LOL - that was what my main page at facebook said, how sad! Web pages aren't supposed to be mean like that....I'll have to find a friend at Rose...
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So, I then opened up Kelly's profile and facebook was kind enough to tell me that she was my sibling, sheesh! So now I am friendless and can't remember who I am related to, blah!
Monday, March 27, 2006
rambleless
So, yeah, nothing too exciting in Racine. Work is kind of boring right now - life is kind of boring too. 24 is on now, yeah! I'm waiting to watch the rest of it without commercials. I'll try to make a better effort to pay attention to life's subtle details to post some interesting comments on my blog - if I fail, well, it won't be the first time.
Today there was a guy wearing gym shorts who jumped in the lane next to me - I'm thinking, ok, he is kind of cute, but obviously not a swimmer. So he is about to pass me and all of a sudden I am in a wave pool - not even that, it was like being in an antlion trap, (I know only Kelly will find that amusing, but that is like 25% of my audience) anyway, the normal forces exerted on my body while swimming had altered profusely. Apparently he was a swimmer, just not wearing normal swim atire. The girl I was swimming with (who I will probably be doing more training with) and I counted his strokes....he was just doing a relaxed stroke, he took 13 strokes per 25! I'm kind of hoping gym shorts boy shows up in my lane again...I'll keep you posted!
About the only other news I have is that I talked to my Utah friend (yeah, you all know who I am talking about) on Friday. Nothing big, but I had gotten to one of those points again (about the third or fourth time) when I figured I would never hear from him again, so it is always a little shocking to see the name in my inbox.
OK, back to 24, Sarah, I'll try calling you again this week, arg!
Today there was a guy wearing gym shorts who jumped in the lane next to me - I'm thinking, ok, he is kind of cute, but obviously not a swimmer. So he is about to pass me and all of a sudden I am in a wave pool - not even that, it was like being in an antlion trap, (I know only Kelly will find that amusing, but that is like 25% of my audience) anyway, the normal forces exerted on my body while swimming had altered profusely. Apparently he was a swimmer, just not wearing normal swim atire. The girl I was swimming with (who I will probably be doing more training with) and I counted his strokes....he was just doing a relaxed stroke, he took 13 strokes per 25! I'm kind of hoping gym shorts boy shows up in my lane again...I'll keep you posted!
About the only other news I have is that I talked to my Utah friend (yeah, you all know who I am talking about) on Friday. Nothing big, but I had gotten to one of those points again (about the third or fourth time) when I figured I would never hear from him again, so it is always a little shocking to see the name in my inbox.
OK, back to 24, Sarah, I'll try calling you again this week, arg!
Sunday, March 19, 2006
The "cow" picture (for Shannon)
Shannon - I hope you came to look at the cow, giant cows are fun, aren't they!
"You can not be anything you want to be"
I had a pretty good weekend. The title of the blog is a quote from one of Kevin Twit's podcasts that I just suscribed to and listened to a couple today. Kevin is the RUF campus minister at Belmont and God has given him extraordinary talents in presenting the gospel message and in particular calling out false truths laid out by today's culture and even within Christian culture. I love listening to Kevin talk because he does not shy away from difficult issues and finds a way to tear into everyone's comfort zone. In my struggle to find a church up here it was especially timely to hear him talk about the church being a place that should bring you closer to reality, not tune out of it - which a lot of church services seem to do. The other thing I really like about Kevin's messages is he doesn't just throw out flowery analogies and tell you to believe something without telling you why. For any given message, he usually explains the history, the opposing opinions, the scripture - going back to greek, other reference scripture, the improper interpretations, etc. - ties all that together and explains his interpretation of the scripture message along with the implications. Anyway, I highly recommend Kevin's podcast - type in RUF Belmont in Itunes to suscribe - it is only half an hour a week, and no matter what you believe, I promise it will intrigue and challenge you.
Other items of note from this weekend:
- Company bowling tournament! This was hilarious - we all were very curious to see how Mr. Jo (from our Korean plant) did at bowling. He got up for his first bowl and nailed a strike - it was a classic moment in my life - we all just looked at eachother not sure whether to laugh or cheer - he was already celebrating so we jumped up to give a good American high five - I guess in Korea they do fist knocking, so we did a little of each as the games went on. Mr. Jo wound up beating all of us. I don't want to talk about my scores - they were my worst ever.
- It always crack me up when older married people want to know what I did over the weekend, hoping it is something exciting so they can dream about life as a young, carefree single person. Well, these are the weekends when I really let people down. So here it is, what I did with my Saturday night: I was up until about 1 am working on getting around the moon with a car that could only carry 1/5 the fuel it needed to make the trip and a full container of fuel that could fill the tank. If anyone asks me the classic question on Monday - I imagine they probably never will again....I'll let you know.
- I think I set a record for time on the phone in one day. Saturday I talked to Grandpa, Kelly, Anna, and Megan. And that was on top of bowling tournament and my moon trip - what a crazy day.
- Today I took another adventure on the bike - I really liked the loop I did, it actually took me by work and the Y, and about 5 miles of it is along Lake Michigan, which is awesome. I miss Cherokee Blvd, but it doesn't come close to being lakeside :)
- I didn't make it to church today - I am still church hunting, I just didn't make time like I should have to set the plan for today. Next week I think I might drive to the closest PCA church, which is 50 miles away, but at least I might be able to talk to people and find out what other good churches might be closer. I figure, if I could drive 30 miles to work every day, surely I can drive 50 to a good church if I need to - we'll see. But, I downloaded Kevin's podcasts and as always, he had very relevant and timely things to say that I needed to hear.
OK, definitely enough rambling for today - I hope everyone has a great week!
Other items of note from this weekend:
- Company bowling tournament! This was hilarious - we all were very curious to see how Mr. Jo (from our Korean plant) did at bowling. He got up for his first bowl and nailed a strike - it was a classic moment in my life - we all just looked at eachother not sure whether to laugh or cheer - he was already celebrating so we jumped up to give a good American high five - I guess in Korea they do fist knocking, so we did a little of each as the games went on. Mr. Jo wound up beating all of us. I don't want to talk about my scores - they were my worst ever.
- It always crack me up when older married people want to know what I did over the weekend, hoping it is something exciting so they can dream about life as a young, carefree single person. Well, these are the weekends when I really let people down. So here it is, what I did with my Saturday night: I was up until about 1 am working on getting around the moon with a car that could only carry 1/5 the fuel it needed to make the trip and a full container of fuel that could fill the tank. If anyone asks me the classic question on Monday - I imagine they probably never will again....I'll let you know.
- I think I set a record for time on the phone in one day. Saturday I talked to Grandpa, Kelly, Anna, and Megan. And that was on top of bowling tournament and my moon trip - what a crazy day.
- Today I took another adventure on the bike - I really liked the loop I did, it actually took me by work and the Y, and about 5 miles of it is along Lake Michigan, which is awesome. I miss Cherokee Blvd, but it doesn't come close to being lakeside :)
- I didn't make it to church today - I am still church hunting, I just didn't make time like I should have to set the plan for today. Next week I think I might drive to the closest PCA church, which is 50 miles away, but at least I might be able to talk to people and find out what other good churches might be closer. I figure, if I could drive 30 miles to work every day, surely I can drive 50 to a good church if I need to - we'll see. But, I downloaded Kevin's podcasts and as always, he had very relevant and timely things to say that I needed to hear.
OK, definitely enough rambling for today - I hope everyone has a great week!
Monday, March 13, 2006
Favorite moments of today:
7. Fish day in the cafeteria
6. Will posted a puzzle, yeah!
5. I had hearing and vision test at work today and learned that yes, I can indeed both see and hear, yeah! I also learned that Modine is a sponsor for the big Racine triathlon in July, so I can compete for free if I decide to do the half iron man - it might wind up just being a team if I don't want to do the whole thing.
4. Mr. Jo from our Korean plant is spending a month here - he has picked me as his English teacher (his English is already very good, he just has a lot of questions) - so we had about a half an hour lesson today. I did my first Asian business card exchange. I had already heard how important it was to read the card and comment on it before putting it away in a respectable location - so I was glad to pass that test.
3. 24! I haven't even seen it yet, but I'm sure it will be a highlight
2. I hope you made it this far, because this is great....I'm having a pretty good workout on the treadmill today and as it gets darker I can start to see reflections in the window - yeah, there were 2 VPs of the company on the machines directly behind me. Fortunately I returned focus back to myself and determined that I looked fantastic and it was time for me to run faster :) I guess I'm going to have to get used to that - I'm sure a lot of people at Modine work out at the Y, but it made me laugh. And yes, it is a small enough company that I have met both of them - so they know who I am.
1. A cute German guy had some time to kill so he hung out in my cube for a while, I love corporate :)
6. Will posted a puzzle, yeah!
5. I had hearing and vision test at work today and learned that yes, I can indeed both see and hear, yeah! I also learned that Modine is a sponsor for the big Racine triathlon in July, so I can compete for free if I decide to do the half iron man - it might wind up just being a team if I don't want to do the whole thing.
4. Mr. Jo from our Korean plant is spending a month here - he has picked me as his English teacher (his English is already very good, he just has a lot of questions) - so we had about a half an hour lesson today. I did my first Asian business card exchange. I had already heard how important it was to read the card and comment on it before putting it away in a respectable location - so I was glad to pass that test.
3. 24! I haven't even seen it yet, but I'm sure it will be a highlight
2. I hope you made it this far, because this is great....I'm having a pretty good workout on the treadmill today and as it gets darker I can start to see reflections in the window - yeah, there were 2 VPs of the company on the machines directly behind me. Fortunately I returned focus back to myself and determined that I looked fantastic and it was time for me to run faster :) I guess I'm going to have to get used to that - I'm sure a lot of people at Modine work out at the Y, but it made me laugh. And yes, it is a small enough company that I have met both of them - so they know who I am.
1. A cute German guy had some time to kill so he hung out in my cube for a while, I love corporate :)
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Found cool website:
Here are my "places I've been to maps" - I noticed I missed a state on my previous list - I don't think I've been to Nebraska either.
The website is www.world66.com
The website is www.world66.com
Just random comments
States I haven't been to: Sadly I have been within 10 miles of both Washington and Delaware on multiple occasions, but never made it across the border. I got Oklahoma crossed off my list on the trip to Missouri (although the first exit was 20 miles over the border, doh!) So states remaining: Delaware, Maine, Hawaii, Alaska, Washington, Vermont, New Mexico.
Everybody who is not on myspace.com should leave the blog now and go sign up (and be sure to add me as a friend) I wasted a lot of time there this weekend - very cool though, I found a bunch of friends I hadn't talked to in a long time.
I didn't really post last week just because I was having severe computer strained eyes (seriously) - I was focusing way too hard on my solid models I was working on and had really bad headaches by the middle of the week, but now I have hopefully learned my lesson and will take more breaks and relax my eyes more.
OK, enough babble for today, hope everyone had a great weekend!
Everybody who is not on myspace.com should leave the blog now and go sign up (and be sure to add me as a friend) I wasted a lot of time there this weekend - very cool though, I found a bunch of friends I hadn't talked to in a long time.
I didn't really post last week just because I was having severe computer strained eyes (seriously) - I was focusing way too hard on my solid models I was working on and had really bad headaches by the middle of the week, but now I have hopefully learned my lesson and will take more breaks and relax my eyes more.
OK, enough babble for today, hope everyone had a great weekend!
SNL
So, I DVRed through SNL last night and there were a couple skits that were hilarious.
One was the opening skit - it was some girls in the airport on their way to spring break - basically being crazy college girls telling spring break type stories and talking about all the trouble they are getting into. The whole time you see an older couple sitting between the 4 chatting girls. At the end you learn that they are the parents of some of the girls. So, the punchline becomes the shock that kids would talk like that in front of their parents and them sitting there like they have no problem with it. Funny skit, but interesting commentary on how many parents just don't care what trouble their kids get in to. I'm sure some of it is that they figure they did it and wound up ok, but I hope if I ever have kids I am not oblivious to the world that they live in. And by the way, for those of you who have never experienced a typical college spring break beach trip - it is every bit as crazy as it is on MTV and more.
Anyway, the second was a skit of a live podcast from Joplin, MO - which cracked me up because that is the town I stayed in the other week (and I will probably be spending a bunch of time there on and off). Then it got even funnier as a main theme became karaoke night at the Holiday Inn, which where I stayed, and I even caught part of karaoke night! I was actually in the lobby area because they had free WiFi, but it was amusing to watch.
One was the opening skit - it was some girls in the airport on their way to spring break - basically being crazy college girls telling spring break type stories and talking about all the trouble they are getting into. The whole time you see an older couple sitting between the 4 chatting girls. At the end you learn that they are the parents of some of the girls. So, the punchline becomes the shock that kids would talk like that in front of their parents and them sitting there like they have no problem with it. Funny skit, but interesting commentary on how many parents just don't care what trouble their kids get in to. I'm sure some of it is that they figure they did it and wound up ok, but I hope if I ever have kids I am not oblivious to the world that they live in. And by the way, for those of you who have never experienced a typical college spring break beach trip - it is every bit as crazy as it is on MTV and more.
Anyway, the second was a skit of a live podcast from Joplin, MO - which cracked me up because that is the town I stayed in the other week (and I will probably be spending a bunch of time there on and off). Then it got even funnier as a main theme became karaoke night at the Holiday Inn, which where I stayed, and I even caught part of karaoke night! I was actually in the lobby area because they had free WiFi, but it was amusing to watch.
Friday, March 03, 2006
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