Notes from the Trail

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Well… let me dust off my feminine side and respond to being tagged by Brittany and Mandy, all in the same day. Fortunately for me (and all of you who detest these memes), it was the same tag, so you won’t have to endure two different tags.

As an aside, tagging to me has always felt like an invention by someone who doesn’t get to talk enough. It’s kind of like they sit around, wondering why no one ever asks them, “What was your favorite childhood memory between the ages of 9-10 1/2 in which you were wearing a red sweatshirt?” They long to be able to share that kind of information with people, so they write up these lists of questions and answer them themselves and then claim they were “tagged.” A good way to find this out is to simply backtrack a tag. When you get to someone’s blog that doesn’t reference the person who tagged them, they are the originator and the culprit of your current tagging woes. 

I’d like to tag them… with a 2×4.

Sigh. End of rant. 

Since you’ve been eagerly waiting… without any further ado, here is the meme and the rules:

The Rules:

1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Fact One: I dislike tagging, but occasionally I enjoy reading them. But I am going to be a spoil-sport and kill my part of this tag by not tagging anyone.

Fact Two: I’ve been tagged before (here, here, here, and here).

Fact Three: I’ve played tag before. (usually lose since I’m not the fastest kid on the block)

Fact Four: I taught a bunch of third graders at Monticello Intermediate School how to play Chinese Freeze Tag my first day as a WATCH DOG. That was also the day that one of those students broke his arm - on the monkey bars, not playing CFT. 

Fact Five: At Ouachita, I was voted junior and senior class president.

Fact Six: I haven’t been voted anything since.

Fact Seven: I am announcing my candidacy for President of the United States. I want to be a write-in. Start the campaign!

I usually post videos on my Tumblr blog, but these were just too good! Thanks to AJ Huffman for forwarding them to me.

It’s exciting to see a good friend and former Journey co-pastor featured on the state’s most popular country music website: KSSN.com. Go check out the article! (By the way, I had the honor of designing that CD cover!)

Sounds a little, well, demanding, but I’d love for Huckabee to come to our little town and share his viewpoints and why he thinks he should be elected as the President of the United States. Would you? Click to “demand” it. I’m sitting on pins and needles…

You better watch out.

You better not cry…

Or should you?

I was spending some time in scripture reading and prayer the other morning when I happened to glance over at the end table where my coffee mug rested. My eyes were somehow drawn to the ceramic Santa perched proudly thereupon. When what to my wandering eyes should appear but two tiny children dangling helplessly from his clenched fist…

Aaaaaah!

Now that’s just downright spooky.

I haven’t said a word about it to my wifey yet. It’s probably some family heirloom that has never been at eye level. Now that it is, it’s sure to scar any impressionable mind. What the heck is he doing here? Carting off bad children to work in his sweat workshop?

Now I can’t sit in that chair without wondering about the sadistic Santa.