- 00:55 oh, btw. I was informed tonight, "Cats don't like rainbows." #
- 00:28 Anna sells "peace and quiet" in her "everything" store. "Sure. How many?" #
- 17:00 BLIMEY it's cold. brrrrrrrr. #
- 19:09 I rated a YouTube video (5 out of 5 stars) -- The Friendly Beasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTGHadjVKWI&feat
ure=autoshare_twitter # - 00:13 cute = daughter w jump rope jumping, flipping rope back & forth. "Dat how you play hopscotch." #
- 01:35 Having way too much fun being childish on www.morphthing.com #
- 01:48 Also eating turkey chowder. #
- 02:03 It's snowing. It's snowing. O.o #
- 02:18 snow. twitgoo.com/5nss9 #
- 02:19 MOAR SNO. twitgoo.com/5nssh #
- 12:18 Will--eating breakfast and screeching a song. Anna -- standing in small green box, using it to hop. Oi. Crazy morning. O.o no school. snow #
- 00:27 Isn't "classmates.com" rather ... passe in the world of MySpace and Facebook? Just saw a popup for em. #
- 02:52 77% of my Twitter followers are fauxlowers! How about you? fauxlowers.com/-/thecookiemomma #
- 18:39 Yes, that is my daughter peeking. She likes to hide. "Cartann Minister of Very Small Spaces." 50 pts if you twitgoo.com/5cvmp #
- 18:40 50 pts if you get the reference. Boo for getting cut off. #
- 23:30 Anna holds Will's ruler: "Mommy! I got William's Growth Chart!" #
- 12:32 Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Stay thankful and be blessed. #
- 18:11 Might regret this, but here goes. I have a few google wave invites. DM me w/email addy and one thing you're thankful for. #
- 20:51 Whack-a-Mole and Guacamole are getting confused here. The results are funny. (Kids playing with their Whack-a-mole game, calling it guac) #
- 14:55 It's pretty cute. RT @druidsfire Google "Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody" Then watch it. And giggle along with me. #
- 17:03 You've been immortalized in "Real Ultimate Power" style! RT @levarburton I'm speechless...! bit.ly/600qlw #
- 17:19 Instructing Anna in the art of blanket tents. #
- 17:59 Anna: "None. That means 'Any-any.'" If you've been keeping track, that's her 'shorthand' for zero. "any." Made me grin. :D #
- 23:26 Oi. Spazzcat is whining /again./ #
- 21:11 Bakugan hat and gloves. He likes them. twitgoo.com/5a2hd #
- 21:12 Happy Grrrr. twitgoo.com/5a2hf #
- 21:59 praying folks, pray for R. Frustrating news at the job today. #
- 00:51 Anna says she can do anything (other than use the potty). But she's not SuperAnna. Why? No cape. #
- 19:50 I have....in my hot little hand... the Star Trek DVD. Win. #
- 23:31 Also WIN? watching said Star Trek with R. "I am and always shall be your friend." Booya. #
- 12:36 "N is for 'Letters'". "What? Let me see that. ... No, N is for Numbers." #
- 15:20 To tell you how my day is going, I'm wearing my meat cleaver shirt. And it's somewhat appropriate. #
- 16:30 I just voted for pic.gd/10b39e Check it out! #TweetPhoto #
- 00:20 "It is a maze." : Daughter didn't like my traditional use for the Lincoln Logs. twitgoo.com/58cbo #
- 00:31 "You have to get past the Hissy Wolves." That's what the green thing is in the maze, apparently... #
- 14:36 Remembering a favorite quote: "The joy of children was in his voice." Last line of a famous book. Do you know which? #
- 07:44 If we put a great big huge sock on the Earth, my son's worry is this: "How will the astronauts come home?" #
- 09:16 grar. Our lovely 'convenient' transit frelled up again. So, keeping Will home from school for his dr. appt now completely worthless. Argh! #
- 14:12 Son playing FF7 and changing the window color every few hours. Probably a good thing. Heh. #
- 14:58 Ughhhh. Looking at the ads in my inbox, the "boobie bracer belt" style is coming back in. You know, thick belts hiked all the way up. #
- 15:02 #EverydayThankful I'm thankful for my friends. I have quite a few. #
- 19:36 Just finished reading "Mr. Frumble's New Cars" to the kids. He is /so/ clueless!! #
- 21:44 ugh. spazz cat just clawed me in the back. Have no idea why! #
- 15:58 Tweeting 1 year, 11 months, 4 weeks, 2 days, 4 minutes, 23 seconds (Nov. 17, 2007). How about you? bit.ly/eC942 #howlong #
- 21:02 input the Konami Code on FB, press enter, and it makes these odd circles. Refresh, or close and reopen to quit. Coolness. #
- 11:27 #EverydayThankful I'm thankful for the opportunity for peace and quiet. Was my grandfather's dearest wish It happens once in a while. #
- 19:50 Is there any music cooler than FF7's Theme from the Turks? (or whatever it's really called. You know which one I mean.) #
- 20:03 You know, This one. bit.ly/25j7Fa #
- 23:13 Watched Advent Children again. I love that movie. I'm in a FF7 frame of mind, I guess. That's what watching R pull out his old game will do #
- 23:34 #EverydayThankful I'm thankful for my computer. I do a lot on it, and having connections through it to friends & family keeps this SAHM sane #
- 00:58 Daughter sings The Hush Sound song-- Wine Red: "The sea is wine red: this is the death of beauty..." And that's the part she knows. Hee! #
- 02:56 #EverydayThankful I'm thankful for America.I've been in other countries and lived in Canada as a little girl, but America suits me just fine #
- 07:45 Eeep. Maybe that's why I woke up w/a stomach ache? RT @RaeWhitlock Enjoy your day of cowering and paranoia, paraskevidekatriaphobes! #
- 13:45 No joke.RT @acomputerpro What's that? You're all out of LSD? No worries... su.pr/2CRc3O Yo Gabba Gabba's got ya covered. #
- 17:50 Meh. I'm a bloomin' barometer. Pressure gets to a certain point (not sure which direction), and my head, gums or both throb. What joy. >< #
- 21:21 Having what I've termed "Friday-itis". #
- 07:14 #EverydayThankful Obvious, really. I'm thankful for my bold, wild, beautiful daughter. Smart, silly, as well. #
- 15:20 just voted "No Harry Potter is way better" on "Is New Moon going to be more succesful than Harry Potter?" vote too ➔ bit.ly/1RFXsX #
- 15:21 just voted "Harry Potter FTW!!!!! :D" on "Harry Potter or Twilight BOOKS?! BE HONEST! @FlyWithMeMrPrez" vote too ➔ bit.ly/1Nju2Q #
- 15:28 Tired today, and I let my water level get low enough that my gums hurt again. O.o. Ugh. Not fun. #
- 22:01 I had my suspicions … bit.ly/3p6RwG Hahaha!! #
- 02:05 #EverydayThankful I'm thankful for my son. Smart, creative, funny. Good kid (most of the time.) #
- 14:07 #veteransday I had a tea party with the kids, read Flanders Fields, and talked about whats and whys. Good things. #
- 23:16 preordered the new Star Trek and HBP vids at Walmart.com for $9.99 apiece. Can't beat that. #
- 14:10 "You're fast. Like a bunny." "Bunnies don't fast." "Yes they are!" "Why?" (Daughter and I.) #
- 12:34 #WorldsThinnestBooks Decorum, by Kanye West. How to impress Heads of State, by Barack Obama. (There, done with my small list). #
- 12:49 Tired today.Had an appointment which I forgot about until I was waiting with Will for his ride this am. (which, incidentally, was late). #
- 16:18 My son is playing scrabble by himself making words. I'm a happy mom #
- 16:29 Oh, dear. Anna is awake, and I am actively encouraging the creation of a "calvin-ball" style scrabble. Well, they're learning. #
- 17:48 More tired. Did my DDR after not being able to last week. Whooo. #
- 23:15 RT @wilw Hey, it's @neilhimself's birthday (@amandapalmer told me so) and we should all wish him well: Happy birthday, Neil! You're awesome. #
- 00:07 #EverydayThankful Today, I'm thankful for my husband. Good man, patient with me, funny, awesome. Pass it on. #
- 12:56 Son invents a game. Munchkin-find-it. Take blank cards from M sets and hold them blank out. Which is treasure? Which is door? #
- 15:21 Yesterday was full of crap. Literally. Dealt with several scatalogially related things. Not the most fun. O.o #
- 13:24 making frozen cookie dough into cookies. "Monster Mash" flavor. PB dough with tiny M&M type things. #
- 13:47 Ok. Misspoke. Monster MANIA cookies. From Schwan's :D #
- 19:28 playing on the spare mattress w/ the kids. got ahold of W's leg. A; I helping. Me: Who are you helping? A: b/c I want to! #
- 22:20 I love Paula Cole's Hush hush hush. #music #
- 14:25 Gotta Do Something With That Old CRT bit.ly/29Zj2c Haha I like this. It's funny. #
- 15:26 Baby Entertainment bit.ly/1cFkNn extremely, and utterly true. #
- 15:39 RT @laurenperry8 Praying for soldiers and families of the Fort Hood community. #
- 19:03 ugh. Just smashed a "walking-stick" bug on my tp roll. #
- 19:46 I subscribed to everydayasl's channel on YouTube bit.ly/rNR7k #
- 22:25 Daughter often says, "I know my numbahs." Puts me in the mind of KND. O.o #
- 00:17 Deleriou5? -- Find me in the River: Making me think and remember. #
- 02:16 Comics - Explosm.net bit.ly/4BY2lC This is funny! I like it. #
- 07:37 Son: "I wish we could have a holly jolly Christmas" "We can." (Explain meaning of 'Holly Jolly') "Oh." #
- 14:52 Just added myself to the wefollow.com twitter directory under: #carlsbad_nm_usa #christianity #sci_fi #reading #internet #sahm #
- 18:04 Hey, do you reckon if I changed my twitter name to "crapmykidssay" I'd get a whole slew of followers, too? #
- 18:13 twitpic.com/ob23r - Also, as equally randomly, I love the "landscape" thing on new digi-cam. From trip. #
- 00:12 this is really cool! I did my bg with it. icio.us/igtwcf #
- 00:36 Daughter is now making a tent. From the blankets off her bed and a chair. Common practice lately. "minister of very small spaces" indeed. #
- 01:09 I tried to lift the mattress in the front room. I couldn't. Daughter: "/I/ can lift it." Five min later: "I can't lift it." O.o #
- 13:12 Anna's discussion with 3yo cousin on phone is pretty much the cutest thing I've listened to in a long time. #
- 13:57 I laughed. RT @BarackBorat The Internets are amazing. Gibbsy is find biography of me, is written in 1935! Very niiiice. is.gd/4MhrP #
- 23:09 Daughter's current occupation: testing durability of structures made from Duplo. Product safety testing in her future? #
- 07:33 Most organized trip I've been on in a long time, but I'm glad to be home. #
| My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul |
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| sunsaralyn goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Hermione Granger. |
| docwoo tricks you! You get a rotten egg. |
| enriana gives you 19 dark blue banana-flavoured nuggets. |
| felipethepea gives you 11 light blue root beer-flavoured gummy worms. |
| kaffeemadchen gives you 14 light yellow peach-flavoured pieces of taffy. |
| nakedjack gives you 1 blue orange-flavoured pieces of chewing gum. |
| nightambre tricks you! You lose 28 pieces of candy! |
| peacekeeper tricks you! You get a block of wood. |
| tadiera gives you 15 white pineapple-flavoured pieces of taffy. |
| the_maenad gives you 6 red raspberry-flavoured pieces of taffy. |
| whobyfire78 tricks you! You get a dead frog. |
| sunsaralyn ends up with 38 pieces of candy, a rotten egg, a block of wood, and a dead frog. |
| Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern. |
- 21:27 RT @RaeWhitlock: Possibly the dumbest criminals ever. EVER. tr.im/Dxlf #
- 07:56 apparently, the kids' comp's power switch isn't working. Daughter asks to give the computer "some plugging." (she thinks it's unplugged.) #
- 08:35 Burger King Japan selling Windows 7 burgers | Electronista bit.ly/20swrf Only in... No, wait. Only in Japan. #
- 15:17 RT @LamontHiebert Here's a new blog I posted called "What if 2 Adult-White Males were Trafficked Every Minute." bit.ly/3DdUqv #
- 19:29 Near-bday girl: "Guess what cake I like, Will?" "I forget." "It starts with 'Strawberry on top.'" #
- 15:20 RT @kevinrose RT: @marissamayer Google and Twitter!! Yay!! bit.ly/183svN (maybe Nick's right. taking over the world). #
- 20:24 Anna: "Da Dee-dar mat is not fold up." ie "The DDR mat is not folded up." #
- 18:07 Read an article: "10 things not to tweet." about your kids was one. Sorry, not changing that here. atm, my kids=my life. Deal. #
- 19:15 RT @RaeWhitlock Plz RT . . . My wife @amyru has diagnosed w/ H1N1 today. Plz pray for speedy recovery and protection for me and Zoe. Thx. #
- 20:30 One of the old school "Map people" icio.us/ezxaiw #
- 23:01 my mommy is coming my mommy is coming my mommy is coming.... Can you tell I'm excited? 3 more sleeps. #
- 23:41 Write or die... NaNo, anyone? icio.us/hrklhv #
- 15:24 Of course -- Me: "The word for today is 'robots'. Maybe tomorrow it can be 'lasergun'." W: "I think it should be 'God' every day." #
- 22:11 Ok. I got my google wave invite. None to share yet. BUT. If you have it, add me thecookiemoma@googlewave.com #
- 22:25 It was pointed out to me. I left out an M in my googlewave addy. thecookiemomma@googlewave.com Sorry, folks. #
- 15:46 Found out this week that Anna is not speech delayed, she just has a larger vocab than "normal". And longer sentences. #
- 17:53 More amusement via child: He's playing Sims 2 on the ps2. He's laughing about his poor character's "pee-pee dance." O.o #
- 00:31 Can I bottle this question and wish for 10 years? Daughter: "Mom, can we do the dishes now?" #
- 22:37 RT @BarackBorat: I play punk'd joke on AARP, make Soc. Security payment in prune-juice coupons and Depends vouchers. is.gd/4kd2d #
- 23:31 As said by Nick: "The Guide!!" #
- 23:33 Helps to send the Link. As said by Nick: "The Guide!' bit.ly/1j2XE7 #
I don't normally do the quote lyrics thing, but I'm going to tonight. R heard a conversation that threw me into what felt like a 'cascade failure of faith'. The things that kept me from complete meltdown were the fact that my personal experiences with my faith are pretty unexplainable otherwise. And that I prefer the tenets of the Scripture I know to anything else I've heard thus far.
I'm not going to go into details of the conversation, because it's not important. The important thing is that it made me think of some of the more colorful passages in Ezekiel, especially those about false shepherds and the like. And, it brought back to mind two songs that have been running through my head all week. I think without these songs, I would've dealt with the situation less easily.
Never Dim -- The Waiting
I think I smell the sunset
Think I feel the close of day
Clean shaven correspondents
Are all crowded at the gate
Smell the oil from their torches
Their voices growing more irate
Sheperd's staves are crooked
Leading every crooked way
All the sheep lock their doors
Yeah, they're pulling down their shades
The faithful looking in their mirrors
The faithful growing old and gray
But I look at you
Your eyes are clear and bright
I see your face
It's an amazing sight
Your glory Lord
Is still a burning light
The light that all our faithless hands
Could never dim
Think I smell the sunset
Think I smell the death of day
People laughing at a funeral
People dancing at a wake
All the seasons blend together
This bird's losing feathers everyday
But I look at you
Your eyes are clear and bright
I see your face
It's an amazing sight
Your glory Lord
Is still a burning light
The light that all our faithless hands
Could never dim
And everybody's tired and scared
And begging unbelief
But you have yet to break a sweat
You're not afraid
You're not afraid
I think I smell the sunset
Think I feel the close of day
Sheperd's staves are crooked
Leading every crooked way
People laughing at a funeral
People dancing at a wake
Wine Red -- The Hush Sound
Who shot that arrow in your throat?
Who missed the crimson apple?
It hung heavy on the tree above your head
This chaos, this calamity, this garden once was perfect
Give your immortality to me; I'll set you up against the stars
Gloria,
We lied, we can't go on
This is the time and this is the place to be alive
Who shot that arrow in your throat?
Who missed the crimson apple?
And there is discord in the garden tonight
The sea is wine red
This is the death of beauty
The doves have died
The lovers have lied
I cut the arrow from your neck
Stretched you beneath the tree
Among the roots and baby's breath
I covered us with silver leaves
Gloria,
We lied, we can't go on
This is the time and this is the place to be alive
The sea is wine red
This is the death of beauty
The doves have died
The lovers have lied
The sea is wine red
This is the death of beauty
The doves have died
The lovers have lied
The sea is wine red (Gloria, we lied)
This is the death of beauty (we lied, this is the time and place)
The doves have died (Gloria, we lied)
The lovers have lied (this is the time and place)
Very different songs, but both have been mixing up in my brain, reminding me of two things. One, that I'm not the only person to ever feel this way, and that His character doesn't change even if things aren't the way I thought they were. Two, I remember that I've done some seriously stupid things myself.
- Mood:
disappointed
- 14:33 tinyurl.com/yakkut2 I don't normally post links, but this one talks about the changes in society I've been thinking about. #
- 14:44 Re previous tweet/update: Been thinking a /lot/ about church / evangelism / discipleship with this info. Somethin's gotta give. #
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the_maenad. Hope it's a great day.http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea
And, yes, I'm going somewhere with this.
Things about people my age and younger that get overlooked:
* We're night owls. I think a big factor is that folks my age got used to the internet's best time for speed being between 2-3 AM. So, we'd stay up to utilize that. From there, I think it just got more complicated. Or was complicated already.
* We can get information to and from each other more quickly, efficiently, and tersely than ever before. This leads to communities developed by the members, instead of easy acceptance of the limits of geography, socio-economic class or age, even. My group of friends, as I've mentioned, is online. We come from all sorts of levels of each. We share a couple things in common and that's what the "community" is based on. It works.
* Because of the ease of information and surface stuff, when we do go do something, we want it to be something that's deep / specialized / worth our time and effort. If it isn't, we'll just blow it off and get the summary later via text, IM or twitter from someone else. So, to attract our attention, it either needs to be new enough, or very high quality. Bonus points if it's both.
* Also because of the easy access of information, we get very specific and particular with who we spend our time / invite into our groups. It's not even "Music fans", or "genre fans". It's "Fans of this really obscure band that only plays on every third full moon." Or something similar. There are usually one or two defining characteristics for each set of friends. For example: I have my HP gaming friends, my Christian-I-went-to-YWAM-with-you friends, my Christian-I-grew-up-with-you friends, my ASL-class friends, and more. Some people fit into two or three categories, but early on, I learned that if you were in more than one category, I had to treat you a little different in each group. For me, this started very early. Like when I moved to Idaho-early.
* We tend to use whatever tools we've got available to make ourselves "heard". Blog, tweet, tee-shirts, texting, forum, facebook... We're used to having a say -- talking back. We're used to being able to change things by involvement -- with minimal effort. If we really feel passionate about something, it gets plastered pretty much everywhere in our "tech footprint". We blog about it. We tweet about it. We comment to others over IM / text about it. Sometimes, it's because we want a lasting record of it, and doing that and telling others at the same time saves us time and effort. However, I think it's because that's become our primary modes of communication. Watercooler chat has gone by the wayside when you can get that information delivered to a screen (tiny or big) near you. And when your friends of choice aren't near you geographically, necessarily, you put it out there for the world to see, knowing your friends will read it if they care.
* Sometimes, we're willing to sacrifice security for this community we've built. We'll share some personal things with the only other fan of "Third Full Moon" (my example band) that we've found for days. The connection is made quickly, strongly, and sometimes violently (not physically, but just strongly felt and strongly dealt with). A lot of us will go visit places we've never been because we know someone there. From these communities. Sort of like the old "Pen Pals", but more involved with less effort.
* We don't really tolerate intentional stupidity / ignorance very well. We're alright with someone who "just doesn't know" or "isn't aware", but if someone seems to know and disregards that knowledge, especially to the point of messing up a community, then they're labeled pretty quickly as "troll", or worse yet, "asshat" or something similar. This also applies to people who only have one tune to sing. If every post you ever make on a forum is about the Mets (and it's not a specifically tailored "Mets Forum"), then be prepared to be disregarded at the least and taunted at the worst. We're virulent and passionate, whether it be positively or negatively. And the nature of the technology and its dependence on words only makes that more clear.
Maybe someone else has done all this work and I'm just parroting him or her. However, I've been thinking about this in regards to the American church. I think in a lot of ways, the way it's set up by default seems to miss a lot of these things. Many churches have had the same focus for ten years. Even the more progressive churches change a few more times within that same span, but by their very nature need to keep a certain focus for a while. My generation (and those after me) honestly get very bored by this. There is value in waiting and quiet and patience, yes, but we find that to be a personal thing, done in the privacy of our own homes.
We'll put our money where our interests are. Easily. But when something seems to stop working, we want an update. A new version.
I posted those two links for a reason. The first has a video on it (at the bottom). It's long, but I thought it was very enlightening. It's Leo Laporte talking about how media has to change their ways because people my age (and younger) just don't really read newspapers or watch most television anymore. If you want to get your ad out there, then you have to go where the people are. I think there's a huge lesson in that for us as proponents of the Gospel. Jesus did just that. And really, he wasn't afraid of using examples that they'd understand. Fish. Bread. Grain. Even going so far as to quote some of their poets sometimes to get the point across. To keep up, I think we really need to understand the people we're talking to.
The second one was part of my reading last night. People who plant food know where and when as well as what to plant. I think unless we take at least a few of these to heart, we'll cease to be effective. Crop rotation. Changing methods to get more yield. The seed stays the same. The gospel stays sacrosanct. However, the way to get it out there has to change. Or we'll get left behind.
- Place:home
- Mood:
nerdy
- 18:53 very restless tonight. Dunno if it's 'rents coming later this month, R being gone, or general malaise. Ugh. #
- 23:59 "Mom, why it have a any?" Which being translated means, "Why is there a zero on this fan?" #
- 00:36 ♬ "A B C D E F G, H I J K M N O O P ..." Toddler song. #
- 15:28 #reasonsIlikeautumn : Halloween. Cool nights. Nice days. (Not blazing, not freezing) "Leaf-es." #
- 23:03 "I look at you-your eyes are clear and bright- see your face is an amazing sight-Your glory Lord is still a burning light" Waiting never dim #
- 16:01 I often have to look up terms my friends use on Urban dictionary. #embarrassingsecrets #
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