A Teenager at last...

But here he was at 3 months

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Reflection of the day

The whole plan of our spiritual life is a loving union and intimate partnership with Jesus in which we return him love for love . . . In giving himself to us, he gives us his Holy Spirit to dwell in our souls, as a permanent friend and source of strength and light . . . He has made the whole spiritual life a partnership with himself, making us part of himself, and he has reduced our share in the work of the partnership to a minimum. In fact, to repeat Father Clerissac's words: "It is our emptiness and trust that he needs, not our plentitude."All he asks is that we put our faith and hope in him, that we love him with our whole heart, that we renounce our own pretended strength and our foolish plans by humility and abandonment; he will do the rest.

- Father Eugene Boylan, O.C.S.O.

Quote of the day

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
~Stephen King

Understanding Engineers

From a friend....

Understanding Engineers #1

Two engineering students were biking across a university campus when one said, "Where did you get such a great bike?" The second engineer replied, "Well, I was walking along yesterday, minding my own business, when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike, threw it to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, "Take what you want." The first engineer nodded approvingly and said, "Good choice: The clothes probably wouldn't have fit you anyway."

Understanding Engineers #2

To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

Understanding Engineers #3

A priest, a doctor, and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed, "What's with those guys? We must have been waiting for fifteen minutes!" The doctor chimed in, "I don't know, but I've never seen such inept golf!" The priest said, "Here comes the greens-keeper. Let's have a word with him." He said, "Hello George, What's wrong with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?" The greens-keeper replied, "Oh, yes. That's a group of blind firemen. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always let them play for free anytime." The group fell silent for a moment. The priest said, "That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight." The doctor said, "Good idea. I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist colleague and see if there's anything she can do for them."

The engineer said, "Why can't they play at night?"

Understanding Engineers #4

What is the difference between mechanical engineers and civil engineers? Mechanical engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets.

Understanding Engineers #5

The graduate with a science degree asks, "Why does it work?" The graduate with an engineering degree asks, "How does it work?" The graduate with an accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?" The graduate with an arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"

Understanding Engineers #6

Three engineering students were gathered together discussing who must have designed the human body. One said, "It was a mechanical engineer. Just look at all the joints." Another said, "No, it was an electrical engineer. The nervous system has many thousands of electrical connections." The last one said, "No, actually it had to have been a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?"

Understanding Engineers #7

Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

Understanding Engineers #8

An engineer was crossing a road one day, when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess." He bent over, picked up the frog, and put it in his pocket. The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn back into a beautiful princess and stay with you for one week." The engineer took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to the pocket. The frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I'll stay with you for one week and do anything you want." Again, the engineer took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket. Finally, the frog asked, "What is the matter? I've told you I'm a beautiful princess and that I'll stay with you for one week and do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me?" The engineer said, "Look, I'm an engineer. I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog - now that's cool."

If you're a millionaire...

I guess you're pretty sad about Obama's news today, because you'll have to pay more taxes on those millions. Of course, for us normal people, it doesn't have an effect.

Gabriel turns 13 this week, and will have a sleepover and have fun at a gymnastics center, with some friends. He says, absolutely not, his sisters cannot come with them.

Marian is busy doing a school project on pelicans and is finding out all sorts of things (some gross) about these birds.

Anna is busy with play practice, Girl Scouts, and homework somewhere in there.

It's that time of year again, fundraising, and so am bringing the fundraising sheets to all my events, and only getting some orders--oh well.

Where were you 10 years ago?

In a grocery store with my son and the man in front of me in line told the clerk about the crashes. It didn't become real until I listened to it on NPR and saw it on tv.