Katy’s Weblog
The shoe phone…the cone of silence…”Would you believe…”…”Sorry about that, Chief.”…”I told you not to tell me that.”
If you are a Get Smart fan, those phrases elicit laughter at the thought of Maxwell Smart, agent 86. It was one of my favorite shows when I was young. In recent years, I introduced Smart to…
Today I drove past a corner lot on the way to work as I have often done. Today, something was different – the building that was there before was gone. It used to be a bank, then it was occupied by a small ethnic market, and most recently it was a bakery restaurant.
USC celebrates 125 years this weekend. It is also the School of Engineering’s 1100100 year (100 in binary).
We went for their free breakfast at the Engineering school, and tour some exhibits and demonstrations.
It’s a good thing USC is not a huge school. I am tired from all the walking already.
“There’s always a temptation, in the middle of a long struggle, to seek the quiet life, to escape the duties and problems of the world, and to hope the enemy grows weary of fanaticism and tired of murder. This would be a pleasant world, but it’s not the world we live in. The enemy is never tired, never sated, never content with yesterday’s brutality. This enemy considers every retreat of the civilized world as an invitation to greater violence. In Iraq, there is no peace without victory. We will keep our nerve and we will win that victory.”
This gives some insight into the current process in choosing and voting for a judicial nominee by President Bush.
A head-on fight as Bauer suggested would have surely defined our Senators, which would be a good thing for the American people to know. Of course with our California senators, it’s no secret how they would vote. (BTW, I did not vote for them)
A woman is worried about her future until she finds a husband;
A man never worried about his future until he found a wife.
A woman marries a man thinking he would change, and he doesn’t;
A man marries a woman thinking she won’t change, and she does.
When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place…
– Psalm 8:3 NIV
All of creation were handmade by God.
It makes me feel special.
I learned a lesson today from a fellow PTA mom.
She and I put together a Volunteer Party at the school to recruit volunteers. After the rather successful event, she called me to thank me. She did not wait till I saw her at school the next day. She did not call me to ask me to do something for follow-up (which we still have to do). She called with the expressed purpose of thanking me. (Honestly, I thought she did more work than I did.)
Since Elliot started kindergarten in 1993, I’ve been on the PTA board at Oswalt Elementary School every single year. That’s a span of 12 years!
I’ve seen 4-5 vice principals come and go. I’ve seen teachers get marry and get pregnant. Some come back and some do not. Elliot’s 3rd grade teacher was a first-year…
On Saturday, we experienced a momentous occasion – dinner out with only 3 in our family – Mike and I with Amy.
Elliot didn’t come home from college, Audrey was at a church retreat, and grandma went to a church potluck, leaving just 3 of us for Saturday dinner.