It's That Time Again....

Time for What I Learned This Week!
Now I'm a firm believer that we learn something new everyday.
However, a lot of the things I learn daily are not that interesting.
For instance, this week I learned about tickmarks in audit workpapers (I am admin at an accounting firm). I also learned the beauty of our medical flex-spending account!
See: completely unintersting to you but eye opening for me! :)

But I guess I have learned a couple relevant things.

On Friday, I learned just how difficult it is to drive on mountain roads at night with the thickest fog I've ever seen! Scary!!!

I also learned how much I enjoyed myself when I did something spontaneously! Scary for me....but so much fun!

I learned about albino squirrels...also scary looking. However, they refused to pose for a picture.

What did you learn this week?

What I Learned This Week

Oh, I learned so much this week/month/year/life.

I learned that people let you down.
Those people who shouldn't let you down, definitely DO.

I learned that it is very hard to offer forgiveness when the above mentioned people do not even realize how much they let you down.
Nor do they care.

I learned that I don't do well with "let downs".

I learned that the places you should be able to go to for rest/peace do not offer it.

I learned that life is full of learning experiences.

What I Learned This Week

Hey gang! It's time for the weekly carnival hosted by Jo-Lynne.
This week's lesson learned is a bit more serious.
A little more...umm...spiritual I guess.
This week, I learned that I AM NOT IN CONTROL.
Huge problem for me.
See, I am a planner. I have always "thought" I was ok with following God's plan for my life and not my own.
That is until this week.
See, up until this point, I have always still been able to have a little control over everything. But like I said, that was up until this point.
God is laughing at me.
He thinks making me crazy is funny. :)
Currently, I have absolute no control over my life.
I seriously could have a total panic attack at any moment.
See, I have trust issues. More like trust of security issues.
And this lesson....well that means I have to trust.
And let go.

Letting go....sounds so freeing.
And it probably is. But for me, it is hard.
I have always let go portions of me....but God wants ALL of me.
Hmmm.....really.....ALL of me.

So at the moment, I know:
*I am powerless
*God is working, He's up to something big (but I have no idea what)
*I have to let go - "just let it happen" as Chris would say.

So here's to just letting it happen!

What I Learned This Week

Good Monday morning! Well let me just say this was quite the interesting weekend!
Do you ever have those moments when something happens and the first thing you think of is how blog worthy it is?
Defintely had a moment like that on Saturday.
The bad part: I didn't take pictures of it! But in my defense, it was safer for everyone that I was focused on what was happening instead of taking pictures.
Curious yet?
Ok, well Jo-Lynne over at Musings of a Housewife has this weekly deal of "What I Learned This Week."

And I normally have a little trouble coming up with something to post for this. Not this week!

Well we moved about a month ago and the day of move-in we bought a new stove. We haven't had a refigerator until about the last week, so I haven't cooked on the stove yet. So Saturday after doing a little housework, Chris decides he wants to make a frozen pizza and goes to pre-heat the oven. Just a few minutes later I walk into the kitchen and the oven is on fire!!! Flames and smoke and all!!!
Apparently, when one buys a new stove, one should take the packaging out of the oven!!!
Now Chris being the person he is, he opens the oven and just stares at it for a minute. So of course I'm screaming and while we are trying to get the fire out we are arguing over who's fault it was! So typical of us.
My argument was that since he bought the stove and set it up he should have cleaned it out. Also, he should have looked before heating the oven.
His argument was that he "swore" I said the stove was ready to go and I had done all that. That conversation never happened! :)

Anyway, we managed to get the fire put out and then I spent the next hour and a half scraping the plastic wax off of the bottom of the oven. Exciting.
After all of that, Chris still wanted his pizza. So I let the oven heat for a while - hoping to burn off anything I had missed. And then, as I'm putting the pizza in, I burn myself pretty bad. I hit the top of the oven - so my hand and arm have burn lines. Nice.

So needless to say I learned quite a lot this weekend alone.

Happy Monday!