pooie

I'm not feeling my most happy today which I must say is the perfect time to update my blog.

First pooie is that I have been demoted. I'm no longer the photo manager's assistant. I am a lowly photographer getting lowly photographer pay. Also means I get less hours and I have to suffer the ego of the new assistant, one the most arrogant men I've ever met who's been an employee for only a year, when I'm working on my third. The reason is because I mess up...a lot. I'm generally a forgetful person. I try hard. I try to remember everything, but there's so much. Often I would leave things at the school or forget to check the map before taking off to a new school. I would forget to set my alarm and show up 10 minutes late. All this aside I was generally a good assistant. I did everything else I was supposed to do and a lot of things I wasn't asked to do. I have to admit..It will probably be a relief to be free of the pressure and responsibility that comes with being an assistant. But I will definately miss the money. Not only was a getting paid an extra $1.65 an hour...I was also gaurenteed more hours than anyone else. So I'll get less pay and less hours now. (sigh) that's life I guess. My photo mang. says she's was pulling for me and if I work really hard to not mess up this season, she ask to reinstate me as assistant. I was really depressed at first, but I'm getting over it now.

next pooie....something is wrong with my cat. He keeps peeing. He has two favorite spots in the hallway and along the front wall in the kitchen. Bad as it sounds I hope it is a medical condition. Something he can be treated for as opposed to him just being difficult. He has an appointment today so we'll see how that goes.

Moving right along...I've decided to give weight loss another try. Boo. Eating right when you're married to a stick who can devour an entire bag of Doritos in one sitting is a pain in the rear. Not to mention I have not mastered the art of making tasty low fat meals. They taste like air. But I can make a mean batch of cheesy chicken enchiladas and frito chili pies are so easy to make... I've been working out a tape called turbo jam. hard as heck, but definately fun.

Have you ever had one of those nights where just can't sleep. I woke up at 12:30 this morning to use the bathroom and then just couldn't get back to sleep. I spent 2 hours in bed tossing and turning. Then finally got up and put in a movie. I made a sandwhich and threw in a second movie and I finally nodded off between 4:30 and 5:00. James thought I had gotten up early to go to work and was suprised to see me balled up on the couch with sugar the cat. I woke up at about 8:30 when he was leaving for work, but I still feel like I didn't get enough sleep. Thank God I didn't actually have to work today...I would have been so tired. Going on like 3 hours of sleep.

Ok...I'll throw in a non-pooie. I went to visit my mom in Dallas and on the way back stopped in Denton to hang out with Leena and Kris. They pretty much look the same, and I was only there for about an hour, but it was so good to see them. I don't live near anyone I went to school with ...(cept anna, but she won't call me back) and my best friend from high school moved a long time ago. Me and James are the only young people at my church and for some reason the company I work for only attracts bar-hoppers and partiers. Not really my scene. I so miss having people to hang out with. Maybe I should move to dallas just so I can have some friends again. I love my husband, but to tell ya the truth, he's a little a boring (shhh! don't tell him I told you;)

That's my update for now. Nothing much going on. oh Wait! my church. Oh it's awful. So we have a new pastor right? And I think he's great. We had the same pastor for almost 30 years and our congregation has been very slowly shrinking. In case I haven't mentioned it...me and james and his sister are the only only members between 20 and 45. Most of them being over 70. So we got this guy here telling him we needed leadership and we wanted change and growth. Now that he's here everyone's mad because he is changing things. Well duh! We've had 3 or 4 more people join in the 3 months he's been here including my dad. We had an annual church business meeting the other day and I couldn't go, but my dad said it got real ugly. He was all excited about the meetings and had come up with some ideas for the church he wanted to discuss, but every was so busy arguing...he didn't have a chance. It was kind of like a "complain abouthe pastor" fest. Now..our new pastor is 36 years old. We are the first church he has ever pastored and probably only the second church he's ever been a member. He's trying to adjust to us and this new town (he's from dallas) and at the same time change things like he was asked to and please his congregation. I think our members are being very unreasonable. They want him to conform to us and the older members that are used to being in charge, do not want him now to tell them what to do. They are so angry that their positions are being threatened that's all they can see. They don't see what he's trying to do for us, and they don't see that...for crying out loud it's only been 3 months. We all to make adjustments.

One lady got so mad and yelled at him because he made a commitment for some day we apparantly go to this other church every year. She accussed him of trying to cut ties with the churches we used to socialize with. She got so angry. But he said that it was not intentional. He had not recieved a call or invitation from this church and knew nothing of the "tradition" We did not even tell him. How do we expect him to know things if we don't tell him.

It's an awful situation, and I have a feeling we will lose some members or they will do anything they can to remove him. My biggest beef is that they are forgetting why we are all here. They get so caught up in Church politics they don't praise they Lord. They spend so much time grimacing and giving the pastor evil looks, they don't hear the sermon and this guy is an amazing speaker. Straight from the bible. Last Sunday his sermon was entitled "things in hell that ought to be in church." I know crazy right? he just wanted to get our attention. If you check out Luke 16:19-31, you'll see the story of a rich man who, while in hell, asks for mercy, prays, shows concern for his fellow man. I thought it was a good lesson. I'd really hate to lose him because of people who fight instead of communicate and or so worried about having someone else run the church when they are so used to doing it themselves.

Please pray for my church. There are a lot of unhappy people there and I'm really not sure what the future holds for us.