megan and dad……easter nappin’

but my FIRST boyfriend!!!

I’ve been working in the basement with the television on, and I’m just getting snippets of recordings of calls to 911 from people in the World Trade Center towers on September 11.

I  have often wondered what it must feel like to know you will be dieing soon.

Like the passengers in the airplane.

Were they frantic? Scared? Calm?

I always say an "Act of Contrition" when I go in our plane, or when I’m driving and bored.
I believe it wipes your soul for a bit…..and it makes me think about what I’ve been doing and how I’m living my life.

Some days, I’m doing well. Others, I need a kick in the pants.

Death is an interesting subject.

A few years ago, the high school did the musical "Once on This Island" and my aunt was in the process of dieing. I was in tears, watching the beautiful death scene portrayed in the play, where God envelopes you in his arms and takes you away.
So beautiful.

And, a TV Show I used to watch on Showtime about Reapers….they took a persons soul seconds before death, and the person felt no pain nor knew about the death.

And a book that took me THREE tries to get through it, "The Lovely Bones", talked about Heaven as what YOU want to make of it.

And Pastor Stan saying that Brent died before his time. It wasn’t his time.

I believe all these things. I believe in Heaven.

I believe that you stand before God and review your life…..and you have to own up to the sins.

And, so, I try and live my life in a good way.

And, I could be better.

Maybe I wasn’t put here to be like Mother Teresa and take care of all of India.

Maybe I was put here to help Dan.

Or give birth to Megan or Matt.

(Dan has suggested this, which blows my mind.)

That’s a bowl of  pasta with sauce made by my best friend, Laura.
She is Italian and made some sauce for me and OVERNIGHTED it to me to feed
THESE people!

That’s Hitch, Sharon, Dan, Dwayne and Sharon’s sister.
We are all meeting to discuss
THIS

which will go live soon.

guess who came to dinner?

WOZ!!!
As in Steve Wozniak.

That computer guy Woz?

Yep!

He gave an awesome speech tonight at the Qwest Center in Omaha at the AIM Banquet.
So inspirational.
Not because "he invented the computer".
He told the story of how it happened. He talked for an hour and didn’t take a breath.
He
just
told
his
story.
And it included tidbits about how important his dad was.
And his teachers.
And employers.
And friends.
His mom and dad encouraged and helped him with his education……like the education you get from day one….reading books and learning and doing science fairs and making circuit boards and on and on.
He wasn’t boastful, but he spoke truthfully.
He DID build one of the first computers.
He IS smart.
And it didn’t happen overnight. He prepared his whole life.
Things just worked out!

Woz, thanks for changing my life. I LOVE having a computer to store pictures and write stories and shop and share ideas and research. I still have alot to learn, though.

But, you know what?
I’ve NEVER used an Apple!!!!
woops.