One of the features of our new car that I most delight in is the remote. I love the magic of technology as you push the buttons and door locks pop open or lock with the assurance from the flash of lights or the trunk releases from afar. These three buttons I have used with abandon these last couple of weeks. In actuality though, there are four buttons, the fourth being the "panic" button. It is appropriately the color of red.
Now the man who sold us the car, told us that the "panic" button didn't work and this fact didn't really concern us at all. It still doesn't. Today coming back from lunch though I was enlightened. I was piling a lot of stuff in my arms and my keys got squished in my fingers and up against some other things. I become aware of honking of a horn. I look around outside looking for the offenders until I realize that it is coming from my car. There was only one explanation for it and I quickly fumbled for my key chain and pressed the "panic" button. It stopped!! Well, whaddya know!! It works!! So now if I have reason to panic I have a working button, though not one to play with too often.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Early Mornings and Allergy Medicines
So life may change by the end of the year sometime to include some very early mornings and a visit to the doctor to get some major allergy meds prescribed. Zach and I are still in constant prayer and waiting for the Lord to continue to show the next step, but we will most likely be moving down to the farm sometime by the end of the year. New factors develop each week and seem to be leading us further toward Orient, IA.
As of the time being, a job seems to be coming into works for me mostly with some hours for Zach and would cover both of us for insurance. He is waiting to hear from another job to work for the rest of the hours that would be a well paying job though not officially full time, but it would all work out very well for us to have insurance and be able to be flexible to work the farm as well.
It is still mindboggling to me as farming was one of the three professions that I was scared of marrying into, the other two being military and politics. Well, I married a farmer (at least for the next 5 years) who loves politics. Oh, well. I really don't mind a lot of the work aspects of farming, but more so the whole lifestyle and mindset change. You have to live by the livestock and land schedule. Mornings become very early, an 8-4 schedule becomes a mostly regular hours with quite a few tweaks here and there, life has to be very flexible. I don't mind working hard, but it is all so very new to me. Zach on the other hand will feel quite at home and isn't too worried about that stuff at all.
The positives that I see and that I can daydream about are
- that we would be renting a house and eventually working to build our own on the farm somewhere. A house... not an apartment.
- we will be in the country finally
- I am trying to get some chickens for farm fresh eggs and maybe a dog too
- I will get to work with Zach in a job that we will be both so very involved in and that he has a passion for
- real sunsets and sunrises and clear starry nights
- not having to drive 6 hours a month down to the farm to work on it cause we would be living down there and more would get done
We both are not anxious at all to leave Cambridge Church though. We have been at this church for 6 1/2 years and love it and the people very dearly. We have had so many opportunities to gain trust and ministries and relationships. We feel so very comfortable and at home there and yet have so much to be able to do there. We would be going to Creston Church and Zach knows just about everyone there and I know or at are familiar with a third of the families. It is a good church and the people are good people. It just will be a big adjustment.
I was hoping that I wouldn't be at Faith in maintenance for years. It isn't a bad job, but I have been here for almost 7 years working off and on and fulltime for the last 2 years. I am very ready to get away and start something new. At the same time, we really don't wanna leave our friends and our young married's class or seeing Zach's brother and wife and our little nieces and nephews every week. It is part of life to move on and it is an adventure, but oh, so hard when you have come to love somewhere and people so very much. Plus, there is a lot to have to strongly lean on the Lord for and our puny human selves want to do all ourselves and in our own power. The more we go along I am reminded "What human power?".
Please pray for us as we work toward this transition for wisdom and provision and God's leading and timing as we still don't have a moving date quite yet.
As of the time being, a job seems to be coming into works for me mostly with some hours for Zach and would cover both of us for insurance. He is waiting to hear from another job to work for the rest of the hours that would be a well paying job though not officially full time, but it would all work out very well for us to have insurance and be able to be flexible to work the farm as well.
It is still mindboggling to me as farming was one of the three professions that I was scared of marrying into, the other two being military and politics. Well, I married a farmer (at least for the next 5 years) who loves politics. Oh, well. I really don't mind a lot of the work aspects of farming, but more so the whole lifestyle and mindset change. You have to live by the livestock and land schedule. Mornings become very early, an 8-4 schedule becomes a mostly regular hours with quite a few tweaks here and there, life has to be very flexible. I don't mind working hard, but it is all so very new to me. Zach on the other hand will feel quite at home and isn't too worried about that stuff at all.
The positives that I see and that I can daydream about are
- that we would be renting a house and eventually working to build our own on the farm somewhere. A house... not an apartment.
- we will be in the country finally
- I am trying to get some chickens for farm fresh eggs and maybe a dog too
- I will get to work with Zach in a job that we will be both so very involved in and that he has a passion for
- real sunsets and sunrises and clear starry nights
- not having to drive 6 hours a month down to the farm to work on it cause we would be living down there and more would get done
We both are not anxious at all to leave Cambridge Church though. We have been at this church for 6 1/2 years and love it and the people very dearly. We have had so many opportunities to gain trust and ministries and relationships. We feel so very comfortable and at home there and yet have so much to be able to do there. We would be going to Creston Church and Zach knows just about everyone there and I know or at are familiar with a third of the families. It is a good church and the people are good people. It just will be a big adjustment.
I was hoping that I wouldn't be at Faith in maintenance for years. It isn't a bad job, but I have been here for almost 7 years working off and on and fulltime for the last 2 years. I am very ready to get away and start something new. At the same time, we really don't wanna leave our friends and our young married's class or seeing Zach's brother and wife and our little nieces and nephews every week. It is part of life to move on and it is an adventure, but oh, so hard when you have come to love somewhere and people so very much. Plus, there is a lot to have to strongly lean on the Lord for and our puny human selves want to do all ourselves and in our own power. The more we go along I am reminded "What human power?".
Please pray for us as we work toward this transition for wisdom and provision and God's leading and timing as we still don't have a moving date quite yet.
Goodbye to the old, Hellooo to the New!
For quite a while now, in fact, before we were married, we knew that we wanted to sell my little Saturn when paid off for a bigger more family friendly car. (You must be very cautious when using this term when newly married, as I will explain later.) So we paid it off, cleaned it up to spiffy condition, and stuck up posters all over campus. We wanted to start in and around people we know.
When a car in such good condition and mileage as my little Saturn and it is being sold, if I were someone else, I would want to know why it was being sold. So on the flier I added that we are just wanted to upgrade to family sized car. When I called Zach in for editing, and besides correcting and informing me of the difference between a 4 cylinder and a V4, he pointed that one phrase out immediately and warned me that I might get a lot of questions asked if that was there, but it was left.
The next day I went in to ask permission to hang up said signage. One of the questions asked by the deans in the Student Life Office, was the family factor. After a quick explanation and reassurance that I was not expecting, the sign was hung on the board and I took off to hang up the rest over campus.
Well, the next day I got a call of interest and on Saturday, we sold the car. The next two days after that there were a miniscule flood of calls of inquiry. We had no idea it would sell that fast, in fact, I didn't have the title from the bank back yet. Now we were in a great need for a new car. Thankfully, we had been looking the last two weeks as we knew we were going to put it up, though we had in mind a timeline of more like a month for the sale.
We looked at quite a few cars and came to really look for a Chevy Impala. I love the room in them and the trunk and Zach is all about the bowtie and the American equipment that he can work on . Now I must say that I did bring up a minivan for consideration a couple times since we are going to run the vehicle to the last miles since it will be going down to the farm with us and since we want start a family in the next year or two it could be very practical in 4 years or so. My dearest is so very strongly against a minivan as is against most men's ego. He even admitted it. We came to a compromise. We would look for a good sized family car and run it to the ground. When it comes to when three kids or so are overcrowding the car, then he will just have to suck it up and be a man and give in to the practicality of a minivan.
With all this established, we kept looking. We finally found one we really liked on the Monday after the sale of the old. The whole time while looking around, we just didn't feel good about any of the cars and we were going to stay in our range and still get a good car. I kept praying and praying. The car we chose was a private sale and it is a very sharp looking silver 03 Chevy Impala V6 with only 52,000 miles on it.
I am very excited about it and since most men and women differ on the features of the car to be excited about, I will share my favorites.
- I love the power locks and windows and the little keychain control that I use with ferver each time,
- I love the huge backseat room, which also has the markings of the past backseat passengers' carseats,
- I love the absolutely gianormous trunk, which also pops open with the push of a remote button,
- I love the fact that is has a lot of oomph as I merge onto the interstate (which I was finally able to do 2 weeks after we bought since I got sick the day after we bought it),
- I love that the doors automatically lock when you shift into gear,
- and finally, I love that it has a front bench seat so I can still sit next to my honey on longer trips in a not too uncomfortable position.
Those are some of my favorite features and most of them are not the same as Zach's, though he does like the V6 power from my little 4 cylinder and the bench seat. Of course!
We are so very thankful for the car and have used it so much already and have even taken it down to the farm to introduce it to the gravel roads and back country roads.
When a car in such good condition and mileage as my little Saturn and it is being sold, if I were someone else, I would want to know why it was being sold. So on the flier I added that we are just wanted to upgrade to family sized car. When I called Zach in for editing, and besides correcting and informing me of the difference between a 4 cylinder and a V4, he pointed that one phrase out immediately and warned me that I might get a lot of questions asked if that was there, but it was left.
The next day I went in to ask permission to hang up said signage. One of the questions asked by the deans in the Student Life Office, was the family factor. After a quick explanation and reassurance that I was not expecting, the sign was hung on the board and I took off to hang up the rest over campus.
Well, the next day I got a call of interest and on Saturday, we sold the car. The next two days after that there were a miniscule flood of calls of inquiry. We had no idea it would sell that fast, in fact, I didn't have the title from the bank back yet. Now we were in a great need for a new car. Thankfully, we had been looking the last two weeks as we knew we were going to put it up, though we had in mind a timeline of more like a month for the sale.
We looked at quite a few cars and came to really look for a Chevy Impala. I love the room in them and the trunk and Zach is all about the bowtie and the American equipment that he can work on . Now I must say that I did bring up a minivan for consideration a couple times since we are going to run the vehicle to the last miles since it will be going down to the farm with us and since we want start a family in the next year or two it could be very practical in 4 years or so. My dearest is so very strongly against a minivan as is against most men's ego. He even admitted it. We came to a compromise. We would look for a good sized family car and run it to the ground. When it comes to when three kids or so are overcrowding the car, then he will just have to suck it up and be a man and give in to the practicality of a minivan.
With all this established, we kept looking. We finally found one we really liked on the Monday after the sale of the old. The whole time while looking around, we just didn't feel good about any of the cars and we were going to stay in our range and still get a good car. I kept praying and praying. The car we chose was a private sale and it is a very sharp looking silver 03 Chevy Impala V6 with only 52,000 miles on it.
I am very excited about it and since most men and women differ on the features of the car to be excited about, I will share my favorites.
- I love the power locks and windows and the little keychain control that I use with ferver each time,
- I love the huge backseat room, which also has the markings of the past backseat passengers' carseats,
- I love the absolutely gianormous trunk, which also pops open with the push of a remote button,
- I love the fact that is has a lot of oomph as I merge onto the interstate (which I was finally able to do 2 weeks after we bought since I got sick the day after we bought it),
- I love that the doors automatically lock when you shift into gear,
- and finally, I love that it has a front bench seat so I can still sit next to my honey on longer trips in a not too uncomfortable position.
Those are some of my favorite features and most of them are not the same as Zach's, though he does like the V6 power from my little 4 cylinder and the bench seat. Of course!
We are so very thankful for the car and have used it so much already and have even taken it down to the farm to introduce it to the gravel roads and back country roads.
The Unexpected Element of Marriage
I just had to get this out, but if you don't feel like reading a venting session, I will not be hurt if you skip this entry.
So in the last 4 1/2 months of marriage, Zach and I have been in cycles of one sickness or another. We are not talking a little sniffle here and there, but monoculosis and Flu virus that lasts 2 weeks and other ailments. After thinking about it a little bit, I can see the sense in it as you have two people living with each other and that increases the chances of spread of disease. Thankfully, I did get gifted the mono, but I gifted my honey with the flu thing. Missed 2 weeks of church and everything. So we have both used up all of the sick time that we have been allowed so far in the year. Zach had to use more and he has to work more to make it all up and then work extra to save up for mission's trip in June. Poor guy! He stills fights getting tired so very easily. They said that getting your energy totally back up from mono can last around 6 months to a year! Yay!
I know that the vows included "in sickness and in health", but com'on. This much in the very first 4 months is ridiculous! So we continue to pray and sleep good health to come back!!
Okay, I am done venting!
So in the last 4 1/2 months of marriage, Zach and I have been in cycles of one sickness or another. We are not talking a little sniffle here and there, but monoculosis and Flu virus that lasts 2 weeks and other ailments. After thinking about it a little bit, I can see the sense in it as you have two people living with each other and that increases the chances of spread of disease. Thankfully, I did get gifted the mono, but I gifted my honey with the flu thing. Missed 2 weeks of church and everything. So we have both used up all of the sick time that we have been allowed so far in the year. Zach had to use more and he has to work more to make it all up and then work extra to save up for mission's trip in June. Poor guy! He stills fights getting tired so very easily. They said that getting your energy totally back up from mono can last around 6 months to a year! Yay!
I know that the vows included "in sickness and in health", but com'on. This much in the very first 4 months is ridiculous! So we continue to pray and sleep good health to come back!!
Okay, I am done venting!
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