Molly's a Big Chicken

Here is Molly - being very timid of the neighbor's cat, Johnny Mew. She doesn't really know what to do with a cat.

More giggles

So yesterday was a slow day at work...how do I know this? You mean other than the fact that I checked foxnews.com 17 times, looked at the same blogs of about 5 people 12 times to see if they updated them, played sudoku, a crossword puzzle, and solved a jigsaw puzzle all before 10:00 am? Well, I know this because as we were sitting around doing not much in the afternoon, our resident laser safety genius (yeah you read that right) comes over to our cubes and says his computer screen is rotated. He was just doing some calculations in Excel and all of the sudden, his screen is rotated so you can only read it if you rotate your head to the right. After several unsuccessful attempts, we finally looked up "fix rotated screen" on yahoo and came up with the solution. If you press CTL-ALT-(arrow key), then your screen will rotate. Don't ask me why Microsoft thinks this feature is necessary, but it works. Anyway, we thought about all the people we could get who leave their computers sitting there unattended and did a test run on the resident prankster in the office by flipping his upside down. His answer was to just turn his whole monitor upside down, which would have worked for a little while, but I don't think his monitor liked it much. It's a pretty harmless trick and we may get someone pretty good with it one of these days. I'd really like to hear what our tech hotline people would say about that one...

My car is back in the shop because the windows are still creaking. No idea why this is happening, but it's annoying me, so they said they'll try to fix it again. As long as they're doing it for free, I'll keep taking it back. In the meantime, I get to drive a brand new 2007 G35. Pretty sweet!

Time to Laugh

This weekend - I did several really fun things. My little sister, Erin (through Big Bros, Big Siss) and I went to Golf-N-Stuff. Mini golf is always good for a laugh. We actually tied. Can you believe that?

Saturday, I went to visit a couple from church, Jim and Debbie, at their campsite on the beach in Carpinteria. Little did I know that another church family, the Stevensons, was camped in the spot next to them with their 3 little girls and some extended family. We all had fun and had a nice lunch of chicken salad and egg salad sandwiches. We got to walk along the beach and play with their grey parrot named Greycie. The parrot was a lot of fun. I got to hold her and feed her chips and watermelon. Then they put her in a tree. She'd never been in a tree before. She looked right at home.

Saturday night, my friend and coworker, Rafael, invited my sister and me to a comedy show. It was supposed to be a Christian comedy night, so we went. It was a lot of fun. The headline was a guy named Ron who was on the second season of Last Comic Standing. His website is http://www.funnyron.com/ and he's pretty funny.

Sunday was my day to help out at Children's Ministry at church. Usually, that means a quiet morning during the early service with about six 4-5 yr olds. I volunteered to help out second service in the 2-3 yr old room....wow! There were 16 of them! And they were all over the place! What fun!

Hope you got a laugh out of my funny weekend.

Last night, I was sitting at home wondering what to watch on tv. As I flipped through the digital tv guide, I saw that the film Moses with Ben Kingsley was going to be on TBN. I haven't seen it, so I thought I'd watch it. Well I turned to TBN, but instead of Moses, they were playing this movie called The Perfect Stranger. It was about this woman who got a dinner invitation from Jesus. They sat and had dinner and she got to ask him important questions. It was a wonderful movie showing how God wants to have a personal relationship with each of us and if he could have dinner with each of us, he really would. It was a simple movie, but a very delightful way of explaining the tough questions about Jesus.

Uggg...

The circus tent has come down and the hospital is beginning to look normal again. I guess it's mold free now so that is good news. Maybe things will quiet down around there.

Last night, I had my sister, Jennifer, and a bunch of ladies from church (Jennifer, Stephanie, Lisa, Carina and Debbie) over to my place (plus Mulder and Scully). We had a great time eating and chatting and having fun. We had so much food too! It was a lot of fun to just get together and be silly!

In the middle of all our fun last night, my back started hurting again. It's the same pain I had last week, which eventually went away over the weekend. But now it's back with a vengeance, cutting into my sleep. Oh well...I guess I will just take it easy for a while. That's about it for now....

It's a Circus!

So the hospital across the street from my apartment looks like a circus tent, minus the stripes and the pointy top. It's covered in plastic. Apparently, the hospital is full of mold and they have to treat it with some chemical. But I am not to worry. People from the EPA will be on site, monitoring the amount of escape chemicals...gee, I feel better.

Thanks to Julie Carobini's blog, I have this silly quiz for you to take. There's lots of them, but I'll just share one for now...Find out what kind of sandwich you are here: http://blogthings.com/whatkindofsandwichareyouquiz/

I am a Ham Sandwich

You are quiet, understated, and a great comfort to all of your friends. Over time, you have proven yourself as loyal and steadfast. And you are by no means boring. You do well in any situation - from fancy to laid back.

Your best friend: The Turkey Sandwich

Your mortal enemy: The Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Book Club, Bible Study, Food and Trucks

Ok, it's been a little while, so it's time to update the blog. Still haven't taken a picture of Marcus' truck yet, but it's looking good with the new wheels, tires and running boards. He also got a bed extender and a 6-disc cd changer and right now, it's at the upholstery shop getting leather seats. It's pretty sweet.

By the way, the Ranger is for sale...if you know anyone who wants a new truck, let me know. It's been good to me, just time to let someone else enjoy it.

Last Thursday night, Jenny and I went to Dream Dinners (www.dreamdinners.com) and made a bunch of dinners. It's one of those places where all the ingredients are there, you just put them all together in a baggie and then you can make the dinners at home. It was a lot of fun and now my freezer is full of good food, just waiting to be eaten. I'm going to make another dinner tonight. So far, the ham and potato strata is pretty good.

Monday night, I had my Book Club meeting. It was so fun. We had the author join us for the get-together. We read Chocolate Beach, by Julie Carobini. It's a Christian Chick-lit set in Ventura. You can check her out at www.juliecarobini.com. She has another book coming out in early 2008. We had a little beach party in a backyard and ate all kinds of good food. We had brownies, salad, chicken, bread and of course, chocolate chili! If you read the book, you'll know all about the chocolate chili!

Last night, we had our Bible Study. We talked about the 7 Pillars of our Faith - Salvation in Christ Jesus, the Integrity of God and His Word, the Force of Love, Our Authority in Christ Jesus, the Force of Faith, the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and the Power of Prayer. It was quite an evening of faith with lots of prayer for healing and Spiritual growth. We start the book of Romans in September.

That's it for now...more later!

New Truck

Last night, Marcus and I drove down to Torrance to pick up his new truck. He bought a 4-dr 2005 Toyota Tacoma. It's silver with a light grey interior. I'll post pictures later...