Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Another Day Another Challenge!

I've been a zombie woman today.  Doesn't seem as if I've been able to get anything done...and I've felt toooooooo tired to climb on the Gazelle.  I had a very rough night and only got a couple of hours of sleep.  I lost a really important post over at Libby's Library News, I didn't get around to eating breakfast until about 11:30, and my ankles are so swollen, that they hurt.  About 10 minuets ago, I decided to jump on my dashboard 
and check out a few blog postings.  
WAM 
Red Pine Mountain 
jarred me out of my slump with her new blog 
Get Moving with Mountain and Tahtimbo. 
This is the perfect companion to 
Raving Robyns 30 Day Throw Down
and one more incentive to get my butt 
out of the recliner and onto my Gazelle.  
Head on over and join her challenge.  
(Pssssssssstt don't tell anybody, 
but there's a chance at winning something too:-)
Go HERE for the detials!

I Have a Guest Author Post - WooHoo

I have a guest author post today at 
Libby's Library News.
Michelle Moran has graciously dropped by my little ole book blog.
If you have a minute - Go Here - to read her post 
and get a chance to win 
a signed paperback copy of The Heretic Queen 
and 
a signed hardcover copy of Cleopatra's Daughter:a novel!

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Good Recipe LInk for the Fast Food Throw Down Challenge!

 Jolly Mom has posted a recipe for Crockpot Oatmeal.
All natural wholesome ingredients, like steel cut oats...fresh apples, and vanilla.
YUM

If you haven't checked out her blog, you should.  
She has giveaways, articles, 
and recipes... and did I mention giveaways?

Fast Food Throw Down - Day 1


So far so good.  I've had lots of H2O with freshly squeezed lemon juice.
Oatmeal for breakfast.
Home made Stuffed Bell Pepper soup for lunch.
Whole grain German Dark bread, toasted, with a little butter, for dinner (I ate lunch late, so sue me!)
1/4 cup dark chocolate covered raisins.

Just 7 minutes on the Gazelle - but my feet are really swollen, because I don't have my laptop this week...
so I'm sitting at the desk all day.

How's everybody else doing?

Want to find out about the challenge?
Go HERE

Monday, August 31, 2009

Macro Monday - 8/31/09

I'm not so sure that the new editing in blogger 
is going to work for me.
But leaving this as is for now.  
I've been so bad about posting lately...  
But hope to do better from now on!

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Out of the Mouthes of Babes / The Bible



Judas Asparagus
A child was asked to write a book report on the entire Bible. This is amazing and brought tears of laughter to my eyes.
I wonder how often we take for granted that children understand what we are teaching???

Through the eyes of a child:

The Children's Bible in a Nutshell

In the beginning, which occurred near the start, there was nothing but God, darkness, and some gas. The Bible says, 'The Lord thy God is one, but I think He must be a lot older than that..

Anyway, God said, 'Give me a light!' and someone did.
Then God made the world.
He split the Adam and made Eve. Adam and Eve were naked, but they weren't embarrassed because mirrors hadn't been invented yet.
Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating one bad apple, so they were driven from the Garden of Eatin'.
Not sure what they were driven in though, because they didn't have cars.
Adam and Eve had a son, Cain, who hated his brother as long as he was Abel.
Pretty soon all of the early people died off, except for Methuselah, who lived to be like a million or something.
> One of the next important people was Noah, who was a good guy, but one of his kids was kind of a Ham. Noah built a large boat and put his family and some animals on it. He asked some other people to join him, but they said they would have to take a rain check.
After Noah came Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Jacob was more famous than his brother, Esau, because Esau sold Jacob his birthmark in exchange for some pot roast. Jacob had a son named Joseph who wore a really loud sports coat.

Another important Bible guy is Moses, whose real name was Charlton Heston. Moses led the Israel Lights out of Egypt and away from the evil Pharaoh after God sent ten plagues on Pharaoh's people. These plagues included frogs, mice, lice, bowels, and no cable.

God fed the Israel Lights every day with manicotti.. Then he gave them His Top Ten Commandments.
These include: don't lie, cheat, smoke, dance, or covet your neighbor's stuff.
Oh, yeah, I just thought of one more: Humor thy father and thy mother.

One of Moses' best helpers was Joshua who was the first Bible guy to use spies. Joshua fought the battle of Geritol and the fence fell over on the town.

After Joshua came David.. He got to be king by killing a giant with a slingshot. He had a son named Solomon who had about 300 wives and 500 porcupines. My teacher says he was wise, but that doesn't sound very wise to me.

After Solomon there were a bunch of major league prophets.
> One of these was Jonah, who was swallowed by a big whale and then barfed up on the shore. There were also some minor league prophets, but I guess we don't have to worry about them.

After the Old Testament came the New Testament. Jesus is the star of The New. He was born in Bethlehem in a barn. (I wish I had been born in a barn too, because my mom is always saying to me, 'Close the door! Were you born in a barn?' It would be nice to say, 'As a matter of fact, I was.')

During His life, Jesus had many arguments with sinners like the Pharisees and the Democrats.

Jesus also had twelve opossums.
The worst one was Judas Asparagus. Judas was so evil that they named a terrible vegetable after him.

Jesus was a great man. He healed many leopards and even preached to some Germans on the Mount.

But the Democrats and all those guys put Jesus on trial before Pontius the Pilot. Pilot didn't stick up for Jesus. He just washed his hands instead.

Anyways, Jesus died for our sins, then came back to life again.
He went up to Heaven but will be back at the end of the Aluminum. His return is foretold in the book of Revolution.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Honey Do

Do any of you know the kind of husband
who just can't seem to get around to doing anything
on his "Honey Do" list?
You know...the guy that has to be hounded and hounded,
to do the simplest little thing?

Well - I'm not married to one of those guys!



Hubby got me a Gazelle, and set it up in Big J's old room.
I've been trying my darnedest to get on it every day.
There's a little TV in the room, along with a DVD player,
so I can watch a show while I'm walking.




Yesterday, I mentioned something that I saw on a show
that I had been watching.
I said that I hadn't been able to hear really well,
because the sound was turned down so low.
He asked why I hadn't turned the sound up.
I told him that I didn't want to break my stride
(and this is sort of laughable cause I'm only up to
about 11 minutes at a time)!

Last night I'm walking, and I look down to make sure that George
hasn't moved behind me
(cause he sure doesn't need another knock on the head)
and this is what I saw...


... my sweet husband had velcroed the remote to the Gazelle.
That man is sooooooooooooo
good to me!