Archive for July, 2007

The Funny Farm

Friday, July 27th, 2007

I redeemed the time I promise….

In the Denver airport the bathrooms double as tornado shelters. Very exciting. The PA system just belted out that the official security level has now been moved to orange and could we please report any suspicious activities. No one looked inspired about that except for the airport security guard who probably can’t wait to shout into his radio while running furiously down the terminal in pursuit of suspicious activities.
A Molly Baker has been paged about 20 times. I think she wants to miss her flight.
I’m going to write a booked called “How to make it through metal detectors at the airport and still where your favorite belt with the largest buckle.” This book will be dedicated to Mr. Cowboy himself who just walked by sporting the state of Texas in copper and turquoise on his belt. Gee, I wonder where he’s from? Uh no, he’s walking towards me and he looks mad. Whew…he just sat down two seats away. Note to self don’t mess with Texas…..

Houston at 1:00 am – not a testimony.

Terminal B consists of myself and three other people, two of which are sleeping soundly. Person number 2 is reading the paper.
Houston highlights – Found a place to sleep, found food, found a Jesus look alike complete with a full plaid suit and beret. Yay! Oh yes and the best part, a rat was discovered on the plane about an hour after takeoff. It looked traumatized and very distressed about moving to England.

Alone in London

I met a Polish man who asked me if I was Ukrainian. I took the bus downtown to an ancient hotel where I slept and showered, not in that order. Thank you so much Pops for sponsoring my stay there so I wouldn’t have to spend 36 hours at the airport. You’re the best!
1:00pm and it’s back at the airport for more quality experiences. Cruella de ville and frantic husband just sat down next to me. I wonder what keeps them together. It must be her hair. Or their mutual love of subway sandwiches.
Favorite airport announcement so far – “ Do not leave your baggage unattended. Unattended baggage will be confiscated and destroyed.” With emphasis on destroyed. Heh if I was a vulture I’d apply for that job so I could comb the airport looking for lonely luggage which I’d haul away and destroy…forgive me a cruel chuckle.
A certain evil airline which shall remain nameless changed their luggage weight allowances. They promptly informed me that I would have to pay 140 pounds in overweight fees. *cringe* that’s about 280 dollars for those of you who think in dollars so you can feel the pain. I admit I had a moment of panic. Then Jesus saved me and they quickly decided that they’d let my bags on for free. Jesus is so wonderful!

Let’s end on that happy note.

This post brought to you by jet lag induced ramblings

Home Council gems

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Discussion: Presentation and dressing well.
Gem: “Sometimes you’ve just got to buckle down and pull out your dress crocs”.

Discussion: Learning Spanish
Gem: “I can shake my booty in Spanish and that’s good enough”.

–Copyright my Home 2007

Pretty cool.

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

I found this blog through my blog back-end since this nice dude links to me. I’m not entirely sure who he is, but I thought this was pretty cool.

Interview of the Month: Luchi, Argentina

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

This post is coming to you at two in the a.m., thanks to the two previously (foolishly) consumed energy drinks now racing through my bloodstream. My days are spent on my bottom driving a truck. My nights are filled with X’s and D’s. I sit down to blog and all that comes to mind is the concepts of marital, inter-marital, and pre-martial associations and the controversy surrounding brainwashing. I am content and at peace with this stage in life’s journey, but I’m gonna be honest, I’m pretty boring right now. So……

Here’s something fun – for me, at least – and we’ll see how it pans out. I’m unsystematically conducting surprise interviews with people that interest me on this here blog which may or may not be featured on a weekly basis, I’ll have to see. They will be surprise in the sense that should I have a hankering to explore your psyche, you’ll not know about it until the questions show up here on 77ZI. I may know you well, some, or not at all. I reserve the right to pose whatever odd questions I feel like, depending on my mood. Should you find yourself thus questioned, you may freely ignore me, you may answer in cryptic one-liners, you may expound, you may be boring, you may be fascinating.

Should you feel like answering, do so in the comments and once you do, I’ll paste your answers into the main post for everyone’s reading pleasure. Should you answer someone else’s questions using their name I probably won’t be able to tell but Jesus can and He’s on my side so be afraid. This experiment may or may not work but they say nothing ventured, nothing gained. So, here goes. I’m kicking off this little venture with questions put to Florecita/Luchi of Live the Creed because, well, you seem like an interesting person.

LNF: She answered. It worked. Yay!


GBY! Is Luchi short for something?
Wow¦ I’m interesting! Awesome! My second name is Luci­a, which was turned into Luchi.

Do you speak fluent Spanish?
Yes, although I bear the shameful hint of a gringo accent. South America is very different to Mexico in that you rarely find foreign Family members who don;t speak Spanish. Everything is in Spanish, so you just have to learn.

Most surprising part of motherhood?
How messy nursing is!! It’s not as beautiful and serene as I expected it to be. It squirts everyone in the eye and the baby chokes, and you leave this fine spray of white dots wherever you nursed — it’s crazy! Maybe baby and I are exceptionally bad at it.

How much stock do you place in people’s sunsigns?
Um, I believe there’s an element of truth in them, but it’s too easy to be an amateur astrologer and use it to put people in a box. I don’t like putting people in a box. My husband actually studied astrology for a while so he rolls his eyes when people ignorantly prattle about it, so now I just roll my eyes too even though I have no idea what they’re saying wrong.

What are you most looking forward to about the Offensive?
Wow. I don’t know that I even understand what it’s going to be! A new method? New tools? One disciple required per home per 6 months? I think what I look forward to is seeing people we brought in bring others in.

How much longer do you expect till the last seven years?
Oh boy. It’s one of those things I put in a little bundle of Faith. You think the world couldn’t get any worse, but it does. Looks to me like we’ve got at least another 10 years ahead of us, but the ET isn’t one of my strong subjects so I could be in for a surprise.

Name one blog you visit but have never commented on.
I think I eventually end up commenting everywhere. Oh wait, here’s one: http://sluglord.blogspot.com/ I’m just always at a loss for words there.

What’s the last thing you’ve memorized?
It was an easy one: “The Keys surround you with a bubble of My protection”

Did you study the users manual on that suuuuweet DSLR of yours or do you just figure things out as you go?
Um, I did when I had time and a computer. Now I have neither or either one. But I do intend to read the last 75% of that pdf file sometime. Manuals are good. By the way, I just recently saw that you (I think it was you) won the Jayman award for best photographer. I hadn’t realized that all those photos were yours! There are some EXCELLENT photos there. Congratulations!