el diablo is trying to kill me...i'm sure of it

so my week thus far has been ridiculous...and it is only wed. you know my crazy day i had on monday with the children if the corn. well i survive those little darlings only to have to fight for my life on tuesday. for those of you who don't know what my normal day consists of...in the morning (10-2:30) i work in the kitchen at calvary, taking out trash, mopping, dishes, stocking ect. and in the afternoons (2:30-6) i work in the extended care, taking care of the children. well, yesterday morning i was picking up some trashbags, not full of trash trashbags, just empty trashbags to put the cans. i twisted just right that i threw out my back/pinched a nerve/died a little on the inside. it started as just uncomfortable and as the day drug on moved to unbarebly(i have no idea how to spell that) painful. so i spend my entire in pain and walking around like i am pregnant. after class i decide to go over to aaron's house to put some of josh's music on my ipod. i successfully gain several new albums and i had an amazing time visiting. on the drive home i had absolutly no problems with my truck. then, in my driveway, i am pulling in to park and my brake pedal won't go down. so i am now headed toward disaster (and when your brakes don't work 10 mph seems like 3765 mph) and i have to quickly make the choice to a) swerve to the right and hit both of my parents cars, b) swerve to the left and run into the house or c) keep going strait and plow into johnathon's (my brother) car. and i drive a really big truck. so in a moment of panic i throw the truck into park and slide to a stop just short of johnathon's car. i run into my house and tell my mother "i am not going to drive my truck tomorrow, you have no idea what it just tried to do to me." and my mother, in her infinate wisdom, says "it might have been a fluke. you could maybe drive it tomorrow" ..... -_- .....no. so we decide that the truck should be seen to. after some crazy car hoping and droping off here and taking there, we all get to where we need to be today. but i am still in extreme pain. so i go through my entire in pain and concered about my truck....side note... i love my father, but sometimes he says ridiculous things...he is taking my truck to the mechanic and calls me to tell me that the brakes are giving him problems. hmmm. thank you dad...back to the story...so i am not in the best mood today. i snap at my kids and walk around like i am pregnant and just complain alot. i am driving home tonight and i am throwing myself a mini pity party over all of my tragedies. just stewing over the problems with my truck, my back hurting me so much, the fact that i am not doing as well in school right now as i like to, the fact that i am broker than i have ever been in my life and i have no idea when i will recover, some personal things i am going through, and that i can't remember the last time i wasn't tired. i am wondering when all of this is going to change and if it is going to change and just getting really down on myself. i look up ahead of me, and in the sky, i kid you not i see a shooting star. and it completley distracts me from my bad mood. and my mind is quiet. i hear what song is playing on my ipod and it is saying stuff about not giving up and keeping your head above the water and just keeping on (swim by jack's mannequin). it was only about 10 seconds of a distraction, but it was enough. it got me thinking about God and how He watches out for me. there is nothing magical about a shooting, but it is really cool looking, and the stars always make me think about God's amazing creation and His power. and jack's mannequin is not a 'christian' group, but those words were what i really needed to hear at that moment. sometimes i can get so wrapped up in my thoughts i block out everything else, including the God. but He is gracious and loving enough to use my ADD to distract me with a shiny star to be able to tell me to just keep going. i know this was another long post but i really wanted to share that encouragement with y'all. i hope my crazy post today will not only make you laugh but make you think about the grace, love and joy that comes from our fabulous Father.
Isaiah 40: 25-27
" 'To whom will you compare me? Who is my equal?' asks the Holy One. Look up into the heavens. Who created all the stars? He brings them out like an army, one after another, calling each by its name. Because of His great power and incomparable strength, not a single one is missing. O Jacob, how can you say the Lord does not see your troubles? O Israel, how can you say God ignores your rights?"
read the whole chapter...it is my favorite :)
amybeth

the children ohhh the children (ridonkulously long post..sorry)

so...it has officially been raining for about a week now. that means i have been unable to take my 2nd graders outside to play. they haven't been too bad, which i am thankful for, but today they exploded. it took one girl about 1 1/2 hrs to do her homework. and she only had to write her spelling words 2x. and it is not like they had 400. they had 20. and everyone else was done in like 2 seconds. it took her forever because she would put pencil to paper (not actually write, just get as far as making the two touch), then look at me and say "why do we have to do HOMEwork in extended care. we should do it at HOME." my first reaction to this sarcastic filled question is a good swift backhand. but instead i told her it was so she could be done with it and not have to worry about it for the rest of the day. after she asks me this question about a 172 more times i finally tell her it is because i know she really wants to do her homework at home so i am not letting her. i then threaten to make her write her words 4x each if she asks me again. so instead of her just giving up and doing her homework she just sits and stares at her paper. because that is apparently a lot more fun than quickly finishing and then getting to play. finally, one of her friends asks her to finish so they can play horses. it took her 10 minutes after that. what an idiot. then the children were still really hyper so i let them play 'little sally walker' in the hallway. they played this for about 20 minutes then get really loud and the dances got a lot more skankalicious than i would like for 2nd graders (actually for anybody). so i brought them back into the classroom and started doing a dance/cheer thing i learned from the cheerleaders, mainly mckenzie. it goes like this (you will love this trust me):
Form banana form form banana 2x (while raising hands over head)
Peel banana peel peel banana 2x (while bringing hands back down)
now go bananas go go bananas 2x (while...well while going bananas)

Form potatoe.... 2x
Peel potatoe....2x
Now mash potatoe...2x (do the mash potatoe dance)

Form the puff....2x (move hands over your head like you are caressing an awesome puff hairdoo)
Tease the puff...2x (just do it)
Now strut the puff...2x (walk around with attitude!)
and my favorite
Form the cow...2x (slowly bending over till you are on all fours)
Tip the cow...2x (slowly roll till you are on your back with all fours in the air)
Now have a cow...2x (flail your arms and legs around)

Now you may be wondering why i tell you all this. It is because while we were all having fun my boss had been calling (we use walkie talkies) some kids to leave. but i didn't hear this. so about 3 parents end up walking into the room...while we were all having a cow. i didn't even try to explain.
Have a great day!!
amybeth

saving money

so...i am going to this conference called confluence. it is a college thing and really have no idea what it is about...aside from Jesus. 5 of us from the calvary college group are going to heading up there today around 4pm. i am pretty excited about the whole thing. the only that i see as a downfall...to save money we will all be sleeping in the gym of some giant church. we will be meeting up with some folks from lagrange and the csu college group. so with all of us and others who are staying at the 'hotel de basketball court' there will be about a total of 40 people. there are 2 showers. not 2 showering locations...strait up 2 showers. so this could all be very interesting. i am hoping shower rights fall to a battle of strength. then i will be good to go.
all right i have to go to work now. it's truck day -_-
stay clean!!!
amybeth

i bequeath thee my writings

so...after checking my facebook i saw that the entirety of my web viewers (that would you dani-macnider) were in a uproar about my lack of bloggage. i heard mourners in the streets. picketers were in my front yard. they woke me up with their chanting "more blogs less school." it seems as though my blogs are changing the world one sarcastic comment at a time. i started the tales of amy beth as way to reach out to my friends and keep people updated. i was not prepared for the shift in the cosmos that would happen when finger first touched key. it was like the sky opened and a heavenly chorus sang out in unison with the gently click clacking of the keyboard. to know that my idle prattle of nonsensical thought is so desired by this nation gives me reason to continue. i see into the future a blog written about my blog. i see great scholars having debates over which post was the most life altering. was it the one where i talk non stop about my dog or the one where i mention just how endearing all those little second graders are. people will log on from librarys, tents, offices, tree canopys, and boats just to read about how i was awfully tired one day and hear of plights with money. they will fall in love with the main characters of my life and get just as frustrated with my computer as i do. just by reading the tales they would be able to see me from afar and know it was me just from the awesomeness of my aura. i can see it now. the only thing i can't see is how i am to find the time to post everyday with a computer that hates jesus. but i know lives are changed greatly everytime i put that cursor of the words "publish post" and once i click....all is well again with the world.
i wish thee happy postings and limited misprints!
amy beth

things on my mind right now

1. i LOVE my toms... i am wearing them right now and they are so comfortable
2. i just looked at dani-macnider's wedding pics and they are ah-mazing
3. when you are at the school library the computer keys clack extra loud
4. i wish my computer would play the slides for my sociology class. because right now the grades are suffering due to technology and its evil hold on me
5. i always sing the strongbad song to remember when to make it, its or it's,
"if it's supposed to be possessive it's just i-t-s. but if it's supposed to be a
contraction it's i-t-apostrophe-s.....scallywag"
6. i am addicted to mafia wars on facebook. if not for my overwhelming desire to stay in school and keep a job it could very easily run my life
7. i have no idea why i decided this needed to be posted
have a good day
amybeth

it's been a while

so...as you probably have noticed, i haven't made a post for a while. there are a couple reasons for this.
first. my computer hates me and everything that i love (this includes Jesus). i sat down to get on the computer today and it already had a request to send error report thing...i hadn't even done anything yet except sit down. i feel as though it was a bit of a bad omen. so i have decided to save up for a mac book. those who really know me are laughing right now because i have hard enough time to save up for a tank of gas. but i have decided this is neccessary. the computer i have now is about 5-6 years old and is pounding on deaths door. so my mother got a lap top for herself and is giving me her old computer. which is old as well and is waiting in line behind my computer for a chance to see old mr. death. all this to say, sometimes i just don't want to deal with computer shenanighans.
second. did i mention i was going back to school. i have found that between a 10hr school week and a 45-50 hr work week there is not much time for much else. i am even going 2 days in between times i check my facebook (gasp). my mafia is suffering because of my schoolastic endevours.
thusly, i studied a bit (very bit) yesterday, and today i will be studying ALOT. i just finished with an amazing nap and i am ready...maybe. we will see.
goodbye to all of you floating around the internet!!
amy
ps..let's hope my computer posts this :)

jubilation

I just realized tomorrow is Friday...yes!