you know those ‘authorized vehicles only’ signs on the expressway?

Listen to them. Seriously.

premature explanation

Oops. It seems that I unnecessarily squished 2 posts into 1 yesterday. Sorry.

You see, I am somewhat inept when it comes to reading a calendar, so I thought that yesterday was the last day of April. Silly me, I had another day to set up my may by the day thing.

For future reference: I will only be counting the raw word count that wordpress gives me for my May posts, the title is fair game. I need some wiggle room.

oh….THAT’s what it means

Often when I’m listening to music I don’t pay much heed to the lyrics, but rather focus on the music itself. However, from time to time I’ll realize that by skipping over the lyrics I’m missing out on a large part of the artist’s work, so I will try my best to focus on what is being said by the song.

Today I had this realization as I was walking back from class. Problem is, I was listening to Horse the Band…

BIG mistake.

reflections and BEAR!!! hugs.

I suppose I made an early slip in the ‘post once a day’ thing. I’m probably one of the few who noticed though. Well, I guess I should remedy this…

My car is fixed. My original ignition coil packs somehow survived this long (they generally explode much sooner), but finally kicked the bucket when my engine ate it’s weight in snow on Friday. So $800 dollars later I have a working Jetta and an increased motivation to shop for a Subie.

I went into work for just an hour yesterday to organize things a bit for intern #2. It’s amazing how different the plant is when most of the lights are off and the place is empty. It’s also amazing how quickly you can get stuff done when there’s no one else there. So now I am officially done until April, assuming they don’t pull me in for inventory /crossfingers  .

This whole ‘vacation/layoff” thing seems to be going relatively well. My mind seems to dwindle rather quickly without the need to be productive. I’ve been finding myself staring at the floor for a minute or two quite often, or just zoning out when talking to people. Maybe my body doesn’t know what to do with all of this extra sleep.

One of my absolute favorite moments of…ever, is when we sing ‘Silent Night’ at my church on Christmas Eve. It’s always a capella and everybody holds these little white candles. They lights turn off and the pastor lights one persons candle, then the flame slowly spreads around the room until every candle is lit. Of course a large part of the reason I loved this when I was younger was that it was one of my few chances to play with fire. indoors!  The sancuary at Jenison Christian Church (where I’ve gone my whole life) is a big brick octogan, and at the pinnacle of the ceiling is a semi transparent skylight with a cross sitting above it. One of my most loved images is looking up into the skylight and seeing the reflection of all the little candles flickering. It’s my favorite part of Christmas, no question.

Interesting invention today (thanks to my girlfriend). The “BEAR!!! hug”. It’s when a girl hugs you from behind, as if she is shielding herself from the oncoming attacks of the godless killing machines so often lightly called ‘bears’. Of course this will only work if the guy is taller than the girl, but if you’re in a relationship where the girl is taller than the guy, GET OUT! that’s just not right.