August 25, 2004

I just thought I would make a post here since I havn't posted anything in over a month now.

Things have been going ok for my husband and I. The checkup that I mentioned before was fine, the doctor was just curious about why my medicine levels were going all over the place for a while... they seem to be more stable now though. I visited my Mom around the second week of August, got to spend time with my cat, Autumn too while I was there for my two days off.

Mom and I spent most of our time going different places during the day and then at night we'd go back to the house and just relax. I decided while I was there to try and help her out around the house alil too... all I really got accomplished though with her was just the laundry and cleaning up the mess that Autumn made in her bedroom. We went out for lunch at Pasta Too but we ended up taking most of it home with us because they give really big portions of food there... it was nice to have some leftovers later that night though that I could heat up. :)

I had my evaluation done this month too and I'll be getting a slight raise in my pay starting next pay period. I can't think of much else to post right now... don't be afraid to make any comments on my blog and let me know what you think about various things and if you'd like me to post something else as well.

Whats new?

Just thought I would make a blog post saying that we just got a new computer yesterday at Wal*Mart for a pretty cheap price and that means that we're now able to go online with the free 3 month internet access that was with this computer and that also means I'll hopefully be able to post on here more often without having to worry about others in the Library wanting to get on and stuff :) 

This afternoon I'll be going for a Doctor's appointment... just a normal cardiologist checkup to see how things are with me and stuff like that.

I do need to get to sleep now though so I won't be so tired tonight for work, I'll be posting more tonight or tomorrow sometime. :)

New for July finally! :)

"What did you think of the "Lives of the Three Hierarchs"? Which did you find the most edifying? Did anything suprise you?"

I thought this book went into a lot of detail about the lives of the three Great Hierarchs of our Church.  I'm still finishing up the life of St. John Chrysostom, but so far though I would say that what surprised me the most was the fact that Sts. Basil and Gregory went to school together and that they were both Bishops at pretty much the same time... St Gregory over a small area that no one really wanted and St Basil over Caesarea in Cappadocia.  I also find the miracles performed by these Saints to be very surprising, like for example how St Basil used his foreknowledge of when he was going to die, in a way to convert a physician to the Orthodox faith, by basically wagering with him that if he were to live past the time the physician said he would that he and his family would be baptised into the Orthodox faith. They are surprising in a good way to me because they show how true it is that with God, all is possible, as long as it is God's will for it to happen.  All things happen for a reason too.  

"I hope that you'll enjoy the "Lord Peter Wimsey" books. I've known them for a long time. "The Nine Tailors" and "Murder Must Advertise" and "The Unpleasentness at the Bellona Club" and "Strong Poison" are some of them. There is a rough order to them as in the earlier ones Lord Peter is still somewhat reacting to illness from WWI and in the later ones some have Harriet Vane (a mystery writer) whom he eventually marries in the last full novel "Busman's Honeymoon".I'm "Anonymous" as I don't have a Blogger account. But this is Ebor"

 
Ebor, thankyou for posting your comment on my blog! I am enjoying the Lord Peter Wimsey books.  So far I've read the Have His Carcase book with Harriet and Wimsey in it, and right now I'm in the middle of a collection of short stories of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries.  If I didn't enjoy reading these stories so much though, I would say that the short story collection has some long stories in it that are almost too long and drawn out to be what I'd think to be called short stories.  I don't mind though :) 
 
Also, I don't understand, why would you have to have a blogger account to make a comment on my blog?  If this is true, how could I fix it so that you wouldn't need to do that in the future?
 
Has anyone read the book by G.K. Chesterton named "A Man named (or called?) Thursday"? I was thinking of reading it soon but I was wondering if anyone else has read it and what they thought about this book.  
  
  
 

updates for July 2004

I just wanted to appologize to everyone for not posting very much this past month. I've been busy working and on my days off I've been catching up on sleep and spending time at home just reading and stuff. I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm still doing ok. I don't have much time to post today though because the library is busy today and people are waiting for computers.

How is everyone's summer going?

Hope to write more on here soon! Again, I'm sorry :)

Mary Kissel

Working, Reading and Things

I've now been working at WalMart since May 27th as a night cashier and I just wanted to make a post now and say that I am still enjoying working there. My 90day eval should be coming in late August or September. The hardest thing to get used to there is working from 1030pm until 7am every day except Monday and Tuesday. I am pretty tired sometimes after work, but I have enjoyed working there besides the being tired. :)

I'm also currently reading an interesting mystery story by Dorothy Sayers called 'Have His Carcase' I am going to be reading another series by her soon called 'Lord Peter' he's a detective like Fr Brown was in the Fr. Brown stories by G.K. Chesterton. I'm also reading the last of the lives of the Three Hierarchs, the first vol. of the 7vol. collection of the Lives of the Saints series. I'll write more later, can't think of anything more to write right now. :)

new job and other updates from the weekend

I wanted to give an update for this week about what I've been up to again. First, sorry for not putting up anything up over this past weekend, I had no internet access so I was unable to get on. As of May 27th I've also started working at WalMart as a cashier. Thankyou for the prayers again :) I'll be working there every night from 1030pm to 7am and have Mondays and Tuesdays off. I'm glad that I'm able to work the night shift there because it's not as hectic as it would be during the day, and more laidback in a way too. I don't mind so much having to zone the various departments or sorting returns and go backs either because since it's not as busy in the late hours I can actually finish something that I started instead of constantly having to stop and start all the time and lose track of what I was doing before. Have to go now though. I'll give more updates as I'm able to.

Mary :)

Baby birds

The birds' nest that was outside our apartment is now empty, this weekend I looked out to see if the baby robins were still there. I've been checking them out a lot this past month and it's amazing how fast they grew from little pink naked little things to chubby birds with feathers all over the place and ready to try to fly! I'm sad that the birds aren't there anymore, but also happy that they were able to fly away with the other robins! :)

update for this week

Yesterday I had my 3rd interview with the last manager that I needed to see at WalMart. After he talked to me for only a couple minutes he took me back to the personell office and from there I was handed a drug test form and told where to take it to. So now I'll just have to wait to find out when I'll be starting at WalMart! I already know that I have the job because they told me that unless the test comes back with drugs in my system, I have the job. Thankyou to everyone who's been praying for me to get this job. I'm so very happy to be back at WalMart.

Now we just need to save up money and do the various neccessary things required to get a reliable car, even if it's a used car for now because we both have a feeling this car that we have now isn't going to last much longer.

Also, over the weekend I finished The Pillars of Orthodoxy book, it was a really good book! I highly reccomend the whole set to anyone out there!! Right now I'm reading the Lives of the Hierarchs book again from that set and also finishing up a book by G.K. Chesterton, The Father Brown stories.