I'm Alive!

I realize I haven't blogged in awhile.

I took Friday off because I had a bad headache Thursday night and ended up having to go to bed early due to my lack of prescription migrane medicine. Therefore, I got no house work done and had an appointment for the bug man to come do his magic on Friday afternoon. I cannot in good conscience let the bug guy come while my house is messy because I know that if I do, he'll go home to his wife after work and say, "It's no wonder so many people have pest problems...you should have SEEN the house I went to today!" As it turned out, he called and cancelled 30 minutes before his appointment, so now I have to keep the house clean for another week until my next appointment.

Yesterday we went to an air show. I don't suppose I had ever been to one before. I remember going to something when I was young where we could go inside of airplanes, but I don't remember any kind of airplane stunts. Anyway, I was sure that it would be prime mullet hunting grounds, but I saw precious few. It was fun to watch the people jump out of airplanes and parachute to the ground. I would have liked to be close enough to see them land. I wonder if they land on their feet. I wonder if the parachute lands on top of them and they have to crawl out from under it. I wonder if they kiss the ground when they land safely. There was also a truck with a jet engine on it that raced a plane. That was kind of fun. I almost missed it though, because it kept driving down the runway very slowly and I lost interest (I have the attention span of a 2 year old). Then all of a sudden I was told to turn around and look and saw it zooming by.

Right now I'm sitting listening to it rain. The rain sounds like wind chimes when it hits my gutters. It's soothing. I've finished two (smallish) books today--both of them pretty good.

The first one I finished was Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie which is fiction. The main theme was how literature can empower people to change their lives.

The second one was Never Knock a Freckle by Fay Angus which is kind of a Christian Living type book. The back of the book touts Angus as an Evangelical Erma Bombeck. There were a few good quotes from that book which I might as well share:

God is not a debtor to us; He could easily look at us and say,"Was not My Son enough?" We are debtors to Him, yet in His love, in His power, as our Father, He simply says, "Ask." (page 122)


Somehow we must translate the passive 'Goody-goody gumdrops, God blessed me today' routine in which so many of us indulge week after week, into the active, 'Now, how can I bless you?' Otherwise, we are in acute danger of becoming a generation of spiritual misers fondling our sanctified gold! (page 137)