Ah Jeans Day. Would have been nice to know ya....

--Let me preface what I am about to tell you with this...

Occasionally our director, Page, will decide on a Thursday that Friday should be Jeans Day. Since we aren’t allowed to dress casual in my office it is a pretty big deal when we have jeans day. You long for it. Everything at work is jolly good when you are in jeans and sporting a cherry red pair of Chuck Taylor’s. At least it is for me! Usually Page’s announcement comes out at 4:30pm. Well about 1/3 of our department has already left by 4:30! I sit at my desk and I think about how AWESOME jeans day is and how pissed I would be if I came in and didn’t know it was jeans day because Page sent the email out after I left. Not cool! So I will pull up the office contact list and call everyone who has already left to tell them that “Tomorrow is jeans day! Party time!” It’s the least I could do….

End Preface--

Yesterday we had our weekly office meeting. Another department from our head office came over for a presentation. After the presentation my boss, Mike, and I needed to meet with them to discuss some onboard stuff. So we left the rest of the office to talk about their numbers and have the usual bitch-fest about how this is wrong and that is wrong and etc, etc. (Sorry….but can you tell that I loathe these meetings? They don’t even affect onboard sales. Mike and I go because we feel we should because we are in the same office but none of it applies to us. So when they start the bitch-fest I literally want to bang my head against a wall! They can be so ungrateful. **Ok so I just gotta rant for a bit. My job is difficult at times. I feel that I am underpaid. But I HAVE a job. My job is pretty secure. I can pay my bills and I have great medical insurance. The current state of the US is scary right now and people are losing their jobs. I am grateful for my job and I don’t want to spend any more time bitching about how things should be better and complaining about this and that. I am happy with what I have…shout out to the Big G!** Anyways…so Mike and I head to office and sit down with these people for our meeting. Tra-la-la…the rest of the day continues as a normal Thursday would.

Now fast forward to 8:31am this morning (I was late…had to make a coffee stop.) I walk in the office and there is a group of 4-5 coworkers congregating right near the door. I, wearing heels, look down on them and notice *GASP* ‘they are wearing jeans.’ What?! So I exclaim “Is it jeans Day?!” They look at me and one of them says “Yeah…we announced it in the meeting yesterday. You and Mike were there.” I pointed out that after the presentation Mike and I left for our meeting. Their eyes got wide. Oh the horror!! Fellow comrades left out of Jeans Day awesome-ness! Nooooooooooooo! They felt so bad….especially since they know that I am the one that calls everyone when the announcement is late. It made me laugh. I told them I didn’t really care because I am fairly comfortable today (even though I am wearing a skirt. I do have my high black boots on, though. And under said boots I am wearing my knee high pink socks with white stripes that are usually reserved for kickball. It’s my way of rebelling against ‘The Man’. “Ha! Business Attire…right-o. But if you only new what socks I am wearing! BWAHAHAAAAAA!” ) plus I am wearing a scarf and as long as I have one wrapped around my neck I feel all warm and snuggly and all is right with the world. BTW- This scarf obsession has taken over my life. LOL!

One of my coworkers stated “Well you look good. You will look better than anyone else today!” Hmph! So I told her (while doing the super ghetto “Ima bout to let you have it“ neck roll just to emphasize my point) “I always look better than everyone else!” *WINK*

Mike and I decided that on Monday….we will be wearing jeans.

MIDGEMO MIDGET MORRISON

Addison, or "Midgemo" as this Auntie calls her, is my adorable baby niece.

She lives in Charlotte so I never get to see her....but I do love sharing pictures of her cuteness!

Daddy, Momma and the Midge


Daddy and Midget

standing in the arena waiting for Daddy to come out....

LOL! Halloween....

REPRESENTING #35!!

NOUNS: Home (love it!), Argyle Sweater (Black, white and Red. Whatchu know about that?!), scarf (black and white checkered. Are you shocked I am wearing one today?) Fremont Bridge (it’s next to where I work), Vitamins (need to take mine), mousepad (it looks like a rug), sunshine (Huh? In Seattle in November? UNHEARD OF!!), rain (which will come later on after the Sun says buh-bye!), CrossFit (Hitting it hard in the gym again tonight) Cleaning supplies (cleaning up MH DT tonight!), Ronald McDonald House (putting hours in on Saturday.), lunch (about to go get some) and Moleskin Notebooks (The obsession of my life!)

VERBS: Typing (as usual), driving (to mi casa to pick up workout clothes and then to get lunch), sinning (UGH! It’s one of those days where you wake up with an ungrateful bad attitude. Working on that….), cleaning (later on tonight), serving (On Saturday….and thankful for the opportunity), reading (emails), eating (about to!), writing (MOLESKIN!!!), grateful (for GRACE!), and walking (to my car. BYE!)

Last weekend....

So this past weekend my 7 year old niece, Shae, came over to spend the weekend with Auntie.

I planned a kid’s day on Saturday which included a trip to the Seattle Children’s Museum and the Color Me Mine paint your own pottery place. I invited my co-workers son, Bryce, to come with us.

I met my sister halfway between Spokane and Seattle (Vantage, WA. And when I mean halfway…I mean it takes 2 hours 14 mins from her house to get there and 2 hours and 12 mins from my house to Vantage. Tight!) Friday afternoon.

Shae and I got to my house around dinner time and we decided that homemade macaroni and cheese was a perfect choice for dinner. Shae wanted to use my giant fork….

Some of you know that I love scarves. I wear one everyday. And Shae wanted to get in on the scarf action so she decided to wear one of my favorites. (I do believe Luz wore this same scarf of mine during her visit to the Emerald City as well!)
Aren’t we cute!



This is Bryce, Shae, and I hamming it up for the camera. We had a blast at the museum!

We pretended we were actors in a play…

Shae drove and Bryce rode the Seattle City Transit. Kids seem to think public transportation is so cool. If only they knew that most of the buses smell like pee.

AHOY!

Shae getting her paint on!


Later that Evening Shae and I went to see Madagascar 2 on IMAX. It was awesome!

I thank God for my nieces and nephew. They are such blessings. I love kids period. I will jump at the chance to have an excuse to spend an entire Saturday playing! :)

NOUNS: Coffee (gross office coffee), Turtleneck (black and sheer. Not your Grandma’s turtleneck!), scarf (polka dot), Queen Anne (it’s where I live), Green Tea (to assist in forgetting about the coffee I just attempted to drink), shoes, pottery (paint your own giant mugs from Color me Mine. For sipping coffee or perhaps green tea), candy (Werther’s Original), rain (the usual), CrossFit (I am still sore from last week!!!), dance, rings (picked this one up in Venezuela), salt (to season my words) and light (to show the world).

VERBS: Smiling, reading, typing, driving, drinking (but not while driving), reading, eating, talking (but not while eating), laughing, grimacing (that was from the coffee).

Single Issue Voter

So up until yesterday evening I was undecided about who I was going to vote for. I have deliberately sheltered myself (for the most part) from all of the political BS and slander that has dominated our airwaves and TVs and internet for the past year. Not having a TV at home certainly helps. But I really didn’t want my decision to be influenced by lies and negativity. I think our media in this country is so ridiculously biased that it makes me sick. I am sure a lot of the people who are voting today are misinformed.

I wasn’t sure who to vote for……A lot of issues I lean towards the conservative side. But then again….a lot of stuff on Obama’s platform I think are better for this country. I was going to spend last night praying about who God would want me to vote for. Ultimately He is in control so no matter what….I am going to trust that whoever is the next President is the one (good or bad) that is supposed to lead this country for the next 4 years. I am a Christian first and American second and I needed to be reminded of that.

I came across a scientific journal that now scientifically proves what I have known all along. Human life begins the second of conception. This finding now erodes the Pro-Choice argument about when a fetus can be considered a human life. It is from the minute the sperm meets the egg, folks. At that point….it is a child. I was led James 1:27 which says “Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God means caring for orphans and widows in their distress.” As well as Proverbs 31:8-9 “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.”

It is obvious to me that an unborn child on its way to meet its destruction is, in fact, an orphan. Its parents evidently do not want this child. They would prefer to discard it for their own selfish ambitions. This child needs to be protected. And since it has no voice and cannot speak up…someone needs to do it for them.

The reason Abortion is the only factor when considering whom I should vote for is because of how close the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) is to being passed. The next president will surely be the scale tipper on whether or not this bill passes. The FOCA would remove most of even the modest restrictions on abortion that have already been passed, including the state laws requiring young girls to notify their parents before getting an abortion. It would remove legal protections from Doctors who, on moral grounds, refuse to assist in an abortion. (How ironic right? The woman can CHOOSE to abort a child but a Doctor is not protected if they CHOOSE to not abort the baby. Not exactly freedom of choice is it?!) The Dems and Obama favor paying for abortions for the poor- making those who morally oppose abortion have to pay taxes that will be used to pay for what these citizens, such as myself, view as murder. FOCA opposes any substantive ban on partial-birth abortion. A partial birth abortion requires the mother to partially deliver the child and then the child is killed by sucking its brains out. Lovely huh?!

It is very popular right now to raise your voice on issues such as Africa, Aids, Global warming, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc. But it is not popular right now to speak up for all of the children we have lost due to abortion. Some say that the government should have no say in what a woman wants to do to her body. But it is absurd that we have so many laws protecting human life yet these laws don’t extend to unborn children. Some may consider me to be ignorant for choosing to decide based on one issue. But consider this. While each of the 4,000 US soldiers who have died in this war is a tragedy, that number equals the amount of abortions performed in 2 DAYS in the US. Similarly, the number of pre-born babies who have died this year eclipses the number of non-Americans who’ve died in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan COMBINED. What a sobering and sad statistic.

So today I chose to vote in a way that would protect and give a voice to all of the un-born children in America.

“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.” Psalm 139:13