Saturday, March 28, 2009

Mr. Redoubt's fury


Check out this latest picture of the Mt. Redoubt volcano from the Anchorage Daily News. It's of lightning strikes during a nighttime eruption. Look likes hell to me. It's playing hell with Alaska Airlines flights which may end up canceling my daughter's return trip from Spring Break. 

Our hull is pressed deep

This guy was amazing. Do Brits just sound more intelligent because of that cute accent?


Could this guy just have Obama's ear for 3 minutes?

Friday, March 20, 2009

Oh so sleepy

Ugh. I'm so tired all the time. Getting up at 5:45 to get my kid to track practice, then working all day and then sometimes working a second job at night and all weekend. This schedule will be lasting for the next two months. I'm not sure....

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Selling myself

Well, today I had an interview for a new job. Oh, the interview. Trying to sell yourself without looking desperate. Brain freezes to weird questions (how are people suppose to answer some of these questions?). But it went well. I had on my charming, friendly self. When all was said and done I don't think it's the job for me, and really, I don't think the interveiwer thought so either. But she did recognize that I might be more suited for a different job within the office which wasn't offered yet but she anticipated would be coming available. And she was right, I would rather have that job. But we'll see. It's all a process trying to figure out what I want to do and why, what would be better for the family, whether I even should be doing what I'm doing. What to be when I grow up. Oh wait, I am. Hmm.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

912

I'm excited I found a new movement on the web - and it was started by Glen Beck, my new favorite conservative genius. Here it is: www.The912Project.com. And check out the video "Count the Promises Broken" on the site. Unbelievable why we're still listening to this guy.


Friday, March 13, 2009

The things we resort to

Ahhh, vacation. What is it about that break from reality that restores us? Even though I've tired myself out completely over the last two days hoofin' it around Disneyland, I still feel relaxed and rested as I sit here sipping my starbucks and looking over the LA Times (and I'm not even ashamed at purchasing a starbucks product - hey a girl gots to get her espresso fix). I love the mental break I guess, not thinking about tomorrow's job or grocery list or what homework my kid isn't finishing. Everyday life just gets soooo boring in it's, well, everyday routine. And I guess that's just life as they say, but a refreshing change of climate and routine are just what the soul requires every now and then. My spirit is thankful beyond measure for this window of rest.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Reflections on Fifty

Today I find myself not only 2300 miles from home but also a year older. I took my 14 year old son and took off for Disneyland to celebrate my 50th birthday. I was born and raised in California and spent many a family vacation at the "happiest place on earth" which, considering my family, they probably weren't that happy.  Fortunately time has mellowed my perception and I wanted to go back for my Big Day. All and all, it was fun reliving memories and introducing my son to some new ones (I could hardly believe we had never taken him to the park before). Though he had fun experiencing it all, seeing Disney through his cynical teenage eyes was interesting. Like he wondered why people with infants and toddlers would ever waste their money on it. I mean it's a ton of money to get in and what a hassle wheeling those strollers everywhere and no those kids won't remember any of it. And those dark and scary rides like Haunted Mansion (hey you get to take a "demon" home with you) and Pirates of the Carribean (what's more fun watch drunk outlaws pillaging a village?) are interesting. And by the end of the "it's a small world" ride he wanted to kill someone. Yeah, I'm not really down with the whole one, happy world crap anymore either. But maybe that's a 50-year-old's perspective.

Sunday, March 8, 2009

LOL-ing alone in the dark

I rarely laugh out loud sitting alone in a room listening to an audio book. But "An Inconvenient Book: Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems" by Glenn Beck is just so hilarious. Narrated by Beck himself, which probably makes it at least ten times more entertaining, the book rambles through many political and social issues with fresh, in-your-face, sensible solutions to, yes, many of the world's biggest problems. Oh my gosh, soooo funny and makes me want to go slap some sense into someone.

Friday, March 6, 2009

ravi love

Babylon Is Doomed!
"Run up a flag on an open hill. Yell loud. Get their attention. Wave them into formation. Direct them to the nerve center of power."Isaiah 13:2,3 The Message
I opened up the bible recently and this was the chapter and verse it fell open to. It stirred my soul. I believe America, some call it the end-days Babylon, is heading down the path of doom and as followers of Christ we are being called to battle. And then I went to a Ravi Zacharias lecture last night. He's this crazy-smart, internationally known Christian theologian who's speciality is "apologetics" (the field in theology that aims to present a rational basis for the Christian faith). Anyway, it was a very global, very intellectual and a fascinating lecture(check out his web site www.rzim.org). I've been so hopeless recently about the potential destruction of our country under this new administration, and while he methodically outlined and reinforced my concerns he also gave me hope. Hope that we can turn this direction around if we all wake up. And we do need to wake up because it's not secularism that is going to replace the Judeo-Christian foundation of this country. It will be another religion, because secularism has no foundational truths, no absolute truths to stand on, or endure through crisis. He said it's already happening in Europe. Hmm, I wonder what religion he's talking about. Could it be Islam, the fastest growing religion in the world? Yikes. Me thinks a wake up call to all the lazy-boy Christians in America is overdue.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Rush to judgement

I'm still thinking about some of the things Rush Limbaugh said in his speech last week. Take the following:
"Let me tell you who we conservatives are: We love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don't see groups. We don't see victims. We don't see people we want to exploit. What we see- what we see is potential...We want the country to succeed, and for the country to succeed, its people - its individuals - must succeed. Everyone among us must be pursuing his ambition or her desire, whatever, with excellence. Trying to be the best they can be. Not told, as they are told by the Democrat Party: You really can't do that, you don't have what it takes, besides you're a minority or you're a woman and there are too many people that want to discriminate against you. You can't get anywhere you need to depend on us."
I'm really not a Rush Limbaugh fan, I can hardly take listening to his radio program, but damn, everything he said in that speech I agreed with. Of course the only sound bite you hear on TV is that Rush wants Obama to fail.  But I get what Limbaugh is saying. Obama's policies punish achievers and earners, the people who get up everyday and go to work. They make not only the wealthy but every achiever the enemy. Every government program I've seen at work is a complete bureaucratic failure. I've worked at soup kitchens. Giving people a free handout never makes that person want to achieve something on their own. Obama wants to take from the rich and give to the poor. These are not the founding principals of this country, or the principals I want to see succeed in this country. I'm with Rush on this one.