Monday's Menu

Wow can you believe it is almost May already. That means I am about to begin my "better eating habits" for the month of May. I want to see if I notice a difference. This will not and I repeat NOT involve the ingesting of veggies (with the possible exception of corn, mmmmm corn). However, I will begin eating fruit, two servings a day, possibly making one of my meals all fruit. Mmmmmmm Blueberry donuts, raspberry tarts, apple pie, oops just pulling your leg.

This is not meant to be a diet by any means, I am already lighter than I was when I was first married. It is to see if I "feel" healthier and/or have more energy at the end of the month. Notice I have not said anything about eating my usual staples ( Oreos, fudgeos, chips, chocolate bars, and etc, mmmm etc) and whether I will continue this month...well, I ain't tellin :)~ Like I tell Sheryl all the time...YOUNOTDABOSSOFMENOW.
So now if I am grumpier than usual it is because of the "eating healthier".

I am going to add a piece of trivia to the end of my blogs...some will be hard, some will be impossible. You can Google, that always helps me, or does it ;)

Today's trivia for all of you reading this. It happened on September 20 2005, Can you guess what it is? Trivia rating for this question - extremely hard.

Sunday's Screen

I love to peak people's curiosity (part of the pot stirrer in me)...others like to have their curiosity peaked. Have you ever wondered why we wear a mask. Who me? You know the one I mean, the one that hides some of those area/areas that we do not feel comfortable sharing with a small group of very close friends, let alone your spouse. We all have a mask, some just use different make-up or camouflage, while some of us have plenty of wardrobe to choose from :) Even me (I mean who knew I was a pot stirrer till this week). Yes I have a few...heck I have been told that the beard even counts as one. I'm going to shave right after I am done here. My guess is we wear the masks from not getting hurt by telling people what we are hiding. When you watch the news a lot of times you hear neighbours being interviewed about the guy who lived on the same block as them who was arrested for murder, and most of the time they say, "he kept to himself a lot", or "he was just a quiet guy, minding his own business". That guy could be me ;). We obviously can't put all quiet, shy people into this category of murderers, my point here is to show the mask that hides the deep within stuff that can't be shared for fear of being shunned, etc from friends and family. It is interesting to note that people can share anything with people they meet on the Internet, but not the people they know. They feel that no judgement is passed for what they are saying. We need to have a safe place that people can come and share whatever is on their heart. Oh yeah, we have the church. I remember reading "What so amazing about grace" and one of the lines in the book was something like "I don't want to go to church, I feel guilty enough". I am not looking for you to take off your mask/masks here by blogging this, just more of a point that there are lots of people with a lot of stuff in their lives that is causing their hurts. Therefore, to steal a friends quote, "Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle".

Saturday's Symposium

Had an interesting lunch time discussion about people who tend to speak too long to the point where you are boring your audience so much that they start talking to each other. I guess this happened when some speaker at a grad in Flin Flon went on and on and on...you know the type. Somehow we got on to this discussion when I mentioned about going to grad's ( my opinion) what a waste of a good afternoon. Give me the diploma (in case I run out of toilet paper). I think we sometimes go a little to far ...after all a little knowledge can be a bad thing. I will let you know when i get a little ;) So my question here is how do you get long winded people to stop talking. I don't like hearing a story for the third or fourth time, even if it is told in a different way...same story...tell me once that's enough. The way I usually handle those long stories or stories that are told too freaking often...I just get up and leave. Believe it or not I wanted to be a cook or a chef, but I never stayed long enough other than to just stir the pot ;)~ I guess we all have topics that bore us to tears...I have so many in those categories that my mind starts daydreaming after the first few minutes. Can't wait to hear your advice on this one readers :)

Friday's Fragments

I was doing some reading online this morning and aside from the celebrity stories that pop up after I close my email, stories like "Jennifer Aniston's designer water, and Sheryl Crow the toilet paper Nazi", I eventually came upon an interesting story which I had heard about before where evangelist Tony Campolo swears to get his point across. In the article it quoted Campolo as saying, ...." I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don't give a sh*t. What's worse is that you're more upset with the fact that I said sh*t than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night." I thought here is what Jesus was referring to when he was talking about the poor. It is not the only people he was talking about, as there are millions of people who would fall into "poor" category. We all know someone or we know someone who knows someone who is struggling, and that we would consider poor. Do we not care enough to give a sh*t to help them? Just a challenge to myself and to you to maybe give a you know what. To those who are already doing their part...God's blessing on you.

Thursday's Tirade

Todays blog...I was thinking (third time this week for those counting) anyone have issues or ideas on what they want me to blog on. Maybe once a week I could blog on something you want to hear my rantings on. Send an anonymous post and I will tell you what you want or don't want to hear :) I could be the next Don Cherry...the guy you love to hate ;)


Mother Teresa has been such an incredible example to follow when it comes to Christ's teaching of feeding the poor and helping the needy...not sure anyone did it better than she did. Yesterday, I was out near Superstore and I noticed some guy holding a sign right near the lights on Victoria and Prince of Wales. His sign said something like..."travelling, and hungry...etc". My thought was how about getting a job then you can travel and have money for food. To me this (in my opinion) is not what Jesus was talking about when he was referring to the poor. To me if you are traveling then you save up the money to do it and then you go, or at least put it on your credit card. I don't go buy groceries and stock up my shopping cart and then tell the cashier when I get there that I don't have money to pay for this, and then hold up a sign in the store and saying hungry and broke, (Gee I wonder if people would fall for that). You can see why I don't work in the area of the church where I am responsible for those in need. I hate when people take advantage of those situations...just beg for the sake of begging when they are very capable of getting a job. There are lots of jobs in Regina, stop taking away from those who are more in need of assistance. Grrrrrrrr Okay done ranting on that issue. Politics anyone :)~

Wednesday's wondering

Hmmmmm, lately while I have been out either driving to work or just going for a walk this thought hits me. I feel like we are all a herd of cattle...going to work in our cars, or walking to the store or going out for coffee etc. All the signs, and lines on the road are there to keep us going in an orderly fashion. I almost have the feeling we are wandering aimlessly and without purpose. We need something to do in order to keep us busy or to keep our minds from thinking (I am great for that with my headsets on at work or radio going in the car). We have TV, and Internet, sports and other interests and hobbies, etc. We keep our kids so busy in activities that they don't have time to think (or get involved in the wrong crowd which is usually our thinking), then we are so exasperated because when our kids are busy that means we are busy driving them around. Makes for a great book title, "Get outta my way...I am in a hurry to get nowhere" Okay enough of that story, obviously still wrestling with purpose!! Although, when I think of purpose as it relates to work, for the most part, no one really gives a rip or let me put it this way...when you die, wouldn't it be better for people to remember you for your relationship and friendship with them than the work you did. After all work is a freaking curse. Oops that could be construed as a complaint. Whew, Tuesday is over :):) When you think of it what really matters (it is not the end all be all), is love and respect of others. Hmmm "Love God and Love your neighbour" I know I have heard those words before...simply put that is all that matters!!!
Okay I am in a hurry so get out of my way...I need to go to join the herd and make my way aimlessly to work....

Tuesday's Test

Here is a one day test for everyone reading this blog, and if you read this blog twice try it for two days. I warn you it is not an easy test (actually there are two challenges involved here). I want to see if I can make it one hour without failing. Curiosity peaked yet? :) For one day, don't complain and don't gossip. Fairly simple...right? Hmmmm I will let you know how I did. Will probably have to keep my mouth shut most of the day to even be close to successful. The silver lining at the end of the day is there is always forgiveness. Whew. Have a great day...

P.S. Did I tell you what what's her name did, I can't believe she did that. Okay, I am going to start now. ;)