Yay me. 🙂 Cyli, of WhyNotLaugh finished her 100 Compliments of Summer project and I was complimented, along with 99 other really great blogs. I definitely feel complimented being in such company. Thanks Cyli!
For now. The nice man was NOT helpful, but as I figured a way around the problem, I have uploaded some pics.
For my enjoyment, really, not yours. 🙂
Alright, so this is my version of a kitty break (and a puppy break, because damn, if she isn’t cute as hell.)
That is all.
I had this whole plan people. Pictures were involved. One was my very adorable cat, and the other is Andy’s new puppy (also, ridiculously adorable). However, do to some sort of FTP malfuckingtion, I am unable to connect to my FTP client. grrrr
I will be calling said client to figure out said problem.. but for now I must do actual work. 😛
Courtesy of Andy in Minnesota…
What percentage of $1 bills have been in a stripper’s g-string?
Correct answer gets… Andy! He’s quite entertaining, very knowledgable in trivia and sports and is disturbingly tall.
Winner arranges for shipping. The insider is not responsible for lost or damaged merchandise.
So here’s the thing.. I had remarkably good day today. I got done everything I wanted to at work (yay!) and I spent half the day playing comment tag on other blogs.. hehehe. 🙂
THEN, just as I was about to blog about a hysterical conversation I had with my Dad—my Army name is “Eye in the Sky” and he is “Delta Alpha Delta,” whenever he needs me to check the highway cameras where he is.. so cute. 🙂 — I got IM’d by my Uncle.
Oh, that’s nice, you might think. NO. no. no. no. no. He is a very pleasant man—from thousands of miles away. You see, he is a very Christian-Christian… a missionary in China, who didn’t get married until last year (he was 47) and who only got married because the woman (a lovely Chinese lady), was acceptable to his ridiculously long list of specific attributes his wife would have to have.
OK, did that set up this lovely little IM conversation? Good, ’cause here ya go:
Uncle J says: (10:05:13 PM)
   Hello,
theinsider says: (10:05:31 PM)
   Wow, hi Uncle J. How are you?
theinsider says: (10:06:33 PM)
   How is Carmen?
Uncle J says: (10:07:06 PM)
   Fine she just took off to work but we just celebrated our 1st wedding anniversary
theinsider says: (10:07:19 PM)
   Oh! Yay! Congratulations
Uncle J says: (10:07:43 PM)
   Yes, praise the Lord. An adventurous but good challenge.
[and in here was a bunch of how’s the family stuff for a few minutes]
Uncle J says: (10:16:27 PM)
   What’s church life like in RI?
theinsider says: (10:17:52 PM)
   Honestly Uncle J, I don’t know.
theinsider says: (10:17:57 PM)
   I haven’t been to church in awhile.
Uncle J says: (10:19:36 PM)
   What do you think of the faith and the Lord of whom your parents value so greatly?
theinsider says: (10:20:11 PM)
   I respect their faith greatly, but I haven’t shared it for a long time.
Uncle J says: (10:22:41 PM)
   You in Romans God says that when people knew God, but chose not to honor God, He (i.e.-God) gave them over to idols. Do you feel that you honor God by your life?
Uncle J says: (10:23:23 PM)
   (sorry, forgot a “know” in the 2nd space there…)
theinsider says: (10:23:34 PM)
   I live a life that honors my family and my upbringing, and I will continue to do so.
Uncle J says: (10:23:58 PM)
   DO you mind such personal questions from me?
theinsider says: (10:24:15 PM)
   No, it’s alright.
theinsider says: (10:24:23 PM)
   Honestly, I had thought my dad would have shared this with you.
Uncle J says: (10:26:53 PM)
   In the Psalms it says twice that it is a follish person who says that there is no God. It clearly says that they have done “abominable things.” May I ask you if there was a time in your youth when you stepped into some kind of sexual sin on purpose or by accident that marked a point of change in your faith?
Uncle J says: (10:27:11 PM)
   (sorry, “foolish”…)
theinsider says: (10:28:23 PM)
   No, there has never been anything like that. Honestly, it is that I struggle to believe in things that I cannot see.
theinsider says: (10:28:50 PM)
   In my mind, I can’t reconcile it.
Uncle J says: (10:29:29 PM)
   In fact I think you believe in many things that you cannot see already, don’t you?
Uncle J says: (10:29:49 PM)
   atoms, light waves, air…
theinsider says: (10:29:56 PM)
   Yes. But I think faith is God is definitely something that is incredibly hard for people
theinsider says: (10:30:15 PM)
   And I am one of them.
Uncle J says: (10:32:43 PM)
   Actually, I have found thatit is normal and easy for young people to believe that there is a God. It is quite ridiculous to imagine that such complexity happens by accident, and even if it did, man is still not able to create a soul, is he? What you have been getting pulled away from is truth and that is why there is a battle that you wrestle with.
Uncle J says: (10:34:11 PM)
   Satan is as real as God is, and he’s allowed here by our ancestor’s foolish choice to to eat some forbidden fruit…I do not blame them, I probably would have done that or more so…
theinsider says: (10:34:44 PM)
   Well, that is a very interesting perspective. To be honest, many that I have come across detail a similar problem as me.
theinsider says: (10:35:10 PM)
   And while I do not discount your faith, or that of anyone, I personally have found it to be something I do not have.
Uncle J says: (10:38:11 PM)
   Imagine (if you may not choose to trust Scripture) that 1/3 of the stars of heaven reflected the number of demonic spirits at Satan’s hand at this time. Imagine that he is not at all divided in his efforts but is supernatural, organized and that he has over 6000 years of experience and that he levies her to kill, steal and destroy. Do your friends and you seem like a surpise in a Church era …
Uncle J says: (10:39:22 PM)
   sits on its blessed assurance? Your choice under God would be this: He could have made you a robot or he could have given us choices. He chose the later, I am glad to say…
theinsider says: (10:40:51 PM)
   Truly, while I respect your faith, I indeed find it hard to swallow myself.
Uncle J says: (10:42:34 PM)
   The Bible teaches theinsider, that it is not because there is not (abundant) evidence that God exists, but that people and even you my dear niece prefer to embrace idols outwardly or inwardly.
theinsider says: (10:44:01 PM)
   Perhaps, but as I am not sure that I believe in what the Bible has to say, I do not feel that I have anything to answer for—in that regard.
Uncle J says: (10:46:44 PM)
   No one knows when our life may end, but I pray the Lord will show extra mercy to you (moreso) that you will know that your next close encounter with death was allowed by God to you as your own personal warning, and I hope not your last one. Either way, I do have a better picture now than the discrete previous prayer requests that your dad conveyed to us in the past.
theinsider says: (10:48:02 PM)
   I am sorry he was discreet.. he needn’t have been. I know this has been quite hard for him. However, knowing his past, I suspect he understands.
Uncle J says: (10:48:23 PM)
   You are probably busy or at else needing to go to bed. May the Lord be gracious to you theinsider, He has been to your dad and me very much already… Bye for now.
theinsider says: (10:48:48 PM)
   Good night.
OK, so I was nice, right? I didn’t insult him—even though I feel insulted? Because honestly, I want to go and smoke a cigarette right now. This brings up lots of stuff—mainly why I moved—and now I am pretty sure hundreds of people around the world are now praying that I will have a near death experience.
I give up.. cigarette and vodka time.
Yes. I love France. Particularly now… observe.
Fabuleux. Merveilleux. La France est mon pays.
Veritablement.
Why? Because they WAKE ME UP at 3 AM! And the insider DOES NOT like to be woken up at 3 AM. The only time the insider wants to see 3 AM is when she has been drinking and partying and is now ARRIVING home. NOT when the insider is fast asleep, happily dreaming of Mark Wahlberg (don’t ask). OK? OK.
This was the progression of the morning… at 2:47 AM, my cell rang. I didn’t recognize the number, so I didn’t answer and rolled over. At 2:49 AM, it rang again. The number was Sawyer, an old friend from high school. My “hello” was greeted by several guys yelling my name, along with “we love you,” “sawyer misses you” and “when are you coming back out to visit?” OK, it is here that I must admit that I used to greatly enjoy Sawyer’s fraternity parties—and still do, when I go home once or twice a year.
Alright, so after having a hilarious conversation for ten minutes or so, I explain that I must go to sleep now and that, yes, I will visit soon, and no, I don’t have any hot friends that I should hook him up with. So we hang up.
And then not two minutes later, the phone rings again. ‘Tis Sawyer again. He has just attempted to call another friend of ours and apparently she didn’t pick up her own phone—a guy did. Considering the friend, we are both shocked, so he insists I call her and then call him back. (Yes, reason has been completely lost at this point.)
So I call her and her phone is off—fortunately I left a very long, detailed message about why the hell I was calling at 3 AM and demanded she return my call at a later, more reasonable hour.. if for no other reason than to mock Sawyer.
I called him back, we decided he might have called a wrong number, he tells me he is moving to Florida soon and “won’t I be sure to come visit,” and then he had to go because there was some kind of competition involving a sorority girl with rather large.. um.. and a keg.
Friends-with-your-number-on-speed-dial + liquor + a-three-hour-time-change + cell phone = Hung, Drawn and Quartered. 😛
Your word is BUGGER. You are generally quite
restrained, but sometimes your anger or
frustration come to the surface and it all
comes out. Yet you somehow can’t stop sounding
polite, despite it all.
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Huh. I figured I’d be more of a Shit person, but OK, bugger it is.