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20{4}40 – Employment

Let’s face it…economic recovery is slow.  We’re on edge at the Pea Household, because I work as an engineering consultant to many cities…and cities are experencing budget crises. That being said, I am very, very grateful to still be employed at the best engineering firms in the metroplex.  It is abundantly obvious that our comanpy is run by men who are staunch in their faith and trusting in God’s providence. Today’s Blessing List is about my workplace.

Lenten Challenge Following Ann, counting my blessings. 

121. Being free to pray at work and have bible study with my office mates before working hours.
122. Being gainfully employed
123. Wonderful coworkers who are good friends
124. Having a trainer at work to make me work out
125. Calculators, especially the engineering kind that use reverse polish notation
126. Computers that go fast
127. Having multiple fast computers at my disposal
128. The convenience of a printer on my desk
129. Internet resources for researching materials, suppliers and design methodology
130. Color plotters
131. Crayons, because sometimes using them to write a memo makes a very strong point without actually saying anything out of line
132. Adobe Pro
133. MicroSoft Office – the whole suite, except for that Access part…still haven’t figured that one out
134. StormCad software, because I can remember the olden days when iterative drainage calculations were done by hand and took weeks to finish instead of just hours
135. WaterCad software that allows me to quickly analyze different scenarios
136. MicroStation and Autocad, again because I can remember how we used to draw engineering plans on mylars…with ink pens and tedious fine penmanship
137. GIS software – see the world!
138. In place pavement recycling – so fast, so easy
139. The thank you call from a local citizen who thinks the new street in front of her house is just beautiful (Note – this doesn’t happen very often!)
140. Being able to design things that make my community better

EMail Anglea Pea

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20{4}40 – Spring Break!

It’s Spring Break!  Here are our family’s blessings today –  

101. Six plates at the table instead of five – We’re all together again!
102. Cast Iron Panini Press handed down from Grandma…I’ve owned it since before Paninis were “in”
103. Garlic Bread
104. Fresh Tomatoes
105. Sleeping late
106. No homework to supervise for a week
107. No papers to proofread
108. No tests to help kids study
109. No flashcards
110. Time to read just for fun
111. Riding bicycles all day long
112. Bike trails
113. Padded riding pants and squishy bike seat covers
114. Sunshine and warm days!
115. Sunscreen – and a special blessing to whoever invented it
116. Nalgene water bottles
117. Sunglasses
118. A hammock strung between two huge trees
119. Matinees
120. Movie Theater popcorn

 Lenten Challenge Following Ann, counting my blessings. 

EMail Anglea Pea

faithful

20{4}40 – Pi Day!



Photo by Tim May, Photographer Extraordinaire
Remnants of the Blueberry and Coconut Pies

 Today is Pi Day.  Being a total geek engineer, working in an office with a bunch of other engineers, I decided that we needed to celebrate with a Pi Pie Bake-Off.  Eight folks made pies, myself included.  Then we let the always starving masses sample pies and vote for their favorites.  My pies?  I actually brought two pies – a coconut cream and a blueberry – and won first and second place.  However, because it would be sort of weird to win the Pi Pie Bake-Off that I organized, I disqualified myself and handed out prizes to a Blackberry Pie, a Lemon Chess Pie and a Chocolate Creme Pie. 

So what am I thankful for today?
81. Pi Day
82. Pi Day Celebration at Work with a Pie Bakeoff
83. Making the best Coconut Cream Pie EVER and getting kudos from peers
84. Blueberry Pie
85. Chocolate Crème Pie
Prizes for the winning pies were autographed Justin Bieber posters. No, Justin did not autograph the posters, one of our young engineers autographed them. 
86. Justin Bieber Posters
87. Husband who calls me at 4:00 and says “I Love You! I’m bringing home Chinese food for dinner!”
88. Teen Son who answers the phone with “Guess what I did, Mom? I mopped the kitchen floor!” Excuse me, but who are you and what did you do with my son?
89.  Not tearing a hole in the knee of my new compression pants when I fell while running tonight
90. The neighbor who stopped her car and jumped out to help me up when I fell running tonight
91. No broken bones
92. iPod for keeping pace
93. Fartlek Training
94. A dishwasher
95. A washer and dryer that work, providing clean clothes and linens for my family
96. CFL’s that don’t make that funny ringing noise
97. A tea kettle that whistles
98. Chammomile Tea
99. Comfy bed
100. Fuzzy throws

Lenten Challenge Following Ann, counting my blessings.

EMail Anglea Pea