This is the number of times my site has been visited.  7,000 of those are probably mine! 🙂 Update on Thumb:  One of my blisters is healing quite nicely.  The other blister (based on pain and color) is apparently infected.  I may have to amputate.  Perhaps I should do a live video feed on my … Continue reading 7,088

I have a new laptop now and I'm starting over.  Although it could be much worse than it is.  There are a few files and processes that I'm lost for good but not that many and not the important ones.  When my computer starting acting screwy in June, the guy who looked at it backed … Continue reading Starting Over

Tonight I tasted accomplishment.  It tastes goooood.  As a self-professed list person who writes things on my to-do list that I've already done just so I can have the satisfaction of crossing them off, I am not ashamed of my unabashed affection for accomplishment. I like goal-setting and I love goal-reaching. Tonight I ran a … Continue reading Run, Melissa, Run

Some of my faithful blog followers may remember that my laptop starting acting very funny back in May right before I was scheduled to leave for senior trip.  Some folks looked at it and repaired it but told me that it could die any day.  Maybe 1 week; maybe 1 year.  Who knows . . … Continue reading Death of a Laptop

Some of you choose to love me ... warts and all.  Literally.  But not anymore.  I'm about ready to post about some ugliness so if you just ate or you have a tendency to toss cookies, blow chunks, etc. at quasi-nauseous topics, you might just want to skip to the next paragraph.  However, if I've … Continue reading Warts and All

I just purchased the Three Days Grace cd last week and love it.  Rarely do I purchase a cd where I love every song but this is one of those rare cds for me (along with Pillar's Where Do We Go From Here? and Breaking Benjamin's We Are Not Alone most recently.)  Great songs; interesting … Continue reading Let You Down

Found this online quiz from a friend's blog that apparently identifies your theological worldview through a series of questions.  Below are the results of my quiz and I must say the resulting score is fairly accurate.  I'm particularly proud of the 0% score on fundamentalism. 🙂  If you read the description of an Emergent/Postmodern theological … Continue reading My Theological Worldview

I was in bad need of distractions tonight. You know - those times when you need your mind to be otherwise occupied for awhile with something other than what it is currently fixated on.  I went to the YMCA and worked out for awhile.  Ran through the pain I was feeling from yesterday's basketball game … Continue reading Distractions

A month or so ago I had decided to read up on the Bosnian War.  I realized that I didn't really know much about that war at all and it became important to me to get a sense of that conflict and the environment, experiences and issues that were a part of that region of … Continue reading Taking Things For Granted

Thanks to Cari and Maria for a very fun girl's night on Wednesday!  The food was completely sinful.  As for the participants . . . well, we were angels of course.  We had a wonderful evening chillin, eating, talking, etc.  We had a movie but we didn't even get to it.  Maria and Cari - … Continue reading Renewed Goals