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Archive for February, 2007

Creating Happiness

27Feb07

I believe we have the power to create our own happiness. I believe the real magic in the world is done by humans. I believe normal life is extraordinary.
– Wayne Coyne
NPR’s latest edition to “This I Believe.” Read or listen to the whole article here.

on ice

25Feb07

burrrrr. we were pummelled with a load of rain and ice, followed by snow last night. it actually made for a great evening. our power went out at 5:00pm saturday and wasn’t back on until 10:00am sunday. it was really kind of nice. no tv, no computer, no lights. [...]

alaska!!

21Feb07

Woooohoooo!! We finally purchased our plane tickets!
We’ve been thinking about going to Alaska for some time now and it’s finally in the bag. It’s been a year and a half since we’ve done a serious backpacking trip — so we are really looking forward to this. We’ll be spending the last 10 days of [...]

jesus camp?

21Feb07

Ren and I watched the documentary Jesus Camp last night.  Quite disturbing to be honest.  In many ways taking the same mentality of some foreign countries and “arming” the children with the “weapons” of God.  Very much an “us against them” mentality.  Not to mention the very ironic statements made by Evangelical pastor Ted Haggard.
To [...]

flippin’ cell phones!

20Feb07

holy crap! what a headache.
we fell in love with cingular. it was a beautiful thing…until we found out we had absolutely NO service at our home. according to cingular, it’s the city’s fault (which i actually believe). either way, the people at cingular were very nice and gave us everything back, including activation. whew!
and [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day!

14Feb07

I’m not going to bore you with the history of St. Valentine or tell you all about how much I’m in love. I just hope you feel loved by someone today.
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!

triathlon’s biggest purse

10Feb07

I’m in. I just finished registering for one of biggest, most exciting races this year, the International Triathlon Union (ITU) World Cup. No, I’m not competing with the pros, but they won’t be far off. Unfortunately I won’t be traveling to some exotic location to compete this year. Nope, this year’s [...]