Gordon and Woody Be Blogged

I wish I had more things to say but my head has been kind of empty lately. That is a miracle all in its own because my head is never empty, I am continually thinking and thinking about all kinds of things all the time. It has been rather peaceful but a part of me has been depressed and rather lonely lately because those continual thoughts keep me busy, entertained and above all keep me company.

I found myself asking people for prayer in order to start this little family of ours. A part of me feels like by doing so that I do not have enough faith in what He has promised to us but then I think of that verse that simply says, “Pray without ceasing.” So I would rather take the Bible’s word for it than my own.

I am still part time at Anaheim Automation and I really like it, but I have been getting sick a lot lately. Our office is real small and it seems like everyone is getting each other sick. First Ervin was sick, then Alan, then me & John on the same day and I believe we all had the same thing. It really sucks and I feel bad when I have to let Joanne, my manager down, because I really like the lady. I am disappointed in myself because the past two times I have been sick I wake up completely horrible in the morning, I decide I cannot make it in, I go back to sleep and when I wake up a couple hours lately I almost seem completely fine and it just pisses me off that I didn’t take enough initiative to stick it out for only four hours, that’s what really pisses me off and then I get all depressed.

The dogs are happy though, they get to sleep in bed with me on those mornings instead of being thrown out in the cold. It has been so cold in the mornings that I have been putting on their little coats that Gordon’s sister Kathy got them for Christmas, that way I don’t feel so bad for leaving them outside in the morning.

I didn’t think I had too much to say and then I just thought of something… on Friday I received a call from my friend Dri, I new her & her husband John from Calvary. Dri and John are living out in Idaho with their two kids, they moved there after living in Brazil for two years (her home country). John apparently always wanted to leave Cali and go up to the Northwest and a friend of his called him when they came back from Brazil and got him a job interview in Spokane, Washington and he got the job. A week later they moved to Idaho and have been living there ever since in Quartermain I believe, which is right on the edge of Washington & Canada. They absolutely love it. Dri called me because the Lord put it on her heart to call me and pray with me because she has been reading my postings about praying for a baby. I thought it was so absolutely sweet of her. We talked for a long time and just like when Gordon & I lived in Oregon, she was trying to sell living in Idaho like we used to do for Oregon. I told her we would come up and visit if we ever had the chance and I am so curious.

Well, a day later on Saturday I get a call from my friend Chris, I new her and her husband from church at True Vine. I didn’t get the message until Sunday night and Gordon told me to call her back but I said no, I will call tomorrow it may be too late. Well not even 10 minutes later the phone rings and its her again. We talked for a long time and guess where she lives now?... Idaho! What a freakin strange coincidence! Dri & Chris don’t even know each other either! Chris & her hubby and three kids live in Boise, Idaho which is south of where John & Dri live. Chris is actually on the border of Oregon. It was such a trip that these two phone calls happened only a day apart from each other. Gordon and I both chuckled and said that maybe God was telling us to move to Idaho, which I highly doubt but they sure do have good taters. But Gordon and I are always keeping our minds open to such things. We are willing to go wherever the Lord opens up the doors to us.

Right now Gordon is applying for a new position at the same company he is already working at. This would be an increase in salary which would be awesome and hopefully would be more of a challenge for him. So we are hoping and praying that he will get this job.

So that is the latest news in the OC Flannery family, until next time…

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Last time I wrote was about Christmas, now its time to comment on my New Years events. The Wednesday after Christmas Gordon came home feeling sick. That night he was complaining about shivering and having the chills and when I took his temp it was a 103! I am not sure on where he read this, but he had this idea that when you have the chills and a fever that you need to bundle up. WRONG! I quickly turned off the blasting heater and took off the heavy wool blanket and his jacket and only put a sheet on him and put a cold wet cloth around the back of his neck and gave him Tylenol.

This went on for two more days and Friday he decides to tell me that the crap that he has been coughing up is brown! I couldn’t believe he had kept this from me but of course he had… I mean the guy hates Dr’s. Coughing up brown stuff for this guy can be bad, after all he has asthma! We got in the car that night and went to the clinic at Kaiser and ended up waiting for almost 4 hours to finally see someone. They took a throat culture and gave him some prescriptions and new breathers and we were sent on our way. By Saturday night Gordon was feeling better with the medication we were pouring down his throat but there was no going out on Sunday for New Years Eve.

Saturday, I ended up getting kind of sick, not sure what it was but I was so tired and lethargic and could barely keep my eyes open all day and kept falling asleep off and on. By the time New Years Day rolled around I was pretty sick except for the coughing. I ended up missing work on Tuesday because Monday I had been up all night with the most horrible body aches that I have ever had and did not sleep a wink. By the time Wednesday rolled around for me I was pretty much better but had a small lingering headache.

Last week Gordon and I discovered that we had more bills to pay than we had money in the bank. Gordon was really scared on what to do and I felt scared that it was probably the wrong decision for me to go part time, but Gordon assured me that it wasn’t. It had just been Christmas and that always sets us back and plus I had just started. After my 30 day probation is up they are raising my pay by 2 more dollars. I told Gordon just to have faith that the Lord was going to provide for us but Gordon is a major worrywart.

Today is Gordon’s birthday but we decided to celebrate it this last Saturday. He invited his two sisters and a friend to spend the experience with him at our favorite joint Wood Ranch Bar-B-Q. We actually had lunch that day with his sister Kathy & his mom at the Cheesecake factory and Gordon opened up their cards and he had tears in his eyes. I wasn’t sure what was going on until we got in the car after lunch but he showed me what was in the card and it was triple more than enough to cover our bills and then some. I was so overwhelmed also and we were quiet in the car for a long time just because we were so speechless and just didn’t know what to say. Gordon and I felt so guilty that there were moments that we didn’t trust in God and we just started to praise and thank Him for what He had done for us. I started to think that here the Lord took care of us triple with such a petty thing as money, how much more is He going to take care of us in the things that are even more important like building our family?

The Lord has been showing Himself to us in the most radical ways lately. Last night we went to church at big Calvary and I heard the singing from the outside and I exclaimed, “That sounds like Ernie & Michelle!” And sure enough it was! They were playing worship that night and I hadn’t seen them in maybe 4 or 5 years. I said hi to them afterwards and Michelle started to trip out because she said honest to God that she had just been thinking about me the other day. It was a trip too because I had just been listening to their CD. We talked for awhile and found out that we are living probably only a light away from each other if not that, it was such a trip. We exchanged phone numbers and hopefully we will get together soon. It was just so awesome, because I have really been praying that God will bring girlfriends back into my life and they have been coming one by one. It was funny, she had asked me if I was still playing my guitar and I had to tell her no, I told her that I had traded in the pick for some drum sticks awhile back and hadn’t picked up the guitar in several years. I said the funny thing was that I have been heavily thinking about picking it up again, so I am assuming that is the Lord speaking to me to take it up again. Actually I wouldn’t mind playing the mandolin. But that won’t be happening anytime soon.

God is so awesome in all that He does and I thank Him everyday with the way He provides and takes care of me. I can’t ask for anything more and there is no doubt in my mind that He is really real… Praise the Lord!

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