Friday, January 30, 2004  

I've talked about this before, but here we go again...

This week's Friday Five (a half hour late.)

You have just won one million dollars:

1. Who do you call first?
This is a toss up. My first instinct is my parents. My next thought is to call work and tell them where they can put their data integrity, sales forecasts, payroll headaches, profit and loss statements, shrink goals, and all the other crap... No use for a two week's notice. You can all just go to... church! HA!

2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself?
Everything on my wish list seems SO TRIVIAL compared to having a million bucks. No it doesn't solve all of life's problems but yeah who would pass it up? I am sitting here thinking what WOULD i buy first for me? This sounds trite but i'd probably go get a new car... I really want one LOL Something with the biggest glass-breaking speakers and subwoofers and one that won't die on me in cold weather...

3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else?
I have -NO- idea here. That is why my comment section is for... what does everyone WANT?!

4. Do you give any away? If yes, to whom?
Yeah i tithe on all my income so 10-20% is going to a combo of church, world missions, non-profits and the "KT For World and Universe SUPERSTAR RULER AND MASTER" fund - to help feed starving children Taco Bell and McDonalds.

5. Do you invest any? If so, how?
No idea on that. I am sure i'd invest ? Real estate? Property for myself? Is that an investment? I don't put a lot of faith in the stock market with Osama still out 'dare (gramma Clair shout outs "hi-dare, hi-dare!") but i would have to consult with my financial planner about that. I'm sure my dad would have something to say about that.

I
would
like
to
have
a
million
dollars
please.
thanks.

   [ posted  @ 10:32 PM | ]

VH1's new show "Bands Re-United" is a HIT! Wow... Definitely worth checking out if you haven't seen it yet... I think i've seen all but one episode (they run re-runs all weekend long, it seems) and it really makes me think about the different ppl i've played music in the past and my 1st youth praise team @ Mt. Zion and what kind of experiences a band goes thru. Even some of the road trips we took - Indiana, South Dakota come to mind... Wow.

As far as the band i'm currently with haha. We had a "night." It will be memorable for me but not for as many good reasons as challenges. Reminds me that i do these things as an offering to God and not for myself. Reminds me that He's in control; not me.

I brought a lot of music that they "know" and that i am learning. I wanted them to help teach me these songs. That was my first mistake. They don't know how to teach me because they are only used to following... And if i want to learn the music, i'm going to have to spend the money i don't have to go buy the CD's and learn it on my own and then go over the stuff in rehearsals. Well, OK i have to admit i was being A LITTLE manipulative about the whole thing bc i did have a point to prove to them... that some of this music needs to be changed before we can do it -- and i am not sure i succeeded in that.

If there's one thing that scares me working with teens, it is the danger of seeing them be 15 or 16 and already stuck in a rut... unwilling to learn grow bend or change. Musically i'm working with some really talented kids... some are taking instrument or voice lessons; some are not. Some of them are really flexible and can adapt to whatever i throw at them. So i've got the war of those who think they are better bc they have a voice coach over another student who is talented on her own without needing a coach... And all the bickering that comes with the jealousy and drama of that scene. Some students are really "stuck." They play one thing, one way, only that way... and don't want to learn any variation on it. Dude when you're 15, that's not a good time to become that way when it comes to music.

[Basically the problem was they want to do songs in certain keys bc they know guitar licks in that key only for that song, but the songs are way out of my voice range and anyone else's to sing that high so i won't do the song unless we drop the key.]

I don't know what i would have done if i did not take electric guitar lessons from this guy named Peter. I suck so bad at lead and electric guitar. But it gave me a frame work to work with. Background knowledge. He broadened my scope of music beyond just folk and rock into blues and that really made a difference now that i look at it. I am trying to come up with a way to teach about worship but also about music... without lording it over them or being mean and unbearable bc no one is going to want to come if i just lay down the law and tell them it's my way or no way.

And I don't know what i would play like today if i had not spent 4 years with Pastor Ed and learning from his "style" and his idiosyncrasies - things that drove me nuts about his leading or style actually HELPED me be better and learn and grow. Sometimes we had PAINFUL rehearsals. So frustrating. I couldn't STAND some of the songs he wanted to do. I hated some of the keys he played in, not because i couldn't sing it (my primary part of that worship team was acoustic guitar and back up harmony) but because it was DIFFERENT than how i wanted to do it. He would take songs off of a Hillsongs CD and turn them country and it drove me NUTS. But i learned a lot just by chilling out and going with the flow.

Tonight i'm just reflecting on all this because i have to remind myself that 10 years ago (and even 10 minutes ago) i thought i knew it all. I KNEW i knew it all... and that is just about the stupidest thing a person can say about themselves. And some of these kids are still needing to be broken and taught correctly just like i had to go thru those hard times too. I am just trying to come up with a creative way to tell them what i need them to do and know... so that we sound even better than we already do.

But i've focused my prayers on a few consentrated areas now and i'll look for those results... Hopefully we won't lose anybuddy!

Aside from all that deep-thought schtuff, i had a ton of fun @ The Powerhouse and am sad that January is now almost behind us. This year is already blowing by. Ouch.

   [ posted  @ 10:11 PM | ]

Nightmare alley at work... omg. Put away that stupid truck for 12 hours straight only to have Mike decide to scan how many things we are out of (that's about a 3 hour job) and dump ALL THE EMPTY BOXES on pallets all over receiving and then we just leave. GRRR! Why finish the whole thing and then not clean up? I was so mad. My method is to crush boxes as you go so you are not left with a 2 hour clean up job. His way is to put the stuff away and throw the boxes EVERYWHERE and clean up at the end. The only problem with that is, he doesn't clean it up. He just dumps it. So we'll get yelled at for this! I decided to put up the over-stock bc that is the thing i really DIDN'T want to do... and i was all trying ito be a servant like Jesus would so i picked the thing i least wanted to do, hoping Mike would take the easy job and just go crush boxes. Instead, yeah it didn't happen that way. So i sulked the whole time instead of having a good attitude. Way to blow a great week of work.

But it's just a weird situation bc i could never tell him what to do. Even though i am the supervisor... he used to be my boss and he still says what goes. I could go on and on about this but i am stewing over it and won't go on about it bc there is nothing i can do now to change it. GRRRRRRRRR. Oh yeah and we had to listen to the Lickin'Barf LIVE CD. I abhor the fact that i memorize these stupid songs by default. LOL

Then the other thing that set my day off on a not so good note is that i woke up to find out the cable was out. Which means a) no Guiding Light and Ellen and b) NO INTERNET! I was going crazy! I could only get online for like 20 min. before i had to leave for work. I needed to access stuff for getting music ready for tomorrow and now i'm waaaaay behind. I almost feel like not having practice bc i have nothing ready. But that's just the little bit of a perfectionist that's left in me... We'll still rock and roll don't worry.

I know i'll be up for a few hours trying to get it straightened out - writing up the music and picking which key the stuff is played in but i can't be loud bc everyone here is still sleeping. GRRR. LOL But -I- won't be able to sleep if i don't get something accomplished.

OK well i am sorry to rant and rave here... No, actually I'm not. :) I feel a little better getting this out of my system.

   [ posted  @ 3:51 AM | ]

Crowded house tonight @ zone. I counted 21 people down there. I think it went "ok" -- Spencer and Geoff (gottaloveem) could not stop talking and horsing around... and it is very hard to talk when they are going nuts... I lost my train of thought like 100x and we got started late and oh well. I don't know what to make of it at all... BUT i just leave it to God since that's who i did it for anyways.

OMG i just found out the most awesome super duper coolest news... Two of the students i worked with when i was in college doing jr. high ministry @ Mt. Zion are in full time missions now! Katie went to work with YWAM in China, and Joel is in Mexico with YWAM too! HOLY CRAP! That just thrills me to pieces. I saw my old roomie Danni on line tonight and she filled me in bc she was able to visit Mt.Zion in December ... and said Katie was up singing on the worship team and all this stuff. I can't believe those little kids are now out of high school! It doesn't make me feel old at all, but it does make me so excited to know that we helped PLANT THAT FRUIT and now it's growing all over the place.

Actually there are a few other students we worked with there too who are in ministry now that i think about it... Libby went to work with YWAM as well. WOW.

WOW.

Well this is what it's all about... really i never realized it but the first generation of my ministry is spreading it's wings... and i could not be happier!

   [ posted  @ 11:41 PM | ]

Only --i-- could screw up pasta-roni. 2x. Stuuupid.

Work called and the truck that was supposed to come today won't be here till tomorrow morning which means we'll be working a very short night tonight. Maybe just a few hours bc we are going to have to work 6 p.m. until like 6 a.m. tomorrow. That is OK with me.

Wouldn't it be weird if work really did call me? Work can't call me. Someone FROM work called me. Just thought i should be clear about that.

OMG i have nothing to say. Need to go see if the pastaaaa turned out otherwise someone's gotta run to fast food. And it's like -10 outside. So, that would mean i should take the car.

   [ posted  @ 3:21 PM | ]

Heeeyyyyyyy yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

My sis-in-law Tracy has a blog now! LOL Let the revolution roll on! I put a link up on the side there. Go check it out and keep tabs on her for me ok ?

Wow i was in a super good mood today (better than yesterday - i was sorta crabby). Mike and i got a lot done @ the store and even took out a mountain-load of garbage in the freezing cold... which was actually invigorating and then we left and i had to go fill up my car and buy communion eats for tomorrow's Zone lesson. I am SO EXCITED about this lesson... I don't know that i'm going to be able to sleep well...

I was thinking about this tonight a lot and i don't recall ever doing communion on my own... Maybe i did and i don't remember, but i usually was with another pastor or something when or if i served communion. Tomorrow i actually am not serving it but the zone leaders will... but i set up the service and selected the scriptures and wrote the thing out. It was strange buying the bread at Cub (open 24 hours; "i hate my cub" but i've been there two nights in a row after work gag puke gag barf). Anyways i was saying that it was strange buying the bread bc i didn't know what kind to get... do you get flat bread since the Jews ate stuff that was not leavened for the passover meal... or do you get something that you can tear apart, signifying how Christ's body was brutally beaten and torn apart? Or do i get something off the wall like i've heard of people eating donuts and milk - to break tradition and ??? Do i get a long loaf like french bread or a round one like Hawaiian or Sourdough ? I'm standing there pacing back and forth in the bakery and one of the baker ladies asked if i needed help.

And i laughed and i said "no we're having communion tomorrow and i just don't know which one to get."

She laughed and said i'll just know it when i see it... And i should have said "which of your breads best represent the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, Creator of the Universe, Guy with the Master Plan, Lover of our Souls, and Redeemer of Mankind?"

But i selected a long French loaf that's going to have to be torn apart... We'll make it work. And traditional Welch's 100% grape juice bc that stuff rocks.

That way we'll get a big chunk of bread and a cup of juice. Sometimes i get mad that we reduce communion to a tiny crumb of bread and a small drop of juice, when really it was a MEAL in the 1st Century church... It hardly gives you time to THINK about what is going on when you are taking the two swallows required to gulp down the symbols in church... Before you know it, it's over. I wanted the students to CHEW on this sacred fact... that you know, Jesus loved us so much He gave it ALL.

Wow. Really jazzes me up. Can't wait to get there.

It's my last week with this group... I am sad. Barely enough time to get to know any of them... One short month. I will HAVE to start going to SunZones (tired or not) on Sunday night to see them bc i am going to have to check up on them. Gosh i wish i lived closer... want to go out to the movies with them, out to eat, live life together... mentor by living life together... OK enough Bonhoeffer for tonight.

   [ posted  @ 1:41 AM | ]

Making PIZZZZZZZZA. Frozen Pizza. Food of the gods.

Highlight of my night... this just happened about an hour ago. This will either make you laugh with glee or scrunch up your face and and worry about my inappropriate sense of humor...

So i was working in my favorite aisle. That's aisle 9, file folders. I made my peace with that aisle and really like it now. I was purging all the overstock and Mike's cd ran out. I think we were listening to some DC Talk thing i don't know (not a big DCT fan here.) When the music shuts off, it is an automatic unconscious thing for me to start either singing, humming, or whistling. Or muttering or talking to myself or SOMETHING audible bc if i can avoid it, i hate silence. Even right now i am satisfied to hear my fingers clacking on the keys. Is Clacking a word? Who cares...

OK anyways, I was doing my "eeeeeee-teeeeeeee / Ellllleeeeeee-aaaaaaaahhhht" impression from E.T. scene where E.T. is really sick and dying, and Elliot is in bed next to him and is also dying and their voices are all like airy and stuff. And i was doing this, increasingly getting louder and louder. Then i moved up from aisle nine to get some more file folders from a stack-out in aisle six. Still making these hideous noises. Still no music is on, so as i am sucking the air in as i am making the eeeeeeeeee-teeeeeeeeee sound, Mike comes whipping around the corner from the front of the store with this really concerned look on his face... HAHAHAHA And i just smiled and waved, and i could see the relief-look fall all over him... he was probably thinking i was gasping for breath or something but when i smiled then he knew i was not really dying.

OK that was funny to me anyways... I guess you have to know Mike. This guy - nothing phases him. :) So for me to get him stirred up... that was cool. But i never said anything after that about it to him. I changed my song to "These are the People in Your Neighborhood" from Seseme Street and got the song stuck in his head by the time we left.

OH... Other weird news... Weird to me, anyways. I was named January's EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH! LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I find this humiliating and hilarious at the same time... I was EOTM back in Oct. of 2002... I didn't know supervisors could get the big title but here i got it. They said i've just been doing fantastic work with the damaged stuff and keeping receiving on the up-and-up. I felt kind of stupid but whatever. You don't get anything speshul. Just your picture taken and hung by the breakroom and maybe a cheesey officemax watch or hat. LOL

I think they should give cash prizes. I'll take 10's and 20's.

When will the pizza buzzer go off? i'm HUNGRY!

   [ posted  @ 12:51 AM | ]

Whoo hoooo ! Look at all the glittery powder dusty sparkly Christmas-sy snow! It's beautiful! Only wish i still had my christmas stuff up to look at. I really miss it! What was with this year???

The coolest thing happened @ work tonight (the fact that i said this is the "coolest" shows you how lame where i work is...). Mike made me a mix CD of Relient K and Avril Lavigne! My two big faves!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so suprised and thrilled! Normally he blares music all night from one of the floor display stereos. He likes a very big variety of music... mostly Christian hard rock like Skillet or Kutless or Tait and stuff. But he's also got Dixie Chicks, Derek Webb, Newsboys, etc.

But usually once a night i am forced to listen to the no-talent and whom i find boring "Linkin Park" (Lickin'Barf as i call them now). Just can't stand their voices and every 'lickin song sounds the same as the last one... He's got a live CD and the regular one zzzzzzzzzzz Tonight he didn't play that one though. I always ask him (joking around) if he brought his Avril cd bc he thinks she's lame and he always says he left it at home. So i guess he must have downloaded all these songs for me. And he's not a Relient K fan either; he only likes a few of their songs, but he got a nice mix for me! Goooo Mike-e!

And if you care, Avril will finally have a new CD out at the end of spring. I can hardly wait dudes.

Oh yeah, EDGE ruled today... i'm having a lot of fun w/ my EDGE team (these are 8th grade co-eds) while the real leader is in Hawaii. We are doing a unit on prayer... And i made them bonanza muffins (ok they are banana muffins but i made up a new name for them.) And i made Alyssa's little brother Marc be God for an illustration i came up with, and he was all too happy about that! haha!

Band was... interesting... I'm starting to sense growing pains and a tinge of mutiny... which is healthy and normal for us now that we've actually been playing almost a half a year. I can't believe it's been that long already. Some of the kidlings are complaining i don't do enough of "their" music... and that they have to learn all my new stuff but i won't learn their's. It's kind of funny they bring that up bc i am ALWAYS asking them to bring music for me to learn and teach it to me, either by listening to CD's or whatever, and they NEVER do! And they have no idea (because i am so great and talented duh) that 75% of the music i am doing with them is stuff i learned at Crystal and never did before i got there... I just pick stuff up really quick. I tried to talk to them about it but they weren't getting it. So i'll be making some lists this week of songs (again; seems like i've done this like 3x already for them) and asking them if they want to add to it, i'm going to need real copies of the songs like on CD or something so i can learn it too. We're at a great place bc we REALLY do rock. We sound terrific, and i think their hearts are all where they need to be. Only issue is that i'm having trouble keeping any singers besides Kirstin with regularity... And i wish we had a guy singer.

OK well i've got a lot i want to get done in the next few hours before Zzz-land. None of which include blogging anymore.

   [ posted  @ 1:19 AM | ]

"Now you listen to me! I am not losing my daughter to a darn 900-year old goat head!"

HAHAHAA! I am watching this terribly stupid movie on SciFi right now and that is seriously what the character just said. Some people make their living at office max. Some people make their living by filming movies with ridiculous scripts and plots. Why couldn't i be in the 2nd camp? I'd be so good at it too!

But here's the plot of the one i'm watching now...

DOLLY DEAREST

A family moves to Mexico to open a toy factory and finds it has set up shop next to a Satanic graveyard, from which evil spirits emerge to inhabit their new Dolly Dearest dolls. Rip Torn (Zed in the Men in Black films) and Denise Crosby (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Pet Sematary) head the cast of this playful horror entry.

Airs Sunday, January 25, at 1PM ET/PT

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So, now you know what i do after i worship the Creator of the Universe on Sunday mornings. MUAAAHAHAHAHAHA

I'll be back to blog later, but i gotta go find out what happens to the possessed doll, and her owner, Jessica.

   [ posted  @ 11:42 AM | ]

I'd feel better if my place looked like this right now...

Stupid day... I'm mad at the world for making it socially normal to take down your christmas decorations... ever. I LOVED my tree and everything and i felt pressured by society to take them all down. HAHAH. I miss my tree. Now everything is a mess. But i have it all safely tucked in my storage locker. Sad day. Just sad!!!

   [ posted  @ 8:09 PM | ]

Congratulations! You're Gandalf!


Which Lord of the Rings character and personality problem are you?
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This is a funny one bc it's very ME. I really do shirk responsibility. Thus the fact that i slept until noon (very bad idea considering when i have to get up tomorrow morning) and that i am first taking down my xmas decorations today (or maybe i'll wait until feb.) I loved the question where the answer could be "CHEESE!"

;) Thanks Lyss (and Colleen the cute one) for the quiz.

This one, i predict will drop about 2 windy inches... but you know we have to TAKE ACTION NOW!

... WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT SUNDAY THROUGH NOON MONDAY...

A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE WESTERN HIGH PLAINS WILL ADVANCE SLOWLY SOUTH AND EAST... AND DEVELOP TOWARD THE CENTRAL PLAINS TONIGHT. MOIST AIR FLOWING NORTHWARD AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM WILL RESULT IN WIDESPREAD SNOW DEVELOPING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON... AND PERSISTING THROUGH MONDAY. THE AREA MAY SEE SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 6 INCHES OR MORE BY NOON MONDAY AS THE LOW PRESSURE MOVES INTO THE GREAT LAKES REGION.

REMEMBER... A WINTER STORM WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT SNOW... SLEET... OR ICE ACCUMULATIONS THAT MAY IMPACT TRAVEL. CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS.

TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION NOW AND PREPARE FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF A HAZARDOUS WINTER WEATHER EVENT. CONSIDER ALTERING YOUR TRAVEL PLANS.

   [ posted  @ 11:13 AM | ]

Holy skipping a whole day for blogs. sorry.

So i sleep from 7:30p.m. until 11:30 pm. can't sleep anymore. Have been up since then and it's now like 2:45 a.m. CRAP! I have tried everything. Watching T.V. Reading blogs, playing Zuma (i'm on level 5-4 i think !) and i have a headache. I took an alieve. Ummmm. I hate when i can't sleep!!!!!!!!

Now i don't feel like writing either. bye.

   [ posted  @ 12:40 AM | ]

Oooh Mel Gibson's "Passion" is going to be talked about on CBS Evening news. That is a good thing.

Martian attack? Let the conspiracies continue... or begin. I was reading about the silent "Spirit" today while the landlord took over my apartment. If i believed in life on other planets, i would say they took over the Spirit and that's why he's so quiet. I guess i'm undecided about if there's "life" out there somewhere. I don't find it challenging to be told there could be... even from a bible standpoint. It really doesn't change much of anything. God's so big. We're so puny. I can deal with not knowing. And if aliens interupted our research, heck, let the mystery continue!

Oh and did i tell you i'm getting a new toilet!?! Just what you wanted to know. When they come and do inspections here they find all the picky crap... (pun intended!). Lights i didn't even know existed on the stove, brackets on sliding doors that don't work, broken pieces of covers on my kitchen sink, and a toilet that is rotting out the floor underneath it and could cause me to find myself in a suprised 2nd floor neighbor's apartment someday. OMG.

Love it. And i don't have to pay for a thing. Bc you know, i rent.

   [ posted  @ 3:28 PM | ]

So much for sleep today... my landlord is here doing little repairs on schtuff. I am soooo tired! I left a message on the machine down in the office asking them to come on Friday instead of today but i guess that must not have gone thru. I was sooo hoping he wouldn't come back today but oh well. I just have to keep telling myself i can sleep in tomorrow. Uninterupted. No diet coke cans. No landlord... Just me and the z-crew.

Wow i sound like a dork when i first get up. Oh yeah and today is pay-day!

   [ posted  @ 12:57 PM | ]

Poopoo Head. Things around here are at least QUIET with the hazordous waste being driven from the Eqyptian waste-land that is the ground 3 floors below me outside. Dang!

And then there's my car. Maybe it's the below zero weather outside. It's making a horrible sound upon startup (only when it's been in the cold) and my steering wheel squeeks when i turn it. GRRR. I hope something is not going major wrong. Heather and me smelled burning oil by the tail pipe one day when i was dropping her and Steve off, but that was before Christmas i think. Anyways. I CANNOT AFFORD car trouble so there just better not be any.

ok?

get it straight.

Zone was cool-ness. Why in the heck do Heidi and Mark keep making really weird big strange wide-eyed faces @ each other ??? It makes me so nervous! If they have questions i hope they'd ask me... Of course in my self-centered world it's all about me... could not have anything to do with anything else... ok. I modified my lesson quite a bit from what i had intended. why i tell you that i have no idea.

Then i get to work (put another dime in the checkout, baby) and the truck had just got there... meaning it is about 10 hours LATE. It should have been half put away by the time my size 9.5's walked in the door... and here they were just first pulling pallets out to the floor. This brought mixed emotions.

1. i knew we wouldn't be expected to get it all done
2. not getting it done means we are never going to get caught up...

Then i find out my boss expects us to stay until it is finished even if it's when the store is open at 8 a.m. and if we are still there, then our prize is that we just get to go home earlier on Thurs. night. WHATEVER. Well as it turned out, Mike had to leave me and blue-eyed Brandon at 12:30 a.m. bc his wife and new kid were sick (he had a "paternal instinct" to call home bc he thought something was wrong and sure enough there was). He never came back. We got a lot done but no where near enough. We'll spend all night tomorrow finishing it - IF mike even shows up.

So brandon was figity and although i would have stayed till the sun was high and risen, i knew he could not hold out that long and it was sorta unfair to ask that of him... given all those other things that went wrong. So i said if we can get everything stuffed back into receiving, then we can leave around 5 like planned. And we sorta did. I am going to get yelled at but i don't care... i really don't care! Once the disappointment is over on their part there's nothing much they can do about it. The truck was very late; mike left way early... whatever dudes.

And brandon won't be staying with us on the night crew [he's better on the sales floor so they are going to have him work days] so it will be whittled down to just me and mike again and that means basically all we do is tread water; we can't get ahead. I'm frustrated but i have to remember this is way better than dealing w/ customers.

   [ posted  @ 3:56 AM | ]

Well, now i know "what the crap" is because i went and looked and HERO FOR THE DAY: KT ROCKS!!!

So i was on my way down the stairs to go to my car to go to get food for supper and some Code Red, and this stair way takes me past the maggoty-glopity sounding leaves and other such loud things that are banging their way into my sleeplessness... and I peer out the window of the emergency exit door to see what COULD IT BE?

Behold...

3 cans of Diet Coke (always hated that crap) and an empty Arby's paper cup. All playing duck-duck-goose and ring-around-the-rosy with each other, swirling, twirling, banging, clanging, clickity clockity peanut buttery noisy oblivion. EVIL CANS OF THE NIIIIIIGHT!

So i make my plan (all the while i was doing this, knowing i would be blogging about it later...) to set my people free

LET MY PEOPLE GO!!!!!!!!!!!

The plan is in motion. I am trying to figure out if i go out the emergency exit door, is there a key hole for me to get back in or will i be locked out and have to walk all the way around the building? Then it occurs to me. IDIOTS who live on the 1st floor ... can YOU NOT HEAR THIS CRAP ALL NIGHT? Their balcony goes right out onto the grass. Could they not have walked out their door and picked up the garbage????

I open the door just wide enough so that i can reach my hand around to feel with my fingers if there is a key hole on the other side. There is. That will be my mystic portal escape hatch. Glory. Now, I close the door and peer out again... trying to make sure i've properly identified all the noise-makers, because it is severly windy and i don't want to be spotted going out this door WALKING ON THE GRASS bc there are signs everywhere not too, plus a big one on the door that NO ONE IS TO USE THIS DOOR, KEEP OFF THE GRASS etc.

But i figure "screw it" i'm moses, and i'm going to set my people free of this maggoty noise ... Pharaoh, you're a jerk and you need to

LET MY PEOPLE GO!

So i walk out there and seriously i felt like a felon... on the dead brown grass rounding up my clankity stupid-butt Diet Coke cans and then i get back to the door and my key gets kinda stuck in the hole thing and i realize there's still one left out there. It's the offensive Arby's cup. I knew this one would be more of a challenge - it being lighter weight and is now being picked up and tossed about.

So i tuck the three mangled soda (not 'POP' as ppl say here!) cans under my left arm and stand ready to attack the stupid Oven-Mitt Arbys cup. I am such a geek bc i am standing there for what seemed like a whole minute whipping the air trying to catch this thing... and the wind keeps moving it. No, i mean Pharaoh keeps moving it. Wicked dragon of the niiiiiiight. So i stand still, considering just running for the door and leaving the cup out there but then i realize it will still keep me up all night

I HAVE TO GO FOR IT!

So, i pounced, grab the offender, and go back to the door, where my key is still jammed in the lock, and i had to jiggle it quite a bit to let me in. I said a few words pertaining to the cans that are not befitting a teacher on her way to teach a bible study about "the heart of worship" (however the words WERE appropriate given the torcherous mission applied to these creatures of pure evil, demon spawn, all four of them...) And i marched my high and mighty Moses self to the parking garage, where i threw these things away IN THE TRASH, not in the recycling bins bc they deserve to descend to the lowest depths of hell, not to be reincarnated into something that will come back and haunt me again.

I rule. I took care of another disaster. Now, off to that bible study...

   [ posted  @ 4:02 PM | ]

What the crap?! OK i am really not crabby today; these posts are just about crabby things but the weardest (weirdest; i know) thing is happening outside. I'm situated in the corner where two sections of my apt. building meet. Like the hook on the letter "L." And in this corner-way there are large amounts of leaves and gook that are flying around and battering themselves up against windows and the walls and are making annoying noises! Like someone shooting b-b's at the walls. I heard this all night long and from where i was in my bedroom (umm that would be, in bed...) it sounded like someone was inside of my apt., rummaging thru my kitchen and hiding in closets and such!!! HAHA! ok

actually it's not funny at all. grr.

I want to go down there and sweep up the gook but there is no way to do it because the comet-sized leaves and gook-maggoty-glopity-loud garbage creature things are flying thru the air with the greatest of ease, so how would i sweep them up? Will there be no rest?!

Of course not.

   [ posted  @ 2:37 PM | ]

DUDE! Grrr! nothing like being woken up to the sound of knocking on my door... Apartment is a huge mess... and it's my landlord back to do repairs ... OMG. LOL So i fly outta bed throw on an extra shirt, and then stand there at the open door rubbing my eyes... and he's like did i wake you up? And i'm all like "yeah i work nights now..." and we arranged for him to come back tomrorow afternoon. KATIE WHY DID YOU DO THAT?! You are supposed to be sleeping tomorrow afternoon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GRRRRRRRRR! I work even later into the morning today and will need sleep. Whatever. Can't make too many decisions upon first waking up. Dude.

I gotta bunch o' stuff to do now that i'm awake... Gettin' ready for tonight...

   [ posted  @ 11:50 AM | ]

HOLY CRAP !!!!!!!!!
is this a joke!???????????? OMG !
I really want to place an order, yous' guys, so if yous' want to, let me know!!!! OMG Dig the chick's pants!!!!! HAHAHAH ROTFL !

OMG! Watch this too! Love the Carpenters song in the background!!!

Gem Sweater Be Thy Name !!!!!!!!!!

   [ posted  @ 12:42 AM | ]

I am still laughing over this one... TWO THINGS to report tonight.

The new guy was starting to loosen up a bit... which was nice. He did a great jorb on what i asked him to do, and i was super impressed. He works very well and very fast when has clear directions. Cool. Anyways i was explaining to him what the plan was for his night and this is how i said it...

"What we're going to do is purge the perimeter wall, so that anything that is cardboard up there - presentation boards, mailing boxes, anything, all goes in the same spot, and then we're going to make room for the luggage over-stock in aisle seven, so that we - AND WHEN I SAY WE -- I MEAN -- YOU -- can get the dated goods stuff spread out and looking better..."

And when i said the stuff that i put in bold he finally laughed and nodded his head real big because i always say WEEEEEEEEEEE when i really don't intend to lift one finger to help that person out but i am giving the directions so i think i am included in the team bc if it blows up i know i'm the one who is going to get yelled at for it. hahahaha so i was saying that all night...

Secondly,
my logistics manager Dwight showed up outta no-where at about 12:30 a.m. and there he was just standing there (after i mopped the whole stupid store with a mop that must weigh about 752 tons grr) and so i said... "Dang Dwight now that you're here i can't talk behind your back anymore!!!" (which was true bc he's disappointed me but whatever, and i am telling everyone who will listen my woes...) But i showed him all what the new guy and Mike did and didn't try to steal credit for it.

Anyways, so it was time to go and mike and i were ready and i told brandon he could go, and then i asked dwight if we could go and he said yeah... and i thought he'd wait for us and we all leave together (that is just how we do it at our store... not sure why but you can't be alone in the bldg, so we just wait for each other in case THE ROBBER comes.) So Mike and i go punch out and get our coats and we're standing there waiting for Dwight. Where the heck is he? Ummm. Mike starts whistling (he is just as annoying as me; i love it.) And i get figity... I start yelling for Dwight. He's no where in sight (yes it rhymes.)

So i get on the intercom and tell him even if he's in the bathroom he better hurry up bc i know he can hear me, and i'm going to start singing until he gets up there (i sing like a loser on purpose and he can't stand it!!) SO I START SINGING " I love office max" the song i made up. BOTH VERSES. Then he's still not up there... (this is all done over the loudspeaker) and so i start making up a verse about him and then i turn around to Mike, and say "is his car still out there?"

And

Mike turns around and looks out the windows with his hands pressed up to the glass and asks "what kind of car does he drive?"

"An S.U.V." I reply.

"There are two mystery cars out there but no S.U.V."

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! Somehow he managed to leave really fast (being a manager, "managing" to leave fast would be an available option...) when we punched out and omg we were like "HUH???" hahaaaaaa! So Mike said to set the alarm which would tell us if he was still in the bldg bc the sensors would go off... and I set them and we left. As far as i know, he's not in there, bc i'm 1st on the call list if the cops have to come there and so far the phone has not rang (rung?)

Oh happy day.

   [ posted  @ 12:34 AM | ]

There my guitar sits in the case on the floor. I have not been playing it much during the week bc well first of all, there's the fact that i would wake up the entire building... and now i have something else in the back of my mind...

There are so many other talented people in the world. And it makes me not want to sing. Just take the first few rounds of American Idol... yeah. Just shows me my place in the world. AHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

And i have one other thing to mention today... that "big fat obnoxious fiance" show is cruel and mean and wicked. It's one thing to have a reality show where the participants sign-on to be duped and hammered-upon. But quite another to take a [supposedly] unsuspecting family and pretend the daughter is going to marry a dork in a few days... that is just plain old mean. But of course i will watch it.

   [ posted  @ 2:17 PM | ]

Did you know that a 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second ? I didn't either, but now we both know!

And also, did you know that any month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in it. Hmm.

You all wondered what i do when i get off of work in the middle of the night. Now you know. I look up trivia to share with YOU! When i used to help call games for WorldWide Trivia on PalTalk, i used to use that stuff a lot. I haven't gone on PalTalk forever! Actually, one of my last nights might have been the night i sang to Culture Club and my mom and sister were in the karoke room with me and thought i was being SERIOUS when i was trying to sing like a retard like the rest of the ppl in the room, who thought they sounded GREAT! haha.

Speaking of such things, i taped Idol tonight but have not watched it yet.

I'm pretty sure the new guy @ work thinks i'm nuts but that's OK. (My comment about putting cheese whiz in a water bottle to take with you everywhere probably sent him over the edge.) I've yet to get him to crack a real smile... and hey if ppl don't laugh at my constant quick-tempered humor, they are just OUTTA HERE! FIRED! GONE! [I especially start getting really crazy around 1:30 a.m. and we're wrapping things up...] OMG my manager called 5 minutes before we were out the door at 2 a.m. to tell us to fill an empty powerwing THAT HE LEFT empty... grr! So i put insulated lunch bags and water bottles on the top and Mike crammed the bottom with bonus pen sets. HAHAH. Those things totally don't go together, but i was making jokes about those being two essentials for every human (ink and food) and that leads me back to the new guy who did not really laugh. He just stood there and said "cheese whiz? that doesn't go in a water bottle..." DUHUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHH DORK!

I can tell he doesn't like working at night. But he does have the most amazing blue eyes (don't get excited; he's engaged to the copymax supervisor in burnsville, which is why he had to transfer stores...) He hopefully will be only with us at night this week and then switching to day shifts... he's good but not up to my standards by any means... AND you should know

LOSER PAT WAS FIRED TODAYYYYYYYY!
H A L L E L U J A H E V E R Y B U D D Y !!!

Some may think i should not rejoice over the downfall of another human but this is truly an answer to prayer. Now that he is gone, i can let you know that we are fairly sure he was stealing mass amts. of money and other such attrocities. He had to go thru a 2 hour loss-prevention interview via conference call last week with my store manager, and was put on suspension and when he came back today they let him go. wow. good news.

   [ posted  @ 1:57 AM | ]

If i have any die-hard Homestar Runner fans out there, my friend Mike-e from work passed this on to me and it's a super great page of all StrongBad secrets... tons of stuff to click on in the flash movies that no one knew about until now ! Very cool and time consuming ... makes you wonder how the heck these guys have time to make all this stuff up.

   [ posted  @ 1:47 AM | ]

We got a new guy @ work tonight. His name is Brandon and he's from Burnsville and he does great work bc he already knows what he is doing. So i let him go home early. Got a ton done. I came home and ate pastaroni. Good thing it wasn't doodoo meat so i didn't have to puke in patch in the couch...

   [ posted  @ 1:42 AM | ]

Ooooooh-Kay!

I now have brought to recollection that which i was going to pass on to you earlier this morning. That is, a dream i had last night and it's now quite funny but at the time of the dream and thereafter, it was not funny at all. It was terrifying.

O.k.! So, i lived in this house with my mom and my brother. This is the setting for many dreams of mine but anywayz, it was a different house. My bedroom was upstairs (two story house) and i think we must've just moved in or something, and my brother was talking to me and there was someone else another girl in the room... i want to say it was Tracy but i really don't know. At any rate, there was a twig from a branch from a tree in the yard that somehow shot thru the window of this room i was in. Upon the branch there was a fuzzy caterpillar (is there an "r" in caterpillar?) and it dropped onto my lap.

Now, before i continue this dream story, you need to know that yesterday at some point, i had watched this interesting flash movie from days gone by, and questions had appeared in my mind like they usually do... Questions such as "what in the WORLD has made this crazy movie so popular? What was going on in the mind of it's maker(s) ? Are they saying 'badger badger badger' in the background?" {The answer is YES, they are.}

Somehow this haunting flash video got stuck in my subconscious.

Now on wit da dream.

The caterpillar turned into a racoon-looking animal. At first i proclaimed that i believed it was a racoon. Instead, my brother horrifyingly replied that he was pretty sure it was a BADGER. In my schooling somewhere i learned that badgers are evil creatures. They are mean, not to be messed with. Usually angry creatures and if provoked, will attack you. Now i am not sure if that's true or not, it probably is... but as soon as i realized it WAS INDEED A BADGER, i backed up on the bed, and tried to get away from it. The sheets moved, and "provoked" the badger!

Now it is angry. It is snarling at me and the mystery girl and my brother. It starts to eat my leg. So i grab a broom stick (all crabby girls have those on hand at all times guess why...) and somehow get the BADGER to sink his teeth into the stick. His teeth sink in good, and he is now stuck on the stick, so i proceed to throw the stick out the window...

However,

As is another frequent occurance in my dreams for some reason the windows and doors are all open, and i am always frantically trying to lock them or shut them at least. And as in this dream, i am also unable to lock them or shut them in time bc there are so many of them. I realize that if i do not shut and lock all the windows, the BADGER is going to come back in the house and eat me and my brother and the mystery girl. OMG.

So, what do i do? I ask my brother call 9-1-1 ! But he won't do it. He wants to call mom instead. I said there is no time for that. We NEED to call the police and get them involved. So, being the leader that i am, I MAKE THE CALL! And by the time the badger gets back in the house, the police have arrived and save the day.

That's all i remember, besides that in the dream after they save the day, i wanted the badger to go away and never come back, so i demand that the window up in my room gets shut and locked for good.

   [ posted  @ 12:09 PM | ]

Quick blorg (new word, it means blog and jorb) here bc i am running late. So i could not sleep last night. Got to sleep just fine then woke up for 3 hours in the middle of the night. Watched "The Secret life of Walter Mitty" on TCM - amazingly great movie. Loved it. Danny Kaye is in it. Was worth not being able to sleep to see it haha.

Oh cruds i forgots whats i was goings to say.

Was that it? Should i hit "post and publish" ?

O.k.

   [ posted  @ 5:05 AM | ]

MYHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!

I made it to level like 4-3 on Zuma and now i really need to quit!!!!!!!!!! ouch!

   [ posted  @ 6:52 PM | ]

My head my pounding head.

It's a good thing this is going in pseudo-print, because it's the first time and probably will be the last time i'm totally stumped and can't figure out the chords to a song. I should not even admit this but whatever they are doing is far beyond me. Must be either made-up barr chords or whatever i can't figure it out and my head hurts and if i can't figure it out then i quit. (It's the song Free - track 3 from Hillsongs United Live; key of B (gag)).

First of all, don't write songs in the key of B. Who plays in that?! Stupidity!

But i love the song and wanted to teach it for jr. high someday but not at this rate. oUCH.

Well we should not exactly blame the song for my headache. I don't allow myself caffiene on Saturdays bc i have to get to sleep at a much earlier hour than normal so i can get up at 5:50 a.m. for church. Normally that is when i am going to SLEEP so i have to reverse that pattern one day a week and i don't need help complicating that already difficult fact. No caffiene!!!

Still undecided about my fossil watch. That picture makes it look like the face is really cool blue. But in real life it's really dark! I kind of want this one instead bc i like the square face. But these don't have indiglo (something i actually use a lot) or the dates of the month on them, something i use for work a lot. Just tell me to return it and get a battery for my older watch and a new band we'll be fine, right? But i like the black strap... ack. shut up kt

   [ posted  @ 5:48 PM | ]

So one day i came up with the thought

"Money can't buy you happiness, but
it can buy you the THINGS that bring happiness"

haha

Anyways i was out and about (or as we in the northern parts of America say, "a-boat" canadian accent) today and I got some things that will bring me happiness. I bought a "gross" of guitar picks. If you didn't know, that's like 342 Fender Thin pix for 29.99$ and i got some nanoweb elixir strings bc those are da best. Then i went to Northwestern books (always a mixed emotion thing going thru those music racks especially the "praise and worship" out now) but i got me some interesting buys. I had gone there bc i don't have a copy of "heart of worship" on cd and i need that for Wed. night. I am sure someone else has it but i thought i'd take a look and maybe find a single or something. Then i found "washes whiter than" and "never say die," two ancient petra albums on one cd for only $6.99 so of course i had to buy that. Then i had just about given up on finding anything by Matt Redman (who does "heart of worship") when i saw the clearance bins and found the cd i need and it too was only 6.99. haha. what a steal.

Then i got ripped off bc i bought a nichole nordeman DVD and it was also yes you guessed it, $6.99 but it only has 2 videos on it! OMG what a rip. nothing much else extra on there except for 3 screens of her "essays" which is printed so small i can't even read it with this prescription in my glasses. stupidness. Oh well. i won't be buying one of those again. But i still love Nichole (as an artist i mean) and she rocks and is an amazing song writer!!!

But then i went to BigKMart, which i must say... was expertly organized and very well zoned and clean to the T! I was impressed and suprised at this from my logistics standpoint. Plus they set up their Sunday ad like we do. I found all tomorrow's ad signs taped and flipped over where they will go tomorrow morning. I thought we were the ones who made that up but i guess not. Good jorb. Anyways i was going to Kmart (this is in Burnsville bc ours here closed) and i found 100 t-light candles for NO KIDDING $6.99! OMG! Everything today cost me seven bucks. so funny! I needed those bc for this week's lesson on Wed., we are having "solitude" time and i'll light candles and we'll turn the lights off and have some quiet time well i already said that.
What a steal. Well i won't be using all 100 but this was just a good buy so i got it. Then it didn't take me too long to also find matches and where i found the matches, i found a new can opener (still won't spring for an electric one bc i have no room in my kitchen anymore.)

Then Steph and my fossil watches came for me when i arrived home! LOL Her's is nice but it's too big for her so she needs to have some links taken out. I don't really like mine and might send it back for an exchange.

I am getting tiiiiired but i need to finish laundry and get music ready for tomorrow morning.
I rock.

   [ posted  @ 3:02 PM | ]

Saw him standin' there by the copy machine (dehneh na nana)
Knew he musta been makin' about 17...

Yeah that didn't make much sense to me either bc how can you know just by looking @ someone that they are making 17 copies haha. But seriously, we need those self-serve copy reports so we know how much to charge you. And don't throw them away and start more! THEIVES!

For the life of me i could not [remember, what made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise; oops wrong song] sleep last night. I mean this morning. Whatever. Frustration station.

I called a band practice tonight and i taught them 3 new songs "For you are good" and "Come and fill me up" and "Fire" (not the one i wrote but the other one by Stuart Townsend; mine is called "bring to us a fire.") Actually it went really well. Heather my bass player was way too sleepy. That was kinda hard to deal with. And then when i tried to let Steve (he's my back up leader guy) try to take over bc i asked him to come with songs prepared, he was not prepared and for 20 minutes they fumbled over junk while he was not singing bc he didn't know what he was doing... But that's OK i guess. I told him next time i give him a slot of time like that, he's got to come with his copies made (why not go to OfficeMax?) and ready to go ... like actually KNOW the songs you want to do. I guess it doesn't come as easily for most ppl as it does me. Duh.

Well, he'd not have to go to OfficeMax bc we have copiers there for him to use.

Plus Liz, my 8thGradeDiva was there and i felt bad bc it was sort of a waste of her time bc Steve just had her stand there for like 20 min while ok i already said that part.

One thing i'm excited about with da band, besides the obvious omg how much we really do rock (we really do you should hear us), is that we are going to study the first few chapters of Revelations (different spin on it) to see how it talks about worship and who God is. Actually if you look thru Revelations as a study on worship, it contains more titles and info on who God /Jesus is than almost any other book of the New Testament. Very cool. Well John (apostle guy) is big into that. Remember all the "I AM" statements in the gospel of John? Same guy wrote Revelations. So tonight we looked thru Ch. 1 and saw the awesome picture of Jesus... and we were all in awe over it and had a good time o' prayer too. There's something awesome about hearing jr. and sr. high boys pray !

PowerHouse was a hoot. Kenton and i played PingPong and we set a record (no lie) of hitting the pingpong ball 400 times in a row without it stopping before his hand cramped up really bad and he said we had to stop. haha. I could have kept going but dang it's so hot in there. Of course i allowed us to play off the floor as long as you can keep it bouncing on your paddle. It was a lot of fun. Then i learned the names of like a ton more people. They are Josh, Ben, Ben, (two bens) Tom, Ericka, Brianna (two of them actually), Erin someone, Elise (sp?) yeah that is cool. I remember them all too. I love to remember ppl's names. There were actually a large # of students there tonight considering all the Quizzers are gone. The rest of the night i played KingsCorners, B.S. in card games. And i also got to meet two parents so that is good. I only remember the one's name not the dad guy. Well i guess i didn't really meet him. Oh well.

Grr i didn't want to be up this late. I'll be working on music and laundry tomorrow! YEAAAH!

   [ posted  @ 10:42 PM | ]

I made up this song to the tune of "I Love Rock and Roll" about where i work. I sing it all the time and even in front of customers and ppl love it. I think i should submit it to corporate.

I LOVE OFFICE MAX
PUT ANOTHER DIME IN THE CHECKOUT BABY
I LOVE OFFICE MAX
COME AND TAKE YOUR TIME AND SHOP WITH ME (HEY!)

SAW HIM STANDING THERE BY THE COPY MACHINE
KNEW HE MUSTA BEEN MAKING ABOUT SEVENTEEN
I SAID CAN I HELP YOU OUT
HE SAID WITHOUT A DOU-OO-OU-OOT
DON'T FORGET YOUR SELF SERVE COPY REPORT FOR ME
(YEAH ME)
SO I CAN RING YOU UP AND SEND YOU ON YOUR WAY
TO-DAY

SINGING
I LOVE OFFICE MAX!
PUT ANOTHER DIME IN THE CHECKOUT BABY
I LOVE OFFICE MAX!
SO COME AND TAKE SOME TIME AND SHOP WITH ME (HEY!)

HE SMILED SO I GOT UP AND ASKED FOR I.D.
HE WANTED TO PAY CREDIT
THAT'S FINE WITH ME
I SAID DO YOU WANT THIS PHONE
WITH A REBATE IT'S YOURS ALONE...
AND NEXT HE BOUGHT SOME PENS AND STAPLES FROM
ME, YEAH ME
I DON'T GET COMMISSION BUT I MADE A NICE SALE
YOU SEE, YEAH WITH ME

SINGING
I LOVE OFFICE MAX
PUT ANOTHER DIME IN THE CHECKOUT BABY
I LOVE OFFICE MAX
SO COME AND TAKE SOME TIME AND SHOP WITH ME (HEY!)

   [ posted  @ 1:21 AM | ]

I desperately need to go get my dinner (this means drive-thru people!!!)

I woke up a few times in the middle of the day and omg my stomach was screaming for hunger hahaha It was actually kind of funny. Not enough to make me get up and eat though.

OMG congrats to my sis Amy who got the jorb she wanted at the school! holy crap that is so cool.

I'm sure i'll blog more after work again... i slept until 4 so i have no time to do anything except eat and leave. And watch Ellen while I eat.

OK bye.

   [ posted  @ 2:42 PM | ]

OMG i am still awake! i got hooked on trying to figure out that Sixpense song and now i desperately need to try to be tired!

And then i quick figured out how to play "Jesse's Girl" D / A / Bm / G / A / D

haha nothing to that song but i like it a lot/ always have.

OK well there's nothing to the With Every Breath song either... it's in E and the only interesting or tricky part is they are adding a high F# to the C#m chord and then resolving it... it's such a great song and we'll sound terrific doing it but for real i need to hit the hay.

   [ posted  @ 4:55 AM | ]

Well i'm home and all showered. Normally i don't take a shower before bed, but tonight i was really grimey from working on the truck (more on this later) and just didn't want to sleep with grime on me LOL

FIRST: Zone ruled and i love this group of students (not as much as the other group i was with b4) but they are totally different in character and personality. Loud, obnoxious, and then when it's time to really think about God and our response to him, they are all over that too. I sense this group as a collective is not as far along on their spiritual path as the other group i was working with... which is actually a good thing. More soil to till up. We studied 2 Sam. 5-6 and the song "Undignified" (Matt Redman). Basic synopisis is that david was "undignified" when he danced before the lord when they brought the Ark of the Covenant back to Jerusalem, but what made him undignified was not that he danced in linen garments. It was his life of total faith and devotion to God. So i challenged them to be undignifed in EVERYTHING. How they treat their siblings, how they do their homework, how they play sports, talk to their parents, etc. And i am getting total awesome positive feedback. One girl started the night off by saying what i said last week really gripped her and she's looking at worship in a whole new light. I told her that i am too, but thanks. The ending activity, we had a list of "dignified" things Christians do, like tithe, clean their rooms, go to church, ride in the car with parents, pray, etc. And they had to turn these things into "undigified" acts of worship. Some of their answers were awesome. Like, for cleaning their room, one girl said it would be an act of worship to do that BEFORE her mom has to remind her all week long... Or one person said they would be worshipping God by NOT ignoring their brother on the snow-boarding slopes... haha!

I did not stay long after it was over though bc i wanted to get to work...

Yes it's TRUCK day and we had a 900 piece load to put away and let's just say it's NO WHERE NEAR DONE. Payroll and hour cuts have left us with no choice, although it's a company standard that you are to have it put away within 24 hrs of receiving it. Well too bad. In all actuality, Mike and i only spent about 5 of our combined 17 hours on actually putting crap away. He spent 5 hours doing inventory research and i spent 3 hours putting over-stock up in the midsteel, and 2 hours cleaning receiving and making a bale. BTW why the HECK is it so blasted HOT back there?! Something is wrong with our heating again bc the ladies room, break room, and receiving are all like 80 or 90 degrees i'm not kidding you. So i'll have to call facilities tomorrow ( i mean later today ) bc i can't rely on any of the men there to get it done. Stupid ppl LOL

Now, i think it is interesting to note that Mike chose the weaker job... scanning outs and doing verifcations (we have to report to corporate the number of "true outs" we have each week: that is the number of items the computer and shelves say we actually have ZERO of which are still in active status/ or replenishable, which is what he was doing.) And i worked stock, moved a ton of pallets around and made the bale which is a boy job. Plus it was so hot back there which i already mentioned, and then i had to spend the rest of the night on the stupid ladder lifting boxes and putting crap away for overstock which they sent us A TON of stuff we totally don't need or have room for. By 3:30 i started to "check out" physically and emotionally... i was getting crabby and whiney and could not lift heavy things and was starting to doubt my steps upon the ladder.

And all night long i had to keep reminding myself that
a) i asked for this!
b) i'm not working with idiot customers (yay)
c) i'm teaching students on lifestyle and attidude worship and here i have to try to live it out in real life
d) i can do my work as worship to God.

It was cool bc Mike brought more cd's tonight that were more like worship oriented stuff like City on a Hill was one of them and that's such an amazing CD. Then he had Apologitix on for awhile. They are a Christian version of Weird Al... taking secular songs and turning them into songs about God. I love them. And listening to one of those songs by Sixpence made me realize we need to do that for Edge so i need to get that ready for Friday so we can practice it.

OK well i am going to go now bc you really don't need to know all the picky little details and if i don't SOME sleep i will be a zombie when i have to go back in 12 hours from now. GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME!

   [ posted  @ 3:57 AM | ]

3 hours till Zone and counting... i think i have everything ready to go, it's just not packed up yet. I dug out this book i got awhile back when were researching children's ministries, and it's called "What the Bible is all About For Young Explorers" endorsed by Ruth and Billy Graham, and it's actually a very good reference... it helped me pan out the life of David and stuff. It's for middle-schoolers so hey it suits me just right.

Ummmmmmmmmmm i slept till 3:30 p.m. and now i am going to have to cram to get ready and go over my lesson again. Sleep is good.

   [ posted  @ 2:06 PM | ]

Bye-bye chatterbox. But i added commentability ( a new word i made up ) and if you really want to twalk back, there ya go :)

   [ posted  @ 1:03 AM | ]

Today's HORROR-SCOPE is kinda fitting. I thought i'd do this one again bc i find it amusingly charming to dabble in satanism. Just KIDDING.

No matter how high your in-tray may be piled at the moment the entry of Venus, your ruler, into the work and well-being area of your chart is a sign that you must do less, not more. Libra is the sign of balance and harmony and according to your solar chart you have gone too far and done too much. Be kind to yourself. The work can wait.

It's ironic that this posts today, because Mike and i have been leaving about 5 min. early from work (very outta the norm for me, who usually avg.'s 10 hours of over-time a week) and i let a whole bunch of crazy crap un-done today bc well i'm not going to break my back if they won't let me have overtime and won't get us more help. My in-tray is HIGH haha. So high that the boss talked to us for 45 min when we walked in the door telling us all we still had to get right. But it was picky things, and he acknowledged that if they were down to finding the picky stuff, that means we're doing everything pretty good.

Good suprise tonight... Steph and her dad Tom came in the store and i showed them around and let them in on all the tid-bits i knew Tom would like to hear about (gross-margin, data integrity, inventory, what i do...) and Steph claimed she couldn't find a perferated notebook but as soon as they left i found a whole bunch like she wanted. Anyways it was super great to see them. She and i ordered Fossil watches this week from fossil.com on one order, and hopefully they will arrive next week. It was weird. We were showing each other stuff we liked on MSN (we always swap links for stuff like clothes or shoes or other crazy crap) and she wanted this one watch and i was like "i wanted to ask for a Fossil watch for christmas but didn't, and i want to order one" so i said we should order together and save on shipping and she said let's do it. HAHA.

Here's the watch i ordered.

Here's the watch Steph ordered. It's kinda funny bc she's not a diamond-person at all, but whatever.

Did i tell you i slept till 3 p.m. today? YAY! No phone calls or knocks on the door to interupt me. That was mighty cool.

   [ posted  @ 12:42 AM | ]

Mike-e told me about the new StrongBad e-mail that came out today. IT'S GREAT! At the end if you click the screen, you get to play any one of the video games he made up! INGENIOUS! They are almost as fun as Zuma.

This is the 94th email of StrongBad. To see the directory, click here and you can scroll thru them all.

   [ posted  @ 2:32 AM | ]

I MAKE THE COOLEST HAND-OUTS!!!

I wish you could see these hand-outs i just finished making for Zone on Wed. night. OMG. It is so cool. Text all twisted around. Watermarks. Text in the shape of a person for Ps. 22. wow! I am so great! i am the best! i rule the universe!

hahahahaha!

No humility required.

I decided to dump wk3 in favor of wk2 for my series. So we'll be doing "undignified" this week and skipping "our love is loud." And, i made these really cool handouts. But i already said that. I had to really go over the lessons to pick which one was going to get dumped. (I planned 5 lessons but we have 2-sessions of 4-weeks only so i had to get rid of one.) It was almost a toss-up, but i envisioned the activity i had for wk3 to be too hard to explain and picturing the group i am working with as one that would not get what i was talking about. LOL so we're doing something a little different.

And, i am happy to report i am finally getting tired. A few Zuma games and i should be ready for bed. God rules, satan drools.

   [ posted  @ 2:21 AM | ]

Mike-e brought his baby to our leadership mtng at 1 today @ work and little Toby is so cute! HAHAH! It's weird seeing him w/ a kid.

The meeting didn't work out so well bc there weren't enough associates and managers kept getting called away to help with crazy crap. (Little StrongBad humor there.)

But i came home and TRIED to sleep for a few more hours. That didn't work out so great but i'm making coffee now and everything's gonna be alright. I am not looking fwd to having work with customers for 3 hours but i'll just pray i can hide out in the cave until the store is closed. Sometimes it works out that way. I did have a weird dream that we got a whole new store... very different. There was a fast food place in it and stuff and we were in the middle of a mall, and Receiving had 2 sets of bunk beds and a queen bed in it! hahah! i must have been tired.

or, i want to live at the store. Hmm.

People, everything's going to be ALRIGHT!!!!!! OK?! Just a reminder from the letters K & T and the numbers 12 & 20 (store numbers.)

Go play some Zuma. It will cheer you up. Great sound fx.

   [ posted  @ 3:08 PM | ]

AUNTIE CAROL IF YOU'RE READING THIS I HOPE YOU KNOW -YOU'RE- RESPONSIBLE!!!

"inca zuma!"

i bought it. leave me some comments on the side to tell me the tricks.

   [ posted  @ 2:50 AM | ]

ack. packers lost. grrrrrrrrrrrrr-ness.

and i had to listen to them lose over the radio at work. even worse. oh well. didn't have to see brett's let-down face. :(

so this season is ovah.

and how did i spend the rest of my night? counting ink-jet cartridges!!! every last bleeping one of them... 100's upon 100's of them... researching, digging, looking thru boxes, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. i hate counting crap. our counts were SO FAR OFF. the HP#29 black was off by 100! ( we blame this on the fact that our shipments from hazelton auto-acknowledge and we don't piece-count receive stuff. It all is assumed in transit.)

ouch. so we had a corporate issued "cycle count" to do & it was my luck of the draw to do it. Oh well. It's over.

~~~~ ANSWER TO PRAYER ALERT ~~~~
SO, i had you all pray that the Guatamalan would not show up, or that she would be late so we could fire her. GUESS WHAT! She did not show up and didn't even call tonight ! THIS PROVES GOD IS SO COOL HE MAKES ME DROOL HE HELPS ME IN SCHOOL GOD IS SO BRIGHT HE LIGHTS UP MY NIGHT HE MAKES MY SKIN TIGHT!!!! (that is a psalm my jr. highers wrote when i was teaching @ Mt. Zion back in the 90's lol)

i love it!

**doing a boogie dance** This means our necks are saved as far as payroll, and i never have to deal with her anymore and she won't screw up any more stuff. PRAISE GOD! See how he watches my back?

   [ posted  @ 1:22 AM | ]

God-incidence? Half of my band was up for a few hours in the middle of the night. from like 2:30-4:30 we could not sleep. Interestingly enough we all used it as a time to pray. :) I love it when i hear stuff like that.

The PACK IS WINNING!

Crystal Whoppers RUUUUUUUUUUUUUULE! 3-0 today for my favorite sophomore quiz team (ok the only one.) WAY To GOOOOOOO! (And that was way more exciting than this football game.)

I almost got drafted into staying late to lead worship for sr. high tonight but there was no follow up so i left bc i was getting tired. I have to go to work in about an hour. I just can't wait.

Aaaaaaaand, that's it!

   [ posted  @ 3:42 PM | ]

Just watch it.

   [ posted  @ 4:00 PM | ]

Oh Lordie i forgot about this dream i had! I will write about it here. It was VERY REAL... and it's kinda cool now bc i don't dream as much since when i sleep now i'm actually VERY tired. But i had this one dream last night ... insanity.

OK now that i go to write about it i can't think of anything but the fact that this one guy (is it a "fact" if it was a dream?) was offering me a youth pastor jorb for like 75,000$ a year and i only debated in my mind a little bit about it. And i had a flash of all the kids faces at the PowerHouse and how much i love all of them and my conversation with Amy last night... (i think it was her who probably prompted this dream bc she was asking me what i do for work and why am i at church so much...) and i told the guy that i'm totally where God wants me now and no amt. of money could make me switch bc i can't imagine working with a better staff or a better group of students.

Seriously, i think about this all the time... I have never met so many GENUINE believing students who really live eat and breathe GOD. It's so awesome. OK i just and to say that.

   [ posted  @ 3:08 PM | ]

Today is a real day off... awesomeness. I cleaned the whole house, ordered pizza (online, thank you very much) and now am listening to my RK CD again.

Here's lyrics to one of my favorite trax off the album.

Oh, i also watched one of the LittleHouse movies Tracy got me for Christmas... It's CHRISTMAS AT PLUM CREEK. I love Christmas movies!!!!!!!!

   [ posted  @ 2:50 PM | ]

Zuma. Great game. Still thinking about it. Still want to buy it. But that's a 1/4 of what i would pay for a whole GameCube. So i don't think i will. Gee that's just what i need right now is a GameCube. I would get home from work at 4:00 in the morning and sit and play that and you'd never read another blog entry from me again!

I had to force myself outta bed today bc i can't sleep toooooooo late (1 p.m. is late enough) bc i have to be in bed early bc i have to get up at 6 a.m. tomorrow morning which is opposite of my new sleep schedule. No caffiene today. Even if i get a massive headache. And i have to get the rest of my laundry done and CLEAN bc they are doing inspection here on Monday. First thing he'll notice is that my tree is still upLOL

who cares.

Have you played Zuma yet? You should. You should get it. And, you should make it full screen size, and you should crank the sound fx and music really loud. :)

   [ posted  @ 10:57 AM | ]

That...
was
the
fastest hour
of my life
ever.
O
M
G
.

Zuma. It's a frog. (It's like Zuba, but Not the pants you wore in the 80's. OMG.) love this game! hahahaha!

Holy crap my hands hurt and i can't believe that was only an hour. My mom's friend sent her this free game and so i had to play it and it is only an hour free trial and it's the most addicting thing ever and then when your hour is up, the game shuts off and is gone forever. OMG. Here's the link and be prepared to have the most addicting hour of your life ever. I'm tempted to buy the full version. I had the sound FX and music up blaring in my headphones, and the thing was full screen sized. It reminds me of Bejeweled and Alchemy when i first played those, though this is much faster paced and more up my alley.

   [ posted  @ 11:16 PM | ]

OMG I found my missing Relient K cd!!!! It's my burned copy (thanx steph) of their first release with "17 Magazine" and "charles in charge" and "nancy drew" and "marilyn manson ate my girlfriend' on it!!!!!!!!!! It was way on the bottom of my trunk in my car under a bunch of papers and junk and guess what now i have it! I am so thrilled. I lost it like 2 months ago and have been looking everywhere for it. (Well, not everywhere... i didn't look in places i knew it wouldn't be in, like kitchen cupboards, the bathroom, or in my bed.)

Thrilled also bc i had a blast tonight with da band and at the PowerHouse. Finally got to talk to Amy Anderson and she finds out on Wednesday if she got into Moody or not and she had fun @ Urbana... and we played round-robin ping pong (not so good skill wise but funny as heck) and i shared my music with many peeps and remembered a lot of names and learned two new names... Jessica & Sarah. I have GOT GOT GOT to remember these people because i always introduce myself to them LOL. I thought about it all the way home... Jessica and Sarah and how i am going to remember Jessica bc she reminds me (not) of this one girl in my other youth group and i'll remember Sarah bc she reminds me of how Abram's wife would be as a jr. higher. HAHA. Hey, i need all the help i can get. I am trying to remember if i met anyone else that i need to remember their names. Hmmmmm. Actually no i remember most everyone else.

Yay me.

This new kid Austin (he's in 8th grade) drummed for us tonight. [Well, he's not new to the church but he's new to the band]. He's being taught by the pastor's son, and our other drummer the ace, Adam, who is outta town. Austin is AWESOME. He's only been playing since September and he's really coming along. He doesn't have all the different rhythms down yet, but i picked songs in 4/4 so he could rock with us. He did terrific and even did some cool fills so i would turn around and freak out (genuine for real) that he rocked. OMG. I get the priviledge of playing with some amazing musicians there. I am so thankful for that. Austin's dad sat in for awhile and he told me later we sound really good which was good to hear from an adult who hasn't heard us before, and who has an ear for music. I never know what to think. I think we rock and roll pretty good though.

There is no new FridayFive this week. That is weird.

   [ posted  @ 10:09 PM | ]

Speaking of Phone Calls, i wanted to share with everyone my favorite phone number of all time (now Playing, Tommy TuTone)

That number would be Jenny's phone number, {though i've misplaced the area-code:}

Eight six seven, five three oh ni-ee-ah-ine. I got it i got it i got it! For a good time, call!

   [ posted  @ 12:26 PM | ]

Dude, everyone and their CAT called me on the phone today when i was sleeping. So funny. 9:00 it was pastor craig. 9:30 it was Kirstin. 12:30 it was Kyle. I love everybuddy. HAHAA. It was like God telling me to get outta bed. But i didn't. Well i think i was asleep sometime after 4:30 so that was OK.

I have a lot to do in the few short hours here until i go to church tonight. I gotta get music and a devotion ready. And i am SO TIRED! ahaha!!!!!!!!!

   [ posted  @ 12:20 PM | ]

Mercy upon the Guatamalan. Because, i don't have it for her. Someone else is going to have to dish it out. I ain't got it. What would have seriously taken me less than 30 minutes took her from 9:15 p.m. to 2 a.m. I'm at my witt's end. I can't give her any more instruction. She just gets confused. All i have to say is pray for me because i can't work with her anymore. Actually, if you're going to pray about this, pray she shows up late on Sunday so we can fire her. Sorry. Actually, no i'm not.

Work was dull tonight. Had to do a lot of inventory research. I won't bore you with the details, though i am tempted to. Izzy my boss was there and he was freaking out about payroll bc we're over spent by almost 2000$ in the next week and that's equivalent to a few full time ppl. LOL

We're getting more info about the Boise/Omx merger. [That link has insider info that you don't have a password to, but it also has media and consumer info... i have the passwords which i will sell to the highest bidder...]. The stuff i found out today is interesting info/dirt that i can't share with you ... but it will be on the news eventually. ( I wouldn't want to be the next Martha Stewart. ) Nothing that worries me... yet.

And then there's the ripples, the ones that come before the big wave crashes in. I've been getting the hint and the winks and subtle suggestions that they are planning to move me up in the company... that none of us that are here as supervisors will be here at the end of the year, and that kind of thing. I keep chiming in that i am totally not interested in a promotion bc they can't afford me, and that i like our store and everyone i work with and i still have not worked there when it's running efficently [so i would want to wait to see that i've actually accomplished SOMETHING for all my hard work and long hours] and would be too scared to leave and don't want to work where i have to drive so far. Although i guess if i worked at a store closer to Crystal i would consider moving. OMG did i really just think that? Stupid. But hmmm. With a big enough raise it would totally be worth it. NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh. Famous last words... At any rate, i am sure i am going to get some type of a proposal by the end of the year. Two stores are already looking for supervisors and our store has more than enough now...

Only problem is there is only one aspect of this job i like. And that is what i am doing now. Total shipping/ receiving/ inventory, the detail crap that has nothing to do with customer service. I love doing this and it's odd, but i take total joy in it. Making the store look so terrific. Having control over every single sku number and upc in that building. Knowing every vendor policy for returns and authorization and being able to tell you how much on-hand we have of almost every single one of the over 10,000 products we sell. I know a lot of stuff. I would not want to go work at a store helping customers. GAG ME.

OK i had to get that in writing so i can remind myself of it when they start waving dollar signs at me. And also, i want to tell you a new phrase i made up...

it is better to ship, than to receive.

LOL that makes sense only to me bc of what i do for logistics. Sorry.

actually that's all i have to say tonight.

   [ posted  @ 12:23 AM | ]

Here's my horror-scope for today... stupidity.

After all the emotional ups and downs of the past 24 hours, you could no doubt do with a bit of a rest, but you are not going to get it. Because the sun remains in one of the most volatile areas of your chart for a while yet, you will have to put up with the fact that certain people are going to make life difficult. As if it isn't difficult enough already.

What emotional ups and downs? This has been a terrific week! I totally love my new work schedule... and i met a bunch more cool students and ... things are going right and tomorrow is pay-day. Could i use rest? Not really even. I'm getting more sleep than i normally did. And who's making my life difficult? The guatamalan? Nahhhh. See? These things are just silly-ness.

   [ posted  @ 2:24 PM | ]

OMG ROTFLMBO!

Read the 2nd paragraph of my last blog entry! Talk about freudian slip! I spelled FURNITURE "furn-tire" LOL who's tired now???!!! hHhHAAAAAAAAAAAA ! Actually around 3 a.m. is when i start having to take more care running up and down the ladder. I smashed my toe on a pallet jack tonight and last night almost missed a step on the ladder which would have probably caused me to break my back... seriously. You think you are awake but you're body says another thing. Tonight, Mike did all the paperwork and research of things we are out of, while i took care of putting away all the machines and heavy stuff and did about 5 pallets worth of crap by myself. For some reason (very strange) we got in a ton of notebooks which is all over-stock and i had to get those up into mid-steel and make them look decent... that is a lot of lifting. I could also tell i was tired when i was putting all-in-one machines where the laser printers go... That's when we were listening to SuperChic[k] and i was singing loud. I found out Mike met his wife at bible camp. And that Skillet is his favorite band (i am not a fan... could take or leave them.)

Rebecca, my guatamalan refugee (she WILL be a refugee by the time i get done w/ her) had to have a counseling session w/ me and my boss bc she's on her 2nd write up. This means she can not be one second late or miss a day of work in the next 3 1/2 months or she's fired. She now knows this. But she's a horrible worker... It took her about 5 hours to work ONE cart. While i did about 5 pallets worth of stuff. GRRR.

   [ posted  @ 3:16 AM | ]

This blog is entitled
"What i did WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING."

Love working at night. Love it. (Got off work 1/2 hour early bc Mike was going to drop! 4:30 and we were done with putting the truck away except for a pallet of furntire and a pallet of case paper and one cart that Rebecca couldn't figure out; more on that later.)

LOVE my new zone that i am teaching... very different than the one i just came from... Let's see first who was all there. Wendy of course bc it's her house duh. And Heidi, Mark and Jessica were there as leaders (Eric is outta town.) Then we had Kyle, Heidi, Leah, Spencer, Beth, Geoff, Stephen, Jonathan, Josh, Lauren, Rachel and that's it. We were missing several students. But i am super proud of myself i learned everyone's name on the first shot. Someone even commented that i was amazing bc i remembered names really quickly (i used their names to call on them: yay-me.)

By far the funniest part of my night was when Lauren interupted me after about 3 of my paragraphs to say "I like your 'lingo.' I mean, the way you talk." HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA! I've been laughing about her saying that to me all night... I was kind of hyper so were the kidlings so it was funny. OMG they do not look like sophomores. Weirdness. I was like am i in the right zone? {Some of those girls look way older.} They do this thing called "Checking-in" that they made up - they do it every week. You share a high point and low point of your week, and then say something you are looking fwd to, and then everyone "honors" you by clapping when you're done. If you don't clap, Mark "dishonors" you by doing back-wards hand-claps in your direction until you clap for the person. It's very fun. That is what they do in place of singing or something like that. And they do snacks at the end which is cool too.

OMG Heidi and Mark (they are married; Heidi is on staff at Crystal for student ministries...) ARE GB PACKERS FANS LIKE MEEEEEEEEEE! And Heidi GREW UP IN NEENAH! So did my mom and my grandparents! So i was freaking out when we were sharing our high/low points bc when i said i went home to Wisconsin and she said where, when i told her, she actually knew where Cato and Valders were! wow! So that was fun-ness.

A few things about my teaching first-time-around here. First of all, my activity took longer than i thought and i'm totally not sure if it made any sense to any of them. It was a mad-lib thing where they had to plug in words to this equation and my instructions were not specific enough (well, in my defense, it was hard to get a word in edge-wise bc they are a very rambunctious bunch of students! and it was hard to get them to listen right off the bat.)
Second, Heidi was giving Mark some shall-i-say strange looks while i was saying some stuff. Especially when i started talking about adreneline vs. real worship and stuff like that. I couldn't read her face and that drove me up a wall. I don't hardly know her at all, so i as i searched her for some type of feedback (hopefully positive) i was getting nothing. That is frustrating to me! I can understand total blank stares from teenagers (and i got some of those, mixed with some very understanding gestures and other stuff too), but it's really hard when i'm talking to a peer about this. But all night as i thought about this and prayed about it and went over it in my head, i just had to remind myself that i've ran all of this by Pastor Aaron and he really liked it. So it's not like i'm teaching something really controversial. I was sorta crunched for ti me, so i didn't look at my notes a lot. Which was fine, because i didn't truly need them and i was able just to speak with the students (there was actually more discussion than i was thinking there would be) and go from my head instead of what was on the screen (i brought the laptop.)

In doing that, i left a lot of stuff out. But that's ok. I think i made my point.

To continue on with this long post (actually there is a ton i'm leaving out... grr) I learned a lot about Wendy bc i got there early and i wish i could interview her for like hours bc she comes from a missionary family and they were in Liberia and Kenya and Ethiopia and wow she's an awesome Christian and just such a sweet-heart. I'm gonna go watch them guyz quiz on Sunday bc Crystal is hosting a bible quiz meet. Which means i won't get a nap which means oh well. More soda. Stay up late and work harder.

Then there was OfficeMax. Wednesdays are when we get our one truck (called PowerMax, not kidding) a week and it's usually somewhere between 400-900 pieces. This week it was 580-something i think. So that's what i did all night. I wanted to tell you about a new diet i'm on.

You've heard of SouthBeach Diet, and Atkins, SlimFast and others. My diet is called the OfficeMax diet. It's where you work so hard, drink a lot of caffiene, hardly eat anything all day bc you're not hungry when you get up at 2 p.m. and you end up only eating a sandwich on break. Do you realize i've lost like 7 lbs. this week? That's in 4 days. I know it's not that big of a deal and of course no one but me can tell this, but it's crazy. I kept having to pull up my pants tonight bc they were getting loose. HA. So i made up this speel about the OfficeMax diet in my head. It didn't come out as well on here.

   [ posted  @ 3:12 AM | ]

Phone rings. Home phone. That's the one i never need to answer bc it never rings unless it's a telemarketer (most telemarketers who call me are related to politics, firefighters or policepeople, carpet or drapes cleaning, or something else.)

Phone rings (back to story) and it's my landlady person in the office downstairs. She's all like dude whaaaaaaaaaaattttsssss uuuuuuuuuuuuup?! Just kidding. She would never say any one of those 3 words. But she's like kt can you check your check register about when you paid rent for this month?

So i say "dude what's up with this? I was going to call you bc my check has not cleared and i was wondering what is going on..." (i did not say "dude" either.)

And sure enough i sent it on the 29th and so did --19-- other people who live here, they mailed it on the 29th and that bag of mail must be LOST or something bc none it got to the home office in Minneapolis. HOLY COW! hahaha! I hope i didn't mail any other payments that day. It's all gone. She isn't having us re-write any checks yet. But she says she never has late payments here (bc again, i live with near-death elderly people and that's probably all they have to do is write out bills) and whatever. So. There, now you know. Feel better?

P.S. Don't don't don't go in my kitchen. It is a MESSSSSSS! I'm waiting until Friday until i clean it. All i need are mugs and spoons. I still have some left.

   [ posted  @ 1:28 PM | ]

A friend just sent over a link to The Passion of The Christ movie that comes out and the end of Feb. My only question about this film is this... does it end with Jesus dying on the cross or him raising from the dead? I hear nothing but stunning reviews about this grassroots movement to promote the movie and how everyone cries all the way thru it... but i sure hope it ends with HOPE and not just death. His death on the cross is only significant because it DOESN'T end there. He didn't come to make us feel pitiful about ourselves and make us feel like dirt bc we made him die on a cross... he came to breathe new life into us... and give us eternal life. So that's my speel on that.

There. Now that's said.

Well i did not sleep nearly as long as i would have hoped, seeing as it was nearly six a.m. until i got to sleep. That's because i had to watch my soap (taped.) OMG my soap, Guiding Light is incredibly LAME right now... They expect us to believe that in 1977 Ed, Buzz, Josh, Billy and Alan had NO KIDS? Because they were out carrousing with MaryAnne? That was less than 30 years ago. So does this mean Phillip, Amanda, Harley, Gus, etc. are all way in their 20's? Stupid stupid stupid stupid. Why couldn't they think this stupid storyline thru?

And don't tell me soaps are stupid bc they are NOT! They are REAL LIFE! Just come work at OfficeMax sometime. I'll catch you up on all the gossip, about how (i'm going to change names here, for the sake of privacy) Amber, the hot girl in copymax has every guy in the building flirt with her, so much so to the point where Jack's girlfriend comes in and confronts Amber bc she thinks Amber and Jack are having "special times" in the break room (gimmeabreak), and there is this big scene in front of customers... and how Mick and Jessica are dating and should not have been hired because of this together, but we are always having to seperate them... And there are other things i can't mention bc at least one of my co-workers that i know of has this address ! HAHAHA!

Anyways... then we have the 5 guys on GL doing this ridiculous "sacred pledge" thing. It was pathetic and laughable. But i'm hooked on it so i'll go to my SOA meeting now (soap opera anonymous.)

   [ posted  @ 11:25 AM | ]

I'm hooked on another new blog... Wyatt Conquors Switzerland... Thanks to Ross&Kel's site. I really need to establish true communication with this Kelly person bc i'm hooked on their blog in a real way. Stupidity... It started as a random link off of one of my other blog sites links, then lead to eye candy (love the photos... amazing!) and then i start reading all the blogs she reads (mostly her family)... So this Wyatt person seems to be Kelly's brother... who is on a missionary trip of some sort to the Swiss Alps... Awesome writer (and cute to boot.) Someday Kelly or Ross might give me the nod on their blog and i'll faint! To me, they are FAMOUS!

OK, this true l-o-s-e-r is going to try to go to sleep now. Sun's up soon. Ya'll leave me some chatter over there so i have something to read when i wake up around 2 p.m.!

   [ posted  @ 2:37 AM | ]

Ohmy. It's after 4 a.m. and i'm still up. Well that's ok. It's weird sleeping during the day but it's not so hard if you are dead tired like i will be in about an hour. I up reviewing the lesson i need to teach later tonight and got my props ready. (Trying to be post-modern, using metaphors and images instead of words... ouch.)

Still listening to Outkast > LOL!!! Well i had some other stuff on the playlist as well... Sarah McLachlan, Toto, and Sixpence. Is it sixpence or sixpense? I think it's with a "C."

   [ posted  @ 2:09 AM | ]

Let's peer into my horror-scope for Wednesday, ok? Kinda stupid but fun...

Stick to what you know and trust today and don't be tempted to branch out into areas in which you have only limited experience. As far as your career aims are concerned, you must be dynamic, daring and determined to succeed, but you must also know that the targets you set yourself are within your capabilities to reach.

1. I always stick to what i know. It's just who i am. Branching out is uncommon for me... Even if it looks like i'm being brave, it's all in the confines of my comfort level. I work up to the big stuff... like climbing up to the control tower at work... that was a huge move for me but it took me almost 3 years to get up the nerve. (Well, plus the radio station controls are up there and i wanted to change the station to play Christmas music back in November.) I was deathly afraid of heights when i first started working there, and my job requires me to be on locking-ladders a lot... and i just had to get over it. Now i still can't get up and stand on the very top platform, or climb around on the tall steel like some of the guys (and Carrie did this too, but she is super-human so gender has nothing to do with this), but i can get up and get chairs down and get stuff off the highest shelving... all stuff i couldn't do when i first started there.

2. I am not being tempted to branch out into areas that i only have limited experience in. What i am doing now, both at work and at church are things i am very well trained in!

3. My career aims???!!!!!! HAHAHA! I don't have aims, besides to get out of there someday before i die. But as for the rest of that sentence, i am ALWAYS dynamic, daring and determined.

4. Targets i set myself? Does the coincidence that TARGET is right next to OFFICEMAX have anything to do with the truth and uncanniness of this horror-scope??!!! OMG! It's all TRUUUUUUUUUUE! Just kidding, fuddy duddies.
omg.

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LET THE SUPERSTARS COME OUT AND PLAY! That was my theme for the night at work, because my boss worked with me and Mike-e and we again got a lot done. I spent all night on aisle 9 and it's done. That's the file folders aisle. It has index cards, expanding files, poly files, wall pockets, index tabs, hanging files, interior files, and 1/3 and 1/5 cut files. I know, bc i did the aisle all night long. I rule. Allstars everywhere.

OK not fair only two of you were brave enough to post in the chatterbox. I KNOW there are more of you than THAT who read this on a regular basis. Get your butt over there and say something NICE! And then, get to know each other... bc we're gonna spend all of eternity together. Might as well get a jump on things.

Listening to "Hey Ya" by Outkast. I have a reason for listening to this. First, Mike-e played it on one of his mix cd's on Mon. night @ work, and it got in my head. Then, ironically, Tony picked it for Ellen to dance today, today on Ellen show (i love the part where she dances...) So, i had to play it.

OMG i start teaching tomorrow. I'm freaking out bc i have not gone over the lesson enough. I don't have that much time! And then i have to do a REAL overnight after it's over, at glorious OFFICEMAX... bc tomorrow we get our truck and we have to stay until 5 or 6 a.m. till it's done. Which is fine bc the time will go by fast. Yippee.

Heyyyyyyyyyyyy yaaaaaaaa...

   [ posted  @ 1:13 AM | ]

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