Soldiers' Angel - Holly Aho

Is anyone else with me?

What? Let me get this straight. V-8 has a full serving of vegetables. So, if you drink one, why the heck do you need to actually eat your vegetables? So you can get 2 servings? I'm just saying, it's weird! If you drink the V-8, should be fine to order whatever you want, or not eat crappy green veggies. Stoopid commercial.

Seems a ligitimate question to a 7 year old. My son Thomas asked me the other day if people have nuggets inside them like chickens do. He was assuming that a nugget was a body part like a thigh or wing. He just wondered if we had nuggets too.

Oh, so many things you can answer to questions like these! Could be an entire afternoon of fun! But I was nice and told him the truth.

Totally icky. White trash or not, this is why I drink pop out of the can.

Hypochondria

(that bit of psychology brought to light by my son Noel)

This past Sunday, at the end of our Sunday School class, everyone was asked for items of praise or prayer to close with. Up on the blackboard were written the words 'praise' and 'prayer' and each item was written down under the appropriate category as it was mentioned.

Now ordinarily this would be, well, ordinary. Certainly not worth blogging about. But this week, as I watched one praise item be added to the blackboard and then numerous prayer requests, it seemed strange.

I'd sat through the entire class and was convinced these were intelligent people I was sitting with. It was a large class of at least 60 people. So, why on earth, during this week of 'Thanksgiving' especially, could only one praise be thought of in a large group of intelligent people?

After this went on for a good 10 minutes I raised my hand as I had a praise, something to be thankful for. As my praise was being written on the board I turned to the class and mentioned my thoughts about the praise/prayer imbalance, especially during this week where our hearts should be turned more towards thoughts of thanksgiving.

I'm not sure my comments were well received or not. I will say that there were several more praises added to the board after that, but it got me to thinking about the whole topic in general.

Prayer, for most Christians, is time spent with God in a close personal relationship. While He wants to hear our needs, imagine if you had a friend that called you up every day to ask for something, and never said anything else! Imagine if each day you answered their requests and yet they never mentioned it, only requested something else! Yeah, it sounds like life with children. Perhaps that is why He is called our Heavenly Father

In any case, have you become so wrapped up in needs that you've lost sight of the joys and praises in life? I dare say I highly doubt that everyone in my Sunday School class yesterday was depressed, but what else would you think of a large group of adults who had nothing happy to mention but lots of needs and complaints?

Let's be sure to not only bring our requests to God, but give Him the glory when those requests are answered. Don't forget the praise in your prayer!

Things I've learned in the past 24 hours - transformer toys don't always transform, and the X-Box 360 is a piece of crap.

Riddle #1: What do you call a transformer toy that only resembles a toy that transforms?

Riddle #2: If the X-Box 360 were made in China, how many executives would have been executed by now?

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Ok, I'm not really a sandwich fanatic, and I hardly ever buy deli sandwiches at gas stations. I just had to preface this post. Anyways, Super America has the best sandwich ever. I'm gonna have to make some at home. It's their roast beef sandwich. I don't recall the exact name but it's made with roast beef, Romaine lettuce, bacon crumbles, A1 steak sauce and really good wheat bread.

mmmmmmm mmmmmm mmmmm!

Really nummy, and now I'm making myself hungry. Don't even have tuna to make a tuna salad sandwich. Sigh.
Grocery shopping tomorrow!

Well, from the show Spongebob anyways. The comment was actually from Patrick, and for some reason it had me giggling. Spongebob spies a billboard about potato chips, which says they are the best tasting chips ever. Spongebob says, "They most certainly are not the best tasting chips."

And Patrick says, "Especially not the way I use them."

Huh. And it's a real article, not a spoof! (hard to tell the difference these days, isn't it?) The gist of the article is that some stupid study recommends congressional oversight over the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, calling for clear guidelines for releasing arrested parents to minimize harm to their kids.

Cause, you know, that's how you enforce immigration laws, by letting offenders go.

End of article that made me laugh:
"Many [arrested illegals] weren't released the same day because they lied about whether they had children, Counts said."

Oh well. It is an orange and yellow template. Mrs G did a nice Halloween post. Her costume is way better than mine.

Next year.....