Who Links Here

I just want to know.

Update: Apart from the usual suspects, I found that the following blog links here:

Get The Latest Sports Injuries Updated Hourly

probably from these posts:

• Inguinal Hernia - Topic Overview
• That Pain in the Groin - Update

'Get Away From Your Pain'

That's what Keisha wants Jennie and I to do. Jennie's got bone spurs in her feet. I've got lower back pain.

I believe Keisha's words were, "You guys need to get away from your pain."

Then Jennie just piped in with, "I wonder how much it would cost to have a servant girl." lol.

Oy, My Aching Back!

I don't know what happened. I took a nice shower, and, after drying off, I walked out of the bathroom and my lower back stiffened up.

Jennie says it has to do with me picking Keisha up on Friday night. I think I would have felt it much earlier than Sunday morning if that was the case.

She and a friend from church have gone to fill a prescription I got from when I slipped and fell a few weeks ago. At the time I had some meds from the ER, but now I see the need for more of it.

Keisha, meanwhile sits at the dining room table, completing a few book reports for school.

Ladies Night Out - JOKE ALERT

Two women go out one weekend without their husbands. As they came back, right before dawn, both of them drunk, they felt the urge to pee. They noticed the only place to stop was a cemetery. Scared and drunk, they stopped and decided to go there anyway.

The first one did not have anything to clean herself with, so she took off her underwear and used them to clean herself and discarded them.

The second, not finding anything either, thought "I'm not getting rid of my underwear..." so she used the ribbon of a flower wreath to clean herself.

The morning after, the two husbands were talking to each other on the phone, and one says to the other, "We have to be on the look-out, it seems that these two were up to no good last night, my wife came home without her underwear..."

The other one responded, "You're lucky, mine came home with a card stuck to her behind that read, "We will never forget you."found on Off The Track

I'm An Extremely Famous Movie Quote

"Show Me The Money." From: JERRY MAGUIRE.
A tough citizen, maybe even a bit of a bully.
You go out and search for what you want, and no
optsical can stop you. You may consider
yourself diligent, but rude and crude at the
same time, seeing as you would push everything
you love aside for what you want. You have your
fair share of bad qualities, like being
untrustworthy, but you also have some good
qualities, because you are great at supporting
people, and influencing people to just do what
they feel, which is very good. ^_~


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Cleaning pennies with taco sauce

It's true! Actually, you will find that you can clean the pennies with a vinegar/salt mixture. So now you too can have bright, shiny pennies!

Whoo Hoo! I'm glad I found this. I didn't know what I was going to do with my free time!

ADHD Fog

I've stopped taking the Adderall. I've finished the medicine I had, and we don't have money for the prescription co-pay to get it refilled. I need to call the doctor to see if there is some other, less expensive medicine I might take.

In the meantime, I'll be looking for other, non-medicative ways of dealing with the ADHD.

Discovery Channel :: MythBusters

I heard these guys do an interview on the radio this morning. I think I'll use this site as a companion to Snopes.com.

They examine a lot of urban legends to see whether they are true.

At a gas station, there are signs warning us not to use cell phones when filling up the tank. There is a greater chance of explosion from the static buildup that occurs when we get out of our vehicles. That's why, the fire marshals say, we should touch the metal frame of our vehicles before we start to pump - to ground ourselves.

Tom Daschle Must Go

Attention South Dakota voters: Please make Tom Daschle go away!

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Friday Night with Keisha and God

Keisha and I just returned from taking Jake for a walk. It feels like November outside. I might even put my winter coat on today.

She and I are heading to the library in a little while. I learned that 10 of the items I've requested are now available. They are mostly DVDs and CDs.

Last night, while Jennie napped before heading to work, Keisha and I spent some great time together. We did a couple loads of laundry, and we started to work on a "Color by Numbers" kit Jennie bought for her yesterday. I helped her make her bed, and we ate dinner together.

While we ate dinner, we went through a "Sticky Situation" in her "Sticky Situations" book. Yesterday's situation was about seeking advice. The child in the story planned to make special crafts to give as Christmas presents to her family, friends, and teacher, but as she started to consider the cost, she realized that she may have gotten herself into more than she could handle. She didn't want to ask someone in her family for help because that would spoil the surprise.

We were given three scenarios for how to play the situation out:

1. Go through as she orginally planned and cross her fingers, hoping everything works out
2. Ask another adult, like a grandparent or a craft store worker, what they thought of her plans
3. Give up and just buy them something

We looked at Proverbs 15:22. In her Bible, it reads:

Plans fail without good advice.
But they succeed when there are many advisers.

Finally, Keisha asked me to share about a time when it was hard for me to get advice and a time when we didn't get advice, discussing the results for each. I shared about when we were looking to buy a house: how we spent many months looking in Middletown and finally Dayton, how we asked many people from church and elsewhere for their thoughts. When we finally decided to buy it, we believed we'd made a wise decision.

I also shared about when Jennie and I went on vacation the year before Keisha was born: we didn't really ask anyone else about where to go, nor did we have the money to go on vacation like we did. Also, when we returned, we decided to go into debt by getting new furniture and appliances, which we couldn't really afford. We later had to pay more money for this debt because of these unwise decisions.

Before I tucked her into bed, I read couple of Bible stories, as she requested. The first one was about the Magi giving presents to Jesus. I emphasized to Keisha that the Magi gave Jesus their very best because they loved him and worshipped him.

The second story was about Jesus feeding the 5,000 men with only two fish and five loaves of bread. Since she's learning subtraction at school, I explained it to her this way:

Normally, two minus two is zero and five minus five is zero, right? Not so with Jesus. Somehow, Jesus miraculously made sure that everyone had enough to eat. His disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of leftovers!

She was encouraged to know that God can do miracles like this.

Before she climbed into bed, she told me, "Daddy, let's pray to God." So we did. Afterward, she told me, "I think we should do this every night when I go to bed." Okay.

I left her room, feeling convicted and inspired to see how God is helping our daughter love him more.