IHOP Girl: Activities for 2011

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Activities for 2011

1. Jess 1 you TOTALLY have to come to Scotland with meeeeeeee!!! We're going to have so much fun! I needed a date for our trip anyway, I don't know why I didn't think of you as my perfect friend!! So yes, you're coming and I'll give you details as I pull it more together.

2. SFL. I found you a Punkin Chunkin video, start building your weapon of mass pumpkin destruction!!!

3. I think we should rent a plane for our Scotland trip ;-)

Any other fun ideas? ;-)

9 comments:

shrunken_frontal_lobe said...: punkin tossin' is the pinnacle of our technological development. the perfect marriage of Physics and Engineering Sciences. who knows the untold benefits to society that will result from the funding of punkin throwing. reach for the pie is the motto. NASA should spend more on funding these techniques for lifting objects to gravity-overcoming velocities.

i now know that my density lies with my fellow punkins. they will embrace me in my punkin suit, truly i am of one spirit with my fellow gourds.

ps - i see this scotland thing has turned into the estrogen express, so i'm outta here. of course if i donned my kilt i could sorta bring out my feminine side and maybe be able to survive the time with all the femaales... but the thought of it will take a year at least to get used to. Yikes!; 5:40 PM
Clair Bannerman (alias) said...: Hahaha, I'm glad you found your purpose in life...I'll get right on the making of your pumpkin suit.

As for the estrogen express - Its so true! Hm I guess that means you need to increase your camel offer in order to buy one more male for the trip.; 6:05 PM
Clair Bannerman (alias) said...: Mmmm do remember Nate can come and help balance the testosterone level.; 6:06 PM
shrunken_frontal_lobe said...: yeah, but estrogen is estrogen no matter how must anti-estrogen you try to throw at it. that's one of the universes immutable laws; "thou shalt not attempt to overcome females, they shalt win every time." yeah verily though i walk through the valley of females i shall fear no evil, thy fishing rod and hunting camp shall comfort me...; 6:49 PM
Anonymous said...: I'll pitch in for the plane rental on 2 conditions. 1. You rent Austin Powers jumbo jet. 2. I get pitched out over Moscow or Germany. With a parchute of course.; 9:26 PM
shrunken_frontal_lobe said...: “Parts of Scotland and northern England were under several feet of water Friday morning after raging rivers burst their banks and flooded towns, officials said”

So you want to go to scotland do you? It appears there’s little scotland left. Let’s just stay in the good ol’ US of A and find a nice spot, say out west were it’s dry with lots of pretty rocks to find and take. No need to go to the home of your imagined ancestors. How many times do we have to tell you; you’re an alien-human hybrid left with us merely to monitor your growth.

Hew!; 9:05 PM
shrunken_frontal_lobe said...: hey anonymous,

they're not using a plane, i'm gonna use a trebochet, pressure gun, magnetic rail-gun, or humungous rubber-band launching device to send them.

we do need a "volunteer" to test out the concept. you must provide your own helmet though. i'm quite sure it will not be usable a second time.

he!; 3:17 PM
Jess said...: SFL, I think YOU should test your theory -- who better to evaluate the concept than the person who came up with it? he!,yourself! :D

Jess.....SCOTLAND HERE WE COME!!!!!!!!!! *screams with excitement* LOL!; 12:22 PM
shrunken_frontal_lobe said...: well, no good scientist will risk injury if one has subjects to use instead. would you want to use the invention of a stupid scientist?

so, care to be my test "dummy"?

he!; 7:47 PM

Movie Night In...I love a good movie!

Mega Mind
Taking Chance (Will make you cry like a baby)
Charlotte Grey (A bit of a different take on Nazi Germany)
Series - Merlin (I LOVE BBC)
Robin Hood (Okay, a love Russell Crowe, you'll have to understand that about me...)
Kingdom of Heaven (Chuck full of acting power with an epic tale)
Miss Potter (Such a great film! Story of the creator of Peter Rabbit)
How to Train your Dragon (Possibly my favorite animated movie ever...I'm like a little kid, I watch it over and over)
Buck (Sundance winner, Biography of Horse Trainer, heart touching)
Lost in Austin (Modern day spin on Pride and Prej.)

Life as a nurse...

Great words by Reb Jeff: Vayishlach: Facing Death

"Rachel died. She was buried on the road to Ephrat — now called Bethlehem. Jacob set up a pillar above her grave. It is the pillar at Rachel’s grave to this day."–Genesis 35:19-20

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidui http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_(Judaism), and preparing the notifications to the community, feel like little fragments of the sacred. I have been entrusted with the care and tending of the most powerful, complex and difficult emotions that a person can experience in life. I have been made, in some small part, a guardian of the memory of a departed soul — a life that touches upon many other lives.After dropping off my older daughter at her high school this morning, I made a stop at Treasure Coast Hospice http://www.tchospice.org/, a remarkable organization that sets a very high standard for the loving and respectful care of the dying. There, I visited a lovely man whom I have seen a few times in his hospice room. I sat by his bedside and listened to him (in full possession of his faculties) as he told me about his worries about his family, the support of his wife after he is gone, and the future of his children and grandchildren. I was deeply moved by the way he put any concern for himself — even while facing death — in a distant backseat to his concerns for his family. When my own time comes, I can only hope to have his awareness of the way that one life can touch so many others.Also at hospice, I visited a woman I have known for the past two years — a dear soul who is a former Jewish religious school director. I sat with her, too, singing psalms to her as I listened to her heavy and labored breathing. I have no medical training, but I have come to know the sound of a person who is close to death. The body begins to fight for each breath as it slowly looses it grasp on life. As I held her hand and sang, I realized that being a rabbi is no protection against becoming one of the people caught in the web of connection. I, too, am changed by the loss of a life that has touched mine.Later in the day, I met with a couple from our congregation. She had just learned that her brother died yesterday in a car crash. Coming to terms with the loss is made more difficult for her by the fact that she and her brother had not seen each other or spoken in five years. Sometimes, people think it is easier to mourn the death of someone who has moved out of your life. In my experience, though, it's harder. Grief is magnified by wounded love and regret. I have no magic words to say to ease the pain of mourning. All I can do is listen, become a vessel in which people place their stories, and offer compassion.Actually, there is one more thing I can do. I can have faith that "all I can do" is all that I need to do. It is enough.In this week's Torah portion (Vayishlach) Jacob watched Rachel, the love of his life, die in childbirth. He was overcome by grief. Jacob had worked for his cruel uncle Laban for fourteen years to earn the right to marry Rachel. Now she was gone. Because she died while they were traveling, Jacob had to bury her by the side of the road. He built a pillar of stones on the spot to mark the place as sacred.This is what we all do, in one way or another, when death enters our lives. We grieve and our hearts break. We wish that we could continue to walk along the path of life with our loved ones forever, but the dead cannot fully join us. We have to leave something behind in order to resume our own journey. So, what do we do? We mark the moment as sacred. We erect monuments — both in cemeteries and in our hearts. The stones we place on top of stones remind us that a life may end, but its sanctity is forever.The Torah says that the monument Jacob built for his beloved continues to stand until this day. A life that touches the lives of others never ceases to send living reverberations throughout the web that binds us all.