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31 de maio "exercise" is a bad word I don't like to exercise. Never have. If I hadn't inherited my dad's miracle-metabolism, I'd be over 200 pounds. I recognize this and am grateful every day. Still, weight isn't the only issue. Health requires actual movement, not just reduced eating. Exercise for an hour a day? Should, could, but don't. Not likely to start. 30 de maio timewarped day When you're abducted by aliens, you lose time. What happens to cause you to gain time? Yesterday was an odd day, which I actually experienced as more of a day and a half. I got home from work at noon. I wasn't expecting L home for supper so I hadn't planned to cook anything but by the time I was thinking It must be way past supper it was actually only 3:30. Later, when my brain and body were telling me it was past bedtime, it was really only 7:45. It wasn't that I was sleepy - it just felt late, and it felt as though that much time had passed. Too bad I couldn't be extra-productive with all that gained time. I did get a draft of a new Kinetic website 95% completed. 28 de maio 10 minute game I enjoyed Cursor 10  Chronotron is also a cooperate-with-yourself game, but I haven't taken the time to go through all its levels yet.  24 de maio Wrestling With Angels, part 2: ...but THEN what?Apparently I'm not the only one alarmed by the concept of eternity:
My thoughts usually spiral this way: we'll be with Him forever - yay! But then what? Then we'll be with Him forever, that's good. But then what??
I know that I'm not ready to understand it yet. But just ask my parents - I've always been really impatient!
23 de maio ordinary day I've been riding the bus more than usual lately. Today's trip downtown was irritatingly jerky and the calling out of the stops was indecipherable. The ride home, however, was graced with a friendly driver who was good at his job, as well as a clear system for calling the stops.  I'd been reading The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier and took it with me on the bus. From the placement of my bookmark, I had about a fifth of the book left. Unfortunately the reality was that I had only about a dozen pages of story left; the remainder was endnotes and sources. I'm not such a happy bus-rider without a book. 20 de maio stupid mind
I'm tired today. Sometimes I wonder how much better life would be with a 'male' brain that can put things in boxes. My lazy river was way too pushy last night. 15 de maio interviewWhat size shoe do you wear? 7.5 T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular, Cingular/AT&T, or Sprint/Nextel? MTS Would you rather be hot or cold? hot Favorite Place to Eat? Wasabi Firefox, Internet Explorer, Netscape, or other? Firefox! Favorite fruit? Rainier cherries (pineapple comes in 2nd) Are you a cat or a dog person? both are good, but if forced to choose: dog Do you eat cold cereal at night? no (very rarely) What is your favorite TV show? Lost Kill the spider or let it out? death to the spider! (preferably by someone other than me) Do you shower every single day? yes What would you do if Michael Jackson asked you out? try not to laugh in his face; leave quickly! Do you read Harry Potter books? no If you could have one super human power what would you choose? teleportation Have you had a beer in the last week? no What do you do on fridays? take Todd to youth Do you like bananas? no How tall are you? 5'4" what's your theme song? Testing 1 -2 - 3 Wrestling With Angels The hardest thing about reading Wresting With Angels by Carolyn Arends was taking it slow enough! She wrote about her personal experiences, and they really resonated with me. The book is about having faith even when you don't have all the answers - or many answers at all. After writing about Jacob's struggle with the unknown wrestler on the banks of the Jabbok river, Carolyn went on to write: ...when a creature encounters the Creator of the Universe, the divine embrace is likely to feel more like a deathgrip than anything else. As much as I long for more direct encounters with Yahweh Elohim, I should be careful what I wish for. Jacob was fortunate to walk away with only a limp. If God seems sometimes maddeningly hidden, it may well be for my own safety. (God) wants me to wrestle with Him, to fight for Him, to grapple with the Mystery... So much of my struggle has been about the struggle itself, feeling that faith should be easier, that encountering God should be a walk in the garden, not ten rounds in the ring. I've always known I was supposed to be a God believer, a God follower, a God lover, even a God proclaimer. But I did not know I could be - should be - a God wrestler. I feel as though I've wrestled with God a few times. Glad to discover that I'm not alone in that. And I need to remember that He is sometimes not visible to me for my own safety! Wrestling with God is scary. Often I avoid Him because I don't want to wrestle. I'm too tired. I'm afraid of getting hurt. But I do keep returning to the scuffle. Because I'm stubborn? Because I can't leave well enough alone? Because I think that maybe today I'll understand another sliver of the mystery and it might change me, revive me? revival On Sunday, the music team did Robin Mark's Revival as offertory. As I flipped through the powerpoint slides (there was a request for the lyrics to be onscreen), the phrase "Revive us" smacked me in the face. I suddenly made the connection with the CPR class. We do CPR on someone until they can get a dose of electricity from a defibrillator to reestablish their heart's natural rhythm. But they need that shock to be truly revived. CPR alone isn't enough. I feel as though my efforts at following Christ are just giving myself CPR. I need revival.  13 de maio whine of the day Why does Minneapolis's OctoPLExy have to be the same weekend as Winnipeg's Jazz Festival?  08 de maio pound and puffYesterday evening all three of us took a four-hour CPR course. We learned:
CPR responder masks are recommended, and I agree that they make sense. They aren't costly but I really can't fit anything more into my purse and if it is anywhere else (like in the car?) it likely won't be handy when it is needed.  AEDs are amazing! They seem to be very intelligently designed. And the shock they provide so dramatically increases someone's odds of life/recovery (90% vs 10%). CPR is necessary until help arrives, but without that help arriving (in the form of an AED or the defibrillator in the ambulance) it isn't worth much.  We are apparently able to do CPR for 30 minutes, maybe up to 45... The course included a lot of good information and was pretty clearly laid out in terms of what to do first, and good tips. A refresher is recommended in 2 years but I think I'll need to review the book we got within a few weeks if I want any reasonable expectation of remembering this. And given that it [a] is important, and [b] cost $70 each, I might as well attempt to remember it. We were sent out of the class with sincere wishes that we'll never have to use what we learned. weekend!Todd was at YC Manitoba so his weekend was in some ways fuller than ours. More people, that's for certain! Big thanks to Kim for driving Todd all weekend! More thanks to Mike and Katie for taking the youth to YC.  On Friday evening Lyndon & I went to see Bella, which has good acting and a good story, but terrible camerawork! Lyndon was feeling quite sick from how shaky it was in places, and it made me dizzy too. I think it might have been better to see it from DVD on a smaller screen. This was its last weekend in the theatre before release to DVD so I was surprised at how full the theatre was. It has good word-of-mouth, it seems. On Saturday we did errands and practiced the new Kinetic choreography. In the evening we danced at the Legion. Really sleepy all weekend, but I deliberately did not nap because I always wake up with unshakable grumpiness. After church we had a nice lunch with Ginni, Joan, Hilda, and the Chief (Geoff) at the Canad Inn. That's something we've wanted to do for a long time but this week it finally worked out.  Unfortunately our small group didn't meet in the evening. For too many people, events conspired to prevent them from coming. That was disapointing. Four of us did go see Iron Man, which was fun. Opening weekend, though, which meant we had to sit 3 row from the front even though we were there at least 20 minutes early. Jane is a great movie-buddy! We stopped in at Applebees later; I had shrimp and Lyndon had crab cakes and both were really delicious. Jane is now in debt to both Jason and myself, and we had a good laugh about that. |
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