Hearing Heart Blog

Welcome to my blog! If you read through a few of my posts, you might see that I am a woman in transition, and extremely excited about it - also extremely amazed by it! I'm anxious to learn what you have to teach in this course. Oh! You just came by this computer and we talked about all this, so now I have nothing to get more descriptive about... oh, well. Happy reading, and happy teaching! -------------------------------------------------- TO WHOM IT MAY, OR MAY NOT CONCERN Allow me to vent - - I promise I'll be nice! My course in Microsoft Word is giving me fits right now, and I've only been enrolled ONE week! It's a distance learning course, so I don't get to speak with an instructor. At least, she hasn't answered my emails yet. There was no course Orientation, only an email greeting from our instructor. The textbook is asking me to open some titled files that I cannot find. It doesn't suggest where I might find them, or if I was to create them.

This is my office. (notice the picture in the left column) This is my office before the paint dries. This is my office before the desk gets set up. This is my office before I place the files in the drawer. This is my office before the computer gets plugged in and I learn how to run the program. This is my office in my dream. What will I do when that first call comes in, and a customer asks me something that I don't have an answer for? I will be ready. Ya know what I did today? I registered for some business classes at the community college! So now I think I'm an office manager and a student! It must be a mid-life DREAM! Or, maybe a DELUSION! Will it become a nightmare? There's so much I'm clueless about, and yet, my faith says that God has prepared me for this. It has to be true. At least I'm honest. I know I don't know much. I'm a work-in-progress, an efficient business person in her infancy. Is this like being "born again"? At the mos

I started work on my knees! How appropriate! I wasn't asked to clean the carpet, but I was anxious to start my new job, so I volunteered. My younger boss may not have known that I have achey bones, but I really wanted to see how much I could do. I allowed myself to enjoy the scrubbing, down on my hands and knees with a steam-cleaning machine that's meant for cleaning car interiors. Singing, whistling, humming... Getting up (slowly) and stretching... Changing my position (slowly) and cleaning smaller portions (slowly)... Physical labor is not like it used to be for me. I'm still glad I can do it, but now it costs me more! But I did enjoy it! --the singing part anyway. I know that I won't always have easy days at work. I've been around long enough to know that harder times come. I've also learned that my joy has to be in Jesus, not in situations, feelings or "things". I loved chasing my little boys down the hall after their baths, and scoopi

OKAY, HERE WE GO! I've planted the tomato plants in my garden, and moved the volunteer pumpkin seedlings to the chicken-wire fenceline (hopefully to discourage the rabbits from getting in and enjoying my veggies too much). The sprinkler is on, soaking the transplants. I've made the arrangements for our dog to go to a new home, where she'll get the attention she needs. No more avoiding touching her because of the fear of contracting poison-oak from her coat! I've taken "K" back to her foster home. I've made my shopping list, because I'll need some supplies before I show up for work. We'll be setting up the office, and I'm going to clean the carpet first! I've taken my walk and prayed, I've fixed my hair and dressed for the job. I've checked my textbook listings on eBay - looks like I'll be finishing selling them off today. Jerry prayed a blessing over me and my efforts for today - a new start with, not just a new job, but a

I START MY NEW JOB MONDAY, JUNE 11! A family friend has sought me out to help with his small business office! We're working on what that job description will be, but so far I'll start with organization and scheduling appointments. One thing I appreciate about my new boss, is that he says he wants to "work with me", and not that he wants to "hire me". Isn't that just cool? The arrangement seems ideal in every way. For those not in tune with my previous posts: during the past 29 years, I've been a stay-at-home, home schooling mom, have had an eBay business and child care business in my home, been a caregiver for disabled adults, foster mom, and family and home management expert! My interests are in writing, calligraphy, photography, missions, leading worship at church, keeping our family budget, playing on the floor with my grandchildren, raising chickens... And this all adds up to me working in an office? Yes! Believe it or not, YES! I prepare