Still around

Been a bit, but had good reason...my mom had a heart attack last week, she is doing well and recovering, so we were down to visit for the last little while.

What else is happening? Well another LID month anniversary has come and gone, we were just too busy to celebrate it, but we go the newsletter from FOI of some trip reports and pictures of babies adopted out now, we love to sit down and look and read through that.

I also got to visit, in Calgary, the Vietnamese church I pastored a number of years ago. It was so refreshing to reconnect and see how they are doing. They still have such a special place in my heart, such desire to worship God(I love being able to worship with them!) They are currently without a pastor, had to say I had a couple of thoughts about a change...but that isn't on the horizon...

GP church stuff is keeping me more than busy... the youth pastor is no longer serving at the church, and since he played a role in camp, an area we shared together, that adds a "more on the plate" dynamic. I am also waist deep in planning family fun(and teaching events) a new adventure for me and this church, so lots of research, planning, calls and more good stuff to have my hands into...

I started Kung-fu, and thinking this will be a very good thing. My class was cancelled last night due to cold weather... woke up today to -40 Celcius(not including windchill factor).BRRRRRRRRR!

My cousin is here for a week visit,so that is good.

Cara has a number of craft classes/groups starting up, and has the fireplace a-humming in her "studio" to further add to a nice atmosphere to promote creativity.

LOST starts up again on Thursday. Hopefully I can catch most of it after my Kung-fu class. You just can't miss an episode or you are lost...

So signing off this post,

busy, but still waiting...

Randy

combined fun of 2 shows we love

some fan combined a promo for Heroes, with the Office characters, very fun :)



Jim's pranks on Dwight are awesome, here's a collection

less info now than before

CCAA has published on their site info about when they finish reviewing and when they do new matches, they are taking that info down and it will only be available to the agencies. SOOOOO stupid, this has just made the agencies have to do more work and field more calls and emails from people wondering where the status is with things. VERY frustrating. Seriously, can they make things more of a rollercoater...oh I guess they just did!

Insults.....

Not a big email/forward person, but found this print worthy :)

When insults had class...

These glorious insults are from an era when cleverness with words was still valued, before a great portion of the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words!


The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison," and he said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: " Sir , you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease." "That depends, Sir ," said Disraeli, "on whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr


"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." - Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).


"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?" - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." - Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend.... if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill


"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one." - Winston Churchill, in response.

"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." - Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." - John Bright

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." - Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others." - Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul Keating

"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." Jack E. Leonard

"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt." - Robert Redford

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." - Thomas Brackett Reed

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." - Charles Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" - Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." - Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx