Wednesday, December 31, 2003  

Holy cow i couldn't log into blogger there for a little bit and it scared me!

It is NY Eve, but this day has no real emotional or any kind of significance for me. So i don't have much to say about it. I don't even wish ppl a happy new year, but ok here's your "Happy New Year" anyways. LOL

The store was suprisingly busy today. It is getting so that i get irritated with ANYONE who shops there, just bc they walk in the door. I think of them... "why are you shopping here this day? We won't have what you need..." LOL they don't even have to get in the doors and i already despise them for taking up space where i work. I could get so much more done if they were not there LOL

Oh and then here's some more gripes... My guatamalan refugee who works there... she was scheduled to be there at six. Every day this wk she's been like 10 min. late so today i was already to write her up ... (it's a formal process/ not something you just "do.") And by 20 after 6 i was going to head over to the network computer and find the forms to do this and then the stupid phone rings and she calls in bc supposedly her mom is in the hospital. Gee. Her mom goes in the hospital like every other week. Since her mom does not speak English, rebecca feels compelled to go and translate etc. And i think most of the time she is making this stuff up. Anyways supposedly if she is late on Friday, i am going to have Izzy write her up and warn her this has to STOP.

Crack the whip, kt.

When is Friday going to get here? That's my day off!!!!!

Today i need to take a nap and then i don't know what else and then i'm going to the PowerHouse to hang out for a few hours see how long i can last before i get deadly tired... I have to be in to work in the morning at eight. ___SOMEONE___ had better have a song ready for me to hear tonight bc she promised that if i didn't have an MP3 in my mailbox this morning... she'd play it for me tonight. SO GET IT READY!

Let's see, what else. Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm that's it.

Go watch some Teen Girl Squad from Homestar, would ya?

   [ posted  @ 1:48 PM | ]

I am tiiiiired! I finished i finished i finished week5 of my series, so guess what. That means i am DONE! WTG kt! Well i'm having a friend check it over... and still have to do all the handouts and get the activities ready but i'm done writing and studying for now. Whoooof that was fun but my head hurts. I was looking over other blogs sites tonight... Earthlink offers a really nice one and it has a bazillion cool templates on it... I really want to change this look! haha. Also it would be fun to have the ability post comments. But yeah. Whatever. I need to go to sleeeeep. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Whoo hooooo powerhouse ny eve party tomorrow. I can't stay too long bc i have to work at 8 a.m. on NY day. But i am GOING! that's it!

   [ posted  @ 6:08 PM | ]

This is cool info to me...
Taylor guitars has a worship leader's series out (not that i could ever afford one) and Bob Taylor was involved in the Jesus Music revolution with Calvary Chapel. These are probably the world's best sounding guitars... awesome :)

   [ posted  @ 2:58 PM | ]

Here's was a song. I got rid of it.

   [ posted  @ 1:40 PM | ]

My Day
by KT

You should seeeeeeeeeeeeeee my desk in Receiving!!! OMG this will be about work but i don't care. Skip it if you want! My desk is all cleaned off and you should see it. It's taken me a month to clean it and i only have two more bins of damaged stuff to go thru (one more long day and i could get it done!) and then i'm caught up so when we start our night crew, i can just MAINTAIN instead of getting so bogged down. So excited. (Truly, it sounds stupid, but i do get excited about this bc if i have to have a job like this, at least it's one i don't mind working by myself, listening to the JesusPartyMix as Justin and Hector call it, and getting the jorrrb done.)

Everytime my bosses came back (all 3 of them were there today) they would say i'm doing great and now i call myself the SUPERSTAAAAAAAAAAAAR and make signs and posters all over the back with stars on it and the word "superstar" written really cool and everyone is calling me that now (on top of calling me The Oracle and KT Rocks.)

Shannon called in sick today. Yesterday she was doing this whole "talk like she's losing her voice" and acting it up real big about being sick. She'd call over the walkies, barely audible... "can someone come to my register for blah blah" and we were all so irritated w/ her bc i can't stand it when ppl act sick when they are not just for attention or whatever. She DRIVES ME CRAZY (*doing sign language that Adam taught me...*) so then she called in sick today in her raspy voice. I was irritated. LOL Then it took Rebecca (my guatamalan worker) over 2 hours, almost 3 hours to put away about 5 different things.... i reamed her out pretty hard right before the store opened. I held up the stuff and i'm like why is this taking you so long? What are your questions? You know better than this.... No matter how hard i come down on her, i can't break her will! LOL I guess that sounds terribly horrible but how she performs is a reflection on me as a supervisor, and i can't get her to learn or work harder. I wanted to write her up just to do it bc she's been like 10 min. late everyday and i said next time i talk to you about your attendance, it will be as i'm writing you up. No change. So now i gotta put my pen where my mouth is. I just keep telling myself next week things will be different when i don't have to work with 2 of these 3 people at all anymore. Unfortunately, Rebecca will be on my night crew and i am going to have to really hold her to a high standard bc if this doesn't work, we're basically all out of our jobs. It HAS to work.

And i don't have to go in until 6 a.m. tomorrow bc that's when the first shift of ppl come in so i get to sleep a whole extra hour. Just imagine. But our district manager will be in, so we have to look spiffy. I'm working on that.

Ron Block, who plays banjo and guitar for Alison Krauss is a C.S. Lewis fan and he's the one responsible for writing all their gospel tunes. I was thrilled to hear this. He is super good! And i love his voice. I forgot the DVD my mom got me for christmas has TWO discs and one is all interviews and photos and stuff. I love to learn about what inspires people musically and all about their instruments and how they started playing. I should have been a rock star. I'm really good. You should hear me play along with the TV... wow. Bluegrass is right up there next to Jazz as far as timing and physicality ... you have to be super quick and good at improv. I am very good at strumming. Picking and doing lead, not so much. You can fake it on mandolin much better than on guitar. Anyways that was my muse today bc i like Ron Block a lot.

I am going to ... umm... go play my guitar. Yeah.

   [ posted  @ 1:36 PM | ]

I KNOW! I already knew that i needed to go to bed, but i forgot to say that one time i threw out a $100 gift card from OfficeMax that came in the mail from the rebate on my cell phone when i got it. The envelope looked like junk mail so i threw it out. And i got to work the next day and my co-worker (who mailed in for the same offer) said
kt
did you get your gift card in the mail yesterday?

and i racked my brain and then remembered the plain white envelope and that i threw out 100$. Jeepers.

As i say all the time now... "Stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid."

ok for real
for real this one's for real...
good NIGHT.

   [ posted  @ 6:18 PM | ]

From a blog post like a month and a half ago, the question was asked...
"List 5 Things you'd like to accomplish by the end of the year"

e. fix my return-to-vendor 's at work
d. put up my christmas decorations
c. get my hair trimmed
b. see a ton of snow
a. go home for Christmas

ALL HAVE BEEN DONE! I rock!

Then, there's the bad news. I think i threw away 12.95$. I had a refund check from Chrysler and can't find it and i think it got tossed in the GreatCleaningPurge of Last Week. It may yet turn up. On the couch cushion to the right of me is an eyesore of a pile of crap... let's see what i've got on my pile. It may contain the missing money.

My RiverOfLife music binder. Why is that out? I have no idea. My music is now filed in a filing system file tote. But heck the binder has been there for months. Let's just leave it.

My clip board with notes from our November jr. high praise team meeting. Why is that out? I think bc i ... i ... use the clipboard for a hard writing surface and it's got some other stuff clipped to it like articles on worship and budget scan sheets for 2003 for kt.

GodChasers and GodCatchers by Tommy Tenny. Reading thru "Catchers" in the mornings before work, and using both for reference in the study i'm putting together for Zone. That's why those are here.

A box of Nestle Butterfinger mini's which i got as a present from my Secret Santa @ Zone and let's see... is it empty? Dang yes it's empty. Still let's just leave it on the cushion.

My Zone worship song book. Won't be needing that anymore but i think it looks cool so there it sits.

My O'Connor's Zone attendance sheet. Won't be needing that anymore but let's see. It's orange and colorful and i use it to remember to pray for my kids by name. Well they are not my kids but whatever.

A card stock sheet of all the songs i have in the filing system for jr. high worship. This is a loose piece of paper... Should probably be on the clipboard but it was on there and i took it off for some reason.

My blue (as opposed to my burgandy) Thompson Chain Reference Bible (NIV, gag) bc it's the best all-in-one bible i have for quick reference and out of the 30+ bibles that i now own, it's just pretty handy.

About ... 17 used kleenexes. Those should be thrown out. Maybe they are kept for extra padding on the cushion.

One of my 2 cordless phones. This one belongs in the cradle by the dining room.

My headphones.

Copy of Boundaries by Cloud and Townsend. That needs to go back on the shelf... or... does it?!

About 4 empty xmas card envelopes. Cards are on the wall. Envelopes are on the cushion. Notice a pattern here, anyone?

Challenge 2004 registration forms and brochure... Already registered so i can get rid of those now.

A brown Sharpie Ultra Fine Point marker. BC i like to sniff them.

A black Sharpie Ultra Fine Point marker. Same reason as the brown one, plus it makes a nice writing instrument if i don't care if the paper may bleed.

A blue Bic medium point grip clear stick pen... Bic sucks. Buy Sanford products like Zebra or Uniball pens. Bic sucks. I can tell you this bc it's true and plus i work at OMX and i know my pens really well. NEVER buy store brand stuff. It sucks bad!

OK i think that is about it that is on the cushion.

Now you know. The secret is out. This is why i can't find stuff bc i don't throw things away, and then the stuff i actually need gets tossed instead. And i am getting tired and still haven't watched my Guiding Light for today so i should go now.

Bye.

   [ posted  @ 6:11 PM | ]

Now that i look at my Christmas tree, it is leaning to the left a little bit. That is probably because when i was trying to plug in my new DVD thing yesterday, i lost my balance and crashed into the tree, shaking a few ornaments loose from their branches, and smashing part of the bottom and side of it in about 5 inches ... Also causing a stack of about 15 VHS tapes to topple (3 of which were trapped under me) and i thought i smashed them to bits but i guess they all made it out alive, which is another miracle (like the tires that got me home but were all ripped up.) And did i bother to straighten the tree? Nahhh! It is hard to get behind where my tv is plugged in to plug other things in.

Today it snowed good out again. Everything had melted by the time i got back to MN and i was sad but since i'm back, i figure i'm the snow-luck-charm, and i brought the snow back in my heart to the clouds and to the ground now. I was stacking some wood pallets outside of the receiving dock this afternoon in the freezing weather with just my blue polo on and it was fun getting snow flakes all over me.

ODE TO MY BLUE POLO SHIRT
by kt o'clair

some people
who work at office max
have
official
officemax shirts
(some people spell
officemax
as one word.
some spell it
as two.)
anways
i have two blue polos
which i think i got at
wal mart
when i first started
working
at office max
in 2001.
They have
lasted me this
long!
That is a long time.
In the winter,
i wear
a white t-shirt
underneath them.
In
the
summer,
i just wear the polo
bc it is very hot
doing what
i do.
Never
a long sleeve
bc i get hot.
One day
i almost printed off
the order form
where we can order
official
officemax
shirts.
That would be nice.

Thank you, have a nice day.

   [ posted  @ 3:58 PM | ]

Oh, i forgot one funny quote i made up yesterday on the way home. It had me laughing for quite some time. Now, is it really a quote if no one but me says it?

"Leadership is more than just barking orders at people and telling them what to do. It's making them feel like dirt while you do it."

thank you very muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch! Sorry, it's just a funny thought... only PART of me lives my life that way. heeee heeeee!

   [ posted  @ 3:16 PM | ]

Smokin' hot!!!! hot !

I finished week 4 for my "more than a song" series just now. It was from the song "heart of worship" by Matt Redman and 1 Sam. 15. Holy hot. I'm very happy about it. I wish i could post the whole thing here but yeah it's way too long. I may take up some space on geocities if anyone wants to look it over... let me know. I can't wait to start teaching again!

   [ posted  @ 3:12 PM | ]

WELLLLLLLLLLLLL,
Seeing as some of my nephews had to spend their first Monday of vacation picking up dog doo doo, i can't say that my day was too bad. A buck a bucket. Hmm. Love it.

We ALMOST had a band practice in the bag and then it turns out our drummer can't come so i won't do it. It is not much fun trying to rock and roll with no drums. Besides, i was kinda hoping for tonight to relax, get to bed early, and get the rest of my bible studies done for Zones. We may go in a few hours early to practice on NYEve if Pastor Aaron says it's ok. Kyle is doing some checking on that for me now. I hate calling ppl on the phone to arrange stuff.

On the other hand, i have the Alison Krauss dvd on a lot and was jamming along with that with my guitar and stuff and it would be fun to go plug in & be loud and sing with Kirstin. Hmm. Oh well. Not gonna happen today.

So i've been trying to find the Precious Pony toy website bc my neice McKennah got this ridiculously funny pony toy for Christmas, and when you push one of it's ears it sings this funny song and it's mouth moves and stuff. And we played it over and over... and my sis in law Tracy left a message on my home fone today with the song playing on it. I can't find the website, but if i do, i'll post it. Maybe the song will be on there, so you can hear it!

Look i made it thru like 3 paragraphs and didn't write about work yet! 12 Steps for Retail Workers works for me!

   [ posted  @ 2:13 PM | ]

Oh, I got some ideas off of other people's blogs from the Friday Five for question number three, what we hope the new year brings. I was thinking of only myself (typical) but here are some other thoughts.

* It would be nice to see GW win the election in November, and that it would not be a close call. I think it's going to be a close call. But yeah.

* It would be nice to find Weapons of Mass destruction in Iraq so we can prove we can justify having all our service men and women killed... Ouch. Yeah but i have my doubts.

* It would be nice for Lyss to pass Euro with an A+ so all her hard work is worth it... (And her classmates too.... Hey how do you like that... from weapons of mass destruction to A.P.EURO!!!!!!!! WHO'S LOOKIN' OUT FOR YA?!)

* It would be nice to see all my former River of Life students who are graduating in '04 go to college... and pick something other than Marine Biology for a major. That means Steph, Amber, Niki, Chad, Mary, Steph S., etc. better pick something COOL.

* It would be really great if i could see Return of the King in the theater. (ok, back to meeeeee. yesssssssss.)

   [ posted  @ 7:01 PM | ]

This is late but here's this week's FRIDAY FIVE.

1. What was your biggest accomplishment this year?

I don't know that -I- really accomplished anything... if anything good came it was only bc of God's grace and i really do mean that. There were some rough moments there / days and weeks where i was seriously having my doubts about the whole world. But i guess i would answer that i put my dreams aside of being full-time ministry and just going back to volunteer work and i could NOT be happier than where i am at Crystal and don't ever ever want to leave. See what happens when you let go and let God, kt? Try to remember it this time... Sheesh.


2. What was your biggest disappointment?

Probably not getting the raise i wanted/needed at work. There were lots of disappointments. Must i recount them all ?


3. What do you hope the new year brings?

Well, on Christmas Eve, my dad bought 3 PowerBall tickets and we each (he, my mom, and i) picked out the ticket we wanted. And we had a lot of discussion on what we would do with 137 million dollars. So, i would like to win the lottery so i could build that music studio and play and record music all day and fly around on my private jet and visit places and travel with my dad and not have to drive bc driving is ultra boring and i could buy all the Taylor guitars i wanted.
In all seriousness... umm... Nah. That's what i really hope the new year brings.


4. Will you be making any New Year's resolutions? If yes, what will they be?

No. I usually don't. And i won't this year.
But,
If i were to make new years resolutions here is what they would be, my top ten.

J. Get out of debt... Which i probably will achieve if i don't over-spend on my trip to Salt Lake City for Nationals.
I. Be content. Not easy for kt.
H. Teach a bunch of students how to play guitar and become rock stars like me.
G. Exercise? Naaaahhhh.
F. Try to dust my apartment more than like 2x a year.
E. Buy Christmas presents earlier (thus, learning from past mistakes... ahem...)
D. Try not to kill anyone that i work with.
C. Be nicer to everyone i work with, not just the cool people.
B. Quit OfficeMax and go work for some other retail store. Just kidding. OfficeMax is FOREVER.
A. And ever, Hallelujah.

5. What are your plans for New Year's Eve?

___Someone___ already asked me about this and my first plan would be to go to the Powerhouse, foregoing the invite to the Welin's where i've spent the last 4 NYEve's ... the ROL church bash... tons of yelling and screaming "ROOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYY" and playing Uno and deadly spoons and PIT so loud we shake the rafters. It was there last year when i resolved 110% to resign and came home and stayed up until 7 a.m. writing my resignation letter... and sending it off to the church elders on NewYearsDay... so it's kind of a liberation thing for me to think about not being there this year though part of me really wants to go bc i miss them a lot :) Just in a friend way... not in a "i want to keep being your associate pastor" thing. Yech. Enough of that. Let's not play chuuuurch. Let's DO IT! Ok off my soap box....
But anyways, i don't know my work schedule... I think i work at 8 a.m. on NYDay, so i won't be anywhere real late... And the other part of me just wants to go hang out at the Main Campus and pray in the new year with the rest of the church-lings. And then another part of me wants to stay home and sleep. In other words,
I
Have
No
Plans
But
will probably end up at the PowerHouse with all the cool people.

   [ posted  @ 6:45 PM | ]

My mom sent me this link... and it really does... explain EVERYTHING. OMG i was laughing so hard when the snake comes out. The meaning of the universe... here.

And yes, i too think my mom may be a closet crack head. Or, some type of 'shroom addict. HMMMMM???!!!! just kidding.

   [ posted  @ 6:25 PM | ]

HOLY CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP! GO PACK GO PACK GO!
For about 10 minutes every Packer lover was a Cardinal fan in a big big way. My heart is beating soooooooooooooooooooooo fast! Did you see that last Cardinal touch down?!!! Here, i had the priviledge of watching the Pack on ch. 4 and the loser Vikings on ch. 9... and that was not so cool bc the Vikes were winning most of their game, and then at the very end at the zero second mark, Cardinals won, and i was jumping all around here screaming and clapping and hooting and hollering omg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We're in we're in we're in !!!

happy happy happy!

   [ posted  @ 4:13 PM | ]

I stopped for gas on the way home in the middle of Wisconsin. You should have seen the place. I think i was probably the only person not wearing head-to-toe GB Packers gear clothing. I was happy to see that... as i am still thinking they can make the playoffs... at the time of me writing this, the Vikings have scored two touch downs and GB is doing well on their game. I understand if the Vikings win, the Pack is out no matter if they win or lose. GO PACK!

Ooh yes! My sister Amy (the cool one) has started a blog of her own and i think she is even more witty than i am so i think you should put her in your favorites and watch what she has to say. I also have a link to her blog on my favorite blog links section on the right there. And i am hoping to change my blog background in the NewYear or even before... hint hint JON!

Now, for the good stuff. I am spoiled. Look at me. I came home. Put away all my christmas toys and hooked up my new DVD/VCR combo thing that my mom and dad got me from QVC and started watching my one and only DVD so far... Alison Krauss (she rocks just a tad bit more than me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) live in concert... but then the Pack came on and i've been watching the game while i clean and put stuff away.

OMG we just scored another huuuuuge touch down! My neighbors must be thinking "gee what is going on in there???" I keep screaming and clapping :)

Also, i hooked up my new Mr.Coffee pot and ran my first batch of coffee thru there and it's mighty nummy and i am sure i'll use it just about everyday. You should see it. It has a thermal caraffe thing on it so it keeps the good stuff nice 'n hot. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

And lastly, this kid has no food in the house. None. I am eating frozen potatoes for supper. Hmm. OK yeah.

WHOA WE JUST GOT **ANOTHER** TOUCH DOWN! dang!

   [ posted  @ 3:42 PM | ]

I'm blogging to you from the north woods of Wisconsin where it is true, the deer and antelope play bc i saw them right out in the yard here. And rabbits too.

Big news... I got new tires. A few hundred bux later (spend what you don't have; it's America!!!!) i am all set up for the drive home. Turns out my tires were wearing so thin they had rips on them and only man-muscle-angels were holding them together... Here are my top ten highlights from my cool trip home.

10. As i said, new tires. That is nice.
9. "Precious the Pony/Yes it's me/ Gallopping around so happy and free"
8. Almost buying a GameCube but finding out no one sells the blitz pack of 4-games-n-one LEGEND OF ZELDA that i really want. oh well. Saved myself some money i guess. Went trapsing all over the Fox Cities in search of XBox games with my cool brother and most of my nephews.
7. LOBSTER ON CHRISTMAS EEEEEEEEEEVE. Also had steak and a baked potato.
6. Learning sign language with Adam and the Jer.
5. All my cool new presents and one i didn't even ask for but i really really really wanted: A DVD/VHS combo dealy thing. Love it!
4. Watching a ton of old-timey slides with my pops on Xmas Eve (does the "X" in X-Box stand for "christ" like the "x" in "Xmas" does???). Lots of cool pix i never saw of my family and dad before and all his army trips to Germany, Holland, France, etc.
3. Watching Twin Towers & Finding Nemo @ Jon & Tracy's.
2. Listening to my 3 new CD's on the way up here... Nichole Nodeman, United Live and Passion's newest CD.
1. Not having to work at OFFFFFIIIIICCCCCEEEEE MMMMMAAAAXXXXXX. Incidently, my parent's dog's name is Max, and supposedly it is no relation. Hmm. Yeah right.

   [ posted  @ 6:44 PM | ]

Merry Christmas everybuddy!
In about an hour i'll be driving home finally. Been waiting to say that for a whole year. Ha ha. Santa don't leave us behind!

   [ posted  @ 11:11 AM | ]

Holy no time batman.
I have to be to work by one, and i have to make it to the mall and back plus get my wiper blades replaced omg. And what is worse, yes, it's true, i have NO IDEA what i am going to the mall for but i need to find my name gift a present omg omg omg omg.

My family exchanges names in deep secrecy on Thanksgiving... except that Dan told Amy who had her name... maybe it was him. Oh well. But i only say mayyyybe bc maybe i have her. Or maybe i don't.

Holy crap i gotta get going. I had super weirdo dreams about work and customers and i can't write about it now bc i'm an hour behind schedule and i still have to try to leave town tomorrow afternoon omg and whatever. grrrrr. No time to make more carmels.

or, camels.

   [ posted  @ 7:44 AM | ]

Uneventful night at OMX... we were out of most everything in the ad as usual. I hid out back in receiving and caught up on stuff. Dingity do. Who cares.

There are no EDGE or Zones for two weeks... i am sad about that. Not even on Sundays. I talked to Kyle tonight and we are going to see if we can whip up a musician's practice for monday the 29th. I will be back from Wisconsin by then.

I am struggling thru wrapping up my "More than a Song" teaching... man this is taking forever. It is unlike me not to be able to rattle it off. Oh, that reminds me. I wanted to do some greek research into a word from Matt. 1 that Pastor Steve talked about today... ginosko is greek for "to know." But in Mt. 1: 25 it is translated that Joseph had no "relations" with Mary until after Jesus born... that Joseph did not "know" Mary. Is the word really able to be used that widely? Or does our "knowing" God have a lot more to do with intimacy than we want to study? It would help to know.

Now Playing: Toto "Africa." Not Christmas-sy but whatever.

Since i've been listening to 80's music lately, I thought i'd post the lyrics to a great Relient K Song...

IN LOVE WITH THE 80s (PINK TUX TO THE PROM)


so it was jeremy in 1983
in his ocean pacific t
who got a bloody knee
on his skateboard
in the half pipe
in the backyard
that tuesday night

and i'm only gonna pierce my left ear
and i've been working on this mustache all summer long
and my favorite band will always be tears for fears
and i'm gonna wear a pink tux to the prom

cutting class through the first floor window
he's driving fast cause he never did a thing slow
and i look up to my big bro
cause in the 80's all the ladies grabbed his hand and couldn't let go

and i'm only gonna pierce my left ear
and i've been working on this mustache all summer long
and my favorite band will always be tears for fears
and i'm gonna wear a pink tux to the prom (a pink tux to the prom)

doo doo, a doo doo doo
pink tux to the prom
doo doo, a doo doo doo
pink tux to the prom

i am gonna wear a pink tux to the prom
live without a care...what could possibly go wrong?

when you're president of the breakfast club
and you're not hesitant to fall in love (to fall in love)
to throw it away to fall in love with the 80's

i am gonna wear a pink tux to the prom
live without a care...what could possibly go wrong?
i am gonna wear a pink tux to the prom
live without a care...
cause you threw it away to fall in love with the 80's

doo doo, a doo doo
doo doo, a doo doo
doo doo, a doo doo

   [ posted  @ 8:18 PM | ]

E.D.G.E. RULES! Wow we had some good singin' time today... I love to hear everyone sing when i step back from the microphone ... and let the music get softer and hear all these little jr. high voices just praisin'. I love it. Steve my guitar player guy could not make it so Robby backed me up and Heather and Adam and then Kirstin was singing too w/ me which was good bc then we could go over harmony for "Power of Your Love."

I am late for work now just wanted to go whoooooo hoooooooooo bc i work with some awesome students!

And, to remind you that i get Lobster for xmas-eve.

Just a reminder there, to remind you.

It ought to be an interesting day @ work bc the ad that broke out today contains stuff that mostly we don't have... i can already hear the angry complaints. Angry angry angry Christmas lovers.


And, never forget... all other things in life come and go, but OFFICEMAX is FOREVER.

singing..." I love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job." {jorb}

   [ posted  @ 11:53 AM | ]

Phooey.
I can't take one more person raving about LOTR. I just can't take it. It's not fair everyone else but me can go see it. Grr.

On a more cheery note, umm... i get to go to church tomorrow and of course i can't wait for that. We are going to sing the birds song for real and not just for a warm-up and none of you know what that is but i still can't wait. Tomorrow is the deadline for registering for Nationals and i am doing that and i am excited to do that and i think i like the word "that." I get to lead our EDGE group tomorrow, because Cyndi won't be there.

I've got track 13 the Gibberish song in my head from Relient K and i've been singing it all day even out loud.

And you know what??????????? I don't have anything else to write about.

   [ posted  @ 9:13 PM | ]

THE FASHION POLICE SUCK.

ok i made the thing up about calling the fashion police, bc i didn't really call anyone. it was just my idea to re-dry the shirts. and it did nothing. now, 75cents later, my shirts are still linted (not quite as bad, but not free enough of lint that i would actually want to wear them!) and omg. where is my industrial tape?!

On the brighter side

I GET TO HAVE LOBSTER FOR CHRISTMAS EVE
I GET TO HAVE LOBSTER
LOBSTER FOR KT
I RULE
I AM THE BEST
I AM THE BEST ONE
I GET TO HAVE LOBSTER FOR CHRISTMAS EVE
BABY JESUS WAS BORN IN A MANGER
SO I COULD HAVE LOBSTER LOBSTER LOBSTER!
It's what Christmas is all about. And i get to eat it.
Thank you very much.

   [ posted  @ 10:57 AM | ]

O K / S O / M Y / L I N T / B R U S H / S U C K S /

Actually, if it did suck, i wouldn't be writing about this. But, i have placed a call to the Fashion Police and they said i'm just going to have to spend the 75cents and re-dry the shirts with a couple other pieces of safe clothing that are for sure lint free.

Hopefully this does the trick. OMG.

   [ posted  @ 10:13 AM | ]

H O L Y L I N T B A T M A N

Well the new towels were washed with my work clothes... and now my famous blue polos are full of lint... which i thought would come off in the dryer, but didn't quite do the trick. I love picking the lint out of the lint catcher... it's my favorite part of doing laundry. But there was a treasure trove of LINT in the thing today omg like enough to make a blanket! And now my blue shirts are tinted with flecks of stuck-on lint... and i have to work in 3 hours. I have a lint brush. I don't know if it is up for this job.

Holy holy holy is the lint there almighty.

I better go figure this one out.

   [ posted  @ 10:00 AM | ]

The Friday Five

1. List your five favorite beverages.
Holy cow ok... Surge (which i contacted CocaCola and my coke vendor from work and it is no longer made but whatever.) Still, surge is #1
b) CocaCola with a twist of lime thing in it (not the soda that has fake lime flavor in it, but a chunk of real lime, or heck sometimes i put a whole lime in there. Bring it ON!)
c) Is caribou coffee a beverage?
d) water (dasani is great)
e) AMP by mtn. dew. or starbucks doubleshot
f) orange slice
g) i know that's more than five things and guess what?!!! i don't care ! this is my blog and you are nosy and you want to know more than five answers anyways. so THERE!
H) Coffee or Mocha Frappucino
I) the last "h" was just to spite you who always follow the rules. what fun is THAT? HAHA

2. List your five favorite websites.
a) Friend's blogs in general (Alyssa, Jon-Paul, and everyone else on the side there)
b) Ross and Kel's blog = special mention bc i love it
c) I know that's more than five sites already but i don't care
d) bible.crosswalk.com bc i use it all the time
e) TCF bank website to check my checking acct. balance bc i haven't balanced my checkbook since early March 2003
f) cefc.com just because i said so but we desperately need to fix the student ministries site bc zzzzzzzzzz it's is so not representational of who we are...
g) ae.com
h) relientk.com
e) lileks.com
N) any on the side there; that is why they are over there.

3. List your five favorite snack foods.
a) popcorn made on the stove
b) is taco bell a snack?
c) i don't snack too much. if i'm going to eat, i do it right
d) is subway a snack?
e) honorable mention to cheese curds even though i talk about them WAAAAY more than i ever eat them.


4. List your five favorite board and/or card games.
a) stratego stratego stratego stratego i love that game i love that game i love that game
b) hearts
c) rummy 500
d) rummikub
e) monopoly is ok...
f) my favorite of all time is BALDERDASH. no one can beat me at that game. NO ONE!
g) Settlers if Jarsh and Tonee are playing with me
h) pictionary is fun if you have the right ppl
g) Phase 10 (awesome game love it love it)

5. List your five favorite computer and/or game system games.
a) metroid
b) yoshi's island
c) LEGEND OF ZELDA
d) the cheese curd that ate manhattan (and it's sequel "Strikes Again"...)
e) 3-D World Runner
f) JOUST atari baby! omg amy remember that??? we would laugh for hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok it's been awhile since i played video games. i need to get a system. it's on my life wish list, right after new speakers for my car, an upgrade and new monitor for my pc, and other stuff that's too $$ for my xmas list.

   [ posted  @ 6:29 PM | ]

OK yes, i have to just add one more post here because i just read my last entry! KT! YOU ARE SICK! YOU ARE MENTALLY CHALLENGED! DID YOU REALIZE YOU JUST SAID YOUR PLAN WAS TO GO THE MALL... ON THE LAST SATURDAY BEFORE BABY JESUS GETS BORN IN A MANGER?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dude. Kt, really you are losing it. There is no way you want to go to the mall. What am i going to doooooooooooooooooooo???? This has never happened to me before. I hate shopping. I hate the mall... i hate the mall WORSE on Saturdays! I hate the parking, and the crowded aisles, and the mean people... OMG. Why can't my dad need OFFICE SUPPLIES!???????????????????????

"Dad, i love you. Here's a pack of 25 multi-colored hanging file folders. And look! A plastic desk drawer organizer! And a CD-RW spindle pack that was only 4.99 after instant rebate! And look i even got you purple jewel-cases to go with those so they don't get scratched up. And here we've got some white out, and post-its, and new mechanical pencils that are also an am/fm stereo! And from the clearance end cap... this web cam that used to be 99.99 and is now only 6 bucks! Dude! Load up!"

Yes, this would be so much easier.
I can't imagine.
Now what?!

   [ posted  @ 6:12 PM | ]

I survived the mini-kid Christmas party. A bunch of grade-schoolers running around in their sox with candy all over the floor... most of them speaking Spanish. I, the tallest one in the room, did not see my co-worker there and his wife barely speaks English. But it was still good i went. Katesali is a cool kid and i hope to teach her how to play the guitar this next year... I taught her my secret handshake and then i got the heck outta there bc well... no habla espanol or however you say it (OK Lyss, have at me...).

I did make the trip to Khols. Waste of time and i always manage to buy a whole bunch of stuff for me. This is why people put money in their savings account so it is not in their checking account and therefore they can't spend it when-ever they want. So i got three new bath towels and a new bath mat... Which i did need, but no matter how much i wanted to, i couldn't find a present for my dad so whatever. I am just going to have to drag my stupid sorry excuse for a life outta bed tomorrow morning and get to the mall. I don't work until 3, so i should be able to handle that. For Pete's sake...

And i am going to actually be one of the few people in the whole universe who THROW OUT their loser bath towels that are so thin and more or less useless, instead of cramming them in the back of the linen closet thinking someday there may be a use for this. I can't think of a use for them. I may keep one... just for like... i dunno... in case ummm... someday the washing mashine is unfixable and ummm... i've used every other towel a LOT or something... i have no idea. You have to keep one. I've had some of these since my freshman yr of college. So, it's time for new fluffy ones.

Boy, a blog about bath towles. I am so tired.

   [ posted  @ 6:06 PM | ]

What a day Jones! ( i call everyone Jones.)

OMG.

I did suprisingly well for having very little sleep... but my boss did ask me how much sleep i average a night, bc i seemed really crabby but i really wasn't crabby. We just had a lot to do. I even stayed about 2 hours late but i left around 4 p.m. and i was glad i did bc Steph needed a ride to Normandale to drop off some books for her college classes and i finally got to see her and give her her Relient K cd. And then, she drove me home... bc she has her permit now. (Well, she had better, being that she's 18. Sheesh.)

My cool sis sent over the most depressing gawdawful pix of brown grass in Wisconsin. I was laughing very hard. There is this corner in one of the pix on the grass with just a little patch of snow... Of all the brown lawns in the world, theirs is the brown-lawniest. (Like, charlie browniest.)

What can you do???????

And i still have no idea on the Christmas gift thing. I may have to run over to Khols and stroll around there tonight... that's right next to OfficeMax. That's where i work. I just thought i'd remind you that i work there. Because really we all know how much i love it.

But first i have to go to Katesali's xmas party and make an appearance... I don't think i'm going up to NewHope... Grr. Sorry guyz.

   [ posted  @ 3:38 PM | ]

OH, and one more thing... I made it almost all of the way out of the parking lot from work and did not have my headlights turned on again tonight. No excuses. Something is wrong with me. Am i really getting that old? Man...

   [ posted  @ 9:08 PM | ]

I will not write about work.
I will not write about work.
I will not write about work.
I will try not to write about work.
Work. Work. That was the word
work
not the actual thing about work.

Aside from that... let's see.
If i talk about how little of sleep i'll get, bc i just got home from work and have to be there again at five, is that about work? yeah.

And grrrrrrrr i was invited to go to LOTR w/ Justin and Missy and i can't go bc i have to... work. I want to see that movie in a big way. But there are lots of movies i want to see and can't either. Like Elf. And Mona Lisa Smile. And that one about the civil war. And stuck on you. Hmm. Anyways. Movies come and go... work is FOREVER.

I just want to remind everyone...
that

"Movies come and go, but work is FOREVER."

I made that up. I am going to now go make t-shirts and buttons and hats that say that new quote.

And Amy to answer your question for the whole world, (her question was... "Who can you say you are giving the coolest gift to?")
Here's my answer...
I always manage to find the coolest stuff (or what i think is the coolest stuff) for Terri. Not sure why. Maybe it's just how excited she gets. But I think it's easy to find stuff for her. And i always strike gold there. Like i still really like that Cream of Wheat thing i got her last year... that is the coolest. The hardest person to shop for is Amy. Bc she doesn't want nick-nacks. I always get my dad clothes bc, well, he needs them. And bc he wears them a lot. Whatever i get him. And he doesn't read this so i don't have to worry about that word getting back to him. OMG did i only get him one thing this year? Crap. I gotta get to the mall. Crap. Then, I have some un-kt-like gifts that i am giving this year (and they are NOT gift-cards... but those are cool gifts too...) but we'll see how it goes over. My name gift. Crap. Still don't have the name gift. It's on back order and it would have been perfect. And i just realized i will not have a day to go shopping before i get home. It looks as though my name gift person will be getting a souvenier from a gas station on the 5 and a half our drive home. A cheese-mug or a cheese-head foam thing would be fine i think for anyone in my family. One year i still think we should do the dice game or white elephant gifts in addition to, or instead of the name gifts.

But, I will be (or better be) driving home in the BLIZZARD that you better get or there will be a green and brown christmas in loser wisconsin and i will be miserable and just wishing i could get back here and look out my window at the mounds of snow. I need new windshield wipers.

Not sure if that answered Amy's question. Everyone is getting cool stuff from me. OMG i just forgot about one thing i got every buddy and i hope to God they like it bc i think it is the BEST THING EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well maybe not ever, but it is GREAT. hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

This is way more than i planned on blogging tonight but guess what. yes that's right i'm not tired at all. Big suprise. I have a kiddie christmas party to pop in at tomorrow night and i still have not decided if i am going to the powerhouse. I should probably brave the stupid mall and finish my christmas shopping, instead of going up to New Hope, as i have just realized i only got my dad one thing... and find something for my name person. I should actually go dig all the presents out from under the tree bc i could have sworn i got my dad more than just one thing. He watches a lot of TV. And now has a VCR out at his little bar. Hmm. No idea.

One year, my family (OMG this is true and i think no one wants to talk about the fact that THIS REALLY HAPPENED OMG OMG OMG) did Christmas in the BASEMENT of our "new" house. This was in the very early '90's. OMG what was the deal????? That was before my mom got to make her "new room" addition, but it was so dark and dreary down there omg. No one has ever talked about this and here i am exposing the unmentionable to the entire globe. We had Christmas in the basement. How stupid!!!! Well, it's not like there would have been much room upstairs for all those people. I remember carting down the mounds of candy and cookies to the table downstairs LOL!!!!!!!!!!! And it was so dark down there bc my mom (and me) can't stand overhead lights... and the like 4 lamps we had turned on probably only had 25 watt bulbs in them. Somewhere, someone has a video of this, as i recall. Or, it has been confiscated and is being held on file by the FBI. I can't imagine the insanity of us having Christmas in that basement. Now, there is no furniture left down there, bc it's all in my living room, or somewhere else. It's a lame basement!!! With weird red carpetting!!! And Noah-dog pee stains on every corner!!!!!!!!!! OMG!

Now doesn't that just whip up the Christmas spirit? Deep, deep within your brown&green-lawn soul?

   [ posted  @ 8:57 PM | ]

Dang it is beautiful outside... Snow everywhere. Bright and sunny... everything is sparkling white (we had about another inch last night; it snows more days than not here now) and icicles are hanging off the roof. Then i made the unfortunate mistake of emailling my mom to ask if they had snow in Wisconsin where i'll be next week for xmas, and she said no. If i owned a home i would make everyone come up here for the holiday... and if i ever get a house it's going to be big enough to host such an event... with guest rooms and stuff. But i'm not there YET! And then we'd just say whom-ever has the most snow, that is where Christmas will be.

When i was shopping last week at this amazing antique store in town, i asked to see if they had any antique Christmas cards. He had some in this one holder thing, but then he brought out the "big pile" and i stood there for like a half hour being ms. nosybody reading all these greetings and salutations from the very early 1900's. Like some went all the way to 1901. I asked where he got them from and he said stuff like estate sales and whatever. I didn't buy any but it was interesting to see the barely-legible turn of the centry handwriting, and the things people thought were noteworthy back then. It was almost like reading a blog from 1900. People still talked about the same things we do now... "We don't have as much snow as we did when we were kids..." and about what they were going to cook for the big dinner, and how is everyone's heath and stuff. Pretty super cool.

Listen to this nutso schedule... The store is on extended hours this week; we're open till 10. Which means tonight since i'm closing, i won't get out of there until like 10:30 or later. Then i have to be there at 5 a.m. tomorrow. Sheesh. Coffee, anyone?

   [ posted  @ 9:42 AM | ]

There are very few awesome cool things in Wisconsin (outside of my family...) but this is an hilarious motel... dude is this real????

The Gobbler Motel Click on the text in the middle of the page to get to the real thing...

Don't ask me how i found this link... i'll never give up the secret...
Well, ok, someone's blog took me to a link that took me to a link... or i clicked a link that came from another link...

   [ posted  @ 8:15 PM | ]

If you saw someone driving southbound on 169 tonight with their headlights OFF that would have been me. God made me really special. I guess i had too much going thru my simple mind to remember to turn the lights on. I realized this about a third of the way home... gee it's kinda dark on the road here.... OH! DHUUUUUUUH

stupid
stupid
stupid.

Aren't i a funny person???? Gee i could have been killed. But then again i could get killed anytime. Remember that one urban legend about the gangster driving around w/ their head lights off and if you blink your lights at them they'll kill you? haha! Well, i'm no gangster. Besides, i am sure gangsters don't drive Neons.

Zone was fun... ! And Landis did bring DDR and it was a hoot. I am sure going to miss being w/ them every week.

I was thinking on the way home (among other things, like "hey, dork, turn your LIGHTS ON!") that from now on my Wednesday nights will be teaching Zones and then going into work until like 5 a.m. (Wed. nights are a different schedule because that is when we put our trucks away...). It will actually be a good schedule bc i am more of a night person anyways. Well people tell me i am a morning person too... I am just awake when i am with the right people, especially if they are people i really like (which doesn't include everyone i work with bc some of them were born dorkified and there is nothing they can do to change that.) Loser Pat yesterday asked me if i was ever in the military because i like to be really loud and bark orders... haha.

I said i'm too much of a wuss to be in the military but that yes i like to be loud and boss people around. Mostly just be loud. It is hard to live in this quiet apartment building with the over 60+ aged crowd bc it's like living in a library and i can't ever be loud. So when i get to work all i do is yell and yell and sing loud and yell out people's names until the store opens... And even then sometimes i can't shut up. If i am alone back in receiving like i was on Tuesday, i just talk and talk to myself. Like i pretended i was making a T.V. show about how to pend the damaged and defective crap, and how to send it back, how to ship boxes and fill out the Fed Ex and UPS logs, and my boss came back there with one of the new hires and i said

"HI, I'm K-T and i never stop talking, for example right now when you walked in, i was pretending i was making a tv show."

Well, the guy looked at me like i was nuts but that's ok bc i am nuts and we already knew that.

   [ posted  @ 7:55 PM | ]

I forgot to write about something that happened yesterday, that everytime i think about it i laugh hysterically out loud (actually, laughing out loud is not uncommon for me... i do it all the time.) But i was on the phone with one of our vendors from work trying to get a return authorization number for something i was sending back to them... and she was confirming the store address and i had to say the address over the phone. So i was rattling off the street number, street name and then she's like...

"City and state?"

and i reply

"Shakopee, Minnesota." Now, mind you, i said it really fast because i was assuming she had the info in front of her and was just doing a security check, so i rambled it out really fast. For those of you who don't live here, Shakopee is pronounced SHAH-kuh-pee with the emphasis on the first syllable (not the 2nd, like i sometimes say.)

And she says

"City and state?"

And again i repeat it...

And then there is this weird silence ...

And she asks me (i am laughing so hard as i type this even though it happened over 24 hours ago) ...

"Shark View? Minnesota?"

And i'm like "HUh??????"

And she's like

"Shark View? Is that the name of your town?"

HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

So i totally lost it and could not control my laughter and i was like "no, Shakopee! s-h-a-k-o-p-e-e" while hilarious laughter followed and she was laughing too, but not as hard as i was, because i think she was still appalled that the name of a town might be named after something so tragic. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Imagine there being an OfficeMax in a town called SharkView. I would love to live there. Anyways, i told her that it was the best rendition of my town's name i ever heard. And she was like "Well you never know..." haha.

Tonight is our Zone Christmas party... I am not a HUGE fan of unplanned social get-togethers... where everyone just mingles, even if it is with students. I usually avoid those kind of things if i can... however this is a different group and i can't wait to get there and see everyone. Besides, if Landis brings DanceDanceRevolution... yeah. Fun times. One group is going to the Holidazzle Parade and then to the Old Spaghetti factory. Niiiice.

It's my day off and i slept till noon. Now i am hyped up on Caffiene and need to get some reading done. Yippiee.

   [ posted  @ 12:46 PM | ]

I'll be gooooooooooooooooooooooooone in a day o daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy "take on me"

   [ posted  @ 2:04 PM | ]

Oh, pooey. My name gift for christmas is on back order. I have to think of some type of plan-b. I had no real plan-b. There really is not a plan-b. Hmmph.

Listening to some 80's music today... Crowded House, Rick Springfield (love Jesse's girl), Aha, Tears for Fears, all the goodies. 80's music was so melodramatic, and it sounds so good LOUD. And was there ANYTHING good in the 90's? Pretty much not.

I am at a standstill for the worship bible studies... I can't look at the notes anymore. Outta fuel. Quick kt, think of a plan-b for your name gift!!!!!! Something that does not require going to the mall... i hate shopping i hate shopping...

   [ posted  @ 2:03 PM | ]

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   [ posted  @ 1:12 PM | ]

First of all!
If you saw someone in a blue coat, khaki pants and brown DocMartens sliding down the icy hill by the OfficeMax dumpster, standing up, pushing a yellow officemax garbage cart this afternoon around 2:10 p.m., that would have been me. Freaky hair blowing all over the world, smiling with a grin that says "i meant to slide like this/ it's no problem at all" that would have been me. OMG. I am still laughing so hard about it... it was sheer ice and i could not turn the stupid cart and i just had to slide with my feet in the snow-boarder position and just went with it. HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Now i know what it must be like to snowboard (so, Carrie, even though you never got me to go w/ you and Billy last year... i at least got a feel for it today...). And i had two carts to do like that. So making it back up the slight incline was a laughing matter as well... but i figured if i trod on the snow-y parts, i'd make it a lot safer. Still funny though.

I had asked if someone wanted to come out there w/ me but since it was so windy, no one did and my mgr said it was ok if i went out alone (normally you are supposed to have 2 people go so it doesn't look like you're stealing.)

Second of all, brrr it's cold out there dude.

Third of all, I got my boss to tell me "good job!!!" like 3 or 4x today and that is a huge big deal. I finally got to work the whole day in receiving - returning broken crap to the vendors and we're so far behind on it. It'll take me a few more days to dig out of this hole but i got a big chunk of it done today and even swept. WHOO HOO.

Fourth of all, taco bell. Enough said. Made a run for the boarder.

Border?

Boreder?

Bohrdr?

Whatever.

Love the bell.

Fifth of all, i have to cut up my carmels and wrap them tonight and check out my work schedule. I'm off tomorrow. Notice how i was off last saturday, on sunday, off monday, on tuesday and off wednesday. That is cool!

Sixth of all, it is 99% sure that we are making the transition from morning crew to night-crew which is a huge big deal to me bc that was my idea all along and it is going to mean the difference between 30 off-hours for logistics to over 90 hours of dedicated time (when the store is not open) to work on stuff, i am so happy! That was a long sentence. I could have made it longer though. Hopefully this will really work out. I can't see why it wouldn't. Plus then it means i have most sundays off for church (but have to go in at like 7 p.m. and work until 3 a.m.) and also that i won't have to get up so early anymore and can sleep and get more done around home. At least that is the plan. My plan. my plan. "My evil plan to save the world/just you wait till it's unfurrled/ it will go down in hiz-to-reeeee" OK a little Five Iron Frenzy flash back there.

Seventh of all, i need to change out of these work clothes.

   [ posted  @ 1:08 PM | ]

Oh, Yay, i just have to brag that we are getting another small dump of snow and freezing rain and it may even cause school closures tomorrow... yay for MN weather. My prayer for a lot of snow sure worked so far this YEAR!

   [ posted  @ 4:23 PM | ]

Made the first batch of carmels. Dude that is a lot of stirring. grrrrr. Takes like an hour and a half to do that... LOL Why do i put myself thru it every year? Bc they taste so GOOD!

I've been listening to some old school Jars of Clay lately. I still hold that their first album was their best and they kinda fell off the map after that... But sometimes debut albums are like that.

That all started because I was thinking of the song "Love Song For a Savior" from back in '95 when i was working on this new bible study... the concept of "being in love with" God was kind of started with that song... after that you had this huge revolution of vineyard music and hillsongs and chris tomlin and passion conferences exploding everywhere. I can't say for sure that the song sparked that trend, but i have a feeling about that. Remember when the only praise and worship music was made by Maranatha! Music?

Yeah we've come a long way.

Donna asked me to come and speak again at Homeward Bound Theater Company on the worship topic... I will totally go if i get a Saturday free... They have day-long rehearsals and teaching then. And my week one's teaching would be right up their alley, she said. Homeward bound is a very intense theater organization. They do school programs on drugs and alcohol and sexual abstinence and 'Isolation' is their play about suicide. Really good stuff and it's all students. Anyways it is exciting to think about getting out there and speaking more. That's really my passion anyways.

GRR i thought i had to close tomorrow and it turns out i am supposed to be in at 5 a.m. Oh well. Only a few more weeks of getting up early like this. And working with the dorks.

   [ posted  @ 4:16 PM | ]

Literally i muttered under my breath as my feet trod the cramped walk ways of Cub foods "i hate this store..." Jesus never said anything about needing to love a grocery store. People yes. That stupid store, no. I had to go there bc i am making my world famous (ok, only famous in two states but whatever) soft'n'chewy carmels and had to get the supplies needed for that.

Donna, one of my mentors, met me for lunch at applebees today... i got the scoop on the old river of life crew... and lots has changed but then again nothing really changes there. Interesting things i heard... I won't repeat it.

It's my day off but i had to go into work for a leadership meeting at one. I am sooooooooo happy to report that my idea for a nightly stocking crew is going to take effect starting at the end of the month when Mike is done with his leave of absense for his new baby, and we'll be working 6 pm-2 a.m. (direct opposite of what we do now) and that means since the store closes at nine that we can get SO MUCH MORE stuff done. PLUS the biggest news is that it pretty much guarantees i will never have to work on sundays during the day, and that i can be both at jr. & sr. high and then we'll work an over night after that ... so i am so excited. it is perfect! Just what i wanted. And as far as what everyone says, it's a total-go, and that is a huge monster answer to prayer. It means i will hardly have to deal with stupid retarded customers anymore, and i can actually get my work done... yessssssssssssssssssss. And it means Sundays will be all with the kidlings and i'll still have wed. nights for Zones. I am thrilled.

Thrilled, i tell you!

OK bye.

   [ posted  @ 12:59 PM | ]

Psalm 51 from the Message Translation (you gotta get this Bible!)


1 Generous in love - God, give grace! Huge in mercy - wipe out my bad record. 2 Scrub away my guilt, soak out my sins in your laundry. 3 I know how bad I've been; my sins are staring me down. 4 You're the One I've violated, and you've seen it all, seen the full extent of my evil. You have all the facts before you; whatever you decide about me is fair. 5 I've been out of step with you for a long time, in the wrong since before I was born. 6 What you're after is truth from the inside out. Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life.

7 Soak me in your laundry and I'll come out clean, scrub me and I'll have a snow-white life. 8 Tune me in to foot-tapping songs, set these once-broken bones to dancing. 9 Don't look too close for blemishes, give me a clean bill of health. 10 God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life. 11 Don't throw me out with the trash, or fail to breathe holiness in me. 12 Bring me back from gray exile, put a fresh wind in my sails! 13 Give me a job teaching rebels your ways so the lost can find their way home.

14 Commute my death sentence, God, my salvation God, and I'll sing anthems to your life-giving ways. 15 Unbutton my lips, dear God; I'll let loose with your praise. 16 Going through the motions doesn't please you, a flawless performance is nothing to you. 17 I learned God-worship when my pride was shattered. Heart-shattered lives ready for love don't for a moment escape God's notice. 18 Make Zion the place you delight in, repair Jerusalem's broken-down walls. 19 Then you'll get real worship from us, acts of worship small and large, Including all the bulls they can heave onto your altar!

--DANG!--

   [ posted  @ 8:00 PM | ]

Yippidee Skipidee, we caught Sadam. I just want you all to know that i saw the press conference as it was originally taking place at like 6:30 this morning and was thrilled. And i thought --i-- was having a big hair day. Poor Sadam. Imagine.

So we praise God for that and like my pastor said today... it's good he's still alive bc maybe he'll find Jesus!

The only bad thing about church today (besides the fact that we sat 99% of the time and never got to sing one single song... huge let down... i was waaaay too wired to just sit there. Figity cidity...) was that eventually i had to leave. I realized as i was driving past the church on my way home and looking towards the highway that it would be a few more days till i got to see my peeps again and that made me really sad...

But the good news is that i have discovered a true diva-for-Jesus and her name is Liz and she's in 8th grade and she sings terrific-ly and it was just her and me singing today. Hannah played bass (her first time for us, and she did super duper great!) Steve was on lead guitar and Adam on drums. We really sounded good. One thing i've noticed is that we can rock the world during practice and then as soon as it's time to lead with all the kiddies in there, it changes and we don't rock as much. Feels different. Just weird. We'll have to talk about that. I hope Liz can start singing more. She really rocks. Plus she does this funny crazy thing with her hair/head and she flips around her head like a rock star w/out knowing she's doing it... but she's totally singing for God and it's so cool to stand next to her and PRAISE.

And finally Beth N. has said for sure she wants to start guitar lessons so i might give her one of mine to borrow so we can start soon. It's kind of funny bc her and me have talked about guitar lessons since like June i think... the very first conversation with her i totally remember bc i asked her name and she said it's Bethany but everyone calls her Beth, and then i asked her the silly question if she played guitar and she said no but she really really wanted to. And i said i should give her lessons and she got all excited... And every single time i see her since then we always talk about me giving her lessons but that she doesn't have a guitar bc her grandpa is in a polka band and bought her an accordian and wants her to play that first! haha!) I hope to get others maybe to learn all in one sitting (gotta watch the whole be-in-groups rule) and plus that would be way more fun. HMMMMM. I'll send out an email tonight. Ya never know. Maybe we could do a guitar clinic at the E.C.? Yeah. It may not be as easy to teach in a group though... one on one you can consentrate more on fine tuning things... well anyways. I wanted to get Hector's daughter started on lessons soon too so if this works i could just bring her along but finding a time when everyone's schedules works... that would be interesting. _______________wanna come?_______________

OK enough of that.

Survivor finale is on tonight but i am taping it so i can ff thru all the commercials.

And i sang Jesus songs all night at work, and told people about what my co-workers call the "Jesus Party Mix" (that is what Justin and Hector call my cd's and i don't care bc i think it's hilarious) with the band, and they have to just put up with me singing "birds in the sky/ sing their songs to you/ trees of the field lift their arms to you/ i wanna sing/ i wanna lift my arms to youuuuuu" (We did that song as an opener today. Love love love it.)

OK bye.

   [ posted  @ 6:09 PM | ]

And for those of you keeping score at home, now i'm tired enough to try to go to sleep. Got about 1/2 week's worth done on wk 3 bible study (wk 2 is still not done.)

And my mom sent this over and it's hilarious and you have to watch it bc i said so. Check out Pres. GW's dog Barney in this new video for Christmas.

   [ posted  @ 9:44 PM | ]

Oh crap. Long day ahead of me and i'm not tired and i need to get to sleep and i have all these thoughts in my head and don't want to go to sleep. I have to be up at 5:30 for church and it's late. I guess i can try to work a little more on the bible study. Why did i write this entry? Who cares. Go think about my big hair... It's better than THIS.

Why am i listening to P.Diddy? "I don't know what they want from me, it's like the more money we come across, the more problems we see..." KT change the song... dude.

   [ posted  @ 8:54 PM | ]

Yo Jones.
Well i got called into work tonight emergency... "bank deposit is not lining up." New manager doesn't know how to troubleshoot on the new system (he's coming from Burnsville where they have the old machines) and it was actually a simple problem but then i stayed with him after i fixed everything so he could get the payroll upload done and he had a very long day. With this Boise/OfficeMax merger, things are changing a lot. We had "friends and family" sales event today and i guess our sales were thru the roof and it was insane busy. I am so glad i didn't work. Of course tomorrow will be the same probably but at least "that" sale is over.

I think he was glad to see me. But dude i just looked in the mirror on my way home and holy big hair day. My hair. You have to understand. It just gets bigger and bigger. I can't believe it. Just big huge hair. Big. Monster hair. Monstor. How is that word spelled? But maybe that was why he was smiling. "Kt's hair just got here... wait. Where's kt? Oh she's under there somewhere. Just move the hair."

Can nothing quell the poof?

Well all week Steph would pop on msn and ask me one simple question (this is always her "lead-in".) She asks "What are you doing?"

And everyday, my answer has been the same... "I'm trying to find out the definition of what it means to have God be glorified in our lives." Because we are doing that song tomorrow by Chris Tomlin "be glorified" and i wanted to try to explain it bc i guarantee no 7th grade boy knows what "glorified" means. But now it is getting really late and i only found one good definition in the Message Bible from 1 Peter 4:11 so i'm going to use that. And my music sheets are done and copied and lo and behold, i hear now from Alyssa that she was ushering one section over from where we were and i never saw her. How can this be?

How can it be how can it be how can it be how can it be (**doing the dance from "Every Move I Make"**).

And since most of you have no idea who steph or alyssa or anyone else i mention is, let's just go back to discussing my immensly big hair. What can be done about it? Seriously. There is no real remedy. That is why i always wear it up because it drives me nuts at work and whatever and also it's big. Like right now. I almost feel like getting up and getting a ruler just to tell you how far i can get it to spaz out from my real scalp. Because i've done it and it can be made to be VERY big. I saw this one chick last week i can't remember where and she had monster big hair and it just seemed to fit her. But i don't want to be one of those people. I use all sorts of goop on it and spray the tar out of it and by the end of the day we are still talking afro city.

OK well at least i made myself laugh. But it is not a laughing matter. If you have nice straight hair that lays somewhat flat and you can do what you want then just be thankful. And, if you're me, learn your lesson. It's better to talk about your own hair, than ppl that ppl don't know.

Yeah.

But, for the one person who WILL get this...... _____________________ r-u going to the powerhouse on friday the 19th? I may be able to go... blog me._____________ **hugs**

   [ posted  @ 8:34 PM | ]

Man this day went by waaaay too fast. I am frustrated that i am not getting enough done on my days off. VERY FRUSTRATED. I sit down to work on my bible study for worship and get so sidetracked...

Well anyways the play was a super duper cool success and i loved how things came down from the ceiling and we had great seats and i saw Jake and Kyle and Heather and Steve and Joanna and Ashley and wait, wait wait... rumor is Alyssa was ushering BUT WHERE THE HECK WAS SHE???????? I DIDN'T SEE HER!!!!!!!!!! WHATEVER DUDES! Could have used a hug... hmm. Yeah.

It was good to see Israel again but as soon as the thing was over i wanted to get home so i declined an invite to dinner. (Well, he got lost on the way up there bc he said he was taking 494 from St. Paul and he took 694 so i had told him to go 169N when he should have gone south, and so he was in Anoka before he realized he was probably going the wrong way. )We still made it on time. He really liked the production. Holy cow, though you would think these people were professionals... I'm blessed to be part of such a super cool church.

Tonight i've been getting music ready for tomorrow... and then i got caught up reading people's blogs again [you read one, and then read their comments and then have to read the person's blog the comments came from and pretty soon you know waaaay too much about people that you will never probably meet...] after doing research for a mini teaching tomorrow on what it means to be glorified and then steph and i did a 2 hour chat on msn in the middle of all that... It's frustrating to me that she lives just a few blocks up the street from me and i have not seen her since July. Yet we chat online all the time. Oh well. I stay in one place. The rest of you just have to catch up.

And friday's episode of Joan of Arcadia was WHOOOOOOOOOOLLLY great! dang! I gotta buy that series on dvd if it comes out because it would make a great bible study. There ---is--- something good on tv anymore.

   [ posted  @ 6:39 PM | ]

Whew. Didn't expect to stay at work this long tonight. But i did. Ambro (my new copymax supervisor) wanted to get caught up on some color calendars and i certainly never run out of things to do... so we stayed till about midnight... I finished Aisle 8 finally... something i've been tinkering with all week. Receiving still has a lot of freight left in it. Not a lot gets done when i am not there in the morning to push the crew.

I got a huuuuuuuge pay check today which i praise God for. Over 20 hours of overtime plus holiday pay... very nice. We don't get a bonus this yr, bc we didn't pass inventory. But this will do.

I felt like singing all day long... and i couldn't. I have this need to be super loud. And i couldn't. I got some weird looks from ppl bc i was singing about Jesus but i didn't care. And i worked on treating people with a little more respect today and it seemed to work. But, it is WORK.

   [ posted  @ 10:29 PM | ]

I didn't get to see the last like 15 minutes of Survivor bc the sound went out on the tape i used to record it. Well actually i got to SEE it but my closed captioning doesn't work well so i could only make out about 3 of every 10 words said. But i am glad the girls got rid of Burton.

It's pay day.
It's pay day.
Lift up your hands and dance around
Because it's pay day.

I was up laaate last night playing guitar (quietly) to some stuff i downloaded off WinMx... found a Jars of Clay remake of a Rich Mullins tune. It's hard to be quiet when i want to sing REALLY loud. But these walls here are very thin. One day i could hear my neighbors three doors down thru my own door as i sat on my couch. They must have had a lot of people over. Lots of voices.

I have to work until close tonight and then tomorrow me and Israel are going to IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE at my church at the 2p.m. showing. It's a musical and it's this huge big deal and i've had tickets for months bc i am so excited about going. (And it will be fun to see him again.)

My poor green plant. I didn't give it enough light in the beginning of the week. It's all droopy. I still think it's a miracle that thing is still alive. If ever there was a plant killer, that would be me.

   [ posted  @ 8:09 AM | ]

If i had not known better, wouldn't this sound like it was written by a believer?

Clocks, by ColdPlay

Lights go out and I can't be saved
Tides that I tried to swim against
Have brought me down upon my knees
Oh, I beg, I beg and plead, singing

Come out of things unsaid
Shoot an apple off my head
And a trouble that can't be named
Tigers waiting to be tamed, singing

You are
You are

Confusion never stops
Closing walls and ticking clocks
Gonna come back and take you home
I could not stop but you now know, singing

Come out upon my seas,
Cursed missed opportunities
Am I a part of the cure?
Or am I part of the disease?, singing

You are, you are, you are
You are, you are, you are

And nothing else compares
And nothing else compares
And nothing else compares

You are
You are

Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go

   [ posted  @ 7:06 PM | ]

Three loads of laundry, 2 cups of coffee (home brewed this time, nocash=nocaribouforyou) and a ton of wrapped presents later, i return to this blogger entry screen. Still listening to Chris Rice. I usually would have Christmas music on, but the problem is that i am getting burned out on it bc we have it playing @ work and well, yeah. It's enough. We have a radio station here that plays nothing but Christmas music starting the day after Thanksgiving. I think they must make a killing in advertizing bc everywhere you go, they are playing that station... normally it's an oldie's station.

I'm not ambitious enough to start filling out cards though. No. Not tonight.

   [ posted  @ 6:48 PM | ]

KT did a heck of a lot of shopping today. Let's see. How many stores did i walk in? 1, 2 (if you include the drive thru of Arby's), 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 maybe ten stores or more. I had a blast. It's weird for me because i usually hate shopping. But when i'm going for Christmas stuff it's a little different. And i had no idea what i was going for but still managed to find just about everything i needed to get for ppl. And i got myself a bunch of stuff too. That is not against the rules. I asked two different clerks in two different stores.

I got some new b&wVans shoes that i've been wanting but they didn't have my half size... so i had to settle for something just a teensy winsie bit too big. Why do i do that? I should have just came home and ordered them. Oh well.

Now my apartment is a disaster area! Presents everywhere. I hate the messiness but not quite enough to get up and clean it yet. I will do that tonight, and then start wrapping stuff and i got my xmas cards and i think i'll try to start those tonight too. I have a sneaking suspicion my family all are going to get the same cards again this year. Last year my sis Terri and i bought the same ones. Too funny.

And more good news... Tentmakers asked me to lead singing (not "worship" haha) at a Youth Ministry Institute training on Feb. 7th somewhere in the Twin Cities here. I did that last year and everyone had a blast and Laura wanted me to come back right away. They said if there was a way to fly me out to the other trainings (Cincinatti, North Dakota, etc.) they would want to do that. I just hope i can get off work for it, because another weekend in Feb. is the Sacred Conference at church and i for sure am going to that too. It would be cool to sing in Cincinatti so i could end with screaming into the microphone "THANK YOU CINCINATTI! GOOD NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!" Just like i do at work. It must be weird to live in a city that is called "sin" twice in it's name. Hmm.

All i gotta say is that some of you who read this are getting SUPER COOL Christmas gifts. OMG!

Listening to Chris Rice.

   [ posted  @ 2:32 PM | ]

I love the Message Bible. I bought myself one for Christmas and it should arrive in the mail soon... but here's Ps. 63. Wild!


1 God - you're my God! I can't get enough of you! I've worked up such hunger and thirst for God, traveling across dry and weary deserts. 2 So here I am in the place of worship, eyes open, drinking in your strength and glory.

3 In your generous love I am really living at last! My lips brim praises like fountains. 4 I bless you every time I take a breath; My arms wave like banners of praise to you. 5 I eat my fill of prime rib and gravy; I smack my lips. It's time to shout praises! 6 If I'm sleepless at midnight, I spend the hours in grateful reflection.

7 Because you've always stood up for me, I'm free to run and play. 8 I hold on to you for dear life, and you hold me steady as a post. 9 Those who are out to get me are marked for doom, marked for death, bound for hell. 10 They'll die violent deaths; jackals will tear them limb from limb. 11 But the king is glad in God; his true friends spread the joy, While small-minded gossips are gagged for good.

   [ posted  @ 8:23 PM | ]

I'm working on week two... "Undignified" for my worship series. But i just realized that in my last entry i said that i chew the light blue pack of gum. I don't actually

chew

the pack of gum. First of all, that paper would not taste right. I would probably gag. And think of all that foil and gum in a wad in your mouth. Not pleasant.

I just chew the actual gum part (which grows on a tree, thank you very much) that comes from inside the foil.

   [ posted  @ 8:20 PM | ]

Zone was super cool tonight. Dang i am going to miss that group... But i get so attatched to anyone and any group so i know i will transition "out" ok too. The worship-activity went even better than i thought it would. I didn't have to explain it 60 times (only like one time which was great) and the responses were very honest and genuine. wow!

ok i guess i can spit out my gum now. I am always chewing gum. Always. I always chew the Wrigley's EXTRA light blue pack. Love that stuff.

And it really does last extra extra long.

accept no substitutes.

   [ posted  @ 7:37 PM | ]

Some people smoke crack.
My high is working with teenagers.

Thank you. I thought that one up myself.

Is it 6:00 yet? Can i leave yet????? I wait for Wednesdays all weeeeeeeeek!

Also, today, today i was reaming out one of my associates... doing big arm and hand gestures... eyes wide, meeaaaan kt was out in full force. I showed her how she was totally not doing anything i asked her by filling the shelves. I reached up and grabbed an envelope off the top filler shelf and placed it on the correct shelf, stepped back, and pointed it out. Gee was that so hard??? And what does she say to me?

She says, "Well, I'm sorry that i'm not as tall as you." [Implying that she couldn't just reach up and grab it, after i told her she needs to have the ladder with her when she does this...]

And here's the hollywood movie moment for today ... this is a line i came up with all by myself: "I didn't ask you to be tall, and i didn't ask you to be sorry. I asked you to get it right. Now get it right!" And i walked off.

I rule. I am the boss. I am the BOSS.

Anyways, back to working with teens. I have my worship idea planned out. Check this out. Instead of singing (because my teaching is that worship does not equal music!!!) tonight we are going to write progressive psalms. I have starter sheets. On the top of each sheet is the beginning of a sentence. Each person will start off with one blank sheet and it's starter sentence and add on to the sentence, and then pass it on to the next person. By the time it makes it around the room thru our 10+ people in the group, we will have 10+ completed hymns. IT IS GOING TO BE COOL!

Here are the starter sentences (if you want to borrow this for your group, please do so.)

GOD IS...

WITH JESUS IN MY LIFE...

LORD, I'VE BEEN MEANING TO TELL YOU...

GOD'S LOVE AMAZES ME BECAUSE...

THE HOLY SPIRIT...

ONE AREA OF MY LIFE I PRAY FOR GOD'S HELP IN IS...

AN ATTRIBUTE OF GOD I WANT MORE OF IN MY LIFE IS...

WHEN I REFLECT UPON THE TENDER MERCIES OF GOD, IT CAUSES ME TO...

HERE'S THE TRUTH... (that one ought to get some fun responses...)

LORD JESUS CHRIST, I AM SORRY FOR...

MY HUMANITY DEMANDS DEPENDANCE UPON THE ROCK OF MY SALVATION. A NEED IN MY LIFE THAT I WANT TO ASK GOD TO PROVIDE IS...

IF I COULD WHISPER IN GOD'S EAR TONIGHT, I'D CRAWL UP IN HIS LAP AND SAY...



I'll of course let you know how to it turns out. Hopefully they'll "get" it. I am so glad tomorrow is my day off. I hope to be up late working on teaching stuff.

   [ posted  @ 3:33 PM | ]

Christmas presents for the fam are starting to rollllllllll in ! (I shop on line bc i am afraid of people and retail stores, and hate to leave my couch.) I like so far what came! Wish i could tell you what the stuff is. But tomorrow will have to be my big shopping day. I may not get another opportunity to go out. and now i just realized i'm going to have to put everything on plastic bc i don't get paid until friday and i've already had to tap my savings to pay bills this month. Hmm. Something's not adding up.

I just got off the phone with Deb, my youth pastor's wife. I found out something i didn't know... i had called to ask if Hannah (her kid) could play bass for us on Sunday morning, because Heather will be sleeping due to the late Christmas play performance the night before. (I had forgot about this bc Heather called when i was deep in sleep on Monday night at the wee hour of like 9:00 p.m. and said she couldn't make it... it was all like a dream to me. I probably sounded like a total dork.) ANYWAYS. What i found out was that i am considered un-paid staff. WOW. I had not known that. I am in a core of 10 people they consider on staff, but un-paid. Dude. That is the coolest thing! She had told me that bc i was invited to a staff xmas party next Tuesday (but i have to work grr) and it's funny bc i was wondering why i got that invitation, and it was not on the ministry calendar they hand out to everyone. Well, now i know. She said i'm really a key person. A weird way to find that out... but it's all coming together. KT is happy again.

Well, i was happy before.

The roads are dry and clean... i drove them just to make sure. So i'm good to go to Zone tonight. Can't waiiiit. I have an alternate plan for worship. No music tonight. Well actually i don't have a plan but i'm going to think of one, and when i think of something it's always really cool.

Because, i am the ORACLE.

   [ posted  @ 2:39 PM | ]

DUUUUUUUUUUUUDE snow! So much snow. Schools were even cancelled, not just delayed. And even shakopee closed down the schools. That is so rare! (I've noticed that MN schools are a lot less quick to cancel school than they are in Wisconsin, and the road are worse here for some reason... )

Loser pat never showed up to work. Got very little done. The truck is huge... 800 pieces is a lot for our little receiving hall to hold. And i had my two immigrants working on it... They were so cold. Me: i go out into the black of night with nothing but my blue polo and t-shirt on... (well and pants and shoes of course) to take out garbage and shovel snow. We decided as a management team that if i get sick, since St. Francis (hospital) is right across the street, we'll just hook me up with a walkie talkie and my laptop can be wireless and i'll still be able to run the store from there. Bc really, i'm the real boss.

I am going to post my sister Amy (the cool one)'s e-mail today with out her permission bc it made me laugh so hard!

Now, keep in mind, she and the rest of my family live in NE Wisconsin, where i don't think they've had 2 snowflakes fall this whole year. They keep getting rain!!!!! And i'm over here in snow country just with a fresh foot of snow and all the snow-mobilers are out having the best day... and she writes this:

Oh yes........ After hours upon hours of the T.V. weather stations telling us over and over again that we were to get 5-10 inches of snow.....weather reporters standing in front of the salt pile at the local highway station, weather men in a panic over the big snow storm "Abrahms".... I woke up this morning, ran to the kitchen to look out and what did I see? Why beautiful rain! It looks so nice outside, everything wet and dreary looking. Trees dripping with moisture. Extension cords exposed on the ground to the outside lights that are hung. Green grass still showing, not knowing if they should continue to grow or not. Ahhh yes, now not let us forget about the hard patter of rain drops on my windows. It is such a site to see. I so feel like putting on Christmas music and baking Christmas cookies. It just makes me want to sit in front of the fire with a cup of hot chocolate and put the kids snow pants on and coat so they can go outside and hold there umbrellas and run through the rain puddles and dodge the dog crap that is still there. AAAaaaaaahhhhh yes........ what a beautiful site to see. Makes you want to move to MINNESOTA.......AT LEAST THEY HAVE SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My sister Amy is cool.

   [ posted  @ 1:25 PM | ]

Hey world, :)

Loser pat now has my cell phone number so he can call me and tell me he's not going to be on time. And this morning, he called to say he's "snowed in." I have my doubts about that but then again i have underground parking so who knows. That means i have an extra hour here to work on my teaching stuff or maybe try to get some more z's. I don't know if the Z's are going to work because i'm up and excited and thinking and planning and such silliness today already. But i held off on coffee until i get to work. This way i might be able to get a big cup over at the "Say When" coffee shop over by the store. (Caribou doesn't open early enough.)

I should not call him
"loser pat."
He's not really a loser. But then again you shall know them by their fruits. haha.

I hope the roads clear up because i want to get to Zone tonight. Some schools are delayed and/or closed today! I think it is still kind of snowing out there.

   [ posted  @ 2:39 AM | ]

Holy purge of the pent-up soul!

I got my first week of teaching all written out. It's waaaaaaaaaay too long. I don't know how i'm going to trim it, because i'm chatty enough as it is, and i am asking for quite a bit of discussion and between the leaders and students i know there are going to be major rabbits that are chased.

Here's one that is bound to come up, always throws off a group

"what about speaking in tongues, and what about people falling over on the floor?"
hhaaaaa!
bring it on! I will not be sidetracked!

I'm all jittery and fluttery and peanut-buttery (well not that last one) and this time it's not caffiene. It's just that i'm getting really excited about being in the teacher's seat again and seeing the new light click on for these students.

Actually i'm so worn out and exhausted and if it was not for my arms getting sore from typing, i would probably try to start up another chapter. But i won't.

   [ posted  @ 6:44 PM | ]

OMG props to Ross&Kel's blog, i found this hilarious site. I can't imagine what the circumstances were that made this video but it's a must-see! i laughed so hard at the off-key singing and harmony LOL

gay boyfriend

p.s. i've never seen such a snappy looking blog as Ross&Kel's, (i don't know these people but i'm hooked on reading up on their family and kelly takes the BEST photos i have ever seen of everyday life. It's unreal... if i ever get married i'm flying her in to do the pix bc they are so non-traditional yet so well done!!! surf their site!)

   [ posted  @ 3:39 PM | ]

SNOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! We are getting more snow more snow more snow.

Here's my story.

I left early for work (4:40 a.m.) bc me and the boss man were going to whip thru things and start wreaking havock on displaced merchandise, and as i was bounding down the stairway, i came to the first floor, where there is a tiny window that looks to the outside. I saw one little snow flake fall out of the corner of my eye, and then freaked out and looked out the window and there, the ground was all white! WHOO HOO! I jumped up and down and did a dance and pumped my fists in the air and said a big YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS and was laughing all the way to my car. It was bound to be a much better day than yesterday.

And it was. I got so much done. I got huge smiles and hand shakes from my new manager, and Izzy was bragging about me which felt really nice. He REAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMED out our morning crew for like 15 minutes straight... i do it better, but he did great too... they were all late today (loser pat was 45 min. late) and he said if any one of them are late again for any reason it's a write up. And believe me, i have my retractable pen exposed so i can write them up quicker than you can say "office max sucks" !!!!!!!

POWER HUNGRY.

But i got another stupid speech about having a lot less overtime. So i just laugh at them. You ask me to do all this crap no one else is trained to do and then tell me i can't do it bc i can't stay late. I extended my hands in the "W" shape and then Izzy did this mean thing that is a the equivalent of the L-on-the-forehead and the other hand making a mean gesture to that L... bad bad.

And i got to shovel (i love to shovel snow) out back by our receiving dock... a few times today and my UPS driver slipped on the icy patch back there and fell flat on face i guess... i hope he was OK... he was all covered in snow (i met with him after he had already got up...) oops. Gee we could get sued for that. So i had loser pat find me some salt in the front entry way so i could get that area to be safer.

OK

then since i couldn't stay super late (and i got out of having to go to Edina for some stupid training... which was great bc i didn't want to drive in the snow) i went to get my hair trimmed and me and my hair cutter chick were laughing so hard sharing stories about work. We have similar experiences with customers lined up at the doors before the store opens, and people always calling to ask when you open or close... lol all these pet peeves. I was proud of myself bc i was more chatty than i normally am (being so introverted, you know ahem) and i made her laugh.

Pastor Aaron LOVES my "more than a song" ideas for the teaching i'll be doing @ Zones... but he's having me switch out homes for my first one. I'll start with the other sophomore group on Jan. 7 so that i can have a solid SWITCH of experiences, instead of staying in my current bible study group with no break. He's right. I do need that. I am having a spaz fest right now because i have this insane idea to make a multi-media cd for everyone who i teach, when the weeks are over with, so they can review the bible studies and stuff... i would use Word Perfect's show-on-the-go feature from PRESENTATION (a mockup of power point, easier to use and it will work on any computer! I couldn't copy music on there, but the presentations and bible study notes, i could. Hmmm. I don't know if i have enough time to do that... the actual cd's aren't a problem bc they are always FREE AFTER REBATE !!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA But i like to get stuff in their hands and let them have something to do as followup.

Well i'll think about that. I just am running out of time real fast.

   [ posted  @ 3:26 PM | ]

OK i'm lightening up a bit... been working on music for sunday (yes, already!) and have been on the phone most of the night with the kidlings trying to figure out who is singing if the christmas play ppl are not going to be there... liz and hannah said they would sing. Go team! And i am working on music we haven't done before like that song about "birds of the sky sing their songs to You" that i love from when i was a little kid and we learned at planet wisdom (and i heard they did it last night at SunZone, go team!) and i want to teach that to jr. high.

But i am so tired and i should probably go to bed soon. Tomorrow is going to be another long stupid day :)

   [ posted  @ 5:20 PM | ]

Work... sucks.

Now they're taking my xmas vacation time away from me. It means i get to be home for a big day and then have to come back to work an overnight. It means i'll be with my family a whopping two days. I had an exhausting day and had that crushing blow laid on me after i'd been there for 10 hours and i had so much left to do... I just broke down and cried when i got to my desk back in receiving. Now i'm emotionally drained ... i get no thanks, no appreciation. Just more work piled on me. After 12 hours, i piled up all my paperwork in a manilla folder, tucked it on the make-shift filing system i made, slid it under the desk, and walked out.

If it's any consolation, [which it is to me] my new manager has been with the company 7 years and this is his 4th store, and he said he's never seen a store so odd and so strange... how we can't get ahead, and how the traffic flow works, and how we are never organized even though on paper and in theory it should work out. I decided either a witch put a hex on us, or we're located on an indian burial mound. Nothing is working out...

It doesn't look like i'll be getting the sundays off that i wanted either, but he said it would be ok if i just came in at 2 or when i get done with church. But i won't hold my breath... i'm sure they'll find a way to screw me on that too.

After the new year, i'm going to change my blog title to "I HATE MY JOB."

   [ posted  @ 3:51 PM | ]

epiphany... A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

too much expresso today... i'm up waaaay too late again, having to work at 5 a.m. ... but i got chatting w/ steph and amber on MSN and then i was working on my series on worship between conversations... Steph and i discovered a cool (stupid) feature of MSN... the WHITEBOARD! It allows you to draw together on the same drawing pad... it was crazy hilarious. Thank God for students in my life... even ones that i don't go to church with anymore... Whew.

here's a brain storm!

The title of the series will be
“MORE THAN A SONG”

A Five Week Series on worship [those of you who don't know, the weeks are named after song titles we sing a lot at youth group...]

1. EVERYDAY
Ro 12:1 - (Message transl.)
So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life - your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life - and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.

2. UNDIGNIFIED
2 Sam. 6:20
David returned home to bless his family. Michal, Saul's daughter, came out to greet him: "How wonderfully the king has distinguished himself today - exposing himself to the eyes of the servants' maids like some burlesque street dancer!" 21 David replied to Michal, "In God's presence I'll dance all I want! He chose me over your father and the rest of our family and made me prince over God's people, over Israel. Oh yes, I'll dance to God's glory 22 - more recklessly even than this. And as far as I'm concerned . . . I'll gladly look like a fool . . . but among these maids you're so worried about, I'll be honored no end."

3. OUR LOVE IS LOUD
Mt 22:37 -
Jesus said, "'Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.'

4. HEART OF WORSHIP
15:22
Then Samuel said, Do you think all God wants are sacrifices - empty rituals just for show? He wants you to listen to him! Plain listening is the thing, not staging a lavish religious production.

5. ENOUGH
Isa. 58:11
I will always show you where to go. I'll give you a full life in the emptiest of places - firm muscles, strong bones. You'll be like a well-watered garden, a gurgling spring that never runs dry.
Psalm 145:16
When you open your hand, you satisfy the hunger and thirst of every living thing.

ok so i am super duper crazy excited about this series... it all makes sense to me now, so i guess it's good i stayed up and got some inspiration... wow. The series is called "more than a song" from a line in the song "heart of worship" ("I'll bring you more than a song/ for a song in itself/ is not what you have required/ you search much deeper with in/ thru the way things appear/ you're looking into my heart... i'm coming b ack to the heart of worship/ and it's all about you, it's all about you jesus/ i'm sorry lord for the thing i've made it/ when it's all about you... all about you")

But the title will lend itself for us to study the words of these songs that have become really too familiar to us, and study scripture surrounding it. and expand it to lifestyle worship... holy cow batman i am so excited about it. but i need to be sleepy and tired. I will be dying to get home tomorrow so i can start throwing slides together if i am going to be putting this on presenation on my laptop... and bringing it with me. holy cow. :)

   [ posted  @ 9:02 PM | ]

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