the saga of the subaru

Yes, I know I've posted about my car a lot lately, but this is a big deal as I do not have the money for another car. My dad came and looked at my car again. We bought a new starter so now it's working again. He checked the oil and anti-freeze and found that they are leaking and so it's a simple problem and my car will be lasting a lot longer. Thanks God!

car lives...and dies again

So last night when my family was over here for Joanie's birthday my dad looked at my car and found that it is not dead. (Horray!) The problem is a simple case of the starter not automatically shutting itself of when I start the car. I drove it last night and it was fine. Now I just know that I have to shut it off manually. My car lives.

Well this morning I drove to the prayer room for the 4-5 shift. When I was done my car wouldn't start; the engine wouldn't even turn over. So I slept in the prayer room again. In the morning it still wouldn't start so I caught a ride home. So it's still not working, what a crazy week!

pete greg

Pete Greg, who kinda accidentally started 24/7 prayer, came to our housechurch leaders' meeting today. It was...fun. Well, maybe that's not quite the right word, um let me try that again. We started the night eating dinner and hanging out. Then we worshipped. After that Pete shared with the group and we all ended up talking about reaching out to people, discipling, failure, eating what's set before you, and of course Easter Saturday. In the process we ended up laughing a lot. So it was serious and fun.

joanie

Today is Joanie's birthday!!!

My little sister is turning seventeen today. She's quite excited. Joanie's one of those people who will still be making everyone in church sing the birthday song to her when she turns eighty-four. That's the way to do it!

I remember when she was born, I got to hold her in the hospital. Jacque's beat me to writing about her on her birthday. Yea, when I was like seven I thought that they had a secret society witch included mind-control over our parents. I had quit believing it by the time that red one incident happened, but my little sisters always had a sort of almost telepathic was of communicating with each other.

Joanie is one of the funniest people on the planet. She can easily bring me to helpless laughter without even touching me. I can also bring her to helpless laughter but am obligated to get my results through tickling. ;) I think she's also one of the most ticklish people I know. Ahh, the good memories.

Anyway, I went swimming with all my little sisters today. It was quite fun. We all went down the water slide some and unsuccessfully tried to splash over the edge. Except Jacque, she's still got arm issues. Then we went out to eat at La Perla, a very authentic Mexican resturant. Joanie and I both had beef tongue tacos. Very good.

poor dead car

My car died last night. I had the 2 a.m. shift in the prayer room. The engine sounded bad on the drive there, really high-pitch and strained, and the car was super sluggish. After my shift was over the car wouldn't start. So I slept in the prayer room and in the morning it was fine. I drove home to get breakfast and when I tried to go to work I couldn't even get the engine to turn over. I think the end is here. My dad told me awhile ago that one day soon it would randomly quit on me. I was hoping it would wait awhile longer.

raise?

Well my dad believes that my car has a cracked head. I have to refill the oil and the anti-freeze every week. Hence my little car will not be lasting me too much longer. Very sad. In need of a new car I've been looking for a new job that would pay more than $9 an hour (which isn't very much in this area).

Last week I told my boss at Bristlecone that I needed a raise or I would have to look for another job. She told me that unfortunately she could not give me a raise because all the raises in the company are frozen. If she gave me a raise she would have to give the other deserving people a raise and the company can't handle it right now. I had known this but I thought I would at least give it a shot.

My boss offered me another option. There is another position (I am currently a Personal Care Provider) opening up in May, it's an Independent Life Skills Trainer and it pays $15 dollars an hour and only requires a little more training than I already have. Well, today I went for an interview with my prospective patient and her husband and I got the job!

Jamie

Wednesday I found out that Jamie, a friend of mine, died in a car accident. I feel numb, she was only a few months older than me. She was kinda a member of my family, we shared my grandparents. Well...My sister Jacque gives a better description of her here.

Jamie was definitely one of my best friends in Sidney Nebraska, where she lived. Whenever I was in Sidney she would get together and do stuff with my younger sisters and I. She also would invite me along to do stuff with her and her friends. She even let me go with her to a sleep-over once. She was very kind, smiled a lot, cool, and quite pretty. She had plenty of friends without me. I was very shy through most of my teen years so it really meant a lot to me that she often went so out of her way to make me feel like a part of whatever group she invited me into.

It almost doesn't seem possible that she's dead so quickly.

three weeks

We are starting another season of 24/7 prayer today. A bunch of us have worked on redecorating it this week. It looks great but my part still isn't quite done. :s I have to draw a globe. It's proven pretty hard so far, even a little frustrating. I'm trying to take something round and draw it on a flat piece of paper. There are a couple of pictures of the prayer room here. Also the hours are looking pretty full already.

joanie's back

Joanie's back from China. My little sister was in Lijiang, in south western China. She got to help teach English classes there. She also got to see Bei jing, Tienamen Square, the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, and the Summer Palace. I sounds like a really cool trip.