About a year ago, a church friend of mine, Carmalyn, did a "closet audit" on her blog www.yougotjoy.com . She cleaned out her pantry and learned (and shared!) a life lesson in the process. The bottom of one of the drawers of my high-class, high quality IKEA dresser keeps coming out of the groove meant to hold it in place, leaving the potential for ( Read more... )

( Goal List Update )

( The long version )

"What offering should I bring when I bow down to worship the LORD God Most High? Should I try to please him by sacrificing yearling calves? Will thousands of sheep or rivers of olive oil make God satisfied with me? Should I sacrified to the LORD my first-born child as payment for my terrible sins? The LORD God has told us what is right and what he ( Read more... )

Here is a list of 101 things I want to accomplish in the next 1001 days.
Make your own list.
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This video CRACKS ME UP! "An engineer's guide to cats" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4

Here is a list of 101 things I want to accomplish in the next 1001 days.
Make your own list.
Day started: Sunday, August 24, 2008
I have until: Sunday, May 22, 2011

Yet to do.
In progress.
Completed!

1. Run a marathon
2. Be debt-free (exception allowed: mortgage) (ugh...$27,000 to go...)
   
3. Be at least 1/3 done with my Masters in Music Education.
4. Start investing for ( Read more... )

So...on the night when I actually have to be asleep to be up for something important, three people call me. One at 10:45, one at 11:15, and one at midnight. All important people, all important topics. WHY TONIGHT OF ALL NIGHTS?!

I guess the one good thing about still being awake is that it just occurred to me out of the blue why I hadn't been able ( Read more... )

I've always said that I hated chick flicks. They're awful and fake and always leave me depressed because real life, no matter how romantic, is never that scripted and "perfect ( Read more... )

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.  ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911