Thought For The Day

Be kind and compassionate to one another.

Ephesians 4:32

Back To School

Back to getting up with the alarm clock this morning. Work went pretty good. It was busy enough that the day went by quickly. That was a bonus. Kids are taking finals today and tomorrow. Schedules have to be tweaked, fixed and ready to be handed out Monday morning. Shouldn't be too big of a problem.

Our Wednesday meeting was at Arlene's tonight. We witnessed the brightest, fullest moon coming up over the horizon right before dinner. What a great reminder of "only God"!

Jessica sent me these pictures of Paxton at Ki-Be at a volleyball game so I will share them since I don't have any of my own today. Enjoy.

Bookwork Day

Got a lot accomplished today....in the office that is! I got up early today; no sleeping in on the last day of vacation. Geeze. I started laundry and then picked up the house. I checked out some blogs and then decided I had better get down to getting my office desk cleaned up. Going through the piles of bills, unopened mail, credit card bills and church stuff was just the start of being in the office all day. I went online and got all my 4th quarter reports finished and submitted and paid, did my Annual 940, December's B&O report and then started in on the credit card bills. After I got them all matched with jobs and accounts I got my checkbooks all up-to-date. I next tackled the files from 2010 and got them in order and in a box labeled and ready to access in case I need them when I do my 1040. That cleared a lot of space for the 2011 invoices and statements, etc. But why stop here??? The final big job that is no longer weighing on my shoulders to get done is my W-2's. They are filled in and in envelopes, ready to be mailed tomorrow. YEAH!! The only other big thing I have to do is get my 1099's done and my 1040. At least the January 31 deadline is not looming on my "to do" list anymore. Feels pretty good.

Brad got dinner tonight. He did a great job. Just kicking back on the couch right now, watching the Australian Open on tv. Roddick is playing a Russian and is just now pulling into the lead. Fish is playing Robredo and it's all over but the crying. Serena {edit: Venus not Serena} is the only ranked American woman still in the tournament. Not USA's year.

Back to the office tomorrow. Sure was a great 4 day vacation. Wouldn't mind having these more often!

Great Saying....

I found this on a blog and loved it so I thought I would share (can't remember which blog, so my apologies to the original owner):

On The Right Track

Here's the saying for January 17 on my calendar-a-day:

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Jane Austen

Volleyball....Not Such A Great Day

So the O-Town Club volleyball team played in Kennewick today. They didn't have such a great day; they didn't have such a good day. Maybe it's because they haven't been playing together but at practices. They definitely should do better next time.....let's hope! Nowhere to go but UP!!

I like this picture...it's blurry everywhere but at Paxton. The girls played "in the pit" at Kennewick HS. They were down below and all of the spectators were up above.

Each team takes a turn doing lines and scorekeeping. Here we are.

This is us in the consolation bracket. The only good thing about not doing well was our day got over at 3:00 instead of 8:00.

Our next tournament is at Treaty Rock in Post Falls 2 Sunday's from today. Hopefully practice will go well and a few things will get ironed out.

Rainy Saturday

Kyle went to work today at Boise Cascade and I started watching Clear Color (the photo editing video from Erin Cobb). I am totally amazed at how easy she makes it look. I haven't tried any of my pictures yet; am just going to watch it a couple of times and soak in all I can. Then give it a try. I have no doubt that it will take more than my BASIC knowledge of taking photos, let along editing photos to start getting the hang of things. The number of pictures I take is going to have to increase and I am going to have to start taking things a little more serious. THEN I may be able to be a decent photographer.....someday! I have plenty of time. Going to take things slow so I don't become too frustrated too quickly.

This afternoon I went and made a couple of ATC cards. I bought a kit from Donna Downey and am just goofing off with them. Hers all use specific colors and stamps that I don't have and am not going to go out and purchase. They are turning out just fine with what I have on hand. A nice way to relax. Here are a couple of pictures of my table top:

Direct TV and FOX have split the sheets and Direct TV no longer carries the channel. Unfortunately all the playoff football games are unable to be viewed! This just bites. We are going to have to come up with one of those tv boxes so we can see our local channels.

Tomorrow Paxton will play volleyball inKennewick. I am looking forward to watching volleyball again. Hopefully things will go well for their team. Should be interesting.