I think it would really cool to...

... get married on 10/10/10 or 11/11/11. And it would totally work out because 10/10 of this year is a Sunday and 11/11 of 2011 is a holiday (Veteran's Day).

I do have one teeny, tiny problem........ I've got no one to marry! Um, so... any guys out there want to have a REALLY cool anniversary? I'm totally free for either day! : )

My Neighbors, The Super Mario Brothers

They did this last year too. I just don't understand. It continues for hours. Around and around. Right outside my bedroom window. Make sure you turn up the sound to get the full effect.

Ha ha ha! Putting our sin nature to practical use...

"Put ‘gently used’ stuff [out] with a sign “free” on it…no takers. Put “for sale” and it was stolen by morning."

-Derek Sanford

HT: Twenty Two Words

22 Things About Me

I really like Abraham Piper's blog 22 Words. I also like his wife Molly's blog entitled The Pipers. So in honor Molly's recent post and Abraham's blog, I give you...

22 Things About Me

1. I was delivered by forceps.
2. When I was two my uncle nicknamed me the 'Pink Tornado' because my mom always dressed me in pink and I tore around the house like a crazy tornado in my walker.
3. I failed 'Cutting With Scissors' in preschool.
4. I had a crush on a snotty-nosed (literally) boy named Shawn when I was in the third grade.
5. I was home-schooled from the middle of fourth grade until the end of eighth grade.
6. I got a D one semester in Freshmen English because I could not bring myself to read Great Expectations which is probably the most boring book ever written.
7. I was nicknamed 'Air Jessica' in high school because I was really good at driving to the hole in basketball.
8. I won MVP my senior year in Track & Field. My events were 4X100 Relay, Long Jump, 330 Hurdles, and Shotput.
9. I do not like peas. The texture really gets to me.
10. I was terminated from my position as a bank teller because my cash drawer was short. I was SO depressed, but then they hired me at Victory Supermarkets because the manager knew my brother.
11. I was a waitress at The Bull Run for a year. That was a good job and it really prepared for my job now... as a nurse. 'Is there anything else I can get for you?'
12. A nursing instructor told me I gave a bad image to nursing. I told her I didn't think that was true so she removed those comments from my evaluation.
13. I have had 6 cars... a 1982 Dodge Aires, 1988 Ford Tempo, 1987 Plymouth Sable, 1982 Dodge Daytona, 1992 Mercury Topaz, and finally a 2000 Nissan Altima.
14. I took African Jazz Dance in college to fulfill my physical education requirement.
15. In college I took my car (that I used to get to and from my clinical in Boston) in for it's yearly inspection. The mechanic told me the only reason he was letting me drive it home was because I lived less than a mile away. He said something about rotted tie rods or something...
16. I LOVE mint chocolate chip ice cream with peanut butter topping.
17. One of my pupils is bigger than the other. I was born that way. When I get stressed or tired you can really tell the difference.
18. I didn't travel by plane until I was 24.
19. I sing alto and sometimes tenor in the choir but never soprano (or bass).
20. I have never broken a bone.
21. I am deathly allergic to pine nuts and have eaten them four times--in my grandmother's stuffed chicken, in spaghetti sauce at camp (apparently they add them to increase the protein content), in a Smart Ones dinner entre, and in finger sandwiches at a baby shower.
22. I have left my lights on in broad daylight and have had to get jump-started more times than I can count. I haven't done it in a while but I could always relapse.

More Wordles

These Wordles are really addicting! Here's a few I made from Heart Cry Missionary Society's Statement of Faith. The first is the doctrinal statement and the second is their essential convitions.

Phil Found The Lettuce Garden

Well, the inevitable has happened. The ground hog (affectionately named 'Phil' or if it's a girl, 'Phyllis') living underneath our shed has found the lettuce and helped himself to a tasty bunch of romaine. We're not sure what we're going to do but we do have a very helpful cat who was perched on top of the shed today in lookout position. Phil, though he is a bit larger than my cat, seems a bit skittish and my cat a terrific death stare. Hopefully they can make some arrangements. We're fine with Phil eating the grass weeds, but if he continues to help himself to the lettuce we may have to take more serious measures to control his behavior.

Groundhog!

There is a ground hog living underneath our shed confirmed by several extended sightings. So far he's just eating up the leafy grass weeds and he's pretty cute! Of course, he's not going to be so cute if he finds way to the lettuce garden and decides to have himself a salad.


(This picture is not the actual ground hog but it looks just like him. I'm still in the dark ages and do not actually own (gasp!) a digital camera.)

Wordles!? Warning: ADDICTING!!

Wordles: "“[W]ord clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. "

What you do is you go this site and paste a large block of text into the program and it generates a word picture. It's really neat!!

(You can click on the images to make the pictures larger)

I put in the text of Psalm 145 and came out with this:

Someone put in Sinner's in the Hands of an Angry God and got this:

Yipeng 'wordled' the book of Matthew and each separate book of the entire New Testament. It's so neat to pick out the main themes of each book! Here's the book of Matthew:



And, lastly, a wordle of my all-time favorite scripture passage, Psalm 103:

HT: Justin Taylor & Wordle

Just for Fun

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car) - Alice Nissan

2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie)- Mint Choco Chip

3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)- J Def

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal) - Green Koala

5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first) - Def Je

6. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink) - The Blue Ginger Ale

7. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers) - Joseph George

8. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter) - DeFilippo Dallas

9. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, favorite flower)- Christmas Wildflower

10. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”) Watermelon Flipfloppy

11. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree)- Bagel Oak

12. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”) - The Sleeping Rain Tour

So cute!

Something Funny

Kristi said I should put something funny up here. She said I'm too serious with all my 'theological' blogging. Well, I beg to differ. Anyone who is 'too serious' would not be found constructing a 'city' with every last plastic block and animal in the church nursery. So, I thought all my friendly blogger friends (all two of you, that is) would enjoy viewing Christine's and my 'creation' just in case you too, thought I was too serious. Please forgive the commentary included with the pictures. Christine is responsible for the detailed picture taking.

Our Creation (An Arial View)

Detailed view of the tunnel and 'grazing' sections

More Details (isn't Christine great at picture taking?)

Two by Two (except for the giraffe--he's single)

My favorite 'inhabitant' of your 'city'.
(According to Christine, he will now give us a tour of the tunnel.)

Isn't he cute?

According to Christine, he's talking about the structure and creation of the tunnel.

Hehe. Christine said this is as far as the media is allowed to go.


So, how's that for being 'unserious'... Maybe too much?