23 August 2010

20 Ways To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity.

[A collection I received  via email and found entertaining enough to keep.]

1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.
3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
4. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "in."
5. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
6. In the memo field of all your checks, write "for smuggling diamonds"
7. Finish all your sentences with "in accordance with the prophecy."
8. Don't use any punctuation at all
9. As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
10. Whenever you go out to eat, order a diet water with a serious face.
11. Specify that your drive-through order is "to go."
12. Sing along at the opera.
13. Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme.
14. Put mosquito netting around your work area and play tropical sounds all day.
15. Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you're not in the mood.
16. Dip your carrots in ice cream.
17. When the money comes out the ATM, scream "I won!, I won!"
18. When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling "run for your lives, they're loose!!"
19. Tell your children over dinner. "Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go."
20. And the final way to keep a healthy level of insanity......send this to someone to make them smile. Its called therapy.

04 July 2010

Happy Independence Day!

When we sang "America the Beautiful" this morning I first thought, is a patriotic song appropriate in church? It is a song in praise of America, and I would not choose it for a church service myself; in that context it seems to put love of country before love of God. But I realized as we sang that the song is also prayer. A beautiful and very pertinent prayer for our wonderful country in these troubled times.


America the Beautiful

O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed his grace on thee —
And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet, whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wilderness!
America! America! God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life!
America! America! May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness, and every gain divine!

O beautiful for glory-tale of liberating strife
When once and twice, for man's avail, men lavished precious life!
America! America! God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain the banner of the free!

O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears!
America! America! God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!

22 June 2010

first thoughts...testing

This is very much just a test post. I need to see what various themes do to the actual text of the blog, and so I'm typing random stuff to fill up space! Testing testing testing... I think that it is easy to spend too much time on the look of a blog, when the focus should be on what is said. And that is a weakness of mine because I love to design. However, a certain amount of care is worthwhile in order to be sure that the blog is presentable and readable. What I've already typed is probably enough to get an idea of these things—therefore I shall end this rather pointless rambling which came unedited from whatever was at the tip of my tongue. Or my fingers.