citi corp

at the risk of airing my dirty laundry (it’s my blog, after all, right?) here’s a summary of the most recent hour of my life:
got online to (re)submit (for the third or fourth time) a financial hardship/workable solutions packet with citicorp/citi mortgage. i was told most recently that the applications that are faxed and [...]

panera brrrt

i got to panera extra early so that i could sit in the area i like the best for the bible study. and i beat the annoying skype lady here. (skype is a program that lets you talk on the phone for free, connecting anywhere in the world without charge, by way of [...]

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i’ve got no idea what he’s trying to say here…
“Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to
enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.”
George W. Bush
January 14, 2001
Quoted in the New York Times
anybody know how to translatify this wordification?

my strengths and weaknesses

sometime several months ago, in a moment of weakness, i ran this application on my facebook profile called “compare me” or something…it’s a program that brings up two random people in your contacts list and asks you questions like “who is more famous?” or “who is cuter?” etc. then you choose between the two, [...]

wednesday worship

happy wednesday, everybody. (it seems that there are only five of you, and four out of five of you stay updated through a feed reader…see here if you wonder what in the world i’m talking about…) a new feature of wednesday worship posts will be the previous sunday’s set list. on sunday, [...]

make up a word – my word?…uncomfterfull

uncomfterfull: the state of having had so much to eat that you are full, to the point of physical discomfort. a combination of the words uncomfortable and full.
common use: ugh…i can’t believe i thought it was a good idea to come to the chinese buffet…i’m so uncomfterfull.
got this idea from carlos’s funny post today…making [...]

good posts

here are links to a few good posts i’ve read recently. check them out.
the secret bathroom at church at “stuff christians like”
not just a “small church problem” at phillip’s blog
hilarious, embarrassing gym story at “ragamuffin soul”
you’re welcome.

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no president left behind
“I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented
administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and
energy on teaching children to read and achieving an education system that’s
responsive to the child and to the parents, as opposed to mired in a system
that refuses to change will [...]

sunday night after church (day late, dollar short)

it’s monday evening. but you didn’t read the title wrong: i just didn’t have the time/energy/whathaveyou to post anything last night. very tiring day, but a wonderful day as well. here are a few quick hits.
1. the music could have been better, but not with a volunteer band and that short [...]

happy birthday, leonardo

april 15, 1452: sculptor, writer, musician, mathematician, painter and inventor, leonardo da vinci was born in florence, italy.
so, that’s cool.
i don’t know if you all knew this, but a few other fun facts are that he’s a direct descendant of jesus christ (according to dan’s brown’s fictional code), and that he was named after one [...]