Archive for January, 2007
January 31, 2007 at 10:55 am Filed under News Items
My dear mother, who often does my laundry, fusses at me for the holes she finds in my socks. She tells me I need to get new ones.
The problem is, the kind of socks I really like, I just can’t find in all the shops. I like specific kind. I would like just as much to get some new ones, this cold weather and holey socks is no good.
So I had to laugh when I read today’s news about World Bank President, Paul Wolfowitz, who upon taking off his shoes to enter into a mosque in Turkey, revealed to all that he had holes in his socks.
John was asking me today, how does a person get to be World Bank president? I am guessing saving his money from buying socks could help. 
Perhaps I am on the road to prosperity!
January 28, 2007 at 8:23 pm Filed under General
This little gem was passed on to me from my sister, Linda….
Q: What is the shortest chapter in the Bible?
A: Psalms 117
Q: What is the longest chapter in the Bible?
A: Psalms 119
Q: Which chapter is in the center of the Bible?
A: Psalms 118
Fact: There are 594 chapters before Psalms 118
Fact: There are 594 chapters after Psalms 118
Add these numbers up and you get 1188
Q: What is the center verse in the Bible?
A: Psalms 118:8
Q: Does this verse say something significant about God’s perfect will for our lives?
The next time someone says they would like to find God’s perfect will for their lives and that they want to be in the center of His will, just send them to the center of His Word!
Psalms 118:8
“It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.”
Now isn’t that odd how this worked out (or was God in the center of it)?
January 28, 2007 at 9:37 am Filed under Personal
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Valentine’s Day isn’t that far away, yet I have been busy making layouts for MySpace. More to come, but here is a preview:
Get yours HERE
January 28, 2007 at 9:22 am Filed under Personal
It takes some getting used to not playing against another player, but I am starting to understand this new way of playing. So, I think I am improving.
Someone get this scrabble monkey off my back!
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January 27, 2007 at 6:46 pm Filed under Personal
As soon as I could spell, my mom brought out the scrabble board and taught me to play one of her favorite games.
Today I found a site that let’s one play a sort of Scrabble Solitaire.
My first game:
Wanna play?
Try it here!
Edited:
Oh no! I am hooked!
Second one!
Started out with a seven letter word on this one!
January 26, 2007 at 5:55 pm Filed under General
Take a 16 question survey and enter to win an iPod Shuffle.
Begin Here
January 25, 2007 at 8:34 pm Filed under General
Integrity. Here is a word I keep reading a lot about these days, thanks to a friend.
Found a very good quote about it that I’d like to share.
“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”
~W. Clement Stone
January 23, 2007 at 6:51 pm Filed under Personal
After a very warm winter so far, Maryland finally got a little snow. In our home, SNOW means that Mom will dig out a jigsaw puzzle.
It’s a nice tradition that I like as well.
What I didn’t know that when Crazy Andrew knocked on our door rather early this morning, he would take right to the puzzle.
With he and and all of us together, it was done in no time.
January 21, 2007 at 7:40 pm Filed under Personal
Miquel has been through a few months of making some good, sound decisions. One of those was to get baptized.
I was rather certain that our youth pastor was going to take a particular delight in dunking Miquel in the water.
As it turned out, Miquel felt certain he held him down longer than the norm.
I had to hold in a giggle when the special music of our Sunday of Miquel’s Baptism was, “It took a Miracle”
More than a few of us, might agree with that.
I am a proud Mama today.
January 16, 2007 at 7:52 pm Filed under News Items
This doesn’t even seem possible, January 2007. But a recent headline says differently.
Adultery could mean life, court finds.
“In a ruling sure to make philandering spouses squirm, Michigan’s second-highest court says that anyone involved in an extramarital fling can be prosecuted for first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to life in prison.”
The article goes on to say no one expects prosecutors to declare open season on cheating spouses, but you got to wonder.
Article
January 15, 2007 at 10:29 am Filed under Personal
Ken Ham expresses my feelings so well…
“There is really only one race—the human race.”
January 14, 2007 at 8:30 pm Filed under Personal
1. Beatles - A Day in the Life.mp3
2. Beatles - All You Need is Love.mp3
3. Beatles - Back in the USSR.mp3
4. Beatles - Because.mp3
5. Beatles - Blackbird - Yesterday.mp3
6. Beatles - Come Together - Dear Prudence- Cry Baby Cry.mp3
7. Beatles - Drive My Car.mp3
8. Beatles - Eleanor Rigby - Julia.mp3
9. Beatles - Get Back.mp3
10. Beatles - Glass Onion.mp3
11. Beatles - Gnik Nus.mp3
12. Beatles - Help!.mp3
13. Beatles - Here Comes the Sun - The Inner Light.mp3
14. Beatles - Hey Jude.mp3
15. Beatles - I am the Walrus.mp3
16. Beatles - I Want to Hold your Hand.mp3
17. Beatles - Lady Madonna.mp3
18. Beatles - Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (4:10)
19. Beatles - Mr Kite - I Want You - Helter (3:22)
20. Beatles - Octpusses Garden (3:18)
21. Beatles - Revoltion.mp3
22. Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.mp3
23. Beatles - Something.mp3
24. Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever.mp3
25. Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps.mp3
26. Beatles - Within Without You Tomorrow Never Knows.mp3
27. Damien Leith - Come to Me (4:36)
28. Damien Leith - Creep (1:45)
29. Damien Leith - Crying (1:49)
30. Damien Leith - Hallelujah (2:32)
31. Damien Leith - If Tomorrow Never Comes (2:14)
32. Damien Leith - Message to my Girl (3:20)
33. Damien Leith - Nessun Dorma.mp3
34. Damien Leith - Never Meant to Fail.mp3
35. Damien Leith - Night of My Life (2).mp3
36. Damien Leith - Night of my Life.mp3
37. Damien Leith - Sky.mp3
38. Damien Leith - Unchained Melody.mp3
39. Damien Leith - Waiting on an Angel.mp3
40. Damien Leith - Wicked Game (3:18)
January 14, 2007 at 7:13 pm Filed under Personal
It’s mid January and I think the last cards and gifts have been completely delivered. It’s a treat in our household when the usual ‘big box’ comes to us from Australia. It’s also a good signal that this is the end of Christmas. Gladly, I think of it as a season and not a day - makes all those preparations worth it and John isn’t in the doghouse for being so late.
This year was calendars, Laura’s favorite crackers, iron ore and sandstone jewelry, a necklace chain, sweets, cookies (or biscuits, as John calls them), and two lovely birds that double as jewelry boxes.
John couldn’t forget my love of music and added the Beatles New CD, “Love”, (he is by his own admission a Beatles fan) and since I had a fascination with American Idol last year, he sent the Australian Idol for 2006, Damien Leith. What a treat.
Thanks, Mr. Dolphin. We worried a bit when it came so late after the Didgeridoo, but it’s safely here now. We will take good care of everything.
January 13, 2007 at 12:12 pm Filed under Personal
“This notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication.”
Eric Schmidt
I looked at the date on the calendar and realized that this day marks the 3rd January, or the second full year of blogging.
I really do enjoy this blog and I am happy others enjoy visits here. I am happy to be a part of this ‘big wave of human communication.” I have always loved commnunication with others. Thanks to all who read ‘my little notion of self-publishing’, who leave comments and encourage me.
Barb
January 10, 2007 at 10:19 pm Filed under Personal
I got a notice by Michael that I had been tagged. Tagging in the blogsphere is like passing on a ‘you’re it’ like in the schoolyard, by way of answering some questions about yourself then tagging someone else the same way.
This one sent to me was difficult. I had been tagged before, but this one was harder as I have to name 5 things people likely don’t know about me. The more I thought about it, the more I had to realize, “Gee, I am an open book!”
There is little that I can tell that hasn’t been told.
Anyway, in the spirit of my blog friends, I will give it a try:
- At one time in my life, I have owned 21 cats all at once. You see, my first cat Missy had some kittens and we kept one, Elsa. Elsa had kittens, and we kept one from her, Midnight. Missy, Elsa, and Midnight all had kittens at the same time, 6 each.
- Before my friends on the net urged me to display them, all my artwork was relatively hidden under my bed. I truly didn’t have any self confidence in my art work. I am so in debt to those who showed me that my work brought them happiness.
- I don’t like to drive. And I don’t think I am a good driver, or perhaps because I think I am not, I am overly cautious, actually being a good driver. However, in my high school year I had several scrapes with my parents car, ended up in court as a ‘hit and run’, went to driving classes with other ‘bad drivers’ who needed rehabilitation, and got myself a t-shirt that said, “Driver of the Year” which my senior class thought was hilarious.
- I’ve been interviewed 3 times in Spanish newspapers and one Spanish Women’s Magazine. Homeschooling was the main topic of the Newspaper and The Magazine, but in one of the newspaper articles it was about my life on the net.
- As a young girl I used to draw cartoons simular to those like Apartment 3-G
I will now pass this tag on to… Beth, RainyPete, Rodney, Tigerblade, and Wendy
January 9, 2007 at 6:59 pm Filed under Personal
This is a typical scene at any given day or night at our house.
The usual suspects (Miquel, Laura, Andrew, Mike and Ross) Plus Anna (Left)
January 7, 2007 at 10:44 pm Filed under Personal
Or better said, rocks can now be made with Terragen 2.
Larger images, and more Terragens seen here.
January 7, 2007 at 12:39 pm Filed under General
Being busy does not always mean real work.
The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either
of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence,
and honest purpose, as well as perspiration.
Seeming to do is not doing.
-Thomas A. Edison-
January 6, 2007 at 7:57 pm Filed under Personal
1. Phil Keaggy - A Mother’s Son.mp3
2. Phil Keaggy - A Promise Kept.mp3
3. Phil Keaggy - Acadania.mp3
4. Phil Keaggy - Big Ben On The Nile (4:37)
5. Phil Keaggy - For The Love (5:26)
6. Phil Keaggy - Grand Old Man (3:01)
7. Phil Keaggy - Lighthouse (3:48)
8. Phil Keaggy - Markings (1:25)
9. Phil Keaggy - Paintin’ The Town.mp3
10. Phil Keaggy - Recollections.mp3
11. Phil Keaggy - Sketchings.mp3
12. Phil Keaggy - Spring.mp3
13. Phil Keaggy - The Baltic.mp3
14. Phil Keaggy - The Dawn Is Near.mp3
15. Phil Keaggy - The Road Home.mp3
16. Phil Keaggy - The Tigris.mp3
17. The Innocence Mission - Brave.mp3
18. The Innocence Mission - Bright as Yellow.mp3
19. The Innocence Mission - Everything’s Different Now.mp3
20. The Innocence Mission - Go.mp3
21. The Innocence Mission - Happy, the End.mp3
22. The Innocence Mission - I Hear You Say So.mp3
23. The Innocence Mission - Keeping Awake (3:58)
24. The Innocence Mission - Our Harry (2:23)
25. The Innocence Mission - Speak Our Minds (2:55)
26. The Innocence Mission - Spinning (3:15)
27. The Innocence Mission - That Was Another Country (4:17)
28. The Innocence Mission - There (3:58)
January 6, 2007 at 7:32 pm Filed under Personal
Even in the midst of what seems like the warmest winter ever, Christmas packages still are arriving to our door, this time from Wisconsin!
Hand made pottery and music! Thanks Beth Ellen! I feel so very special!
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