hy i cannot type the letter ' ' and ' '

apparently i do not value my finger . thi time i decided to lam it (a different one) in beteen the plate armer and teamer at ork.
at leat i don't eem to ue thee letter a often a 'd' and 'e'.

Dear Subway by my house,

No provolone and no red wine vinegar? Why do I go to you?
Sincerely bewildered,
Lucy

i refuse to be controlled by anyone

thanks to a certain reader, i now have to make up some random posts before i can post my booklist so that i can prove that i don't have to listen to her.

The sermon today

Our pastor is gone for the week, so we had a guest speaker today. He was good. He spoke on 2 Cor. 5. One thing he said struck me: "If we don't know God, how can we represent Him?"

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." - 2 Cor. 5:17-21

Food Review: Doritos Late Night Tacos After Midnight

Oh these are just weird. Good, but weird. You open the bag, and what you smell is lettuce. You take a bite, and your first thought is lettuce, followed by, 'I think I just ate a whole taco.' They taste exactly like tacos. You've got the lettuce, the tomato, the taco sauce, the meat, and the shell all in one handy little chip.

I'm not quite sure when you're supposed to eat them, though. These aren't just something you would eat along with your sandwich. They taste too much like a meal in themselves. And yet, they are not a meal in themselves, so you'd be awfully hungry if they were all you ate. I guess the best time to eat them would be, like they claim, after midnight, for a snack while you're studying for finals or something. But seeing as I don't so much have those anymore, I'm just left confused.

These chips are good, so I recommend them. But please, if you do try them, let me know in what context I should eat them. Thank you.

Michael Cuddyer is also Freakin' Awesome

I think that's all that needs be said about Mr. Second-Twin-to-Hit-for-the-Cycle-This-Year!

Oh my.

"Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!" - Jerry Coleman, radio announcer for the Padres (from my sister's calendar of dumb quotes)

"She is too fond of books, and it has addled her brain." - Louisa May Alcott

My dear best friend asked me awhile ago for a list of my 10 favorite books. I told her that was a horrible thing to ask of me, and then proceeded to forget about it. She asked me again recently, though, so I feel like I have to give her an answer.

I'm stumped. Favorite book? Yes. But 10? There are so many great books out there! 10 widens the range of possibilities, but then crushes it by limiting it. I simply don't know what to do.

why i cannot typ th lttrs ' ' an ' '

i slamm my fingr in th footrst of th arm chair whn i stoo up, an holy crap it hurt. i thought for sur it fll off. thankfully it in't, but it was prtty arn clos. ow.

(p.s. 'c's kina hurt, too)

"The Motions" - Matthew West

This might hurt, it's not safe
But I know that I've gotta make a change
I don't care if I break,
At least I'll be feeling something
'Cause just okay is not enough
Help me fight through the nothingness of life

I don't wanna go through the motions
I don't wanna go one more day
without Your all consuming passion inside of me
I don't wanna spend my whole life asking,
"What if I had given everything,
instead of going through the motions?"

No regrets, not this time
I'm gonna let my heart defeat my mind
Let Your love make me whole
I think I'm finally feeling something
'Cause just okay is not enough
Help me fight through the nothingness of this life

'Cause I don't wanna go through the motions
I don't wanna go one more day
without Your all consuming passion inside of me
I don't wanna spend my whole life asking,
"What if I had given everything,
instead of going through the motions?"

take me all the way (take me all the way)
take me all the way ('cause I don't wanna go through the motions)
take me all the way (I know I'm finally feeling something real)
take me all the way

I don't wanna go through the motions
I don't wanna go one more day
without Your all consuming passion inside of me
I don't wanna spend my whole life asking,
"What if I had given everything,instead of going through the motions?"

take me all the way (take me all the way)
take me all the way (I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go)
take me all the way (through the motions)
take me all the way

I don't wanna go through the motions

just wrong

alex trebeck saying, 'my bad.'

my sad day

we lost the game and my lettuce fell out of my sandwich and i lost my shirt. oh. that's not supposed to sound as bad as it does. i was so excited to get the free t-shirt that they were giving out to the first 5,000 females at the game, that i made my nieces go all super early (although that did get them in line for autographs early enough that they actually got them). i got my shirt, and it was cute, and then, somewhere between concessions and my seat, i lost it. i'm so sad. i guess i just have to be thankful it was my shirt that got lost, not my nieces', since they had gotten theirs autographed. and i'm just gonna tell myself that it went to some breast cancer survivor who had gotten there late and hadn't gotten one. she deserves it more than i do.

i finally got my laptop and wireless!

but chelleybutton asked me what i was going to post to celebrate that fact, which made me feel like i was under pressure to do something great, so instead i just haven't posted anything in days. so forget that. instead, i'll just post this.

i don't get it

i babysat yesterday morning. it was raining, so the boys and i stayed inside and built a fort. it kept them somewhat occupied and they worked together instead of fighting.
when their mom came home she yelled at them for having the cushions off of the couch. hello, mom, be glad i found a way to channel your children's excessive energy!
and hello, what's the point of couch cushions if not to build a fort?

Place Review: Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary

My best friend and I went there yesterday because she had seen it on a website full of free places to go and neither of us had ever been there. How the heck we've lived in Minneapolis all our lives and never discovered this wonderful place I'll never know. It's beautiful. You completely forget that you're in the city (well, except for the fact that you can hear the freeway nearby). It's a lot bigger than I thought it would be, but there were hardly any people. (Maybe I shouldn't be telling people about it. It was so nice and quiet.) It would be a great place to go and read a book or pray. I just have to remember next time that, oh yeah, I have allergies.