Priority #1 for the next two weeks:

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Never gets old...

My sister just got a job as the relationship manager of her IT department.

Also, she's ginger. The jokes are endless.

Homeopathic ER

And this is why I told someone the other day that one of my best friends lives in Jersey.

(I'm @GracefulEwe.)

Nerd Love

Between Peers

Lilly: Candy IS breakfast!
Anne: Totally!  I mean, what else would you eat for breakfast?  Candy or boogers.
Lilly: You can't eat your boogers!
Anne: Yes you can!  I eat mine all the time.
Lilly: Gross.

Come on and meet the elements

From the mouth of a 5-year-old

Response to hail: "It's raining rocks!"

Hungry on the way home from church, talking to herself: "There's nothing else in the car, so I HAVE to eat these."  Yep.  She was referring to her boogers.

Something funny in the news:

"Pope Benedict XVI has also called on French bishops to oppose the bill and defend marriage as the 'foundation of social life.'” (source)

A celibate man who is the leader and head of thousands (millions? Who knows) of other celibate men and women, calls marriage the foundation of social life.  I find this funny...delightfully ironic.

Jenny Brandt

"As a soap enthusiast I know that death is just one more thing in life that you can cheat."

(From this super bizarre and hilarious Swedish blog.)

Healing, Healed

Me: I'm not in pain, I'm just kind of uncomfortable and annoyed.
Hannah: That's called a normal period.

.:Still a better love story than twilight:.

Totally seeing this.

Family Heritage

When my Grandpa Ray had just started dating my Grandma Lois, Grandma took Grandpa to meet her mom - my crazy Great-Grandma Effie Mae.  First thing GG did was whip her boob out of her dress, look my grandpa in the eye and say, "My husband says I have the breasts of a 16-year-old."

Grandma Lois and I

Grandpa Ray married grandma anyway.

Brad's new ad...and Zoolander

I was half expecting Brad's dad to rush on screen and say, "You're more dead to me than your dead mother!"

Cake Boss

My sister's birthday was Wednesday so my 5-year-old niece and I made cupcakes. These are the ones she decorated.  We affectionately labeled them "poocakes" and Mom couldn't bring herself to eat one.  :)

As silly as it sounds,

my surgical pain astounds me.
Ridiculous, considering my pain levels are miraculously so low that
when sitting still, I feel nothing.
Even walking, sometimes fine.
But if I move wrong and am reminded that my body is still in pain
I think,
"What??"
Like,
somehow,
magically,
only a week after major abdominal surgery,
I should be healed.

Thank you, Pinterest!

"Yes! I'll marry you!"

"For the first 24 hours after your anesthesia, refrain from drinking alcohol, driving a car, or making important decisions." - Vital Health Institute

Using military terminology in regards to sex will get you nowhere.

I know not all of my blog readers are really active in the blogging world, but in the theological blogsphere there's been a bit of a firestorm over a post that Jared Wilson wrote on The Gospel Coalition's website.  I find the post generally uninteresting as it falls within the main themes of complementarian thought, to which I am not a subscriber, but basically he's arguing that men and women who step outside of conservative relationship roles are opening themselves up to rape fantasy.  Whatever.  We could take a week debating that, and it's not the point of my post.  Rather I want to comment on the quote that generated the most heat:

"A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts." -Douglas Wilson

Mr. Wilson, how about instead we say a woman surrounds, entraps, takes hostages, and a man gives up and gives in to captivity? 

Two sides to a coin, buddy Douglas.  Two sides to a coin.