McCain and Hillary sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g

“In my life I have killed many of my friends”

A Mac a Day Keeps the Doctor Away…. usually.

There are two things that I don’t understand about Apple. There are a million things that I love about Apple.

Maybe, it just one thing I don’t understand and one thing that frustrates me. Actually, its probably just two things that frustrates me, which I guess I understand and a million things I love.

The first thing that frustrates me is imovie 08. I understand that this is not final cut and that it is designed for making really simple home movies very easily. I would totally agree that this is true. I have only used imovie 08 once and found that it sacrificed many features, which were great features, for the sake of ease. I guess it makes sense, Apple products and software are known for their ease of use, but I miss the ability to adjust volume levels and see the timeline the old way. I miss the slow mo and the speed up clips, which are always good for a laugh. I know I could shell out whatever it takes to do this things with upgraded software, but for the amount I use it its not worth it. I’ll definitely be using the old version of imovie in the future.

The other thing that frustrates me is the new iphoto. Anytime I want to send a photo as an attachment or post a picture online I have to go in, manually drop it to the desktop, just so it is accessible. I know why Apple did it, its because you could totally screw up your photo collection if you started renaming folders and stuff in the old version, but couldn’t they just make it so renaming or changing a couple things wouldn’t totally destroy the program?! This is obviously not making things easier, its adding a step to the process. 

Oh well, the good totally outweighs the bad. 

Why I Like Running (3- Maybe I don’t like running)

The 25K really was challenging. I am proud that I did it, but this whole week I’ve paid for it. The first couple days I was sore and the soreness grew until Tuesday, then it slowly improved. The last few days my back has just been killing me. It’s really difficult to fall asleep at night and painful to even walk around. When I was about halfway through the run last Saturday I really felt like I would never run that far again. Part of the reason is that I am so completely inflexible that my muscles get tight at the slightest big of exercise. In elementary school I would be top 10 percent in every physical fitness test except for that stupid stretching exercise. So I think I’m going to stick to shorter, more manageable runs in the future, more like between 5-7 miles. It won’t kill me, but I will still have to push myself. I just hope my stupid back wont stay stiff for very long. I totally take for granted being pain free 99 percent of the time.

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I Dare You To Not Laugh (002)

Holy Cow!

A Month

 1 month = 30.4368499 days

Ok, this is one of my quirks. It drives me absolutely crazy when people refer to a month as four weeks. Only one month (February) is simply four weeks. 12 weeks is not three months. It actually is a little more than three and a half months. So knock it off with all of this 4 weeks it a month garbage.

How to respond?

I’m sure there are many people who have had this experience. It seems like it happens quite often when I go to church functions from a church group other than my own. There are often messages that are taught that seem to be so hopeless and lifeless. I deeply believe that God created the earth and called it very good. It makes me sad when life is taught to be a preparation for going somewhere else, but nothing is mentioned about God restoring all things. Recently, I even heard a song that said something to the effect of going somewhere else so that all things will be renewed…

Huh? 

How can something brand new be made new. God will renew all things. I want to life my life in preparation of all things being put back together. I really cannot imagine something more beautiful than a loving God renewing all things that he has made.

Race Day

so….

I really thought I prepared well for this race. I trained hard and I ate a big pasta dinner the night before. My head and heart told me that I was going to be ready to run a really good race. The weather was perfect, clear skies, a gentle breeze and not too hot or cold. 

I was able to meet up with a couple people who were also running the race, the type of people who are super athletic and relatively indifferent to physical pain. I am not one of those people. I push through the pain as much as possible, but I can’t push myself to the point of passing out. It’s actually remarkable how many people are on the road during the race- either in pain or passed out. I saw one woman go off the road and fall down to jab a needle into her thigh. People are crazy.

The first five miles are generally really easy for me on long runs. No so much on race day, I was really tired and short of breath already- this made me really frustrated. I was really committed to running the whole race without walking, but once I neared mile 10 I started to cramp up so I needed to take a break to stretch and keep going. I was disappointed with my final time at 2 hours 19 minutes. Oh well, I am still really proud that I was able to complete the race. It is a lot more difficult than it seems, even though I think it is really hard to run 15.5 miles. As of right now, I dont see myself running another 25K, but I may change my mind. I will keep running- probably only around 6-8 miles at the most at a time. 

It’s the little things

Last Sunday I  had a kid in my Kids Kove group who had celebrated his birthday on Tuesday of that week. He is one of my favorite kids in my group because he love to chat about sports. He usually walks into the room on Sunday prepared to tell me what his sports highlights of the week are or what new basketball or football cards he had accumulated during the week. So since I had collected cards as a youngster, and they were currently sitting in a storage room in my brother’s basement, I thought I would grab a few of them and give the cards to him for his birthday. I think I was as excited to give him those cards as he was to receive them. It really made my day to see his face light up when he saw the cards I handed him. I have quite a few Michael Jordan cards so I gave him one of those. He told me that only one other kid at school had a Michael Jordan and everyone was jealous of him. I also gave him a Bill Laimbeer card as well as a Dennis Rodman and Magic Johnson. Usually I’m really terrible at the small things, but I’m definitely working on it. It blows me away what a little bit of effort can mean.

 

Thursday’s for May and June

 

That dog is about how I look after my Thursday’s this summer.

6:40 Wake up

7:10 Leave home for class

8:30 Class

11:30 Break for Lunch

1:00 Class

4:20 Leave for home

4:40 Leave home for work

5:00 Work (probably with a monster in hand)

10:00 Leave work for home

10:05 Arrive home and enjoy a nice founder brew.