Day 169 - 09012020

Cannot believe it's September already soon the thanksgiving and Christmas will be here and then another new year comes.

Found another lecture, Fundamentals of Expository Preaching, explain the meaning of the scripture. The meaning of the scripture is the scripture.
I'll start to listen to it from tomorrow too tired today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jCyfWwz3-Y&list=PLA4F1CA2C916E583E

Day 168 - 08312020

Yesterday I made the radish cake too soft and the sesame cake too tough! Need to adjust the way or the order that I cook them.

Finished the series of Pastoral Leadership.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JttvpAK-y1k&list=PLF1EF86F7951CD551
Lecture#13
The book of Nehemiah 1-3
Equip people and assign them the tasks, motivate them to keep them focus. Keep yourself motivated and feel the feel. Let the project become theirs. Build self motivation and respect to people. Give the glory to the God. Renovation. 
Showing the appropriations of their doing. By recording their names, their accomplishments and how they do it.
Do the modeling do what I do show them. Show your integrity earn and maintain the trust. Never stingy your praises.

Lecture#14
Handling the obstacles. Learn to our Lord in prayer take your issue to God. If the Lord cannot solve the problem nobody can. Keep your eyes on the big picture. To discern a mountain and a molehill. Don't turn a molehill into a mountain. Ask the Lord for wisdom. Be humble and have your a good self image. Learn to recognize that you may be the problem. Small church produces great preacher. Humility stand up and confront. Learn to keep calm, self control, keep cool on circumstances. Have the courage to confront to against the enemy. Known the written and unwritten steps the problem resolution, Matthew 18. Preservation, not quitting. The law of the dog's, Proverbs 26:17. The law of underdog, the weaker party. The law of the barking dog. Don't lose your dignity. The law of a sleeping dog; don't make the problem. The law of a life dog, Ezekiel 9:4, live to fight another day. Better be a live dog than a die lion.

Day 167 - 08302020 Sunday

Led the prayer meeting today.
https://praisedance123.blogspot.com/2020/08/prayer-meeting-08302020.html?m=1

Pastoral Leadership 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JttvpAK-y1k&list=PLF1EF86F7951CD551
Lecture#11
Priority and venison.

Lecture#12 Exodus 18, Mose tried to do all the work himself.
Delegation, it's not an option, learn to be good at delegate. As a leader you need to recruit. To delegate the responsibility. Never do the task alone. Otherwise you and your people will burn out. We meet the needs of the people. 
The organization will not be perpetuated. To reproduce to keep the organization going. Why the leader don't delegate? #1 We confuse the rule of the leader. We think you must have the provision for the problem to result and everything is your personal responsibility. You are there to make sure the job gets done. #2 The fear/guilt of failure, fear of lost control. #3 They want the glory. Why not share the glory around. And we are for the glory of God. #4 we ignore the process of delegation. #5 Sometimes we are just lazy because delegation takes effort to teach. #6 The leaders are so over committed they don't have time to train others. Then you need to take a step back you must make time. #7 Because nobody out there can/ wants to do it. No one taught them how to.
Give right gift to the right duty. Put ten men to do the work not to do the ten men's works.

Day 165 - 08282020

Need to have my car's automatic window fixed and the brake checking on the next car oil change.

Pastoral Leadership 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JttvpAK-y1k&list=PLF1EF86F7951CD551
Lecture#9 Teaching and preaching.
Content and material more persuasion and lecture on teaching. Preaching add on more action.
Teaching plan, interact with student with questions and answers high participation. Help with pictures, role play, note taking, homework, handout, testimony, teaching is more than teaching, guiding discussion, lead with questions, rearrange the furniture, to educate not to embarrass.
Never read your sermons, memorize your sermon, be thoroughly prepared, visualize your sermon, be passion about what you say, use body language, utilize your time (use less of your time), keep clear, concise, concrete, preaches the cross, lift up the Christ.

Lecture#10 Leaders are made not born. The leadership also is a gift from God.
Christian leadership is spiritual leadership. Church is an organism Not organization. Two spiritual tools, prayer and the word of God. Spiritual Motivation. Glorified Christ. Spiritual result, bring people to Christ like people.
Servant leadership, serve to the needs not the wimps. Shepherd the flock of God. Spiritual influence. 
Position/title/pastor -> give the permission to lead, build relationships-> production -> people development, empower/ train others -> Provide of leadership/trust.

Day 150 - 08132020

Made steam buns with some backyard vegetables, yum!

Onion seeds are germinating!

Sadly to say that I decided to return the stand mixer I bought days ago. Packing everything back in the box for tomorrow's return to Home Depot.

Day 149 - 08122020

I tried some other function on my new Sencor stand mixer. I have to say is what you got is what you pay.

There is completely blank, no indicator for the speed number whatsoever! I just randomly guess and using my sense to adjust the speed that I need.

And when I use the blending function with the beater and dough hook it feels the mixer is going to fall apart!?

Day 148 - 08112020

How contamination the reusable shopping bags can be!? First, they banned all the reusable shopping bags in the store. And now you can bring your own bags, but you have to bag yourself. If you think my bags are contaminated then after I done checking out you should clean the conveyor like you clean the shopping cart. I noticed Target did that for some time, then they stop doing it. Some of the stores they even clean the shopping carts after every usage. Also, because the pandemic I always wear an extra layer of clothes and pants. After I come home, I hang the clothes, pants and the shopping bags outside under the sun for the whole day.
Because the pandemic, there is less traffic, therefore there is less pollution.
But we use a lot more plastic bags and containers in the stores and restaurants than usual.
When are we going to go back to our normal lives.

It's a Very Green Day. The cheese, veggie bread is so good!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157793428824755&set=pcb.10157793431069755&type=3&theater

Day 147 - 08102020

Got my online order of the Sencor stand mixer with 6 attachments from Home Depot. The price is good the product looks good too. The first function that I tried is the grinder. Disappointed first that I have to constantly take apart it to clean the meat was stocked inside and then the meat came out a bit of grayish, what I was guessing it was because either it was from the metal part or the greasy oil on the parts but for that I already cleaned it before I used it. So I had no clue. Originally I was going to make dumpings with the ground meat. After all this I gave up. I didn't even finish grounded all the meat that was supposed to be grounded. I ended up just dumped all the meat and vegetables in the pot and stirred fry it. I hope it's not that what you get is what you pay! I will try other functions later on.
Another thing was when I went picking up the package I didn't get a shopping cart and they will at least ask me that I needed one. The good thing was that I am strong enough to carry the mixer all the way back to my car, it is around 20 pounds.

There were disasters like typhoon, explosion, fire and people lost of lives etc. around the glob. I should stop complaining and appreciate little things in my life.

Day 146 - 08092020 Sunday

Yesterday Homedepot called about my order was ready to pick up. I hope that is the right one this time. I planned to pick up tomorrow, which is not a weekend. I really don't want to go anywhere on the weekend, especially this kind of timing. And I don't feel as excited about it anymore.

Need to do grocery shopping for our refrigerator is almost empty. We need lots of veggies, fruits, meat and more.

Day 145 - 08082020

Laziness + procrastinate + idle = me

Today we took advantage of the T-MOBILE Tuesday reward for a free Popeyes chicken sandwich and 2 strips along with some other stuffs for our lunch. But waiting in a very long line and time to get them. My older son got sunburned under the hot sun. Apparently a bunch of people did so kind of regret. It was not worthy.

The heat from the sunlight soothing my trigger finger. Unfortunately, it only lasted for a short moment.  While I was waiting in the car for my son I flipped the phone as a therapy for my trigger finger.

Day 144 - 08072020

Made another of compost. And planted tomato from part of the rotten ones.

Yesterday I moved some cantaloupe and tomato planted from the pot to the ground they don't look very good. May not be survived.

Not a good idea to working under the hot sun after that felt that I almost fainted. It's hard to be a real farmer.

The soybean plant has hairy leaves, stems and pods. No wonder in Chinese we called it 毛豆 like hairy beans.

Day 143 - 08062020

Compare the homemade papaya milk and avocado milk with the store buy. They probably use like one third or half of the main ingredients; papaya and avocado plus some extra sugar which I don't have for my homemade ones.

Tomorrow's project, chocolate coconut nut oatmeal cookie.

I also want to make taro milk.

Day 142 - 08052020

Is that worthy to compare the of price, then go shopping at different stores for grocery!? That's normally I do.

Day one of the onion planting from seeds. The total seeds that I planted today were 108. Still a lot more seeds left. I should plant more.

Day 141 - 08042020

My whole day's mood and schedule was all ruined.
I hardly shop online. Last week I finally made the order for a stand mixer from Home Depot, which I have been plundering about should I buy it or not for weeks. Yesterday I received both the text and email to inform me the shipment was here. So I went this morning to pick up from the store. And everything went very wrong.

I went this morning around 9:30am to pick it up. But the worker told me they had sent the wrong package and that she would reorder it again for me. When I went home, I checked the "Track Package" function. It shows the package is currently delivered at 11:47am in the store. Then I tried to reply the email informing to tell them. The following was what I got. "

Thank you for contacting The Home Depot, this is an automated reply from an unmonitored mailbox.

If you have any questions or need further information about your order, please contact us at https://www.homedepot.com/c/customer_service, text us at 38698, or call us at 1-800-466-3337. We are available from 6am to 2am ET, 7 days a week.

Please do not respond to this email.

Sincerely, The Home Depot" Therefore, I tried to text them again for the things happened and the following was what I got. “Thank you for contacting The Home Depot. To support the high volume of help requests resulting from COVID-19, we have temporarily suspended messaging services. Our customer service team is still available. Please call us at 1-800-430-3376 between 6 am ET to 12 am ET." And then I tried to call them, but got the machine answering service and one of the options that I can get a tracking link again from the text. I then got the text of the link for tracking. When click on it. It showed the page was not found. I also message their Facebook got the response coules day later. In the end, I called my older son for help. Finally the store answered the phone. And said “It was tracking the wrong package” “Home Depot I mean, they think it could be in the next shipment” “They said they will call”. Terrible! Previously I sent the feedback twice and message their Facebook Ni answers! I thought big company is trustworthy turned out they don't care this tiny client!

Day 140 - 08032020

I am trying to force myself to stay outside at least one hour each. Besides doing some yard work. First of all, of course, to avoid from too much screen time. Get some sunlight for the free vitamin D and fresh air and observe the nature at the same time. Also the sunlight can help in getting the happy hormone. 
https://www.healthline.com/health/depression/benefits-sunlight

I went grocery shopping this morning and I forgot about the toothpaste again.

This afternoon I got the email and text about the stand mixer that I ordered arrived at the store, I will go pick up tomorrow morning. How exciting!

After finishing the coconut water from the shell I save the flesh. And the flesh smells so good!

Day 139 - 08022020 Sunday

I love avocado banana smoothie and baked cheese over avocado. It is very easy to make them.

Yesterday I planted more water convolvulus.

Day 138 - 08012020

August!

I remembered the last time that I took a break from work for four months. It was almost nineteen years ago when I took the maternity leave for the birth of my younger son.

Life is full of unknown surprises.
Ouch! Yesterday the mourning dove's egg fell from the nest the egg was cracked a little I put it back to the nest carefully. But it looks like the parents had decided to abandon the egg. Haven't seen the doves come back the nest since last morning. And this afternoon I found the empty egg shell on the ground, someone must eat it.

Let the moment become eternal.

When I was little we used to have a coconut tree. And when the coconuts were ripe, a man will come and knock on our door to offer harvesting the coconuts with repaying of part of the coconuts.

Life is all about the paycheck and payment.

Real hot this weekend pretend I was taking the sauna.

Oh, I pumped the gas yesterday and wiped the windshield. Finally I can see better now.

Day 137 - 07312020

The last day of July. What a day!

This morning I went to browse at Rite Aid I hardly go to this particular store and I felt sorry for the people who works there and the people who shop there too. Why? When I about to walk in the store I saw two guys talking without masks on outside and a girl just walking out the store with some chips toward the talking guys. And then as I walked in the store, a young man with chips in hand walking toward me and saying some F words. I had to pretend that I didn't hear it and swiftly walked to a different aisle. When I walked out the store I saw the girl who was just bought the chips eating outside the store without the mask of course and two of the guys were gone. I suspected they probably sharing the masks. I knew that I shouldn't judge, but they were all buying chips and how did their money from!? The reason that I went to Rite Aid just for killing some time before the stores of Five Below and MINISO were open. Which days earlier, it posted on their door was 10:00am. Therefore, when it was about 10:00am I walked back from Rite Aid and found both of the stores' open hour been pushed back another hour open at 11:00am!! Relentless I went to my next destination the gas station station once more saw people without the mask on. Oh when on the way to my car I saw a guy walking out the bank without masks on and then I heard him grumbling and took a mask out from his car and walked into the bank again and he had a young boy waiting for him in the car alone. What a great model! I hated to say that but today all the people I saw without masks on were all Hispanic.
I forgot about purchased toothpaste. Aw! 


The garlic is the secret of Gourmet food.

Day 136 - 07302020

"During nesting both the male and female take turns sitting on the eggs. The male usually takes the day shift and the female sits on the eggs at night."
Mommy bird was watching me alertly, I could sense it.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157762758579755&set=a.10155766122904755&type=3&theater&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic&notif_id=1596145002605072

It happened again, At Albertsons' AD stated something was on sale the products were nowhere to be found especially meat. I need to remind myself not to trust them anymore.

Day 135 - 07292020

It was a misery. Last night I bought the fly swatter and stand mixer online finally. Everything went fine, I got the confirmation email. But minutes later I got another email said one of the item that I purchased was cancelled due to out of stock. So quickly I wrote a feedback to complain about it. After sending the feedback I checked the order status and I found the item was cancelled was the fly swatter not the mixer. I read it wrong by cancelled item was the mixer! Immediately I had to send another feedback to correct it, but still not happy about the product shows in stock but actually is not! And then I tried to turn off the computer, but accidentally click the restart button instead of the turn off button! What a night!

And to my surprise, I didn't receive anything answer or explanation about my complaint feedback to the Homedepot.