It's Wednesday, which means it's Hodgepodge Day! Click on the link below to join Joyce and our bloody friends on our weekly venture, and please leave me a comment letting me know you've stopped by! Please please please... you all know how words are my love language! :-)
1. Do you wear your heart on your sleeve, or keep your emotions tucked in tight?
I'm pretty much "on my sleeve" - even if I think I'm trying to keep my emotions hidden, my eyes give it away. I'll think i've got it all hidden deep down and then someone will look at me and say, "Are you SURE you are ok?" and I burst into tears... Yep... Can't keep much hidden for long!
case in point... after a long day at work yesterday (complete with a paranoid schizophrenic in my office twice yesterday...no joke...) I came home last night and my teens were bickering, and I may or may not have stopped in the middle of the kitchen and said "You know, your frontal lobes in your brains are not fully developed which means that you are both reacting to each other in a purely emotional state, fully lacking in sophistication and reason, so just accept that you are both essentially brain damaged right now, take comfort in the fact that you will not always be this way, and just for the love of Pete, be nice and decent to each other!" as I ate chocolate ice cream out of the carton with a plastic spoon that had just broken in half. They were stunned silent. Mission complete. BOOM!
2. How did you meet your closest friend?
This is actually a really hard question to answer, because we have moved so many different times and I have so many good friends all over the world that I'm still very close to. I could talk about the friend I have had the longest (Bill, whom I met in the toddler room at church, and eventually who actually introduced my husband and I, became my husband's best friend, and business partner), my teenage friends, Christina, Jui, and John, or my first "adult" friend as a newlywed, Tammy (whose kids I adore, and can not believe that they are all grown up and stuff now), and of course Ellen and Julie who were my awesome-sauce mama mentors, and my first Air Force friend, without whom i'm not sure I would have made it (Stacy!)... the list goes on and on and on... Erika C (whom I lost way too soon... miss you, see you in Heaven!), Martha, Erika M, Holly, Jamie, Carrie... and now here, Marcy, Tracy, Jennifer...
The thing all of these amazing people have in common? Their love for God, their willingness to listen, and to be silly, and to know we have each other's backs through thick and thin. Amen and hallelujah. I love you all...
3. Pink lemonade, grilled salmon, cotton candy, pink grapefruit, a strawberry milkshake, or raspberry sorbet...of the pink foods listed, which one is your favorite? Least favorite? Which one have you most recently consumed?
My favorite would be a strawberry milkshake, but not the fake crap you get at McDonalds, it's got to be GOOD ice cream and if it has real berries in it then I'm yours for life... (although I do love grilled salmon, marinaded in the Trader Joes Island Soyaki marinade - ohmygoodness... so good) But most recently, It wasn't a strawberry milkshake, it was strawberry ice cream, although it had kinda melted, so it WAS kinda like a milkshake... but not as good as the ones that are actually MADE to be a milkshake. Yum.
I do NOT like pink grapefruit - ewww, my lips just puckered up and my nose squinted up just thinking about it!
4. When were you last 'tickled pink' over something? Explain.
On Super Bowl Sunday, when I looked over at the couch and saw my son cuddling with his new girlfriend. They are fun, they make each other laugh, and their relationship is still new enough that they are trying to figure out how to act around each other... it brings back many fun memories of being that age... but I wouldn't go back for anything!
5. Are you a fan of television talk shows? Daytime, nighttime, or both? What's your favorite?
I'm not a fan of the daytime television talk shows, other than Ellen, who I think is hilarious - if I time it right, I can watch the end of her show as I make dinner. The only nighttime one I like is the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon - but it is on so late here, I normally just see the clips that get posted on Facebook!
6. When was the last time you wanted to ask a question, but felt too foolish to do so?
Just tonight, my son came home from his very first ROP class, which will give him his EMT license at the end of the semester. As he was explaining to me everything they learned, he was SO excited, the acronyms were flying, the medical jargon was abundant, and I'll admit I thought "Huh? What was that?" so many times, that by the end, I was just nodding and smiling and said, truthfully, "I'm so glad you are loving the class and are so excited about learning about medicine!"
7. My favorite __________________right now is _________________.
My favorite quote right now is "Is my own theology of _____ getting in the way of my theology about the Great Commission?" - from Jim Toole, a former pastor at our church. This quote has me thinking... about a great many things.
8. Insert your own random thought here.
So, prayers needed, dear friends. Last Thursday, the house we are renting sold. We have 60 days to find a new place to live. In the middle of the school year. With three kiddos. And my hubby 2000 miles away. And I work full time. And, with my hubs job so uncertain, hard to commit to a year lease, but that is what we will have to do. So... ugh. We have offered a contract on another home in our neighborhood, that would allow our carpools/childcare/everyday life to remain the same... but we have yet to receive an approval on it. And then today my hubby was asked to apply for a permanent position at his company... in St Louis Missouri... So... Please pray, for clarity, for provision, for peace, even though this is all very scary and we have no idea where God is directing us... please, pray. Thank you.
1. Do you wear your heart on your sleeve, or keep your emotions tucked in tight?
I'm pretty much "on my sleeve" - even if I think I'm trying to keep my emotions hidden, my eyes give it away. I'll think i've got it all hidden deep down and then someone will look at me and say, "Are you SURE you are ok?" and I burst into tears... Yep... Can't keep much hidden for long!
case in point... after a long day at work yesterday (complete with a paranoid schizophrenic in my office twice yesterday...no joke...) I came home last night and my teens were bickering, and I may or may not have stopped in the middle of the kitchen and said "You know, your frontal lobes in your brains are not fully developed which means that you are both reacting to each other in a purely emotional state, fully lacking in sophistication and reason, so just accept that you are both essentially brain damaged right now, take comfort in the fact that you will not always be this way, and just for the love of Pete, be nice and decent to each other!" as I ate chocolate ice cream out of the carton with a plastic spoon that had just broken in half. They were stunned silent. Mission complete. BOOM!
2. How did you meet your closest friend?
This is actually a really hard question to answer, because we have moved so many different times and I have so many good friends all over the world that I'm still very close to. I could talk about the friend I have had the longest (Bill, whom I met in the toddler room at church, and eventually who actually introduced my husband and I, became my husband's best friend, and business partner), my teenage friends, Christina, Jui, and John, or my first "adult" friend as a newlywed, Tammy (whose kids I adore, and can not believe that they are all grown up and stuff now), and of course Ellen and Julie who were my awesome-sauce mama mentors, and my first Air Force friend, without whom i'm not sure I would have made it (Stacy!)... the list goes on and on and on... Erika C (whom I lost way too soon... miss you, see you in Heaven!), Martha, Erika M, Holly, Jamie, Carrie... and now here, Marcy, Tracy, Jennifer...
The thing all of these amazing people have in common? Their love for God, their willingness to listen, and to be silly, and to know we have each other's backs through thick and thin. Amen and hallelujah. I love you all...
3. Pink lemonade, grilled salmon, cotton candy, pink grapefruit, a strawberry milkshake, or raspberry sorbet...of the pink foods listed, which one is your favorite? Least favorite? Which one have you most recently consumed?
My favorite would be a strawberry milkshake, but not the fake crap you get at McDonalds, it's got to be GOOD ice cream and if it has real berries in it then I'm yours for life... (although I do love grilled salmon, marinaded in the Trader Joes Island Soyaki marinade - ohmygoodness... so good) But most recently, It wasn't a strawberry milkshake, it was strawberry ice cream, although it had kinda melted, so it WAS kinda like a milkshake... but not as good as the ones that are actually MADE to be a milkshake. Yum.
I do NOT like pink grapefruit - ewww, my lips just puckered up and my nose squinted up just thinking about it!
4. When were you last 'tickled pink' over something? Explain.
On Super Bowl Sunday, when I looked over at the couch and saw my son cuddling with his new girlfriend. They are fun, they make each other laugh, and their relationship is still new enough that they are trying to figure out how to act around each other... it brings back many fun memories of being that age... but I wouldn't go back for anything!
5. Are you a fan of television talk shows? Daytime, nighttime, or both? What's your favorite?
I'm not a fan of the daytime television talk shows, other than Ellen, who I think is hilarious - if I time it right, I can watch the end of her show as I make dinner. The only nighttime one I like is the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon - but it is on so late here, I normally just see the clips that get posted on Facebook!
6. When was the last time you wanted to ask a question, but felt too foolish to do so?
Just tonight, my son came home from his very first ROP class, which will give him his EMT license at the end of the semester. As he was explaining to me everything they learned, he was SO excited, the acronyms were flying, the medical jargon was abundant, and I'll admit I thought "Huh? What was that?" so many times, that by the end, I was just nodding and smiling and said, truthfully, "I'm so glad you are loving the class and are so excited about learning about medicine!"
7. My favorite __________________right now is _________________.
My favorite quote right now is "Is my own theology of _____ getting in the way of my theology about the Great Commission?" - from Jim Toole, a former pastor at our church. This quote has me thinking... about a great many things.
8. Insert your own random thought here.
So, prayers needed, dear friends. Last Thursday, the house we are renting sold. We have 60 days to find a new place to live. In the middle of the school year. With three kiddos. And my hubby 2000 miles away. And I work full time. And, with my hubs job so uncertain, hard to commit to a year lease, but that is what we will have to do. So... ugh. We have offered a contract on another home in our neighborhood, that would allow our carpools/childcare/everyday life to remain the same... but we have yet to receive an approval on it. And then today my hubby was asked to apply for a permanent position at his company... in St Louis Missouri... So... Please pray, for clarity, for provision, for peace, even though this is all very scary and we have no idea where God is directing us... please, pray. Thank you.
