Monday, May 24, 2004

Hello all you bloggy people! I had guard this weekend, so I'll be sleepy for the next week. So far I've missed 2 calls from Warren in 2 days, I'm on a roll! Although it's one of those rolls I'd rather not be on. Ok genius boy - my phone was in my cargo pocket, with both buttons buttoned & I couldn't get to it fast enough. Next time just call back again, so I have time to fish it out.

Onto the next topic: peeing. That's right folks, good 'ol urination! In the military there's a little thing they like to do called drug testing. Randomly, they pull some names out of a hat & then they make you go pee - in front of a stranger. We call it the lottery - I guess I was feelin' lucky, cause they pulled my name. Booo!!! You'd think I'd be used to it, everybody has to do it when they enlist, but it never gets easier. So, on my way over to sail down yellow river, I got in my car and the song Let the River Flow was playing. I think God was mocking me, but it's all good - since he's God he can do whatever he wants. This proves he has a sense of humor, or that he's mean - I think it's the first one though. I was a bit offended when my pee-watcher asked for gloves. Come on lady - what's wrong with my pee?! I'm not gonna make you touch it! Man, some people are weird! Well, that's how I served my country this weekend - I peed in a cup for you. I'd do it all again if I had to.

Thursday, May 20, 2004

What do ya' think of the new look? Me gusta!
The semester is over, now my focus is shopping! But, not just any shopping, this is shopping with a purpose: wedding stuff! So far I've got the dress, veil, flower girl basket (it's different from the normal ewwy girly ones!), something for the salt covenant, a candleholder for the 'light bearer' and reception stuff. Whew! That was a lot of shopping! I'm having salt and light bearers - made that one up myself! The salt will be carried down the aisle for the salt covenant - why? Because it's my lot in life to be different.

Salty Verses!
Leviticus 2:13
Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings.

Numbers 18:19
Whatever is set aside from the holy offerings the Israelites present to the LORD I give to you and your sons and daughters as your regular share. It is an everlasting covenant of salt before the LORD for both you and your offspring."

2 Chronicles 13:5
Don't you know that the LORD , the God of Israel, has given the kingship of Israel to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt?

Light Verses!
Matthew 5:14
You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.

Revelation 21:23
The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.

1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Useless facts you don't really care about . . . But now you know!

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.



Sunday, May 16, 2004

The calm before the storm. . . School's finished, summer's here and so is everything else! VBS starts in a couple of weeks, guess who's teaching the preschoolers. Yup, I am. So far I haven't even looked at the lessons or planned craft stuff. My plan is to start that this week. Also this week, I have to finish up part of my CDC's - Air Force education stuff - very boring and time consuming. I waited til the last minute to work on these, my time was devoted to finals. They're due this Saturday, hopefully I can finish in 2 days. After VBS I've got to start planning and packing for my trip to England. Two weeks at Lakenheath AFB! Hopefully it won't be all work & I'll get to see some cool stuff, I'm praying that Warren & Micah are still in Germany on July 4th weekend so they can come play with me. Once the England trip is over I'll have to start getting ready for the fall semester - yikes!

Ok, I think I'm gonna go shower since I smell like a camp fire. Tonite we went over to Garrett's casa & built a bon-fire. Well, mostly I watched and stayed out of Chris Holcomb's way, since he was manning the lighter fluid! Once it got going we roasted hot dogs and made smores. I also took the liberty of renaming their horses and their smelly dog. The black horse's name is Zandorfia, the brown one's Zeltron and the paint is Herpes Simplex B. As for the stink-dog who liked my ear, he is now referred to as "It." Mmmm, good times. We also invented a new game utilizing flaming marshmallows and a dog! Enough said.

Thursday, May 13, 2004

Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow - you're only a day away! That's right, my last final is at 8:00am tomorrow morning. To celebrate I'm taking Chris to the oral surgeon to get his wisdom teeth extracted. How lovely! He's gonna be higher than Bobby Brown flyin' a kite! Ok girlies, listen up (if that's possible since you're actually reading) I got my dress! Hooray shiny white dress!!! Mom & I went dress shopping yesterday - it was the first one I tried on; we fell in love with it! (Ahh, how special!) It's a strappless, white, A-line with an asymmetrical drape. There's a smidge (hehe, neeto word!) of beaded embroidery on the bodice and down the line of the drape. All you guy-readers have no idea what that means, unless you wear dresses on a regular basis. Too bad the semester's over, that would've been an awesome homework dress to wear along with my swooshy homework hat!

Sunday, May 09, 2004

Finals week is upon us! (I can diagram that sentence - booyah, in your faces! Except for Briana's face, 'cauese she can do it too.) The first thing I'm gonna do after this week is take a nap! Mmmmmmm, naps are good stuff. Right now I'm blogging, obviously, but what you can't tell just from reading this is that I'm blogging while I'm wearing a veil! Hooray wedding veil! Psychologically speaking I've reverted back to a four year old dress up state, and in the words of McDonald's: "I'm lovin' it!" So far I've taken my veil for a walk around the house, worn it while I did homework (I think it helps me study. . .) and ran in it to make it all swooshy-like! Good stuff! Right now the blusher is over my face, and the computer screen creating a very private blogging atmosphere. It also doubles as a mosquito net - shoo fly, don't bother me! My whole plan was not to show Chris, but it's just too much fun to wear, so he's seen it. Oh, well, I just won't show him the dress. Maybe. . .

Friday, May 07, 2004

The Death of Friends

It's over. Noooooooo! Ok, I'm over it. Thanks to Jessica and Tami for not leaving me all lonesome to watch the Friends finale. Sad, sad, so very sad. The lobsters found eachother: Ross & Rachel are together; the birds are singing, kites are flying and the sun is shining. Then ER comes on and they kill a baby - are these NBC people trying to cause a nationwide depression? Can tv be any sadder?! I just want to take this time and e-space to say how much I hate dogs. Yes. Hate them. Maybe not all dogs, just the ones who stink, lick you, jump on you, lick themselves, make messes, bark, pee, poo and have bad breath. (Maybe that does encompass all dogs. . .) I'm house/dog-sitting for a lady at work, she has 2 ick-dogs. They stink and make messes, and I have to go let them poo - so this criteria falls under the "hate" stipulation. Last night, after Friends, ER, the news AND Jay Leno (they had the entire cast of Friends on, I had to stay up & watch! Wasn't worth it though.) I went to Mansfield to feed the ick-dogs and let them out to poo. Keep in mind it's almost midnight. So, I let them out and all they do is stand there & bark, I'm sure the neighbor's wanted to kill us all. (Secretly I may have been hoping for someone to snipe them out - how could I be held responsible for a random-angry-neighbor bullet?) They didn't pee or poo, just barked like retardos. Great, what a wasted trip. So I fed them (something else I don't like doing as it makes their breath stink, and I have to touch the stinky dogfood. Gross!) When I let them in all they wanted to do was jump on me and touch me - ewwww! Dog cooties!!! The big one slobbered on my toe (not wearing flip-flops there again) so I wiped it off on a blanket. Since it was so late & I have an 8:00am class I had packed a bag to stay the night. But, the ick-dogs had other plans and proceeded to bark incessantly - they even worked out an annoying little pattern: bark for 3 minutes, stop for 30-45 seconds to make Robin think we're done, then bark some more. Devil-ick-dogs. So, after 40 minutes of not sleeping I grabbed my bag, pillow and ran away - giving the little dog an evil I-will-eat-you look. It was kinda cool because my super evil glare made him stop barking. So, I drove home crying - because when you're tired and sleepy and know you have to get up around 5:45am just to go back to the ick-dogs to feed them, well, there's just nothing else to do but cry. Man, I hate dogs.

Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Last night I went with Mom & Dad to a sports bar & grill in Mansfield - pretty fun! They have tv's at every booth, yummy food, pool tables, arcade & a karoke bar. The highlight (or was is lowlight?) of the evening was hearing a large middle-aged man sing a Britney Spears' song. Sad, but funny nonetheless! Finals are looming ahead next week, then we're done! Yay!!! If I had to take summer classes I think I'd pull my hair out: kudos and good luck to all you overacheivers who are wasting your summer away in an overly-airconditioned classroom. It's just time for me to accept the fact that I'm taking the 5-6 year road to the almighty baccalaureate degree. (Hmm, maybe look into starting my own internet show and find a roommate named Gobi . . .) Yesterday I bought 20 glass vases and 75 glass votive holders at Hobby Lobby. (Why? You may ask - for the reception (that's a year away) of course! I like to be prepared.) I looked like Captain Retardo wheeling a cart full of breakables through the store, I kept waiting to trip or have a collision with another shopper - no such luck! All the breakables made it home safe & sound.

Sunday, May 02, 2004

The times, they are a changin' . . .

Ooh, spiffy new blog, huh?! I don't care what Warren thinks, he's such the Captain Negativo - sad, sad boy . . . Anywho, I got tired of the depressing black, so I added color & took away the weird, pointless picture. Thursday night Mom, Dad, Chris and I went and picked up our new furniture. Ahhh, the Awesome-Couch and Super-Chair . . . So comfy! Yes, I know we're not getting married for 14 months, but it was on sale! Never in my life have I passed up a sale before, why should I start now? Plus, I figured once I start wedding shopping the furniture funds would be non-existent. My credit card wet its pants at the RoomStore, but it's happy now 'cause it's being paid off. I took the inaugural nap on the Awesome-Couch, it's an eight-footer so it must be referred to as the Awesome-Couch.

So, the living room is not only filling up with furniture (Mom & Dad are thrilled by the way) but the wedding magazines are beginning to accumulate as well. I've only paid for one, luckily a friend of mine is getting married this coming weekend so she's feeding my frenzy with stuff she doesn't need anymore. Friday I met up with Mom & Dad and we booked a place for the wedding - it's so awesome! They must want to get rid of me pretty bad to pay a price like that! The place we've chosen (when I say "we" you're probably assuming it's me & Chris, but now any "we" associated with the word wedding will mean my mommy and me (no, not my mommy and I, it's "me", trust me on this one) since Chris just zones out at the mention of "wedding.") is over 100 years old - it's awesome! So beautiful; hardwood floors, old pews - everything's perfect! There are trees everywhere . . . it just rocks! It's weird to think that I'm getting married - in my head I'm still 17 years old! It's not that I'm scared (well, maybe a teensy bit!) but it's the whole "fear of the unknown" thing. That's where faith comes in though, knowing 100% God has everything in control. And since he's running the show I think I'll just go shopping for decorations!