Not today, Jesus
Last night in small group we were discussing the story about the Rich Young Ruler and how Jesus told him he had to give up all his possessions. Most of the study was talking about what it means to follow Jesus and what it means that Jesus loves you from the beginning and not because of actions you take. It also talked about the feeling that there is just one more thing you have to do and then you will have a perfectly spiritual life, and how you should become a nobody and just love Jesus.
Anyways, at the end of the study one of the suggestions was to go out for a day without any money and journal about your experience. I got to thinking, yeah, I could probably do that. Maybe I’ll do that tomorrow.
Then this morning I remembered I needed to get gas for my car, and I heard myself saying, “Well, not today Jesus, not today” (It’d be a really long walk to work) Then I thought, I bet He really hates hearing that.
Feeling Uninspired
I don’t really have anything I want to write about right now, so I just followed Ignorant Historian’s lead and thought I’d answer some questions about myself…
1. What is your current obsession?
Getting over the last obsession – does that count?
2. What are you wearing today?
Jeans, a black top and black heels. I have lunch with a rep today so I had to glam it up with the heels instead of flip flops…
3. What’s for dinner?
Probably something quick and easy – maybe couscous with some vegetables thrown on top.
4. What’s the last thing you bought?
A soda from downstairs.
5. What are you listening to right now?
The new The Dead Weather CD on iLike
6. What is your favorite quote?
I don’t know if I can narrow it down, but I would probably end up with something by Mark Twain if going for famous quotes. However, if you count the years of hilarity that have been created by the quotes I will go for these…
“I’m a witness” – Little sister around age 4-5 to my parents when big brother and I were fighting over who did what. The actual event was soon forgotten, but the quote will remain the bane of my sister’s existence for years to come.
“He’s jogging now” – Again this was little sister, but at an older age. We were all just hanging out in the living room one day and this man walked down our street. Then it started to rain and when he came back from the opposite direction he was running. You probably had to be there.
“Look – it’s a guy full of jeeps” – my friend Annie one night in high school – driving around. For about the next year we said it backwards on purpose because it was just funny.
“Oh really,” “No O’Reilly” – This is the punch line to a joke** in the Laugh-a-Minute joke book my grandma bought my sister and I when we were little. I still tend to add the “No, O’Reilly” whenever my sister says “Oh really”
7. What language do you want to learn?
I guess Spanish would probably be the most useful, but I also wish I would’ve kept up with French. After taking 5 years of it from age 14-19, I know a dismal amount of it now.
8. What do you love most about where you currently live?
The weather, the trees and neighborhood feel even though it’s a big city. More specifically, that I’m close to work and only have a 15 minute commute.
9. If you could travel anywhere, where would you go?
I think I’d like to go to Japan, China and Thailand, but I’m also still working on all 50 states – only 8 more to go.
10. If you could do or be anything (career wise), what would you be?
This is a tough one because I really enjoy what I’m doing now, so I think I’ll stick with it.
11. What’s your favorite piece of clothing in your own wardrobe?
That’s a tough one. I am really digging a pair of wedge sandals currently so I’ll go with them. I don’t know if shoes count, but whatever, this is my answer.
12. Describe your personal style?
Hair’s kinda, I dunno, brown? No, it’s not really brown. Oh, and tall. Yeah, kinda tall. Sorta tall. And like always wearing like t-shirts. So, sort of tall? Kind of. With… hair? Yeah. And wears t-shirts sometimes? Yeah. (not really to describe my personal style – I just wanted to throw in a “Can’t Hardly Wait” reference)
My real answer would go something like this conversation I had at work.
Coworker: Oh I like your outfit. Did you put it together yourself?
Me: If by “put together” you mean, liked what the mannequin was wearing and bought it, then yes, I put it together myself.
13. Do you collect anything?
Hat pins when I travel – they are all on my bulletin board at home since I don’t wear hats and think it would be kind of lame if I actually pinned anything to them if I did.
14. What makes you follow a blog?
If it’s funny and/or interesting.
15. What makes you comment on a blog?
I don’t know, I guess if I have something to say then I will comment.
16. What is the most enjoyable thing you did today?
It’s still pretty early and I’m at work, so the most enjoyable part of my day so far was probably taking a shower.
17. What’s your favorite thing to do when you have free time?
Read, play tennis, play board games, watch TV.
**Jane: Aunt Sheila, did you hear I’m enganged to an Irishman?
Aunt Sheila: Oh really?
Jane: No, O’Reilly.
DTV – I thought I should know what I’m talking about
So tonight I just set up my living room TV to actually receive the digital channels over the air. I did this for two reasons, but found a third along the way -
1. I can now use my picture in picture function since now the “TV” option will actually have a signal. Now I can watch two lame shows at once if I so choose. Since my cable box goes through the HDMI cables I couldn’t figure out how to do the P&P function without it using the “TV” option and since I didn’t not have anything connected to that – well it has never worked.
2. This has been a topic at work for years and I never gave it to much personal thought because I have cable so I didn’t have to do anything. It’s pretty much just been a lot of hoopla about which markets are prepared and which ones aren’t, and how it’s going to affect the ratings, and oh we’re not going to have a February Nielsen book, but oh wait never mind, now we’re switching to June, so scratch that we’ll have February ratings, but not ratings for June, etc. etc. (sorry, I completely realize that is the ugliest sentence on the planet) Well anyways, earlier this week one of my stations told me that the actual over the air signals in HD are way better HD than going through the cable box, so I had to test this out…
OMG, he was totally right. I cannot believe the difference. I could tell just by watching but then I also did a very scientific test by watching the same channel through both signals using the P&P function. Granted some of my favorite HD channels – discovery, Nat Geo, etc are only available through cable so it’s a moot point for me. However, I am currently watching swimming from last years Olympics on WXIA’s 2nd or 3rd digital channel and it is pretty amazing.
I think I owe it to anyone who actually uses their TV to watch sports on the local stations to tell you that you should definitely consider switching over ot the digital signal instead of the cable box for game time. I mean if your TV is digital ready and your cable is all set up through HDMI like mine, all you have to do is switch to the “TV” option and run the “autoprogram” and it just puts them all there for you.
3. Finally, I also just realized that this will help solve my issues with having too much to watch on TV at one time. I can now have my DVR record two things and then switch to the TV signal and watch a third option. I have not tested this out, but based on my limited knowledge of technology I think it should work. I know a simpler solution would be to watch less TV, but sometimes you just have to sacrifice for your work…
There you have it, my input on the digital tv transition that occured last month. It’s all about timing really – I didn’t want to be the first to post something because I didn’t want to deal with millions of people clogging up my blog comments looking for real answers (ha) Anyways, if you have any real questions about it, there are about a million other web sites you can go to for info.
Really?
Two of the quickest ways to get me to “hide” you on Facebook:
1. Take a ton of quizzes.
2. Update your status constantly about your pregnancy complete with pictures of your sonograms/baby bumps (this is something you should just share with your significant other and maybe your top 20 friends and family – not the 300 or so people on Facebook)
The quickest way to get me to defriend you:
Taking this quiz, complete with this comment…
My two biggest concerns with this:
1. Unless God created this quiz it cannot be that accurate.
2. The “this is about right” comment – I don’t really need to know when you are going to shoot for having a baby – again this is information that should be reserved for close friends only.
Having a baby is a wonderful thing and I think it just cheapens it by using Facebook as a way to share it. Start a blog or something and send the links to the grandparents and your close friends. Please do not send it to me unless we have communicated personally in someway within the last few months…
No bullets and other random events of the weekend…
Thursday night I went to see my friend Nathan play at Vinyl. Nathan puts on an awesome show. It was a great time, minus the diva moment** from the guy that played before him, but at least there’s always something interesting happening at his shows.
Friday I had dinner with my friend KA. It was a nice quiet night, and she may not know it but she told me something I definitely needed to hear.
Saturday I headed to East Atlanta for Corndogorama – here’s a picture with me and my friend JM, who happened to win the 2008 corn dog eating contest. Unfortunately she did not win again this year, but it was still pretty awesome to see her try.
Sunday after church I headed to my friend’s pool for a going away party for another friend. She’s moving to Chicago so we had to have one last Sunday Funday before she left. We grilled out, we swam and we played flip cup by the side of the pool. I finally made it home around 8:45 – which was the exact same time Mentally::Rehearsed called to see if I was going to Brick Store. It didn’t take much to get me to cave. She accomplished it just by asking twice and telling me she was right by my house so she could pick me up. Living in Dunwoody, it is a rare day that someone is actually by my house and/or willing to pick me up. I showered and got ready and then we left my house about 30 minutes later. I’m glad I went – it was good time and a nice end to the weekend.
Other events of the weekend – I watched a lot of the Disney channel; I got lost in my neighborhood for a few minutes when I went for a run; I did not finish Catch 22 for book club tonight; and I finally got the answer I was looking for, even though it wasn’t the one I wanted. That God, He just works in mysterious ways.
**The guy that played before Nathan got a little whinny that people in the back were talking so he got off the stage crossed the room and climbed up on the bar and stood up there until it got quiet enough for his liking and then he played his last song. I was actually enjoying his music up until this point, but that was just stupid and kind of annoying…
Morning humor
I thought I’d share a few of my favorite jokes with you this morning. I realize they won’t be as funny without my awesome comedic timing (ha – that was my first joke), but if anyone is as grumpy as I am today, maybe they will help.
Here is my favorite short joke
So, this guy walks into a bar… (pause) Yeah, you think he would have ducked.
This one killed my first graders at VBS
What did the zero say to the eight?
…
Nice belt!
And finally, here is the longest joke I have ever remembered
So, this engineer dies and goes up to heaven to see St. Peter. St. Peter decides that this engineer has not led a good enough life and sends him to hell. Once in hell, the engineer decides that it is a totally unacceptable place to be stuck for eternity. He decides to create air conditioning so it’s not so hot. Then he builds elevators and escalators so people don’t have to just climb and hang out on sharp cliffs. Everyone in hell is loving this, even the Devil.
God decides that this is not acceptable. Hell cannot be someplace that people want to go – it will just mess up everything. He decides to go to the Devil and tell him that he wants the engineer back. The devil says, “Are you crazy? There’s no way I’m giving him up. Have you seen what he’s done to the place? No way!” God replies, “Oh yeah, well I’m going to sue you.”
The Devil replies, “Really, where are you going to find a lawyer”
Hahaha. I really like that one. Both my brother and sister are lawyers, so I have a soft place in my heart for any joke I can make about them 
Anyways, I need some new material so if you have a go to joke you don’t mind sharing, please leave it in the comments…
This is what happens when the boss man comes for the first time in 2-3 years…
Today my office is similar to the aftermath of a high school party. Not the same mess, but the same cleaning frenzy. The owner of my agency is coming to Atlanta tomorrow with the new President of one of our clients. This is a huge deal. In my almost 6 years working here, this will only be the third time he’s been to our Atlanta office and the first time in 3 years. It is also the first time such a high ranking client has come to our Atlanta office. What this means…
Everyone is frantically cleaning up their offices (this doesn’t really affect me because my office is always pretty tidy)
Everyone is pitching in on taking down decorations from happy hours from 2.5 years ago.
The old agency work that is hanging in all the hallways is all being replaced with examples that are a little more recent than 5 years ago.
We’ve had about three meetings about what is going to be going on in our meeting tomorrow.
Everyone has to figure out what to wear tomorrow because jeans and flip flops just aren’t going to cut it.
I promise I’m really 28…
Last night was the premiere of the third season of “Secret Life of the American Teenager” on ABC Family. I’m probably only one of five 28 year olds who watches this show, but I find it quite enjoyable. I’ve tried to compress my thoughts into a few paragraphs to try and keep this short. Oh and in case there actually is anyone else who watches this show and you haven’t seen last night’s episode you might want to stop reading now.
I was not very happy about where they are leading for this season though. The main girl had her baby at the end of last season so I guess they needed a new plot line to throw in there. Here’s what they picked. One of the girls spent the first season talking about abstinence and waiting until she is married to have sex, but then her boyfriend cheated on her because he couldn’t wait. Blah blah blah – men, geez. Anyways, by the end of the second season she and her boyfriend are back together and she is fighting with her dad because she is no longer wearing her purity ring.
Cue last night’s episode – dad is mad, daughter is mad, dad goes on mission trip, daughter has sex with her boyfriend, dad dies in plane crash. Mother and son/brother come home to tell daughter right after she had sex with boyfriend for the first time, son/brother tells her she killed him, she killed dad. Oh the drama. Anyways in the preview for the season it looks like they are going to have the girl dealing with guilt over killing her dad because she got in a fight with him and then he left and she had sex and he died. WTF? I’m not sure I agree with this message ABC Family is sending with the show – if you have sex before you are married, you will get pregnant or someone will die. Awesome.
Now that I’m older, I guess I would say I’m all for keeping teens from having sex and having babies, but I don’t know if I would go about it in quite this manner. I do however appreciate the cheesy PSA’s at the end for an organization that not only promotes abstinence, but also safe sex practices (Yes I went to the web site – I was curious).
I could go on and on about other things in the episode, but then my little recap might take longer to read than actually watching the show, so I’ll stop here.
