brain tweaking

a common english word
nine letters long
subtract one letter, it still is an english word.
brush off another, it remains an english word.

nine letters all the way down to one letter- are all english words.
what word is it?
and the subsequent words?

and no cheating!

A Jot and A Tittle

My Holiday:

• Decorating the Church (2)
• Sledding at the Dike
• Running on the River
• Built a Family of Snowmen
• Climbed Mt. Depot
• Fell in Love with the CUTEST baby under the sun
  
• Threw Confetti & drank bubblie
• Created a Fort protected by a watchman and an Amazon Warrior Snowwoman
• Read 8 novels and hundreds of children’s books
• Explored a new world
• Sledded down a vertical drop
• Saw too many movies
• Conversed in Arabic
• Talked with my Sister (in Quito)
• Was attacked by the Treadmill
• Cooked for the Missionaries
• Played games with my Family
  
  
  And so much more.

Suspense

Constituting my Dreams

listed in order of frequency

• A husband named Erich
• An adorable, beyond measure, little Jewish daughter
• My family in North Dakota and Quito
• Eschatological things
• Lots of color and symbolism
• A couple second warders
• Halloween parties
• My elementary principal and his wife
• School work and professors
• Germany (dreamt in German)

just thought it was rather interesting... or weird...

Sorry I have been rather quiet lately... still don't have a whole lot to say though.
Besides...
Have a wonderful day
and just smile.

have you stood in another's shoes?

points of views are very interesting.
they are helpful to know.
they can be offensive.
they can be enriching.

propaganda is using media to try to persuade others to a specific point of view. once, while researching information for a historiagraphy paper about anti-semitism in post world war two in the Middle East, i came across this.

i thought i'd share.

first: use this address- http://www.islamicity.com/IslamiTV/
2nd: under "Main Categories" (left hand column) select "Original Shows"
3rd: toward the bottom of the left column "Sub Categories" will appear, select "Comical Views"
4th: watch and listen to the two about Bush. (you can watch the other two if you'd like...)

then, let me know what you think. and if you haven't watched 'em, don't read the comments until you do.

HYPOCRITE

My life has been culminating into this crazy thing bound by deadlines, time frames, and schedules: although I like organization more than I probably ought to, I miss simplicity. Since when does it matter if a paper be four pages or eight pages? Since when should a person lose sleep, sanity, compassion… over an insignificant assignment in the eternal scheme of this world?

Last Sunday, Ashley N. asked me to give the lesson for FHE. I did, giving one on optimism. I privately set the goal to be optimistic all week. I failed. Miserably failed. Besides having a Hurricane Katrina proportioned migraine for multiple days, I was short-tempered, frustrated, depressed, and cranky. I didn’t want to laugh. I didn’t want to talk. I didn’t want to do anything.

But knowing this, and remembering what I shared on Sunday, I feel even worse (imagine that) because I know that I am being a Hypocrite. “Be happy,” my mouth said. “Be miserable,” my actions yelled. “Smile at others,” I suggested.” “Don’t you dare smile at me!” my eyes hissed. “The Savior, even through all that He suffered- for you, for me, for all of those He loved- was the most optimistic man to live. We are taught to be like Him,” I reminded the group. But, to everyone reading my actions, face, or mind, “Woe is me. Let me be miserable.”

But…. I wanna report… I am fighten’ dat miserable misery-devil.
And

I

Am

Now

SMILING!!!!!