Sorry for the really bad picture of me, they wanted a face with no expression….Wow, I don’t know who Summer Altice is, but I think I look like her just not quite as pretty…Brendan Frasier, that’s embarrassing… and who knew I looked Asian?
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Laugh Your Way Flag Page Personality Test
A while back I posted about a marriage series called Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage. This weekend almost my entire family completed their Flag Page–basically it’s another personality test. Very, very interesting how it nails you after so few questions. All they do is present words and you pick ones that "feel good" to you. It comes out with 5 pages of stuff about you.
Basically I like to do a lot of things peacefully and perfectly and I get along well with others unless specific buttons are pushed. No surprises, but so interesting how they do that. Every one of us was described perfectly.
The details are in the expanded section…
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Our Leather Recliner
Let me tell you the story about our leather recliner. When I was in college, I had earned enough scholarship money that we had some left over. Scott and I married in between my junior and senior year so it was our money to do with what we wanted. Well, seeing that we both moved from home, we had very little furniture so we bought a $600 leather recliner with our money. I graduated college over seven years ago and we still have that same black leather recliner in our living room. 
I’m sitting here looking at it now and it still doesn’t really match anything and it’s big and bulky but it’s comfortable. But what memories I have from it. I remember lying with Scott in it, snuggled as newlyweds. I remember being pregnant for the first time and sleeping in it because my heart burn and huge belly just wouldn’t let me do otherwise. I remember sitting in it nursing Emma with my blue boppy pillow with bees on it. I remember Scott holding Emma right in the crook of his arm and somehow always rocking her to sleep. I remember my two girls sitting side by side in it watching tv. I remember Emma sitting up and eating her lunch after school with a tv tray watching cartoons. And most recently, I remember Lexi sitting in Emma’s lap while she pretended to read story to her from a book.
The recliner is dirty and torn and has holes in spots that we’ve tried to patch and really we should replace it. Maybe one day we will but for now, we’re busy making memories.
Something funny
I mentioned the other day really needing to laugh. I finally read something tonight that made me laugh out loud. Many thanks to Heather at Especially Heather. Now if I can just find a way to work in remarks like that back to the company’s audit department…
Business Christmas cards
Is your son or daughter creative and in need of some college scholarships soon? Yeah, I’ve got two girls to hopefully put through college one day and I’d consider them creative. That’s why I wish my girls were old enough to enter this greeting cards scholarship contest. $10,000 would put a nice little dent in tuition costs and if you happen to have a son or daughter 14 years old or older, this seems like a no-brainer to enter. I think this is great since so many scholarships are based on academics, this gives your children to express their creative side in order to earn some money.
This company’s main objective is to sell business Christmas cards so keep that in mind when you or your child is designing the card. I imagine green cards with a forest in gold or Happy Holidays written in silver on blue. But that doesn’t sound very creative does it? Well, I’ll leave the work up to you or your children as I finished all the tuition-earning I plan to do in my lifetime about 12 years ago–haha, I’m sure I’ll be filling out all the scholarship forms right along side my girls in about 15 years. The contest has already started and you have until January 15, 2008 to come up with a birthday, holiday or even all-occasion greeting card. Good luck!
Want to be a developer?
Ok, if you didn’t know, my title at work is "IT Developer". So I found this list of Top Ten Reasons You Aren’t Cut Out to be a Developer rather funny. I’m not sure if it was meant to be funny yet or not but I have to agree with their list. I’m guessing many of you can relate to a few of these in your own job. If not, I may just be more geeky than I thought.
- You’d rather be trained than self-teach
- You like regular working hours
- You prefer regular raises to job-hopping
- You do not get along well with others
- You are easily frustrated
- You are close-minded to others’ ideas
- You are not a "details person"
- You do not take personal pride in your work
- You prefer to shoot first and ask questions later
- You do not like the geek type of person
PTL – the visit
Today my sister and I had a notion to go around my town and take pictures. It is growing SO FAST that at times, we hardly recognize it ourselves if we visit a part of town we haven’t been to in awhile. So we went to Blockbuster, rented two movies for the girls and hauled them around in the van for almost three hours. Scott was working so we were in no hurry and I also had fed the girls right before we left. I can’t believe it went by so quickly.
I have about over 200 pictures. A lot of the pictures were where things are going to be developed or are just being developed. We did end up taking some landmark pictures as well.
In all that, we were taking a picture of our new high school in town and you can see the tower from PTL in the background. We both agreed we should visit there and take pictures. I have mentioned in a previous post how much PTL meant to me and my family. But in short, we stayed on the campgrounds in a pup tent there when we moved down South when I was 3 and Heather was 1. My dad ended up getting a job there. When I was 12, we moved into a house in the residential part of the grounds for one year. And then, after all that, when I was 15, I ended up working on Main Street at the ice cream shop.
Our visit today turned out to be another world all on its own. We kept taking so many pictures, I kept having to delete not-so-good ones of the town just to squeeze one or two more of PTL.
The visit was quite simply surreal. And somewhat sad. A few times I had tears well up and had to stop them. I kept saying to Heather it was like living in a real Back to the Future movie.
So. What I’ve done is uploaded the pictures to my picasa site and made a slideshow and posted it below. It was going to take forever if I did it all manually on here. I suggest you pause the slideshow and click the captions on and off on the bottom left of the screen as you need to. Some of them are very long, so I know it’s hard to see the pictures and read.
You can also visit the Picasa album and flip through manually if you like.
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I just love Dilbert
Every once in awhile Dilbert makes me throw my head back and laugh. This surely wouldn’t be me I’m thinking of…well, the whole youtube thing is WAY off.