Oceanskater’s Blog

Amazon Grocery? How bizarre!

I listen to this rather serious radio show, where everyone from co-dependents to porn addicts call in to get serious help. Yesterday, this woman called in because her boyfriend talks about farting and burping too much. It was just hilarious compared to everyone else calling in with DID and sex addiction.

I don’t know why, but I think the whole Bush/Blair conversation that was inadvertently caught on microphone was hilarious. It doesn’t even bother me, really, that Bush swore. But I can’t help but keep saying, “Yo, Blair! Thanks for the sweatah!” (Of course, that’s my Boston accent coming out.)

It probably also goes without saying that I am thrilled that Bush vetoed the Stem Cell bill. Thrilled! He’s right - he said in a press conference that these embryos are not “spare parts”. It’s sad for me to hear people call stem cell research on frozen embryos “progress”. What’s even scarier, in some ways, is that all these frozen embryos even exist. That’s a whole nother topic. But I heard a radio show today with families who adopted the embryos and now have babies.

The original couple who sued for gay marriage to be legalized in Massachusetts are splitting. Crazy (as in hard to believe/imagine).

A friend who came over for our house-warming party last weekend said the pictures I post of Noodles look nothing like him. So here he is again.

Noodles in Kitchen:

Noodles in Dirt:

Noodles Getting a Bath:

Noodles After His Bath:

I’ve been a crazy traveling woman! First, I was in upstate NY at a family member’s wedding. Then I was home for a few and my mom came to travel with us to a family reunion in Amish Country, Pennsylvania. Now, we’re home again.

It was quite a different experience to see so many Amish and Mennonite folks all over the place. Quite honestly, I can’t say I know the difference between the two, but I’m told they wear different head coverings They run a good number of the grocery stores and other businesses around the area, and so they all shut down on Sundays. Not a bad policy. It is kind of strange to think about people who don’t use electricity running businesses that require electricity. We stayed with my great uncle who I haven’t seen in probably 20 years, so that was cool. He has a neat accent, and I’m told it’s actually quite mild compared to most native PA-ers.

I also got to have “church” with some of my relatives who are born-again Christians. We were all going to go together up the street to a church some of my family has visited, but when we got there, the doors were locked and no one was there for church! My uncle vaguely remembered the pastor at one recent visit saying something about concentrating on home groups and not meeting as a congregation for a few weeks. So I suggested I get out my guitar and we would have our own church service! It was actually totally awesome. God showed up and I was totally blessed, as were others. I know we blessed God’s heart as well.

Besides all that, everything was so peaceful there. It was hard to come back to the city, to all the hustle and bustle and noise, to the rude people with music blasting out of there cars, the pedestrians who walk out in front of traffic. Last weekend, I was so thankful to be back in the city. This weekend, not so much.

And I keep thinking about how Roy ran in the road after Noodles. He dropped everything without a second thought in order to make a mad dash for his beloved dog. How much greater lengths does our Heavenly Father go to to rescue us when we are in trouble. The greatest example is Jesus Christ. God sent His Only Son to earth to rescue us when we were in trouble. Awesome