Cracker Barrel: January 2006

January 26, 2006

Happy Girl

finaly got her...

She is mucho...

I am also bored at work....not much going on today!!!!

January 25, 2006

Janet and I went to Duluth Sunday and Monday. It was cold, I still have not fully warmed up from the jaunt. I s'pose it doesn't help that I've been going thru all the pix from the trip and they make me cold...remembering walking out along (and on) Lake Superior with no gloves or hat and trying to make my fingers work!! Lucky me - I bought some gloves before we walked around on Gooseberry Falls...
Anyway, here are some of the pictures...
Maybe when I'm awake and warm (and if you're lucky!) I'll write some of the funny stories! :-)
G'nite...

January 22, 2006

Quote

Read this on Robin Mark's website where he writes the stories behind different songs:

His ways and His thoughts are higher than ours, that He knows the plans that He has for us, and that He knows the way we are to take. Listen for the call, and no matter how strange it might seem, go where he calls you to. Work the nine to five, but worship 24/7!

So, I wanted to share it. :-) Maybe I will get to writing why this struck me later....for now, I really need to pack for Duluth!!!

January 21, 2006

Vacation

This looks like a place I wanna be right now...
warm and sunny with a slight breeze,
ocean waves lulling me to sleep...and no one bothering me!!!

Newness

My parents are the proud new owners of a Trail Blazer. With remote keyless entry, CD player AND tape player and much much more. Their old car had no heat (which in Minnesota isn't the best thing to be without during the winter!) and they needed something to pull their camper. Yay for Dad and Mom!!!

January 20, 2006

Another Goodbye

Tonight there was a party for Luke and Kari and Mayah
to say goodbye as they are leaving for Nebraska soon. :-(

Honky Tonk

'My car is my favorite place to cry' would make a good country song....I rarely cry when I'm not in my car. How sad...Makes me wanna cry (good thing I'm in my car right now!!).

Invisibility

I feel invisible.

Especially when I'm driving.

Other vehicles (seemingly especially semi's) act like they do not notice me on the road and proceed to almost squash me.

Take yesterday morning...This SUV decides to turn into the lane to the left of me...if I hadn't slammed on my brakes and moved over three lanes (into on-coming traffic...which at 6:30 am, there was none!) my poor car would have been annihilated. Again.

This is depressing me....gotta go do something else now! (Like IM with Kristina!!!)

January 19, 2006

Working?

David takes a (many) spins in our VP's son's
dune buggy (what he calls it!).

Just so you know, goofiness from David is normal....

This is our most newest ad. I don't know if it's even out yet!

January 13, 2006

Eventful Day

For some odd reason I got Entertainment Weekly in the mail.
The cover made me think of Dan.

Joi Fountain at Janet's.

Rob's haircut!!!!!!!!!!

Saw my mom and Dad.

Ben Selvig is in town!!!! When is the last time we seen him??? Um...I forget.

Holly has cool hair.

Oh... Happy Friday the 13th!!!!!!!

January 10, 2006

Hunting

Tonight I have started a hunt that I hate...and have only done once before in my life.

I have started the hunt for a new, and better job. One where I can grow and learn more, about myself and how I really am better at learning new things than I ever thought I would be.

I got lucky last time - my grandma saw an ad, I went in and a week later I started my first job. The past 7 years there have been full of growing experiences, but lately I am finding more and more that I have basically gone as far as I can at my current place of employment.

Let the Hunt begin!

Wedding Planner

Katie and Marcus are getting Married!!! YAY!!!

If anyone has any tips and/or ideas to help the wedding go smooth, save money, be fun and beautiful...please let me know!!!

We will need to find a place for the ceremony, reception, a caterer, photographer, videographer, florist, cake maker, ....and who knows what else?

5 Things You Don't Know About Me...

Heather tagged me so I share 5 things that you may not know about me... then I tag 5 other people.

I am told that I sing in my sleep.
When I was younger, my cousins, Jen and Katie, and I would dress alike. Looking back at the few pictures we have of those days I always wonder - what were we thinking??? And our outfits always had pink in them. (oh how I greatly dislike the color pink.)
When I was 12 I got my first camera. Even back then I took tons of pictures, tho it would seem that since I had no job and had to buy film and pay for developing myself I would not have taken so many pictures. I don't remember what film my camera took, but I got square pictures. It was VERY old! (and the rest is history.)
I used to play the piano. I wish I had never stopped. I also used to play the guitar. I do not miss it! I would love to learn to play the violin.
I hate politics. Any kind of politics. Ick. I have no words to describe how much I hate politics.

The 5 people I tag are:

January 09, 2006

Hot Mouse

This made me LAUGH!!!!

Mouse Thrown Into Fire Sets Home Ablaze

FORT SUMNER, N.M. (AP) - A mouse got its revenge against a homeowner who tried to dispose of it in a pile of burning leaves. The blazing creature ran back to the man's house and set it on fire.

No was hurt inside, but the home and everything in it was destroyed.

Xanga

The one and only feature I still miss from my Xanga blog is the "Currently Listening". Which would be Kutless: Strong Tower right now. Song #10.

Your love is deeper
Than the Ocean
Higher than the Heavens
Reaches beyond the stars in the sky
Jesus, Your love knows no bounds

Wacky Warnings

Heat Gun Wins Wacky Warning Label Contest
Updated 4:42 PM ET January 6, 2006

DETROIT (AP) - A warning that consumers shouldn't use a heat gun that produces temperatures of 1,000 degrees as a hairdryer has won an anti-lawsuit group's award for the wackiest label of the year.

The Wacky Warning Label Contest, in its ninth year, is conducted by Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch as part of an effort to show the effects of lawsuits on warning labels.

"When judges see it as their job to dismiss cases that are rooted in frivolous theories, we'll see fewer wacky labels and more fairness in the courts," said Robert B. Dorigo Jones, the group's president.

The $500 first prize went to Tom Brunelle of Holland, who spotted the heat gun warning.

The $250 second prize award went to Jam Sardar of Grand Rapids for a label on a kitchen knife that warns: "Never try to catch a falling knife."

Third prize of $100 went to Alice Morgan of La Junta, Colo. She found a cocktail napkin with a map of the waterways around Hilton Head Island, S.C., printed on it that cautioned: "Not to be used for navigation."

An honorable mention goes to Lyne Anton of Elk, California who found the following warning label on a baking pan: “Ovenware will get hot when used in oven.”

Wacky Warnings

January 07, 2006

Summer Fun

This summer was so much fun! So, with it being so cold outside I decided to go thru some pictures that makes me all warm inside...and, now that they are on Flickr, everyone can see them!! YAY! And...my friends and I are always, always pulling up flickr to get out pictures from Fourth of July and always, always are disappointed when we remeber that these pictures weren't there...so I decided to upload them!

There was the Chocolate Party, where Heather and Melody OD'd on Junior Mints. I still ahve leftovers hiding somewhere in my freezer...just waiting for the next party!! (j/k)

In June, some of us went Swing Dancing...not really my thing, but it was fun watching everyone else dance - there were some crazy good dancers there!

Then there was July 4th. What a crazy day! Jenni, Nate, Travis, Deb, Katie and I went to Como Zoo and had loads of crazy fun. Afterwards we all drove over to Katie's parents house to celebrate July Fourth with loads of friends.

Then, there are all of the HAT pictures...which is continually being added to!

January 05, 2006

God to an 8 year old

This was written by an 8-year-old named Danny Dutton, who lives in Chula Vista, CA. He wrote it for his third grade homework assignment, to "explain God". I wonder if any of us could have done as well?

EXPLANATION OF GOD

One of God's main jobs is making people. He makes them to replace the ones that die, so there will be enough people to take care of things on earth. He doesn't make grownups, just babies. I think because they are smaller and easier to make. That way he doesn't have to take up his valuable time teaching them to talk and walk. He can just leave that to mothers and fathers.

God's second most important job is listening to prayers. An awful lot of this goes on, since some people, like preachers and things, pray at times beside bedtime. God doesn't have time to listen to the radio or TV because of this. Because he hears everything, there must be a terrible lot of noise in his ears, unless he has thought of a way to turn it off.

God sees everything and hears everything and is everywhere which keeps Him pretty busy. So you shouldn't go wasting his time by going over your mom and dad's head asking for something they said you couldn't have.

Atheists are people who don't believe in God. I don't think there are any in Chula Vista. At least there aren't any who come to our church. Jesus is God's Son. He used to do all the hard work, like walking on water and performing miracles and trying to teach the people who didn't want to learn about God. They finally got tired of him preaching to them and they crucified him, but he was good and kind, like his father, and he told his father that they didn't know what they were doing and to forgive them and God said O.K.

His dad (God) appreciated everything that he had done and all his hard work on earth so he told him he didn't have to go out on the road anymore. He could stay in heaven. So he did. And now he helps his dad out by listening to prayers and seeing things which are important for God to take care of and which ones he can take care of himself without having to bother God. Like a secretary, only more important.

You can pray anytime you want and they are sure to help you because they got it worked out so one of them is on duty all the time.

You should always go to church on Sunday because it makes God happy, and if there's anybody you want to make happy, it's God! Don't skip church to do something you think will be more fun like going to the beach. This is wrong. And besides the sun doesn't come out at the beach until noon anyway. If you don't believe in God, besides being an atheist, you will be very lonely, because your parents can't go everywhere with you, like to camp, but God can It is good to know He's around you when you're scared, in the dark or when you can't swim and you get thrown into real deep water by big kids.

But...you shouldn't just always think of what God can do for you. I figure God put me here and he can take me back anytime he pleases. And...that's why I believe in God.