mbna....revisited

My past. My past is coming back to haunt me. Thank goodness I got out before....."the merger."



Let me say this, though. When you work at a credit card bank.....you'll participate in anything if it means that you don't have to sell someone another credit card for 2 hours.

oh those pearly wisdom bits

A friend of mine on marriage:

"There are few real truths in life and everything else is personal preference...you stick to what is true and be willing to bend."

Good stuff.

spektator

Tomorrow night I will be having an AWESOME time going to see Regina Spektor in concert at the Gypsy Tea Room. It will be glorious. Here's what you have to do to get a glimpse of her amazingness:

1. go to her website

2. click to enter site

3. click on "video"

4. click on "on the radio"

5. watch, listen, be amazed.

haggard times

On my favorite new website, they had an insightful post about all the recent exposure to come out of Colorado.

Thought it was worth posting.

Today is a great day, incidentally. Rainy days seem to be my favorite these days. Great for opening up the shades, walking outside and just smelling the freshness. It's pretty awesome.

peace

lead us to the place where you'll restore our souls
and all our earthly strivings come to cease

take from our souls the strain and stress
and let our ordered lives confess
the beauty of your peace

*sigh*

p.s. love you Jesus!

anarchy

I was talking on IM to Jerome today (and I intermittently still am), and we were talking about the Ted Haggard scandal of late, and I got a few comic gems out of the conversation.

But first, before the hilarity - now I've built it up too much haven't I? - I don't know how much of the allegations against Ted Haggard are true, as I honestly don't know much about him other than that he's from Colorado and a major Republican & Evangelical figurehead who definitely supports that marriage between two people is defined as a male/female union.

If they are true, that's definitely a shame. With someone so prominent in such a field and who supports the things he supports, it would be easy for anyone who didn't want him reelected, and who is negatively affected by those very ideals to come out of the woodwork and claim outrageous things. I also know, though, that someone with such a calling for the Lord is going to be subject to fierce attack and temptation, and I don't just mean from humans. I read on the Colorado Springs channel 11 news website that he admitted to some of the allegations but not to others. Who knows.

Man. What a mess. That's why it's so important to have good, wise people around you for counsel. That's why it's good to just be honest, not necessarily with everyone, but with a few people you really trust. People that can keep you in check and know how you want to live your life and to remind you of that when you fall away from the course. Even if honesty is embarassing. Be honest before temptation turns into action. As any Jesus loving person, but especially as a spiritual leader (of many or few) and activist.

Okay, on to the comedy. On one blog website that referenced the Channel 11 report I mentioned earlier, after it cited a couple of paragraphs, the writer wrote this:

"Questions remain. Is this concrete evidence that God has now foresaken the Republicans? And how does this bear on James Wolcott's theory that 'all Republican political figures are gay, especially the men'?"

WHA? Seriously? Who's asking those questions? Who is this James Wolcott? Oh wait, I just looked it up and he's a Vanity Fair et al contributing editor. Hmm. Well assessed, James Wolcott.....Well assessed indeed.*

Jerome and I were talking about this whole ordeal and he was expressing that this confirms his belief in the separation of church and state and how he feels like Jesus would agree. Here's a bit of our conversation (and by our, I mean, here's what he wrote):

"Seriously though, you know that part where some wise acre asks Jesus who gets the $ money first - Caesar or God...and Jesus is just like, man, give Caesar what's his and give God what's his...i don't think that was about money. Taxes were the main beef the people had with the goverment then and I think that was a question regarding goverment as a whole...to me, I think Jesus was saying don't mix the two."

And this is my favorite:

"I am an anarchist (see Romans 13:1)."

Ha ha! Then he said just kidding, but it's funnier without it. And to save you the looking up of, here it is:

Rom 13:1 ¶ Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Nice.



*he only feels that way satirically.

putting on costumes...

...for no reason at all last Friday.

el grupo!






































and even though he wasn't at my house, I thought this costume was worthy of displaying on account of it's horrifyingly accurate representation: