Maybe someday I will learn to say no, but today wasn't that day!
Let's see if I can make a long story short ... My sister is the Women's Missions Director at her church and their monthly meeting is coming up in a couple of days. She designed a missionary prayer calendar and wanted to print one for each of the ladies. I have a laser printer which prints much faster than her ink jet, and uses a lot less ink. I volunteered to print the calendars for her so all she'd have to do is bind them. I printed maybe two thirds of them when my pink toner went empty - no warning what so ever from the printer! I took it out and tried shaking it "old school" style to see if it would work. Nope, when I put it back in, the printer then said the black and the pink were empty. She went to the office store and bought both cartridges - which cost almost as much as I paid for the printer! I get them installed and print about 30 or 40 more pages - and the blue toner runs empty! I tried shaking it too, but of course it didn't work. I put it back in only to find that now it says the blue and yellow are empty. That was at 8:15 pm and I need to have these finished before noon tomorrow. By the grace of God, I have found a blue and a yellow cartridge, both used - but free, that will be delivered tomorrow morning. At this point I'm feeling much better, they print pretty fast so I should have plenty of time tomorrow morning to finish them. But ... I guess I should have set that Coke bottle somewhere else! Yep, you guessed it! I spilled it! After almost screaming (and pert near crying) I have checked them and most of them are alrigtht, I will only have to reprint a few of the pages. Some of the others have wrinkled edges but don't look stained so I'm gonna try to let them go. One obstacle after another and a quickly approaching deadline - somebody or something is trying to prevent me from getting these calenders done! But despite all that, I will overcome and the deadline will be met! I just hope at this point that the calendars will get used and every one of the missionaries listed inside will be blessed.
"Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today." ~ Robert H. Schuller
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