You’re Hobbes. First of all, the makers of this
quiz would like to congratulate you. You have
our seal of approval. You are kind,
intelligent, loving, and good-humoredly
practical. You’re proud of who you are. At the
same time, you’re tolerant of those who lack
your clearsightedness. You’re always playful,
but never annoying. For these traits, you are
well-loved, and with good cause.
Which famous feline are you?
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I’ve missed Calvin and Hobbes muchly.
(Translation of title: today is my 23rd birthday, yo!)
So far I’ve gotten (in addition to comments) cards/emails from:
-my in-laws
-my aunt and uncle in-law (I didn’t expect them to remember my birthday)
-my seminary friend Jill who is my cheerleader/prayer warrior
-my parents
–Tina
–Leenie
My boys have been lover cats and haven’t left me alone all day. Jon and I will go to Olive Garden for dinner (thanks Mom for the check covering dinner and groceries) and it’s been a quiet but nice day.
Let the record show that Ben & Jerry’s Oatmeal Cookie Chunk Ice Cream is the most karmically-balanced ice cream on the planet. It has a base of cinnamon ice cream that is perfect for the humongous chunks of oatmeal cookie that sit embedded in it. Ecstasy results upon the addition of the chocolate chunks.
This is an order: go here and tell them to not just make it a limited batch — make it a permanent part of the Ben & Jerry’s family.
That is all. (And no, I am not high on anything while writing it. Yes, I know that I profess Christianity while talking about karma. It’s a California thing, OK?)
**WARNING** Jen will be ranting about Bush and his fiscally irresponsible tax cut. If you unwaveringly support Bush, this tax cut, trickle-down economics, or plan to call me a liberal hippie b*tch (in which case your post WILL be deleted and you will be IP banned from my site), please skip this entry and read something else — like an economics book. 🙂 Jen needs to work her nerves and doesn’t need to hear that she’s un-American and should move to Canada. (Jon and I are already planning that once our student loans are paid off.) I didn’t tell you to move to Canada when you whined about Clinton. The same applies now. 🙂 That is all
Senate OKs tax package: Voinovich on board after temporary repeal of new tax breaks on dividends
Attention Senator George Voinovich:
You are an embarassment to your contituents. I was proud of you when you stood up to President Bush and rejected his tax cut (albeit for a smaller one) because it was fiscally irresponsible. Yes… it probably made you unpopular with the President but you took a stand for your beliefs. However… you have proven that you are a true politician and only care about being re-elected by letting the lobbyists get to you. How many of your constituents are wealthy enough to benefit from said tax cut? Yep… less than 10%. You sold out at least 90% of your constituents in hopes of being re-elected. Shame on you! There’s also the fact that you went on board once there was the promise of tax breaks on dividends. It’s great that you can actually benefit from this… because most of your constituents aren’t weathy enough to own the amount of stocks they’d need to benefit from this.
You could have taken a stand like your colleagues Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Lincoln Chafee (R-Rhode Island) who actually *have* principles. Yes… it wasn’t the one Bush originally suggested and this was your limit. However… it is *STILL* going to cost the Treasury Department $660 billion during the next decade. You *REALLY* want to do this? Hello? States are having to cut Medicaid to balance their budgets. By voting for this, you just sacrificed the health of quite a few of your constituents who can’t afford insurance and pay dearly every time they end up in the ER for the most basic healthcare.
I’m praying that I’ll be in another state soon where I’ll have senators that *care* about their constituents. You and Senator DeWine (who is a fascist pig to begin with) really don’t and I pray that this move costs you your Senate position in the next election.
OK… onto the President:
Dubya,
You obviously didn’t learn this at Yale (maybe because you were farting around instead of studying which is why you had that C+ average) but… OUR. TAXES. FUND. THE. GOVERNMENT. This means that if you want to go fight your wars against leaders you hate, you need to not cut taxes and make that money go away. When you make that money go away, you deny your citizens basic services. It’s nice that you have $1.2 million in investments and that your tax cut means that you can keep more of that money. Most Americans don’t. In fact, I think your salary alone is more than the combined salaries of half of my church.
Of course… you also saw during the Reagan years that tax cuts make you popular. It also created the recession that didn’t get your father re-elected. Of course… you’ll probably be out of office when your successor has to pull us out of this mess, so you really don’t care. What a nice attitude to have — not caring about the mess you’re leaving behind. You also probably didn’t learn that the bottom income tax brackets support the top ones whose taxes you are cutting — this means that the poorest people in the nation are paying for the cut for the richest. Nice reverse Robin Hood move — robbing the poor to feed the rich.
I heard that you just filed for re-election. I am praying harder than you can imagine that people will wake up and take the blinders off and see what a mess you’ve made of our economy and that they support the Democratic candidate. I’m praying that said candidate is an actual veteran and not a wannabe warmonger like you proved yourself to be in that little publicity stunt on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln. (Yes… it boosted the morale of troops. However… I know quite a few vets who are ashamed to have voted for you because of what you did. To them, it cheapens their experiences in Korea and Vietnam.) I’m pretty pissed that you can travel the nation for your campaign on my tax dollars because you should be paying that yourself and not making me pay for it when my money should be going to the social programs that got decimated to make your tax cut possible.
OK… now if only the Democratic candidates would stop sniping at each other and start working together to find the best person among them. I might even vote for a Republican in the primaries if it would weaken Bush’s chances of getting re-elected.
(Oh yes… for the record, this is not a far left journal and I am *NOT* a “yellow dog Democrat”. If there’s a Republican candidate that is better than the Democratic one, I’ll vote for them. I’ve done this plenty of times. Heck… I think I voted Green on almost everything but the presidential candidates in 2000. However, Bush is *NOT* better than any of the nine candidates that are currently vying for the Democratic nomination and I will not waste my vote on him.)
I didn’t get either job. I got the letter from Second Presbyterian yesterday and the letter from Caribou today. Am I pissed? Yes. Am I hurt? Yes. Can I deal with this and not let it ruin my life? Yes. I mean, if I’d gotten the Caribou job, I would have been doing Orientation yesterday instead of helping my cousin Sarah move and getting better acquainted with her. (She’s a 2nd cousin who I hadn’t seen in 6 years and she’s attending college nearby.) If I’d made it to the second round of interviews with Second Pres, I would have missed small group last night and not gotten the chance to hang out with someone who needed someone to listen to them. God knows what’s up and I respect that. I just wish that the “what’s up” included “Jen having a job”. At least we got our money back from Uncle Sam and it’s not being used to fund the purchase of tanks or fighters or anything else that the government buys in excess. (I’m a pacifist. Deal with it.)
I think this would be a good time to call the driving schools and schedule my behind the wheel instruction. I need to do that ASAP and I now have a lot of spare time.
Maybe someday, I will…
1.) learn to drive
2.) have a garden where I grow all my own vegetables and herbs
3.) be able to hang my laundry on a clothesline to dry
4.) learn to sew and make my own clothes
5.) be ordained as a minister of Word and Sacrament in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
6.) own a laptop
7.) homeschool my kids, depending on how good/bad the local schools are
8.) learn Arabic, Spanish, Syriac, Aramaic, Romanian, Italian, Russian, German, Korean, and Swahili
9.) learn to knit and make this hat and this facecloth
10.) cook all of our food and just buy ingredients from the store
11.) learn to make clerical shirts that actually fit me in colors that I would actually wear and don’t look dippy
12.) get my Ph.D in Church History or a D. Min with my thesis being on the influences of Celtic Christianity on the way we evangelize and worship
13.) visit Israel, Egypt, Syria, Greece, and Turkey
14.) backpack across Europe with Jon
15.) have kids and raise them in a loving Christian home
16.) have a female cat named Freja (pronounced “Fraya”) in addition to my current feline stallions
17.) read the entire Bible and Apocrypha
18.) translate some obscure text
19.) read the works of Louisa May Alcott other than “Little Women”
20.) complete a journey through a labrynth
21.) learn to quilt and make them for our bed and for my children’s beds
22.) learn to finish furniture so that I can get it cheaply and do the finishing stuff myself
23.) write a book on spirituality that is Biblically-based but reflects my Celtic roots
24.) live in an ecologically sustainable home with at least one room with broad windows (thanks Leenie)
25.) study in Ireland for a few months or more
26.) learn to play a wind instrument (i.e. flute or recorder) or the violin
27.) be part of a chamber music group that sings music composed before 1800
28.) teach a college or seminary class on Celtic Christianity
29.) write a curriculum for the Church to use to learn to minister to sexual harassment victims
30.) write a curriculum for the Church to use to learn to minister to people with depression
31.) learn to let God take care of the details and enjoy the ride
32.) serve as a missionary in the Muslim world or in Latin America
33.) read the Psalms in Hebrew
34.) become better with HTML and PHP and CSS and make a layout that looks good
35.) serve in my local government
36.) teach my kids (and my confirmands) about good ecological stewardship of the earth that is Biblically based
37.) read the Book of Concord (don’t tell Jon!)
38.) learn to love myself for who God created me to be rather than who the world wants me to be
39.) advise a ranking member of government (I wanna be a Congressional chaplain!)
40.) learn to love others as God has loved me
(Thanks to Leenie and Sarah for the inspiration to make this list.)