Since my neighbors door got kicked in at 10:30am I figured that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to have some sort of alarm system. It’s a really basic system that makes it just a bit more inconvenient to rob a house. Now I just need a sticker on the outside of my door to let people know it is there before they kick down my door.
I woke up this morning and found that Wratchet had jumped up on the fridge and crammed himself in a plastic case that holds our bottled waters. Classic Wratchet.
So on Facebook there is an option where you can compare people. It seems to be a form for ranking people. I’m not sure how healthy or good of a thing it is to rank people. Hence, why my myspace page only has charities as my top friends. There is an interesting option that allows you to see how others rank you. So without further adieu here are what my friends think of me with my comments next to how accurate I think they are:
Standing among friends Compare People
1st in “Who is more famous”-Surprising, maybe because I do announcements at Crosswalk and teach on Thursday nights.
1st in “Who is more powerful”-I think this is too high. I’m more athletically aggressive than powerful.
1st in “Who has a better body”-enough said.
1st in “Who is more organized”-I am very strategically disorganized to where if someone hung out with me they would see that I am going in a hundred different directions in my head but I am good at bringing different things together at the right time to appear like I got it together.
1st in “Who would I rather get stuck in handcuffs with”-hmmm…
1st in “Who is braver”-I’m down with being risky for those who are abandoned but that is pretty much the extent of my bravery.
1st in “Who has better taste in music”-I would say that like music from all different decades but am very slow to keep up with current releases.
2nd in “Who is smarter”-I love to learn and see different perspectives. I feel bad for people who shoot off their mouths.
2nd in “Who is more confident”-I think that finding that my identity in Christ allows me to not listen to voices that say I’m not good enough, smart enough, attractive enough, funny enough,…
2nd in “Who is nicer”-I like people. I think we have been incredible value by God. I don’t feel like I am nice enough however.
2nd in “Who would make a better father”-Bring it on!
3rd in “Who is more useful”-I suppose in some areas.
3rd in “Who more likely to succeed”-depends on what success looks like.
3rd in “Who is more tech-savvy”-I am very tech-savy when it comes to superficial stuff. I have no patience to learn the intricate detailed computer-technology stuff.
3rd in “Who is more trustworthy”-thanks.
3rd in “Who is funnier”-I have my moments.
5th in “Who is crazier”-I have my moments.
7th in “Who is a happier person”-Would have thought this would be higher. I have a dry humor and at times am a bit sarcastic. Maybe I will smile more.
8th in “Who has a better smile”-maybe not. I do have British teeth.
8th in “Who has a better sense of humor”-I guess funny and sense of humor are not the same thing?
8th in “Who is more loyal”-Bummer but true. I’m spread pretty thin with two jobs and school full time and being a bookaholic. It makes it hard to always be there.
9th in “Who has a better profile picture”-True, it needs work.
9th in “Who is more adventurous”-Huh? Brave #1 and Crazy #5 and I’m only #9 for Adventurous? Be consistent people!
9th in “Who is cuter”-True, I’m not a head turner.
9th in “Who more likely to skip class”-I did not miss a day of school from 7th grade through my freshman year of college (7years)
10th in “Who is more punctual”-Rubbish. I am on time every time.
10th in “Who is cooler”-True, neither do I attempt to be.
14th in “Who is better at science”-While I may be a little rusty I excelled in science and math.
17th in “Who is more fashionable”-No argument here.
Here is a special blog devoted to Amy Wygant, my roomates girlfriend. Enjoy!
#10-I get everything I want!
#9-I usually get my way!
#8-Pouting always works…except with Steve.
#7-Steve’s Parents got me better presents than they got him!
#6-My friends support me cause I’m always broke!
#5-People are terrified of disappointing me!
#4-I receive all expense paid vacation to Disneyland with my friends (thanks to Steve who was only a friend at the time…yeah right)!
#3-One call to my dad can fix any financial or automotive problem!
#2-Since I met Steve I’ve seen about 160 movies all on Steve’s dime (most of them while we were just friends…yeah right)!
#1-I have the boyfriend I want, job I want and coat that I want!
I would like to add that I am very grateful for everything that has been given to me! And I’ve worked hard to get a lot of it as well.
My Nephews Are Awesome…
My roommate Steve loses to me in Wii Tennis…here are the results…
I just stumbled upon this picture in a cd of mine from about three years ago. It was the day that I first heard of the hangman wedgie. Your probably wandering how someone reaches the state of this final picture. There are a few key ingredients to make this happen:
1) You need to have kids, particularly junior highers, who have no shame or comfort zone.
2) You need to have an adult volunteer, who doesn’t mind grabbing someone’s underwear.
3) You need a community of people who will donate any cash they have in their pockets to a brave volunteer ($6)
4) Both junior high student and adult volunteer step onto a pick nick bench.
5) The crowd roars in anticipation and encouragement.
6) Adult volunteer grabs students underwear, yells Geronimo, and pushes student off bench.
7) Tearing sound occurs and Kenny becomes a Junior high winter retreat legend.
P.S. Kenny would later vomit in my car on the way home leaving a stain that lasted for about four years and become a very good friend.
P.P.S. I’ll write something more serious later.
On Friday night 15 people walked into Pacific Bowl, put on some funny shoes and searched for a ball that could give them the glory of victory. But only one person walked away a winner that night in the first round. You guessed it, me! I bowled a 123 just barely edging out Tony Scirini. Not to bad for my first time bowling in two years. The bad news, I lost the second round with a total score of just 103. Tony, again came in second behind James. I don’t care what Jodie said, I didn’t have a bad attitude about losing. Here’s some action shots…
On Friday, after seven years of owning my Honda Civic I have moved on to better things. I would have to say that my Honda treated me very well for those seven years. So if anyone is looking for a Civic with 140,000 miles let me know.
Not a fancy book but great insight. If you’ve wrestled with what it meant for your life and your community as a whole that a peasent Galilean Jew, who claimed to be messiah/christ/king, hung on a cross then this is a great book. Just to introduce you to the word. Atonement was actually an english word created to capture the biblical description of at-one-moment.
Where we start in discussing atonement often becomes the primary picture for why we believed Jesus died. For instance, it is common to say that the cross starts with human sin being erased and us presented clean before God. So atonement in this case will often take on a form of a God who is quite upset over what we have done. Someone has to be punished and God in his infinate goodness and love takes on our punishment that we could not handle upon himself in the form of Jesus.
Still another example, that of the Eastern Orthodox, is that atonement is the remedy of death. So the reason that Jesus died upon the cross was so that because his body was risen from the grave so will our body be raised from the grave.
The author while seeing validity in these presentations takes another route. Atonement, at-one-moment, is more about taking what was separated and bringing it at-one-with its original destiny. McKnight, from what I get, is saying that atonement is about restoring us to the image of God that we were created in. Sure it deals with sin and it deals with death only because those are not what were meant for humans to be created in the image of God.
Anyways, great book and I would say very readable for a theology book. Buy it and let’s get some coffee to talk it over.
Peace.
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