Thursday, December 27, 2007

Awkward Moments

Some how I choose the position, or rather God chose me for me, that I live in the awkward moments. This year feels FULL of awkward moments.

Christmas Eve... guess who forgot the words "In the name of the..... uh uh.. Son.. nope that's not it... Oh.. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit." In front of the whole church. That's right gone.

First time I preside over Holy Communion. I do the Lord's Supper in the Prayers of the Day. DOH! So... Holy Communion comes and we just do it again!

Yesterday the Pastor was gone and I received my first call that someone had passed away. I called over to the house to see if the wife was doing okay and offered to come out there and visit. She was so upset and some other members of the congregation had just got there that she was being so weird and awkward. And of course she wanted the Pastor... which I am only the Intern...also gets awkward. She called later that evening to tell me when we were meeting with the Funeral Director and that was a lot less awkward. But still! Being the Intern is awkward in its self. Making your first I'm sorry your loved one has passed away can I do anything phone call is also awkward.

Today we went to meet with the Funeral Director and the family for this funeral and the wife shook PM's hand and said something about it being cold. She then shook my hand and said something about it being warmer. Which I followed up by saying, "That's because I'm warmer." Who says that! The Funeral Director had to really hold himself back from making a comment. Ugh.... Awkward! That has to be a Friends moment. I feel like that weird person when they get into social situations just says stupid stuff because they are nervous. Did Chandler do that?

And there are many more moments like these. Not enough time to write about them all. I need to just have a hole around me that I can crawl into once and a while.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

The hoops

A little frustrated today with the hoops. I've been trying to sign up for an online class for about a month. Little did I know that it would take this much work and take this long. I found out that I had to get an ok from the CLI office and my intern supervisor. I had the ok from Mark already so I emailed my contact person at the CLI office. Well then I found out that I had to go to the head of the CLI office, still not a problem. So Mark emailed him and said it was ok with him that I took a class. Mark heard back from the head of the office, not about anything to do with the email at hand, but all about who he knew in the congregation..... so had no idea what was going on. grrr....

Waited for some time of confirmation from some place, assuming someone has passed on that it was okay...

waited some more.....

Finally emailed the head of the CLI office yesterday to ask if I could take the class, if he had let anyone know. Any sign of what I was suppose to do next.

Got a vague email back that, yes you can take the class, and that was it.

So I forwarded the email to the registrar and asked what other hoops I needed to jump through.
I received an email today saying that the class is full and that online classes fill up fast. AAAAHHHHH!!! Of course there is nothing I could have done about it because everyone else is slow. This is why I don't like relying on others to do things because they don't understand the need to do something about anything in a timely manner.

So I emailed the professor about allowing me into the class. Tried not to put anyone down about not getting things in on time but also tried to let him know the reason why I didn't sign up earlier wasn't for a lack of trying on my part.

Why does something as simple as a class have to be so complicated.

Monday, December 17, 2007

Christmas at the Goldammer's





Eric and Cody starting off the fun of Friday night. It's kind of become tradition to "taste test" a lot of different wines. We all bring a few bottles of wine to share and to try with one another. It's fun because everyone has different taste and someone will usually end up liking the wine if you don't. That and we usually get tipsy, and that wine buzz that is so good!




Jakoby getting his bath. Uncle Eric and Aunt Abbey were having too much fun giving him CRAZY hair does. Some day this picture will come back to haunt him!
Happy after His bath. We had fun playing with Jakoby all weekend. It's nice to rent the kids right now. Teach them naughty things and then give them back.

Saturday we went and visited the Grandmas. This is Grandma Goldammer and she finally remembered me! I know sad but she has a hard time remembering everyone anymore. She can't really see and has trouble hearing so it makes it kind of tough. I got really close and she was having a good seeing day so she was able to see my face and my hair color. She was so happy! It was a good day.




This is just too funny not to put on here. Cody has these new fun glasses that you can bend and they just go back to their original shape. I think they are meant for little kids. It was so much fun freaking people out all weekend by bending them like we were breaking them! This is Cody's angry face. It's the simple things in life.

Manic Monday

I had a wonderful 118 minute conversation with a good friend who lives out near Boston. It was really good to catch up on life and talk. She is such a wonderful person and I always feel blessed to have her in my life. It makes me appreciate good conversations and good friends, they are such a gift from God.

I was watching the news tonight and happened to see a classmate who was a year younger then me on the news. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison for kidnapping and armed robbery. http://www.aberdeennews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071213/NEWS01/712130344/-1/RSS02&rssfeed=RSS02
I had worked with him at a couple of jobs in high school and knew him fairly well. I was really surprised to learn that he had done this back in June 2006. How crazy!

For Christmas we were given Mario and Sonic at the Olympics on the Wii. Eric and I were up till 10 last night playing against each other at different events. It was so much fun! I am learning how poor sports we are. It's kind of funny because we both have major mood swings as we win and loose against each other. We both aren't good losers and kind of get grumpy. But when we are winning we rub it in to the other one, so it's like we are both bipolar. It's a good thing that I win most of the time!

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Burst of Enthusiasm to Write

I am experiencing a burst of enthusiasm to blog more often. I have tried to blog more but sometimes my computer freezes up at work. GRRR!!! They gave the young one who likes to multi task on a computer, the super slow one with super low memory. I guess that's the pits of being the intern.

I was sick but am finally feeling better. I hate head colds and I my mono seems to creep in whenever I get sick. I lost 3 days last week.

I have decided that I'm spending too much time at work. I had dreams all night long about church. Not really any church in particular. And I'm not really sure what they were really about, except that it had to do with church. I need to get out more!

Did some home visits this morning. I took communion to some shut-ins. It was my first time taking communion to people at home and did the words of institution and all that. I feels as if it should have been a bigger thing, more of a momentous experience, but it really wasn't. I really enjoy it, don't get me wrong, but it felt like I have been doing it for years. Maybe that's just the way it's suppose to be? On Christmas day I am going to be presiding over communion. Maybe that will feel more momentous?

Friday we are heading to Eric's parents for our Goldammer Christmas. I have a feeling it's going to prove to be a long weekend. We are having our Christmas opening on Sat night and then driving back to Dells for church in the morning. Ugh.. another long weekend!

I feel like I should end this with something profound but I'm not really sure if I have anything. ... oh maybe I do. I was sitting in church the other day and saw the Sanctuary in a different way then I had ever seen it before. The architecture was different some how than I had been looking at it before. I just love when old things, or things that we look at every day, look different and new some how. Maybe a view from a window and you spot something you never noticed before. Maybe a way you looked at something and a new revelation came to you that changed your prospective. It's just interesting how we change and not necessarily the thing or situation.