... and lead you to this. Whoever you vote for, please make sure you understand why. I'm not supporting the Howard Stern Show, I find him crude and vulgar, but this clip is clean.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Dodgeball is good
I decided that since I was working with the youth, I would go volunteer on dodgeball night. I thought it might be a good way to bond with my youth. You know, who doesn't want their "mentor" humming a rubber four square ball at their face as fast as they possibly can? I think Jesus played dodgeball. In fact, I know Jesus played dodgeball.
Now my right arm hurts so bad. I can't even imagine what it will feel like in the morning, but it was all worth it. I love dodgeball. I'm a little older, but a little more competitive, too. I'm not very good at "playing for fun" and I think "playing for fun" is worthless. I think winning is fun. I think losing sucks.
Maybe that's why I can't feel my arm.
Patrick is a superior specimen
Patrick is a superior being. He is smarter, better looking, and healthier than most above average beings. He does not get sick. He spent the winter of 1872 on the Blackfoot Reservation cuddled in his government-issue blanket keeping his said government-issue blanket warm. The rest of his tribe died of small pox. Patrick did not. Then they tried large pox. Patrick still did not die. Patrick is superior. Patrick is healthy.
Patrick is full of crap.
Patrick is full of crap.
flu=death
My father is dead set on not getting the flu shot. He says the only times he has ever gotten it, he got the flu. Well I had the flu last year and it was the most miserable week of my life. So I was determined to get the flu shot this year. They were doing them at church this morning, and I signed myself up. The lady did an excellent job. She was a wonderful shot giver, minus telling me I had "been a very good girl" at the end. She assured me there was no possible way to get the flu from the shot because it's a dead virus.
Well we went and had a free Mission Burrito with Brandon, as mentioned by Patrick, and I ate the whole thing which I was very impressed with. Then we went home for a bit and ran to the mall this afternoon. Got some work clothes, great trip. Tonight's small group dinner theme was pie, and we had no time to make anything, so we ran to the store and got oatmeal cream pies and a salad. And then it happened. We left the grocery store, and I started feeling terrible. It started in my throat and then moved to the achy-ness. And here I am, sitting on the couch, waiting for Patrick to bring me some lactose-free ice cream to ease my flu symptoms. I'm sure it's just side effects from the vaccine, at least it better be, but either way it is no fun. Hopefully I wake up in the morning everything will be back to normal. I may pass on the flu shot next year. :-/
If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself
Blog readers, I apologize for my wife's lackadaisical attitude in blogging. (For the record, I spelled lackadaisical correct the first time. No spell check needed.)
The Gilgour's have been very busy people this last week. We have been working with Young Life on Monday nights. We have really enjoyed this experience. T
uesday is a free night. This Tuesday I took a spin through Terry Hershey Park. It was great. I rode as hard as I could for an hour. It felt amazing.
Wednesday nights we work with the youth at our church. We really enjoy working with the youth here. Becky has 10th grade girls and I have 10th grade guys.
Thursday night is the Office night and thus the most important night of the week. To make this Thursday even better, I went to Happie Hour with Chris at House of Pies. I used to enjoy going to get a drink for Happy Hour, but I think a slice of pie is even better. Becky's grandma got in Thursday night as well. So we've been eating with her parents and grandma this weekend.
Friday night we went to the family theatre and saw Driving Miss Daisy. It was actually really good. I thought it was fun.
Saturday we went to lunch/ brunch, Wal-Mart, and then to the mall. We were going to buy a coffee and end table off of Craigslist (our favorite shopping medium), but we were unable to make a deal because I found the poster to be dishonest. (Dave Ramsey, my personal financial adviser, advises not to deal with dishonest people, no matter how good the deal.)
Today, Sunday, we went to church and got a free Mission Burrito. Our week was good.
Married life is starting to be more "normal". Its not getting routine or mundane, but the idea of being married and going home together at night is not as strange as it used to be.
Oh, and I have chocolate pie in my fridge.
The Gilgour's have been very busy people this last week. We have been working with Young Life on Monday nights. We have really enjoyed this experience. T
uesday is a free night. This Tuesday I took a spin through Terry Hershey Park. It was great. I rode as hard as I could for an hour. It felt amazing.
Wednesday nights we work with the youth at our church. We really enjoy working with the youth here. Becky has 10th grade girls and I have 10th grade guys.
Thursday night is the Office night and thus the most important night of the week. To make this Thursday even better, I went to Happie Hour with Chris at House of Pies. I used to enjoy going to get a drink for Happy Hour, but I think a slice of pie is even better. Becky's grandma got in Thursday night as well. So we've been eating with her parents and grandma this weekend.
Friday night we went to the family theatre and saw Driving Miss Daisy. It was actually really good. I thought it was fun.
Saturday we went to lunch/ brunch, Wal-Mart, and then to the mall. We were going to buy a coffee and end table off of Craigslist (our favorite shopping medium), but we were unable to make a deal because I found the poster to be dishonest. (Dave Ramsey, my personal financial adviser, advises not to deal with dishonest people, no matter how good the deal.)
Today, Sunday, we went to church and got a free Mission Burrito. Our week was good.
Married life is starting to be more "normal". Its not getting routine or mundane, but the idea of being married and going home together at night is not as strange as it used to be.
Oh, and I have chocolate pie in my fridge.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Thanksgiving is a great holiday
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. Its quite simple to understand: the abundance of food. I love food, however my washboard abs don't make this fact known to many.
My favorite kind of food is pie. I actually have a "pie stomach" that is only for pie. It is never empty and never full. Like Chuck Norris, it just waits. And my favorite kind of pie is Lotsuvv. I like Lotsuvv Pie. Well, I actually like Lotsuvv and Anneychind. Those are my two favorite pies.
Pie should be easy to eat, not too hot and not too cold. Depending on the occasion, a la mode is appropriate (fruit pies only). One should never use a knife or spoon while consuming wonderful pie, only a fork is required. It is necessary to always begin on the side opposite the hypotenuse. When eating a fruit pie, it is acceptable to hold the fork parallel to the plate and use the non-prong side of the fork to cut through the crust, filling, and top (if present). A bite of cream pie should always be selected with the prong side going into the pie vertically. Pie can be substituted for cake, but cake can never be substituted for pie. A candle may be placed in the pie for celebrations of age enlargements. Above all else, a bite of pie can never be left on the plate (unless that plate is one from Pine Country Restaurant on historic Route 66 in Williams, Arizona).
It is permissible to stack multiple fruits into one pie, but a pie containing both fruit and cream should never be baked. Only the choicest adjectives should be used in the description of pie. These adjectives should clear and concise, allowing the connoisseur to focus on the taste (fruit and cream), texture (fruit and cream), freshness of produce (fruit only), and consistency (cream only). In certain areas of the country, nuts are placed in pies (such as pecan). This is acceptable, but only in the Deep South.
A gracious Thanksgiving host will inform his (or her) guests that pie is available before second servings of meat, vegetables, casseroles, and rolls are offered. A simple, "Patrick, we have pie for dessert, but you're more than welcome to help yourself to more (insert traditional Thanksgiving entree/ side dish here)." This will allow the guest to decide for themselves. The favor of this traditional line is still appreciated even if the guest has a "pie stomach".
In the event that only one piece of pie is left in the pan, the parties requesting pie must dual. Yes, it really is that important.
The most appropriate time to eat pie is with friends.
I hope you enjoy pie as much as I do!
(Lotsuvv is Lots-of and Anneychind is Any-kind).
My favorite kind of food is pie. I actually have a "pie stomach" that is only for pie. It is never empty and never full. Like Chuck Norris, it just waits. And my favorite kind of pie is Lotsuvv. I like Lotsuvv Pie. Well, I actually like Lotsuvv and Anneychind. Those are my two favorite pies.
Pie should be easy to eat, not too hot and not too cold. Depending on the occasion, a la mode is appropriate (fruit pies only). One should never use a knife or spoon while consuming wonderful pie, only a fork is required. It is necessary to always begin on the side opposite the hypotenuse. When eating a fruit pie, it is acceptable to hold the fork parallel to the plate and use the non-prong side of the fork to cut through the crust, filling, and top (if present). A bite of cream pie should always be selected with the prong side going into the pie vertically. Pie can be substituted for cake, but cake can never be substituted for pie. A candle may be placed in the pie for celebrations of age enlargements. Above all else, a bite of pie can never be left on the plate (unless that plate is one from Pine Country Restaurant on historic Route 66 in Williams, Arizona).
It is permissible to stack multiple fruits into one pie, but a pie containing both fruit and cream should never be baked. Only the choicest adjectives should be used in the description of pie. These adjectives should clear and concise, allowing the connoisseur to focus on the taste (fruit and cream), texture (fruit and cream), freshness of produce (fruit only), and consistency (cream only). In certain areas of the country, nuts are placed in pies (such as pecan). This is acceptable, but only in the Deep South.
A gracious Thanksgiving host will inform his (or her) guests that pie is available before second servings of meat, vegetables, casseroles, and rolls are offered. A simple, "Patrick, we have pie for dessert, but you're more than welcome to help yourself to more (insert traditional Thanksgiving entree/ side dish here)." This will allow the guest to decide for themselves. The favor of this traditional line is still appreciated even if the guest has a "pie stomach".
In the event that only one piece of pie is left in the pan, the parties requesting pie must dual. Yes, it really is that important.
The most appropriate time to eat pie is with friends.
I hope you enjoy pie as much as I do!
(Lotsuvv is Lots-of and Anneychind is Any-kind).
Thursday, October 2, 2008
church galore
So, the Gilgours have a slight dilemma.
When we started talking about where to live, we originally wanted to live in the Heights (north of downtown). We LOVE the Heights, and still would love to eventually live there. The houses are old and beautiful and the area has a lot more character than the suburbs. However... the prices reflect all that. And at that time, none of I10 was open, so it would have taken me a good hour and a half to get home from work, and probably a ridiculous amount of time to get there. (Even though I would be going AGAINST traffic. Houston is ridiculous.) Anyway, so we passed over the Heights and moved to Memorial. Which has its perks. We moved there because it is close to work for me and not quite as far from church and our families as being closer in would be. Our reasoning was that we drive to work every day and to church once a week, so living further out, which is where church is and where most of our small group lives, would also not make sense. But things changed, and we have committed to being at church 3 times a week at a minimum. (By a minimum, I mean we are out there twice on Sundays and twice during the week. But sometimes we only make the drive once on Sundays because we just stay out there from 9:30 am to 7:30 pm instead of going home in the middle.) Which means we make the Memorial to Copperfield drive, and back, at least 3 times a week, and at least two of those are in rush hour. Everything we are doing we enjoy, but we are not 'show up and go home' people. So we wind up staying and visiting pretty late each time, and then the next morning getting up for work is pretty rough. And it leaves us with little 'just the two of us' time. And with even less time to spend with friends outside of church. Thus our dilemma. We ended the summer deciding it was time to be more involved, and here we are. Over-involved. Maybe. We will give it some time still and see if we need to just get into a routine and get used to it. But so far... I spend a lot of time around teenagers feeling very old and tired. :-) That's just what they are looking for, right?
On another note, I am desperate for a hair cut. The guy who normally does it is booked (I really should think of these things a little further in advance) so now I'm really really needing a hair cut and have no one to do it! I have one more person to check on, so hopefully it comes through.
Can you believe it's October?! The mornings and evenings are very cool these days, although of course it's still in the 80s in the afternoon. And currently, it's forecasted to stay in the 80s for the next couple of weeks at least. But the nights and mornings are in the 50s and that's fun. And the onset of fall brought about my fall decorations! YAY! We now have pumpkin decorations out. In a couple of weeks, I will bust out the Halloween decorations and I have way more of those for whatever reason, so we we will be fully decked out in holiday mode. Then when the Halloween ones come down, the Thanksgiving ones go up (which I severely lack) and then when they come down... CHRISTMAS ones go up!!!!!! Patrick and I decided last night that we will get up Thanksgiving morning and put up our Christmas tree. :-) And we plan to leave it up for quite some time after Christmas becuase January is just so depressing sometimes. You take down the decorations, Christmas is over, and it's just winter. So the Christmas deocorations will have to stretch out until it's acceptable to put up Valentines ones.
Has anyone else noticed everyone seems to be putting out their Christmas merchandise pretty early this year? (And Wal-Mart is calling it Christmas. Not a family holiday or whatever.) I thought that was crazy when we were at Target last week, and then this morning on the news they were saying it was because people are having a difficult time financially and so they are trying to spread out their spending and threfore the stores hope that if they put things out early, people will buy early. Apparently this Christmas should see the lowest spending since 2002. I don't know what was so special about 2002 but apparently Christmas sales were down.
Ok, enough for now. You can see I'm somewhat bored at work this morning.
51 days until Thanksgiving
84 days to Christmas
When we started talking about where to live, we originally wanted to live in the Heights (north of downtown). We LOVE the Heights, and still would love to eventually live there. The houses are old and beautiful and the area has a lot more character than the suburbs. However... the prices reflect all that. And at that time, none of I10 was open, so it would have taken me a good hour and a half to get home from work, and probably a ridiculous amount of time to get there. (Even though I would be going AGAINST traffic. Houston is ridiculous.) Anyway, so we passed over the Heights and moved to Memorial. Which has its perks. We moved there because it is close to work for me and not quite as far from church and our families as being closer in would be. Our reasoning was that we drive to work every day and to church once a week, so living further out, which is where church is and where most of our small group lives, would also not make sense. But things changed, and we have committed to being at church 3 times a week at a minimum. (By a minimum, I mean we are out there twice on Sundays and twice during the week. But sometimes we only make the drive once on Sundays because we just stay out there from 9:30 am to 7:30 pm instead of going home in the middle.) Which means we make the Memorial to Copperfield drive, and back, at least 3 times a week, and at least two of those are in rush hour. Everything we are doing we enjoy, but we are not 'show up and go home' people. So we wind up staying and visiting pretty late each time, and then the next morning getting up for work is pretty rough. And it leaves us with little 'just the two of us' time. And with even less time to spend with friends outside of church. Thus our dilemma. We ended the summer deciding it was time to be more involved, and here we are. Over-involved. Maybe. We will give it some time still and see if we need to just get into a routine and get used to it. But so far... I spend a lot of time around teenagers feeling very old and tired. :-) That's just what they are looking for, right?
On another note, I am desperate for a hair cut. The guy who normally does it is booked (I really should think of these things a little further in advance) so now I'm really really needing a hair cut and have no one to do it! I have one more person to check on, so hopefully it comes through.
Can you believe it's October?! The mornings and evenings are very cool these days, although of course it's still in the 80s in the afternoon. And currently, it's forecasted to stay in the 80s for the next couple of weeks at least. But the nights and mornings are in the 50s and that's fun. And the onset of fall brought about my fall decorations! YAY! We now have pumpkin decorations out. In a couple of weeks, I will bust out the Halloween decorations and I have way more of those for whatever reason, so we we will be fully decked out in holiday mode. Then when the Halloween ones come down, the Thanksgiving ones go up (which I severely lack) and then when they come down... CHRISTMAS ones go up!!!!!! Patrick and I decided last night that we will get up Thanksgiving morning and put up our Christmas tree. :-) And we plan to leave it up for quite some time after Christmas becuase January is just so depressing sometimes. You take down the decorations, Christmas is over, and it's just winter. So the Christmas deocorations will have to stretch out until it's acceptable to put up Valentines ones.
Has anyone else noticed everyone seems to be putting out their Christmas merchandise pretty early this year? (And Wal-Mart is calling it Christmas. Not a family holiday or whatever.) I thought that was crazy when we were at Target last week, and then this morning on the news they were saying it was because people are having a difficult time financially and so they are trying to spread out their spending and threfore the stores hope that if they put things out early, people will buy early. Apparently this Christmas should see the lowest spending since 2002. I don't know what was so special about 2002 but apparently Christmas sales were down.
Ok, enough for now. You can see I'm somewhat bored at work this morning.
51 days until Thanksgiving
84 days to Christmas
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