What was the point of going to college if for some reason (kids, personal choice, firing, economy) I don't do this job forever? College gives you more opportunities but many people change jobs and God has things in store that you couldn't imagine.
Why do I feel so restless? Because your husband is a study aholic and when you were in college you planned to change the world and now you are a "corporate slave" as a friend put it. It's where you are supposed to be and most day you enjoy it.
Am I a bad empowered diva because I think babies are adorable and I want one? No, this makes you human.
Am I a bad woman because I might work while I have kids? No. If and when you have kids, you will so what makes sense for your family. There is no right or wrong way because every situation is different.
Why won't God just tell me the 5 year roadmap? Because you would be paralyzed with fear if someone gave you even a 1 day roadmap.
Why isn't knowing all these answers enough to convince me?
Friday, March 4, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Valentines Day
Jake and I were lounging on the couch tonight, watching TV (Jeopardy with IBM's Watson) and some of our favorite shows, and eating strawberries in delicious chocolate sauce
and I said, "Good Valentines Day?"
"Yes, and you know why? Because we're doing what we love to do, and we're with the people we love."
Don't get me wrong, sweet husband took me out for a great dinner date on Friday. It was wonderful and romantic - but it's also nice to just relax. We don't need a reason to be in love. But apparently we do need a reason to dress up. teehee.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Phrases that a Kinesthetic learner hears a lot
Or at least, *this* Kinesthetic learner. And I am very much one. I can sometimes pick up things by hearing or reading, but if you really need me to understand it, i need to try it myself. Moreso, when I have experiences, I just get the feeling of the situation. This leads to the following conversations:
Is that really what he said?
The answer to this question is almost always "no". But I have no earthly idea what he actually said. I just remember how I felt about it when he said it and am trying to convey a similiar phrase to you. So yeah, it's unlikely that the police officer *actually* said, "And if you ever do this again I'll throw you into oncoming traffic." But he was really upset and making angry faces and talking in a gruff voice and warning me against repeating my offense. But for the sake of the story, my version is more interesting.
Was it really a thousand people?
Again, the answer to this is most likely "no". But there were definitely a lot of people. Maybe it was only a hundred. I don't really know what a thousand people looks like, but it felt like a lot of people.
I wasn't yelling, *You* were yelling!
Okay, fine, but it felt like you were really angry and an angry voice *feels* like yelling to me. And so I probably started actually raising my voice in return.
I told you that two months ago, but you didn't believe me.
Really, it's not that I didn't believe you, it's that I didn't really understand until I watched that tv show/ met that person/ had that same experience. I really did believe you as best as my feeble mind could, but that was so incomplete without the experience itself.
Any others that kinesthetic learners hear? Or phrases that you hear because you're an auditory or visual learner?
[Update: proof that I am a kinesthetic learner - do you see how many times I wrote "feel" in this post?]
Is that really what he said?
The answer to this question is almost always "no". But I have no earthly idea what he actually said. I just remember how I felt about it when he said it and am trying to convey a similiar phrase to you. So yeah, it's unlikely that the police officer *actually* said, "And if you ever do this again I'll throw you into oncoming traffic." But he was really upset and making angry faces and talking in a gruff voice and warning me against repeating my offense. But for the sake of the story, my version is more interesting.
Was it really a thousand people?
Again, the answer to this is most likely "no". But there were definitely a lot of people. Maybe it was only a hundred. I don't really know what a thousand people looks like, but it felt like a lot of people.
I wasn't yelling, *You* were yelling!
Okay, fine, but it felt like you were really angry and an angry voice *feels* like yelling to me. And so I probably started actually raising my voice in return.
I told you that two months ago, but you didn't believe me.
Really, it's not that I didn't believe you, it's that I didn't really understand until I watched that tv show/ met that person/ had that same experience. I really did believe you as best as my feeble mind could, but that was so incomplete without the experience itself.
Any others that kinesthetic learners hear? Or phrases that you hear because you're an auditory or visual learner?
[Update: proof that I am a kinesthetic learner - do you see how many times I wrote "feel" in this post?]
Thursday, February 10, 2011
How to be a great Pastor's wife
Normally, I try to blog because I have some clever (at least I think it's clever) thought or funny story. I don't want my blog to just be a collection of links. However, this post was too great not to share.
It's a great article by Carl Trueman about the importance of being a down to earth wife and keeping our husband grounded titled Our Own Propoganda: Wives must not believe it.
It's a short and interesting read, and mostly, I'm just so thankful for someone to tell me I'm doing a good job encouraging my pastor husband, instead of telling me I really ought to smile more, produce more offspring, and learn to play piano. ;)
It's a great article by Carl Trueman about the importance of being a down to earth wife and keeping our husband grounded titled Our Own Propoganda: Wives must not believe it.
It's a short and interesting read, and mostly, I'm just so thankful for someone to tell me I'm doing a good job encouraging my pastor husband, instead of telling me I really ought to smile more, produce more offspring, and learn to play piano. ;)
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Programming! That sounds so scary!
So imagine you have a robot. The robot can walk forward and also put his hand out to detect if he's about to run into a wall. You say, "ok robot. Take a step forward. Put your hand out. If you detect a wall, stop. If you don't, take another step. Then put your hand out... and just keep doing that til you detect a wall. Then stop."
You just programmed. Seriously. That's all there is to it. You have to break tasks down into smaller steps and then tell the computer.
Okay, so maybe there's a little more to it than that. For instance you might have to....
- Tell the robot how to take a step. (pick your right foot up. move your right foot forward. Put your right foot down. Pick your left foot up...)
- Tell the electrical parts how to pick the foot up. (Turn this switch on, turn that switch off.)
- Tell the robot to be green and have a pink flower on the top.
- The GUI(Graphical User Interface) designer thinks that the pink flower should really be 13 pixels to the right.
- The robot isn't picking up it's left foot, just it's right foot, please figure out why and fix it.
- The robot isn't stopping when it runs into the wall, please figure out why and fix it.
- Or - some users insist on using Robot Explorer 6, and so you have to write special code to work for that robot version since it refuses to follow w3 standards.
- The robot tripped over a toy and fell over. This was unexpected. Make it say "Error. I cannot continue. Help."
Okay, so it might not be your cup of tea. Maybe you don't like puzzles. Maybe you don't like problem solving. And hey, that's cool. I don't like blood or needles or chemistry or languages or a whole host of other really important things necessary for other careers. But when it comes right down to it, I *love* programming. And you don't have to be scared of it anymore.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Another Children-related Faux Pas
I was with my girlfriends the other night - the same girlfriends where I previously compared their children to my dog... and I had another social gaff.
We were talking about preschools and I mentioned that Jake and I had seen this school that spoke only Spanish during the school day and how we have had lots of conversations about which language our kids should learn, but we thought this was really neat.
I think that it came across as "My Hypothetical children are smarter than your actual children." Which is not at all what I intended! I meant to say "My husband and I have all sorts of theoretical hopes for our future children and aren't we so cute and naive."
But these ladies are some of my nearest and dearest friends and if they aren't used to the disaster that is my very big mouth by now... well, they should really stop having me over.
It does bring up an interesting thing about being an adult though. Some of us are in college/grad school. Some are married. Some have fulltime jobs. Some jobs are 9-5. Some aren't. Some have kids. There are all these milestones, and no rules about which ones you have to do, and certainly not which order they go in. Suddenly the people you identify with most are in your "stage of life" instead of your age.
It gets even more complicated when you realize that my husband and I aren't even in the same stage of life! (Both married, no kids, but I have a 9-5, he's a grad student.) And when you finally find another couple that is a religious grad student married to a female money making career woman, and you actually enjoy having dinner with them, they go and do something silly, like have a baby.
Well anyway, for now, instead of playing catchup, I think I'll enjoy where I am, enjoy the crazy stories about potty-training, and try to reduce the trouble my words get me into.
We were talking about preschools and I mentioned that Jake and I had seen this school that spoke only Spanish during the school day and how we have had lots of conversations about which language our kids should learn, but we thought this was really neat.
I think that it came across as "My Hypothetical children are smarter than your actual children." Which is not at all what I intended! I meant to say "My husband and I have all sorts of theoretical hopes for our future children and aren't we so cute and naive."
But these ladies are some of my nearest and dearest friends and if they aren't used to the disaster that is my very big mouth by now... well, they should really stop having me over.
It does bring up an interesting thing about being an adult though. Some of us are in college/grad school. Some are married. Some have fulltime jobs. Some jobs are 9-5. Some aren't. Some have kids. There are all these milestones, and no rules about which ones you have to do, and certainly not which order they go in. Suddenly the people you identify with most are in your "stage of life" instead of your age.
It gets even more complicated when you realize that my husband and I aren't even in the same stage of life! (Both married, no kids, but I have a 9-5, he's a grad student.) And when you finally find another couple that is a religious grad student married to a female money making career woman, and you actually enjoy having dinner with them, they go and do something silly, like have a baby.
Well anyway, for now, instead of playing catchup, I think I'll enjoy where I am, enjoy the crazy stories about potty-training, and try to reduce the trouble my words get me into.
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