flotsam and jetsam
September 2, 2007
- In a moment of creativity (or strangeness), I decided to change the name of my “weekly download” to “flotsam and jetsam”. I’m intrigued by that phrase, and smile at the idea of being able to use it!
- The week started off with a “Girls’ Night” for all the Thrive staff and intern women. It was a fun night of face masks (not on me!), laughing (yep, I did a lot of that!), talking (some great conversations), and snacking (my favorite pastime).
- The last piglet count I heard was 110! That just makes me shake my head in amazement (and slight grossness)…
- Some great (yet challenging) things I heard/read in the past few days:
- “Many times God will send you what you need in a package you don’t want.” -John Bevere
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle
- “The truth is good enough.” -Charles Martin
- “The only thing harder than waiting on God, is wishing you had.” -Steven Furtick
- Natalie and I have had a lot of fun together this week. One of the highlights for me was coming home to a cooked dinner. The name of the dish? “You-Won’t-Be-Single-For-Long Vodka Cream Pasta”. Yum-my!
- We went out four-wheeling this weekend (enjoying our new-found 80-degree weather). It was fun to show Natalie around the base, (try to) get up close and personal with some animals, and bounce around so much that we’ve been achy and sore ever since. Although we’ve been friends for a decade, we don’t have many pictures together. So we were excited to take a self-portrait of ourselves while we were out in the far back corner of the property. The sun was really bright, and we ingeniously figured out a way to block it from our eyes so that we wouldn’t be squinty in the picture. This is what we ended up with:
I cartainly admire people like you who devote their lives to other people
Loved the witty wordage :) The 4-wheeling adventure sounded like great fun…and who can resist coming home to a cooked meal?
Sure enjoyed seeing Nigel…sure miss you!
i like your new title, and i learned new definitions today. but this is funny…when i first read it i thought, “the eels from the little mermaid?”…yep, that’s their names (you know you’re a parent when…)
see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flotsam_and_Jetsam_(The_Little_Mermaid)
anyways…:) the picture is so cute. hope you are having fun.
it was great to see niel last week, and we’re having coffee with him and my pastor in the morning (well…in 8.5 hours!)
love you.
Ha ha! Loved the pic! I bet you laughed hysterically! I too, thought of the Little Mermaid. I should follow your link to see what it really means. :) Fun stuff!
I did follow the link and I must say that you anything BUT worthless wreckage! :-) I was hoping that you wouldn’t skip your weekly download.
Wowie zowie – I clicked through to the blog about the church you would love to go to. I surfed some of the links he’s got. Amazing stuff! They have got it going on there. Exciting.
Did you read his blog entry about his Secret? He talked about the blogs of other pastors that he reads; some of them he has never met before. And they help eachother out that way. Well, I just want you to know that YOU are part of my secret. Countless times you have inspired and encouraged me and made me smile. Thanks, friend.
I’m not sure I like this Google Reader thing. I’ve hit that “Next” button several times a day, every day and I JUST NOW got this post. Hmmmmm…. So I promise I didn’t copy cat when I made a ha ha on my blog about our photo. Man, we is some crazy ladies…..