Monthly Archives: August 2005

Birthdays

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Jon’s birthday is Thursday. I got his present yesterday.

My father-in-law’s birthday is in September. I just ordered some llama parts for him off of The Heifer Project. (OK… it should technically be “shares of a llama”, not llama parts. Then again, you probably started reading more closely at that point, didn’t you?)

The giving of donation gifts started when my mom sent me an article on Project Linus and asked if I was going to do anything for them. I offered to donate a blanket or two in her name as a birthday present. When I told my mother-in-law, she told me that she wanted a donation to The Heifer Project. My father-in-law asked for the same thing and asked that it be an animal with big brown eyes and soft fur. I love it when my birthday giving is tax-deductible!

Tag! I’m It!

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Rick tagged me so…

List ten songs that you are currently digging. It does not matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they are no good, but they must be songs you are really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists, and the ten songs in your blog. Then tag five other people to see what they are listening to.

01. Dante’s Prayer by Loreena McKennitt
02. Tubthumpin’ by Chumbawumba
03. If I Flee on Morning Wings by Fernando Ortega
04. Give Me Jesus by Fernando Ortega
05. Let All Things Now Living by Michael Card
06. If I Stand by Rich Mullins
07. Dragostea Din Tei by O-Zone
08. You Raise Me Up by Josh Groban
09. Ancient Words by Michael W. Smith
10. Mo Ghile Mear by Mary Black

So… Richard, Leenie, Cheryl, Thames, and Michael: what are you listening to these days?

Comparisons To 30 Years In The Past

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This morning, two younger people (as in people my age) were sitting in the back at Church #2. When we were outside after the service, I introduced myself to the guy and he told me that he was here with a friend. The friend turned out to be the younger sister of a soldier from our area that was killed in March. The conversation went something like this.

J: Jen
S: Sister

J: It was good to see you in church today.
S: Thanks. I like coming here but it’s really hard right now.
J: Why? *realizes that her late brother is probably the reason*
S: *in a whisper* Because of [late brother].
J: Well… you are always welcome anytime, tears or no tears. If you come and you feel like you need to cry, I know that there will people to sit with you.

It made me think about my parents’ generation who dealt with this while the Vietnam War was going on. I know that my in-laws and my parents all lost friends when they were in college because those people were killed in Vietnam.

Strange how history repeats itself…

Surgery Costs

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I saw online today how much of my surgery costs I’m going to have to pay and thankfully… it’s only 10%. Granted, my share of the surgery is about $830 but that’s a whole lot easier to deal with than $8000.

Argh!

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In the process of transferring things over, my Blogathon site got eaten. I have a backup of the database, but servers seem to not want to cooperate today.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!