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Friday, 27 July 2007

  • what NOT to do

    While at work, when it's a slow day in the office & your personal interaction is almost nil, I don't suggest browsing friends' yacog pages (aka wedding announcements, haha) or travel sites as a solution to boredom.    It just results in a skewed perception that everyone else's life is so much more interesting & exciting.    It's easy to forget my own adventures and blessings when I'm sitting in a quiet office on a Friday when everyone else has the day off and I have n-o-t-h-i-n-g active to work on.  >>resist the self-pity, think about something else, go read or something!!!<< 

Friday, 22 June 2007

  • just for fun

    You scored as Lara Croft, A thrill-seeking, slightly unscrupulous, tough-as-nails archaeologist, Lara Croft travels the world in search of ancient relics perhaps better left hidden. She packs two Colt .45s and has no fear of jumping off buildings, exploring creepy tombs, or taking on evil meglomaniacs bent on world domination.

    Lara Croft

    63%

    The Terminator

    58%

    Indiana Jones

    54%

    Maximus

    54%

    The Amazing Spider-Man

    54%

    Neo, the "One"

    50%

    William Wallace

    50%

    Captain Jack Sparrow

    46%

    El Zorro

    46%

    Batman, the Dark Knight

    46%

    James Bond, Agent 007

    42%

    Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0
    created with QuizFarm.com

    *EDIT*

    So, at least I scored as the only girl on the list, but I would definitely have fear of jumping off buildings (ask Jackie or Chris for stories that exemplify such fear), I answered the question that was specifically about exploring creepy tombs on the "disinterested" side of the scale, and unscrupulous?  http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unscrupulous  I should hope not.  But, haha, at least I got a cooler sounding word than Mom's "amoral" (she scored as James Bond).  I've never actually watched "Tomb Raider;" is it worth it?  I don't recall being too interested in it from the previews.

Thursday, 17 May 2007

Monday, 26 March 2007

  • Little Reminders

    God has a sense of humor.  He has little ways of reminding you not to take yourself so seriously, and laugh at yourself now & then.  Like this morning...

    So I was in the locker room at the Y, had showered & dressed and was putting on my makeup.  It's not the rommiest of places, but it isn't crowded at the time of morning that I'm always there, so I had my little cosmetic bag sitting open on the corner of the counter at the sinks.  It usually works fine, but today I accidently whacked my elbow on the hand dryer button, which turned on the warm blowing air - 6 inches above my stuff.  Until this time, the woman at the sink next to me hadn't said anything while she was doing her own hair, but it was one of those moments that compels any witness to comment.  I don't remember what she said, but it was along the lines of a compassionate kind of "oh no."  I smiled, said "whoops!," moved my powder foundation out of the path of the blowing air, held down the rest of my stuff, and told the hand dryer that it could turn off now, thank you very much.  It was then that I actually noticed a fine mist of powder foundation all over the front (counter height, so crotch area) of my dark pants.  With an "oh," from me, and expression of pity from her, I started wiping it off with a damp paper towel, and commented that "hey, it could have been worse, right?" 

    So, it slowed me down a little, it was an inconvenient bump in the road (figuratively, though there could have been a literal bump on my elbow if I whacked that thing any harder!), and it could have set me off into a "great, what else will go wrong now?  what a wonderful way to start my day," mood, but instead, I heard that still small voice saying "ML, it's really ok.  Just smile & laugh it off."

    I think He tells us that more often than we hear it though.

     

Monday, 22 January 2007

  • snow in Southern AZ????

    Yep, again!  In places south of Tucson, there are schools closed, and here, in Tucson, where we never get snow, today has been declared a half-snow-day b/c of freezing frost!  Listening to the radio is kinda funny - the whole city is turned upside down b/c this never happens here.   

    *update:  I went out to move my car out of the driveway so Jackie could get hers out of the garage, and all my doors are frozen shut!  So we came back inside to figure out what to do, and she called her school a second time and this time got to talk to someone who told her they have late start too.  So maybe by the time I actually want to go somewhere, my car won't be frozen, hahaha.

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