Wednesday, March 31, 2004  

AHA!!!!

So for the last 15 hours or so, i've been toiling over an illustration to use for my bible study tonight on "The Heart of Worship." 1 Sam. 15.

I had the image /metaphor (i'm super big into using metaphors for teaching now. Ms. Postmodernity here.) of a credit card. The question popped into my mind when we are worshipping God with our lives, "Who gets the credit?" I wrote that down in my notebook and then started working on the illustration.

I got my wallet out and took out my credit cards. I also have two gift cards for Olive Garden and Applebees. And i looked them over and tried to explain to myself how it works. How does credit work?

I didn't want to make it sound like we can "pay God" for our salvation but just now it finally hit me when i was talking to Steph!!!

I present my offering of worship (whether it's a song, a deed, money, whatever) to God. That's the credit card part. I back up that offering with MY LIFE. That's the bank part. The bank backs up my credit when i go to pay for something. When God looks into our hearts to see if there's anything to back up our offering of worship (credit card illustration) he looks at our lives. The offering is just a token. For the believer, it needs to be backed up by obedience to whatever God says.

In the case of Saul in 1 Sam. 15, God runs the credit card thru the machine to see if his offering is backed up by anything REAL and it's not so he gets DECLINED!!!!

OK this really should work. I have some super-sharp adult leaders in this class who are not afraid to call me on something if it's outta line. So i was nervous about using this idea bc i don't want them to use works-mentality to say i'm teaching wrong. Last week i mis-wrote a scripture verse on a card they had to look up. The leader goes to look up the verse in his bible and it was completely different bc i had written the wrong #'s down and it almost made me feel like a heretic!!!!! I still couldn't find where i got the verse from by the time i left but he said he'd go home and look too. LOL

Well i'll let you know how it goes.

   [ posted  @ 2:49 PM | ]

Couple things.

This weekend is daylight saving time. It's not saving"s" - it's saving. Time to save time. This is not good news for me. I hate summer. I hate heat. I have said it before and there's no stopping me i will say it again. I am mad that winter is over.

Can u believe easter is only 2 weekends away? This means Christmas is coming soon. haha.

I posted my thoughts on Idol on Amy's website but i'm sad to say i'm 99% sure John Stevens will be kicked off this week. He's just not good enough. I don't have a clear favorite. I'd have to say either Latoya or Fantasia are the best. I have a feeling it will be Latoya and George in the final two. I have a feeling they don't like each other at all. Not sure where i get that from.

I'm revamping this week's bible study... Hopefully not lengthening it. I've been reading a lot more out of the Message bible. I love that translation. It's totally like reading a brand new bible - very good wordings... totally easy to understand and follow (even the Old Testament). Check this out from Matthew 7. Does it even sound familiar? Yet doesn't it bring home the point?

21 "Knowing the correct password - saying 'Master, Master,' for instance - isn't going to get you anywhere with me. What is required is serious obedience - doing what my Father wills. 22 I can see it now - at the Final Judgment thousands strutting up to me and saying, 'Master, we preached the Message, we bashed the demons, our God-sponsored projects had everyone talking.' 23 And do you know what I am going to say? 'You missed the boat. All you did was use me to make yourselves important. You don't impress me one bit. You're out of here.' 24 "These words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundational words, words to build a life on. If you work these words into your life, you are like a smart carpenter who built his house on solid rock. 25 Rain poured down, the river flooded, a tornado hit - but nothing moved that house. It was fixed to the rock. 26 "But if you just use my words in Bible studies and don't work them into your life, you are like a stupid carpenter who built his house on the sandy beach. 27 When a storm rolled in and the waves came up, it collapsed like a house of cards." 28 When Jesus concluded his address, the crowd burst into applause. They had never heard teaching like this. 29 It was apparent that he was living everything he was saying - quite a contrast to their religion teachers! This was the best teaching they had ever heard.

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I think vs. 23 should say "You're Fired."

haha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey i just made that up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At the end of time, if you don't make it, Jesus will say, "You're fired."

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! OK HELL is not funny. Sorry.

If you don't have a copy of it, you can always use Crosswalk.com to look stuff up. Have fun.

   [ posted  @ 1:21 PM | ]

OMG
you have to see this one! Please
check out
this link!

We like the mooooooooooon!
thanks mommy.

   [ posted  @ 1:01 AM | ]

Those new office max commericials everyone is raving about are now for viewing online! Click here to go to the link. The teamwork one is actually funny to me for a different reason. We got these huge boxes on the truck one night and they are these teamwork pictures. Like no upc on the back of them and the sku was typed on the outside of the very unattactive cardboard box it came in. We had no place to put them (they are huge, just like the one in the commercial; 3 different kinds of motivational pictures framed. Over priced to the MAX.) So we put them by the planners and there they sit. One says teamwork, one says attitude, and the other one i can't remember. It may be a smaller "teamwork" one. It's just ironic to me they sent us this stuff with no display and it's supposed to match these professional commericals. Gotta love a merger.

   [ posted  @ 2:07 PM | ]

Holy hair cut, yo.

(OK first of all, i tried to promise myself i'd never start saying "yo" after every sentence and here i am doing it all the time. Represent.)

Anyways i go to Great Clips for my hair bc they are awesome, cheap and never disappoint me. The people who cut hair there (with the exception of one Asian guy i had once who didn't understand me) are super nice and down to earth. It's been way too long since my last cut. I felt like a Catholic going into the confessional "how long's it been since your last confession?" Yeah. The chick took one look at my TREE OF HAIR and nodded like she knew she was going to get to go to TOWN yo.

It went like this
"Hi how are you" she said.
"Doing good thanks. You're going to make the magic happen!"
And she started laughing. I told her i pull my hair up a lot for work so i wanted it just short enough to still be able to pull it back. And thinned out like madness and just get the layers fixed etc. She said something to the effect of "that's so much better than the typical person coming in here for a 'quarter inch trim.'"

Well in her glee, she took off A LOT! I really like it but it's shorter than i've had it probably ever since i grew my hair out and i don't think i'd be able to pull it back if i wanted to (but i'll try, believe me.)

Then this old lady comes in for the chair to my right and is talking exactly about how she wants her hair with certain curling rods and what kind of product and how old her sweater is, and it was funny bc she knows exactly what she wanted. Then i heard her hair cutter person when they were doing the wash part by the sink and the hair cutter person goes "is this too warm?" And the lady goes "oh yes that is too warm." Then she must have cooled it down and the old lady goes "Oh that's just heaven."

LOL

Anyway i sent a few of you pictures of me and my hair, and also sporting my office max attire bc i'm off to work in an hour or so.

When i was leaving my hair cutter person said "Do you want me to blow dry it?" And i always say no, bc i'm just going home and it dries real fast. She said, "Yeah if you blow dry it, it would probably just be a little puff up there! I bet it gets really big!" And i'm like oh yeaaaaaaaaah!

Represen'in - yo.

   [ posted  @ 1:47 PM | ]

How's about a Sunday? I had a good one. Apparently i had promised that we would be singing a certain song today which was not in the line up i chose, and some of my band-mates got a little mad at me for a few minutes. I never promised such a song that i recall, but i do reserve veto-power to them and email them early in the week so they know what is coming up and no one said anything. That's as much drama as i had today.

Oh, and i'm saying "represen'in" a lot now. Totally isn't me, which makes it funny. But then again, i laugh at everything i do no matter what it is. Makes life sweet.

I have decided once for all that my pastor should go in Guiness for preaching the LONGEST introductions to his messages. He's supposedly doing a series on Matthew but has been stuck on the first verse and we're now lost in Genesis talking about Abram the last 3 weeks. Can you imagine a series on Matthew at this pace? He's breaking down the geneology!!!! OMG! It's something we seem to enjoy joking about. He also provides us outlines in the bulliton, and by the time we need to leave early to go warm up before the 3rd service for band, he's 35 mins. into his message and still on the 1st point. :) Oh well, he's still right-on.

OK nothing new here :)

   [ posted  @ 4:12 PM | ]

All i really have to ask today is...
"Howdee dooooooooooooooooo?"

   [ posted  @ 9:15 PM | ]

There is, in my dreams, a song that re-occurs. To my knowledge, it is souly a dream song. One that does not exist in the realm of the living waking singing human people.

When ever there is a group of people mingling, (this is TRUE! in my dreams!) things slow a lot... like you're watching a sports instant replay where they are trying to prove the ball just missed the line. And there is a 1960's -movie like chorus in the background (older people mixed with a few younger voices, kinda like the songs in Yours Mine and Ours) singing the following.

Howdee Do, Howdee Do, Howdee dooooooooooooooo ?

It's kind of a sad sounding song. Multi part harmony. The men's voices pretty much have the lead. There are also verses. Which i can't remember bc it's a dream. And, the people sing it to each other as they mingle.

Isn't that COOL? Howdee do?

LOL!

   [ posted  @ 1:27 PM | ]

Just checkin' in.
Not a lot to report really.

I have a ton of tV to catch up on - the one i'm most anxious to watch is this weeks "The Apprentice." I didn't think i'd end up hooked on that one but i am.

LOL

   [ posted  @ 3:26 AM | ]

What a crazy night. I didn't think i'd have enough to discuss with my big lesson that i've been toiling over all week long,
and
i ended up running short on time.

Whoa i need to rewrite it all again. I had wayyyy too many points and was all over the map. I was frustrated with myself as i was talking. Yet I got a lot of props at the end so i have no idea what the deal is. These students are so ready and needy of spring break it's pathetic. They can't think, talk, discuss, LOL!!!!!! They need VACATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And they are all begging me to stay for the rest of the year bc they like me best. Yeah that does my ego really great.

Haven't seen Idol yet. I'm almost ready to retire to bed so i can pop the tape in.

   [ posted  @ 1:24 AM | ]

PEOPLE,
Today you will hear whispers of the familiar warning as i walk around my little cave. "This is only a test. This is only a test."

I got a phone call about an hour ago from work. Our semi delivery truck broke an axel. We won't be putting the truck away tonight. That means I'll only be working a 3 or 4 hour shift. That means i add another 4 or 5 hours i need to make up this weekend, on top of the 4 i've already been shorted this week bc of the poo heads i work with. I may not even get one day off, much less two. This makes me super crabby and totally sets me on edge. I'm the type of person that NEEEEEEDS down-time!

I gotta be honest with ya'll. This is the kind of stuff that scares me enough that makes me want to never teach the Bible again. Leonard Ravenhill wrote that God never lets his preachers preach something they have not already been tested in themselves. And this whole STUPID store thing (sorry lord) is one test after another. As soon as i start teaching about finances, or obedience, or love, or stewardship, or patience (never teach on patience, duh) or whatever, then i get thrown into the school of "proving it" and it's hard work. Hard hard work. I'd give just about anything to sit down with the apostle Peter today and have a little chat.

On a different note, when i was walking in my hallway before, I saw the neighbor down the hall had their door open and i got to quick peek in their apartment (from afar.) They have REAL FURNITURE!!! LOL Really cool stuff. Makes me want to be a grown up so i could get some real furniture.

   [ posted  @ 12:40 PM | ]

Well i have calmed down considerably since i just finished watching my American Idol fix for this week. I won't go into real lengthy critique this time but i will share my thoughts.

1. Diana - they must have heard something diff. in the studio bc i thought 90% of her notes were way off key. Gag.

2. George- sick of him. Good-bye.

3. Love Fantasia - great performance. I liked her laid back tune.

4. I love John Stevens! LOL I think he's adorable. I love love love his voice and i never even knew he forgot the words either. So cute. I loved him walking around on stage LOL

5. Camile - dude she's so shakey and her nerves are too much. She should go bye-bye now. She's not ready for this! She still looks terrified.

6. Jennifer - loved the new hair do. It made me not so afraid of her. I don't like her voice (and no one commented on her little bobber squat dance which i thought was so awkward.)

7. JPL - He is adorable but OMG his voice sucks! It's not that he sings off key. But like Simon said, it's just weird sounding.

8. Jasmine - Pitch problems! zzzzzzzzzzzz

9. Matt - I'm so sick of him. He's not humble at all and his smile does get on my nerves. He is way too full of himself.

10. Latoya - I finally see what everyone else is raving about. She rocks. I loved it. Never heard that song before! LOL I was like OMGGGGGGGG! The night was boring until she picked it up.

11. Amy Adams - Terrific. Totally turned it around. Country is definitely her genre. I agree with Paula that if she released that song it would be #1. She did the Dixie Chicks proud. I always get a kick outta that song and i'm glad she chose it. I hope she stays in and keeps doing more country.

I'm trying to guess who will be sent home. I know who i would want to leave, but America seems to like some of these drippy losers. I guess it will either be Jennifer going home or maybe Diana? I tried to vote but the lines are BZ.

   [ posted  @ 11:08 PM | ]

How fitting...
Teaching on love this week and i have to deal with a co-worker who i'd just like to wring his neck off.

We were informed that our territory (including 4 districts which includes like what, 20 stores each?) is over on payroll so we all have to cut hours again. This does not mean supervisors - yet. But Mike wanted to leave at 11, which cuts me down already 4 hours this week. And if he wants to leave, i can't stay bc that would make me the only person in the building = not allowed. I am so fed up and so angry. He asked me what i thought and by that time i was so mad i could not even look at him. I just said that i don't care anymore and if he wants to leave i'll either have to work a 14 hour day on Thursday or come in and work one of my days off this weekend. I don't owe this "territory" a dime, and i am not getting my hours cut bc some other stores are making poor management decisions. But this really ticks me off that i have to give up one of my days off so that mike can go home and sleep.

So the axe falls on me and guess what i have decided to do now? I'm going to change my availablity back to early mornings only so that my hours don't depend upon another person. That way i can work as much as i want and leave when i want. It won't be dependant upon Mike's stupid moods. I already clued my boss in to this... that Mike is not doing the job i need him to do, and that we don't have enough to do at night so i guess we might as well go back to working early mornings. I said that to see what he would say and he played it super-cool and just said "OK then." The last thing i want to do is go back to getting up at 3 or 4 a.m., but i cannot afford to live on the money they are paying me at a full time wage, much less if my hours get cut. I'm in such a bind. This SUCKS.

I hate
my job.

Which is, ok, because the bible doesn't say we have to love our jobs. Just people. But i'm not too fond of mike tonight.

   [ posted  @ 9:15 PM | ]

Gottalovedreams!

Last night, guest star appearance by Ms. Julia Roberts herself! I was at work in my dream and it was like 45 min. until we had to leave, and Julia shows up ready to work. She is wicked hyper and gets on top of a ladder (our ladders are big with wheels on them and hand rails and stuff. More like a traveling stair case and they can lock into position.) She decides she's going to start down-stocking the stuff we keep on the feeder shelves. But i've not trained her properly and she decides to just start putting stuff anywhere she wants! Regardless of what the shelf tags say! She's in a mad frenzy! I try to stop her! She just laughs and keeps going!!! I don't know what to do!

My next dream involved some late-night family traveling. My sister Amy finally showed up in this dream. I am trying to remember what the deal was because for some reason i did not have a car. My Grandma and Grampa Larson had us over for dinner and were giving us Christmas presents, and it was like 12:30 at night and i was soooo tired i didn't know what I was going to do bc I somehow had to get home. Amy was going to drive me but first she had to clean her fish tank (which was about as big as a kitchen table) and she had to go to Milwaukee first for a church leader meeting or something like that. I remember thinking why are we having a church leader meeting in Milwaukee when Green Bay is closer? And then I recalled (this is not true, but it was in my dream) that Pastor Tim B. liked to go out of town for meetings. Weird. I was so tired i could not even tie my shoe. By the time it was time to leave everyone was moving so fast out of there I could not keep up. Ryan, Adam and Jeremy (Amy's kids) were all gazing into the fish tank. Then Jeremy decided to grab a fish and eat it. I was the only one who seemed to think this was strange. Amy acted like it was an everyday thing. The fish were BIG! The only other thing i remember is that it was dark in the house. The house was a combo of my grandparent's house, Amy's house and some other dream house i have dreams about.

No idea on that one!

I was busy putting props together for my lesson tomorrow night this afternoon and completely forgot to do my laundry!!! LOL! Now it's too late bc i have to go to work in like an hour.

   [ posted  @ 2:13 PM | ]

Holy cow it's late but I finally finished writing the lesson plan for this week's Zone bible study. I've taught this series on lifestyle worship called "More than a Song" for 2 times before but we were always short on weeks so i didn't have to do this week's teaching. But now i'm on my 3rd group/class, and i get to do it; it's here and i had it planned out but i realized what i originally wrote would not work and there had to be something better. This week is on the song "Our Love is Loud." It's a David Crowder song. I never heard it before coming to Crystal.

When we sing
Hear our songs
To You
When we dance
Feel us move
To You
When we laugh
Fill our smiles with You
When we lift our voices louder still
Can you hear us
Can you feel

We love you Lord
we love you
we love you

When we sing (loud)
Hear our songs to You
When we dance (‘round)
Feel us move to You
When we laugh (aloud)
Fill our smiles with You
When we lift our voices louder still
Can you hear us
Can you feel

We love you Lord
We love You
We love You

And our love is big,
Our love is loud
Fill this place with this love now


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Anyway i came up with some good activities and then the night is going to end with everyone getting this letter from God. And if we have time, they will draft a response to Him. If not, they'll get it as a take-home thing. I will have envelopes and special stationary (aisle 1, office max) for them to write on and this is the letter. I thought i'd post it. Maybe it will encourage ya! (And yeah it's a little on the long side but i figured it took God over 40 authors, 66 books and 1600 years to write the Bible so He is long winded by nature. This is only one page!) Once i was done writing "the letter from God" i finally had a restful peace in my spirit that this lesson is DONE! YESSSSSSSSS! I'll let ya know how it goes after Wed. night.



My beloved,

You are mine. I have chosen you and you belong to me. I hold you safely and securely in the palm of my hand. I have waited for this time with you to tell you of my love. A love that was paid for from before time even began. I have called you by name. You are mine.

My child, I have watched you grow. I formed you. I made you and chose you to look the way you look! I decided each feature on your face, your body, your hands, how your feet and legs walk their steps and how your voice sounds when you speak. I myself designed your fingerprints. I took great care to make you unique and special. I wish you could see yourself the way I see you: holy, blameless, spotless, righteous, and beautiful, all because of the blood of my Son that I’ve sprinkled over you. You do not always choose to walk in this light but I see it all around you. It is the light of my Holy Spirit and I smile because you are in the world I created. Oh that you would experience the freedom of dancing in that light everyday. My plans for you are vast! I have plans to give you a hope and a bright future. I have plans to prosper you and not to harm you. To cheer you on to the finish line: where I wait eagerly.

My friend, I walk beside you. I am your hiding place in times of trouble. I made you a promise that still stands. I will strengthen you. I will help you. I will help you stand up straight with my righteous right hand. You hunger and thirst for righteousness. My promise is to fill you. My promise is that you will run and not be tired. My promise is that as you step out in faith to do as I have called you, I will empower you with my Spirit to minister healing to the sick, to restore sight to the blind, to encourage those who are sad, to repair those with broken hearts, to proclaim freedom to those who are in bondage to sin, and to tell everyone of the good news!! The good news is that I sent my Son to the world to live, die, and live again forever so that the penalty for sin is PAID IN FULL! I don’t call you a servant because a servant doesn’t know what his master is up to next. But I call you my friend. My good friend. Because I love you. Because I demonstrated my love for you. While you were still in rebellion against me and mad at me, and separated from me by sin, I chose you to go and bear fruit. Fruit that will last. While you were apart from me, I reached out to you with love. And I died for you to win you back to me paying the ransom note so I could have you in my family. So even more than a friend, my Son could call you “brother.”

My beloved, I have removed your heart of stone and given you a heart of flesh. One that breathes and is soft and full of new life. I have given you all of my promises. You are a new creation. When you wake up each morning, I send angels to protect you. I send my Spirit to teach you. To guide you. To counsel you. Choose to feed off of my living Word. Let it nourish you. My love for you will never fail. My love for you will never weaken. My love for you will never fade away. No one can snatch you from my grip. I love you too much. Nothing can separate you from this love of mine. Not the uncertainties of life. Not even death. For I’ve numbered every hair on your head. I know how many days you will walk upon the earth. Will you believe that nothing can separate you from this everlasting love of mine? Nothing can.

Now run to me! Follow me with all you’ve got! Give me all of your heart in return. All of your soul, mind and strength. Put all of your trust in me. I will never fail you. My covenant with you is eternal and nothing will break it. You have nothing more to fear. Rest in this love of mine. Abide in this love. And then watch as I unfold all the promises of my heart to you, my child, my friend, my special beloved. Run with this love of mine and let me change the world through the light of my love beaming through your actions. Cling tightly to me. I will never let you go. Hear me as I shout loudly by day and whisper softly by night. Hear the beat of –my heart- I say, “I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you… I love you…”

   [ posted  @ 2:25 AM | ]

The squeeze is on! I'm trying hard to recruit a new singer for our Edge band and it's taken me all year. Finally on Sunday she came up to me and said she is going to sing with us sometime and i was like why not next week!!??? But she hedged and i let it go. I am lacking commitment from some of our singers so i really need some students who have more maturity to join us. She's in the 11th grade so this will help. Now i'm recruiting my guitar guys who are good friends with her to help twist her arm. Some ppl just need that extra nudge. Some of the e-mails we are sending back and forth are a HOOT!

I keep getting a lot of encouragement from our adult leaders and jr. high students too that the band is better than it's ever been and everyone seems to wish we had longer singing time. Maybe in the summer i can see if we can add a song or two. Right now we only have time for 3 songs a week. Four or even 5 would be super cool. But then in the summer the #'s are down for attendance so i don't know if it would even out.

OK i seriously need to finish this lesson for Wednesday. It's never taken me so long to finish something. Gosh.

   [ posted  @ 12:36 AM | ]

I just sneezed like 80x . Grr.

Headed into church last night for a meeting with the Edge (Jr. High) leadership. I felt really bad for Pastor Craig bc only 3 of us showed up out of what, like, 20? I've been there and i know what that frustration feels like. He had bought like 8 huge pizzas too. It's so hard to plan meetings for people who are over-involved and have families and jobs and such. Working with volunteers is HARD WORK!

We were somewhat productive i guess. I had to leave a little early though bc i was to be at work by 7 and church is a half hour drive for me, and i left church @ 7 ! So i was late but i had told them i would be late. Pastor Craig has a lot of great ideas. He's cool!

I got to sub-teach for another jr. high group yesterday. There are like 25 kids in this tiny room. This time it was 8th graders and i had one couch of figity boys and the rest of the people in there looked like zombies. When the choir people showed up i could not get them to smile, laugh, or even move. They were staring straight ahead. That was WEIRD. I think they had a very long day bc our youth choir had to do all 3 services and then race over to the extended campus where we meet, to get to class. I kept having to tell myself that i was not ME but that they were tired. Plus i had no teaching outline or what i was supposed to talk about (this is one of the "flaws" Pastor Craig needs to work on!) but only a fill in the blank sheet for the kids so i'm like ummmmmm well let's look up these scriptures and see where it leads us.

Then the teacher shows up and says i should just keep going bc she was not given an outline either. LOL Painful. But fun! (But she also stared at me like i was from outter space. Then i had to remember she was in the choir too.)

OK i need to get back to writing my lesson for Wed. night bc i keep getting distracted!

   [ posted  @ 1:32 PM | ]

Inventory
went
O.K.

The night started off really cruddy for me though. Nothing we had agreed upon during the week as far as who was going to do what happened. I got steamrolled (this happens to me a lot...) and Mike took over command central like it was his baby ... and i was shoved right out. I was just another counter which ticked me off bc it's my project. Well i thought it was. I let my bosses know i was upset. Well, they could tell i was super crabby by the look on my face and the mean comments i was making. After i had something to eat i calmed down and adjusted my attitude. We won't know the results for a few weeks. I'm never sure why it takes so long.

I'm glad it's over but not looking forward to going back to work. I guess one guy walked off the job today!!! Funny story. A lady wanted him to check on a shredder she wanted and the one store she wanted him to check didn't have any. He said to her "I could look at some other stores." But she heard it as something else like "Why don't you just go look for it yourself" and she started cussing him out and then the associate told her to f-off and gave her the finger, got his coat and screamed at her as he was leaving the store!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! Well it's not really funny but it's funny. This guy only works on Saturdays for us and has another full time job so it's no big deal to him. Everyone else was talking about it all night. I said, well, he kind of did that one for all of us who would sometimes like to tell customers that LOL

I have to be to church by 7:45. I won't be getting much sleep. Ugg.

   [ posted  @ 11:25 PM | ]

I got to go hang out @ the PowerHouse (my church youth place thing) last night for awhile. Seems like weeks since i was there. Oh that's right. It's been weeks, so that makes sense. We were missing the jr. high chick contingent bc they had a sleepover to discuss more stuff related to the Sacred Conference from last month. Girl tawlk.

Egads tonight is our store's inventory. We have to count every single sellable piece of merchandise in the building, and we estimate there are almost 100,000 sku's! It is amazing to me how the whole thing goes down though. Only ends up taking about 6 hours to count the whole thing twice. I get to work at command central this year instead of being a counter though so that's cool. I've more than earned it. Basically i'll get to do a lot of barking orders and paper sorting. Should be right up my alley.

If we pass we all get nice bonus checks. But i highly doubt we will pass. Well who knows.

I've been working on my Zone lesson for this week... one i have not taught yet. I had it all written but i'm basically scrapping what i had done and starting over bc now i have a better feel for what the students know and don't know and more importantly where they need to be PUSHED a little in the right direction.

I had planned to be asleep last night by like 1 or 2 a.m. but i was up till almost 5 watching "Cast Away." Kind of a boring movie on the surface, but there are so many teachable lessons thru that thing about how life works and how humanity reacts to it. Whew!

   [ posted  @ 12:39 PM | ]

Last night at work ( i deserve a blue ribbon for this ) a customer complained about the women's restroom. Mind you, i was aware of the problem for a few days hoping someone else would take care of it. This just shows you that things in life don't go that way!!!

A few days ago, SOMEONE - not sure who - had what i have affectionally named a "poo poo party" in the handicapped stall. It could not have been an accident, as there was poo poo delightfully and artistically sprayed on the tiles on the wall and ALL OVER the seat cover and toilet thing. My gosh. What in the world would possess someone?

It was not a horrendous display. It was actually low-key enough that if you did not really stop and take a look, you may have sat on the art yourself. But you wouldn't have sat on it if are a boy bc boys don't usually go in the girl's room unless they are cleaning it. In this case, i had to clean it.

Jim, one of my managers had purchased commercial strength mops for our store many moons ago and they weigh more than my car and are filthy dirty with no hope of becoming clean. Once a mop is this yucky i think you should just throw it out. But anyway i put off cleaning the bathroom (somehow bc i am a girl, i got stuck with this job) until around 12:30 a.m. We don't really have good cleaning supplies, so i dumped about 1/3 of a bottle of Palmolive dishwashing soap in the mop bucket, and and filled it up with really hot water. I thought i would just try to mop the poo off the tiles instead of getting a sponge. I had on these latex gloves too that i found in the back of the cabinet. Worthless gloves!

The mop is so dirty that when i put it on the white tiles, it just ran dark dirty water (with palmolive soap) all over the place. Not effective. So i had to go get a (dirty) sponge and with in a few swipes on the tile, my stupid latex gloves filled up with poo water. LOL I was actually laughing and singing this "Poo Poo Party" song i made up bc i know Mike and Dwight are not too far away and can hear me!

Won't you come
to the poo poo party?
Won't you come
and party with me?
I'm having a
poo poo party
It's so much fun
excitement and
glee.

Mike did come in at the beginning of the party just to see what it was that everyone was talking about. He walked out. Dwight never came to the party.

It took me awhile to clean of course. Yuck.

Then want to hear something super gross? So i'm dumping out the poo poo dirty bucket water stuff and hanging above my head is a toilet scrub brush thing. I leaned in too far to dump out the bucket and forgot the scrub brush was there so when i stood up, the brush touched my head!

GAG ME WITH A FORK!!!

Yeah that's my life. Love it.

   [ posted  @ 2:15 PM | ]

Gee I haven't done Friday Five for awhile. Here it is!

If you...

1. ...owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?
Of course having other people do the cooking for me!! Fresh stuff like sandwiches and soups and COFFEEEEEEEE and ice cream and burritos and i'm hungry.

2. ...owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?
NOT Office supplies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How about a Coca Cola memoriabilia shop. That would be cool. I've never seen one of those. And you could buy ice cold coke in the bottle. And SURGE!!

3. ...wrote a book, what genre would it be?
Faith fiction.

4. ...ran a school, what would you teach?
The 3-R's (very important) and music and creative writing and typing!

5. ...recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?
Probably pop rock. But i would not want to be the artist. I'd want to be the one producing it. I think i'd be good at that.

   [ posted  @ 2:06 PM | ]

I just woke up not too long ago. Major headache. Drinkin' coffee to calm the neurons. Or, Neutrons. Hmm. Or Newtons. As in fig.

My page seems to be loading ultra slow! If you are experiencing this as i am, accept my apologies.

Tonight 8 PM " You're Fired. "

   [ posted  @ 2:50 PM | ]

Here's my thoughts from Am. Idol last night!

1. Latoya - I didn't understand what the judges raved about. She's 100% forgettable to me. Pitch problems. Her voice irritates me. She does have a good stage presence. Can't believe Simon liked her!

2. Amy Adams - Nice voice probably not strong enough to stay in. Great personality though. Safe song. Boring. I would have liked to see what she could do with a more powerful song.

3. Matt Rogers - He could do so much more with his voice. I remember him singing "Just once" in his first audition... very good. Tonight sucked. He was creepy. Agree with Simon that he's a 2nd Rate Tom Jones in that performance.

4. Camile - Ms. Stuffed Nose. Song was a little punchy. She was stiff and needs to smile a lot more. I hate the song choice - she needs to let out a huge breath and just kick back. I agree w/ Simon that she has a self confidence problem. Looks petrified. She's not an adult and doesn't act like one and probably should have a waited a year or two to try this.

5. JPL - I can totally see him being a pediatrician!! He's a fun dancer but if this is a singing competition, he could never ever compare to Justin G., Reuben or Clay. He does nothing w/ his voice at all. Boring. I disagree w/ Simon - this guy does not have a good enough voice to win.

6. Fantasia - LOVE HER. She will not appeal to mass audiences though. Her voice is too distinct. She is one of the best performers though.

7. George - Simon always used to say that George looked "old" so i can't figure out why Simon put George thru to this round. He's got a great voice but he's so much older sounding. He's a down home guy. Stance is too weird for me. I don't know if he could sing off key! He's good in tune. I agree with Simon that George doesn't know how good he really is. I just hope he doesn't win.

8. Jennifer - I liked her better than any other night here. Didn't make so many scary faces. Hope she doesn't win. But i think she'd make a good talk show host.

9. John S. - I do love his voice. He's not a performer on the level of the others though. I am happy Simon liked him. He does have a unique voice and totally does break up the monotony of the rest of the performers. I don't think he can win. I can't imagine him packing out stadiums. For some reason he reminds me of a young Bill Clinton! I would like to fall asleep listening to his voice over the radio.

10. Leah - Very relaxed tonight. Boring song to the max. Too repetitive. She's got a ways to go to catch up to the level of some of the others. She needs to stand up for herself to the judges though. She's too young to be in this.

11. Jasmine - Had a lot of pitch problems starting out. Good voice. She'll last a long time. Hopefully work on her vocal pitch.

12. Diana - Good ending to the show. Awesome performance. Great personality. Will go far! I didn't care about her as much before but i'm a fan now.

Whew! (Yes i took some notes while watching it so i could write this here later bc i want to look back after the show is over and see if i was right.)

   [ posted  @ 2:45 PM | ]

I'm sitting here kind of stunned right now.

I got a bunch of e-mails sitting in my in-box from my Edge (sunday) praise team students of what happened when i was not there this week. All really happy positive stuff. And the best news of all is that i finally secured a key 3rd student to our tech team (Cole) who is going to be running our power point and putting together announcement slides. This is something i wanted from the first time i walked in those doors and it's finally happening and i didn't even ask for it! He mentioned it to me! God is cool! He also has a ton of really great ideas that are going to help keep things moving.

It's really fun to see God put together a team of people and even better that i don't have to strive sweat and freak out over the details. That's how i know it's not me doing it. That's what ministry is all about!

Today I sent out an e-mail to all of them like i do every week, letting them know i'm tightening up some of our routines and the way we do things... I finally feel like I can do that. Pastor Craig has given me a lot of room to move and has also provided excellent leadership to me in the areas i had questions about. I delightfully serve under his leadership. A humble dude who has such a real heart for those jr. highers!!!!

This is inventory week at the store. A lot riding on my shoulders. I don't feel the pressure like in the past 3x we did this. Not sure if that is good or bad.

   [ posted  @ 1:04 AM | ]

Last night i watched this under-rated movie called A Mighty Wind. I was cracking up!!! Very well done. It's one of those movies where they kind of re-write history / pretend documentary on folk music from the 50's and 60's. It's a comedy and some of the songs really cracked me up!!! I highly recommend this movie. The DVD of course has all the extras and that is what kind of "made it" for me. I watched a Peter, Paul and Mary special on PBS last week and this reminded me very much of that, except that it's intentionally a comedy. Whether or not you like folk music - this movie is a good one!!!!!

Fun stuff.

It's back to work for me tonight. I've been off of work since thurs. night. When i called into work this weekend to chat w/ my boss i got yelled at a little bc i had some over-time last week. But it was not my fault bc my manager wouldn't let me go home. Sheesh. In other news...

   [ posted  @ 1:40 PM | ]

HEY!

How do you dig the new lookie?

My brother Jon-Paul, computer geek extraordinaire maid i mean made this for me and he's really quick with the artsy computer stuff and he made other cool sites like bemis.com where he works! I wish i knew how to do all that stuff. THANKS BRO!

This weekend Jon's wife and 3 kids came up to visit and we had a lot of fun. Spent about 10 hours at the Mall of America yesterday kickin' around. I got some nice digital pix from the whole trip too. It's funny to go to the MOA and see all of these people walking around with cameras and now i was one of them, and this thing is just in my back yard! Those 3 are some of the best behaved kids in the world and i'm not just saying that either. But i don't know much about kids. And i think Tracy is just about the smartest most patient mom ever. Well next to my own. Yeah.

The whole thing was comical to me bc on Thurs. night/morning i only got about 3 hours of sleep at the most. And the same thing on Friday night. We all were zzzzzzzzz-ing by like 9:45 p.m. and i woke up at 12:50 and laid awake until McKennah started ralphing at like 4 a.m. And then i fell asleep for about an hour more before we all got up. I caught up on my sleep last night though and took a little nap this afternoon.

Whew!

   [ posted  @ 12:44 PM | ]

Blessed be my manager Dwight. Made me work an 11 hour day. I went in early thinking i'd get to leave early bc i need to get my apartment ready to host 4 people this wknd, and he decides to start all these retarded projects at like 1:00 when we were supposed to LEAVE!

AHHHHHHHHH!

It's all OK though i mean i know i'll have enough time to sleep and finish stuff up tomorrow (today).

I gotta run; pizza's almost DONE.

   [ posted  @ 2:00 AM | ]

OH NO!!! CURSED STATE HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY COMPETITION! I tried to tape American Idol, but that was on instead! Well i checked the idolonfox website and found out that my predictions basically all came true. I should have written down who i thought America would vote for. I forgot to do that.

But i do miss not being able to see how it panned out.

Windy night here in the big city... it sounds as though i have some more predators of SATAN bumping around in the corner outside. I may have to go exercise those demons from the ground or i won't get any sleep.

OK on to other news... My new Zone is so trippin' different! I don't think i will ever understand the different personalities and shapes and forms these small groups take from one to the other. I met a ton of new people (there are mostly girls in this group, with 5 leaders!) and yay me memorized everyone's name on the first try.

When it came time to teach i did not know what to do with myself bc like flipping a switch, the students (i'm with juniors this round, at the Riddle's place) were completely 100% attentive!!!!!!!!!! Eye contact, non-verbal feedback, silence, input when asked for, smiles at my lame attempts at humor (that one took a little longer because at first i think they may have thought i was from outter space... i can be a little too animated especially w/ people i don't know). I talked again way too long. Not sure why this 1st week takes so much longer. But they did not mind. And for the first time i remember, i got some real good input from the leaders. WOW. A very good feeling.

And they "initiated" me by playing the newspaper game where you have to swat the person that someone calls out their name before that person says another person's name. I really was made to feel at home which was awesome.

Then the other cool thing i really like about this Zone is that when they do prayer requests, it is not your typical sunday school fluffy puff marshmallow stuff. First, one of the leaders gets out her notebook of the requests written down from last week, and checks up on every one of them. If it was answered, she puts down a smiley face by it! LOL Otherwise they keep praying for it. When the requests are shared, it is more of an accountability time, and the students really share personal stuff about them (not just the usual "my neighbor's dog has a bad cough") - and the other students are genuinely interested in hearing this. This chunk of the night took up a half hour... I ended at 8:30 and they were done sharing by 9! That is super cool!!!!!!! To see these kids pray for each other in sincerity. Wow! I can now say that i've worked hands on with 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th grades at Crystal. And i can also totally trace the maturity level between those ages. Good things are happening.

My sister in law is finally coming up this weekend now that the snow storm is over. Bringing my two nephews and one neice and we are going to party like it's 1999. I can't wait for them to get here.

By the way, The Artist Formerly Not Known as Prince sings weird like a girl.

   [ posted  @ 3:53 AM | ]

For future reference, here is my American Idol breakdown of last night's wild card show. Really, if any of these people end up making it (unless they vastly improve) i'll be disappointed. It was not a good night as far as i'm concerned.

1. John Peter - Ultra cute guy,loved the outfit, but a complete joke. Karoke singer at best. NOT an "idol" at all unless you just vote on looks. The song chosen didn't give him a chance to do anything vocally and heck even i could go up there and shake my legs around like Elvis.

2. Elizabeth - If i have to listen to THAT VOICE for much longer, gross. Never liked her. Can't pick a style to stay with in the song. Voice hurts my ears. Tone is bad. She is cute though.

3. Katie - I don't think she's pretty like the judges said. She is not a star. Not an idol. I find her annoying. She is not top notch like the other finalists at all.

4. George. He puts too many vocal "runs" in his songs. That annoys me. I don't like how he looks but somehow like Simon said, he is a favorite in the homes. I'm sure he'll get voted to the next round. I did like it when the song picked up tempo and he was jumping. He is at least genuine, unlike a lot of the other people that were on the show tonight.

5. Suzy - Will never be picked as a top 4 or 5 person (based on looks or charisma or diversity or whatever) but she was my favorite of the night. I have no previous memory of her at all though. I love the song choice "I will Survive" and i think she did great with it. But yeah she's almost too "old" looking.

6. Matthew - I CAN'T STAND THIS GUY! Never could. He's way too full of himself. His smile irriates me. He's cheeeeeesy. I was mad that Randy and Paula said they liked him. He's just nasty. And, his voice is waaaay too weak to do this show. Yuck yuck terrible. He'll get votes from little teenie boppers and that's it.

7. Leah - You know i really wanted her to do better. Remember the camera pans the last show she was on with her big tears in her eyes bc everyone thought she'd make it thru? That totally broke my heart!!! But she did have a good song choice (can't go wrong with "Lets Stay Together."). Her voice did some weird things and i have a bad feeling she won't be going thru to the next round unless Paula puts her in.

8. Jennifer - SCARY FACIAL EXPRESSIONS! This girl just plain scares me. She reminds me of a cartoon. And her voice is not as great as the judges say. I don't like her at all!!!!! She butchered that song by Witney. I know, because i have the cd and i listen to it a lot around Christmas time and she just didn't do it justice at all. Then her big eyes pop out and i wanted to hide under the covers. I hope she doesn't make it thru. I didn't see what the big deal was about that dress either.

It ought to be interesting from here... I was suprised at some of the judge's choices to put some of these people thru just to sing last night. But yeah. We'll see tonight how it turns out.

   [ posted  @ 12:29 PM | ]

I OBVIOUSLY MISSED THE CASTING CALL.

I just saw the funniest commercial. Chick on a treadmill wraps a towel around her shoulders. She looks at the camera and says, "After a long workout, there's nothing i like better than eating a whole pizza by myself." Then she goes to her oven (just a few steps away from treadmill) and starts talking about Papa Murphy's new deLite pizza with "half the carbs" of their regular pizzas. Then the commercial ends with her eating a slice of pizza while she walks on the machine. LOL!

THAT IS SO ME!!!!

And i've had their deLite pizzas and they are good :)

   [ posted  @ 1:28 PM | ]

I got to meet my new Zone (small group) hosts and leaders tonight. All new group of Juniors i'll be working with. And this time it's finally for 5 weeks so i know that will be cool. I had to miss 3 hours of work though so that sucks and now i have to make that up between Tuesday thru Thursday. And Wed. does not count.

I can't believe we're that close to the end of the school year. Approx. 10 weeks left. This means within a month we'll start receiving Back to School merchandise on our trucks... Yuck. Did i mention i'm sick of working at that store?

Tiara Purifoy, a finalist on American Idol is attending my alma mater! UW-Whitewater! That is really weird. But i don't like her voice so i hope she loses. Actually i'm still trying to decide who i'm the biggest fan of. Probably that one really big guy who used to be a football player. He was cool in his 1st audition. But my opinion doesn't count bc i can't vote.

   [ posted  @ 1:30 AM | ]

Ticket prices for Kelly and Clay: Brace yourself this is outrageous.

Main floor $45. Lower level $35-$45. Club level same prices as lower level. Upper level $35. So come on family!!!!!!!!!! We can each afford the $45 and get near the front!!!!! There's an eight ticket limit. LOL!

OK another mystery of the universe solved for me today: I always wondered if you had a nightmare during daylight if it would be as scary as at darknight. It is just as scary. I had this dream and i wish i could remember all of it... I dreamt a lot last night for some stupid reason. My dream was about waiting for my sister Terri to come home. I was a little kid. And it was like Halloween time or something and we were back at the old house. And everyone was dressing up in terribly weiiiird costumes. And there was this evil demon thing in a box in the closet that i wanted to get rid of but anytime anyone tried to go near it really scary things would happen. My mom wanted to leave it there, and i was arguing with her that we had the power of Jesus in us so we could get rid of it. It was night time and i was waiting for Terri to get home from work at the bank. She would make everything alright! (Terri is always a saviour figure in my dreams. I have some thoughts about that but no time to write about that now.) Anyway finally she shows up in the driveway and i ran into her arms and she was happy to see me and i just held on to her for dear life crying and crying just sobbing so happy she was home. Then when all the costumed people showed up (my brother Jon, for example was a "smile" which was a big huge red mouth that looked like a huge triangle, go figure) i was not as scared anymore.

OK now that i write about this, it doesn't sound scary at all but when i woke up at 7:10 a.m. i had to turn on the TV and listen to Dan Rather on CBS for awhile to calm myself down. Then later i had this dream that this lady wanted to buy tissue wrapping paper from me at office max (when ever i dream about the store, it is SLAMMING JAMMING BUSY) and i said we don't sell that but we have some 8.5x11 paper that is kind of tissue like. She didn't want that. So she went and ripped the monitor off of the CopyMax register and was drawing on it and totally broke it. Then there were LINES of people waiting to check out and i could not fix the register bc this customer had severed a cord and it was taking forever to reboot and repair the thing. When i woke up from that, i decided forget it, i'm getting up now. That was like 2:50 and then i went to exercise for awhile to work off all the agression. GRR!

Random thought: when i want to laugh very loud out loud, all i have to do is think of grocery shopping with my mom. When i was a little kid i was notorious for ramming the shopping cart into her ankles. She would be walking in front of me selecting her food to put in the cart, and i always wanted to push the cart but she knew if that was the case, she'd have to be on the lookout bc i would be off in dreamland and not pay attention and then RAM the cart into her ankles!!!! And the look on her face as she turned around and sneered at me, in complete DISGUST!!!! LOLOLOL! I'm shaking so hard i can't type this anymore bc of the laughter. SORRY MOM!!!!!!!!!! (To make up for the sneer, why not come see Kelly & Clay on the 16th?)

   [ posted  @ 3:33 PM | ]

Who's with me?!

Wanna go to Kelly Clarkson and Clay A. concert on April 16th in St. Paul???!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!! Sign up for tickets in my comment section and we'll see what I can do. I say we get Mom for sure to go because she just doesn't go to enough rock concerts, and since it's Amy's b-day, she rides free and we'll see if we can get her backstage passes. And Tracy would probably faint so Jon will have to come to hold her up. And I'll get to play the guitar lick on "Miss Independant" special guest star... !!!

   [ posted  @ 11:31 AM | ]

All over the world, i want to hear a collective "Awwwwwwww" :(

Stupid snow storm blown outta proportion on the stupid tv by the stupid weather guys prevented my family from coming up to visit me this wknd... What will i do with all the FOOD?! OK eating 24 cupcakes by myself is not so hard to do.

We'll schedule another date soon. But i am bumming big time. It was this weekend a few years ago our church had a retreat at Camp Omega and the ice and wind and conditions shut down the power for like 6 hours on our first night at the camp and almost kept us stranded there an extra night. The staff at the campground even said they would not charge us extra if we wanted to stay bc the roads were so bad. Well it doesn't appear that today's storm was like that but there was no way to determine it this morning when the choice had to be made. Better to be safe.

Dipidy do.

   [ posted  @ 1:15 PM | ]

Whoo hoo! John Stevens is in to the next round on Am. Idol! I really wanted him to go thru. Not George. Also i am so happy Leah made it into the wildcard show. I didn't know they had that many slots for wild card people. That does not seem fair. I do NOT think Jasmine has any talent. She was way off pitch both times she sang and i am very suprised the judges did not point this out. Even more suprised that Simon said she was "good enough for him." Ouch awful. She will not win. Good competition this year.

   [ posted  @ 11:07 AM | ]

Holy Talent... A link from a link from a blog from another blog's blogroll led me to this Emerging Minister blog and i really tell you TO CHECK HIM OUT! Dude he's trying to write 52 songs in 52 weeks (click that link on his page) and listen to some awesome homegrown songs! Recorded the way i wish i could record my stuff. I just found this blog and he's going on my blogroll, but when you get some time you can listen to all his music - i love his voice and it's all very tight. COOL!

You know who Greg reminds me of? Dan Fogelberg meets Caedmon's Call... When you hear him you'll know what i mean!!! He reminds me of Dan Fogelberg both in the way his voice sounds, and his songwriting style. Impressive.

   [ posted  @ 4:04 AM | ]

It's Thursday!!!

Sorry i just started my Wed. post like that and thought it was funny so i wanted to give it another run.

Back when i used to shake my tail feather on the dance floor in the club scene, ok i never shook my tail feather on any dance floor but tonight at work i thought about that sentence and wanted to see what it would look like to type it and post it so just for fun, i did that. I only shake my tail feather at work when no one is looking. We got this new "musak" channel and i totally love it! It's not elevator music. It's like classics, hits from the 50's thru today and no commercials and they even play stuff i've never heard before. Mike and i were laughing at this one tonight. It sounded like it was from the early '60's and this lady was like hiccuping in the middle of the song and stuff. We figured it maybe hit #4 on the pop charts that year because it's not something you would hear on an oldies station, but it must have been big at one time for like two weeks on Billboard.

Anyway Funkytown came on tonight... that song has some awesome bass hooks! So i danced and i boogied for awhile. Also i was singing my "I Love OfficeMax" ditty at the top of my lungs around 3:30-4:00 a.m. Did you hear me?

Zone went swimmingly cool last night. I move on to a new group starting on Wed. I don't even know which group i'm going to or where it meets. It will be with 11th graders this time which is cool bc i only know like 2 or 3 11th graders so i will have to work really hard at remembering names. Every Zone is so different. That's one thing i have yet to get over... The personality of a small group is so unique. I miss being in one just for myself like with peers. I think there may be one or two for odd-balls like me at Crystal but i would have no time to go to one unless it met in the early a.m. ! LOL

   [ posted  @ 3:39 AM | ]

It's Wednesday!!! Formerlly one of my favorite days of the week. I get to talk about the bible with my favorite people and that's really great! Unfortunately then i have to go to stupid work and put away office supplies upon the shelves and steel of a small store in which i have memorized and know every square centimeter.

Oh i have a few things to report. First could you all do the cyberspace community a favor and update your virus protection? I'm sure i'm not the only one getting more virus attatchments lately... and these are from people i KNOW not spam stuff. Anti-virus is not the kind of thing you mess around with !!! Update! It's silly i just realized i don't have health insurance but dang i'll make sure my HARDDRIVES are protected!!! LOL!

OK

Also it appears that our country has gone down the slippery slope of allowing gay marriages and it's kind of like abortion, once you go that way, there is no turning back. It is creepy how silent evangelicals are on this subject. Not sure if i'd consider calling myself an "evangelical" but titles notwithstanding, i'd be interested in dialog about what can really be done? I remember sitting in my 11-th grade history class when the propaganda was in it's infant stages, and our teacher challenged us that civil rights for minorities in the 50's and 60's had the same discussions we are having about allowing the gay agenda to invade our lives. At that time (early 1990's) the debate began on letting openly gay people serve in the military. Now look where we are only 10 years later.

Oh well that's too big of a subject to really blog about today and it's been said a lot better in other places. I've got a very compassionate mindset on this subject and don't treat homosexuality any different than any other sin. But i fully would support Pres. Bush on an amendment to protect marriage as being between man and wife. (And then we have to start talking about the divorce crisis in our country as well.)

Lighthearted subject. American idol was kind of zzzzzz for me last night! I do like that red head guy but he picked a bad song. I hope he makes it thru. Of course since Leah didn't make it last week (and i don't have the opportunity to vote bc when the show airs, i am at work) i am kind of bummed but what a show. I liked it when the black dude did his impression of Randy!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!

   [ posted  @ 2:44 PM | ]

Hey yo.
It was back to work for me tonight... Spent the whole time in receiving which was awesome. Dude i didn't have to help but 2 cutomers the whole time. Whew. We are about 2.5 weeks from Inventory... If we pass at a 1.23% then we all get hefty bonus checks at the end of the year. I have my DOUBTS if we could pass but then we already know i'm a supreme pessimist. Mike fixed all our counts on furniture and machines and high-ticket stuff so that will help... The best thing we can do is get an accurate count and hope for the best on the 20th. Inventory is basically MY SHOW... but since i'm not there during the day anymore to train people i really have to rely on the rest of the management and they do just fine w/ out me. I'm still praying for a ticket outta that place but i have no job leads no matter how hard i look.

But then,
I am so excited about this weekend. My sis-in-law Tracy is coming up with my two nephews and neice to hang out and party and eat and visit. Only a few more days. It was a close call! I almost had to cancel on them... could not find someone to switch days of work with me but it worked out just fine.

   [ posted  @ 12:39 AM | ]

Oy. I need to go eat and do something else. This is getting depressing.


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SALLY?!

Ok i took this test twice and even changed some of my answers to alternates that i may have picked and still got this result! HA!


You are Sally!


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