I made a startling realization today as I accompanied a friend driving through KFC for their new teriyaki boneless buffalo wings.
Boneless buffalo wings are really just chicken nuggets. Let that sink in for a second. We’re being charged for bone out wings. It’s a chicken nugget with the sauce on them instead of on the side.
I don’t know why that struck me as incredible insight, but it did, so now out of my benevolence and desire to share, I pass it onto you.
Filed under: Cooking and Food, Learning
I recently switched from Typepad to WordPress.
Now for the most part I love it. But there are a couple of things that drive me crazy.
1. The entire site is based on GMT time. So I could blog on Friday afternoon but the time stamp will say Saturday night. It’s ridiculous. I can always go manually adjust it, but what a pain. When I post right now it would say Monday afternoon and IT’S NOT. It’s Sunday.
2. The fact that we can’t post our own HTML in the templates. So sad. I have a couple of favorite codes that I like to use, it’s part of my blogging nerdiness that I love. I am not a programmer these will not bring down the entire WordPress site, give a girl back her codes.
Now these are not major things. But they’re annoying.
Filed under: Learning , Blogging
January 23, 2007 • 10:47 am
I just learned a very inconvenient lesson from U-Haul.
I used their handy-dandy online reservation system to make sure I had a truck to move on Sunday. Well they routed me to a store in Tustin, about 25 miles away from where I am moving to and even further from where I live now.
I opted not to pay the .79 a mile, an extra $39.50, simply to go get the truck and take it back, and cancelled my reservation. But for the joy of using the online reservation system I was charged a non-refundable $5.
It’s not the amount, it’s the principle of the matter. They charged me to use the freaking web site? How ridiculous is that?
Lesson learned: Call your local U-Haul rental place directly. It is cheaper and faster.
Filed under: Learning
January 19, 2007 • 5:02 pm
Our homework in counseling this last week was only three questions, but they required that you bare your soul on a piece of paper.
The first was why do you want to be a church counselor? Pretty inocuous.
The second was, list three areas that God has worked in your life in the last three years. That’s easy too. I’ve learned to accept his love, live in grace and the value of community. Those three things revolutionized my life, but are easily stated. It’s always easy to state the positive.
But the next one was a doozie, what life experiences do have that would help you be a good counselor? Yikes. I could either be open and honest or be superficial and cop out.
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Filed under: Learning, Psychobabbling, Spiritual Formation
Graduation was amazing.
At one point I wasn’t sure if I wanted to participate and I’m so glad that I did. It was meaningful, exciting and really felt like appropriate closure to one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.
It was great to have my parents and closest friends share it with me. I realized that I didn’t make it to that day alone, but that God gave me a most incredible support system that provided me encouragement, love and frequent kicks in the butt to keep me moving.
I didn’t torture everyone by asking that they attend the graduation ceremony but they did meet me for lunch afterwards at Cafe Santorini in Old Town Pasadena. I was blessed to have all these key people in one place just for a couple of hours.
All weekend I was just on a high. It was a great time to really be grateful for what God has done and how he’s changed me through this experience. I always tells friends that my grad school time was just really expensive therapy. By going to a seminary I gained a new perspective, picture and idea of who God is. Getting a degree from the school of psychology I was able to integrate that new notion into my view of humanity and how we can be healed and made whole, restoring that image of God withing our own understanding of who we are.
Seeing this time and season of my life come to a close is a little bittersweet. I will miss the constant stimulus of being in class with other people passionate about the subject matter. I will miss learning from key researchers, philosophers and mentors.
At the end of the day I just realize how blessed I am. God is good. Now I get to go help others through everything God has shown me. I can’t wait.
Filed under: Friendshipping, Learning, Mi Familia, Spiritual Formation
I had the best weekend!! The time with my family, time with friends and most amazingly the graduation itself. It wasn’t a boring ceremony. it was a commissioning service. I’m even more excited to see what’s next.
I haven’t finished processing everything, but once I do I’ll write more and post some pics. We had way too much fun with the hood.
Filed under: Friendshipping, Learning, Mi Familia
I’ve lived in my place now for 10 months.
Unfortunately I never really moved in. Few pictures are on the wall. There is barely any furniture in the place. My second bedroom is affectionately known as the box room, because it is full of unpacked and empty boxes. At one point the goal was to turn it into an office. I even got as far as putting the desk in the corner, but the unconnected desktop and peripherals are just sitting on it.
It doesn’t feel like a home at all. Now my parents are going to be here on Thursday for my graduation. I’ve obviously known about the graduation for a while. I’ve known they were coming for months. Now three days before their plane lands I’m starting to wonder if I should have unpacked and settled in.
This was supposed to be a temporary location. For a while the plan was to get married and move to Memphis. Then I was going to be transfered to Nashville for work. Now I realize I may be here a while. So I want to be comfortable. I want it to be cute. I want it to have a personality, right now it just feels blah.
No more blah. Time for it to be my place. I want to hang pictures. I want to get new furniture. I want have people over. Can I do all that before my parents get here? We’ll see.
Filed under: Learning, Mi Familia, Psychobabbling
I just got back from Pasadena with my graduation regalia in hand. WHI HOO!!
My hood colors are white, blue (theology) and goldenrod yellow (psychology).
Graduation is real and actually happening!! Althought I have to say graduation robes are ugly and made for men. They don’t take into account a woman’s natural curves AT ALL! And what’s with the hangy-down part on the sleeves? They look like uvulas attached to your arms. Bizarre.
I modeled it for a friend here in the office, it was fun to play dress up. Now I just have to figure out the right way to wear the hood. It is complicated, there are hooks and buttons on it with no apparent match or place to connect on the robe or to itself. I figure I’ll wait for day of and see what everyone else does.
While in the area I had lunch with a dear friend from my World Vision days. We don’t get to see each other that often but when we do we catch up quick and have great conversations. She is such a delight and what a treat to get to hang out with her, even if the time went by way to fast.
Filed under: Friendshipping, Learning
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