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| Tired as a Dog -NOT- It's a Dog's Life |
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Tired as a dog. That is how I feel right now. I've been a busy beaver today with not too much to show for it. You see, being in a wheelchair and having a degenerative neuromuscular disorder slows things down; DRASTICALLY. But I don't let that slow down my love for life and the Lord!
I spent 90 minutes this morning putting a message together for one of our members here concerning "spoke guards" for my wheelchair. I found out they have a business that might be able to custom design something for me. We'll see...
Another 90 minutes were spent putzin around the 'puter looking at E-mails from Internet discussion forums that I frequent. I belong to about 30 although I only vist 3 on a regular basis. Those are in addition to MyChurch which is my home community and is not "just" a forum. And for the record, I have never had a MySpace page.
And then it was time for lunch. Heated up some leftover lazy lasagna. That took awhile preparing the plate of food. It's not real easy rolling around in a manual wheelchair with a dish in one hand and trying to maneuver around the kitchen with the other hand all the while trying not to run over any dog feet (eight of them) or cat feet and tails (ten of them) since they are all in the kitchen seeing if I drop any food on the floor. You think dogs beg; our orange cat that looks like Garfield is worse than the dogs when it comes to begging for table scraps; especially Italian foods.
Then I thought I'd surprise my wife by loading and running the dishwasher. That process took an hour to complete. It's not easy for me to see down into the bottom of the sink to reach all of the spoons, forks and knives (ouch). Remember, I do all of this from a seated position. If I can't reach it sitting down, I don't get to have it. That must be why all of the "goodies" are kept on top of the refrigerator! Not fair! And I washed the dishes! Maybe just one little candy bar? Please?
So that brings me up to now (4 PM EDT); already an hour into starting this blog topic. It will be "quitting time" here in Maryland and I have not done anything for Joe today. But that's the advantage of being a volunteer; you can't get fired. At least I don't think you can.
Not to let anyone leave this blog disappointed that I did not have any great words of wisdom to impart on anybody, I'll share a few pictures I snapped today.
Under my nose, this is what my dogs looked like this morning while I was putzin around the 'puter:
I was holding the camera over my head for that view. That's my fat belly and the edge of my desk that the two lazy bums are sandwiched between. I have their blanket on my lap for them to lay on. Now that's a dog's life and I ain't gettin any. But I do LOVE these two pugs! As for the cats, they pretty much ignore me all day.
Here is another view of the doggies fast asleep while I surf the Internet.
Moving our gaze up slightly, we start to see my very clean desktop. Of couse, it is all in how you view things and my glass is half full!
The name of the game here is to keep everything within easy reach so that means everything on the desktop. Coffee cup, notes, camera bag, diabetes testing supplies, flashlight, sugar pills, insulin shots, calendar, telephone, lint roller, 25 foot tape measure, sugar pills, canned air, Post-It notepad, and two rawhide bones; one for each dog. There is a lot of stuff you don't see too. Off to the far right and out-of-view of the camera lens was my can of WD-40. Gotta have that handy too!
A little further up, we find some things just at the edge of my reach zone:
This assortment includes my QSL cards (KC3VI - Amateur / Ham Radio), a few of my web books, another lint roller (unused), two of my my Bibles, my ham radio tech books and the now-famous jar of Peter Pan peanut butter with a lid bearing the date code of "2111" on it. We did not hear the news about that until after my wife and daughter were having "issues" with their digestive tracks. Now we know what salmonella poisoning is like. Yuk! Too much information?
And all pictures made from a sitting position. Good things I have long arms to act as a camera tripod. My arms have slowly grown longer as I stretch of the dogs to reach the computer keyboard. I'm sure this is a great ergonomic seating arrangement. (NOT)
Yup, definitely not a dog's life. It is now 5 PM EDT and I'm just about ready to post this. I told you I was sllooowwww! I'm tired as a dog and my dogs have been enjoying my services today. I think I'll go steal a cat's nap while my two dogs are not paying attention to me.
Yikes! I said cat... Wrong word to use around dogs. So much for my c-a-t nap!
:-) Dave
P.S. If you submitted a new church today and you have not had it approved yet, blame it on me. I dropped the ball. And I'm not doing any more work today! Well... Not until after dinner anyways. LOL
P.S.S. My mind is fried and my arms are aching. 'Tis my daily life but I hope I blessed somebody today. At least perhaps got a chuckle out of you?
P.S.S. If you got this far, how about giving me a STAR? Thanks! |
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| June 06, 2007 |
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Thanks for the picture, Pastor Dave! I love dogs that think they're human and sleep on their back. Too funny. :) Btw, is that me you're chatting with on your Dell flatscreen? That looks very similar to my screen. I"ll take a pic for a future post. God bless! |
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| June 06, 2007 |
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| Carol, yes that our IM's. I blurred the screen so Joe wouldn't be able to see that I was complaining about him not working twice as fast to make up for my less than half-speed approach (not to mention a day of goofing off). LOL |
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| June 06, 2007 |
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A) Pastor Dave asks for stars....now I KNOW it's okay :)
B) And then I added to all of this by calling you with all of those questions :)
C) I got the submission list knocked out, so you are off the hook! Got you covered Bro! |
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| June 07, 2007 |
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| I just knew that Sue, my faithful colleague helping me to get churches set up here at MyChurch.org, would come to my rescue! And since she got the list of requests down to zero, if you are reading this and have not submitted your church if we don't already have it, please do so now. (We want to keep Sue busy so she stays out of trouble) LOL |
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| June 07, 2007 |
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| I love the way animals can just totally relax and sleep. I have eight cats and they can get into some of the most relaxed (and amusing) positions I have ever seen. If only I could relax and sleep like they do! Thanks for giving me a laugh. |
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| August 09, 2007 |
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| Aw, that is so sweet to see these dogs living in harmony! Gorgeous pictures, so thank you for sharing them with me. I really love these pugs!! God bless you, Neil x |
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| August 09, 2007 |
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| Thanks for the comment, Neil. I'm so glad that you dropped by. I see where you and Helen are members of the Deaf community. I'll be sending you a private message soon. :) God bless! Dave |
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| October 19, 2007 |
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| New Hope Ministries in Malawi
Po box 641
Mzuzu,Malawi, Africa
Tel; 265-8693909
Dearly Beloved in Christ,
Greetings to you in the matchless name of our Lord Jesus Christ. God has privileged me to be in touch with you. I found your address while i was browsing on the Iinternet directory I saw your profile and read about your ministry and your vision., So I would like to use your God given Gifts and talents in my place,,, therefore here is an little information about our ministry.
New Hope ministries is an indigenous and non denominational ministry. It is started in the year 2006 as Faith. Pastor:Nazareth Mfune who has been in the Lord`s ministry for the past 7 years. Our mission focused on Children , Youths ,Widows and Churches Planting etc,,,.
Our ministries vision are:
1. To reach-out to the unreached people,
2. To Plant Churches in all over Malawi,
3. To Establish Orphanages and
4. To set-up Rehabilitation Centers for Street children,Rag-pickers,Beggars and Widows.
New hope Church has 3 Congregation from different linguistic groups. since the church project is under contruction on cocrete level we have service every sunday, 8 am & 12 am.
Therefore we regret to state that we own neither a House nor a Church. In this regard we approach your kind involvement and encouragement will help us to do a great deal of Gods work. We humbly request your valuable prayers and suggestions for this ministry and help us to glorify him more and more. Join us in our ministries with similar goals leading God's love to millions of hungry souls.
If God leads you ,please come and visit us and bless our congregation through your God given Gifts & Talents. We invite you. Please feel free to come and Visit our church . I preach to people in hospitals and invite them to the after been discharged .I call it Hospital ministry.
Also I do prison ministry I go to the prison and preach the Gospel
of salvation and call them to the prayer of repentance.Other days I
went their just to teach them them the word of God and his love. On top of
that I go house to house evangelism and market and other pblic places,
I go and preach to people there Many times I travel long distance
footing just to do evangelism I feel very good if do this. I
want to work with your ministry. I want your ministry to reach the lost souls here .I that since you accepted me in your ministry.
It was my prayer in that God should help me to find people have the heart to serve i feel good to have you.
I want to work with your ministry. I your ministry to reach the lost souls here in malawi. I want to be under Your ministry ,faith, mission ,leadership, teaching, programms,really can help many people in malawi. Many people here have not heard about Jesus ,they are living in darkness,this is a big problem. People of God Now I need you to be my prayer partner in this big work which God wants to do here.I need much of your prayers. These are my great request from your ministry.
I thank God for using you to declare His Name in
these days.I want you to open way to Malawi for your Ministry.
I(invitation) Invite you Again to come to
Malawi to vist malawi, and to see the work that God is doing.
I will be hopefully and prayerfully await your kind and favorable reply..
with love and prayers,
Nazareth Mfune
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