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From Erin, I laughed...out loud...in my room by myself. Yah, I felt dumb, but  its definetly worth reading.

20 Ways to Maintain a Healthy Level of Insanity

1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.

2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice.

3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If They Want Fries with that.

4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label It "In."

5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.

6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write "For Smuggling Diamonds"

7. Finish All Your sentences with "In Accordance With The Prophecy."

8. Don t use any punctuation

9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.

10. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.

11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is "To Go."

12. Sing Along At The Opera

13. Go To A Poetry Recital And Ask Why The Poems Don't Rhyme

14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area And Play tropical Sounds All Day.

15. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their Party Because You're Not In The Mood.

16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock Bottom.

17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream "I Won!, I Won!"

18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The Parking lot, Yelling "Run For Your Lives, They're Loose!!"

19. Tell Your Children Over Dinner. "Due To The Economy,  We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go."

20. And The Final Way To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity....... Send This To Someone To Make Them Smile.

It's Called Therapy. 

50 peers on a beach. Matching sweatshirts, all exhausted. We are about to fight a war. We have no guns, We have no weapons...but we will win. Hands up. 50 peers to 50,000. I'm not scared, as long as we have our hands up. The enemy is strong, the enemy is numerable.  He can not touch us, as long as our hands are up. When we grow tired and frusterated, when we want to give up, when we want to let down our holy hands, those around us will keep us strong. And with our hands lifted high we will worship and sing, and with our hands lifted high we come before you rejoicing. With our hands lifted high to the sky; as the world wonders why, we'll just tell them we're loving our KING.

Beach Reachers, get ready. Its time to sharpen our only weapon, our prayer life. In the gospels it speaks of how often Jesus prayed. It says several times " As He was praying...When He got up from praying...or he went away to pray as WAS HIS CUSTOM" (check out the red paper!) custom- a habitual practice of a person. Habitual- practicing or acting in some manner by force or custom, habit, or addiction. How amazing to be so alive in prayer that it is your custom. Addicted to prayer. Prayer is powerful. Like Joshua's defeat over the Amalekites, prayer is how we will win our battles on the beach, and in everyday life. Hands up. Lets Pray.

8 The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim. 9 Moses said to Joshua, "Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands."

 10 So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill. 11 As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. 12 When Moses' hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset. 13 So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.

 14 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven."

 15 Moses built an altar and called it The LORD is my Banner. 16 He said, "For hands were lifted up to the throne of the LORD. The ^[a] LORD will be at war against the Amalekites from generation to generation."

so i once took a trip to ZONA. then again i also tooked many trips there. this one will always keep me special memories in that deep down dark light secret place i call my brain. to start off we rode in the car with 4 people and 2 animals, maggie and daniel. in this little crowded tribute we rode into the horizon towards a magical place where the air smells like rootbeer and the towels are oh so fluffy!! you can even eat out of the ashtrays if you want to, its ok there clean. so we spend the night in some new mexican motel 8 in los cruces, which is somewhere in new mexico. to make short stories shorter everyone felled asleep. next monin we wake up and go to some cube where we, the USofA bought it, the mexico that is knew. we couldnt figure out the president who bought it and dont even think about asking daniel, his iq is 38 and we can park in handicap spots. so were on the road again. we get there later that day and meat my aunt and uncle and his peeps. course when we were introducing ourselves to the ones we didnt know/ didnt remember, i remembered that i left my lucky, lucky autographed glow-in-the-dark snorkel at home. thats a shame. o well. we met our cousins/not cousins shaw (19) and bailey (17).  basically us, the kids, had some kiddos to play with while we slumbered at this place. so its christmas eve and all the parents are jibba jabbin so we go next door to whence they were staying and played cranium. of course they, the canadians, didnt know anything aboat cranium so we had to explain it to them. they did alright, me and dan the man had to do alot of the acting/ drawing/ sensosketching. the only one they liked was when you go to hum.... or ding.  so me shaw and jesse beat bailey and daniel. later we watched some show where it was amatuer night and they all sucked. it was predominatly black and of course they boo off the only cracka on the whole show. meh....... next day, christmas, we woked up and they had their christmas, since we had ours already they had theirs. later that day we went golfing, which i really suck at, and me bailey and daniel were like 6.02x10^23 holes behind everyone else. we eventually just drove up to where they were. we get home and just lay around, eat dinner and lay around. till i got this bright idea to go see a movie. we ended up seeing just friends at like 10 30. so we get to this movie place and we go in and its like a club in there. they have screens everywhere and projectors and some weird funky music there. we were greeted by this dude who was like 7'12'' and daniel pulled a racist joke about him cuz he was black, yet it was funny, at least shaw thought it was, but maybe that was due to his excessive coronas at dinner. we get in the showing and we find out that the seats actually ROCK!!! that made daniels whole trip. the movie was cutesy and funny with a pretty crappy romance in it. we get done at like 1 and go home and crash. the following day, the 26th, we went to wetback land and ripped some of them off. we pretty much just walked around and i bought a purse and alot of peeps got watches. i learned they dont like me cuz i take their money from them. we get back and lay around, eat and leay around. so we get another bright idea... lets go see a movie. we saw ourselves yet again walking in da club by 50 cent and saw a showing of the ringer. it was a funny movie, i thought i was going to hell cuz i was laughing at the movie. o well, daniel seemed to enjoy himself by making those little comments like yes, have some, and in yo face SLAM 20!!!! in the movie. yet again we get back at like 1 and crash. the next day, twenty-seventh, we stayed for about half a day and then left for red-neck land. yet again we go to los cruces and have some pretty crappy mexican food. it seemed like we have crappy mexican food the whole trip. we stopped at this place that john madden went to and it freaking SUCKED! they didnt even have knives. so we crashed again. the last day, twenty8th, we drove and drove and drove and drove all across tejas and tejas and tejas and tejas. of course daniel enjoyed farting the whole trip cuz he was loaded with poop. we landed here at about 930 and i did stuff.

for now......

HAVE SOME!

My trip in one phrase

"When the *&^% did we get ice cream......eh?"

I'll write more later...maybe.. marisa comes today!!!!!!!!!