Things that bug me...

If in the course of using the toilet you would happen to spray, dribble, or drip on the seat or floor, wipe your own stinkin' pee. NO ONE should have to do this for you. Especially not me!

Insomnia

I don't usually suffer from insomnia but I did the other night. I was laying there just staring at the ceiling at 11:00...12:00...1:00...
Here's what was keeping me awake.

a childhood friend who has lost his way.

a friend, a stage 4 breast cancer suvivor who's cancer is back and is facing some tough decisions.

a dear friend with a rare condition that causes a pneumothorax with frightening regularity, she's had two surgeries and in the midst of her recovery needs to move her family back to the states from Singapore.

a coworker whose father had a heart attack and he had to perform CPR until help arrrived.

wondering what it would be like to sleep in the street in front of the rubble that was your home.

Then I remembered my blog from a couple of days ago.

God is bigger than all of these things. Regardless of the outcome He is in control and knows the details of every need and where it fits into His greater plan. He knows my heart and the Spirit has made my thoughts into sweet prayers and lifted them up before God.

It happened so fast that I don't even remember falling asleep after that.

Avoid Sleep Dressing

I must have still been sleeping when I got dressed this morning.

I was driving to work when I looked down and realized I had on brown shoes, blue socks and black pants.

My sweater is olive green so at least it goes with all those colors.

Sigh.

I got .9 out of 1 point for my first cataloging assignment. I guess she didn't like my answer for the importance of bibliographic control. I said,

"Bibliographic control is important because it allows us to locate materials in a collection."

Sounds good so far.

"Without bibliographic control all would be chaos."

That's the part I don't think she had the sense of humor for. Oh well, 1 point I don't think I'll stress yet. But, serious from now on...

I find myself overwhelmed in prayer for the people of Haiti. I remember this same feeling of helplessness for the people affected by Hurricane Katrina. So many needs, so much suffering, so much, so much...

"In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express." Romans 8:26

Thank God for His gift of the Spirit that knows our hearts and intercedes on our behalf. This human, weak willed, and needing a break from visions of death and destruction person has a God who understands and has compasion on me.

He will have no less compassion on the people of Haiti.

I really don't want the next 15 weeks to be all about this class I am taking but I just HAD to share this paragraph from my textbook.

"Precede the first element of each area, other than the first element of the first area or the first element of an area beginning a new paragraph, by a full stop, space, dash, space. When that element is not present in a description, precede the first element that is presented by a full stop, space, dash, space instead of the prescribed preceeding punctuation for that element." AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloging Rules 2002 revision)

Holy cow it's a tech manual for libraries! I expect this kind of confusion in say, legal documents, anything coming out of Congress, etc. But the library.

Sigh.

It's my last free weekend before cataloging starts.

Of course there are several in my class that have already turned in the first assignment and I am sure have their final projects half done.

Overacheivers annoy me.

My cat woke me up the other evening by sitting bolt upright and staring out the window. After I could hear anything but my heartbeat in my ears I heard rustling in the leaves coming closer to my window. So, with cell phone in hand (ready to call 911) I put on my glasses and peeked out.

There in the squirrel feeder was the biggest possum I have ever seen. It was huge, body 2' not counting the tail! I was, however relieved that I didn't need to call anyone.

This isn't the first possum encounter I have had at the house.

I came home from work one evening and noticed that there was a possum laying in my front yard. Strange but maybe it got scared. They do...you know... play possum. The next morning I looked out and there it was still laying and laying still. There was frost on it's back this time so I was pretty sure it was dead.

Who do you call for dead animals in your yard? Seriously, do you, as a homeowner, take care of that? Eww! So I called Animal Control. It was a wild animal I wanted controlled. Albeit a dead one so kinda easy to control. I digress. The kind lady on the phone said I could indeed call them for wild animals even if they are in the yard but was I sure it was dead, it being a possum and after all they do...you know...play possum (she was a smart alec like me). I told her about the frost before she could ask me to go poke it with a stick. As if.

It was gone when I got home. They're very efficient once they know they're dead.