they are on the other side of the planet

Most of you know about this already but for the family and friends who don't yet, here is the blog address for the team currently in the Philippines. Check it out if you want to have more of an idea of what Mike and i will get to do over there. Each team has different things they do but now that the radio is going up we will probably get to do some awesome stuff with that! =)

Enjoy! (copy and paste into your address box)

http://shofar-mc.blogspot.com/

my current favorite song

I know you all probably know about this singer already because she's been all over you tube for almost a year, but i think she's awsome.

Follow the link to her her song- Say it's possible.

http://www.myspace.com/terranaomi

leaving on an airplane, don't know when i'll be back again...

Hello everyone, i realize i am continueing to put up "joke Posts" from forwarded e-mails (mostly from my husband) however find them very humorous and hope that you can enjoy this one as much as i do. This in an ode to the people who were stuck on that airplane a few weeks ago that made all the headlines.

Airline Maintenance

"Quality People Providing Quality Service" It takes a college degree to fly a plane but only a high school diploma to fix one: a reassurance for those who routinely fly in their jobs. After every flight, Quantas pilots fill out a form, called a "gripe sheet" which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft. The mechanics correct the problems, document their repairs on the form and then pilots review the gripe sheets before the next flight.

Never let it be said that ground crews lack a sense of humor. Here are some actual maintenance complaints submitted by Quantas' pilots (marked with a P)and the solutions recorded (marked with an S) by maintenance engineers. By the way, Quantas is the only major airline that has never had an accident.

P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.

P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough. S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.

P: Something loose in cockpit. S: Something tightened in cockpit.

P: Dead bugs on windshield. S: Live bugs on back-order.

P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute descent. S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.

P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear. S: Evidence removed.

P: DME volume unbelievably loud. S: DME volume set to more believable level.

P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick. S: That's what they're for.

P: OFF inoperative. S: OFF always inoperative in OFF mode.

P: Suspected crack in windshield. S: Suspect you're right.

P: Number 3 engine missing. S: Engine found on right wing after brief search.

P: Aircraft handles funny. S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right, and be serious.

P: Target radar hums. S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.

P: Mouse in cockpit. S: Cat installed.

And the best one: P: Noise coming from under instrument panel . Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer. S: Took hammer away from midget

ugly shoe

Laws Of The Natural Universe

Law of Mechanical Repair: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch or you'll have to pee.

Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

Law of Probability: The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.

Law of the Telephone: If you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal.

Law of the Alibi: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire.

Variation Law: If you change lines (or traffic lanes), the one you were in will start to move faster than the one you are in now (works every time).

Law of the Bath: When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone rings.

Law of Close Encounters: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

Law of the Result: When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will.

Law of Biomechanics: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

Law of the Theatre: At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last.

Law of Coffee: As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

Murphy's Law of Lockers: If there are only two people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.

Law of Rugs/Carpets: The chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich landing face down on a floor covering are directly correlated to the newness and cost of the carpet/rug.

Law of Location: No matter where you go, there you are.

Law of Logical Argument: Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.

Brown's Law: If the shoe fits, it's ugly.

Oliver's Law: A closed mouth gathers no feet. Wilson's Law: As soon as you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it.

crack spider

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNKZguMYufs


go here. Trust me. Worth it.

Post Christmas Choices

So, I got Mike Neverwinter Nights Diamond for Christmas. I have no idea how to play this game but Carrie already has me playing with her. I'm sure it will not be too long before I am sufficiently addicted to this as well. Mike also recieved Stargate SG1 seasons 1 & 2- in the last week i have watched them all except the last 4 episodes of season 2. Yep. I'm a geek. Plus mike got season 4 of 24, the original star wars 4,5, &6, and 5 or so other DVD's. Mike and i figured out that for Christmas we recieved easily somewhere over a 100 hours of movies and TV dvds. Yep, plus neverwinter nights. And on top of that, i haven't finished winning lord of the rings yet, i'm about to attack the black gate! (not that i'm complaining! We all loved our gifts!) So, knowing this data A-i have to make a choice if i want to become one of those full time gammers I heard one of the school of minsitry students talking about, option B- just be a lazy couch potatoe, or C... serve God! no time for all! hhhmmmm, when God said i had to give up everything to serve him i just thought he ment my family, friends and (my fleshly) dreams and stuff. Who knew that he meant games and movies as well! Jesh! You mean i have to chose between the Kids room and Jack Bauer sometimes!? I've only seen the Sound of Music 87 times! i really hoped to watch it at least 500 times before i died. I'm sure i can find a way to teach salvation from analagies of the dark side and luke skywalker in the jail.

Sigh. ah well. the temptation of post christmas distraction and laziness. God Help me overcome!!!!!

mud

hi, how is everyone today? Good good. Good here. Yep, Very good. Good old normalness. Well sometimes but how else do you respond when people ask how your doing? Here are some of the things i have wanted to say but have not. I'm sorry for those of you who i may scare with this. Ok? I'm ok, Just surviving? thriving off of the love of jesus! Dragging through the mud today. man this week was tough. actually this was the most amazing week of blessing in my life. I hate myself. or I've never felt closer to God than i do today. I'm so totally blessed at this church. I'm completely under attack. I wish i could control my thoughts better. i was thinking about how hot mike is.I'm having the time of my life. Actually i spent most of the night in a bitter rant before God wooped up on my ass and i saw how wrong i was about that thing... that i really don't feel like telling you about cause then you will see what a dirty sinner i am. Oh i feel like critiziing everything today. I'm bored. I 'm tired. I'm great. I was just totally sinning and you stopped my thoughts. I wish i could tell you what you asking that ment to me just now.

just wanted to fill you all in on how nuts i am. I love you all even if i don't show it. I trust all of the leaders that God has placed before me and wanted to let you know: Thank you for loving me anyway and for the loving corrections you give. I know i'm dumb and hardly ever respond correctly but i am so blessed to have christian brothers and sisters who are so patient with me. There's still a lot of mud to go!

kitty

Mike and I got a kitten. This isn't her but she reminds me of her... except my kitten is bigger! hehe!

Tea Party

hi, this is from my sister (Shelly) who lives in New Hamp. going to an Ivy Leage school. She found this to be very funny. I agree, but maybe you will have to go to the east coast to understand. hehe.. do you know anyone like this? I do!


may i present you, Tea Party:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkbJs1XwdS0

Robot in Africa

I have decided that my favorite thing to do on this page is to post cool pictures i find. Like this one for example. What exactly is the artist trying to say? Is he upset with people like me to will play games in a large amount and then stop suddenly for long periods of time? Or is the strange robot a game designed to yo-yo elepants? I can never really be sure. What are some other opinons? on a different note, i've been in a strange funk all day. Hopeing to snap out of it soon. I've been trying all day. Been praying but I think God it telling me that by making cookies i'll feel better... hehe. Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesss ccoooooooooooooooookies. mmmm

wings

i just liked this

C.P.

Carrie, this guy just approached me and asked to join our group... i just wasn't sure what to do with that.

Halo 3 spa night

yeah... so carrie, do you regret your tattoo from that night or is it still cool?

WANTED: RED BIBLE

has any one seen my bible? it's red and well, it's pretty much all duct-tape. Been missing for about a week? if you stole it, which i can totally understand because it is the epitomy of awsomeness then i can totally understand... but let me know so i can properly mourn my loss.

Carrie Sue Marie.... troll vampire fight to death

Yeah, and then that vampire chick got up and the troll and her had that wacky fight to the death that was sad... yet slightly upbeat and uplifting.. because hey, at least there were not two of them anymore. One we can take out... but two is just like, woah... Which is strange because, remember? We thought at first that they were just LARPing.

Wouldn't you know it, I found her face on Getty Images. Strange hu? She must be a famous vampire in the model agency world or something.

"my" Jesus

He is about to take vengence on mine enemies...

essay's

Just thought i would share

Every year, English teachers from across the country submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in highschool essays. These excerpts are published each year to theamusement of teachers across the country. Here are last year'swinners.....

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had itstwo sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breakingalliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come fromexperience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solareclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes aroundthe country speaking at high schools about the dangers oflooking at a solar eclipse, without one of those boxes with a pinhole init.
4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.
5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.
8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.
9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactlythe way a bowling ball wouldn't.
10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like aHefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scenehad an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation inanother city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
13. The hailst! ones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed loversraced across the grassy field toward each other like two freighttrains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.
16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant andshe was the East River.
18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steeltrap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.
19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. Butunlike Phil, this plan just might work.
21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you getfrom not eating for a while.
22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended oneslender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kidsaround with power tools.
25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought heheard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.

hehe..

ok, after posting my last note, i thought it might be good to post a "post" note here. I've totally believed the prevous blog for a while but i've been studying galations for Jail and it hit me like a ton a bricks how i havn't lived it - at all. thus spontaeous happy blog posting. thank you for your patience

I AM FREE

I cannot work at loving others! I cannot work at telling others about Jesus, I cannot work at being holy, I cannot just Buckle down and try... buckle down and decided I'm just really not going to sin in this way anymore because I know it is wrong and I hate it. God will do it in me. I Say- God this is my sin- i love you and I lay it out for him to take me and break me and he will make me into his image. Submit myself to him everyday in everyway- FREEDOM!!!!!! H e will make me into the what he has promised me just as he has promised Abraham with his son.

i get it! ...23 years later grace grace grace grace grace grace

- no one regrets living full out for God when they get to heaven -

oh the possiblities...

To other winonianites: what if the bulletins at winona churches looked like these? These sentences actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services:

1. Bertha Belch, a missionary from Africa, will be speaking tonight at Calvary Methodist. Come hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa.
2. Announcement in a church bulletin for a national PRAYER & FASTING Conference: "The cost for attending the Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.
3. The sermon this morning: "Jesus Walks on the Water." The sermon tonight: "Searching for Jesus."
4. Our youth basketball team is back in action Wednesday at 8 PM in the recreation hall. Come out and watch us kill Christ the King.
6. The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been canceled due to a conflict.
7. Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community. Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say "Hell" to someone who doesn't care much about you.
8. Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help.
9. Miss Charlene Mason sang "I will not pass this way again," giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.
10. For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
11. Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get.
15. A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow.
16. At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What Is Hell?" Come early and listen to our choir practice.
17. Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.
18. Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
19. Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.
20. Attend and you will hear an excellent speaker and heave a healthy lunch.
21. The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility.
22. Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow.
23. The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
24. This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn sing in the park across from the Church Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.
25. Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10 AM . All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the BS. is done.
26. The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.
27. Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back door.
28. The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM . The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.
29. Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.
30. The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new tithing campaign slogan last Sunday: "I Upped My Pledge... Up Yours!"

Begg

Long before time began or space was created, God had written upon His heart the names of His elect people, had predestinated them to be conformed unto the image of His Son, and ordained them heirs of all the fullness of His love, His grace, and His glory. What comfort is here! Having loved us for so long, will the Lord then reject us? He knew how stiff-necked we would be, He understood that our hearts were evil, and yet He made the choice. Our Savior is no fickle lover. He does not feel enchanted for a while with some gleams of beauty from His church's eye and then afterwards reject her because of her unfaithfulness. No, He married her in old eternity! The eternal choice is a bond upon our gratitude and upon His faithfulness, which neither can disown. ~ Alistair Begg

new blogg

hi, i don't know what i am doing yet...


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