
Watching the wonderful Netflix sitcom called The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt! I love it.  Rarely am I sold on a show, but I find this show so endearing and funny.  The theme song is also stuck in my head!
Reading and studying up for a class I'm taking at church called The Shelter of God's Promises.  The study (a 10 week study) starts tomorrow.  I'm excited and looking forward to meeting some like minded ladies. 
Enjoying my air conditioning!
Planning new things I want to cook and bake including blueberry muffins, chocolate pie, tuna egg sandwiches. 
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Sharing the excitement of two special friends buying a HOME of their own for the first time this coming month in Maine and Washington.  (and sweet places to visit...)
Sitting in my tub and soaking tired muscles.
Remembering Holy Week and Christians around the world, our hope in Him, and the many promises we have because of Him.