got to sit through another court drama today. get to tomorrow too. yeah. fun. after the respondent said something degrading to a member of my party, i responded to the %$#@! and the judge didn't hear me. it made me laugh inside. _____
what my nephew said to me on the way home from church tonight: 1. love God 2. love your enemy 3. don't throw bombs at people _____
deal or no deal is sucky, but oddly addictive. _____
wearing flip-flops isn't the smartest thing to do when on a tile floor when you've just come from monsoon rain. it makes you slip and drop your phone and keys. _____
the mashed potato-corn-chicken-gravy-three-cheese-blend from kfc makes me salivate. _____
my parents sold their car. it used to be my car. when i first got it, it had 14000 miles and now it has 195000. mazda's rock.
Monday, May 29, 2006
don't use year old hair dye
so i decided to have my sister highlight my hair tonight. it was about a year old and i hadn't ever used it, but i didn't think much about it. the dye was applied, sat on my hair for twenty minutes, then shampooed and conditioned. when i got out of the shower and looked at my hair, i laughed out loud. it's blonde on the very top and one streak down the back. yup. not kidding.
needless to say, i'll be shaving my head bald (again) tomorrow. and no, i'm not a nazi.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
trinity pentecostal
this morning i went to church with my aunt and uncle who are old-school pentecostal. no pants. no make-up. men pray on one side and women on the other. singing out of the red-back hymnal - glory to His name and He abides to be exact. it's where my grandparents went to church before they died six years ago. the lady who used to sit on the same pew as my grandparents, sister phelps, came up to me this morning and gave me a big hug. she said that she thinks about me often. i don't know how true that is - not because i don't believe her, but just because she's real old and may not have sufficient arterial flow. it was very nostalgic looking around and seeing their little church filled with people who knew and loved my grandparents. i wouldn't want to go there every week, but it was nice being there this morning.
Friday, May 26, 2006
it's a miracle
my nephew said today that he didn't want to watch high school musical anymore. i'm oh so thankful.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
warning: semi-emo post
i had to apologize to my pastor today.
bitterness is a funny thing. you don’t realize you’re bitter until you already smell pretty bad. when my parents retired from active pastoral ministry in october 2004, i decided to leave the church because of the way things went down. i felt like nobody supported him, and by proxy my family and me. i wouldn’t say that i backslid per se, but i spent my sunday mornings at bedside baptist for several months. one saturday night my cell phone rang when i was at a bar with some co-workers. it was my mom. i answered and she wanted to know where i was going to church the next morning.
fast forward to 2006.
bitterness is a funny thing. i’ve been there, done that and have the t-shirt, but i found myself heading down the same road again. being bitter again. being depressed again. so i had a come-to-jesus-meeting with myself. i refuse to be bitter again. it’s not worth it.
an uncomfortable but necessary step to moving on was to apologize to my pastor. because of my issues, i haven’t supported him like i should have. i haven’t prayed for him like i should have. you’d think that i would know better. after all, i was reared in a pastors home all of my life and understand the pressures placed on a pastor. but i’m human. i let my emotions and my issues get the best of me. what can i say?
i felt awkward and dorky and embarrassed sitting red-faced with trembling hands and cracking voice in his office today. but i don’t care. i did what i needed to do. i asked for and received forgiveness.
so tonight was my nephew's kindergarten graduation. he had to wear a cap and gown. i swear they grow up too fast.
there was a "commencement address" - at a kindergarten graduation. and to top it off, the title of the address was "the three laws of concentration". i thought, yeah, you're gonna need some laws to keep the concentration of a bunch of kindergarten kids. the address ended up not being half bad and the kids got a kick out of it - it was by a tae kwon do third degree black belt. he broke boards so the kids were psyched.
they did a video - you know where they take still pictures and put music over top - and the teacher just cried. during conner's part, they kept calling him tanner. that was annoying. he didn't notice though.
after graduation, we let him pick where we went to eat. where did he pick? taco bell. oh yeah, we ran for the border. after about three bites of his meat-and-cheese-only-taco, he fell asleep in the booth. after all, it had been a big day for a little kid.
Monday, May 22, 2006
only in kentucky
does the following scroll across the bottom of the tv screen during primetime programming:
"Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro has successfully come through a six-hour surgery and is standing in intensive care."
Friday, May 19, 2006
dan brown's rich(er)
we went to see the da vinci code this morning and it rocked. acting was good. scenery was good. camera work was good. script was good.
it's a winner in my book. that would be my fiction book. ha!
Thursday, May 18, 2006
rad and sad
what's rad: the ending to the amazing race last night. hippies rock!
what's sad: the season finale to law & order. what a let down man. he just walked out of the courtroom? come on now...
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
real bad
in college one of the places i would invariably end up at 2:00am was steak-n-shake - partly because this was one of two restaurants open at that time in a town that small. we went there so often, the waiters and waitresses knew our names. our server most of the time was a gay guy named eli. he knew what we would order before we ever sat down. i always had a frisco melt, regular fries, a cup of chili and a chocolate malt.
now when i go to steak-n-shake, i end up ordering the same 'ole meal. i always regret it a few hours later when i'm lying in bed unable to go to sleep because of the coagulation of grease in my body.
tonight i made the mistake of looking up the nutritional value of the foods i love so much at this beloved restaurant.
i did my internship for my bachelor's degree in durban, south africa. while i was there, a member of my team commented that i was going to hell because i was a democrat. he wasn't kidding. he was serious. later he was egged and floured. when he went to take a bath, we turned the water off. he sat in the bathroom for hours while the egg/flour substance turned into concrete on his already pale skin. not the nicest thing to do, but funny nonetheless.
the first week of september 2001, i put a bumper sticker on my car that said "Christian and Democrat". i got some pretty interesting comments at the wal-mart in cleveland needless to say. then september 11 happened. i decided to take it off just because i didn't think it all that appropriate to be partisan during a time like that.
so to answer all the questions - yes, i am a christian and a democrat.
and occasionally curse.
Monday, May 08, 2006
ugh
life royally sucks right now.
hey! the man forgot his lunch
i broke down. i lost my mind. i watched a movie with sean penn. i don't like this dude at all - his acting, his politics - nada, zilcho. i'm a democrat, but saying you're going to leave the country if bush is re-elected, come on now! getting off my soapbox now.
however, the interpreter dealt with african politics so i swallowed my pride and watched it. and enjoyed it. although sean penn still sucks.
Sunday, May 07, 2006
the downs
the first saturday in may is a great day to be in louisville. yesterday was the 132nd running of the kentucky derby. mom's horse, barbaro, won and my horse, bluegrass cat, came in place.
all kinds of celebrities in town - petra nemcova, gabrielle union, tommy lee, michael jordan, alyssa milano, nick lechey, and the list goes on...
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
hank's looking for a new church
i spent several hours at the courthouse yesterday sitting in court, waiting for a particular case to go before the judge. i was playing the role of supporter, not plaintiff nor defendant.
there are some really, really dumb people who go to court. "i'll be honest with you judge. i choked her, but only a little bit!" how exactly do you choke somebody a little bit?
needless to say, the i-choked-her-but-only-a-little-bit dude lost his case.
