The Austin Street Shelter ( http://www.austinstreet.org/ ) is in need of new cots for the homeless to sleep on. Some of the cots they are using now are being held together with duct-tape! These are not the cheap Walmart cots but the really sturdy ones....$100.00 each. I am going to buy a ( Read more... )

Being the President of our Board is proving to be more challenging than it would ordinarily be! Normally a Board of Directors would be run well, so that the person stepping up into a new position, would be mentored into their position by a competent x-position holder ( Read more... )

I so thought the church that I have been going to for a year now was a good place for me. I have been told, "You've got to stop running away from churches! There isn't a church that's perfect ( Read more... )

Whether global warming is caused by cars, cows, computer chips, or just natural causes, something funky is going on with Texas weather. Last year we got a record 6 inches of snow (no scarfing you northerners)and today we have a frost. I like it! I'm the one who whines for the whole summer because of the heat....so frost is AWESOME! And....I hope ( Read more... )

I hope all of you reading this have a day filled with joy....whether you celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday here in the States or you live on the other side of the world ( Read more... )

I just realized that it has taken me a week to respond to my friends that commented on my last post! What the heck is happening to time lately?....I can't seem to get hold of it. I have been working on homework and Hostelling International work every morning, thinking that I would get on LJ later....but it doesn't happen ( Read more... )

I have too much on my plate. I hate it when I do this to myself.

I am friends only now.

Edited: Nothing happened on here.....somewhere else....but it scared me, so I wanted to keep this place private.

We had a meeting last night to talk about our booth at the upcoming Irish Festival. C.B. opened the meeting with telling us all how to read a map of Fair Park where the Festival is going to be. The map clearly shows were the entrances are and where the cultural section is. For Gawd's sake we can all READ ( Read more... )

I was going to complain about the weather, then I realized that the northeast is getting hammered with snow again, so I won't.