Curls!

Dear Diary,

I jumped on over to the other side. Instead of only using all natural products, I bought some Tresseme mouse, and spray gel and went to town on my hair. I’m glad I did. It brought out all of my natural curls. What a nice change.

I owe it to the beautiful sales rep. that came into the office with her gorgeous bouncy curls. Every curl was well defined without an ounce of frizz. Perfect beautiful curls. She was such a beautiful lady. The receptionist I work with mentioned that she probably uses a lot of product in her hair.

That’s all I needed to hear. I only wish my hair could be just as beautiful. But I’ll take what I can get. I took this picture to see whether my curls looked like curls or messy hair. I never knew my hair could get this curly …or …. er… messy ….haha!! I still have to figure out what to do with the top. I wish I didn’t have those two “cowlicks” in the front. More experimentation is needed. Maybe I need to part it at the side more? I do have some of the top pulled back.

One plus is that it looks thick and curly and full in a high pony tail.

What a beautiful week off of work this week.

Handsome

Dear Diary,

I think I have the most handsomest son in the world.

I have neglected to write. I am very tired when I get home from work. And weekends are busy with house cleaning and grocery shopping.

I am enjoying my job. I like the people that I work with and for. They seem to be very caring and down to earth people. I am blessed to be working there. I am still learning something new every day, and I still make mistakes. But there are more good days than there are bad days. I want to learn all that I can, the more I learn the better it will be for me.

Easter was different this year.  I had started learning a song with my class, but nothing seem to be going right. Something seemed amiss, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. I tried to think of what it was that was wrong and couldn’t come up with an answer. There was just something about the whole thing that bothered and bothered me.Than, one day I was driving to work and I heard a song that touched my heart. An old song, made new. I wished that they would play it over again. I realized that was the song that I would love to do for Easter with my class. But there were only 2 Sundays left to learn it. Could we pull it off? I thought about saving the song for next Easter. I prayed really hard about it. The song just seemed so right. So I took a step out in faith and presented the song to my class. We learned it in 2 Sundays and it fit in exactly with Sunday nights service. The other song wouldn’t have fit in at all.

Thank you Jesus, for helping me and gently guiding me in the right direction. I need Your help continually.

Experimenting

Dear Diary,

Over night sponge curler results.

It’s 4:00 p.m. and the curls have held well, but have loosened up a bit. I am going to church tonight and I’m really hoping that I can put it up in some kind of nice looking up-do. Up-do’s are challenging as I don’t think I look all that nice with my hair up.

It’s back to work on Monday. The office will be closed but I will be answering the phones and hopefully learning more. As a matter of fact, I hope that I can learn a lot this week. It’s hard being the newbie and feeling incompetent. I really don’t like that feeling. At all.

Open the Eyes of My Heart, I Want to See You

Dear Diary,

This evening Crickie and I were talking about the black holes in the universe. He was trying to teach me about them. We got onto the subject of the stars.

How big are the stars in the sky? Are they the size of tennis balls?

No, that would be impossible! We wouldn’t be able to see them if they were that small. So we researched the size of stars. One website stated, ….

“Now, lets look at some objects that are so unbelievably large, that if they replaced our Sun in our Solar System, they would extend out, beyond the orbits of many of the planets. These super-sized stars are billions of times larger than our home planet, and millions of times larger than our Sun. "

Make note of the arrow pointing to the sun in this picture. Look how small the sun is compared to some of the stars out there.

How big is the universe? Of course it cannot be measured..That's impossible

We were onto something because immediately our thoughts were directed on God. The next question … Can you imagine how big God is?

And in a small moment our eyes were opened. I mentioned to Crickie that we must be like ants compared to God. He disagreed. “No, Mom, we are much smaller than that compared to Him.”

I just looked at Crickie and thought about what he said. And as the eyes of my heart remained opened I kept asking myself with awe and wonder. It really was with awe and wonder as I thought about Him ..Who am I that He even cares and thinks about me? Why did He robe Himself in flesh and let those nails pierce His hands and feet for my sake?

Your love Lord, I can not comprehend.

You are too wonderful to me.Open the eyes of my heart, again and again. Never, ever stop doing that. I want to see You over and over, over and over.

Easy Up -Do

Dear Diary,

I'm thinking that my hair, dear Diary, might be too long to wear down when I work. It might get in the way.

So here's a practice do for today. It took about 5 minutes to do. This will be an experiment. It’s a pony tail that’s not pulled through all the way.I wrapped the ends around the elastic and put the remaining ends behind the pony and clipped everything with a Flexi8 through the pony loop. I kept the front really loose and the top of my football head (as Crickie and the Handsome Man kindly like to point out to me every now and again) poofy. There are no worries about the football head comment. The Handsome man has a pumpkin head and Crickie has a soccer ball head ..hehe!

Unfortunately, it was very hard to capture clearly with the camera all by myself.I will see how well it holds today. It feels really secure.

Not sure if I like it or not. I do think that it’s practical and easy.

While I’m in the picture taking mood. A jean skirt made out of 2 cheap pairs of GoodWill jeans.

 

I need to make more. Maybe a little shorter for relaxing around the house in the summer time.

Also a new beautiful song I learned recently.

One of the hardest things to do, is to give myself away. It’s not about me, not about my feelings, my desires, it’s all about You, Jesus.

Keyboard

Dear Diary,

Something is happening when I am playing my keyboard. After 12 plus years, I am finally learning to play by ear. It’s as if I have been awaken out of a very thick fog and now I can seem to play almost anything I want. It takes awhile to figure the song out, but the more I practice the more I seem to figure it out faster and faster. I can only play the melody. I can play the melody … my way. The way I sing the song. I put my own spin on it. I never thought I would ever be able to do this. Not ever. Yet it’s happening.

Perhaps in the future, if I can achieve better quality of music, my  Handsome Man will let me get a real piano.

Shopping

Dear Diary,

Looking through the slim pickings in the closet, I think that it’s time to go shopping for some clothes now that I have a job.

I need to find dressy comfortable shoes. Maybe I can find nice flat shoes? However, I have yet to find a nice pair of flats. Maybe I will get lucky. I need a few more skirts and dress shirts. And I’d like a skinny belt, since I only have wide belts.

I am allowed to wear scrubs every now and again with running shoes, if I choose.  And if I want, I can wear a lab coat here and there too.

Shopping is not my thing.

But yet it excites me at the idea of getting some new clothes. What a treat! I must shop wisely. Perhaps 3 different outfits will do. Then it’ll just be a matter of mix and match and then rotating them through out the week.

The van is at the garage. There will be no shopping today. Perhaps tomorrow.

Thank You Jesus

Thank you friends for all your prayers and your kind support.

Dear Diary,

I got the job!

xoxo