My month-long plan kaputz'd

Just in case anyone was wondering, I got sick during the 2nd week and my plan kaputz'd. Not very inspiring. But I'm not sure if the month-long plan could have held up even without the cold. I think I might do a series of week-long commitments. That's long enough to get an idea of something but not so long that I want to give up. It will also give me a chance to mix-and-match, try out a new commitment every week. More to come.

Blog Game

This is how the game works:

There is a list of questions (what is your favorite food, etc).
For each question, you type in your answer into Google's Image Search. Then you must choose your favorite image from the first page only, and post it on your blog. What you end up with is can be crazy or surprisingly insightful.

Here are my answers:

My Age:


A place I'd like to travel to:


A favorite place:


A favorite object:


My favorite Food:


My favorite animal:

but also:


My favorite color:


The town where I was born:


The town where I live:


A past pet:


A past love:


My best friend's nickname:


My screen name:


My first name:


My middle name:


My last name:


One of my bad habits:


My first job:


My grandmother's name:

And:


My college degree:


What I'm doing right now:

Amusing Book Review

I got a chuckle out of this as I was processing book reviews for our Summer Reading Program:

Title: Let's Begin Again

Author: Debra White Smith

Summary: Victoria and Tony have been married for six years, but their marriage is having problems. In this book they try to figure out how to fix their marriage while evading assassins.

Today's Quote

Sometimes I prepare books to send to other libraries. I was processing one that was a collection of famous letters from history. So I flipped through it and read a couple. I found some interesting correspondence.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (author of Uncle Tom's Cabin), received a letter from her sister saying:
"Hattie, if I could use a pen as you can, I would write something to make this whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is."

This is Harriet's response:
"Tell Katy I thank her for her letter and will answer it. As long as the baby sleeps with me nights I can't do much at anything, but I will do it at last. I will write that thing if I live.
What are folks in general saying about the slave law, and the stand taken by Boston ministers universally, except Edward? To me it is incredible, amazing, mournful!! I feel as if I should be willing to sink with it, were all this sin and misery to sink in the sea... I wish father would come on to Boston and preach on the Fugitive Slave Law, as he once preached on the slave-trade, when I was a little girl in Litchfield. I sobbed aloud in one pew and Mrs Judge Reeves in another. I wish some Martin Luther would arise to set this community right."

Now, am I the only one who noticed something unusual there?
"I wish some Martin Luther would arise to set this community right."

Of course, Harriet is referring to Martin Luther who nailed his 95 Theses to the door of a Catholic church and sparked the Reformation in the 1500's. But isn't it uncanny that she would choose him as her example, when so many years down the line, Martin Luther King Jr. would be the one to nail his own reformation to the hearts and minds of the entire world? Don't you think that is amazing? I never even thought, until now, about how Martin Luther King's namesake was right there staring me in the face all these years, and that he was the inspiration for a revolution of his own.

What would Mrs. Stowe say had she known that her wish would be satisfied so many years later?

Good Quote Today

"What about all these kids that waste up all the broadband playing their stupid games?!"

Says the man that is watching a video on youtube of a grizzly bear running.

Things I learned at work today

- Old kindly-looking ladies = not always kindly. In fact, can be snottier than teenagers.
- Women who take money from betwixt their bosom should be watched warily. Also, as a suggestion, use hand sanitizer after that monetary transaction.
- If someone tells you the bathroom needs "attending to" but doesn't elaborate, enter that bathroom with extreme caution.
- Some people will run from you if you're on your way to ask them to stop doing something they're not supposed to be doing.

Worst quote of the day:
"The Amish, like hobbits, are not generally an adventurous people." - Jon Marken, on the back cover of A Time to Live

So much to blog about...

So much has happened, I could write all night.

Here are the two biggest changes:

1. We hung our painting.

2. We bought a car.

I guess the car is the biggest change. It's a Toyota Matrix. It's a great fit for us because it's small enough to get good gas mileage, but inside it's really roomy, like a small van. So we figure we can fit a kid or two and some groceries in there. Now we just need to find some kids and go grocery shopping. Just kidding, but it is a nice change from our old car. I'm planning on devoting an entire post to the many challenges our old car poses to us on a daily basis. Another time, though.