Jon & Kate Plus Straight....Jacket

I keep hearing people say how much they love this show.  I have never watched it, and so tonight when I could find nothing interesting on TV, I watched it.  Within 10 minutes, I was breaking out in hives.  Every nerve in my body was standing up and screaming out loud.  I was hyperventilating.   How can you watch that loud chaos of pooping, screaming, hitting, kicking, puking, running and crying?  I cannot believe that woman is still alive.  I couldn't take watching it edited for TV, how in the world does she do that every day? 

God knew what He was doing when He did not make me have kids.

Normal Girl

Logo Madness

The mission trip commitment process begins on Sunday.  I have been working on forms and blogs and needed a logo.  Today, I bought some software that is specifically for making logos.  It took me a hours to get it figured out. And this is what I ended up with.  How frustrating.  Can you return software?  

Divine Design

Atlanta Dream Center

So, I had to go old school and get out a piece of paper.  OK, it is not professional or digital, but I am hoping it has some charm or something redeeming because this is what I have. 

Anyway, this represents a big chunk of my day, 

Normal Girl

The Bracelet Interchange

When I went to Gift market a couple weeks ago, I did some research on current jewelry trends.  You won't be surprised to hear that the trendy stuff you will see in jewelry this year will be just like everything else.  The trend is recycle, reuse, repurpose, reverseable.  Re-everything.  So you will probably see interchangeable jewelry this year.  

 

I saw a lot of this at market....charms hooked on by lobster clasps.  I am not sure I get it.  I guess the plan is to be able to unhook and rehook them.  You could make a bracelet, a necklace, earrings all with the same charms.  I am spoiled rotten and am not environmentally responsible and use up way more silver than my allotment, I guess.  I just make all of the pieces I want.  

Would you do this?  Buy one chain and a pile of rehookable charms and change them out?

Just wondering,

Normal Girl

Pants on Fire

It is day 3 of my Ethics and Moral Reasoning class.  I am having a blast because the thing that I love and hate about attending a Christian institution for higher learning is the Sunday school answer.  And Sunday school answers are flying around the discussion board faster than I can read them.

The first week's discussion is about the basic concepts of truth vs. lie.  And, how does a Christian worldview fit into that?  We have already read about the Veracity Principle that says telling a lie is only right if some alternate truth cannot be found.  Opposing that is God's commandment...Thou shall not lie.

Questions come up like why do we have to look for the gray in this black and white world.....meaning, God said don't lie, so, don't!  Or, it is eternal damnation for you sister!

So, most of the class is sticking to that Sunday School answer, and I am the little pin that pops their bubbles.  Rahab lied, Miriam lied, Sarah lied.  God loved them and kept His promises to them.  If I lie, God loves me and keeps His promises to me.  

Here is my question.  If a man was holding a gun on your family, and one lie from you could keep them alive, would you lie?  

Yep, I would too!!!  Is that lie OK to tell?  If I found myself in the reality of a situation like that, I would not care.  I would lie my heinie off.  I am a big fat sinner, God knows it.  

I love the discussion that brings God into learning at my Christian school, but sometimes we miss the point totally.

There, you know you are safe with me around, I will lie like a rug to save your life.

Normal Girl

Fancy Ice Cubes

This past weekend was the annual ice festival in Plymouth.  I didn't have 5 minutes to go, so I took a break this morning and went downtown and looked around.  It was 6 degrees.  The people who did the sculpting worked outside with huge blocks of ice all day in this weather.

Anyway, there were not as many large sculptures as usual.  Here is a very optimistic sculpture.

DT, I am laughing!

I liked the big flying mermaid...isn't it amazing how they did the spray of the water?

At home, I have an ice sculpture of my own.  I know.  It is an amazing likeness of icicles.  I worked alot of months on this.  I had to let the gutters get clogged just right and then not clean them out.  

I have seen dumber things called art.......

Normal Girl

And So It Begins

Class starts Monday and so I am beginning my reading.  What in the world will I be learning this semester????

Take Your Daughter to Work Day

I went to work today with Wonder Woman.  She drove me to East China (the real name of the place, not just a sarcastic comment from me) to visit with a birth Mom and Dad.  East China is on the St. Clair River, which you see here.  The opposite shore is Canada.  And when you feel cold this winter, think of this guy.  His heinie must be freezing.

So, Wonder Woman is a social worker for an adoption agency and she takes care of  birth Mothers.  The one I met today is 16 years old and the father is 17.  They are auditioning for an MTV show and I was the Spielberg of the audition tape.  I taped them talking about the pregnancy and the adorable girl said her friends are so excited and nothing has really changed in her life since she got pregnant.  Wonder Woman laughed at me when I said I wanted little Mother to say she throws up every day, is getting fat, her back hurts, and life is hard.  

When did teen pregnancy become something the other girls at school cheer?  

Normal Girl