Smurf for thought...

So, I am pretty bored today. And while I was mindlessly pondering, I thought of something interesting (actually it came up on my "Things to Ponder").

If you choke a Smurf, what color would it turn???

hmmmm....




...I wonder...



That was fun. OK, bye now.

Ain't Life Grand???

Well, I don't think that I have much to post today. I was having a pretty -blah- couple of days. The rainy weather, while definitely needed, hasn't helped with my not so enthusiastic mood. I have had a headache for a few days now, and was about ready to throw the bathroom scale out the window (and I would have if it didn't belong to my friend Jen). So needless to say, I was not really excited about much when I was cruisin' the internet today and decided to check my final grades for the Summer II semester. I knew that I earned an A in my African Anthropology class, but was unsure about my Latin class. You see, the professor was not what you would call prepared for this class, we only has 4 people in the class total, me, a freshman, and 2 graduate students, we didn't even know what we would be graded on. It turned out that the grade for the entire class was the final, which was 30 lines of translating a poem by Horace, Ars Poetica, a poem over 1100 lines long that basically bashes any other poetic style other than dactylic hexameter (a type of meter). Needless to say, I was rather stressed, and didn't think that I would do that great. So I checked my grade and I think I am going to have a bruise on my chin from where it hit the table. I GOT AN A!!!!! In 6 semesters of Latin, I have never done that well. Praise God!!! There is no way I could have done that well if He hadn't been there to help me study, and concentrate, and manage it all without going nuts. I am officially on summer vacation now, 2 whole weeks with no school, Yipee!!!

We are now adding a quiz to this part of the blog. The first person, of the many, many who view this blog daily, that can correctly name the character and the movie in which it appeared, will receive a life time supply of -thumbs ups-.....
I know it's a hard one. But this is one of those weird things about me, I have a fascination with Disney movies and get a thrill out of knowing the character's names. Good luck!!!

Why you don't use frozen blueberries when making a smoothie.

So I got up this morning and decided that a blueberry smoothie sounded really tasty. I pulled out my "Magic Bullet"-type blender, a cup of yoplait lite vanilla yogurt, and a bag of frozen blueberries from the freezer. I was rushing around this morning because I had to get stuff around for going down to my uncles lake house in Coldwater to spend the night...long story, maybe another time. So I mixed everything up in the blender and put the storage lid on it so I could take it to Jen's while I watch Tyler. Have you ever had watered down yogurt? Pretty yucky!!! That's what this tasted like. I guess the fact that the blueberries were frozen meant that they had water in them, so when they thawed out, it was pretty yucky. Then I tried freezing it thinking that would help, kinda like frozen yogurt. Ya, even worse.Rest assured though, I remedied the situation. I mixed in some milk, and added some raspberries, and threw back in the blender, and viola...yummy semi-frozen berry smoothie. And quite nutritious, too.


I know that I have a tendency to take on a lot of things at once and to say "sure" and "yes" when people ask me to do things. Well, I was asked by a certain woman to help with the directory, and of course I said sure. So there was a meeting last night to go over the layout and choose the design and everything. Imagine six people in a room, all trying to agree on one design and layout. Needless to say it was rather frustrating, everyone wanted something different, I though one of the guys was going to walk out. Decisions got made, I made "executive" decisions that were agreed upon. The point of this rather lengthy story was no the meeting, but the dream I had last night. I dreamt that we were trying to decide on a cover design. Instead of everyone disagreeing, the all agreed on one design, except me. It was atrocious. It was yellow, with a bunch of flowers, not too bad yet, right? The bad part was that it had a stuffed teddy bear on it, not a picture, but an actual bear attached to the cover. It was horrible, and everyone there thought it was the greatest design they had ever seen. Thank God that is not what the design actually is, I hope!!!

The Little Mermaid, A Psalm, and Some Carrots Walk into a Blog...

Does the Little Mermaid wear an algaebra???



Now, I will admit that it took me a bit to realize what that said, but I think I laughed for a couple of minutes after I got it. An algae bra, hahahaha!!!

I have to share my devotional passage for this morning because it was great. I mean, the entire Bible is great, but this was a good one for this morning, rather uplifting.

Praise the Lord, I tell myself;
with my whole heart, I will praise His holy name.
Praise the Lord, I tell myself,
and never forget the good things He does for me.
He forgives all my sins
and heals all my diseases.
He ransoms me from death
and surrounds me with love and tender mercies.
He fills my life with good things.
My youth is renewed like the eagle's!
The Lord gives righteousness
and justice to all who are treated unfairly.
He revealed His character to Moses
and His deeds to the people of Israel.
The Lord is merciful and gracious;
He is slow to get angry and full of unfailing love.
He will not constantly accuse us,
nor remain angry forever.
He has not punished us for all our sins,
nor does He deal with us as we deserve.
For His unfailing love towards those who fear Him
is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth.

Psalm 103:1-11

In our world full of sinful people, it is so wonderful to know that God is better than all of it. His love is unfailing, and so much better than anything here on earth, even chocolate!!! I know that is hard to believe, but so true. When the world gives you lemons, God can make the best lemonade, all you have to do is give Him the ingredients.

One last mindless thought for the day:
Why is a carrot more orange than an orange???
Chew on that one for a while. hahahaha!!!

Here piggy, piggy, piggy...

So I went to April's draw a pig site. Here's my piggy...


Before you laugh, realize how hard it was to draw a pig using the little mouse ball thingy on my laptop. Oh yah, according to my piggy, I am pessimistic, direct, enjoying playing devil's advocate (this I just don't see, do you?), emotional, stubborn, and a good listener. I don't know what I think about all this, don't really see me as pessimistic, do you ;)

Try it yourself...http://drawapig.desktopcreatures.com/

Here I am...

Well, I am new to this whole blogging thing. So here goes. I guess I'll start with a little bit of background information to let y'all know who I am. I'm a 26 year old single mother with a beautiful 7 1/2 year old daughter. I attend Western Michigan University and have one year before I graduate with a double major in Comparative Religion and Latin (ya, I said Latin, how nerdy, huh?). After that, God willing, I will be attending Calvin Theological Seminary to work on my Master's and hopefully doctorate in Theological Studies, with aspirations of one day becoming a college professor and doing research and writing. My main areas of research interest are the early Christian church from Paul through the twelfth century when Pope Urban officially made the call for the first crusade in 1095, and looking at the progression of the idea of faith over works that Paul proclaimed in the New Testament, to the extreme requirement of works as necessary for salvation that Urban declared in his papal addresses.

Now that all that boring stuff has been covered, let us get on to the more interesting stuff. I enjoy reading, writing, and arithmetic. Well maybe not the last part. I collect books, especially ones older than 90 years, with a special interest in late nineteenth and early twentieth century poetry and philosophical thought, especially the poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the ramblings of Albert Einstein. I also have a rather hefty record collection, at last count numbering somewhere in the 130's.


I also love to crochet, scrapbook, play cards, especially poker and canasta, and I like to cook. I also have a great fascination with an excellent source of reading material. It is published once a week, usually on Sundays, and can be purchased at any local store. I, of course, am referring to the Funny Pages, the comics. Many a bathroom break is spent pouring over these periodicals, with much attention paid to the Garfield segment. Man I love that cat.

I also have a very deep love for our Lord Jesus Christ, and hope to spend my life serving God, and glorifying Him with all my actions, thoughts, and my life. I am a member of a United Methodist Church, a rather conservative one, mind you, and am quite unhappy and disturbed by the path that the UMC is taking down a very liberal road. I have studied the life and intentions of John Wesley rather intently, and much prefer the call to returning to the Scriptures that he implored. Until that day returns to the UMC, I suppose I will just have to prayfully express my concern and at times disgust with some of the practices and developing beliefs of a growing portion of Methodists, as well as Christians in general.

Well, there is me in a nut shell. Looking back, I see that I wrote quite alot. I promise that further blogs will not be as serious and stuffy sounding. But I can't guarantee that they won't be thought provoking and sometimes just plain weird, but that's me.

Later!!!