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My Little Pony Felicity and My Wife

Posted on November 23, 2009 by unfinishedrambler | Comments Off

This is a rerun from last December headlining The Wife. I thought it appropriate to rerun because today is our 13th wedding anniversary (happy anniversary, hon) and it highlights one of the many reasons I married her: her sense of humor, which I cannot even come close to rivaling. Also with Christmas right around the corner, I thought it would leave with a song to sing along.

Her name is F*** You. That’s spelled…
I’m way too stressed to deal with your sh*t today.
I was bored.
I was lightheaded.
I hadn’t had anything to eat.

which still didn’t explain what I was seeing before my eyes this morning as I got into the van that The Wife drives for work.

It will go on the top of my computer at work along with my quill pen, my weiner whistle and broken keychain.

Weiner whistle? It’s shaped like a hot dog and you blow on it?

You’ve got a problem with it: take it up with the Oscar Meyer people. It’s got wheels and a bun. It’s not that phallic.

“Felicity”, she explains to me, came from a Happy Meal at McDonald’s.

I was on the road for a lot of hours and it made me smile

She says the girl at the window put it in the bag against her protestations not to put a toy in the bag.

It was like she knew it would make me smile. ‘I’ll give it to her,’ she probably thought.

You realize I’m writing everything down?

You realize you’re a ballsack. B-a-l-l-s-a-c-k.

I didn’t correct her, but I think it might be two words. B-a-l-l s-a-c-k.

And then Feliz Navidad came on the radio and I stopped writing so I could sing along.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMtuVP8Mj4o

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Thankful for 13 lucky years!

Posted on November 23, 2009 by unfinishedperson | 6 Comments

Each Monday, a small group of ladies participate in the meme Sleeping with Bread, started by Mary-Lue and based off the book by the same name and on the Friday before that, I post something I call Flashback Friday (today on Sunday) as part of that. The meme is based on the Examen as practiced by St. Ignatius of Loyola.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

I Corinthians 13:1-13

For what am I most grateful this week?

My wife and I celebrate our 13th wedding anniversary today. Here we are yesterday at a restaurant in a photo my sister took.

So with Thanksgiving this week, for what are you most grateful this week?

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Thank God for the rabbits and our house. Amen.

Posted on November 20, 2009 by unfinishedrambler | Comments Off

On one of the walls In the hallway of our church is a bulletin board where comments from kids are put up in responses to questions they are presented in Sunday school.

Last week I saw responses to this question:

When Noah and his family left the ark, the first thing Noah did was build an altar and offer thanksgiving and offer prayers of thanksgiving to God. After receiving Noah’s act of gratitude, God never decided to destroy the world again.

Gratitude is an important part of your relationship with God. What have you thanked God for lately? What are you grateful for?

Now letting that sentence about God never deciding to destroy the world again go, because it should include a caveat at the end of “until 2012 when you and your family and your pets will have to seek shelter on ships in the Himalayas well before the Dec. 21 date just to be safe,” I instead will share few of the answers given by the children, most of whom are in first through third grades.

Many of the answers included bunny rabbits (must be a cottage industry here in the woods of northcentral Pennsylvania about which I had no idea until now) and houses (of which there seems to be plenty on the market here, so I guess they’re just glad their parents have one). However, these were the best four I saw:

“I am thankful for my cats. I am grateful for Jesus.”

Important to note: He is thankful for his cats first and then Jesus.

“I am grateful for family, friends, baby, animal and a church.”

What struck me most about this one was that baby and animal had no name. However, I stopped by to see to the Sunday school director earlier today after copying down these comments, and she told me that the mother of the girl, who wrote this, just had a baby this morning and as of last Sunday, he was unnamed. Still with many of the other children, at least singling out their animal by at least species, I thought she could have at least done the same, and mentioned it as a cat, dog or rabbit, which seem to be the only three species recognizable to these children. I know, a minor quibble.

“I thanked God for one of my toys. I am grateful for food.”

For one of my toys: Hey, at least, he didn’t say

“I thanked Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior, for all of the toys he brought me last Christmas.”

However, I agree with him about the food. I also am grateful for food, and maybe a little too much as I’m about 40 to 50 pounds over what I should weigh. I also am grateful for drink, especially this drink, on occasion:

Ämen.

But the No. 1 answer in my opinion was this one which came from, I believe, a first grade girl:

“Thank you for the animals. Thank you for the floors.”

I am also thankful for ceilings myself, although I don’t know if I’d go as far as this guy, Lanny, or the other folks on artist Fred Muram’s website in expressing my gratitude for them:

So with Thanksgiving (at least here in the U.S.) this coming week, what are you grateful for?

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The call of Spenser and Cthulhu

Posted on November 18, 2009 by unfinishedperson | 5 Comments

This is a combination of the past two weeks’ Library Loot actually. You may say, “That’s sad.” However, I have been sick with the flu (swine maybe) for the past few weeks and so haven’t been reading anything. Plus as I mentioned the last Library Loot I did at the end of October, I’m working on toward focusing on my own bookshelves rather than the library. (So there .) To that end, last night I did finish a book from my library, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith, which I loved. A friend gave me and my wife the first four She’s already read all of the series (using the library for the rest), one right after another, and loved them.

So to my two pieces of loot:

The Professional by Robert B. Parker: I was put on the hold list for this before it even came out, and I am a big fan of Spenser, although recently, like Connelly’s Harry Bosch series, I don’t think Parker has been up to par with them. However, if nothing else, it’s a quick read with the dialogue (my favorite part of the Spenser novels) dominating the action.
Tales of H.P. Lovecraft, selected and edited by Joyce Carol Oates: Lovecraft came up after a discussion on Facebook about Neil Gaiman, who wrote a short story called “I, Cthulhu,” using Lovecraft’s Cthulhu from his short story, “The Call of Cthulhu.” So I decided to find some Lovecraft at the library and this is all that was on the shelf, but it included “The Call of Cthulhu.”

I also was semi-familiar with the name Cthulhu anyway as I’m a fan of Metallica, who had the song “Call of Ktulu” on their album, Ride The Lightning, because they became fans through late bass guitarist Cliff Burton. Appropriately, I’ll end with that song: