ITUNES

Ok, so yesterday my oldest son desides that he wants to buy a ipod with his hard earned money... We went to Best Buy (which I love by the way) and got him a lime green 16GB nano. He was so excited and wanted to put music on it right away, well as it turns out we have to download the newest and latest verson for us to do that.... so now I have attemped 3 times (hopefully this is the last) of getting the new verson. I am getting mad at it. I have dial up (which is another problem in itself) so it takes like 7 hours to do this.... ANNOYING, TIME CONSUMING and FRUSTRATING... it so far what this amounts to.

81

Today we celebrated my grandma 81st birthday... I only hope that one day I will be her age and as fun, out going, and still can live on my own like her.... She has a memory that I envy... She is the worlds best grandma ever... :O)

Oshkosh

All day today I was on the computer, phone and doing what I could to figure out how we are going to get 23 people to Oshkosh for the camporee. We want to take a bus but that cost $13,755 for 47 passenger... I dont have that many people, so now am currently looking for passengers too!

Taxes

Uuuggghhh! Its that time of year where I am scrambling to get all my paper work finished up, added, sorted, and put into the correct category... I HATE this time of the year, its like Christmas for those who cant stand it... I wish I had someone to do it for me.... I dont even care that I might get a rebate... I still hate paper work... couple more hours (I hope) and I will be done!

The JOYS of music

I am so excited!!!! I went home last night and wrote more of my song... I actually wrote out the notes, of the melody. I have this song stuck in my head for days now... I love it. It from my feelings, my heart, my sole.... It has meaning (well at least to me). I cant wait to share the song to see what others think of it...

Forgiveness

My heart has been healed today... Forgiveness is a wonderful, but a scary thing also. I have been carrying around a heart full of pain and today it was lifted...

My Rights

YES! I was a little worried about my rights to my song that I wrote for the camporee.. I had to sign them away...But now since they didnt pick it for the theme song, I just got confirmation that my rights have my restored!!! ITS MINE to do what ever it is that I see fit! I am excited, cause I am thinking that I might look into... maybe seeing if I can publish it! :o)

In the MOOD

I got an inspiring email from a friend today, made me want to write songs again... I came home, sat at the piano and VIOLA!!! I n0w have a new song... it still needs tweaking, but I am so happy. It made me happy to be able to put my feelings down and sing the blues!!!

New Career

I am thinking of going in a whole new direction... I am tired of working here... Its hard, the ppl are nasty (customers) they are hard to get paid from, and I am constantly stressed out.... I dont need it. What I need is a job that I can make real money from, where I still have the flexibility to do what I want, and have fun at it...

So I have decided that I am going to go to school to be come a nail tec. I just have to figure out what I am going to do with my current business. If I quit completely, then my parents and husband cant work (they buy from only me). Do I hire someone to run it? The last time I tried this, I end up missing stuff....

Ah the joys of insanity!

Courage to Stand

This summer there was a contest at the NAD head quarters asking ppl to write the new theme song for the upcoming NAD camporee. I have written songs before and thought, I know I can do this... so I prayed and asked GOD to help me write a song. Within a matter of minutes I had the words... They came to me plain and clear. I know that I was GOD sending them to me.

COURAGE TO STAND

Here I am Lord
Use My Strength
For what you need
Use me

Give me the courage
To stand up for you
Here I am Lord
USE ME

GIVE ME THE COURAGE
TO stand like Esther,
Courage to stand like Daniel
Courage to stand like JESUS
I want to be just like them
I want to be just like him
For you lord.

When GOD calls me to
Stand up for him
He'll be there
I know

GOD gives me the courage
To stand up for him
He'll never leave me
ALONE!

GIVE ME THE COURAGE
To stand like Esther,
Courage to stand like Daniel
Courage to stand like JESUS,
I want to be just like them
I want to be just like him...

FOR YOU LORD!

I thought this was a GOD sent... Next I went to the piano, sat down for about an hour and had the music, I know I couldnt of done this with GODs help....

I was super excited about what I had just done. I was a little scared to sing it by myself so I got the best team of singers together (Bill Meyerholtz, Leah Meyerholtz, Greg Clark, Lou Ann Henneberg, and myself) and we poured out heart and sole into this song. It has a wonderful harmony.... They did a wonderful job. We recorded the song, wrote the music out, and sent it on its way to Andrews University, MI...

We decided that even if we werent picked the winners for the theme song that we would at least perform it at church for Pathfinder Sabbath. The church family was so supportive, Its a sure winner, they said,. Great SONG, Its a GOD sent they said..... WELL.................

I guess it wasnt as good as we all thought, or at least thats what the leaders who were in charge of the theme songs thought... Because I am no longer in the running to win theme song. They have selected the top 10... and I believe that the top 10 arent very good... ONLY TWO songs are even good... I dont know what they were thinking... Anyhow, I guess I was too proud, to big for my britches (as my grandma says) maybe its GODS way to show that I need to come back to earth for a little while longer... Maybe he stiill has plans for the song!
I really dont know, All I do know is I am sore, sad, and sour about the whole thing now. I guess I am a bad looser... never knew that until today! :o(

If you would like a copy of the song, I would be happy to send you one!