Sunday, February 29, 2004  

WHY
WHY WHY WHY
WHY
WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now City on a Hill is selling out. For petesake... if i walk into the christian bookstore and see bloody Jesus face on a coffee mug and blood stained ashtrays with the passion logo on it... i might just have to turn some tables over in righteous anger. make a buck make a buck... grrr!!!!!!!!!!

Come on loser Christians! Let's all get our bloody jesus key chain and our bloody jesus socks and our bloody jesus forks and knife sets with matching napkins and dish towels. bloody jesus bookmarks and bloody jesus tshirts and bloody jesus throw blankets and bloody jesus drink coasters and bloody jesus cinnamon flavored suckers for all the stupid SUCKERS who gobble this stuff up ... GRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why do we have this embarrassing need to capitalize on this pure and holy sacrifice??!!!!

Seriously i'm going to have to start my own 12-step group. 12 Steps for angry kt's.

   [ posted  @ 11:50 PM | ]

How often do you blog?

New article out today. Not all that interesting. lol

A week or two i found "tape one" of the Steven Spielberg Presents TAKEN way in the back of my linen closet. I thought i had either lost or borrowed the tape to someone and finding it was so cool bc i thought the series was well done... Horrific in some parts and really thought provoking in others. I spent Sunday doing basically nothing but watching the tapes bc i had today off of work (and tonight) and really needed a day when i was doing absolutely nothing at all. Interesting to note from the movie website (i should have figured this one out already) that the movie was written on the belief that such things do happen... Hmm. I don't really believe that but it's fun to imagine. That was good. Still need more vacation but whatever.

   [ posted  @ 10:49 PM | ]

Today i saw something i don't think i've ever seen before... Seventh Grade boys taking longer than girls to contemplate spiritual questions. Way to go!

I was a sub for one of the jr. high groups today... holy cow batman they were so figity. Would have helped if i knew their names. I walked in there and said "substitute teacher!!!!!!!" and from there, yeah. It was interesting. Would have been nice to have another leader in there with me.

OK well the conference is over - And i would highly recommend Bob and Dannah Gresh to you if you are looking for people to come to your church and speak on purity. It was well done. They are in the beginning stages of doing this i think... to really big groups. I dare say they tried to pack a little too much in, but maybe that is just bc i was with freshman ladies most of the weekend and it was harder to get them to seriously talk to each other... By the end of last night i really saw the openings of some hearts - most hearts, i should say. It was quite an experience, as conferences like this usually are.

Highlights for me ...
Yesterday morning they had four pregnant ladies in different stages of pregnancy come up and they did live ultra sounds on the projection screens. The doctor even tried to do the "4D" cam thing so we could see babies in color and not just a flat black and white blob. That was so cool. I've never seen anything like that in person before. One girl was only 7 weeks along and we could see the tiny little heart beat. And then the last lady was in her 7th month (i think) and when he did the 4D thing we could see the baby's face and his little fingers and stuff in color. Wow that is amazing technology. They did this to show the sanctity of human life, and how even from the beginning stages we are PEOPLE not fish or reptiles, and how we should help people who are considering abortion to say no.

The other main highlight for me happened about 20 minutes before the last session started. After the guys and the girls had spent the entire day seperated, i came back into the sanctuary and there were only a few people in there. So i sat down and just kinda was sitting there and looking around, and a few students came up to talk to me and we joked around and talked about the weekend together (this was a mix of guys and girls) and i could tell by their smiles and even the way they were breathing and their body language that some HUGE weights had been lifted off of them and they were now "free." Actually i saw person after person like this, but the few who were talking to me really brought it home.

Yup. cool.

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   [ posted  @ 9:08 PM | ]

Hey tonight's first night of the conference went well. Shane and Shane are very good musicians... i was super impressed with that. Bob and Dannah are good presenters and are just people speaking, which is refreshing. They don't try to be all super pro.

But i think Bob must read my blog bc he said almost word for word what i wrote a few hours ago in here... He said in the past we've focused on "the line" of virginity. And said if you weren't a virgin, you weren't "pure." But the truth is, you can be a "virgin" on the night of your wedding and be totally impure bc you've filled your mind with rubbish all your life. In the same way you can be a non-virgin the night of your wedding, yet have been forgiven and made pure by Jesus and then you're clean. Getting back to the heart of the matter. That's a cool thing. Tomorrow should be interesting.

I was seated more towards the back, not really by anyone i knew. That has it's advantages bc i've been in such a contemplative mood these last few weeks so i could take a step back and view things from a different perspective. I still am humbled by these students i serve. Some of their devotion to the Lord puts me to shame. Wow.

Oh, and on one final note. I watched the clock. It took exactly 150 minutes, that's 2.5 hours before The Movie That Shall Not Be Mentioned was brought spoke about from the stage. And then i had to bite my tongue and try not to squirm too much as the rest of the evening's "altar call" was turned into reference to the gore, brutality, etc., that we are to be reminded of as a sacrifice. Ack. I've got to make peace with this bc it's only in it's beginning stages. LOL

   [ posted  @ 8:52 PM | ]

This week, a Christian friend of mine freaked out on me when i said i wasn't planning to attend a viewing of The Movie That Shall Not Be Named - [and that if i did see it, i wasn't planning on being one of the blind sheep at the head of the ticket line wide-eyed with gaping mouth open]. He tried to challenge me by asking me this pointed (but laughable) question:

"But don't you want to be part of the one thing that could turn America back to God?"

The one thing?
I thought that one thing was Jesus.

It's funny [and also scary] to me [and i promise this will probably be my last post on this topic...] to consider that the blind sheep who usually tweak if you even mention an r-rated movie or who preach against violence and gore in movies line up in droves to see the very thing they said just a few months ago was so wrong. We are becoming a culture of dichotomous cannibals, who thrive on watching pain and suffering... for whom the bible is not good enough... the written word is not good enough, so we need to make more graven images that will later be used in our thoughts during worship (something strictly forbidden in the commandments, but maybe i'm reading that wrong, movie to follow...!) And all the Protestant pastors and teachers and scholars so blindly justifying biblical innacuracies in the movie - and justifying going against their own preaching to see this... Protestant people so quickly jumping on a very catholic view of the sacrifice of Christ, i am not sure i want to call it hypocricy bc i don't feel the way they do, (i'm not about blanketly condemning any genre of art just bc of it's label) but i'm really starting freak out when i hear these people end or begin every conversation with this movie ... It is a sign of our times that we in the church are so hungry for something "else" besides Jesus to satisfy us... something "else" besides the simplicity of the gospel...

That it took Hollywood to bring Jesus to the culture.

Dude we're doing more than one thing wrong if that's the case. If we had to wait for Hollywood to "bring America to God" there's a cancer in the church. And i don't see anyone really identifying it or trying to fix it. Instead, we'll just "use this tool" to preach the gospel. "Just one more way we can be off the hook. Again now we won't need to be salt and light." The subliminal message i'm so sick of...

And now those of us on the anti-side of this movie are getting the priviledge of being treated like Heretics by our "brothers and sisters" - looked at like we are totally anti-God bc we are challenging the premise of this movie which was made in part by visions of catholic nuns centuries ago (not based souly on scripture like some are saying) - and it's people like me that will be called dividers of the church because i am simply asking people to think twice about what they are buying into here...

I want to make very clear (bc i get email from some of you who are worried about me drifting...) for what it's worth that my opinion here is not that i have a problem with the movie, who made the movie, who goes to see the movie (go see it, who cares), but the reaction to this movie. The underlying things people are not out-right saying, but how they are treating the use of this movie... and what it says about the health and state of the christian church. The attidudes reflected in the worship of this movie, the reverence and awe associated with it... the focus and attention the church has placed on it -- and what that says about our boredom and our lack of influence on the culture. The church didn't make this movie. And if you argue that Mel represents the church, i disagree. After this movie, what are they going to say when he goes back to making more smut and junk like before? The church may be responsible for the way the movie took off, but that's about it. We have no influence here, besides to look like the blind guides leading the blind.

Boohockey.

Nuts.

Love,
The Wet Blanket.
Peace, out.

   [ posted  @ 2:10 PM | ]

This weekend my church is hosting what they call Sacred Conference for teens. The subject is sexual purity and i'll be leading a group of Freshman ladies. It used to be we talked about "Abstinence" until good ol' Slick Willy decided to change the defitions of what sex is... and students in the 90's were thinking abstinence meant you can do everything but the big act. Now thankfully youth ministry is gaining this trend (and believe me it's just another passing fad but i'll ride the wave...) talking about PURITY instead of just abstaining from risky behavior.

Purity implies a holistic approach to a very big problem for youth. Now we get to move on to talk about surrendering all of us... not just our bodies or some future marriage but our thoughts, attitudes, actions, etc. to Jesus. Being pure has a lot more to do than just "when i'm alone with my boyfriend we _____ or we don't ______" but "here's how i think about _____ in general..." It ought to be an intense weekend. We're hosting over 700 students 7th-12th grades from all over, and Shane and Shane (some band i never heard of but everyone loves) will be there as well as Bob and Dana Gretsch speaking. I'll let ya know what goes on.

   [ posted  @ 1:54 PM | ]

I would like to recount the number of different bags in the drawer in my kitchen that i cleaned out today. Let's see...

1. We have the blue cling wrap. Why blue? No idea why i bought that. I never use cling wrap for anything. That's what those glad disposable bowls are for.
2. We have the tin foil. Absolutely necessary for saving pizza till the next day.
3. We have the wax paper. I use that once or twice a year when i make carmels. Mind you, this year i made carmels @ mom's house so i didn't use any of it. It stays in the drawer. Stay!
4. We've got the double pleated (meant for meat) freezer bags. Again, i don't eat a lot of meat that i would need to freeze. But we've got the bags. Save 'em.
5. Then there are your different kinds of sandwich bags. I've got
a. Freezer size recloseable sandwich bags.
b. Pleated flap sandwich bags.
c. Another box of pleated flap sandwich bags... these are from a different manufacturer
6. Large freezer bags (recloseable.)

I threw out the bag of evil tasting cold-ease sucky cough meds. That stuff is what they will serve at the gates of hell for parched throats. Nasty crap.
I threw out a 3 year old bag of bottlecaps candy.
One day many moons ago, i thought i would save half a stick of gum because you know, gum is just soooooooo outrageously expensive. So i ripped the stick of gum in half and put it in this drawer... And today i found it. And in honor that half-stick of gum, i'm going to chew a whole stick today to remind myself and you the reader that we are to live each day as our last. And in that vein, please just go ahead and eat the whole stick of gum. Not only will it taste SO MUCH better and last SO MUCH longer than just a half-stick, but the likelihood of you eating that other half later is so small, which defeats the purpose of saving it in the first place. I say to myself: Live it up kt!!!!

I did save the used twist-tie. I always save those. Don't know why but i can't part with them.

Big find:
Also discovered i don't need to buy vanilla extract for the next, let's say... decade. For some reason everytime i am making a recipe that requires Vanilla, i always buy a new little bottle bc i'm always convinced i'm out. Now i will remember. Got a lot of that. However, the Strawberry Extract and Lemon Extract from i think 1996 i did throw out. I can't even remember why we bought that. Danni if you are reading this, you'd probably remember. Fill me in.

The lid to the Smuckers strawberry jam glass jar has been thrown out. I think i still have the jar and believe me, there has to be a good use for that. Just has to be- so i don't plan on throwing it out.

OK you can go back to your life now... our lives in America remember, consist of three things i guess... Some Movie That Shall Not Be Named, Gay marriage, and the Election. Also a quick spin thru Michael Jackson @ a WalMart in Colorado with a ski mask on, and Martha Stewart. People, we really have it good here. Wow. :)

   [ posted  @ 1:37 PM | ]

So, i got an idea.

What i would like more than anything is if Mel G. now made a
movie of the laughing fun party Jesus... the one that got
crucified, but in his early days. Show his boyhood (have some fun
with it) show him playing stick and rocks and going fishing
with his friends and then how he is baptized and starts to
heal people and make it like a pre-quel to the movie. Have him
racing home to tell his mom and Joseph about "the one that got
away." His brothers could be telling fish-tales about how big it
was... Imagine this if you would. Show him at the temple as a
12 year old captivating the old men with his explanation of
the Torah. Show him as he sleeps upon his bed at night, under
the covers, gazing at the ceiling picturing heaven's angels all
watching his every move. Show how he fell and hurt his knee
or how he climbed a tree, how he felt pain and cried and how
he laughed and joked around... Show him as he feels different
than other boys.


I want to see how Peter James and John were with Jesus,
laughing and hugging and crying together, joking around.
Wrestling with each other. Private jokes. I get concerned that
we teach the bible like Jesus was this stern rude guy that
no one liked to hang out with. Jesus was a friend to SINNERS.
He hung out with the dirty crowd. He was a fun man. He
was God but He lived among the filth. He made the righteous
uncomfortable. How comfortable are WE?


Jesus telling the most GRIPPING stories and how he held
the masses attention while he spoke... the metaphors. Him
playing catch with little children and them running up to
him screaming his name. Show His grace with the woman at
the well. The woman coming to him washing his feet with
her tears. Mary attentively listening while Martha is making a huge
self-righteous fuss over dinner. Jesus (*gasp*) eating
with sinners. DRINKING WINE with the Pharisees. The wedding
at Cana where He turned water into wine. Imagine that in
cinematography! OMG! You could do so much with that.

The puzzled look on the disciple's faces as they feed the 5000 (something
that actually happened twice in Jesus' ministry, if you did not know). They
keep handing out this bread and fish as it miraculously is being filled
in their baskets. The disciple's conversations about Jesus behind His
back. Their posturing for the higher position in the kingdom. The crowds
marveling going who the heck is this guy???!

Peter walking on the water...
Zachcceus up in that tree... (that is how the movie could start!!! Little
dude in the tree watching Jesus going how can this beeeeeeeeee??)
And Jesus walks up to Zach and goes, "dude i'm coming to your place
for dinner. We're having pizza and you're cooking!" LOL

Geeze
that's a movie i'd really like to go to. come on people... :)
WHO'S WITH ME!???

   [ posted  @ 4:20 PM | ]

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   [ posted  @ 5:34 AM | ]

"The Passion"

I got a report from Mr. Miller (one of my student's dads) who saw the Passion on Wed., and my burning question got answered... In the movie, Jesus did rise from the dead. This was my main concern about the movie, coming from a Catholic perspective, that it focused too much on the crucifixion and not on the whole point of the thing, that Jesus died but HE CONQUORED DEATH AND HELL... If He only died, it was totally pointless. But he rose from the dead and is alive today to give us HOPE. That the grave is not the end if we put our lives in His hands, we'll also live with Him forever.

I have to admit i am very leery of the church world flocking to these theaters like this is the 2nd-coming. In fact i told one of my co-workers tonight "Who the heck needs the 2nd Coming of Jesus when you have THE PASSION??!!" I mean you'd think we had the whole universe balanced and put in a basket and all the whole stew is done. And now these stupid trinkets and neclaces and stuff... makes me real nervous and honestly the whole thing has turned me off. So, Chris and I (he's totally not a Christian at all) were joking around about how he can't wait for this Passion movie to go away, because it is ALL that is on the news. I corrected him. 3 Stories are headline news right now. The Passion, Gay Marriage, and the Election. And sometimes, Iraq. GRR!

I am sometimes one to jump on a band wagon. This is NOT my wagon. Several email lists i am on, and message boards i frequent are treating this thing like THIS is the thing that is going to turn america to God. Sheeeesh. I'm sorry but give me a break... Anyone who goes to pay money for a ticket to sit in a theater may be moved at the time being... and i am sure many will come home and contemplate whatever suffering happened [with very little perspective given as to WHY He did it... hmmm...] but it's just a movie. And i have a bad feeling it will be like so many other emotional experiences for people who turn to God out of emotional fever pitch... here today/gone tomorrow. Seed on rocky soil... yeah.

Not saying i'm not glad it's here. Not saying it can't be used as a discussion tool. It will be. Literally everyone i know has asked me my opinions on this movie and if i am going to see it. You'd think i was Mel's best friend or something. At the very end of the movie, the last 30 seconds we do see Jesus sit up and He's alive. I guess that gives me some hope... That's a good thing.

Here's the thing:

I just get really tired of the church [as a whole] jumping and grasping at every stupid last straw to make ourselves seem validated, authenticated, proven, accurate, dignified, logical, valuable, noticable, respectable, etc. Jesus was none of that on earth. He was illogical, totally undignified, disrespected, laughed at, mocked, hated, and so were His followers. He never promised us a seat at the debate table. He never promised we'd win any argument on "this" side, and He never said we were going to look polished in the eyes of world. We can't be. We're fools for giving up everything for His love. It isn't supposed to MAKE SENSE. I'm getting tired of people acting like we have to make our message seem logical and presentable and something that people should pay attention to. If your faith will ever be real, it won't be because of facts and figures and things you can GRASP with your mind. And if your faith will ever be real, it won't be based just on something you can feel, touch, see, comprehend, or even explain. And the way people are treating this movie, you'd think the war was won... Good for us, we never have to witness anymore. Don't worry about living the life, just make sure you get your relatives to see this movie.

Whatever.

Like Hermie the elf from Rudolph, it seems i don't fit in. Oh well, neither did Jesus. That's why they killed Him.

   [ posted  @ 5:24 AM | ]

Wow i am totally still freaking out about Miranda calling me LOL! I reminded myself of my sis Terri who talks in what can only be described as squirrel language (high pitch excitement) when she gets going... I was just flipping out to hear all this stuff and 2 connect to someone from back in the day. It's odd.

I really want to know what everyone is doing!

Sadly i found out that 2, possibly 3 off my classmates are dead. It was strange bc they heard one person is dead but they don't know if it's a rumor, so she doesn't know how to call the parent's house and find out about it. WHAT WOULD YOU DOOOOOOOO???!

I mean we could start a rumor about anyone saying anything and if you pass the word along the chain, it will be believed. We could "kill" several people this way. Or we could make someone like myself a millionaire or a ROCK STAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG!

haha
Screw that, i already told her work retail (head hung in SHAAAAME!).

In my last post, i said, "I have not talked to or seen basically ANYONE from my class since graduation day. That was SO COOL!"

Not to have confusion here. Graduation day was not anything out of the ordinary so that was not "cool." What was cool was hearing from MIR!

She still has a song i wrote for her called "Eyeliner in the Dryer." Yes she even noticed right away that i have not changed a bit.

   [ posted  @ 5:23 AM | ]

Holy Crap that was interesting!!!!

I got a phone call from Miranda, a friend of mine from High School, and they are putting our *gasp* ten yr. reunion together!!!! I have not talked to or seen basically ANYONE from my class since graduation day. That was SO COOL!

I am running really late for church now LOL -- but have so much going thru my mind! That's a lot of gossip to get in a few minutes :)

Dudes, i'll write more LATER!

   [ posted  @ 3:48 PM | ]

Yes i know i need a life...

I was kicking and screaming (inside) watching Obnoxious finale last night. OMG! That has got to be one of the best endings of a show i've ever seen. Holy crap!!

   [ posted  @ 3:01 PM | ]

IT'S A SIGN!!!!!!!!!!

So i'm sitting in traffic this afternoon and look up to the car in front of me. It has a bumper sticker in the window. I desperately need a new perscription for my glasses so what i THOUGHT i saw i was not sure of, until i focused!

That's what i thought, I said to myself... It was a generic "I Love My Cub" bumper sticker, only the person had taken a black permanent marker and wrote the word "HATE" over the heart that stands for the word "love"

HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Somewhere out there i do have a soul mate!!!!

I was laughing so hard!

Then, i looked at the licence plate. I am NOT making this up, OK? But it is going to sound so outrageous that you are going to think i am making it up...

the licence plate said KLE-317

NO WAY!

K for Katie
LE for LeClair
3 for the trinity [Could also stand for how many sisters i have or how many neices i have]
1 for how many of me there are (one). 1 could also stand for how many officemax's i work at. Or how many brothers i have. Or, how many moms i have. WOW! The possibilities are endless here people!!!
7 for God's perfect number, of course.

OMG!!! IT'S A SIGN!

I'm not kidding that was real! LOL

   [ posted  @ 2:56 PM | ]

Big time mui mui loser alert...

I found this website and Amy, guess what!?!
The new High School Reunion show starts March 5 on the WB - LOL!

seriously...

   [ posted  @ 5:21 PM | ]

How many ways can you re-arrange a 825 sq. foot apartment?

All day yesterday and today and for the rest of eternity i am cleaning and re-arranging my apartment. One of the reasons i decided to do this is because it's been about a year and 3 months since i had to make use of a home office since i don't work for a church anymore and don't need all sorts of stuff on my desk - rolodexes, files, envelopes blah blah. I think it's taken me this long to admit this to myself. So i had to move my desk from sticking out into the middle of the living room (the one with the monster computer on it that i never use anymore) and put it against the wall in the corner. In this process, I decided to do a whole revamp in here. Hopefully to be done by tonight since all i do on sundays is church and sleep all afternoon.

Here's what i am learning about myself

* omg i don't throw anything away. THIS is how my dad's garage got to be the way it is...
* i need to throw things away
* now i am throwing SOME things out. not a lot.
* working at officemax has shown me how to organize and put stuff away. grr.
* that is a good thing
* dust. dust everywhere. i hate dust. i think i sneezed about 49x in a row upon starting the cleaning process today
* my least favorite place to clean is the stupid kitchen (it's so smalllll)
* it's probably true that whatever you are packing in a box and storing higher or further away is something you will NEVER need but i keep it anyway. you'd think i lived thru the depression or something
* this is a depression in and of itself.
* my super nintendo (as far as i know) does not work. The RF chord is at steph's. I'll never get it back i'm sure. But still, i boxed it up and kept the 8 games. Hoping some miracle will happen and one day it will work so when i'm in my *gasp* 30's i can play Yoshi's Island.
* I have a lot of books
* My george foreman grill makes great burgers. I have not made burgers in like a year. This weekend i'll have eaten 4 by the time it's over with buttered toasty kaiser rolls for buns, mustard and pickels on them
* i have no where to put a lot of things. like my stupid plastic 6 drawer storage thing from aisle 10 (officemax) and a paper shredder i didn't need to buy. If you want to steal my identity folks, you ain't getting much! So if you dig thru my trash and find my unshredded bank statements and credit card bills YOU CAN HAVE THEM! GOOD LUCK!
* I have three dictionaries that i will never open bc i use the one online. But yes, i'm saving them. Some day there may be a civil war and no electricity and i'll need to look up how to spell "retarded"
* Looking around i now realize i have a table to lamp ratio of 1:1. And then, there's the floor lamp i have no spot for.
* I have 2 computers sitting in my closet that i will --never-- use again. I have like 3 extra keyboards and two extra mice. Why why why why why
* When every outlet has a full surge protector associated with it, now i know why my electricity bills are as high as they are
* I didn't purchase one cotton-pickin' item of furniture in this place. It's all donations to the kt_rocks universe of mayhem
* I knew i was getting down to the bottom of the barrel when i was folding and color coding the gift-wrapping and tissue paper and gift bags that i have saved over 5 years. Yet if i give you a present, be assured i'm too prideful to give you a used bag, so you'll get a new one and probably new tissue paper too, and i'll just keep that other collection for my own security (well maybe incase there's a civil war someday)
* It was worth it to take an hour out of my time to cut down a matted picture my grandpa took and reframe it... It looks really good though when i saw his signature and title of the picture on the back under the matting my dad made, i almost started crying. Then, i realized it was probably just dust particles tickling my eyes.
* No matter how i re-arrange my living room, there will still be a chord running straight thru the middle of it for my cable internet. I'm not ambitious enough to move my couches and TV
* I abhor the couch slip cover that is on the couch i am not seated on right now. WHAT WAS I SMOKING to buy that thing? But now i'm broke and won't go spend another 100$ to get one i like.
* I have a color printer and scanner by canon, if anyone wants it. I will never need it, but you know i have them proudly displayed in their boxes in my hall closet.
* It's taken me 4 years, but i've finally decided to throw out the empty box one of my big collectable teddy bears came in. proud of me?
* There is what appears to be a dried piece of watermelon with about 8 seeds in it, glorifyingly stuck to the floor behind where my garbage was in my kitchen closet. How in the HECK am i going to get it off the floor. Does anyone have a small saw?
* Oh and speaking of that closet, the mop&glo bottle at one time fell over and spillled about a half-dollar sized glob on the floor which is now dried. I can't get that off either. Please help.
* There is a distinct darker pattern in the carpet from the door to the couch where i sit and and type to you. Not going to be able to get that cleaned either.
* Some of the lower wall sockets can be operated by the light switch when you walk in by the door. Most cannot. Therefore, since ONLY ONE LAMP can be operated by that switch, i have to walk around and turn off each lamp before bed... this is a problem for me. So sometimes (mom, turn you head away from the screen NOW!) sometimes i just sit in the dark with the one lamp on. LOL
* Second to cleaning the kitchen (gag barf puke) i hate cleaning the bathroom. This only leaves the living room (almost done) and bedroom (ain't touching it...).
* The pile of magazines that i swear i will read one day has now migrated from desk to floor, to another spot on the floor, to yet another floor spot, to dining room table, back to floor and guess where it is now??

Yes, it is back on the desk where it came from, although lower on the stack of crap than before.

* I seriously contemplated making a check-off list of all the things i wanted to get done so that i could feel the satisfaction of doing them as i went along. Then, i decided that i would make no such list. Just get to work.
* So what did i do? Put in a tape of Friends, sat on my butt and watched a few episodes. Good progress!
* Is it ok to put one doily on top of another? Is that how you spell "doily" ? I should go get one of my 3 civil war issued dictionaries and find out.
* I have way too many tapes and cds that i will never listen to. Yet, i found myself alphabetizing them. Why?
* OK i must end this break in my day. Must get back to the dust...
* There is hair... just about... everywhere.
* Don't you want to come for a visit?


Love,
kt

   [ posted  @ 1:05 PM | ]

Remember one of the last scenes in the Truman Show where Truman is almost drown in that boat by the show's producer and he is challenging God in the heavens to bring it on... and go ahead and kill him? LOL I felt like that last night at work... Thursday nights are stressful to me. I've about had it with that STUPID STORE (that's what i walk around calling it when i'm there. I mutter under my breath... "this stupid store. stupid stupid stupid stupid..." )

We are still not done putting away freight from Wed.'s shipment and it should have been done wed. night. But i don't work again till Sunday night so i am at least thankful for that. By Thursday nights i am so burned out, angry, crabby, ticked off... Then i found out my boss is re-doing stuff mike did by the book to fit our needs. Well let's just throw the rule book out the window. I confronted my boss as soon as i walked in the door last night. I'm like "why did you have brandon move the web cams by the keyboards and expand magnetic media another 4 feet? mike just re-did that!!! and you shrunk my speakers planogram and now there's no room for stuff..." and he talked in circles and just said he doesn't like any of the electronics endcaps and had asked mike to fix it but mike didn't. And i'm like well we are going by what corporate wants and is looking for... If we're going to start cheating, i'm going to start cheating A LOT!

It was so defeating talking to him bc you can't throw out the standards in one area and expect to keep them for the rest of the store. I think Mike was a little suprised with me bc around mid-night i totally gave up trying to do anything constructive and just started throwing stuff where it goes and then if there wasn't room for it, i just mashed it where i wanted to put it. It's becoming so that it's like me and mike vs. the rest of the managers and staff. We are trying to do things RIGHT so that it fixes problems in the long run, and the rest of the people just do what they want, regardless of company policy.

I have a little more to say on this... when Boise Cascade aquired Office Max last year, i don't think we understand the far reaching implications of this merger. I have already noticed and caught wind of big changes they are doing audits and customer surveys and are actually coming in and CLEANING stuff up. I'm kind of happy about this. I wish someone would come talk to me bc i have a lot of ideas of where OMX is losing money starting with the warehouses and down to the store level. [One main thing customer surveys are finding is that we are losing dedicated customers due to the fact that we put stuff in our ads nationwide that we don't have available anywhere...!]. But from my standpoint, it's much better not to be caught with your pants down and just follow the rules, than make it up as you go along, bc that never wins in the end.

So like Truman, last night i was treading water and screaming under my breath that i want OUT!

--drama queen alert--

lol

Here's an interesting quandry we found ourselves in. Hector checked inventory counts on 2 pocket prong folders for a customer, sold individually at $0.39. When he checked those counts on wed., it said 200 something. When he checked it Thursday (the day after our shipment was received) the count was at 1523. Now, there were *no* folders sent to us. In fact, both counts are wrong. We have NONE of this folder at all. I promise you. I know where every thing is. But now it's MY JOB to research what they did wrong as either a keying error or something in Las Vegas or Hazelton (where we get our trucks from) -- just because someone did something wrong it's my job to research and fix it. That is messed up. And that's just one error we happened to CATCH because of whatever. Multiply this problem times however many stores there are and you can see dollar signs floating down the river... We will never ever pass inventory with the way they auto-receive shipments (i am of the opinion it should be piece counted.)

anyways blah blah about work i just had to get that off my chest!

And now back to cleaning the cave!

   [ posted  @ 1:32 PM | ]

OK
i got out of bed came all the way out here turned on this
laptop

to tell you my reaction to American Idol! LOL NO LIFE!

LOL

I really think Lisa did a better job but her auditions were not good. I never liked her. I did always like the boy matthew i think he's HOT plus he's got a great voice. That song WAS NOT right for him though. He was still missing notes all over the place when he sang it tonight. I forgot to say that the last girl to sing (marissa?) did totally bug me the way she was standing when she sang that song like she was either going to go to the bathroom standing up or just really in pain or something. LOL That stance was wicked weird. Very glad she did not make it. I never noticed Camile before and i don't think she will go far but my hottie will go far bc he's a great singer and a good entertainer. Bring it on next week!

   [ posted  @ 4:28 AM | ]

UGGGG i hate putting away that stuuuuuuuupid truck. Gosh i could say so much about work right now but it's the same old thing. ok.

I'm itching to go watch to see who won this round of american idol... I had to skip reading Amy's blog bc i bet she posted something about it on there. And mom sent me an email about it so i can't read that either. Should i just rewind to the last 2 minutes of the show and find out, or should i watch the whole thing and see the stupid eliminations... "we'll be right back after the break." i hate that !

Zone i think went really well. Good bible study. Lightbulbs turning on ALL over the room. Two of my students that were sitting on the fire place ledge thing, Lyss and Landis made me laugh... Lyss i know you're probably reading this and tonight at work i was thinking of how you are like a zoo keeper to Landis. You're the only one who speaks his language so you have to calm him down and explain things to him. So that's how i see it now... zoo keeper ! haha! He's such a HAM! Hopefully in a year or so he'll grow out of this crazy stage where he has to raise his hand to answer every cotton pickin' question LOL ;)

Yippeeeeee my sis in law Tracy (find her blog on the side there) is bringing up the kiddies in March. I CAN NOT WAIT. It will be a very nice change of pace from the reality tv, UPC codes, inventory verifications and what-not. :)

   [ posted  @ 3:44 AM | ]

Oh, Finally!

There's a band i've been interested in since last summer when Drive 105 up here started playing this song "Heaven" to the hilt. Los Lonely Boys are from Texas. Heard of them? So check them out. Click here to listen to the track of "Heaven." I love that song! The harmonies are aaaaaiiiiight!

   [ posted  @ 1:36 PM | ]

Here's my Am. Idol picks from last night. I only really liked Lisa (the one simon thinks needed to lose weight.) If i had to pick a 2nd, i'd go with the last girl who sang, but she was just so-so. The one they think is a young Lauren Hill did not impress me@ all.

   [ posted  @ 1:21 PM | ]

VERY IMPORTANT PREDICTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think next week's Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance will end like this, based on last night's teaser. What do you think?

I think the Coy family will object to the marriage, and the producers or whom-ever go after the mom and dad and brothers and ask them to please come back to the ceremony. At that time the host will reveal the million dollar prize dealy thing, and tell them that they can have the money, if Randy and Steve really do get married and stay married for one year. This will be after it is revealed that Steve's family are actors. Or, they could keep up the farce for a spin off show with Steve's family still being actors.

Just a thought but i think i'm right about this. :)

   [ posted  @ 2:44 PM | ]

You should seeeeeeeeee my receiving department... ! Last night i threw away so much junk and purged two entire filing cabinets of paperwork (that is safely tucked in a box no one will ever look in but we have to save it anyway) and it sparkles... there is only one area that has not been revamped since i took over back there... That is the area right behind the ladder that goes up to where the controls are, and we keep store signage back there and it's a little bit of a junk pile. I may have time to clean that tonight. I made really cool labels on the computer for each filing drawer and i sorted out all the desk supplies and peg hooks and tools and papers... it was a hoot! Then i took out all these junk pallets and took all the garbage out... by myself (men are lazy, so i didn't ask Mike) and then looked

down at my coat

and i was full of DIRT! aaaahhhhhhhhhhh! My blue coat turned to grey/brown! ACK! But i brushed it off as best i could. I can only wait to see what my managers say about how the back looks. Mike didn't say a word... but i think he was mad that i was not helping him on the floor -- plus he was tired, and sick, and probably jealous that i was going to get props and he was not.

OK well i'm off to the store NOW. I should have taken before and after pictures bc no one would believe how much i did in only a few hours. Now, if i could only do that to my APARTMENT! Welcome to the junk yard.

   [ posted  @ 3:31 PM | ]

Hey
go check out
this website
about predictions about our "future" that
we're living in right now. Fun stuff!!!

   [ posted  @ 12:24 PM | ]

No blogging this wknd. I'll get over it. Took a lot of needed rest time. Spent some time with my honey pie.

LOL!

Now i can watch him when-ever i want.

My dad sent me a very cool plant on Friday. He's my Valentine and i am his :)

Let's see what else is new around here... band was good today. I was a little "off" being tired and a little cranky. My two would-be american idol vocalists {Kirstin and Ashley} got along swimmingly ... amazingly ! I've never seen two girls do such a turn around. Before they were clawing at each other and now they were total pals. That was an answer to prayer, for sure! HA!

Andddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd, that's it.

   [ posted  @ 4:18 PM | ]

Hey folkies,

Just got off work. My boss came in to help us put the truck away. That was a big help so we got it alllll done. First time ever :)

He also said my back clearance end-cap was the best he'd ever seen. That was a huge compliment and i was proud of that one so yay me.

Tonight instead of home bible studies for youth, we had a missionary speaker come speak to the combined jr. and sr. high. His name was Shayne and he's from Brazil and i guess Crystal is possibly planning a big mission trip there summer 2005. This guy was not like any missionary i'd ever seen. He was like punk ghetto white guy. Really cool guy! Huge gotee. LOL I really liked what he had to say and wish i could have taken notes.

We are still getting more snow. Gottalovethiswinter.

I have to go find out who won this round of Idol... so i'm off to the tv before trying to get some sleep. I can't wait for tomorrow to be over so i can have a nice long weekend. Might even be able to get clean and get out my guitar!

   [ posted  @ 3:47 AM | ]

One good thing about work tonight was that i did not have to listen to the Lickin'Barf CD. As i have said repeatedly, i cannot stand that band and it seems as though every night it's one of the 7 or 8 we listen to. Ugg. So thankfully neither the live version or the reg. CD was in the rotation. Instead, i did get to listen to the Newsboys and i really like that new cd.

We had to leave early though because Mikey is getting a huge cold and he wanted to leave at midnight but i can't short myself 2 hours of work this week and i really don't want to come in 2 hours early on Thursday to make up for it. So we compromised and left only 30 min.'s early. I can handle that i guess.

And another cool thing is that Steph came into work and i got to help her pick out a bunch of school supplies (ok, 3 things) and she has new Converse shoes which are really snappy. She always has new shoes. Most things in life are not fair: that is one of them.

OK i'm off to watch my GL and Am. Idol... my mom emailled me and said "Fantasia" so i wonder what this could meaaaaan.

   [ posted  @ 11:54 PM | ]

Just finished watchinging Vh1's Presidential Pop Culture Quiz. Genius stuff! John Kerry is such a crab head.

   [ posted  @ 3:31 PM | ]

Some of you have asked me if i've seen the latest batch of OfficeMax commercials. I have only seen one. I have heard about some of them...

The one i saw is a black guy wheeling a cart dancing to the rubberman man song handing out office max supplies to people sitting at their office desks. He has a huge fro.

I could not find it funny, though i tried because i was brainwashed by a professor in college in a class called "Race, Multiculturalism and the Mass Media." My [black] professor [from England] spent an entire semester telling us how blacks are ALWAYS type cast in roles that are either servants, service roles (doctors, lawyers, assistants to whities etc.) In the commercial, here is this dancing black guy (totally stereotype) serving all the whities! I couldn't believe it. I hated that professor for a lot of reasons... but everytime i see a black person on t.v. or in the movies, i'm reminded that his thesis was correct! And i knew if he saw that commerical, exactly what he would be thinking. He pounded this into us over and over and i find myself referring back to that class for many reasons. We studied Norman Lear and All in the Family for a big chunk of it... the man could not be pleased with anything.

OK but the commercial is good for the average person and i do think it is a big improvement over their other stupid ones and it's more "hip" and yes it is funny on it's own without Professor Darrel in the back of my mind.

I inquired about my vacation thing with one of managers yesterday who is an even better lier and spin-doctor than i am. His answer to me made no sense so i'll ask my store manager when he's off Jury duty. Maybe someone needs to draw me a diagram. Actually now that i sit here and think about it, the days might be correct. Yeah. OK.

My
apartment
is
a
mess.
What's
new.

   [ posted  @ 2:15 PM | ]

Well, i'm feeling a widdle bedder about the taxes situation. I have to promise myself over and over that that $$ is going to go into savings and pay off auto insurance because i'm running low.

Hey it's a good TV night. Big Fat Fiance is on! If you have not watched this show, i think you should give it a try. I sit there completely breathless half the time bc i can't believe what i am seeing! LOL!

Mikey thinks i should get tee-vo because i tape so many shows but i was thinking about that and i don't think it works on two tv's does it? Like if i tape a show could i watch it in my bedroom if the main receiver is in the living room?

OMG i forgot to report another disappointment yesterday. When Boise and Omx merged, they changed how we are getting benefits and vacation time. Instead of your vacation time being renewed at your hire-anniversary date, it starts on Jan. 1. This means since my hire date is May 7, and i had 10 days of vacation yet before that time, i lost it!!!! I was seeeeething mad. I have to check into that though because it doesn't seem right. When i checked my employee file online it says i have 5 sick days and 10 vacation days left for this year. It should be double that. In fact, i was counting on it to be double that so i could go to Utah in July. (Gonna go find me a Mormon husband...).

I also have a feeling my managers knew about this but didn't tell me because some of them took a butt-load of vacation towards the end of the year (not in the block-out December but earlier than that) and i was not allowed any. That means they USED me as a fill-in so they could get their time but i would be denied mine. It totally is unfair and i am going to fight for that time... grr.

SOMEONE'S GONNA PAY FOR THAT ONE! Kt is angry!

I mean, is that fair?

   [ posted  @ 2:55 PM | ]

I should not blog when i'm crabby.

I'm a little miffed about this stupid tax refund crappage. I used TaxCut to e-file this year. I'm suprised i was brave enough to do that but i didn't want to go spend another 85$ for the tax person to do it for me when i can get all those rebates and only end up paying like under $30 to do it myself. But everyone i know just raves about it and how much money they are getting back this year and i am not getting much back at all. At least it's over now and i don't have to pay in. Then again everyone who is raving about this year's returns are married w/ kids. LOL I'd rather take THIS headache than have THAT one. :) It seems every year i've just come out about even. I hate taxes. We should not be taxed on our income and that's all i have to say about that.

Wow i am crabby all of the sudden!! I should go put in my tape of the Grammy's and find out how things turned out. Work is so ultra boring right now... I am getting restless there... not getting overtime BITES because that's about 4-500$ less a month for me LOL. Woe is me; shut up kt.

Oh holy crap i just realized i probably screwed something up on my taxes for getting a property tax refund. I didn't see any place to enter that info on there. Fudgesickles. Oh well it's just money. If anyone knows how to accomplish this stupid thing let me know. Actually i think there is a form online that you just print and fill out and mail in seperately. I am getting way too irritated to try to figure this out tonight. I mean today. Grr-ness. You know what would

make me
feel better?

Is if someone could write to me with a tax-time nightmare, especially from THIS year and tell me how good i've got it instead of crying in my imaginary beer right now... That would probably cheer me up, OK? Or if you just want to comment on how stupid taxes are, that would make me feel nice too. Taxes suck. You fill in the rest of the blanks.

Yeah. Do that.

   [ posted  @ 3:00 AM | ]

I led the singing for Tentmaker's Bridging the Gap training today. Thankfully that's over now. I need the rest of this night to sleep and chill. I got lost on the side streets of Crystal (only me, i know...) bc i left my directions on the couch here and had to go from memory. Turns out the directions i had were incomplete and i recalled one of the street names from another set of directions i looked at - which got me there only right on time. A little unnerving. And i could not find a CD to warm up my voice on the drive up there either. I found some Steven Curtis Chapman one and tried to sing a long real loud to warm 'er up. Kind of important to do that. I usually do that on Sunday mornings too.

I don't like singing by myself. Well i was not by myself - there was a room of like 100 people there but i mean i don't like standing up there by myself. I would rather have someone with me. Plus i was not amplified so i felt like i was shouting these songs at them. It went fine. So many people tell me i play guitar well... And i get paranoid bc hardly anyone ever talks about my voice LOL - which i play guitar almost mindlessly (not bragging but it takes no thought or effort for me anymore). So i sit down and i'm thinking do i suck at singing???? Is that why people rave about how i play guitar and nothing else? LOL i probably do but i don't care really... they keep asking me back so i must not be too horrible. I'm just LOUD and that is what is needed.

Hahaha. It's actually funny to me. :)

Oh yeah, and no one knew the song "Light the Fire Again" oops... So i was doing my own little solo up there. That feels ultra-weird. I never know what other songs ppl know bc Tentmakers draws from a pool of congregations that are Methodist, ELCA Lutheran, ALC Lutheran, Baptist, independant, and your weird people like me (Evangelical FREE?? What the heck is that?!) So some people only sing hymns and people like me sing them all. But i don't know what other people don't know so i try to do some from the top-10 and then hymns and who cares why am i writing about this?!

I was sooooooooooooo tired by like 2:00 (the thing ended at 3:30) i could barely keep my eyes open. Pain city.

Let's see. I met a lot of interesting people today too. The training is stand up and walk around / interact with people all day, practicing skills, so today we were learning conversational stacks and stuff i have learned a lot already bc this is like the 4th or 5th time i've been thru this course. And anyways i learned that my friend Alan from Buffalo Lake is one of the guys who works on troubleshooting and fixing our SAP R3 software that we use on the intranet at office max LOL I told him how much i think it sucks. He just laughed. He travels all over fixing the glitches. I met a lot of starrey-eyed college students who think they have their whole life planned out. That always scares me, but just bc my life didn't go exactly how i wanted it i guess i can't predict everyone's will be a wreck either... LOL And no offense to anyone but 92% of any of the people i've met who go to Bethel College are stuck-up, including the ones i met today.

Seems like there is a bible college or seminary on every corner up here. Maybe i'm just jealous i'm not enrolled at one of them.

Someday...

And now since i'm so hungry i could eat a stale couch cushion, i'm going to see if the chicken is done baking. Toodles.

   [ posted  @ 2:57 PM | ]

Ahhhh! My shrinking Pay-check! Ouchness. Not having a multitude of overtime hours is killing me. GRRRRRR.

On happier news, i don't work again until Sunday night and will spend tomorrow playing the songs i am singing on Saturday. And it is still snowing. Gee we got a ton of snow this week. Since Christmas is over, it's still a big deal but not quite as much. And, i figured out how to work the timer on the new dvd/vcr combo ma and pa got me for Christmas, and it worked good but i think i forgot to tape The Apprentice after Friends. I didn't finish watching the tape bc tonight was my planned "prayer excursion" that we are doing for EDGE groups (pick a slot of time you will spend special with God, praying or reading or drawing or drooling or whatever it is you want.) I was kind of limited here bc it's so late at night and i can't make noise and i don't want to go outside (though playing in the snow might have been a lot of fun, but if someone saw me ... yeah.) I hope some of the students did it this week too so we can talk about it on Sunday.

That's it. I'm outtie.

   [ posted  @ 1:36 AM | ]

NEW BAND ALERT!

Rilo Kiley!!!!!!!!
If you click on their music link, listen to the MP3 of "With Arms Outstretched." This is one of the first real original songs i've heard in awhile... The melody is simple enough but different enough... Plus it turns into some what of a drunken bar sounding song at end (or at least what i would picture a drunken bar song to be, since i don't go to bars...) and it sounds really good. I like it. I found this song on a sampler (#13) that Fossil sent me when i ordered those watches and just got around to listening to it on the drive tonight to church. There are a ton of cool up and coming bands on there. At least i have never heard of Rilo Kiley before. Maybe they are a band everyone knows about. New to me... which is always a good thing.

I am so happy they have the whole mp3 on their site bc you should try to listen to the whole thing. oK? I love at the end where everyone starts clapping to the beat. LOL fun stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lemme know whatcha think. Good, great, stupid, so-so?

-----
Tonight we switched Zone groups again (as teachers) which put me back at the group i started with in the fall. I'll be with them for 4 weeks. It was a lot like coming "home" for me... The students got my jokes, showed me they understood what i was talking about, and we had some good discussion. I did a lot of thinking while stocking the shelves tonight, and realized i left out a very important paragraph of what i needed to say to them... but i will get that next time i see them all which is in two weeks (we are off next week bc a missionary is going to come speak. Those are THE BEST!). Hopefully they are not too confused after all that. And my roving teen blog visitor, Lyss, is in my group so there's that tie-in, if you are confused.

I had a good night at work. Waaay better than last week when we did the truck. I was laughing a lot... and we didn't finish putting it all away. Mike mopped the floor for like two hours (why does he always quit working on the truck for like 3 hours and do stupid stuff like that?) But he didn't put any pine-sol or any cleaner in the mop water so the entire store smelled like FEET in a bad way by the time he was done. It was kind of irritating but i didn't say anything. We started dancing to Jump5 when it came on... LOL Gotta love that teeny-bopper music.

Pay day, one day away. whooo hooooooooo!

   [ posted  @ 3:45 AM | ]

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   [ posted  @ 3:14 PM | ]

You know, when i think back on all the CRAP i learned in high school, it's a wonder i can think at all. And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none,I can read the writing on the wall...

Kodachro-o-ome!

OK i was listening to some Simon and Garfunkel tonight (Live in Central Park cd). Had ya goin' didn't i ?

Mike brought out the good ol' timey Petra music tonight while i was working on aisle 7 (dated goods, briefcases, portfolios, and business forms)... A song i have not thought of or heard FOREVER "God Gave Rock and Roll To You" came on... I was laughing SO HARD! SINGING at the top of my lungs. Man what a controversy that song was.

Then, there was this song that came on... by Third Day, that he had on one of his mix cd's. For this song i literally stopped working and sat on the floor and laughed because it brought back the most funny memory for me. [Before you read this, know that i would have his permission to share it with you bc we have the same sense of humor and this is A FUNNY STORY!] First, the lyrics. Read this over...

CONSUMING FIRE by Third Day

Verse 1
Set this place on fire
Send your spirit Saviour
Rescue from the mire
Show your servant favor
Chorus
Yesterday was the day that I was alone
Now I'm in the prescence of almighty God
Yes our God, he is a consuming fire
The flames burn down deep in our soul
Yes our God, he is a consuming fire
He reaches inside and melts down this cold heart of stone
(Verse 1)
(Chorus)
Did you realize that inside you is a flame
Did you ever try to let it burn, let it burn, let it burn
(Chorus)

OK here's the story, are you ready?! Back when i was dating el Chuck-o, We had gone to Janesville (WI) to see a movie. I don't remember for sure but i think it was either George of the Jungle or Jurassic Park II. During the movie, he had purchased some nachos with jalepenos and made it thru the movie just fine. Janesville is about a 25 min. drive from Whitewater where i was going to college and i was driving my white Dodge Spirit back to the apartment and he was in the passenger seat. I remember it was late at night. Suddenly, the fire hit him. The fire. The consuming fire of burning jalepenos doing a number 1-2-3 knock-out punch on his stomach, digestive tract, and all things waste-producing. HAAAAAAAAAAA! And this song came on the tape player in my car. He was desperately trying to think of something else but you could HEAR his stomach doing jumping jax and flip floppies and pre-ploppies all at once... and he's trying to think of something else so he starts to sing and then

it hits me...

this song is not about GOD, it's about the consuming fire in his digestive system and i started singing it really loud and we were laughing so hard... (i wish you could hear the song bc it's real like hard rock/slower and the singer is really really INTO IT! Screaching his voice and stuff...) I was banging my hand so hard on the steering wheel and dash board bc i was in hysterics about how funny the song was, in conjunction with his big PROBLEM.

Did you realize that inside you is a flame
Did you ever try to let it burn, let it burn, let it burn

"I can't help it! It burns no matter what i do right now! Just drive the car and get me to the john!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA

When you now go back and read the lyrics with this in mind, i think you 'll see why i am still laughing so hard over it.

LOLOLOLOL!

God has a great sense of humor, huh?

   [ posted  @ 1:02 AM | ]

SHE BANGS! SHE BANGS!!!!

I just realized where i got the scat singing from in my last post! AMERICAN IDOL! Duh of course! Skat girl lives forever.

SHE BANGS SHE BANGS! (I must have rewound that dude 100x and could not stop laughing watching him twirl his little arms!)

It's on tonight! Don't forget!

Oh, and the roads ARRRRRRRE bad out there... no wonder they cancelled the meeting. Horrible mess.

   [ posted  @ 3:52 PM | ]

Bing diggity ding dong... Shoo wop ba da ba da ba ding ding dingy thingy.

Where did that come from??! HA!

OK well the powers that be around here (me, Judge Judy, the Holy Spirit, and cable internet) have decided that there is not enough to eat in the cupboards for breakfast/lunch/supper (whatever you call the first meal of the day when i get up at 3 p.m.) so i'm going to go across the street (in a car) to Taco Bell to go thru the drive thru and find something yummy and also something to take to work with me. You REALLY needed to know that. I know.

Our church leader mtng for tonight got cancelled. Are the roads really THAT bad? I guess they are if you MUST drive like a maniac. Why don't ppl just slow down? Grr. But that is OK if it got cancelled, because then i can just go to work like at 7 and i won't have to go in early any other night of the week to make up for missing 3 hours tonight.

I am getting ready for the YMI (Youth Ministry Institute) at Olivet Baptist on Saturday. Tentmakers asked me to lead the songs for it and i have everything ready to go. It's cool bc i got a map and Olivet is up by Crystal! So i won't get lost! But my contact person says they won't be using sound e.q. which i guess is ok since it's just me but i like being LOUD so whatever. The songs i picked out are: Hail Jesus (Victory Chant), Forever, Be Thou My Vision, Majesty, Light the Fire Again, Here I am to Worship, and Step by Step. Those are spread out over 3 different times.

I was up late (early) reading more on this John Titor time traveler. Then of course i dream about it all ... meeting him, looking at the logo, the time machine, blah blah. Spooky stuff. Still not sure what to make of it. But it's fun to read anyways.

I'm starvation station so i'm going to go see that bell about a taco now.

   [ posted  @ 2:48 PM | ]

OH! Something funny happened to me during "big church" today (big church is the main service at the main campus that all the ppl go to...).

You know how i'm always saying "I HATE MY CUB" bc they have these promotions here for Cub Foods called "I Love My Cub" and mine here in Shakopee sucks like a cheap vacuum cleaner? Well everyone knows this about me, even the students i work with. So i'm sitting up there in the middle of all the teens and Pastor Steve starts his intro talking about money questions like does God favor the poor over the rich? Does God favor those who drive an economy car over an SUV? Does God favor those who conserve energy verses those who leave every light in the house on? Does God favor those who shop at a grocery store where you have to bag your own vs. like Byerly's where they bag your groceries for you? And then he said "In other words does God prefer that we shop at Cub?"

And at that moment it seemed like half of the student population (i am way over exaggerating) turned around or started tapping me on the shoulder and looked at me and are all going "Cub! KT Cub!" I was laughing so hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They all know i hate it too.

Maybe you had to be there...

   [ posted  @ 3:12 PM | ]

Snow city here.

Tons of cars in the ditches on the way to church and back today. I was in the "big chicken/ big scaredy-cat lane" the whole way so i made it just fine.

I had my all-star A-team for EDGE band today... Kirstin steve heather and adam. Those are the easiest ones for me to work with... and we did an awesome jorb and had a great practice. Huge relief for me after Friday's mishaps.

Hats off to my mom bc she sent me this link about a time traveler named John Titor and fiction or fact, i can't get enough of reading about his "worldline" and thinking what if this is all possible. Interesting interesting, interesting.

Off to bed, i am. Gotta work at 7 p.m.

   [ posted  @ 12:48 PM | ]

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