Note to self.  It is extremely dangerous to tell someone to only talk to you in a language which you don't precisely, uh, speak. 

Yes, in a flash of inspiration I told Antion to only talk to me in Spanish for a week.

That was a little... ambitious...

Although please understand that I'm mostly joking.  I'm having a great time (no paper cuts from so much dictionary use, yet!) and definitely picking up a few things.  He says not to thank him as it's helping him too.

At least I think that's what he said.  ^_^

Hmm... let's see... I must have something else to say...

Oh yeah!  I got a 510 at quizzing on Saturday, one question short of a perfect day.  So that was really a nice surprise, given the fact I did not feel ready AT ALL for that quiz.

The other day my Omnibus was talking about how some people think that all evil in the world is just... evil, and don't think of it as part of God's plan for working out His good will in everything.  One of the cultural examples which they listed was the artwork of Thomas Kinkade, which tries to portray only the "good".  Such a viewpoint forgets the principle which Gandalf said, "Even the very wise cannot see all ends."  So anyway, my assignment was to rewrite Ecclesiastes 3:1-10.  Here's the result!

For every good thing there is a season, and a time for every good matter under heaven:

A time to be born and a time to go to heaven

A time to plant and a time to harvest

... A time to heal

A time to rennovate, a time to build

A time to be solemn and a time to laugh

A time to remember and a time to dance

A time to throw away junk and a time to buy new things

A time to be spontaneous and a time to be formal

A time to seek and a time to let go

A time to keep and a time to release

A time to play rough and a time to be industrious

A time for love... a time for peace

Why should a man work hard?  I have seen what type of business Go dhas given to man.  He has made all good things beautiful in their time; still there are mysteries in His nature.

And finally I'll finish off with the lyrics from a song I really love... We Delight by Caedmon's Call.

CHORUS
We delight in the law of your Word
We delight in the Son who was perfect from birth
We delight in the day He's returning to earth
Hallelujah

We will bow our hearts because we are free
As we lift our hands to give you glory
Father of life and love and infinite worth
We're delivered by blood that flows from the tree
Draw near to You vessels of Your mercy
Before the invention of man, the glorious Trinity

REPEAT CHORUS

We will lift our eyes to the cloud and the flame
Lord, You guide our steps and restore us again
The nations of man will rejoice in the God of the wilderness

CHORUS

(i.e. I did something dumb.)

Do not turn on wrong burners, especially which have plates on them!  Plates can explode!

If you didn't catch the whole story about my adventerous living on Wednesday, CarpeBanana  has all the details a post or two down.

The aftermath is, uh, reminescent of a scene in the Star Wars novel Dark Rendezvous.

"Nice work, Anakin."  [Obi-Wan] looked around generally, surveying the carnage.  "If you were considering a career in interior decoration, though, you might want to take a few more classes."

"Oh no," Anakin remarked.  "This is the New Brutalism.  I think it will be all the rage if these Clone Wars don't end soon."

Then there were the reactions of my friends to enjoy...

Pastor B:  *overhearing me tell Emily about it*  "Oooooh...."

Emily:  "Really Narie, I mean, we all know that you're violent, but you need to TRY to keep it under control!"  (Of course, she found it pretty amusing, but then again, her brother is the one who hit himself in the chest with a hammer to kill the spider thereon.  Uh, yeah.)

Alicia:  "I've done the same thing."  *frown*  "One time Bethany (her little sister) put a plate of frenchfries in the microwave for 16 minutes..."

Antion: "And that is skill to blow up a plate... but ive blown up a
cup and destroyed jello 3 times... so there"

The last quote just going to demonstrate our need to one-up each other constantly.  *grins*

*grin fades*  I would have been content to let him stay ahead on blowing things up, though.

Quiz tomorrow!  *bounce*

Goodnight!

With yet another Note to Self entry!

I am a fairly good swimmer, nothing wonderful, but I can get around in a pool.  I can even pass deep water tests, which is a good thing.  As we often have memberships to swim at our Junior High's pool in the winter, and at the community pool in the summer, I have picked up various tricks -- somersaults, flips, backflips, etc.

Well.

I was in a moonwalk/jump house/bounce house thing the on Saturday (at a wedding reception) and decided to try doing a flip.  Obviously, if you are as "athletically challenged" as I am, that is a good place to try doing things like flips.  I mean, how hurt can you get?  You don't have anything to hit into that isn't a layer of air!

I probably would have done fine... except... I forgot... about that little thing called GRAVITY!! 

  <----- behavior of a gravity particle

In theory, I knew about it.  But I forgot that when you're in the pool, the water slows down the rate at which you fall.  Suffice it to say, my timing on my flip was a little off.  With the result that I moved my hands a little too soon, and landed on my head.   <<<<<

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Owww.                                     ^ 

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It did not leave me smiling, like  ^ that little blue guy.   

I was rather startled.   

Fortunately, I'm young and healthy and recovered rapidly.  ^_^

Nonetheless, maybe it's a good thing I'm taking Physics this year... maybe I'll learn a thing or two...

Oh yeah, all that reminds me, our hospital puts up the weirdest signs.  There had been one of a guy standing on his head which said "Felt this good lately?"  Personally, I thought it was a kind of strange definition of good, as he looked off his head.  I mean, on his head.  Anyway, it looked like he needed to be stuck in a nice, quiet room with padded walls. 

There was another which said "Don't let wounds slow you down."  I thought that was incredibly BAD advice.  Unless I'm missing something, you really ought to slow down if you have wounds.  *cough cough*  ... wait, that's a story for another time.

And the one which is up and bugging me at the present...  "Everyone loves your new hip."

AHHH!!  It's just so WEIRD!!!

Never stick Silly Putty in your pocket.

Obviously, I am often less than the brightest thing on the planet.

Arg.

Oh well. 

Some advice for those in Iraq which I found on this blog:

~Nothing is as important in life as a good pillow.  (I can't say that I agree.) 

~DON'T send all of your uniforms at once to the laundry mat.  (Sounds like a good idea...)

~Sleep while you can, but don't sleep when you're needed.  (Again, good idea.)

~If it's important to you, put it in a ziplock bag, if you're going somewhere, lock it up and if you want to get it back if it's lost or stolen, mark it.

~If you hear something go BOOM it's always best to duck and look foolish then have the second mortar take off your head.

~Stay on your toes, if you see someone, who is not an American, doing something strange, accost him or her, it's better to look foolish then to have a bomb explode outside of a tent full of people, no need to be rude, just take a look at his badge check out what he's doing. Plus, if you're right and the character was going to do something evil like and you calling him out stopped him. You are hearbye known as a hero, just because you were paying attention. You have just saved X amount X amount of lives and chances are there's a medal involved without having to go through all of the angst of a firefight, dodging bullets and use of that posthumous word in your award (hopefully).

I really liked his line about avoiding "use of that posthumous word in your award."  It was nice.  ^_^

G'night!