Lately I have been thinking about what my life will be like after I “get” married and “have” kids. How will I change? How will my life be different? What will be similar to now? Will I ever get used to having all those strangers around me all the time?
I have noticed, during my short and very single life, that many people want to “get” married and “have” kids. From the time I was born I have been told to “get” married and “have” kids. I don’t think it is an accident of the English language that we use the phrases “get married” and “have kids” either. Think about those words… GET and HAVE…
Continue reading “Celebrating Singleness: “Getting” Married and “Having” Kids”
Monday morning I woke up in a slight haze.
No alarm? Drat! I forgot to reset it after I had disabled it to sleep in on Sunday morning.
As I tried to sit up in bed I realized what it was I was experiencing… the Mormon Hangover.
Continue reading “The Mormon Hangover”
I swore I would never do these little things where people “tag” you on their blog. But when Annike tagged me, I figured, what the heck. I can cave to peer pressure just as good as the other guy…
So here it is… the lame getting to know random things about a person in short sentences…
Continue reading “I Promised Myself I’d Never Do This…”
I think I’m in love with Cat Deely…
Nigel: <referring to Chelsie’s provacative dress> You’d never go in a kitchen looking like that, now would you?
Cat: … Not to cook…
Continue reading “SYTYCD - Top 12″
Lately I have been seeing and talking to a lot of college students and younger adults who are home for the summer. Ah, what would life be like if you could be financially dependent and totally taken care of, all while floating around totally without purpose in life?
Well… maybe. Hanging out with these fabulous younger folks have reminded me some of the reasons I hate being a real adult, and some of the reasons I love being a real adult…
Reasons I love being a real adult: Continue reading “Adult Life vs. College Life”
So after ribbing Google a few weeks ago for their groundbreaking new favicon, I decided it was time for me to invest some time and energy into my own 16 pixel piece of internet real estate.
Like I mentioned in the other article, designing a favicon is HARD! (If you don’t know what a favicon is and you’re too lazy to go look at the other post, a favicon is the 16×16 pixel graphic that come up right next to the address bar of your modern browser (sorry IE6, you suck) ).
So here’s what I came up with…
Whaddya think? Can you tell that those are supposed to be eyebrows above the W and E?
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
- George Bernard Shaw
I left the United States for the first time in 2000 to spend two years in Sao Paulo, Brazil doing Missionary service for my church. To take you back, this was before the average American even knew what a Muslim was and before Osama Bin Laden was a household name.
When I returned in August of 2002, something had drastically changed about my country. Flags flew on many more houses that usual. There were flags everywhere! Some enterprising guy had also created a novel American Flag lapel pin which everyone seemed to be sporting. People had somehow become much more proud of their country than I’d ever seen them, and more willing to do anything for it.
Then it dawned on me. I totally missed 9/11. Continue reading “Patriotism”
