I don't get it. Dido? What is that? I know, I should probably know and have I been living under a rock, no. I've heard of Dido (am I even spelling it right?)...I know her (?) music...it's on cities all the time. But seriously, what is that?
I hate winter. I hate when people try and make me like winter. I hate the cold. I hate the snow. But most of all, I hate the grey. And the impending negative temperature that we'll be enduring these next TEN days. I hate it. I swear, this weather/season is the most depressing of them all. Don't get me wrong, it can be beautiful. But i hate being cold and in the winter, I am cold all of the time. Maybe I should have purchased a house with a fireplace. That would maybe help. But I probably would have died of carbon monoxide posioning.
Anyway. I don't know what else. That's the general mood tonight. My apologies for not having any fantastic thoughts or questions or ponderings. I'm pretty wiped. I want to go to bed and sleep for a week, wake up and find all of the remodeling in my house complete, and then see that it's summer.
We lost at VB again tonight. To a crappy team. I hate losing in the first place, but to a crappy team? That just takes the cake. SO annoyed.
Okay. I should sleep. Tommorrow I am presenting some findings on data that i've analyzed....and i have no idea what to say. this is going to suck.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
new buildings!
There are many reasons I can be labeled a huge dork. Many. Today's, however, is SUPER exciting!
The new buildings that are going up just a few blocks down the street are almost done! There will be new stores coming in soon...I hope it's a super cute cafe/restaurant/deli place and maybe a bookstore or Bibelot or a super fun coffee shop. OOOH i can't wait!! :o)
In other news, I LOVE MY NEW JOB! :o)
Yay! Okay, time for laundry and Grey's. It's a good week. ;-D
The new buildings that are going up just a few blocks down the street are almost done! There will be new stores coming in soon...I hope it's a super cute cafe/restaurant/deli place and maybe a bookstore or Bibelot or a super fun coffee shop. OOOH i can't wait!! :o)
In other news, I LOVE MY NEW JOB! :o)
Yay! Okay, time for laundry and Grey's. It's a good week. ;-D
Sunday, January 21, 2007
the point of it all?
Have you ever had a moment when you all of a sudden realize that there's got to be more to life than this?
I was driving down Hwy 100 today and for some reason it hit me. We spend all this money and time and effort on building these highways that criss-cross over what used to be a pristine, perfect earth filled with grass and trees and flowers and birds and animals. And instead we inlay the world with all this asphault. For what?
Or have you thought about how much time and energy we waste worrying about our love life or our friend life or our job or our house or our financial status only to realize that we're all going to end up in a funeral home and all of that worrying will make no impact on the world?
Does it ever hit you that we spend years and years of our life learning stuff so that we can spend years and years of our life working at something that doesn't last? Doesn't make an impact on someone's life?
I sat back and just wondered at all of that. Why are we rushing? Are we hoping to hurry along the end of our life? I believe 100% that we're here to bring glory to God...but shouldn't there be a bigger and better way to do it? Sometimes I feel like there should be a more important way to glorify Him.
Or maybe that's what it all comes down to: Figuring out how to glorify and love Him in the middle of this. This world that is filled with things that don't bring joy, this world that isn't perfect, this world that demands our attention, our worries, our energy, our life.
I was driving down Hwy 100 today and for some reason it hit me. We spend all this money and time and effort on building these highways that criss-cross over what used to be a pristine, perfect earth filled with grass and trees and flowers and birds and animals. And instead we inlay the world with all this asphault. For what?
Or have you thought about how much time and energy we waste worrying about our love life or our friend life or our job or our house or our financial status only to realize that we're all going to end up in a funeral home and all of that worrying will make no impact on the world?
Does it ever hit you that we spend years and years of our life learning stuff so that we can spend years and years of our life working at something that doesn't last? Doesn't make an impact on someone's life?
I sat back and just wondered at all of that. Why are we rushing? Are we hoping to hurry along the end of our life? I believe 100% that we're here to bring glory to God...but shouldn't there be a bigger and better way to do it? Sometimes I feel like there should be a more important way to glorify Him.
Or maybe that's what it all comes down to: Figuring out how to glorify and love Him in the middle of this. This world that is filled with things that don't bring joy, this world that isn't perfect, this world that demands our attention, our worries, our energy, our life.
Monday, January 15, 2007
Football...MLK...etc
Football
Yesterday, I was watching football. NFL playoffs and all. Well, I'm sitting and watching the Bears and the Seahawks - cheering, of course, for the Bears - when I started to wonder. What is going through the minds of these players. There were a few that were buddy-buddy on opposing teams, and there were a few that were definitely not. Are they out there having a good time, playing the sport they love? Is it niggling in the back of their minds that a win means more money? Or that a win means more fame, power, prestige? Are they concentrating on just winning the game that they came to play? Are they there to work and then go home? Are they enjoying the time with their team? Are they focusing on the road to the Superbowl? What's driving them?
I suppose it's different for each person, but that probably also then drives the success of the team. With such different motivations for each person, is the coach to try and put them all charging for the same goal (of course, a win, but does he try and tap into their personal motivators or is that up to the individual as a way to achieve the team goal?)...or is the coach just there to orchestrate the larger picture of how each person plays into the strategy of the game? Am I way too much of a girl and totally over-thinking the whole scene? Is it probably good that I didn't end up playing for the Bears as a linebacker? Would've had a chance at a SuperBowl ring though.....
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MLK
So, I was watching the news tonight. Saw the clip of MLK and his "I have a dream" speech. But for some reason, the end of the standard clip resonated with me tonight. He states, "I have a dream that my children will live in a world where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." (I might have missed a word or two) So, do we really think that we're at a place where people are judged by the content of their character? I would vehementely say NO. Not just in a skin color sense, either.
First, if everybody expected to be judged on the content of their character, I think our world would have a lot less problems. Eh? When I step back and look at myself, I am not sure that character is all that I want evaluated. When we really get to the root of it, our culture/society/world judges based on what can be seen. It's not always skin color, but it's always on what we can see in the other person. In a world of snappy, quick, three-second first impressions, that's all you get. And the thing that I think we forget a lot is that our background/family/culture influences how we interpret another person. Yeah, I can think that I am being extremely friendly and nice in those first three seconds I get, but if I'm wearing something that is unusual or use an inflection that comes off different than what I meant, I'll be judged on that instead of how friendly and nice I was.
So yeah, MLK, you have a dream. And it's still a dream. An amazing dream....One that would be revlutionary if we were all judged on the content of our character instead of our outward appearance.
And so, think about it...
Yeah, we can't change the world. And we can't change how our world works. But we can change our personal world. We can strive to have a character we would want be judged by. We can strive to see the good in everyone. To judge by the content of their character, instead of the character we assign them. What an amazing world that would be.
Yesterday, I was watching football. NFL playoffs and all. Well, I'm sitting and watching the Bears and the Seahawks - cheering, of course, for the Bears - when I started to wonder. What is going through the minds of these players. There were a few that were buddy-buddy on opposing teams, and there were a few that were definitely not. Are they out there having a good time, playing the sport they love? Is it niggling in the back of their minds that a win means more money? Or that a win means more fame, power, prestige? Are they concentrating on just winning the game that they came to play? Are they there to work and then go home? Are they enjoying the time with their team? Are they focusing on the road to the Superbowl? What's driving them?
I suppose it's different for each person, but that probably also then drives the success of the team. With such different motivations for each person, is the coach to try and put them all charging for the same goal (of course, a win, but does he try and tap into their personal motivators or is that up to the individual as a way to achieve the team goal?)...or is the coach just there to orchestrate the larger picture of how each person plays into the strategy of the game? Am I way too much of a girl and totally over-thinking the whole scene? Is it probably good that I didn't end up playing for the Bears as a linebacker? Would've had a chance at a SuperBowl ring though.....
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MLK
So, I was watching the news tonight. Saw the clip of MLK and his "I have a dream" speech. But for some reason, the end of the standard clip resonated with me tonight. He states, "I have a dream that my children will live in a world where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." (I might have missed a word or two) So, do we really think that we're at a place where people are judged by the content of their character? I would vehementely say NO. Not just in a skin color sense, either.
First, if everybody expected to be judged on the content of their character, I think our world would have a lot less problems. Eh? When I step back and look at myself, I am not sure that character is all that I want evaluated. When we really get to the root of it, our culture/society/world judges based on what can be seen. It's not always skin color, but it's always on what we can see in the other person. In a world of snappy, quick, three-second first impressions, that's all you get. And the thing that I think we forget a lot is that our background/family/culture influences how we interpret another person. Yeah, I can think that I am being extremely friendly and nice in those first three seconds I get, but if I'm wearing something that is unusual or use an inflection that comes off different than what I meant, I'll be judged on that instead of how friendly and nice I was.
So yeah, MLK, you have a dream. And it's still a dream. An amazing dream....One that would be revlutionary if we were all judged on the content of our character instead of our outward appearance.
And so, think about it...
Yeah, we can't change the world. And we can't change how our world works. But we can change our personal world. We can strive to have a character we would want be judged by. We can strive to see the good in everyone. To judge by the content of their character, instead of the character we assign them. What an amazing world that would be.
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