Tuesday is Guest Star Day!

I know she posted this a few days ago, but I could so relate.

Here's for the ones choosing to be tired. Hang in there! It's worth it!

Sunday News

About to head home from TN. We have loved our time here so much! How refreshing, and now ready to head home and tackle the world.

Did you guys know I have ten million dollars waiting for me in a bank in Nigeria? It's true! I received an email just this morning, and all they need is all my personal information to verify who I am. Take a look:

JP MORGAN CHASE BANK
270 PARK AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10017

Attention.

We just received an information of approval from the Foreign Operation
Department of our correspondent Bank Central Bank Nigeria as instructed by
the Governor of the Central Bank. On how to credit your account through their
external reserve account with the JP Morgan chase bank new york.


Due to the high level of corruption in Nigeria, your fund has been deposited
in our bank. from now on do not respond to any email coming from the central
bank of Nigeria or other agent. if you have been contacted by anybody using
the name of central bank of Nigeria or other agent kindly forward the email
immediately to our bank for investigation by the cyber crime division,
because a lot of impostor has been using the name of central bank of Nigeria
and other agent to scam people. To avoid falling into the wrong hand please
direct all your inquiry through this office JP MORGAN CHASE BANK NEW YORK.


If you are receiving this notification for the first time, Note that the money
about to be transferred to you is Ten Million Seven Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars ($US10,700,000.00) which is on your name, can only be paid
upon our receipt of your beneficiary identification for clearance of the fund.
Send it immediately to us for instant accreditation of your fund as listed below.

1) Your full name.......................................
2) Phone, fax and mobile................................
3) Present country and current Home Address.............
4) Profession, age and marital status...................
5) Copy of your any valid ID card.......................


We expect your urgent response to this email to enable us disburse this
Payment effectively....

MR. JOHN MERCURY
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer
JP Morgan Chase Bank.
Email: johnmercury@chasebank-usn.com
Live: johnmercury-chasebnk@w.cn



I'm so glad they even warned me of other impostors who might want to rip me off. I think the first thing I'm going to do with the Ten Million Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars is buy them some English and grammar lessons. I think it would be helpful if I went through this with my red pen and sent it back to them.

My urgent response was to report it as a phishing scam, of course. ;-)

Time to get moving! I think BA made pancakes! See you all back in FL soon.

Black Friday

I'm writing this from BA's house in Tennessee! I'm so glad we made the drive up here to enjoy the beautiful weather, home, and friendship of her entire family. What a great day we had yesterday!

We don't have any plans to shop today. Thank God. While I was walking through Costco with Glenna the other day, I decided to take a look at their Christmas stuff. I looked and looked, but this was the ONLY representation of Christ in the entire store:

An overpriced lawn nativity.

Is it any wonder I resent the Christmas holiday so much? Bring on Easter!

Stay safe out there, and keep it in perspective, everyone!

Feeling Safer?

This was an actual question on Glenna's Driver's Ed exam:





Glad we have that straightened out.


After Thanksgiving, I'll make an appointment for her to get her permit. We don't dare go to the DMV without an appointment these days. Plus, I've heard she could take it on line and then just go to the DMV with all her documents.

Two down, one to go!

Practically Cute

Due to lack of counter space and questions on whether they do more harm than good, we decided to try and live without our microwave. I hauled it off to the school room and after a week of not missing it, I gave it to one of my JV'ers who was having a fundraising yard sale.




When we chose to eat more veggies, we discovered that we really weren't using the microwave, anyway. I also have a toaster oven, so it wasn't hard to choose which should stay and which should go.






Still, if we needed to heat up some leftovers, what to do? Before microwaves, you heated it on the stove or in the oven and waited patiently. Seriously, I feel that instant food and instant gratification have contributed to the epidemic of obesity in our country. How many times have we not wanted to make a salad because, sigh, we have to wash the lettuce first and then figure out what to add? Awww. . . skip it.



So, in case we did want to reheat leftovers, I decided that rather than heat up the oven we would just use the toaster oven. I found these cute little casserole dishes (orange in the above photo gives an idea of how small they are) and we'll cover them with foil while reheating.

The bonus, of course, are the polka dots.

Praise!

Many congratulations to our youth pastor and his wife! Their precious baby girl has arrived!

We love you, Josh and Kim!