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Project Happily Ever approaches Valentine’s Day the same way my husband and I do.

To my hubby for Valentine’s Day, I give you the haiku in 5 stanza, written by Project Happily Ever. (Change latte to tea, wine to hot chocolate, tight pants to loose pants, fat to thin, rodents to crickets…)

Ode to Mr. Strong and Silent

I wake up sleepy.
I bitch and complain a lot.
You bring me latte.

I have a hard day.
I stare at the wall and cry.
You bring me wine.

My pants are too tight.
I ask you if I look fat.
You say I am beautiful.

I think bugs are gross.
You kill bugs and rodents.
I thank God for that.

I make you bacon.
I tolerate your mother.
You know I love you.

This book in the Ender’s Game series was a little hard to get through. The start was a little slow. I gave up, skipped a few chapters, read the end, and then went back to read it through.

Orson Scott Card in this book Speaker for the Dead tells how humans and an alien species learns to coexist. It has some rather typical themes such as “you must respect each other’s cultures, no matter how ‘cruel’ it seems to you”, “should you give them technology to ‘improve’ their quality of life, or is that interfering?”, and “how do you live in harmony with other species so different from you?”

The second half of the book is better than the first, so if you get bogged down, just skim through till the action picks up.

Even if you are pro-abortion, it doesn’t make sense to have government funding for abortion.

I read this on bound4life.com

With all this attention on our tax-dollars and the recent Gallup poll that shows only 35 percent of America supporting the reversal of the Mexico City Policy, which banned money the U.S. gives in medical aid from going to promoting or performing abortion, the question needs to once again be asked. If, abortion is a private matter than why should the public have to pay for it?

Seriously, the mantra of the Pro-Choice movement is “right to privacy” and “abortion is decision between a woman and her doctor”… that is, until it’s time to pay! Then the people who are ordered to stay out of these “decisions” must now pay for what they are told is none of their business.

Read the rest of the post here.

It is not a coincidence that when I begin to criticize someone’s behavior that I become aware of that same bad behavior in myself.

The Bible is right (well, it’s always right) – How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?

We can live life pretty well without prayer.

Even as a Christian, I can do just about everything without asking for God’s help. I have no urgency to pray. When there is a crisis – health problems, major decisions, a special need such as a job – then the need for prayer is apparent.

But prayer should not be about whether or not I need God’s help to determine whether or not I pray.

Prayer is about wanting a richer and more meaningful life.

I’ve learned that a life of greater depth and a more satisfying relationship with God can only be attained if I pray.

Without prayer, I can still enjoy my life. But I can only see life one dimensional, a little blurry, from a worldly point of view.

When I sit down with God in prayer, I sense a filling of my spirit, a thirst being quenched yet not completely satisfied. There continues a beckoning to a deeper communion.

Having a praying life allows me to see my life through a sharper lens. I understand circumstances better, I am more in tune to God’s will, and I have more motivation to live a better life.

I lost my mother-in-law at Walmart today.

The people in Walmart paged her twice.

Then they allowed me to speak into the phone and page her in Chinese!

In case if you were at Walmart Chino at 12:30pm and heard some Chinese announcement over the intercom, that was me 🙂

The checkers at Walmart were really helpful, especially a checker name Bambi. (That’s what it said on her nametag, no lie.)

I found my mother-in-law at WinCo! She was there the entire time; she never even went into Walmart.

Jim Rohn: “Most people overestimate what they can do in their first year, and greatly underestimate what they can do in five years.”

A year ago I made 5 goals to accomplish before I turn 50. My birthday is in 2 days…if I don’t sleep for 2 days, I might get one of them completed…

At least this saves me the trouble of setting goals for next year. Control C and V, here are my next year’s goals:

1. Have an average of 500 visitors a day to my Parenting website.

2. Visit a foreign country that I haven’t been to before.

3. Complete an ebook and try to sell it.

4. Renovate our family room.

5. Organize our digital photos in an easy to access format.

Maybe add one more – exercise, a little.

Japanese food

Filed under Generalby Joyful

We were playing our own version of Scattegories around the dinner table last night:

Name a Japanese food that begins with the letter B.

Mike: B special!

Too much Tokyo Lobby…. 🙂

I read this:

The stock market took a beating yesterday, and investors were sorely disappointed as the excitement surrounding the historic swearing in of Barrack Obama as the nation’s 44th president was greeted on Wall Street by the worst inaugural stock market performance in the nation’s history. Investors ran for the hills as the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 332 points, breaking the psychological barrier of 8000 on the Dow, and bank stocks in particular were hit MERCILESSLY.

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I don’t agree with Obama’s economic policies – actually I don’t know if there are any of Obama’s policies that I agree with – maybe Wall Street isn’t too crazy about his plans either.