Monday-Nuff Said

I really should be getting dressed and ready to tackle today but I'd rather sit here in front of the computer catching up on blogs and Facebook.  Not just to see the happenings of our everyday lives but to see any updates for the two Jens we've been praying for who are in Egypt.  Looks like good news on both fronts but of course there is still much prayer to be engaged in for their lives and safety.

We have been home hunting this weekend.  It seems odd to go into other peoples home, who you don't know, open the closets, go into their garage and of course I'm always looking to see what books they read.  We saw one place yesterday that we LOVED, but if we were to pursue it, that would hold a future of just being able to live there, pay the electric bill, maybe buy groceries and hopefully have left over cash to fill up the cars.  So, with great sadness, that property had to be axed off the list.  We love our agent and she attempts to get us to think outside of the box on some of these properties, but for now we kind of have set in our minds the boundaries and area we want to live in.  After seeing the gorgeous home we went to three other places and we saw nothing we would mildly be interested in.  One time Peggy and I were talking about their home in Nottingham and we both agreed that they had lived a lot of life in that home and now it was time for another family have that same experience in the home they had outgrown.  After seeing yesterday's fare, most of the homes had all the life lived out of them.  Our agent showed us a quiet complex on Bering, I'm not a fan of living on Bering and neither is she, but she thought we might like this one area.  Little did she know but she was putting us back into flashback city.  The designs of these town homes were so similar to the town house we owned when we were first married.  Very 1979 construction.  The details like the small windows on either side of the fireplace, the window on the stairs, the narrow stairs and the design/look of the outside nearly threw me into post traumatic stress disorder.  I still have dreams about that town house and they usually aren't happy ones. When the economy fell in 1983, our area of town went from quiet, nice neighborhood into a crime infested hood.  Even the town home we looked at off McDuffie had hints of the former town house.  We will go out tomorrow afternoon and look some more.  I'm glad we don't have to rush a decision but there is a silver lining in all of this.  Roy wasn't aware of the choices out there in the condo/town home market.  The three bedroom we originally looked at is starting to look so much better to him.  We may revisit one of our options tomorrow.  It is just about move in ready and I can visualize improvements easier than Roy.  Yesterday in Sunday School Dena was talking about how God asked several in the Bible to measure Jerusalem.  I think she said Ezekiel was one but I didn't hear the rest because she referred to him as the measuring man.  Immediately Roy came to mind with his tape measure as he measured garages, garage doors, and kitchens.  He is the measuring man! 

We have come into the exciting world of 4g phones.  I can't believe how much faster they are than my Blackberry.  New learning curve but it is fun.  Roy can now text on his personal phone instead of always emailing me from his work phone.  He hasn't spent as much time playing with the new phone as I have.  He did a lot on Saturday, took the Camry in for service, went to Sprint, met me for lunch,  had his photography class, went back to Sprint for phone transfer, stopped at Goode Company for brisket, did homework and then vegged.  He's been too tired to have any fun with the phone yet. 

Our Pastor is in Spain on a mission trip and filling in yesterday was Curtis Jones.  His sermon was awesome!  And I'm not saying this just because he is Beth Moore's son in law or because he is Amanda's husband.  He preached a hard passage of scripture from John 6 and his heart for God beamed through every word.  Roy and I have talked through and pondered the message several times in the past 23 hours.  We don't always do that. You can go to houstonsfirst.org and click on webcast if you'd like to hear it.  Then our teacher and my friend Dena taught a powerful lesson on evangelism.  It was a good, full morning in the House of the Lord yesterday. 

With that full heart I head into Monday.  And now it will be full of laughter, meeting Peggy in just a bit.  We go to the same eye doctor and you can always use a friend who will tell you the truth about the glasses you try on with dilated eyes.  Then it's back to thinking about real estate again.