I prefer the term "Exceptional" to "Weird". We're all exceptional. Makes me feel better about myself because my parents didn't cater to my self esteem needs as a child by telling me I was a winner each and every day by giving me oodles or participation medals and ribbons for doing mundane things. Thanks Polly and remember that the smell of cow poo is actually the smell of money!!!!
We lived in Boise when I was stationed at Mountain Home. That was 10 years ago. One of my missionary companions is a city planner in Meridian. He says the area has grown so rapidly in the last ten years that I wouldn't recognize most of it.
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The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life. - Julie Beck
Yeah, I agree we're weird. Was out walking with two cocokids in the stroller and listening to my iPod. Someone asked what I was listening to and I replied, "Vintage Hugh Nibley." Sometimes even within the Church we're weirder than most weirdos. There's your sort of mainstream weirdos, and your truly Isaiah or Noah - type weirdos. Gosh, I'd love to have known what some of those men were like on a day to day basis. They really were independent of mind. Awesome.
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Life is tough but it's tougher if you're stupid. -John Wayne
Heh. This morning I was listening to the Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith on my radio, with the window down. I wondered about the folks in cars next to me, who might overhear it, what they might think to hear him talk about the gift of tongues, and women laying on hands to heal, and the founding of Zion, baptism for the dead, God's great mercy for all men and the tendency men have to condemn people to hell over trivial matters and the dispensation of the fullness of times.
The more I listen to the preachings of the prophet, the more I realize that notions that struck me as new, from more modern latterday prophets were first discussed and explained by the Prophet of the restoration in perfect clarity! It's been quite a fascinating discovery... Joseph may have meant the words for different circumstances but they have a timelessness to them... almost like scripture...
Hrmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... ;)
--Ray
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I'm not slow; I'm special. (Don't take it personally, everyone finds me offensive. Yet somehow I manage to live with myself.)
My entire branch is weird/exceptional. We are all unique and are all very quirky. We are mostly a rural branch. We are all very independent and yet one very close family, we all look after each other very closely. One family just moved out due to a job, in fact almost lost his job because they were dragging their feet to get a new house in a different place, city residency requirement for a city job. They just dreaded leaving because of the uniqueness of the branch. Heck, we even have one who goes out to the parking lot and smokes, but still comes faithfully. Most of the branch has pretty much confessed their pasts to everyone, and the part I love, no one cares at all.
I think we are all one big dysfunctional, yet close family in our branch. What's funny is that the branch president is probably the most straight laced and yet does not fit because of that, but since it makes him "exceptional" in comparison to the rest of us that he fits. I drive him nuts. I think he is the only one in the branch that does not own at least one firearm, weird.
What is interesting is that our uniqueness has endeared us or at least made us liked amongst many of the local community. I love being a peculiar folk.
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Lo, there I see my mother, my sisters, my brothers Lo, there I see the line of my people back to the beginning Lo, they call to me, they bid me take my place among them In the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live...forever
Roper - you were stationed in Mountain Home? I think I remember you mentioning that. I lived near or in Mountain Home for 4 years before moving to Texas. However, that was over ten years before you were there. I was born in Burley and lived on potato farms for the first 5 years of my life. I'm related to many Bates, Adams, Lee and Corbetts in Idaho (from one end to the other).
Our ward is pretty typical. Of course, I've been in it for most of my life so maybe it just seems that way to me.
Polly...take the laser pointer and shine it into the hollow of a door frame where the latch fits. It bounces around and makes it look like there's a force field!!!
And of course, if you get a spray bottle that does a fine enough mist, you can play "breaking past the laser security system" games...
I forgot my laser pointer when I did a powerpoint presentation for Scoutmaster minute last week at the Court of Honor. I also forgot to turn the lights off, so the images projected onto the screen from the datashow were fuzzy to boot...
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
I had to fire a guy that worked for us for a number of years. He had become an alcoholic and totally unreliable. We tried working with him and gave him every chance but he just got more and more out of control. I had to fire him and it was my first time doing it. A few months prior to firing him his supervisor and I had talked about how if anybody was capable of shooting up the place it would be this guy. So after I fired him I was a bit apprenhensive. Then I heard he went on a bender after he got fired and was really messed up. I was a bit nervous because the guy was so self destructive. I was sitting in my old office that had a large window that overlooked the shop and which I could see outside from if the shop door was open. Well a couple of my guys thought it would be funny to use one of those laser pointers to play a little gag. I was working on the computer and saw the laser dot on my arm and it disappeared. I had been puting a CD in the computer drive and thought it was light reflecting off of it. Well a minute or so later the dot is back and it starts moving. Instantly I was low to the ground thinking this guy was going to get me and moving for the door. I moved so fast I actually caught the fellas that were playing with the laser pointer. They were laughing but my heart was racing faster than I had ever had it race and I had run track in highschool. I swear they shaved five years off my life!
Mrs. Cat has been feeling under the weather for the past almost week... female things... Me, well, if you've noticed the tone of some of my posts here recently, I'm kinda in the dumps...
But, we will all get better, right?
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
My down-in-the-dumps time has taken a huge turn for the better and today I'm feeling quite joyful--I picked up my beautiful bride from the airport last night. Her two week solo trip to Utah is thankfully over until next summer! Life is good!
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The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life. - Julie Beck
