Congrats to Mom!!

for finally being recongized byt the Canyon County Republican Party!
Ronalee Linsenmann is the 2011 Outstanding Republican!!
Of course she is THE MOST OUTSTANDING REPUBLICAN!!
It just took the party players 15 years to recongnize what our family has always known.

hate to break the news...

but I am not going to do the major post to catch up on everything that has happened.  you have survived without the pictures and details this long, you can surivie forever without knowing them.

but what you cannot surive not knowing is....

I am content.  That has been a feeling that has eluded me for a long time.  but today I am content.  job is going great...did you hear that I got a promotion?...i just worked extra hard at the gym today...I am going to dinner with the girls to celebrate (YUMMERS for Mexican food)!!

thought I would just share... :)

love SNOTM

I follow this blog here....and I love it!!  Here are a few of my recent favorites...

SNOTM = Stuff No One Told Me





feeling like a failure...

Today, I feel like a failure…REALLY BAD!!  I have been working at the same job for 5 years.  There have been a few modifications over the years but nothing drastic.  An opportunity has presented itself to transfer to another department.  I thought I would get it hands down…well not really hands down but I felt compared to the other candidates, I was most qualified.   

I learned that there would be a test.  EEK!!  I am not a good test taker.  Then I learned there would be a math portion!!  EEEKKKK!!!  I am terrible at math.  I squeaked by with a C because of a very generous teacher.  Ok.  I can do this…Or that is what I kept telling myself.  I studied from online help.  I felt a little better.   

Today I took the test.  Typing I aced.  I was pretty good considering I haven’t taken a speed/accuracy test in a LONG time.  Average of 75/wpm with 6 mistakes.  10 Key was half as good.  That was 41 with 10 mistakes. 

Then it was the math test.  WOOHOO! I did better than I thought.  The percentage questions always through me off but 1 out of 5 really isn’t that bad (a lot better than missing them all as I expected).   

What really killed me was the excel test.  I had no idea I should study up on Excel.  I didn’t know formulas, the proper way to do this or that.  What I know is self taught and Google. I crashed and burned. I feel awful.  

I was emailing my Dad and he said You probably did all right then. Any time I took a test and felt good about it I usually bombed t and any time I felt like I did really bad on a test I did all right. Power of positive think is what YOU always say!!! ….“I’M SURE YOU DID ALL RIGHT. See you at home..”   That made me feel better and totally loved.  So I will try to look at the positive: if I don’t get the transfer/promo it means something better is around the corner right?

Lets hope so…..

Blog overload ahead...

Sometime here shortly, there will be MANY MANY blog posting but I just haven't found the time yet.  Plus I still need to download the pictures too.  UGH!!  Too many things to do and not enough time. 

But here is what is on my MUST BLOG ABOUT LIST:
moving back to parents house - excited/UGH/scary/happy (PICTURES)

going back to school -  excited/UGH/scary/happy

Republican junk - Moms award/ (PICTURES)

101 Things - some accomplishments/back up and working

Valentine's party - (PICTURES)

Jana's birthday dinner (PICTURES)

Brehdi (PICTURES)

Red shoes (PICTURES)

Hectic update.

So life has been hectic but slow so here are just a few highlights.

-I am now Canyon County Republican Women Secretary.  That happened on January 22nd (I think)
-Major renovation at http://www.canyoncountyrepublicanwomen.com/ which I am very proud of.
-WOOHOO!!  I got a Droid phone!!
-Yesterday, today, and tomorrow I am working 630-1830 so I am beat!!
-Family is very active and healthy
-I cant wait for Monday because I have a day off!!

Slow me down, Lord....

Slow me down. Lord.  Eas the pounding of

my heart by the quieting of my mind.

Steady my hurried pace with a vision

of the eternal reach of time.

Give me, amid the confusion of the day,

the calmness of the everlasting hills.

Break the tensions of my nerves and muscles

wit hthe soothing music of the singing streams

that live in my memory.  Help me to know

the magical restoring power of sleep.

Teach me the art of taking minute vacations....

of slowing down to look at a flower,

to chat with a friend, to pat a dog,

to read a few lines from a good book.

Slow me down, Lord, and inspire me to send

my roots deep into the soil of life's enduring values

that I may grow toward

the starts of my great destiny.

(that was from a plaque I am took down from my wall.  funnt...

while on the wall, I never read it all the way through.)