Freezer to Green Bay

Well, this week we had quite a challenge at the IOC kitchen.  Our walk-in freezer went down...actually I think by the time we realized it was not keeping temp it could have been down for 24 hours.  We do not frequent our freezer every day, it's not necessary.

 We called US Foods & Sysco but to no avail.  Neither could produce a trailer with refrigeration(freezer capabilities) at 4pm in the afternoon (which seems kind of hoky to me), but tried to promise one first thing the next day.  But of course, that would be too late...we were a bit disappointed with the food companies.

But we got it all squared away ourselves and for now, our walk-in refrigerator is maxed out.  We'll just cook/make our everyday menu out of the thawing meats and products as they become defrosted and in order of the most likely to go bad first.  We think we have a pretty good chance at staying one step ahead of having to waste anything.  That was yesterday...

Today I am getting ready to leave work..we (my wife and I) will be attending a marriage up in Green Bay, WI.  This is Stephanie's extended family(Grandma, Uncles, Aunts, Cousins, etc...).  And it will be a good time to spend with them since all her immediate family will be there as well.

We'll be flying out of Dallas in the morning...(yawn) 4 am comes quick!

I am so excited!!

Posted by:  Stephanie 

Almost 10 years ago I met this girl who had just finished 2 years with  Anastasis in the Drama Department. She showed me  the video about Mercy ships and talked to me about how Mercy Ships brings hope and healing to the poorest of the poor. I was in college at the time.... well mostly I was skipping classes, developing an impressive social life and wardrobe. One night after talking to her I went home found the Mercy Ships website and for the first time in my life I had clarity and purpose for my life. I knew then that Mercy Ships was for me. That summer I worked at Hume Lake Christian Camps and had a mentor nmed Stephanie. We went through all of my strengths and weaknesses and pretty much just picked the career of nursing. At the end of the summer I got really sick and spent a long time in the hospital and God placed the desire in my heart to be a nurse and re-sparked my desire to go work with Mercy ships. After bit more screwing around in college, I over heard one of my so called friends telling another girl I would never make it through nursing school or to the ship. That one comment was the turning point for me, when I enrolled for my courses that semester I new it would be different this time. Not only would I finish these courses but I would do well and this time I had the motivation of not only proving that I could do it, I also knew that I wanted to work with Mercy ships in Africa and Nursing was my vehicle. So in 2004 I served 1 year on the Caribbean Mercy as a nurse. In January, almost 10 years from that day I watched that video my husband (Tyrone, whom I met on the ship)  and I are heading to Sierra Leone  to work on the Africa Mercy. I will be working as a nurse and Tyrone will be working as the Cheif Cook. My plan was much different, but God is so good and His plans are much better than mine. I am so excited to be on the ship with Tyrone using the talents God gave us, to serve Him and truely bring hope and healing to those in need.

Done...maybe

I think I finally finished playing around with the whole website in general...but maybe to come back and finish a page for each one of us.  One Tyrone page, one Stephanie page will probably be added on this blog underneath the introduction link on the right hand side for our favorites and such...

Websites & such...

I have mostly used frontpage to do most of my website work...no code to write and pretty much get anything cool added or on my website.  BUT nowadays they have stopped updating frontpage (I think maybe since 2003) and I am trying to grow with everything else in order to keep up...

I have all this great coffee cup software that can do almost anything so I am trying to use its many different stand alone programs, and they even kind of jive together.  Right now I am working with the blog feature which is pretty nice.  It is real light and less of a hassle than all the other software that you can have on your own host.  Like:  Wordpress (I changed my mind about this obviously), nucleus, pmachine...

This software was a free download for using Lunarpages as my website host and domain name server...you can check the prices and things and see if its right for you.  I really just needed a good host but now that i have been playing around with this software and learned a few more things like php and mysqul databases...whew, now I am having fun!

So bare with me as you may not be able to access things from time to time.  As a side note, did you know that Books-A-Million has wifi now?  Yep, and if you have one of their BAM cards (which is only 15$ a year - good for discounts too!) you use the number on the card and get the wifi for free.  That would be worth 15$ a year...especially the one I like to visit when I am at home.  Nice plush chairs, no hassle, 50cent (not the rapper) coffee for life if you buy one of their coffee for life cups.

Yeah, life is good sometimes....then you go to a third world country.  And it gets better...you realize you CAN live without all this STUFF.  And you enjoy and appreciate it more when you come back to visit on breaks and fund/support raising trips.  Oh, and by the way...I borrowed the BAM card and coffee cup from my father.  Yep, good ol' dad.

Here's to ya!  While I sip my Vanilla Nut Coffee and upload this post.

Foodaphilia: FlufferNutter Cake

Ever had those tasty peanutbutter and marshmellow fluff sandwiches in that store bought sliced white bread? Re-live your adult dream with this cake...
Foodaphilia: FlufferNutter Cake