Labor Day weekend is here. I am off on Monday and I so wish for a vacation….just go somewhere out of the cities. A Branson vacation will make me happy! :) I know some day I will make it there. This 3-day Labor Day holiday, I will be hanging around here. DB and I thinking of a movie, which is….AVATAR in 3D! :) I know, I know, we have already seen it, but we really like this movie. To what I read, this rerun of AVATAR as extra features. The MN State Fair is here too and the last day falls on Labor Day, September 6. I might just take the Metro Transit to get there and gobble up some good old artery clogging fair food on Sunday. Will see how the days go….my days are very unpredictable now.
During our don’t-know-what-is-that-class-called where non-Muslim students will gather in the Main Hall of the school. The teacher incharge was Mrs C, the most hated teacher in Main Convent, during my time. Anyway, the students will sit on the floor of the hall, we students will have our song/hymm books and sing. Some days if there was a new song to learn, we have to copy the words from the chalk board. If not, we will sing songs/hymms from previous times.
One of the hymms we sing a lot was this: Make me a Channel of your Peace which is actually a prayer to Saint Francis of Assisi. I have always loved singing this hymm and still do. (That’s what I like about the Convent school then was it still instilled a lot of Catholicism during these classes, and it definitely have sowed some thing into me!)
Make me a channel of your peace
Where there is hatred let me bring your love
Where there is injury, your pardon Lord
And where there is doubt true faith in You
Make me a channel of your peace
Where there is despair in life let me bring hope
Where there is darkness only light
And where there’s sadness ever joy
Oh, Master grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console
To be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love with all my soul
Make me a channel of your peace
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
It is in giving to all men that we receive
And in dying that we are born to eternal life
Back during school days when we sing this hymm, I was more into the “peacefulness” of the tune that goes with the words. I wasn’t much into the words, however, now that I’m a newly Catholic convert, the words are so meaningful, and especially when I meditate on the words, it brings tears to me.
Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen
By the way, I’m sure some of my Main Convent friends will know this song! :)
Last Saturday Nadine and I went to the mall. After I picked up my samples and a short chat with the lady at the beauty counter, Nadine and I headed to Nordstrom. She bought what she wanted and soon after I told her I’m going to the cheaper Nordstrom! It is the Nordstrom Rack where the clothes are sold at super cheap prices. I saw couple of sweaters but only bought one style but in three different colors! I so want to get some pants but I could not find one that fits me. Oh well, there’s still other department stores to check out next week.
And after the mall, Nadine wanted to go to Lowes out in Shakopee. She wants to check out Moen kitchen faucet for her kitchen. She said Mike was suppose to do it but she took the duty of finding one that suits her like on herself. I know why because I knowing her, her hubby will get the complete opposite of what she wants. So yeah, she found and bought the faucet she desired and we headed to Grizzly’s for late lunch. Great weekend that, again, went by super fast.
I was looking through my wardrobe last weekend before I went out to Macy’s. All I have in my closet are tees and more tees. I counted how many blouses I owned and sad to say only 3 blouses that are decent looking. Since I started with this company I have drastically changed my dressing style. At my previous company 12 plus years ago, I had to dress up for work – dress pants, blouses, shirts, skirts and dress shoes. No jeans, capris, khakis, tees, tennis or anything that resembles comfort like scrubs! The ex-boss was very adamant that jeans and tees does not look good in their company on Fridays. Even jeans pair with a good buy sweater is not a go. Yes, I had to dress up 5 days a week.
When I got to the present company, I didn’t have to dress up because of the scope of my work – working in a dusty file room all by my lonesome. I don’t have to meet no clients or customers. If I have to it’s once in a blue moon. The temp worker who I replaced said her boss said she could wear anything casual as along it’s not shorts or sleeveless. She said she even came in once in her uniform scrubs after her early morning vet tech job and her boss was alright with it. As long as it’s clean, that’s all it matters. She said the scrubs were the best clothing ever invented. I can’t agree more with her. Morever, you don’t have to worry about what to wear for work every day, that’s a big plus right there!! :)
I actually bought a pair of women’s scrubs many years ago just to wear it at home for days when I have no where to go just being a couch potato. Whenever I go to the vet, the vet techs are always dressed in colorful scrubs and some even wore printed scrubs. One of my future job to work in a vet office so I can wear scrubs and don’t have to fuss with what to wear daily. So yes, my wardrobe has changed tremendously since 1998.
Here I go again, made another bag that I have no use for. All for the sake of getting rid of fabric. I got the pattern from here.
Although the pattern did not call for a magnectic snap or a button, I should have put one in. But, all in all, this bag isroomy for every junk to put in. It’s easy to make too except for me the rookie, sewing the bottom to the body of the bag was kinda challenging but after getting the one outside body, the linig was a zip. The pattern calls for heavier fabric but I only used good old quilting cotton for the outside with medium weight interfacing and the inside….it’s actually flannel! I didn’t use any infacing for the flannel. The flannel was meant for a jammie pants but I got lazy in making the pants, so I used it for the inside of this bag. I think I still have a yard plus left of the flannel.
It just occurred to me I forgot to mention in my previous post where I got the pattern for this bag:
