i love neville

quote of the other day (week) that i keep forgetting to post

"i like being a nurse just fine, but ever since i was a teenage girl my dream has been to be a mortician." - one of our nurses

dear mr. good-looking maintenance guy

it is totally unfair of you to be all tan and summery and woo-woo. please gain 300 pounds and be sickly pale and nerdy.

i got a new cell phone: the good news

it has a camera, which my old one didn't have, so now i can have a pretty background when i open my phone. for example, i took a picture of a picture of michael cuddyer, so he is now the wallpaper on my phone. :)

the camera is also a good feature because it means i have to buy the computer attachment thing if i ever want to really use it. which means i have to go back to the store. which is a happy thought cuz the guy who helped us was a hottie. just ask my dad. as we walked from the store to the car, he said, 'you know, he was cute. and he was very helpful. he likes sports.'
me: 'yes, he does.'
dad: 'he knew how to spell mientkiewicz.'
me: 'no he didn't. i had to tell him.'
dad: 'but he knew it had a 'k'. he didn't have wedding ring.'
me: 'i noticed. believe me, i checked. and he likes art. he mentioned van gogh.'
dad: 'and he told you to come back without me.' [what had actually happened was that i was hemming and hawing between the free phone and the pretty purple one, and the guy said that i have 30 days to try it out, and if i'm not satisfied i can exchange it. then my dad said that that couldn't happen because i would have to get him to come with me, because my name's not on the plan, so they can't roll the number to a new phone. to which the guy replied with a smile, 'if you come back without him, i can take care of it for you.']
me: 'oh yes, i'm sure that's what he meant.'
dad: 'it is.'
me: 'and he noticed that my shoes are purple, in a non-gay way.' [he had told me they were a sign that i should get the purple phone.]
dad: 'it's a sign that you'll have to go back.'

and so i shall. ;)

i got a new cell phone: the bad news

i think i'm going to go back and complain that there are no cool ringtones. my old phone had a wider selection, so hobbitsister's ring could be 'singin' in the rain,' 'we wish you a merry Christmas,' or the twins song (which i composed on the melody composer), depending on the seaon. i also had an in-your-face sounding one called 'circus band' that i used for erma. there was also nkotb, the beatles, 'the Hallelujah chorus,' and so on. now i just have 12 dorky ditties that don't even have names, much less character.
the other bad news: i have to open it to see a clock, it's grey, and it doesn't have a melody composer. oh yeah, and it's not the pretty purple phone.

my country song life is pretty much over

oh - that sounds bad. i mean the country song part is almost over. not that my life is almost over. my fish may still be dead, but my car no longer is, nor is my cell phone. yay!

more of Treebeard's wisdom

[on the Ents' loss of the Entwives]
"Our sorrow was very great...And now the Entwives are only a memory for us, and our beards are old and grey...But we made no songs about it, being content to [say] their beautiful names when we thought of the Entwives. We believe that we may meet again in a time to come, and perhaps we shall find somewhere a land where we can live together and both be content. But it is foreboded that that will only be when we have both lost all that we now have. And it may well be that that time is drawing near at last." - The Two Towers

so i'll read the chapel devo from june 8th

"He can fill us and satisfy us like nothing else. He alone brings abundant blessings that we never even thought to pray for. Take a minute to think about all that Christ has brought into your life - not material blessings, but blessings of Him. It’s overwhelming for me to ponder. Words like love, peace, joy, good, faithful, grace, mercy, teacher, Savior, friend, shepherd, Father, and life cross my mind. I could go on and on, but instead I’ll leave you with this: throughout scripture the Lord calls Himself “I AM.” Dear friend, HE truly IS!!!

"Prayer: Lord, for those reading this, for my family, friends, and myself, I pray for nothing more than an abundance of You. Flood our lives with Your sweet presence."

huh

the baseball chapel devo for today is just downloading as a bunch of music notes

lotr thought

"'Good! Good!' said Treebeard. 'But I spoke hastily. We must not be hasty. I have become too hot. I must cool myself and think; for it is easier to shout stop! than to do it.'" - The Two Towers

more fish farewells

so long, bert the second. so long, dick. it was swell while it lasted. the end.

It's a boy!

Congratulations, Cuddy and Claudia, on baby Casey Jonathan! (7 lbs 8oz, born yesterday)

(isn't that big of me? to include his wife?)

yay summer!

i heard an ice cream truck today. i was in the basement and it wasn't anywhere near my street, but i heard it and it made me happy. :)

a fond farewell

bert (the fish) died on thursday :(

i'm currently stuck at the library

my car is dead and it's too hot to walk home. i've been here for a little while, though, so hopefully when i go back out it will work.
oh, wait...did i have it in the shop this weekend?

world series of uno

the intensity will kill you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biNXzYOxmb8

quote of the day

one of the housekeepers was talking about a basketball player:
'you know, the black guy...'

my current attire

green fleece pants with white hearts, a maroon and white striped tank top, a light blue hoodie with 4 little colorful stripes, and bright pink slippers (yes, from your wedding, kim :) ) - i'm lovely ;)

my friend mark should email me

i miss him (and i want him to love JESUS)

i wish my inability to say no affected the things i want to do, not the things i don't want to do. cases in point:
1.) i wanted a bowl from brendan's mom's store - i controlled myself and said no and didn't spend the money. i now regret it.
2.) the neighbor called to ask me to babysit - i couldn't make myself say no, so i have to do it. i now regret it.

another famous penpal

i got an email from brendan's brother matt (aka bogan) today. cuz i'm friends with the leonards. so i'm famous.

dick and bert

no, sillies, not the twins commentators - my new fish!

i bought two goldfish yesterday, though neither of them is actually gold. dick is tanish with a black stripe and bert is white with an orange stripe.

i also had to buy a new bowl (the one i had looked a little small for two fish [even the tiny 12 cent ones], so while i was deciding on which one i wanted, the guy said he'd go scoop out 2 fish for me.

'no!'

'no? oh. they have to be different so you can tell them apart and name them?'

'exactly.'

so i bustled after him and picked them out. i think he found me comical, seeing as i'm old and concerned about naming them. but i'm sure the men they were named after would be proud. :)

the one thing that made me happy to be at work on wednesday

i went back to work on tuesday, but there was nothing good about being back that day. but on wednesday, i had to go upstairs to bring up the food trays, so i got to see cornelius. i said hello and he smiled his wonderfully huge smile and told me he's glad i'm back. 'everything's better when you're here.'

to sum up

they're slightly different

"The Unusual Suspect,' by Stephen Baldwin

"My prayer is always, LORD, do with my heart what YOU will. And GOD, if YOU want my opinion about what I would like for YOU to do with it, here it is: Humble it. Make it quiet. Make it peaceful. Bless me by giving me a heart that only needs YOU and Your SPIRIT and all that comes with it, the love and the joy and the peace and the satisfaction. If my heart can be filled with that, and nothing else, then I don’t need anything else."

"Twilight," by Stephenie Meyer

Bella is working on a science project with Edward.

"'Ladies first, partner?' Edward asked. I looked up to see him smiling a crooked smile so beautiful that I could only stare at him like an idiot.
"'Or I could start, if you wish.' The smile faded; he was obviously wondering if I was mentally competent."

"Valis," by Philip K. Dick

an on-crack book mentioned on 'lost'. the main character(s?) is schizophrenic.

"...if Heraclitus is correct, there is in fact no reality but that of theophanies [revelations of God to man]; the rest is illusion; in which case Fat [the main character] alone among us comprehends the truth, and Fat, starting with Gloria's phonecall, is insane.

"Insane people - psychologically defined, not legally defined - are not in touch with reality. Horselover Fat is insane; therefore he is not in touch with reality.

"...the universe itself - and the Mind behind it all - is insane. Therefore someone in touch with reality is, by definition, in touch with the insane: infused by the irrational."

i am currently reading 3 books

i will now give you a taste of each (remember, i say you have to read blogs bottom up, so if you read the other posts first, sorry)

i want to eat the whole package of mint oreos. but i spose i probably shouldn't.

i was going to post stuff, but all my windows are freezing, plus also, it's time for me to go to bed

brendan leonard quote of the day

"I'm one smooth customer when it comes to dealin' with the ladies."


i'll second that. cuz i met him. so i know. :)

our weekend rocked!

side-burniest road-trip ever!

today is national doughnut day!

i'm not particularly a fan of doughnuts, i just thought i should let you know in case you are and don't want to miss out :)

yay!

tomorrow hobbitsister and i leave for chicago for our sister-bonding event of the year! (oh yeah, and erma and scout are tagging along - knowing full well that it is mine and my didder's trip, and we're just letting them come cuz we're so nice.)

tolkien moment of the day

"There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark." - Aragorn, The Two Towers

these 3 hour naps sure do mess with my mind. i have no clue what time it is or what day it is or if i have to work tomorrow or if i'm missing work right now when i wake up. it always turns out okay, though, since i only take naps when i have the next day off. then when i finally figure out what's going on, it's a happy thought.

i'm so not in the moods for raisinets but i'm eating them cuz we don't have pudding pops

can i just say...ow!

A day after being hit in the face with a line drive "Nick Blackburn's swollen top lip bore a large black-and-blue mark, and the imprint of a baseball seam could still be seen slightly..." - twinsbaseball.com

signe is the oldest resident at the nursing home (and a very nice, quiet lady). yesterday she and her tablemates were talking about her upcoming birthday. i came to take their coffee pot, and maggie asked me 'do you know she's going to be 100?'
'100? that's quite an accomplishment.'
signe piped up, 'well, yes, but i don't think i'll do it again.'