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As astute readers have pointed out, I seem to have a very close and chatty relationship with God. They are right. God and I talk all the time. I was thinking I should document more of our conversations, but someone already wrote a book called Conversations with God. (By the way, I have that first one I just linked to – and I actually really liked the book.) But that book isn’t about MY conversations with God, which involve things like fire drills.

Okay, I went and entered “God” in the little Google search thingy I have over there on the right, and I saw that word a lot. I apologize. I’ll try to be better. On the other hand, I didn’t find what I was looking for, which is why the previous paragraph just ends with “fire drills.” What I did find, though, is this fantastic little paragraph I wrote back in Nov 2003. It made me giggle so I’m going to share it with you. God told me you’d like it. (See how I did that?)

“Wow, I was going to just post a link, but there’s a commercial on right now
to try to convince people that they can make money raising alpacas. I had no
idea it was that lucrative. Go to ilovealpacas.com for more info. (I’m not
building the link, because I don’t want them to know I’m talking about them.
Those alpacas are mean and they spit, you know? I don’t need that.)”

Isn’t that fantastic? Okay, now that I’ve entertained you, we can both carry on with our days.

Did you ever have an email conversation with someone that upon re-read just makes you giggle out loud? Allow me to share, then.

Jody:

As a reward, we had a fire drill! Woo hoo!

Mr. Dump:

WOO HOO!!!

Jody:

Apparently we all got out of the building in 6 minutes.

What I like about the fire drills here is that they announce them about 45 seconds before they happen – it’s the only time I have ever heard them use the speaker system. Some of us didn’t even know it existed until the first time they did that.

“God says he’s going to test the fire alarm system in conjunction with the Marlboro fire department!”

Mr. Dump:

Wow. So, what’s He like?

Jody:

He’s very interested in getting us out of the building quickly.

Mr. Dump:

He’s like that.

I think this person sums it up perfectly. I had my own thoughts to deal
with, and didn’t feel the need to share them. I also didn’t want to use
the anniversary to try to get traffic to the site.

If you have 5 minutes, it’s a great read.
http://liz-marcs.livejournal.com/206303.html

Man, is there something related to my allergies flaring up, or did I catch the 8 hour flu? I spent most of today curled up in a ball on the couch with the worst head/sinus thing I’ve had in a while. My ears were blocking and unblocking and hurting, and my nose hurt right along the edge. Now I’m used to sinus headaches, but this one just felt odd. Like someone had stuffed the Inflate Your Tire for a Quarter hose into one nostril and fired it up.

But I feel much better now – so who knows. I’m still going to turn in early tonight. I thought it was like, ten pm because of the whole getting dark way too early thing, but it’s only 8:30pm. Well, that’s late enough to find a book and cozy up. Let’s all hope I don’t wake up with the same thing tomorrow because I’ll be very very sad.

I got an email from Amazon that they had a new tool for folks like me trying to make a buck or two by sending folks to spend their money at Amazon. So I played with it and came up with my very own Be like Jody store.

So go ahead, give it a look. And feel free to Be Like Jody