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On the same day, I got two swap packages! I haven’t done swaps for quite awhile. It was fun!

First of all, I got this one from Oxford, UK.

This was knit for me by Stephen. Isn’t it gorgeous? I also love the notecards. This was for the International Scarf Exchange 7. I love it!

Then I also got this in an LYS swap on Ravelry.

All kinds of fun goodies! This was from zerbe2cute. Since she doesn’t have her real name on Rav, I’m just giving her user name. These came from North Carolina. I have to say the chocolate was pretty good!

I’ve been having so much fun with my new iPod Touch. I’ll let you in on something kind of embarrassing. I thought I needed to return it because it seemed to have a short in it. It turned off all the time and made all this static. It had taken me quite some time to get the wireless password into it for work so I wasn’t really looking forward to doing that again.

Well, I was looking at a book on how to use the Touch. First of all, I have to admit that I hadn’t really figured out how to turn it off. I’m sure getting it on was a complete accident. lol. I think it’s so strange that you don’t get manuals with things these days. I don’t recall seeing the directions on how to turn it on in the quick start guide. On Wednesday afternoon, Ben was playing with it. He commented that it wasn’t pushed in all the way and I replied that it didn’t work in or out of the case I got hoping that would help. I also said I’d tried my old headphones when I had temporarily lost my new ones. ( no comment ). Later that night, I couldn’t get it to turn on and I was mad that I hadn’t brought all my stuff with me when we drove to Olympia because I’d decided to take it back Friday night instead when we were also going up there. I was looking at this book and read how to turn it off and realized that Ben had actually turned it off and because I didn’t know how to turn it on, I thought it had broken. I was always only putting it to sleep. (yes, I feel dumb). Later that night in bed, I suddenly had this thought to force the ear bud jack all the way in and voila…no more shorting out. Ben told me the next morning that that is what he meant….and I thought he meant I didn’t have it pushed all the way into the case! So now it is working fine and I love it even more.

I just finished listening to a book called The Shack.  For the life of me, I cannot get it to post the picture or Amazon link so use your imagination here or go look it up yourself.  ugh.

It has profoundly affected me. Life has been feeling pretty tough for many reasons. Like Kenny reminds me, there are so many variables when you have other people involved in situations. You can’t control their actions. I have been feeling so overwhelmed with so many things and as I have listened to this book, it has brought me back to the basics of what I believe. We tend to make things so difficult but I have been able to pray and trust the Lord to carry the load for me.

This is just a work of fiction and I struggled with parts of it, but the heart of it has really affected me. I had to work at laying aside my traditionalist viewpoint and hear the heart of the message. I hear that this book affects everyone differently and it has given me much food for thought…including the parts I think I don’t agree with.

All in all, I feel greatly encouraged and that’s always good, isn’t it! I never believe in shoving things under the rug but rather face it and let God walk me through it so I don’t end up with more baggage in my life. I need His strength to deal with the things like raising a teen with special needs…joy that he is, he certainly can be a trial at times. Dealing with my eye and believing for complete healing and resting in the realization these things take time has been another trial. And then people in our lives often bring us to those places that test our character…that can be the hardest.

I’ve also got lots of fun things coming up that I’m looking forward to…life is not all gloom and doom. I actually feel very encouraged and looking up!

How’s life with you?

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