Here we are in Ohio... about to move it north to MI to visit my internship supervisor & his wife as well as various & sundry folks for about a day & a half before we head further west in MI to go to a friends wedding.  Very exciting stuff.  We've been off for not quite a week yet & it's been very busy, but very relaxing & good for us.  We brought ( Read more... )

So, at long last (it feels like anyway!), I feel like perhaps I'm on the mend.  I got some solid sleep last night, something I wasn't able to do for the previous few... my throat was too raw.  It still hurts some, but it's better.  I've got an interesting cough going on, but at least it's being  - "productive" from time to time, some I'm getting ( Read more... )

For those of you who do not know this wonderful Dr. Seuss book, here's a precious little one "reading" it.  I think she mostly has it memorized, and hence misses a few rhymes, but it's good enough & such a sweet thing to hear.  B/c it's filmed kinda in the dark, she looks kinda creepy from time to time - demon eyes!   But what a cute voice.  I love ( Read more... )

Anyone?  Get the reference in the title ( Read more... )

Just spent 3ish days at our Synod Assembly, the gathering at which we take care o' business for our regional area.  This particular synod assembly business included the task of calling a new bishop, as our former one decided to take a call at the churchwide office in Chicago earlier this year ( Read more... )

Well, here I sit at the lovely Brooklyn Dodge service center.  Andy & I registered our car recently, which means that we needed to have an inspection done w/in 10 days (been awhile since we lived in a state that requires inspections... Ohio doesn't, except for emissions in certain metropolitan areas).  So we took it to get it inspected, but it ( Read more... )

Or not so brave.  All depends on your perspective, I guess ( Read more... )

Andy sent me this link today.  I was a little amused, because I was at the www.simpleliving.net site yesterday for completely unrelated reasons, saw this image above, but didn't read it.  So, when Andy sent it to me, I figured I should check it out.  And since I agree with their basic argument & proposals, I thought I'd post it here, so you can ( Read more... )

I know, I know, big revelation there in my subject line.  But I do enjoy cooking.  Nothing terribly fancy or complicated, just some good ol' home-made (not even semi-homemade, if you know that cooking show) yummo (ah, that's a different cooking show, one I almost never watch really) food.  Someday, I will have the glorious, big, well-laid out ( Read more... )

So, in my last post, I said I couldn't tell you if/where the pay phones are in Lynbrook.  Well, color me corrected... as I drove home from a church event tonight, I saw a pay phone near where they tore down a McDonald's, only to build - what?...you guessed it, another McDonald's (one that is more in keeping w/ the town's aesthetic).  Anyway, why ( Read more... )