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Name: Ruthie
Interests: My family: First of all my husband, then my 5 kids, son-in-love and daughter-in-love, my granddaughters Lily and Tessa; my grandson James; my dog; Bible studies, country music, football, proper grammar, attending my kids' football games and track meets, Lays potato chips, reading mommy blogs, making bead bracelets, iTunes
Expertise: doing laundry, baking cookies, reading kid books, having self-doubt, stalling when it comes to exercising, singing the harmony part, avoiding housework, spelling correctly, remembering phone numbers, text twist, making soup,staying up late, being proud of my kids
Occupation: Supervisory
Industry: Nonprofit
Message: message me
Member Since:
10/2/2004
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| I don't want anyone to miss the opportunity to ooh and ahh over my new grandson, James Riley. So please drop everything you're doing and go visit my new blog here.
You'll be happy you did! He's a sweetie.
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| It's been swell, xanga, but in the words of Rascal Flatts, I'm movin' on.
I hope y'all will come visit me at my new location. I know it will take me a while to work out the bugs and get the new place fixed up the way I want it, but now that the Korea trip is behind me, and before HB arrives, I'll do my best to make you feel welcome and at home!
Gam Sa Hum Ni Da!
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| This is the trip I've been dreading and stressing about and fearing and worrying about and in denial about. And it's here. www.seoulmarriageseminar.org
I don't often ask this, but if y'all would pray for me, I'd really appreciate it.
And, you know, for the people who will be coming to the seminar, too, of course.
And for my kids, who will be in VERY good hands; and for my mom, who's really lonesome; and for Corie, who's potty training Lily this week; and for Dave and Cerissa's baby, HB, who needs to just STAY PUT until we get back.
Today was absolutely horrible. I don't know how people do this traveling thing, where you have to pack and stuff. And decide which of your personal care products needs to go in which bag, and which ones are greater than 3 oz. and which ones you'll need while on the thirteen hour flight without having to get them out of the carry-on which will be in the overhead compartment and which ones you will undoubtedly need the first 36 hours after getting there while your luggage is somewhere else.
Not that I was in any way stressed or anything.
Jim tried to help. He said, here -- I'll tell you what you need to bring. Just travel clothes for the two travel days, speaking clothes for the two speaking days, and casual clothes for the other three days. That's what I'm doing. Piece of cake.
And I said oh really. And which earrings are you taking to wear with your speaking clothes, Jim? And which bottle of face soap are you taking? And what about jammies? And which eye shadow were you planning to use for church? And on Friday morning I have to get up and get right into my speaking clothes? And what were you planning to do about munchies? And if your contacts dry up on the plane, which compact mirror were you going to pack? And was that bottle of contact solution going to be in the overhead compartment? And.....
And he had to admit I had a point.
But now the bags are all packed and sitting in my hall.
It's supposed to be real snowy here this week.
Have fun watching American Idol! And I do appreciate the praying. Srsly.
KTHXBAI
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| * Not a shameless appeal for hair compliments!
I'm really not this vain. It's just that Corie requested pictures of my recent hair cut and this seems like the easiest way to accomplish that.
Also so you can see how my black eye has morphed into something more technicolor which is spreading down to the inner corner of my eye and beyond.
All of my writing efforts the past few days have been directed toward the women's talk that I'll be giving in Seoul. Because I have waited until the very last second to prepare it. Ugh.
Without further ado -- I present
The Do:
It's not too bad. Except when I told the lady I thought maybe I'd like some wispy bangs, just on the side a little bit, but nothing that would hang in front of my eye... she apparently heard "chop them off short and spikey." So I think in about six weeks the bangs will be just about the right length.
And here's the close-up of where Corie punched me I collided with Corie's plate.
Ooooooo... look at the pretty colors! Greens and yellows and blues and magentas...
Speaking of Corie, today's her 5th wedding anniversary. So you should all go give her a big high five. And while you're there, read about her outrageously silly Lily-kins.
Peace out.
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| In what is surely the most bizarrely freakish accident of my life so far, I managed to connect my eyebrow bone with the edge of Corie's plate last night. I was bending over to put something in the kitchen trash at the precise moment that she turned toward me with her pizza plate.
We couldn't recreate the moment if we tried a million times. Which is
sort of shame, frankly, because then I could do it on the other eye,
too, and give up wearing eye shadow altogether.
I'm thinking I need to come up with a really good story:
"Being a roller derby queen has its drawbacks."
"I almost made it to the final round in American Gladiators."
"Right after I got bucked off, he kicked me with his hoof."
"I slipped off my pogo stick."
"I got a Red Rider b-b gun for Christmas and almost shot my eye out."
"Jim and I were doing a combined triple axle and his skate nicked me."
"It was a wild pitch, but I got to take my base."
"What black eye? This is a birth mark. I'm very sensitive about it."
"I'm hoping this outrageous eye make up will detract from my frown lines."
"It's a tatoo. "
I don't know how long black eyes take to fade, but I'm slightly concerned about the impression we'll make at the marriage conference in Seoul. At least we're not doing the conflict resolution talk.
(p.s. isn't it clever of me to match my robe to my background?)
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