Livin' the Flippin' Dream

Thursday, May 18, 2006

So much in a name...

Well, I have been SUPER busy, so all I have time for is to tell you one HUGELY important thing: I named my car!!!! I was driving home with James and Ashley (youth from church) and they asked me what the name was. So I thought about it and I decided that it needed a good dutch women's name. This is because it just felt right AND my car treats me like a good dutch women would. So, here is the name (which is also my aunt's name):


GERTIE!

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

The Office...

HIIIII!!!!!!!!!! So, I am going to be starting at Sidney Pentecostal Church this week as the youth intern and for the first time in my life I am going to have an office AND my own desk... that's right, my own desk. So, in light of the situation, I hope you enjoy this:

19 WAYS TO MAINTAIN A HEALTHY LEVEL OF INSANITY

1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.

2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.

3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.

4. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "IN".

5. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.

6. In the memo field of all your checks, write "for smuggling diamonds".

7. Finish all your sentences with "in accordance with the prophecy".

8. Don't use any punctuation.

9. As often as possible, skip rather than walk.

10. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat - with a serious face.

11. Specify that your drive-through order is "to go".

12. Sing along at the opera.

13. Put mosquito netting around your work area and play tropical sounds all day at work.

14. Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme.

15. Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you're not in the mood.

16. Have your coworkers address you by your wrestling name, Rock Bottom.

17. When the money comes out the ATM, scream "I won! I won!"

18. When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot yelling, "run for your lives, they're loose!!"

19. Tell your children over dinner "due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go."