Winter in Ontario.

@ Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, Calif.

Black Friday

Okay– so here’s a spreadsheet for the (sneak peak) deals on Black Friday…

http://tinyurl.com/ycx7wrt

ENJOY!

MX on ICE!

So, in browsing the Citizens Business Bank Arena site for upcoming hockey games (yay!) I found out they are having MX on ICE in December!!!!!!! HOW RAD! December 12th (Sat)… which SUCKS because Mike works and I absolutely KNOW he’d LOVE it. GRRRRRRR!

HERE is the website for the ICE RACING
and
HERE is the one for the Arena

Anyone wanna go with me????? PLEASE?

Technology

Recently my iMac has been having issues. I think Mike jinxed it. He thinks I’m always on the computer and said “I hope that computer takes a ^$#@ “ Well, it did. For some reason, the computer was not recognizing the hard drive and operating system. It was intermittent. So, it is now over at Apple getting replaced under warranty (thank goodness!).

During this past week being computer-less has me realize that Mike might have some truth to “I’m always on the computer”… seems sometimes, being TOO “connected” can be a bad thing. It’s funny how much we come to rely on technology sometimes. I would come home and immediately log on to the computer—check email, etc. I would wake up—same thing. It was a vicious cycle. I never realized this until this week.

The first day, I sat on the couch and Mike looked at me and said “You are so lost without that thing aren’t you?” I had to laugh and agree. I am. So—this week, I am taking to my advantage and getting AWAY from technology. You know, pulling out the good ole YELLOW PAGES (yea, remember THOSE) to look businesses up…. READING my books more….. playing with the dogs…. I seem to actually have more time now (go figure).

Reminds me of when I was living at home and the microwave broke. I called my mom at work and had asked her how I was supposed to make Ravioli’s (Chef Boyardee) in a can without the microwave. She laughed and said on the stove. I had no clue. Wow.

rethink: What is keeping you from life?

Civic

I GOT A NEW MOTOR/ETC IN MY CIVIC!!!!!!!! (you can say “YAY!” now) :)

I’m sooo happy with the results. The car is more responsive, and now I’m not so skeptical about driving long distances in it for fear of the motor blowing or losing power. We did get 250,000 miles out of the original engine….that’s pretty good if I don’t say so myself! Mike and I took it in to get the new motor on a Friday morning— picked it up the NEXT.DAY. WOW! Talk about quick. The motor and transmission have about 30,000 miles on them from Japan. So, I’m sure its all traffic miles…. But who cares! Anything beats what I had!!! All in all, for a little over $2,000 we got away with:

New motor (JDM 1.6)

New transmission (SI tranny!!!)

New aluminum radiator

New belts/hoses

New clutch

SUPER STOKED!!!!!!!!!!!

Hoarding.

READ ABOUT NICHOLAS CAGE HERE

This is just a PRIME example of:

1) POOR choices financially— especially in this economic time of crisis

And

2) How people view their treasures here on Earth as their own personal “gods” and how these “things” take over their lives (obviously, its not a good thing IMO!)

In MATTHEW 19-21 (THE MESSAGE VERSION—I’m using it because it’s layman’s terms) it says: “Don’t hoard treasure down here where it gets eaten by moths and corroded by rust or—worse!—stolen by burglars. Stockpile treasure in heaven, where it’s safe from moth and rust and burglars. It’s obvious, isn’t it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being.

Hmm…. Seems like SOMEONE knows what they are talking about!!! Despite the WORD being decades old…it STILL holds true.

HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

REthink:  What ‘treasures’ are you storing up here on earth and not in heaven?

Marvelous Light- MOI!

This is an old video…but I was listening to this on the way home from work this morning and it is just SO uplifting!!!!!

Into marvelous light i’m running, out of darkness, out of shame!

GREAT way to start your morning!

NEW MOON (Spoof!)

wireLESS network- FAIL!

If you have WIFI, this is the list of your “neighborhood” (people in your area) that have internet with WIFI (the lock is password protected internet)—- basically, anything without a lock next to it, you can “steal” their internet for your (free) use.

Thought this was funny.

Bible in a NUTshell.

This is by SHANE VANDER HART. 

Thought it was SUPER DUPER cute…. so….GOTTA SHARE! 

As how a child in Sunday school may hear it.  This made me laugh out loud so I had to share it.

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 Eden.

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.