for the love

Friday night I was standing in a gift shop at the Nashville airport, skimming the travel-ready packages of candy, making sure I didn't need anything else to accommodate my 1 hour and 40 minute flight to Tampa. My eyes locked on a bag of gummy worms and I was immediately transported to a Christmas long ago.... Abilene, TX: circa 1985 -- We were about to take a very long road trip to Fairfax VA to visit my mom's side of the family for Christmas. As my sister and I crawled into the backseat of our maroon Oldsmobile we found early Christmas presents sitting where we would soon be trapped. We unwrapped them in unison finding our parent's answer to hours of captivity and small-space confinement. A bribe to keep us quiet, yes; but as I recall it worked. For to each one of us was given a personal cassette tape player with headphones. We listened to Chistmas tape after Christmas tape. Over and over again. We had one tape in particular that I remember. It was A Country Christmas. Voi

This article, posted by the Associate Press and MSNBC, just made me chuckle. Aside from its obviously pointless and outlandish propogand-ish subject matter (which I won't even bother to dissect), the very first line is, at the very least, thought provokingly... ridiculous. I'm no genius when it comes to numbers and especially fractions. So would somebody please correct me if this sentence has even a lick of of mathmatical logic? Please keep in mind, answers suggesting people in terms of fractions will not be accepted. "NEW YORK - More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study." Sigh.... Rolls eyes. Goes straight to blogger to blog about it. Kids, read it but don't look to much into it. It's just your friendly AP at it again.

Have you ever had to tell someone you lied to them? Late last week during an extremeley stressful day at work, my client asked me a simple question, and because I did not like the way the truth would make me look, I lied. It was a ridiculous thing to do, such a small, seemingly non-threatening little white lie. The truth was not even so bad. I could have smoothed it over in the same breath if I had just had an ounce of integrity in the moment. But I lied. I kept thinking it wasn't so bad. That I would forget about it, and God would forgive me, and it would all be ok. But I couldn't forget about. It plagued me. All weekend long. I had not felt that way in years. Even in guilt, I could not imagine actually fessing up to the person whose eyes I had looked into and blatantly lied to. I kept thinking, I don't really have to tell them...do I? God will still forgive me, and I can move on from this, repent and never do it again without confessing...right? Something kept telling me

Please. No Smoothie King for Christmas. I'm over it. Dear Smoothie King, You smother me with your protein-powered, chocolate turbinado, frozen smoothiness. Let's just take a break....re-evaluate our relationship. Don't worry. I'll think of you often (maybe a little too often at first.) I still think you're great. I will speak well of you to my friends. I would really appreciate it if we could be on good terms. Besides, I'm sure we'll reconnect one day. When we least expect it. When the present nausea wears off. We're just not on the same page right now. You say, 'chewing is over-rated'. I say, 'my teeth miss chewing'. It's not you. It's me. Well, it might be you a little bit. That's kind of the point, no? Until we meet again, Emily

The City Paper published an article this past week about the current E. Coli scare running nationwide through Taco Bells. I'd like to quote a quote: "A preliminary test of three samples of green onions found them to be "presumptive" positive for E. Coli O157:H7, the Irvine, California-based unit of Yum! Brands Inc . said in a statement Wednesday." Yum! Brands Inc. ? ! Yum!? Hmm. I will refrain from taking a poll. Even though I'm just dying to state the obvious.

Anybody got a book recommendation for me?? It's been a while since I was addicted to a good book (see post on My Sister's Keeper for an accurate dating of the last occurance). I don't have a specific favorite genre. It just has to be addicting. The kind that you can't put down. The kind, when you do put it down because you have to do things like, umm, go to work, you can't stop thinking about it. The kind that begins to feel like the best friend you never had and you can't wait to pick it up again. The kind that calls your name while your at work, and you bring it to work with you just so you can be near it and maybe read it on your lunch break and then you find yourself reading it at your desk anyways because you swear you'll only read like the first sentence....or page...or chapter. And then the President makes a surprise visit from around the corner and you're OH NO! Busted. And before you know it you're recommending it to her and she's all l

Last night I was reading The Tennessean while waiting for my Crispani to bake at Panera. There was an article about how the city of Juneau is afraid they're going to lose their 'capital' status. Due to the fact that Juneau is ranked the most geographically inaccessible capital of all the fifty states, especially during inclement weather (which, let's face it, when is Alaska NOT having inclement weather?) the new governor decided she was going to be inaugurated somewhere she could actually physically get to, as opposed to the traditional site of the state capital. Needless to say, this threw Juneau into a tizzy. "This is just the beginning," said the dissed capital. "Before you know it, we'll be out." **these are not exact quotes, by the way. What is an exact quote, and the part that made me unexpectedly and audibly laugh to myself in a room full of strangers was said by a local Alaskan lawyer consulted in the matter, "Juneau is pretty neurot

Have you ever spent an hour typing a new post, and then blogger "loses" it before it publishes? So yes, it's been a whole month to the day since I last posted. "Shout out" to all you kind folks who have been begging for my return :) Here's a quick run down of some new and exciting developments, with a bonus feature of 6 weird things about me. Purely by request of course. Ellyn, my cousin, tagged me. I don't think I would just decide to post six weird things about myself out of no where. I'm not that bored. Or weird. So in keeping with the 'list' theme, I will just list what I've been up to, and maybe a few random observations. 1. My church is planning a mission trip to Panama next summer. I am so there. 2. I will be taking Spanish at the Nashville School of Preaching next semester. It is free! Last time I was in Honduras I had a lot of fun learning bits of the language. I decided I would learn more if I ever went back to a spanish speakin