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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
10:21 am	local shops 1 Greetings. Today I am promoting Local shops1.com, a web portal and social networking group that covers 6 counties-Hillsborough, Pasco, and PInellas for starters. They offer the Local shops 1 Card that helps you get discounts on local independent shops to help the local economy. This is for all areas of business, from tea shops to clothes and jewelry, to gardening and home Decor, or internet or financial resources. You can be listed for free, or pay for different subscription levels. Silver, $199/year • Business name, address, phone number, Web site link, e-mail • Logo with listing • Can be listed in up to 3 categories • Link to Facebook & Twitter pages • Description up to 400 characters • Participates in the 1Card • Free to list in sales forum Social gatherings have included a parties at local restaurants and a backstage tour of the Tampa Bay Performing Art Center. They are also involved with Charity. hosting the Clothes Swap with the Grand Central Station Monthly market-You bring the clothes, you take home other clothes and shoes, and unselected clothes go to charity. Upcoming events are the Pink and Black Twist-A October party to help the Susan Koman foundation - When: 6:30-9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22 Where: Talk of the Town, 111 Second Ave. NE St. Petersburg Admission is free, but RSVP required: 727-896-5400 Lastly, When you email or call ester or Jennifer, please tell them that Linda Evans told you about their company and would like a Local shops 1 card which is free. The rest is up to you. Thank you for your time Linda Current Mood: artistic (Comment on this)
Saturday, June 27th, 2009
1:28 pm	JULY 11 -Gasper's Grotto ART SHOW ART AT Midnight ! Greetings ! I will be in a art show -ART AT MIDNIGHT-on July 11-at Gasper's grotto For Linda's Jewelry and more ! From 10 pm to ? 21 and up! Tell others ! (See my Gallery of Jewelry on Myspace Album-Jewelry and More! ) This is a multi-person multi-medium Art show ! Free to The Public! This show will have Felicia Ogilby and many other artists! Current Mood: creative (Comment on this)
Monday, February 4th, 2008
2:38 pm	Other good links http://www.christianitytoday.com/tcw/2005/marapr/7.52.html (friends and journaling-CT) http://blog.christianitytoday.com/giftedforleadership/2008/02/when_a_woman_finds_her_voice.html (women speaking up-Their lives and voices matter.) quotes: A MIRACLE in healing is not the conjuring of some magic, nor a disruption in the created order, or something supernatural. Rather, healing exemplifies the redemption of fallen creation, the restoration of the created order, the return to the usual, the normative, the natural. William Stringfellow, A Simplicity of Faith: My Experience in Mourning IS NOT the most helpful way to approach the gospel miracles to place them within the familiar and inescapable tension between the already and the not yet, kingdom come and kingdom coming, the new age inaugurated and the new age consummated? To the skeptical (who doubt all miracles), I want to say "but already we have tasted the powers of the age to come." To the credulous (who think that healing miracles are an everyday occurrence), I want to say "but not yet have we been given resurrection bodies free from disease, pain, infirmity, handicap, and death." John R. W. Stott, Evangelical Essentials: A Liberal-Evangelical Dialogue Current Mood: good (Comment on this)
12:45 pm	Communication and Scrapbook Therapy I am liking the Imaginif Child Protection site that was posted on someone's else blog or webpage. I am posting two articles: Communication :http://imaginif.com.au/~ima33724/blog/2008/02/04/how-to-teach-clear-communication-to-children/ and Art and therapy and Scrapbooking !! at http://imaginif.com.au/~ima33724/blog/2008/02/01/scrapathy-life-story-work-training/ What is Life Story Work: Life story work is not merely an elaborate photo album, a record of a life story or a fun thing to do. Life Story work is a three part therapeutic intervention: a process used to assist children in care to integrate past hurts and make sense of why they are in care and who they are. Life Story Work is a tool that therapists and those working closely with kids in out of home care use as a framework of producing best practice outcomes for a subject child. What is Scrapathy? Scrapathy is the therapeutic marriage of Life Story Work with Scrap book tenets and techniques. Designed to help kids in out of home care creatively integrate their pain and understand who they are, why they are in care and where they are going, it is a hands on practical art therapy course where participants are encouraged to make a scrap book page for themselves and ultimately a scrapbook album of a child or young person’s life story work. Scrapathy works equally as well as a self development or self improvement tool. Current Mood: artistic (Comment on this)
8:30 am	Life of Linda I Really like Myspace and Livejournal (i think myspace is vhs and LJ is beta-max) but i am not to happy with myspace right now as their system has blocked me out of the blog center so i can't write, read comments, or read other blogs (which debbie and david's blogs are unaffected for the most part) Anyway, I hope they get it fixed soon- i am vaguely worried about it- I may do what Josiah does -i will move it to a word file and print it out and make a book (but that kind of stuff you need money for so everything will have to happen at the end of the month) -Now on to the main stuff-I have started my new job with tutoring and i have gone to meetings-apparently fran is vision-impaired as i was sitting in star bucks waiting for her and she was waiting for me and since she couldn't see sideways she missed me waving to her and trying to get her attention-finally she looked straight and saw me and had me come over to her table...(i saw her but figured that she would come over when i waved to her or walked passed her- i though this is a person who just looks like her since she doesnt see me or respond) So, She and two other tutors were there and after talking about tutoring and different ways of teaching -they were like i want to leave the ditto forest and move into the land of Multiples: Multiple interactions, Multi-Sensory, and multiple intelligence theory---Right now, we live in a ditto forest that maybe useful for some things (like tutoring in math for the one kid i help)but most of the time is is costly and ineffective-and alot of it ends up in the garbage.) They hope that they can get a grant and put all this learning theory to good use as right now they are sort styimed by the system. One of tutors had a girlfriend who works at St. joseph's in the heart department and i jumped on that and i was like do you know Josiah and she is like yeah, he is so intelligent and such a good nurse and I was like yah he is -he loves to read and help others...she says he works in the east wing and she in the west (or is it reversed?)so I am proud when people brag about my friend or when i get to brag about them-because i have really awesome friends :) Then, Fran was bragging about my mom's legal skills (she has often worked with my mom on legal/court and employment issues)and everyone is like I need help and such and i am like my mom can do it! ) ( on a side note, I know divorce court is hard but hate the whole revenge motif-i will kill him, destroy his credit, burn his house down, make him pay through the nose, and then after he has been sucked dry i will throw his bloated corpse in the river and then find a new fellow to share my life with....) anyway, We got all our papers together and I spent a good part of yesturday calling people for A to Z and leaving messages trying to book appointments for the month of feburary so i can have some money for gas, eating, wedding gifts/packages, medicine, the fair, etc and etc. I have three appointments this week -tues/wed for a little boy and thursday for first grader. I will have to look up stuff for the kindergardener and work more with carrying numbers and double digits with the first grader. I have to call the schools of two kids to get dates and talk to one mom about fixing the time sheet but i think it will be ok-i am hoping ! I have all my stuff organized and tabbed so i am on top of this sucker for the most part.I have to do more paper work today and work on those appointments. Two, Last friday I went to Trinity Cafe (a ministry of Salvation Army) with the Catholic student union and since i had been there before (once or twice) I was hosting a table of 8 mostly by my self. Some of other people helped too but i will tell you serving that rotating table was very hard work not only be cause it was 8 people but they kept eating and leaving and it was hard to keep track of them all. You sit them down, and you get drinks and bread, then give them their soup,(which got mixed reviews)then the main course (cooked up by a master chef (they get so much it is hard to finish it all) and then they get dessert and a snack pack to tide them over until tommarrow. So, I am trying to keep track on who got the soup and the other dishes as one person who just sat down needs a drink and soup, and one needs their snack pack and two want refills and one wants a special order and so on...We cater to what they want and we talk to them about life and etc! It is always enjoyable work, at least to me, and then at the end the laborers are fed too and they give such hearty potions i cant finish it all. Then we did a small devotional out side by the car (this was a new thing-what did you learn/what could you do differently etc) It is the small helps and smiles and food and prayers make all the difference...:) they also told a story about the this lady who they helped and now has a job and it is looking up for her.:) I always love stuff like that. Anyway, What else is happening ? Well, I am still walking with Greg who is stressing about the Bar and will he make it? I think he will but everyone worries about the final exam in any topic. :)His dogs are driving him nuts as they are ready to tackle and defend against any person place or thing that happens to be in our path-biccyclers, squirrels, other dogs, joggers, etc. I went to Lunch with Ruthy and Phlu and that went well. Ruthy talked about her ideas for a christian musical with Mary M and was fishing for Ideas and Phlu, the recent grad! (woohoo for phlu!) is trying to find a new job -tech support or other would be good for them-ruthy said she is going to help him with all that. She is enjoying marriage and will be having a Artist Friday on the 2nd friday of each month and the 4 month is fellowship and worship... I think i wrote about the guy who was chivalous at the cheese shop and i though that was great! The Last part is about God and I and others. Recently, many of my friends have been encouraging me and expressing to me how thankful that they are for me and how intelligent, smart and gifted i am which makes me really happy and i think i hide that side of me sometimes because people dont want to hear it and some times it is hard to be me because i want to say something but i dont want to be rejected so i have as they say a interal moral conflict or war going on inside me sometimes (and sometimes it is just strimishes)but I think that the Holy spirit wants me to celebrate this and all authentic linda's "ness" and through this will brighten up the world or at least some peoples life and change the world for ever! :) It feels good to get all these smart comments :) thank you all!! I talked to Danny some at my church about life and health and such (he is the leader at Career/college) and that was good-although I wanted to go to his party but this was one house that tom tom could NOT find so i stayed home and watched half of the game and the half-time show with Tom Petty-Other than looking really old (he sort of look like willie nelson) -he did a very good job on the show-he played stand my ground (which makes me think of ken) and freefalling ( i also like the song i am still standing but it is not my him despite the similar name)with his band and again did a good job-this was one of the better pieces that they had in years....I went to bed after the half-time show and the giants pulled a upset and beat the patiots....At church earlier, the pastor encouraged us to pray for the well-being of players rather than which team would win. The sermon was called the Assurances of God-His Presence, his Protection, His Provision, and his peace and last week was praying to be a aware of God's presence and purpose in your life and Richard was talking about finding God's purpose and meaning in life and Wed-service was the different kinds of Prayers and asking God to send people (like the network-think the saints) to talk to those who you love but wont listen to you. and Lastly, Small actions and prayers achieve big results-one plants and one waters and one gets the harvest! Current Mood: hopeful (Comment on this)
Sunday, August 27th, 2006
9:19 pm	josiah got to hang with josiah tonight. we talked about my family, his wanting to go to canada or europe and not stay in fl his whole life.He ios not too sure of his like for socialized medicine but he wants to explore the world.He is going next june to visit canada or europe or germany wanting a different culture and different life. his love of bedside nursing and future thoughts of NGOs like doctors without borders. He is very happy with his girlfriend of 4 months, moria, and says she is very sweet. they go to Zar a russian dance club, moira is not too into the castle, thinking it dumb. He is excited because some concerts are coming out. AFI has a new cd he thinks i would like.We talked about celebration of discipline and prayer and my life and health we talked about brian and his joining the marines. I could vent about some stuff and he could listen, He is always a good listener. talked about Chapel center and LQ. It was a good evening. Current Mood: cheerful (Comment on this)
Friday, May 26th, 2006
6:33 pm	random remembies Brian and I sword fighting with candy canes at CC. old fun times. I got to volunteer at Church today with the homeless ministries and a month ago did trinity cafe and that was alot of fun ! Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)
Friday, April 28th, 2006
7:53 am	remembies I remember when i went to a Art show with Erica-she had entered her mother and child 9the cradle and the tricycle with ideas and pictures about mothers and child and there was also the video of the pink lady under plastic which won, as well as white trash bliss (i was glad that one won) it was a sculpure of a boy and his dog from paper mache and the photo scrapbook my mom's a stripper won too. There was a lesiban art piece too and all the stuffed animals and that scribble picture 2 of them that won prizes. autoeriora supermall won :( it was a huge wall of scribbles and parts of figures. that there were the little death boxes, the melted gi joes exhibit and jahrose with a lion and rose and a sleeping bag shaped like a pizza slice and I had i good time but i though this is art ? oh well. :) the time me and phlu decorated brians car with streamers and nets and leis for his birthday and in rememberance of cws hula welcome back party. we had a sign and leis outlining his lights and hung from his mirrors it was so much fun! Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)
Monday, March 6th, 2006
3:22 am	prayer O heaven father, whose voice we hear by the holy spirit and whose breath gives life to all the world, hear us. We are small and weak. We come to you to find strength and wisdom. Let us walk in beauty and make our eyes ever behold the sunset. Make our hands respect the things you have made and our ears sharp to hear your voice. Make us wise so that we may understand the things you have taught our relatives. Let us learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock. We seek strength, not to be greater than our brothers and sisters, but to fight our greatest enemy-ourselves. Make us always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes. So when life fades, as the fading sunset our spirit may come to you without shame. Current Mood: calm (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 5th, 2006
9:13 pm	quote! love your sculptures! They make me smile, especially the couch, and Jesus (who looks like he'd get sunburned in the desert but perhaps all the hair helps out...) Good luck with sales. Current Mood: artistic (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
7:49 am	life Doing lots of art-made a squirrel for my manager, A "squirrel hunter" and she absolutely loved it-she showed it off to all the other people-and i had flowers and an a orhid lady which turned out pretty great and i am going try to make a ballenia next. I am going to display it at AOE! I made some icelanic poppies and roses too. Went to chill with Josiah at his house yesturday, watched some law and order, and we talked about life and work and nursing and dreams and all his new books that he got some of which i wouldnt mind reading. so i was happy to see him and we had fun. Kyle came over too. Current Mood: artistic (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
4:38 pm	Update: Ran into Sasha again at the BM, Lovely peach lace dress and new job for her. YEA! She works at the moffitt cancer center as a biomedical lab assistant which takes up most of her time. She says she doesnt do the "friends" stuff much any more but still shoots up on weekends. She gave me the blow/blow desctiption on how to take tynerol with codeine and mix it with chorform and hydro acid and pyrin and make drugs chemically speaking. So Utterly brillant but she and james are sometimes very lacking in remorse. James and his fellow atheist discussed "counter-preaching" in Ybor and life goes on. She will gradurate in DEC with a degree in ecomonics, going to grad school for biomedical cancer research to study medicine. I am abundantly thankful to GOD she is not dead and that she is doing better!!!! YEAH! so that was the day!! Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)
5:18 am	prayer Dear Father God, I know that I've done wrong through my thoughts, my actions, and the things that I've said, sometimes by mistake and sometimes on purpose. I have gone my own way and not put you at the center of my life. I am very sorry and ask that you please forgive me. I thank you that I can ask you this because I truly believe that your Son, Jesus, died in my place and, through Him, I have access to you. Please help me to follow you more closely every day and live a life which gives glory back to you. I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
8:55 pm	quote SigEpatFSULaw: In all honesty, I truly want to be an instrument of God's peace, I want to help people who need help. I want to offer my love to humanity and in turn be loved by those who need that most Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)
Monday, February 20th, 2006
9:26 pm	prayer quote It was easy to forgive some people but not others- I had to do the exercise many times to really feel like I meant this aspiration. The second part was to send compassion to those people, and to the rest of the world. I think it's hard to pray meaningfully for people unless we forgive them for their wrongs against us- Lord have mercy and help me do this! Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)
9:21 pm	:) Here is the link to shorter myspace space blog http://www.myspace.com/26657935 and my much larger livejoiurnal blog :http://abundantjoy2004.livejournal.com/. I post different stuff on both so reading both is a good way to tell how i am or a place to fidn good quotes. Well, abundantjoy is what am i natually, my dad calls me linda joy(ous) on his cell phone and that is how i am normally-even more so with God the source of all joy and strength. Depression and anger (which alot of books say that depression is buried /unresolved anger and grief ) is only passing though ..like a gale storm that wrecks things but then the sn comes out and people work together to put everything back together again. I had a friend who had two ms pages one for the happy side and one for the sad side but it is two much work to do both so just do one and work though it. I am reading what is so amazing about grace and some chapters out of "how can i help you" and working though my scismat. Nothing scares the "monsters" of our life more than education and prayer and friends with flashlights. hehehe :P I tell you it is weird, i tell my friends, i have these problems but though all this stuff God helps me work out other stuff. So i get sick (not by god mind you) but then God uses that to make be extra well. That much is happy. :) well all love Linda Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)
Monday, January 16th, 2006
9:55 pm	prayer SigEpatFSULaw: I am praying that God's will be done in his and all our lives but when communication is broken that we have clsure as to why but its because I want God's will to be done not mine SigEpatFSULaw: I dont want to ask God to send my friend back to me if its not his will SigEpatFSULaw: but I do want to know what is wrong AbunJOY1: ok AbunJOY1: wow that is a gusty prayer Current Mood: contemplative (Comment on this)
1:28 pm	life of linda AbunJOY1: two was sort of God set up i think AtheisticPenguin: cool AbunJOY1: i was at church AbunJOY1: and i was praying AbunJOY1: and i felt lead to go to the village in AbunJOY1: inn AbunJOY1: so I am sitting there awaiting for my totally wonderful scramble AbunJOY1: hash browns and eggs AbunJOY1: and this 15 year old AbunJOY1: with a little mustache AbunJOY1: is talking to his mother with his british accent AbunJOY1: and his G'mas are there AbunJOY1: and he is like "mother, the sermon today shows that God is a facist AbunJOY1: and he is waving his napkin at her AbunJOY1: and she is laughing AbunJOY1: and i couldn't resist AbunJOY1: i was like how is your napkin proof of this AbunJOY1: and he is like it is not the napkin, but the sermon (at hillsboro UMC) was about God and religion and the workplace AbunJOY1: (this little oxford don -he is a ib student at King AbunJOY1: named arthur AbunJOY1: and he plans to go to USF and Law school) AbunJOY1: shows that God is a facist or at least has fasict tentenies with all this focus on productiity AbunJOY1: and the like AbunJOY1: and his mom AbunJOY1: is like laughing and says to be, oh dear stop saying that -you know, will will grow out of it eventually AbunJOY1: and i am like i dont thingk he will ever go out of it but will always think and question about this and stuff like this AbunJOY1: and we had a nice lttile about God and religion and organic.vs mech faithand cc and crosswinds AbunJOY1: and he was very cordial AbunJOY1: he is like thank you for this lovely discussion AbunJOY1: and then my food arrived AbunJOY1: and his mom went on to talk about some play he was in AbunJOY1: oh yeah AbunJOY1: he said, he loves to go to different church but he is partial to RC mass AbunJOY1: predictable and followable AbunJOY1: it was cool Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)
1:10 pm	fun stuff AbunJOY1: oh yeah AbunJOY1: two things happened that were very fun and cool AbunJOY1: one is the quote of the day AbunJOY1: my manager for labs has to get three people to listen to her and i watch AbunJOY1: for training AbunJOY1: so i had given her bruce;s name AbunJOY1: bruce apparently knocked her socks off with his passion about LQ AbunJOY1: because the next day she was all like what is life quest tell me about it AbunJOY1: so friday i told her i was going AbunJOY1: but it ended up i and ruthy stayed home AbunJOY1: with flu to play Ddr AbunJOY1: so on saturday AbunJOY1: i went to training AbunJOY1: and she asked about Lq AbunJOY1: and i said no, i didn' go AbunJOY1: me and ruthy stayed home because some friends came over AbunJOY1: and here is the clicher- AbunJOY1: so she and her husband were talking to me and they are like what did you do? AbunJOY1: and I was like well we played DDR AbunJOY1: and her husband is like DDR? is that a new version of dungeons and dragons ? AbunJOY1: I was LIKE What ???!!! AbunJOY1: it was funny AbunJOY1: i explained it to them Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)
12:56 pm	prayers SigEpatFSULaw: pray about it for me too SigEpatFSULaw: just pray that this particular issue is resolved with closure SigEpatFSULaw: so at least I know what happened Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)