Category Archives: Daily Life

Words from Nikkiana

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Greetings from yet another guestblogger! For those of you who don’t recognize me I’m Nikkiana of Everytomorrow.org. (Pardon the dust there, I’m in the process of changing servers so it feels like a bit of a mess to me.) I happened to meet Jen at the Forever-Inspired Boards quite a long time ago.

I had quite a time getting logged in so I could guestblog. I kept trying to login with my login name being all lowercase (Jen registered it with one uppercase letter) and apparently login names are case sensitive in WP, but when you use the form to get your password sent to you, it sends you whatever case you typed in with the correct password. Weirdness. But I’ve mentioned it to the WordPress folk…. It’s a known glitch I guess.

EDIT: Michel has gone in and solved the problem so it won’t happen for anyone who downloads WP from now on. w00t!

I’m currently procrastinating. I have a code/graphic design example I need to finish and submit to a prospective job. Hoping and praying that I get it. It doesn’t have that many hours, but it’s significantly better pay than what I’m making right now.

But anyway, it’s been fun posting on someone else’s blog! Ta!

nikkiana, guestblogger

A Little Project

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Allow me to introduce myself… my name is Michelle and I am another guest blogger while Jen is away in California for a couple of weeks. I blog over at Mikao’s World. I’ve known Jen for about… oh, about ten years now (or is it eleven?). We were pen pals way back then, thanks to a postcard exchange, and somehow miraculously have remained in touch over the years and now both blog. I think it’s neat how these things work out!

It’s taken me a couple of days to get this ready, but in honour of my crafty friend Jen, I whipped up my first “how-to” creative project and completed what I call my “Arrow Purse.” You can view it here. It’s more quilting than Jen’s crocheting, but I don’t know how to crochet! 🙂

Giving Props

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It’s been relatively quiet around here – Jen’s on vacation and everything goes to pot. But I thought it would be neat to show her some love as she’s continuing her trek around CA. Take some time in the comments to jot down a few notes of admiration and respect, and answer these questions:

1) How long have you been reading Meditatio?
2) Are there any aspects/traits of Jen or her blogging that stand out to you in a positive way?
3) Do you have a favorite cat story from Jen’s blogging exploits?
4) What word of encouragement would you leave our illustrious host on these pages?

Thanks – I hope she likes it, and forgets my crack on the cats from earlier in the week.

Birthdays

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Happy 26th birthday to my friend Michelle who has been a pen pal and sister blogger for 11 years. I hope your day is wonderful. 🙂

Thank you also for letting me steal your color scheme for my new layout.

Pat Tillman Memorial

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After MSNBC decided to cut the memorial broadcast to engage in some really inane commentary, I decided to watch it online. I’m not a Cardinals fan — he grew up in my area, went to my high school, and I figured I’d watch it to see if there were people I knew there. His brothers Kevin and Richard were within a year of me there and watching it is also one of these “bonding with my roots” things even though I can’t say I spoke 10 words to him in my life (though I probably saw him around). Pat’s wife is also from the area and her younger brother Paul was in my graduating class. (He was a jerk and I really hope his ego got flattened at Cal.) In other words, he was from “the neighborhood”.

The pros and cons:

Pro
–Maria Shriver: very very tactful and personalized.
–his friends: very poised and very well-spoken.
–Terry Hardtke: well-spoken and didn’t go into his fame — talked about him as a person.
–Paul Ugenti (II): He did very well in his eulogy. Touched a lot on Pat’s example, which I think is good. Also looks the same as he did in high school.
–Paul Ugenti (I): his father-in-law who said some good words and was succinct.
–Jim Rome: Interesting stories and defined “hero” well.

Cons
–his brother Richard: you really shouldn’t say “he’s not with God, he’s f*ing dead” in front of your parents at a public memorial. It also appeared that he was drunk off his butt while up there. (This was later confirmed by the fact that someone mentioned the Guiness that he was drinking.)
–MSNBC: you cut out what was probably a really beautiful singing of “America the Beautiful” by Darius Rucker to basically repeat the same inane crap that has been on the news for the last few days. Kindly shut up next time and let people watch the memorial.

And to Pat’s father: God created the 1993 Leland varsity starting line-up, ergo He could have made the team. That is all.

Because I Need To Remind Myself of This

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“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?”

“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
–Matthew 6:25-34 (NIV)